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Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
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Starbreeze's quest to revitalize Payday 3 continues with its latest update, which adds new skill trees to the struggling heist game.
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Payday 3 has been a thorn in Starbreeze's side since it arrived back in 2023. Despite its predecessor being one of the most beloved and best co-op games around, Payday 3 launched in a terrible state and with a web of new and reworked systems that players just didn't gel with. The result? On Steam at least, Payday 2's recent daily player counts are roughly 20 times higher than they are in Payday 3. Instead of calling it quits though, Starbreeze is committed to turning things around - it recently canceled a DnD project it was working on and handed Payday 2 support over to a different studio, all so it could put more resource behind the struggling game.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
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Payday 3 has been a thorn in Starbreeze's side since it arrived back in 2023. Despite its predecessor being one of the most beloved and best co-op games around, Payday 3 launched in a terrible state and with a web of new and reworked systems that players just didn't gel with. The result? On Steam at least, Payday 2's recent daily player counts are roughly 20 times higher than they are in Payday 3. Instead of calling it quits though, Starbreeze is committed to turning things around - it recently canceled a DnD project it was working on and handed Payday 2 support over to a different studio, all so it could put more resource behind the struggling game. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
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2 December 2025, 5:58 pm
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Jamie Hore
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title: Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
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Starbreeze's quest to revitalize Payday 3 continues with its latest update, which adds new skill trees to the struggling heist game.
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Payday 3 has been a thorn in Starbreeze's side since it arrived back in 2023. Despite its predecessor being one of the most beloved and best co-op games around, Payday 3 launched in a terrible state and with a web of new and reworked systems that players just didn't gel with. The result? On Steam at least, Payday 2's recent daily player counts are roughly 20 times higher than they are in Payday 3. Instead of calling it quits though, Starbreeze is committed to turning things around - it recently canceled a DnD project it was working on and handed Payday 2 support over to a different studio, all so it could put more resource behind the struggling game.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
content_text: Payday 3 has been a thorn in Starbreeze's side since it arrived back in 2023. Despite its predecessor being one of the most beloved and best co-op games around, Payday 3 launched in a terrible state and with a web of new and reworked systems that players just didn't gel with. The result? On Steam at least, Payday 2's recent daily player counts are roughly 20 times higher than they are in Payday 3. Instead of calling it quits though, Starbreeze is committed to turning things around - it recently canceled a DnD project it was working on and handed Payday 2 support over to a different studio, all so it could put more resource behind the struggling game. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Payday 3 tears up one of its worst systems and replaces it with a shiny new one, and it's a huge step in the right direction
pub_date: 2 December 2025, 5:58 pm
guid: https://www.pcgamesn.com/payday-3/update-skills-2-0-rework
creator: Jamie Hore
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