It’s no secret at this level that Payday 3 has had one of the vital turbulent launches for a stay sport in current reminiscence. The sport suffered from fixed connectivity points, matchmaking issues, and varied different stability points that rendered it unplayable for many gamers over the weekend.
Developer Starbreeze has been battling these issues, however it hasn’t stopped the sentiment across the sport from turning bitter, which is particularly clear in Payday 3’s Steam consumer opinions.
Payday 3 servers went offline yesterday for their first upkeep, and might be going offline once more for 3 hours on Friday morning. Starbreeze stated yesterday’s upkeep already produced “optimistic developments,” however warned that matchmaking points proceed.
As for what’s been inflicting all that, it is apparently the third-party matchmaking service Payday 3 depends on. In a press launch, the developer stated the service “encountered an unexpected error”, which prompted “an unrecoverable state of affairs” for stated third-party service.
Since then, an up to date model of the matchmaking software program was deployed, however it ended up inflicting extra instability to the matchmaking infrastructure. “The companion continues to work to enhance and stabilize Payday 3’s on-line programs,” in accordance with Starbreeze.
The developer stated that because of all that, it is presently “evaluating all choices, each short- and long-term.” What meaning is that Payday 3 might change its matchmaking service supplier sooner or later, however the sport may be much less reliant on on-line providers.
Payday 3 requires a continuing web connection, even for gamers who wish to benefit from the sport solo with bots. That is a part of why all of the launch server points have been extra devastating than they may’ve been had an offline mode existed.
Starbreeze stopped simply in need of confirming an offline mode, nonetheless. That stated, it’s a possible choice being regarded into.
“We’re upset within the points our playerbase has confronted throughout our launch weekend, however we’re assured in our core product and the standard of Payday 3 – and all obtainable metrics level to it,” stated Starbreeze CEO, Tobias Sjogren.
These metrics embrace over 218,250 concurrent gamers throughout all platforms, and a peak of 1,347,510 day by day energetic customers.
“We now have plenty of diligent and constant work forward of us to regain neighborhood belief, however we’ll work onerous to do it,” he added.