Payday 3 is getting progression changes after all

Starbreeze has listened to player feedback and will implement changes to the game’s progression system

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Starbreeze Studios has said that it will be making changes toPayday 3’s progression system following player criticism, despite previously stating otherwise.

Ever since the game launched on September 21, it has been in hot water, with players reportingmatchmaking issues that were preventing them from playing online- which were so disruptive that the developerconsidered adding an offline modeto the game.

As a result, on September 26,Payday 3was temporarily taken offline in order to “improve server and matchmaking stability”, whichStarbreeze has now managed to fix.

Now, the developer is turning its attention to another major complaint, the game’s progression and XP systems, after stating numerous times, including in a recent stream on September 25, that it hadno plans to change itand would focus on UI issues instead.

Well, it seems like the studio has changed its mind because, in a recent developerlivestreamfrom October 2 spotted byMP1st, Starbreeze confirmed that it would implement changes after “gathering feedback” from players.

“What I can say today, is that we are working on some changes to progression and Infamy,” said lead producer Andreas Hall Penninger.

“We have been gathering feedback from you guys, so expect a bunch of changes in an upcoming patch,” Penninger added, clarifying that it’s not going to be the game’s next major patch (currently planned for release in a matter of days)."

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Penninger didn’t specify what these changes will be, and we don’t know when they’ll arrive, but said, “As soon as we’re happy with the changes that we’ve made - obviously, we need to make them and test them - so as soon as that’s done, we will communicate the changes we’ve made to progression.”

The first major patch forPayday 3is set to arrive early this month and feature 200+ quality-of-life improvements for all platforms. Starbreeze also outlined the game’s updates for the rest of the year in a recentblog post, which includes more improvements in November alongside “new content and functionality” and theDLC named “Syntax Error”, which is set to arrive in the Winter.

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