Steam Community :: Dark Flame Master

640.5 hrs on record (311.9 hrs at review time)

DEMOCRACY prevails once more!!!!!!!!!

You were the CHOSEN ONE!

It was said that you would destroy the greedy corporation, not join them. Bring balance to the gaming industry, not leave it in darkness.

You were my brother, HELLDIVERS 2, I loved you.

May the 4th and managed democracy be with you

Posted 3 May, 2024. Last edited 5 May, 2024.

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Not Recommended

96.5 hrs on record (91.7 hrs at review time)

As a day 1 player

My hope for this game had been slowly drained away

First it was the launch week
I was so hyped when I first played the game, trying heist after heist, grinding challenges and rushing achievements with friends, it was honestly FUN. But it didn't last long, game breaking bugs and crashes started appearing, plus the terrible progression system and unorganized UI, my hype slowly degraded into frustration.
But starbreeze soon gave me hope
Many people might not know, starbreeze had several dev streams during late september, where they answered questions related to the game and potential future update. They planned to release multiple updates in october with bug fixes and quality of life changes, even though they were generally vague about what will be included in their upcoming updates, it nonetheless brought me HOPE.
And then came of the heels of bad news
At the start of october, I was at my highest hope, waiting for the update that was previously promised. Until it was delayed, cut in half, and delayed, and delayed..........and nothing. Everything starbreeze promised in late september, not a single bit of them got released in october. At this point, my hope is almost gone, and I started playing some other games instead.
Now in november, an update FINALLY dropped
Midnight, scrolling youtube, I saw people talking about payday just got an update. If I were me from a month ago, I would have jumped out of my bed and rushed to turn on my potato and download the update. But now, I just skimmed through the video almost emotionless, thinking "ok, it's here". And looking at the patch notes in the morning, I can't help but notice very little dedication from starbreeze to fix their relationship with the community.

At the very start of their patch notes, it said to contain a MASSIVE amount of fixes. "WOW!!! this might actually be good?" But no, the entire patch doesn't take more than 3 minutes to finish reading, with a total of 132 fixes.

For comparison, another game with a rather "bad" launch, Lords of the Fallen, has been releasing patches with the same or more amount of fixes EVERY SINGLE DAY. The difference in dedication here is NIGHT and DAY.

At the end

I do not HATE the game, I am just simply DISAPPOINTED. I love payday 3 and the entire payday franchise, so much. But for now, I'm gonna step away from payday for a while.

- 3/Nov/2023.

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Update 2 looking pretty promising

A step in the right direction

Bringing back 2 fan favorite heistsnot sure about murky station, IP gain for heist completion, Ai teammate getting a mega buffthough they still go down if you are not actively protecting them, lobby chat and bunch of other bug fixes. These are all well needed addition to the game, can’t say I didn’t expect them in update 1 or even at launch, but better late than never.

But...of course there's a BUT

As good as update 2 is, still there’re a lot of work needed to be done, most specifically quality of life changes. Like being able to organize my weapons/masks/outfits, name my different loadouts, a proper filter to all the challenges. And most importantly, voice chat, I’m still shocked till this day that this game didn’t implement a voice chat.

Overall, I would still keep my not recommended, for a game that’s charging for $40, it just doesn’t have enough content as of right now, you could buy 4 copies of payday 2 for the same price and have much more replayability there. So just go play payday 2 and buy 3 when it’s on sale.

1/Dec/2023

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Almost half a year later, the game is barely any different from release.

The launch of this game should have been delayed by at least a year, sure it will cause disappointment, but I'm certain that it would never be as disappointing as the game is right now.

14/Mar/2024

Posted 2 November, 2023. Last edited 13 March, 2024.

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