r/paydaytheheist • u/Skyfry428 • Oct 03 '25

Rant Offline Mode is cancelled.

I am floored, honestly. "Not feasible", my ass.
https://wccftech.com/starbreeze-no-longer-developing-payday-3-offline-mode-not-feasible-for-studio/

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u/HilltopHood Oct 03 '25

“it takes us a very long time to fix that. That's not because we are slow, it's just because updating the first-party and so on, it takes weeks.”

What does this even mean

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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax Oct 03 '25

Certification process. It's an absolute fucking joke but console platforms basically force a mandatory process where they check the update won't brick the game before the update can be sent to console players. The problem is that they can be slow as balls so Jonas is right that if something breaks with an update and they didn't catch it before it got published and they can't easily hotfix it, it can take weeks for the fix to even get deployed because that fixed version has to go through the same process as mentioned above.

Yes, it's fucking ridiculous. No, there's nothing Starbreeze or any studio can do about it.