Is anyone else just disappointed?

[Mega]

Like i'm not mad that I wasted so much money on what is now a mediocre game I am just disappointed that the game was released, even early, in this state.

Like there is so much mediocrity to the game that it's not even worthy of hating. The fact it's online only, the bland UI, the bare bones skill & weapon system, a lack of server browser, no voice chat. and various other things.

Coming from Payday 2 to Payday 3 the game seems to have no character, nothing to makes it pop. I understand they wanted a more grounded and realistic game but at what cost?

Payday 2 was fun because it had so much character and charm and this is just bland.

[HomicidalHaz]

Originally posted by Mega:

Like i'm not mad that I wasted so much money on what is now a mediocre game I am just disappointed that the game was released, even early, in this state.

Like there is so much mediocrity to the game that it's not even worthy of hating. The fact it's online only, the bland UI, the bare bones skill & weapon system, and various other things.

Coming from Payday 2 to Payday 3 the game seems to have no character, nothing to makes it pop. I understand they wanted a more grounded and realistic game but at what cost?

Payday 2 was fun because it had so much character and charm and this is just bland.

So with updated UI patches and hotfixes do you think it will improve? Or do you think it lacks more than can be fixed in updates?

[FallenActual]

oof yeah im probably gonna refund before the end of EA if its that bad

[.Adriansun]

It will take a long time until they fix what we want. Maybe 2-4 years at least.

[Mega]

Originally posted by HomicidalHaz:

Originally posted by Mega:

Like i'm not mad that I wasted so much money on what is now a mediocre game I am just disappointed that the game was released, even early, in this state.

Like there is so much mediocrity to the game that it's not even worthy of hating. The fact it's online only, the bland UI, the bare bones skill & weapon system, and various other things.

Coming from Payday 2 to Payday 3 the game seems to have no character, nothing to makes it pop. I understand they wanted a more grounded and realistic game but at what cost?

Payday 2 was fun because it had so much character and charm and this is just bland.

So with updated UI patches and hotfixes do you think it will improve? Or do you think it lacks more than can be fixed in updates?

It's hard to say, they could fix it but it wouldn't be easy. From my understanding Payday 2 had quite a few hickups on its road to being what it is today and they eventually got it there.

But the only way I can see it happening is if there is a major outcry from the community demanding action.

[Pl3xus]

most importantly no driving mechanic :C

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Mega:

Originally posted by HomicidalHaz:

So with updated UI patches and hotfixes do you think it will improve? Or do you think it lacks more than can be fixed in updates?

It's hard to say, they could fix it but it wouldn't be easy. From my understanding Payday 2 had quite a few hickups on its road to being what it is today and they eventually got it there.

But the only way I can see it happening is if there is a major outcry from the community demanding action.

Payday 2 was a good game day 1. It was rough around the edges for sure. But, it was a good game. Hell, I built a whole PC JUST to play that game.

[Kriss_Hunter_TTV]

Game is solid and I like it but it is missing a lots of content and features ,I use to like to use saw to open atm and lockers inside vault,now I cant but wtill after 3rd mission its getting much better .

[Swiggy]

I've refunded the game twice and just got it for the third time since I felt like I didn't give it a chance but after two games I feel like it just lacks so much.

I liked having to create a build that had different benefits to a heist. Now I can unlock everything and loot everything just by walking around the map finding a few items, I do not see any reason to play a heist more than twice. Yet to level up I need to play some 40+ times for one achievement...

[leggo]

yeah this game is just a complete downgrade of payday 2

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by Swiggy:

I've refunded the game twice and just got it for the third time since I felt like I didn't give it a chance but after two games I feel like it just lacks so much.

I liked having to create a build that had different benefits to a heist. Now I can unlock everything and loot everything just by walking around the map finding a few items, I do not see any reason to play a heist more than twice. Yet to level up I need to play some 40+ times for one achievement...

No one can accuse you at that point of not giving it a fair shake.

I do not see any reason to play a heist more than twice.

Ouch!

[Unreal]

a bit actually. it is not what i expected. it could be better. it's a new game after all so we'll see in next months how it's gonna be.

[Sacred)(Rhaine]

Originally posted by leggo:

yeah this game is just a complete downgrade of payday 2

I felt the same way about payday 2 when it released.

Their games on release state are pretty shallow.

[thejinx]

I never pre-order (tm) but did this time as it had so much promise and I'd like to give the company the benefit of the doubt again given how hardly they've shat the bed with their previous endeavours- there must have been some learning from that and the universe of payday is fun, so went with it. I know, should have known better with this company.

8 heists in total, including the played to death one available in public beta. So call it 7 heists you're paying for.

But fear not! For in the absence of content, there are 2 slideshow videos between each heist to pad it out the selection screen a bit. No live action or even world building therein, just bland 2d scenes with the most basic of animation used sparingly with exposition delivered eloquently in the fashion of X did Y, brr.

The beta ran great, when the servers worked. I have a 7950X3D cpu and an RTX 4090 GPU. This game chugs along and hitches up on this hardware on 1440p, even when manually assigning cache core affinity. Just in case it wasn't already apparent from the specifications, that is absurd.

The ui feels like it was cobbled together by picking through the corpse of overkill's the walking dead game (remember that? yeah nobody else either). I can see this going that direction if they do not improve this substantially and fast.

Which bright spark through it was a good idea to hard-code important interactions together in a press/hold configuration, on a PC? Its a downgrade from the input map on the diesel engine-based predecessor, somehow.

At least that's an achievement unlocked .

Oh and the matchmaking system or rather the belated solitude system, where the majority of the time searching for a public game on any heist, on any difficulty commonly results in a private lobby with extra wasted time 'matchmaking'.

sigh.

[Mr_Purple]

Yeah. I've been so hyped for it and I'm already feeling that I kind of done with it. I absolutely hate static RNG, kills all the fun. You can skip 40% of Gold & Sharke stealth objectives if you know the code. Ridiculous

[Pl3xus]

Originally posted by Midnight:

Not as disappointing as Baldurs gate 3: sexual harassment edition

my condolences you must have ptsd seeing your pp is miniscule in comparison to a video game character