PAYDAY 3 Revival Plans

Starbreeze announces Operation Medic Bag, a step in the promised effort to revive PAYDAY 3, an admission that the co-op shooter sequel has not lived up to expectations. This has a lot of details, and includes the promise of more in a new developer blog next week. Despite covering so much territory, it concludes with a more concise summary of areas getting the most attention first:
Many things mentioned need preparation or other features in place to be implementable. There are a number of items that we can start working on immediately. As such, we have a list of goals that we would like to finish by summer 2024. We won’t go into great detail on any of these topics, but will list them here:

  • Quickplay v1
  • Loadout Renaming
  • Recurring Smaller Content Drops
  • Controller Improvements
  • Vote Kick
  • Rotating Stealth Modifiers
  • Unready Button
  • Play Again Feature
  • Merge Players into Party Post Match
  • Daily Activities with Rewards
  • Mask Vendor with Weekly Rotating Inventory
  • Communication Wheel Improvements v1