Payday 3 Matchmaking Lastly Fastened, Massive Replace On The Means

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 massive 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 steady 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 “enhance the velocity of matchmaking and create larger redundancy throughout all on-line providers.” 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 Recreation Go launch. And even with the server points principally addressed, a minimum of 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 recent 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 will likely 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 needed,” Tobias Sjögren, CEO of Starbreeze, wrote in the present day. “However on the similar time, our enterprise mannequin is a marathon and never a dash and we’ll tirelessly proceed to construct Payday 3 larger and higher to ship the best potential worth for our gamers.”