“A brand new felony daybreak is lastly upon us.” So says Overkill Software program, builders of co-operative heist-failure simulator Payday 3, which now has a Steam web page (opens in new tab).
It additionally has a teaser by which fireworks go off over the New York skyline whereas 4 shadowy figures watch. The truth that Payday 3 goes to New York is one in all few issues we all know concerning the newest within the sequence, which is because of launch this yr after being picked up by writer Koch Media for its Prime Matter label.
The unique 4 members of the Payday Gang, Dallas, Chains, Wolf, and Hoxton, might be again following Hoxton’s transient alternative by his brother Houston in Payday 2. “Step out of retirement again into the lifetime of crime within the sneakers of the Payday Gang,” says the shop web page, “the envy of their friends and the nightmare of law-enforcement wherever they go. A number of years after the crew’s reign of terror over Washington DC has ended, they assemble as soon as once more to take care of the menace that roused them out of early retirement.”
Throughout a tenth anniversary stream in 2021, Overkill defined that it needs Payday 3’s New York to be “monumental” and “dwelling”, with areas that change considerably as soon as the alarms go off and the taking pictures begins. It additionally plans to modernize issues with high-tech surveillance, new devices, and media commentary on the gang’s felony exploits. Apparently cryptocurrency and tech giants will play a component within the plot.
The deal between Starbreeze, who revealed Payday 2, and new homeowners Koch Media contains as much as 18 months of post-release help. That is not shocking, given {that a} return to Payday 2 and regular stream of DLC helped hold Starbreeze alive following the disastrous launch of Overkill’s The Strolling Useless, a CFO convicted of insider buying and selling, reconstruction to keep away from chapter, and shedding 60 staff.
As performing CEO Tobias Sjögren mentioned in a triumphant monetary report protecting the top of 2020 (opens in new tab), “Our Payday franchise and ‘video games as a service mannequin’ actually confirmed their muscle tissues in the course of the yr with a number of profitable releases of content material for Payday 2. By late December, Payday 2 had grow to be the most important sport group on Steam, with 7.1 million members. We now have executed two capital raises in the course of the yr and paid off a big proportion of our money owed, strengthened our monetary place and thus enabling the continued profitable growth of Payday 3 in 2021—all key steps in placing Starbreeze again on the map as an trade chief.”
Mainly, do not be too shocked when Payday 3 seems to be a totally live-service sport, presumably with some sort of battle move.