Recent reviews by Mar

very good and fun, movement is good and progression is good, modding is novel, weapons feel good and are diverse, very few bugs so far

Had some server issues early on(seem to be completely fixed now) as well as some performance issues(stuttering and short freezes, forgivable as my pc hasnt seen an upgrade in a good while now) and there are definitely aspects of the game design that I dont agree with, overall its a very solid game with enough to do.

Having said the above, always online gameplay is awful and trash, I hate having to wait to create a server to play with friends when I couldve just p2p in payday 2.
Why is there a 5 minute timer on the pre-heist lobby that auto starts the heist? Just let us play at whatever speed we want?
Also hope you don't want to change your skills in a heist because then you have to go through waiting to remake the server again.
The forced pre-heist intro cutscenes(unskippable) are way too long and become very tiresome if you are restarting a heist basically at all.

Many weapons feel as though they scale very badly throughout a heist and a large amount of weapon mods feel pretty much completely redundant.

The skills system is much simpler and more barebones than in payday 2, along with adjusting how the armor system works and removing dodge this has gutted alot of the build focused and theory crafting experience of the second game.
There are many skills which are almost mandatory(weapon dependant) and many that are quite useless, I found the Engineer tree pretty awful as the sentry guns don't really seem to have much of an effect though this is likely the tradeoff for them not consuming your ammo as they did in 2.

The gadgets that they have added are cute but very much limited to stealth, it is unclear precisely what they do within the games descriptions which can make them difficult to rely on.

if you liked the stealth in payday 2 its likely you will enjoy the stealth in this game much more as it has significantly greater depth and tactical gameplay to it.

The almost complete removal of drills and timers along with the introduction of minigames(lockpicking) and alternate door openers (more keycards, QR codes) has definitely made the game more interactive than payday 2 was at times, in the current heists the number of bags seems to be less than in many payday 2 heists which I think is good as it is less of a bag moving simulator.


Overall I would say the game is a very solid base to build upon, personally I hope to see balance patches for many of the weapons as well as an overhaul of most of the weapon attachments, more indepth descriptions of what modifications and skills do(they can be very vague), better telegraphing of wave stages(and final wave triggers), further depth and choices to the build side(skill trees, gadgets etc) and, of course, more heists and enemies(heist specific like swat turrets and captain winters as well as general introductions like the medic), hopefully some more interesting heists in future as there were some unique gameplay experiences in many payday 2 heists. :)

some small bugs but nothing game breaking (or particularly effecting)
banger game with a full stack

Responds to a call, both cops have pepper spray and tasers, the only given options to disable the assailant require the baton, stunner or just shooting the guy, obviously I choose to shoot him since its the only available option, the cops gun isn't even loaded and he gets clobbered straight to 4 days in hospital.

The game feels like its very arbitrarily forcing you into failing even if you are perfectly prepared, the story isn't compelling and really gets in the way of the game for the most part (the first 30 minutes is solid cut scenes, I wish I was joking) also has some stability issues, the first time I finished the 30 minute intro the game crashed and I had to go through it again, luckily the cut scenes are skippable.

Leshy just needs a hug

The game seems pretty fun, but the controls grate with me a lot, especially in the build menu (for example w and s move the camera up and down relative to the camera direction, rather than forwards and backwards, whilst a and d still strafe left and right) and this is made worse by the complete lack of rebindable controls and barely any gameplay settings to ease playing for yourself.

I find that the block placement seems to work off of some funky prioritisation where you can be looking clear at a connection point and the item you are holding will be placed on the far side of the object rather than where you are trying to place it.

The sound effects are inconsistently balanced with some sounds almost inaudible but every time I pick up a spaceship part I'm practically deafened.

Pretty much the only settings you can alter are video/graphics and some audio sliders, this limiting of customisation to your own gameplay experience in a game about building your own experience through free build vehicles seems ironic and makes the game frustruating and tedious to play, which is saddening as there is certainly the grounds of an enjoyable game.

I got the game for free, and in its current state I would not recommend it, maybe in future when there are any quality of life features at all as the game more or less completely lacks these at the moment.

the game has everything

hit roc
shoot gun
team kill
die

what more could you want
also phat updates

corporate espionage time

Rats, rats, we are the rats
Celebrating yet another birthday bash
Michael, it's your birthday today
Cake and ice cream is on its way
And Michael been such a good boy this year
Open up your gifts while we all cheer
Happy birthday, Michael

I am the hero of the city

Similar to Sunless Sea, but lacking immersion. The game world is a cool idea but I feel its poorly implemented as the rooms dont seem to have much variation other than various events which occur within them, which, from my experience, arent particularly interested. Seems like an overcomplicated, unimmersive demake of Sunless Sea.