A small batch of news today, but I'm excited to share the interview news! Leave your questions below, on my Twitter or on Discord (links in the description)!
my biggest question would be one a lot of people also have about what they have planned regarding the skill system, if they are open to changing how they are unlocked and how they plan to approach balancing moving forward seeing that so far it has been one of the biggest points of contention with the community
if i had to guess the reasoning for delisting nintendo switch was likely the same as why they dropped support on it so quickly: it was not made in house and they didn't have the technical knowledge to go and update it
Alternatively, they didn't want to update that version to remove the licensed content (not sure if they did update the other console editions for that), and de-listing was just easier.
Questions for Almir Andreas - Is there a skill line rework planned? There are many skills that could be merged to simplify builds and make skill building more fun. There are many skill lines that most players use all the time. Can these be used as a base skill line once a certain level is reached? For example - The Transport skill line, many players use this is a base to build their heister. Carrying 2 bags of loot is nearly universal and should become a baseline part of the game. Ammo funnel as well, this is used on most builds. Should be a baseline part of the game etc...
Questions for the interview: 1-Any plans for VR support in the games future? 2-Are we going to get any multi-day heists in the future, or is payday 3 going to consist of solely one day heists? 3-Is there any consideration of adding higher difficulties, such as the return of Death Wish/Death Sentence? 4-Any potential collaborations you guys are interested in bringing to the game in the future? 5-Along with things like Armor 2.0, are you guys looking into reworking the weapon customization? Things like adding more mods, and swapping the slider bars with specific numbers akin to payday 2, maybe even adding the ability to mod overkill weapons?
A few questions i'd like answered are, About adding melee weapons, increased skill point caps/MORE SKILLS/skill loudout variety, alot more ways to spend our money and a NEED for FREE content that gives new players things to do in the game without access to dlc because that could restrict more future purchases if the BASE game is not improved to a certain standard people come to expect from a good game.
I'm glad they are flying you over to personally discuss things with you. My question for Almir and Andreas is:Are there any plans to fix how slow, especially on Xbox, you load into the main menu, get into matches, etc? It's very slow and it is also tough to get my friends and I to stay binded in a group. I don't know if this will be in the update next month but it's really bad and slow. Thank you!
Is a recurring yearly event like crimefest something that could happen from y2 onwards or any other non holiday focused event but a payday centric one Would reticle options be something we could get, I don't like most of the sights in game because of the reticle they have and being able to change them would make all of them better
Interview question: are we getting another heist (legacy or not) before 2025? If not, can we get a time window for when the next heist update is planned?
this isn't a question, but i think it would be really good to have someone close to the community inform Starbreeze just how disliked project Baxter is at the moment. That most recent teaser was met with near universal disdain and i think it would be good for them to reassure us that Baxter isn't and won't effect the development of payday 3 as many seem to fear.
Question: are there any plans to bring any new or old smaller heists to the game (such as GO bank or the diamond store) We need more small bite size heist to keep the game fresh and repayable
2 lore-related questions for Almir and Andreas 1. Are all future story videos just going to be pointing at a computer monitor? I hope we see more of what we got for the base game, seeing the characters directly interact face-to-face is what I really liked about the base game heist cinematics. 2. Are we going to see more of Mac and/or Beckett again in the future? We still know very little about them. I wonder if you guys have something cooking for the future in regards to them.
cool that you get to do this interview, it is a good time to be able to talk about the "changing of the guard" and set it up for the future and close this chapter, looking forward to it!
Another in person interview is really exciting! Here's hoping they answer some questions about what's coming for year 2 Also, you looking up at the alert with the "Do you mind??" almost made me choke on my own spit lmao
The Switch version is a sin against humanity. Overkill didn’t share any details about it and how much content it would have until copies leaked ~3 days before its launch, and people realized how bad the port was. Also, the terrible double-buffer V-Sync made the game totally unplayable. 1:38 Also the Switch version only had the content up until Biker Heist (mid-2016). I remember they showed footage of Heat Street and Green Bridge in the Switch version’s launch trailer even though those two heists weren’t even in there 😠 (IIRC those were part of Spring 2017 update)
Question: Is there more free content (heists, weapons, cosmetics, etc.) on the way relatively soon? I own all DLC but my worry is there not being enough incentive for people to pick up the game when most content is behind a paywall.
Questions for your interview, 1. Was payday 3's initial development influenced more by the progression and game speed/flow of payday 2, or payday the heist? 2. What is the average time frame of taking an idea for a 1. New weapon, 2. New heist, 3. New character, from the drawing board to the visual design to the audio design to the finishing touches and animations?
I would love to know if this is even on their radar at all: moving the load out screen to after the heist load but before the heist starts (just like PD2). I feel like it's a huge oversight that we can't try other weapons on restart without leaving the heist.
Maybe they should upgrade it where they are chilling ina safe house Ones sitting down ones sleeping ones standing with gun the other is fixing drill lol
My main thing I'd want to hear from them is if there's any plans to revamp the skill system in a similar manner to the armor system, adding variable costs so some skills can be more impactful/interesting at a higher cost, while a bunch of cheaper skills being uninteresting/niche isn't anywhere near as bad because they're cheap, allowing you to more effectively specialize
Ive got a few questions for Almir and Andreas and some ideas i have for some of the questions aswell: 1. Will there be a skill rework? The current system doesnt work as players can choose whatever they want without any downsides and at the same cost which i imagine (and as we've seen) is a nightmare to balance. An idea i have is either make different skills worth different amounts of points and still let everyone choose whichever they want (just that they now need to watch out for skill economy) which could let people have builds that maybe arent as powerful but have more applications or builds that focus more on one specific ability. 2. Related to the first question, will they change/remove the grit/edge/rush system? Currently it is extremely boring that most skills only have 3 ways to activate them, that being the grit/edge/rush system and not only does that make the skills feel boring but also tideous since you have to micromanage everything at the same time. Personally i'd hope for STRBZ to rework it aswell so that it feels more related to how you perform and gradually increases its power based on different factors instead of an abrupt ON/OFF as it is right now, that could make the system feel more interesting and not as tideous as you dont have to constantly micromanage but instead finetune your playstyle to get the best effect of the buffs. 3. Will we get the return of classic heist randomization on new and older heists? By this i mean things like how you could get different ways to break into a bank vault, different map layouts (like in FWB where the offices might switch places) different escapes etc. 4. Will the favour system get reworked to something that actually feels like an improved version of the preplanning system we had in PD2 5. Please let us disable the colour filters, playing NRFTW with the insane green filter is really offputting and same goes with some of the other heists (although the exact colour might be different but you get the point). Sometimes the colour filters get so bad that it actually hurts my eyes looking at it, specifically Fear & Greed. 6. Not exactly a question but more of a request. Considering how the crossover content in PD2 is slowly disappearing please don't bundle stuff like weapons and skilltrees and extremely story important heists with crossover content, not because i dont like it but because later on we might lose access to that content which would be really unfortunate. Especially if over 25% and a few of the extremely story important heists are lost because of licensing issues etc. Also mad respect for Almir and Andreas for not only doing their regular jobs but also carrying the torch for the game all at the same time, must be really stressful. Wish you both the best
Questions for the interview : Any plans to bring the weapon attachments that were added on dlc weapons to all weapons (Mainly sights and foregrips) And are there any plans to add more attachements like flashlights and lasers
I've gotten back into payday 2 on PC and just last night I looked to see about a switch version, being pretty sure it existed and I might want to have it for on the go. Got met with 404 errors, confusingly. This video was in my recommendations today. What weird timing.
Biggest question I can think of is do Starbreeze intend to modify older (launch) maps to include more variation (ie moving the vault entrance in no rest for the wicked, etc). Replayability seems to be the biggest issue for people who enjoy the current game flow, so I'd like to know if there is any plan to address that outside of just adding more heists.
Good to hear from you as always Troy. My main question would be probably one of the more obvious ones. "What direction do you want to take Payday 3 in, in your own terms. Are you wanting something more grounded, or would the more wacky end of things be seeing a larger comeback"
About the ammo funnel skill, I am in the other side that belive that is actully not good for the game, and the only toruble with removing it was that the timing of the nerf was not right. So in regad to that the main reason ammo funnel is so strong is due to the replensih and plate up skills, since killing a swat while having edge and grit will automatically regenerate your armor. I try out builds wiht out ammo funnel and they work fine but due to the large ammo pick up of the weapons, my reserves will be full and I will have to shoot to the ground to be sure plate up will activate if I dont want to lose a chunk of armor. and that is the only reason why ammo funnel is so strong casue it will pick up ammo and put it in your mag so is a guaranty that plate up will activate when you actually want to use the skill. My suggestion is change ammo funnel to a skill that allow you to reload faster like aggressive reload from PD2, and add another skill like bullseye from PD2 that will regenrate your armor if you do a headshot kill in the sharpshoother branch.
Two questions: One: How do you both feel as being Game Directors? Are there any concerns? Two: What would happen if Payday 3 doesn't succeed regardless? Does it even have a chance of happening? Are you even able to say anything about it?
1. Can we expect any kind of perk rework in the future? Perks are a large part of what makes playing these games fun and a lot of them feel the same right now with little varying "builds" 2. Are there any plans for more in-depth mask customization? There are less patterns and materials compared to Payday 2 and DLC masks cannot even be customized or bought more than once.
I have 4 questions 1:What was the hardest part of the development 2:Will there be bot customization 3:Are there more legacy heist planned 4:Will melee be redone Sorry if I asked common or boring questions, thank you so much for making the game better hoping that year 2 will have amazing surprises! and thank you red archer live for making these news videos hope you all have a great day and thank you for sticking with the payday gang 🤡💰
Question: are there plans to move away from the “4-heist season campaigns”? Personally, I found the Dentist/Hector narrative of Payday 2 the most interesting of stories and I enjoyed how there was more breathing room between heists rather than the gang squashing problems as soon as they crop up (like Buluc and Concord)
I'll answer this for you since I know the answer already - Simon Viklund is already working elsewhere with 10 Chambers on Den of Wolves and has no immediate interest to return to Payday. He told me in the interview I did with him a couple of years ago (which is up on this channel) that he was happy to leave Bain behind as he never wanted to do voice acting anyway, it was purely a budgetary choice.
2 similar Questions for the interview. Will we get more variety with attachments (undermounted weapons, laser sights, canted sights etc) and will current attachments be customisable (like red dot reticle choices and colours)?
Question: Are there any plans in the future to bring back a customizable safehouse 'hub' system similar to the one in Payday 2? I can 100% understand not doing it now and perhaps waiting till we have a bit of a larger heister roster first, but it was one of my favorite parts in PD2 especially with the heist specific trophies you can have in it to show off your achievements and accomplishments. (Not to mention, sometimes it's fun to have a mini playground/waiting room of sorts where you can just hop in and out of to test out new weapons without worrying about completing the heist)
2 main concerns for me are: 1- is there any intention in changing the skill system (not just adding skills) 2- how are they planning to increase the replayability of missions (other than randomization of the missions tasks)
That’s not a good question because that’s not even what happens. Maybe some nut jobs blame Almir but the community sentiment on him is still largely positive.
Question for the interview: Almir listo Mentioned in one of the Dev diaries that cross over characters will happened in year 2. Is there a chance We can get returning cross over characters (Obvious example is jacket from Hotline Miami). But also some new cross over characters like How Mr. Payday Twitter man hinted at postal dude being a crossover character 🤔 Or maybe an entirely new Character could work. I'd like to see some variety
Q1: Why have they not added any new achievements/trophies post launch? The (insane amount of) achievements were the single biggest reason for me to keep me engaged with payday 2 for so long. Q2: Do they have any plans for the collector's club going forward (owners of the collector's edition) for payday 3? Again, a year past launch and this collector's club is nothing more than a useless discord server. Q3: what are their thoughts on microtransactions? Is it still on the table for payday 3?
Question: Is there any chance of having contractors take on more of an active role in the heist (either taking over for/joining in with Shade on in-heist chatter)?
Interview question: is there any news on dual welding weapons and the possibility of more gun mods, and their effect on weapons? Because right now, almost every attachment feels kinda underwhelming
I have a question for the devs, is there a reason that individual bags don't give xp? it's quite disheartening sometimes missing a bag or having it disappear somewhere and missing the "all bags" bonus from the end of the heist. I think if it worked like payday 2 that would be best
Question: will pre planning return? And if so will we see a favours rework and a overhaul of the heists currently in game (especially the core launch day ones), for example allowing us to use an drill in NRFTW or big bank style thermite through the evidence room ceiling in boys in blue?
Hopefully we hear some news soon. Been dying to see where the game is headed next now that we’ve finished year one. As for a question for the interview. Are we going to be seeing any “historical” guns make a return to Payday 3? As a big fan of wild west movies, I’d love for Payday 3 to someday have a repeater or lever-action shotgun.
Q: With the game having two new directors, will multiple-day heists be considered once again? Having heists be limited to one day only limits the possibility of the scope of the heist's ideas so I'd like to see multiple-heist coming back in Y2 if possible
Question for interview: Is there any chance we could see a 64bit version of payday 2? I'd really like to be able to play Buluuc's mansion among a few other heists without lowering my texture quality. Even just if it was hidden away in the steam betas tab or otherwise optional i think a lot of the community would really appreciate the option.
Questions for interview: Do you have any plans to add in more replayabity. i.e Crime Spree, Infamy System, Heist randomness (objectives not being in the same area every play through etc) A good example is Fear & Greeds' code room always being on the same side of the building every playthrough, it encourages everyone to just spawn camp the staircase with miniguns. Enemies don't really flank from the offices as often as they should & it doesn't promote any engagement
My question for Almir and Andreas will be: Could we get hats as cosmetic items in Payday 3. It would be cool to have like cowboy hats, top hats or even caps that would be separate from masks. They would add more customization to our heisters.
My one question would be a 2-part one Would the more advanced preplanning ever return (one with the map of the heist and you can place assets in certain locations)? If it does return would we ever get it for the other already existing PD3 heists? Another question I know for the newest heist they had an asset for a stealth start inside the stock exchange with no mask on would we get more start/escape assets in the future? Back in Payday 2 one of my favorite heists was The Big Bank just due to the multiple ways you could escape the heist. (I did end up playing Mallcrashers a ton just due time it being a speed run through the levels and easy/fast to complete). Adding more ways to start/play/complete heists can make them more fun by changing up the routine. Like literally every time for Gold & Sharke bank, I enter through the garage, put 2 ECM jammers on the cameras, grab the cash/phone from the room down there and go upstairs through the left side door to get into the area locked by the phone scan thing. I then go through every door for loose cash, phones, looking for the guy with the red keycard and unlocking the red keycard gate. Then attempt the number keypad 2-3 times, steal the blue keycard, unlock the IT rooms, start the hack, unlock the blue keycard room taking the cash in there, finishing the hack and unlocking the keypad door. Then doing the switches, enabling the keycard for the vault and unlocking the vault. Then dragging everything down to the right side of the bank staircase to the garage. Then make sure all cameras are hacked. Then kill the guards, secure the civilians and drag the 13 bags into the van and escape. Basically the only thing that ruins the run is when the guy in the room with the red keycard sees me. Before this I was just doing it all loud, then stealth to the number keypad and now full stealth.
I'm glad they're really trying to work with you following Mio's holiday misadventure instead of issuing a weak apology and expecting you to gloss over it all. Seriously though I believe at least 80% of even casuals would have recommended you not to tweet anything after seeing the roadmap. The blowback at launch was the teachable moment. Not a second hype attempt that led to similar sentiments. Talk about your thoughts leading up to the announcements/updates in the video you make that releases when whatever embargo ends.
Precisely why I won't be doing it again - I agree, I shouldn't have bothered hyping up the roadmap but I won't be making that mistake again. Cool profile picture by the way ;)
I do have a question will they change cloakers and payday 3 so they have a cool down so they can't just keep knocking you down and are they planning and changing so you can have a skill that can constant let you get out of them knocking you down and not a one-time use because having a skill you can only use once it's very much unusable
ask them about next years content (free and dlc guns heitsts heisters etc) and also ask them if they ever plan on adding payday 2 heists (golden grin big bank etc) to payday 3 as paid OR free as legacy heists
I have a question for Almir and Andres. I'm really curious and how they've personally felt coming off of Payday 3's launch and how they feel about stepping into these shoes to kind of breathe a new life into the game hopefully.
This is definitely FAR from the most important, relevant, or necessary of questions to ask, but I figured I'd throw it out here anyway since I'm curious. What's the motivation behind the renaming of guns that have returned from previous titles? Things like the SpecOps SMG being renamed to the Compact-7, in line with PDTH and PD2's Compact-5, but then renaming THAT to the ATK-7 when it returned feels pretty strange to me.
My main questions are for cosmetics 1. Will there be more in between big updates/dlc small cosmetic drops, masks, colors, patterns 2. Will there be possibilities to gain some items like the Summer Twitch drops again. I really hope it's not some FOMO items
What I think the game needs to desperately bring back is the crime net server browser and stealth/loud. I underestimated this myself as a player as well, but just think long term. Is this current UI with map browsing really going to be the way if we had 40-70+ maps and the intention was for PD3 to continue long term? It would be absolutely atrocious to browse through the way it is set up. But that's just part of the problem. PD2 had something special. They had a unique server browser that nobody else did. People loved it who played it. They had the stealth/loud tags too. What we got with PD3 was the most downgrade possible, taking away a beloved core piece of the franchise, and instead we got the most basic bare-bones possible version of a map browser with no ability to filter between stealth or loud. How was this ever going to work or go well with the PD community who has grown to love the PD2 server browser? How can people in PD3 play the way they want to play? PD3 feels like a generic game because it took away all the unique things that made the PD franchise stick out as its own. It also constantly tried to force players to play a certain way, especially with the old Challenges. They also removed stealth/loud filters, further removing the ability for a player to play the way they want to play. When you remove the ability for players to play how they want to play, and you take away unique things that made the franchise stand out, of course you're going to expect a loss in player base. I didn't need a crystal ball to know that. When I came into PD3, I fully expected to see crime net. Not seeing it should have been my first signal that something was off about this game. I think a lot of us just genuinely assumed it would be there.
my question to Almir and Andreas is the following: is there a chance you two could maintain the conjoined roles of lead dev, or is this still a temporary decision until you can find someone new? i think your roles are perfect for leading the game, as you two have the most direct line from the players to the developers.
I don't know if anyone has asked already, but a question for the interview: Are akimbo weapons planned? I thought they were pretty fun in PAYDAY 2 and I think they'd slot in well in 3.
Any chance we’ll get community driven items soon? Masks, outfits, charms, stickers, maybe even weapons or heists? Also I know it’s talked to death but I’m still wondering where our melees are!
It's a more combative question but I'd like to know why I can't gameshare the DLC despite the PS5 listing for the DLCs saying they can be played by anyone on the console via Game Sharing
I've got 2 questions for the interview. 1 : are there any plans to overhaul the preplanning system during year 2 (by reintroducing the system used in heists like Big Bank from Payday 2) ? 2 : can we expect to see more payday 3 live action stuff in the near future ?
Question for you to ask them. Can we get riot shield, or bulldozer armor as an overkill weapon? Question two to ask can each Heister have their own add park in the game. So choosing a Heister will meet something not just cosmetics.
Question for both: Do you guys have plans for more big scope heists, like, outside of new work, heists in planes or boats like payday 2, i know its still the start of the game, but I really would like to see those epic heisting moments in payday 3
Please please PLEASE ask about if the favor system and crew ai is getting reworked. And if you may, I just want to know if adding Melee weapons or perk decks to the game is on the table cause I loved perk decks in payday 2 and I feel like it would add so much more play style options to the game
Question: A lot of people are not too satisfied with the heist design of Payday 3 and find it stale and restrictive, are there any ideas or plans to improve the experience? additionally, what is the dev team's current sentiment on multi day heists?
Another important note about the Switch version. If you bought it digitally you can't redownload it if you've uninstalled from your Switch. I got a new Switch today and tried to reinstall it to play only to find out it's entirely gone from my redownload page. This might be a mistake, and I do hope it is. Reason why it was taken down, and this is just my theory: They needed to delete the John Wick DLC, but due to the fact that on the Switch version everything is inside the game and is not separated by DLC it means they can't just remove the DLC from the storefront as it is actually just part of the game, meaning anyone who bought it would still receive the DLC. So they either lost or deleted the source code for the Switch version and thus aren't able to make a version that doesn't allow new players to use the John Wick pack, or it's just out of sheer laziness. You could say the same about the Scarface DLC which was always there to purchase, but these are 2 separate licenses owned by different companies with likely separate approaches to leniency. I believe the timing is also a factor and it hasn't been long since the John Wick situation and this is almost definitely linked. Pretty fun since the entire existence of Joy was for her to be an initially Switch exclusive character.
A small batch of news today, but I'm excited to share the interview news! Leave your questions below, on my Twitter or on Discord (links in the description)!
my biggest question would be one a lot of people also have about what they have planned regarding the skill system, if they are open to changing how they are unlocked and how they plan to approach balancing moving forward seeing that so far it has been one of the biggest points of contention with the community
I'd be interested to know if they would consider re-working the base Payday 3 heists at all? To add more replayability maybe?
I have a very simple question. If or when is voice chat coming to the game?
My question is, will concord return and if he does will he bring something like a skull dozer (or something like that)
when are we going to get a weapon rebalance?
if i had to guess the reasoning for delisting nintendo switch was likely the same as why they dropped support on it so quickly: it was not made in house and they didn't have the technical knowledge to go and update it
Alternatively, they didn't want to update that version to remove the licensed content (not sure if they did update the other console editions for that), and de-listing was just easier.
@@gimok2k5the other console versions relied on purchasing stuff separately from base game while the switch version came with all dlc bundled in.
Good thing i have it bought
(for some reason)
Questions for Almir Andreas - Is there a skill line rework planned? There are many skills that could be merged to simplify builds and make skill building more fun. There are many skill lines that most players use all the time. Can these be used as a base skill line once a certain level is reached? For example - The Transport skill line, many players use this is a base to build their heister. Carrying 2 bags of loot is nearly universal and should become a baseline part of the game. Ammo funnel as well, this is used on most builds. Should be a baseline part of the game etc...
Questions for the interview:
1-Any plans for VR support in the games future?
2-Are we going to get any multi-day heists in the future, or is payday 3 going to consist of solely one day heists?
3-Is there any consideration of adding higher difficulties, such as the return of Death Wish/Death Sentence?
4-Any potential collaborations you guys are interested in bringing to the game in the future?
5-Along with things like Armor 2.0, are you guys looking into reworking the weapon customization? Things like adding more mods, and swapping the slider bars with specific numbers akin to payday 2, maybe even adding the ability to mod overkill weapons?
A few questions i'd like answered are, About adding melee weapons, increased skill point caps/MORE SKILLS/skill loudout variety, alot more ways to spend our money and a NEED for FREE content that gives new players things to do in the game without access to dlc because that could restrict more future purchases if the BASE game is not improved to a certain standard people come to expect from a good game.
I'm glad they are flying you over to personally discuss things with you. My question for Almir and Andreas is:Are there any plans to fix how slow, especially on Xbox, you load into the main menu, get into matches, etc? It's very slow and it is also tough to get my friends and I to stay binded in a group. I don't know if this will be in the update next month but it's really bad and slow. Thank you!
Is a recurring yearly event like crimefest something that could happen from y2 onwards or any other non holiday focused event but a payday centric one
Would reticle options be something we could get, I don't like most of the sights in game because of the reticle they have and being able to change them would make all of them better
Interview question: are we getting another heist (legacy or not) before 2025? If not, can we get a time window for when the next heist update is planned?
this isn't a question, but i think it would be really good to have someone close to the community inform Starbreeze just how disliked project Baxter is at the moment. That most recent teaser was met with near universal disdain and i think it would be good for them to reassure us that Baxter isn't and won't effect the development of payday 3 as many seem to fear.
Question: are there any plans to bring any new or old smaller heists to the game (such as GO bank or the diamond store)
We need more small bite size heist to keep the game fresh and repayable
2 lore-related questions for Almir and Andreas
1. Are all future story videos just going to be pointing at a computer monitor? I hope we see more of what we got for the base game, seeing the characters directly interact face-to-face is what I really liked about the base game heist cinematics.
2. Are we going to see more of Mac and/or Beckett again in the future? We still know very little about them. I wonder if you guys have something cooking for the future in regards to them.
I doubt mac is ever coming back tbh
Mac is 100% never coming back and if he does, they are going to change his voice actor and appearance.
cool that you get to do this interview, it is a good time to be able to talk about the "changing of the guard" and set it up for the future and close this chapter, looking forward to it!
Another in person interview is really exciting! Here's hoping they answer some questions about what's coming for year 2
Also, you looking up at the alert with the "Do you mind??" almost made me choke on my own spit lmao
The Switch version is a sin against humanity. Overkill didn’t share any details about it and how much content it would have until copies leaked ~3 days before its launch, and people realized how bad the port was. Also, the terrible double-buffer V-Sync made the game totally unplayable.
1:38 Also the Switch version only had the content up until Biker Heist (mid-2016). I remember they showed footage of Heat Street and Green Bridge in the Switch version’s launch trailer even though those two heists weren’t even in there 😠 (IIRC those were part of Spring 2017 update)
Question: Is there more free content (heists, weapons, cosmetics, etc.) on the way relatively soon? I own all DLC but my worry is there not being enough incentive for people to pick up the game when most content is behind a paywall.
Questions for your interview,
1. Was payday 3's initial development influenced more by the progression and game speed/flow of payday 2, or payday the heist?
2. What is the average time frame of taking an idea for a 1. New weapon, 2. New heist, 3. New character, from the drawing board to the visual design to the audio design to the finishing touches and animations?
I actually played the Switch version alot. i just wish that they would have given it a bit more love. it could have been massive
Considering a Hurricane Helene decided to take out the power, I will miss this weekend. Oh well, still enjoy it regularly with my wife.
I would love to know if this is even on their radar at all: moving the load out screen to after the heist load but before the heist starts (just like PD2). I feel like it's a huge oversight that we can't try other weapons on restart without leaving the heist.
Maybe they should upgrade it where they are chilling ina safe house
Ones sitting down ones sleeping ones standing with gun the other is fixing drill lol
My main thing I'd want to hear from them is if there's any plans to revamp the skill system in a similar manner to the armor system, adding variable costs so some skills can be more impactful/interesting at a higher cost, while a bunch of cheaper skills being uninteresting/niche isn't anywhere near as bad because they're cheap, allowing you to more effectively specialize
Ive got a few questions for Almir and Andreas and some ideas i have for some of the questions aswell:
1. Will there be a skill rework? The current system doesnt work as players can choose whatever they want without any downsides and at the same cost which i imagine (and as we've seen) is a nightmare to balance. An idea i have is either make different skills worth different amounts of points and still let everyone choose whichever they want (just that they now need to watch out for skill economy) which could let people have builds that maybe arent as powerful but have more applications or builds that focus more on one specific ability.
2. Related to the first question, will they change/remove the grit/edge/rush system? Currently it is extremely boring that most skills only have 3 ways to activate them, that being the grit/edge/rush system and not only does that make the skills feel boring but also tideous since you have to micromanage everything at the same time. Personally i'd hope for STRBZ to rework it aswell so that it feels more related to how you perform and gradually increases its power based on different factors instead of an abrupt ON/OFF as it is right now, that could make the system feel more interesting and not as tideous as you dont have to constantly micromanage but instead finetune your playstyle to get the best effect of the buffs.
3. Will we get the return of classic heist randomization on new and older heists? By this i mean things like how you could get different ways to break into a bank vault, different map layouts (like in FWB where the offices might switch places) different escapes etc.
4. Will the favour system get reworked to something that actually feels like an improved version of the preplanning system we had in PD2
5. Please let us disable the colour filters, playing NRFTW with the insane green filter is really offputting and same goes with some of the other heists (although the exact colour might be different but you get the point). Sometimes the colour filters get so bad that it actually hurts my eyes looking at it, specifically Fear & Greed.
6. Not exactly a question but more of a request. Considering how the crossover content in PD2 is slowly disappearing please don't bundle stuff like weapons and skilltrees and extremely story important heists with crossover content, not because i dont like it but because later on we might lose access to that content which would be really unfortunate. Especially if over 25% and a few of the extremely story important heists are lost because of licensing issues etc.
Also mad respect for Almir and Andreas for not only doing their regular jobs but also carrying the torch for the game all at the same time, must be really stressful. Wish you both the best
Glad I got the cartridge version of payday 2 when I did, it’s probably gonna get even more expensive now
Questions for the interview :
Any plans to bring the weapon attachments that were added on dlc weapons to all weapons (Mainly sights and foregrips)
And are there any plans to add more attachements like flashlights and lasers
0:40 do you mind?😂🤣
That got me laughing
@@connoo-101 Same 😂
I've gotten back into payday 2 on PC and just last night I looked to see about a switch version, being pretty sure it existed and I might want to have it for on the go. Got met with 404 errors, confusingly. This video was in my recommendations today. What weird timing.
Don't worry, you didn't miss out on anything worth playing.
@@ParasocialCatgirl So I''ve heard. Still, the timing is pretty weird.
Biggest question I can think of is do Starbreeze intend to modify older (launch) maps to include more variation (ie moving the vault entrance in no rest for the wicked, etc). Replayability seems to be the biggest issue for people who enjoy the current game flow, so I'd like to know if there is any plan to address that outside of just adding more heists.
If they( can)share what they can about what’s coming for the rest of the year. That’s my question
One question I haven't seen (admittedly on a quick glance):
Almir, Andreas...how are you two? Are you eating well, sleeping well?
Good to hear from you as always Troy. My main question would be probably one of the more obvious ones. "What direction do you want to take Payday 3 in, in your own terms. Are you wanting something more grounded, or would the more wacky end of things be seeing a larger comeback"
About the ammo funnel skill, I am in the other side that belive that is actully not good for the game, and the only toruble with removing it was that the timing of the nerf was not right. So in regad to that the main reason ammo funnel is so strong is due to the replensih and plate up skills, since killing a swat while having edge and grit will automatically regenerate your armor. I try out builds wiht out ammo funnel and they work fine but due to the large ammo pick up of the weapons, my reserves will be full and I will have to shoot to the ground to be sure plate up will activate if I dont want to lose a chunk of armor. and that is the only reason why ammo funnel is so strong casue it will pick up ammo and put it in your mag so is a guaranty that plate up will activate when you actually want to use the skill. My suggestion is change ammo funnel to a skill that allow you to reload faster like aggressive reload from PD2, and add another skill like bullseye from PD2 that will regenrate your armor if you do a headshot kill in the sharpshoother branch.
Two questions:
One: How do you both feel as being Game Directors? Are there any concerns?
Two: What would happen if Payday 3 doesn't succeed regardless? Does it even have a chance of happening? Are you even able to say anything about it?
1. Can we expect any kind of perk rework in the future? Perks are a large part of what makes playing these games fun and a lot of them feel the same right now with little varying "builds"
2. Are there any plans for more in-depth mask customization? There are less patterns and materials compared to Payday 2 and DLC masks cannot even be customized or bought more than once.
I have 4 questions
1:What was the hardest part of the development
2:Will there be bot customization
3:Are there more legacy heist planned
4:Will melee be redone
Sorry if I asked common or boring questions, thank you so much for making the game better hoping that year 2 will have amazing surprises! and thank you red archer live for making these news videos hope you all have a great day and thank you for sticking with the payday gang 🤡💰
Question: are there plans to move away from the “4-heist season campaigns”? Personally, I found the Dentist/Hector narrative of Payday 2 the most interesting of stories and I enjoyed how there was more breathing room between heists rather than the gang squashing problems as soon as they crop up (like Buluc and Concord)
So they are flying you to Sweden to grease the wheels after the Mio incident as an apology tour
Question for Almir - For Legcy heists they canonically take place in the past, anyways to have Bain "Simon Viklumd" return to the role as a contractor
I'll answer this for you since I know the answer already - Simon Viklund is already working elsewhere with 10 Chambers on Den of Wolves and has no immediate interest to return to Payday. He told me in the interview I did with him a couple of years ago (which is up on this channel) that he was happy to leave Bain behind as he never wanted to do voice acting anyway, it was purely a budgetary choice.
2 similar Questions for the interview. Will we get more variety with attachments (undermounted weapons, laser sights, canted sights etc) and will current attachments be customisable (like red dot reticle choices and colours)?
I’m awaiting the vol 3 for payday 2. I just wanna blast pounce & gun metal grey 2015 while driving around
Question: Could we see updates to the current heists in-game? Adding or changing objectives. Updating layouts for heists.
Question: Are there any plans in the future to bring back a customizable safehouse 'hub' system similar to the one in Payday 2? I can 100% understand not doing it now and perhaps waiting till we have a bit of a larger heister roster first, but it was one of my favorite parts in PD2 especially with the heist specific trophies you can have in it to show off your achievements and accomplishments.
(Not to mention, sometimes it's fun to have a mini playground/waiting room of sorts where you can just hop in and out of to test out new weapons without worrying about completing the heist)
2 main concerns for me are:
1- is there any intention in changing the skill system (not just adding skills)
2- how are they planning to increase the replayability of missions (other than randomization of the missions tasks)
id like to see you ask almir "how does it feel having the community blame you about everything wrong with payday 3 even stuff out of your control?"
That’s not a good question because that’s not even what happens. Maybe some nut jobs blame Almir but the community sentiment on him is still largely positive.
The interview is going to be insane I love Almir
Question for the interview:
Almir listo Mentioned in one of the Dev diaries that cross over characters will happened in year 2. Is there a chance We can get returning cross over characters (Obvious example is jacket from Hotline Miami). But also some new cross over characters like How Mr. Payday Twitter man hinted at postal dude being a crossover character 🤔 Or maybe an entirely new Character could work. I'd like to see some variety
Q1: Why have they not added any new achievements/trophies post launch? The (insane amount of) achievements were the single biggest reason for me to keep me engaged with payday 2 for so long.
Q2: Do they have any plans for the collector's club going forward (owners of the collector's edition) for payday 3? Again, a year past launch and this collector's club is nothing more than a useless discord server.
Q3: what are their thoughts on microtransactions? Is it still on the table for payday 3?
Question:
Is there any chance of having contractors take on more of an active role in the heist (either taking over for/joining in with Shade on in-heist chatter)?
Interview question: is there any news on dual welding weapons and the possibility of more gun mods, and their effect on weapons? Because right now, almost every attachment feels kinda underwhelming
I have a question for the devs, is there a reason that individual bags don't give xp? it's quite disheartening sometimes missing a bag or having it disappear somewhere and missing the "all bags" bonus from the end of the heist. I think if it worked like payday 2 that would be best
If I’m not mistaken that is how it works. It’s included in the “heist” category of IP.
Question: Any chance we can get a Thompson SMG? It’s a staple for bank robbing.
Question: will pre planning return? And if so will we see a favours rework and a overhaul of the heists currently in game (especially the core launch day ones), for example allowing us to use an drill in NRFTW or big bank style thermite through the evidence room ceiling in boys in blue?
Hopefully we hear some news soon. Been dying to see where the game is headed next now that we’ve finished year one.
As for a question for the interview. Are we going to be seeing any “historical” guns make a return to Payday 3? As a big fan of wild west movies, I’d love for Payday 3 to someday have a repeater or lever-action shotgun.
Q: With the game having two new directors, will multiple-day heists be considered once again? Having heists be limited to one day only limits the possibility of the scope of the heist's ideas so I'd like to see multiple-heist coming back in Y2 if possible
QUESTION: Are you planing some sort of skill system rework?
Question for interview:
Is there any chance we could see a 64bit version of payday 2? I'd really like to be able to play Buluuc's mansion among a few other heists without lowering my texture quality. Even just if it was hidden away in the steam betas tab or otherwise optional i think a lot of the community would really appreciate the option.
Questions for interview:
Do you have any plans to add in more replayabity. i.e Crime Spree, Infamy System, Heist randomness (objectives not being in the same area every play through etc)
A good example is Fear & Greeds' code room always being on the same side of the building every playthrough, it encourages everyone to just spawn camp the staircase with miniguns. Enemies don't really flank from the offices as often as they should & it doesn't promote any engagement
My question for Almir and Andreas will be: Could we get hats as cosmetic items in Payday 3. It would be cool to have like cowboy hats, top hats or even caps that would be separate from masks. They would add more customization to our heisters.
Question for both: How has it been being with the franchise since the early days?
Question: if you can one things I mean anything to the game what will it be and why?
My one question would be a 2-part one
Would the more advanced preplanning ever return (one with the map of the heist and you can place assets in certain locations)?
If it does return would we ever get it for the other already existing PD3 heists?
Another question
I know for the newest heist they had an asset for a stealth start inside the stock exchange with no mask on would we get more start/escape assets in the future?
Back in Payday 2 one of my favorite heists was The Big Bank just due to the multiple ways you could escape the heist. (I did end up playing Mallcrashers a ton just due time it being a speed run through the levels and easy/fast to complete). Adding more ways to start/play/complete heists can make them more fun by changing up the routine.
Like literally every time for Gold & Sharke bank, I enter through the garage, put 2 ECM jammers on the cameras, grab the cash/phone from the room down there and go upstairs through the left side door to get into the area locked by the phone scan thing. I then go through every door for loose cash, phones, looking for the guy with the red keycard and unlocking the red keycard gate. Then attempt the number keypad 2-3 times, steal the blue keycard, unlock the IT rooms, start the hack, unlock the blue keycard room taking the cash in there, finishing the hack and unlocking the keypad door. Then doing the switches, enabling the keycard for the vault and unlocking the vault. Then dragging everything down to the right side of the bank staircase to the garage. Then make sure all cameras are hacked. Then kill the guards, secure the civilians and drag the 13 bags into the van and escape.
Basically the only thing that ruins the run is when the guy in the room with the red keycard sees me.
Before this I was just doing it all loud, then stealth to the number keypad and now full stealth.
“Is there any chance we can get a shield armor set before Armor 2.0 releases so that it gets tested by the community?”
interview question: will there be a heist for christmas or atleast a Santa hat
Question: Are there any collaborations planned in the future?
Question 2: Will the game go in the fantastical side of things?
“An interview with Almir 2025 will go HARD”
Me 2 weeks ago (I’m clearly a psychic)
@@elianwilliams I was cooking it at the time and had to make sure I didn't give it away 😂😭
I'm glad they're really trying to work with you following Mio's holiday misadventure instead of issuing a weak apology and expecting you to gloss over it all.
Seriously though I believe at least 80% of even casuals would have recommended you not to tweet anything after seeing the roadmap. The blowback at launch was the teachable moment. Not a second hype attempt that led to similar sentiments. Talk about your thoughts leading up to the announcements/updates in the video you make that releases when whatever embargo ends.
Precisely why I won't be doing it again - I agree, I shouldn't have bothered hyping up the roadmap but I won't be making that mistake again. Cool profile picture by the way ;)
I do have a question will they change cloakers and payday 3 so they have a cool down so they can't just keep knocking you down and are they planning and changing so you can have a skill that can constant let you get out of them knocking you down and not a one-time use because having a skill you can only use once it's very much unusable
ask them about next years content (free and dlc guns heitsts heisters etc) and also ask them if they ever plan on adding payday 2 heists (golden grin big bank etc) to payday 3 as paid OR free as legacy heists
what is up with the Payday 2: Crimewave Nouveau on xbox listed for 09/30/2024. possibly a new console version and reason for the switch delist?
Q1 Jacket coming to Payday 3?
Q2 Jokers coming back?
jocker is a confirmed no, jacket is pretty much confirmed
My question is are they going to had accessories on guns exemple, lasers on shotguns, Akimbo etc
Q1: Will they improve attachments (like optic customisation and eotech on all guns)
Q2: will they improve how stats are shown?
Question 1: any plans to change the perk system
Question 2: will we ever see perk decks return
Question: is anything to grind for getting added soon? (Like more stuff to spend money on and renown rewards)
The second volume of the soundtrack releases on my birthday. Very nice
@@sssawfish happy birthday for next week!
I have a question for Almir and Andres. I'm really curious and how they've personally felt coming off of Payday 3's launch and how they feel about stepping into these shoes to kind of breathe a new life into the game hopefully.
This is definitely FAR from the most important, relevant, or necessary of questions to ask, but I figured I'd throw it out here anyway since I'm curious. What's the motivation behind the renaming of guns that have returned from previous titles? Things like the SpecOps SMG being renamed to the Compact-7, in line with PDTH and PD2's Compact-5, but then renaming THAT to the ATK-7 when it returned feels pretty strange to me.
My main questions are for cosmetics
1. Will there be more in between big updates/dlc small cosmetic drops, masks, colors, patterns
2. Will there be possibilities to gain some items like the Summer Twitch drops again. I really hope it's not some FOMO items
2017 was *7 years ago?*. Ohhh, god.
Question: what's one thing about Payday 3 that you're really proud of, and what's one thing about Payday 3 that you think can be better?
Question for the interview: why can’t Houston break Houston out?
What I think the game needs to desperately bring back is the crime net server browser and stealth/loud. I underestimated this myself as a player as well, but just think long term. Is this current UI with map browsing really going to be the way if we had 40-70+ maps and the intention was for PD3 to continue long term? It would be absolutely atrocious to browse through the way it is set up. But that's just part of the problem. PD2 had something special. They had a unique server browser that nobody else did. People loved it who played it. They had the stealth/loud tags too. What we got with PD3 was the most downgrade possible, taking away a beloved core piece of the franchise, and instead we got the most basic bare-bones possible version of a map browser with no ability to filter between stealth or loud. How was this ever going to work or go well with the PD community who has grown to love the PD2 server browser? How can people in PD3 play the way they want to play? PD3 feels like a generic game because it took away all the unique things that made the PD franchise stick out as its own. It also constantly tried to force players to play a certain way, especially with the old Challenges. They also removed stealth/loud filters, further removing the ability for a player to play the way they want to play. When you remove the ability for players to play how they want to play, and you take away unique things that made the franchise stand out, of course you're going to expect a loss in player base. I didn't need a crystal ball to know that. When I came into PD3, I fully expected to see crime net. Not seeing it should have been my first signal that something was off about this game. I think a lot of us just genuinely assumed it would be there.
question 1: are we going to get halloween and christmas heists again
Q: Will Starbreeze introduce regional pricing for DLCs? (Idk if they can due to Playstation and Microsoft)
my question to Almir and Andreas is the following: is there a chance you two could maintain the conjoined roles of lead dev, or is this still a temporary decision until you can find someone new? i think your roles are perfect for leading the game, as you two have the most direct line from the players to the developers.
I don't know if anyone has asked already, but a question for the interview:
Are akimbo weapons planned? I thought they were pretty fun in PAYDAY 2 and I think they'd slot in well in 3.
Any chance we’ll get community driven items soon? Masks, outfits, charms, stickers, maybe even weapons or heists? Also I know it’s talked to death but I’m still wondering where our melees are!
Melee is useless in pd3 currently so I don’t see the point
Q1 Is Payday 2 getting a "big" Update again?
Q2 Chicken man when?
It's a more combative question but I'd like to know why I can't gameshare the DLC despite the PS5 listing for the DLCs saying they can be played by anyone on the console via Game Sharing
I've got 2 questions for the interview.
1 : are there any plans to overhaul the preplanning system during year 2 (by reintroducing the system used in heists like Big Bank from Payday 2) ?
2 : can we expect to see more payday 3 live action stuff in the near future ?
Question 1 is the next heister being added to Payday 3 a new heister or Payday 2 Heister?
Question 2 when can we expect to see the next dragan files?
Question for you to ask them. Can we get riot shield, or bulldozer armor as an overkill weapon? Question two to ask can each Heister have their own add park in the game. So choosing a Heister will meet something not just cosmetics.
Question for both: Do you guys have plans for more big scope heists, like, outside of new work, heists in planes or boats like payday 2, i know its still the start of the game, but I really would like to see those epic heisting moments in payday 3
In person interview? Big timer!
ask if akimbo is getting back to the game? and mabye about attachments. thx love the video's
Please please PLEASE ask about if the favor system and crew ai is getting reworked. And if you may, I just want to know if adding Melee weapons or perk decks to the game is on the table cause I loved perk decks in payday 2 and I feel like it would add so much more play style options to the game
Question for Almir
Will Melee weapons make a return?
Question: A lot of people are not too satisfied with the heist design of Payday 3 and find it stale and restrictive, are there any ideas or plans to improve the experience? additionally, what is the dev team's current sentiment on multi day heists?
I.. I'm certain that I was the last person to purchase Payday 2 on Switch, holy crap
Can you ask them will dmr kits return
Another important note about the Switch version. If you bought it digitally you can't redownload it if you've uninstalled from your Switch. I got a new Switch today and tried to reinstall it to play only to find out it's entirely gone from my redownload page. This might be a mistake, and I do hope it is.
Reason why it was taken down, and this is just my theory:
They needed to delete the John Wick DLC, but due to the fact that on the Switch version everything is inside the game and is not separated by DLC it means they can't just remove the DLC from the storefront as it is actually just part of the game, meaning anyone who bought it would still receive the DLC.
So they either lost or deleted the source code for the Switch version and thus aren't able to make a version that doesn't allow new players to use the John Wick pack, or it's just out of sheer laziness. You could say the same about the Scarface DLC which was always there to purchase, but these are 2 separate licenses owned by different companies with likely separate approaches to leniency. I believe the timing is also a factor and it hasn't been long since the John Wick situation and this is almost definitely linked. Pretty fun since the entire existence of Joy was for her to be an initially Switch exclusive character.
Are C4 and Saws on the counter!?