After a horrible launch week riddled with error messages, Payday 3 maker Starbreeze Studios says the matchmaking points have lastly been mounted. The guarantees come forward of the heist shooter’s first large patch deliberate for early October.
“The scheduled upkeep carried out final week has mounted the preliminary matchmaking points that occurred throughout Payday 3’s first few days after launch,” the studo wrote in a brand new replace on its web site. “Matchmaking has been secure and has had good efficiency after the finished upkeep.”
The studio says that matchmaking infrastructure for distributing gamers to totally different servers was up to date on September 26, adopted by an improve on September 29 that added extra regional nodes for distribution to “improve the pace of matchmaking and create better redundancy throughout all on-line companies.” Anecdotally, it does seem that lots of the matchmaking errors gamers had been previoulsy bombarded with have gone away.
However Payday 3‘s widespread issues proper out of the gate actually did the always-online financial institution theft sim no favors, casting a shadow over a paid “early entry” interval and large Xbox Sport Go launch. And even with the server points principally addressed, not less than for now, gamers are nonetheless clamoring for a bunch of quality-of-life enhancements. Hopefully, they need to be coming quickly.
Starbreeze says the early October patch will embrace over 200 enhancements throughout all platforms, adopted by extra waves of latest content material and fixes in November. The fist paid DLC, “Syntax Error,” is ready to reach someday over the winter. It stays to be seen whether or not an offline mode shall be one of many new options added to the sport within the coming months. The event group had stated it was contemplating the chance.
“I don’t really want to repeat that this was not the beginning we wished,” Tobias Sjögren, CEO of Starbreeze, wrote at the moment. “However on the identical time, our enterprise mannequin is a marathon and never a dash and we’ll tirelessly proceed to construct Payday 3 greater and higher to ship the best potential worth for our gamers.”
