Payday 3: Co-op. First Impressions

Intro

Hello and welcome to Payday 3. This is the much anticipated sequel to one of the most popular co-op shooters of.

Gameplay

So now it wants us to turn the power off at the gate. The cameras are still moving, but, yes, no, never mind. What is this? Is this the gate? Yeah, it looks like it is, so where can we disable it?

That's the real question. I've spotted the security room through this window here, so we saw the security room for the window, and we think that's around here, so let's see if we can sneak through. The camera is looking right at us. This isn't an illegal action. A blue key card is required. Who has that?

okay, I'm going to this other door just to stay hidden. What's that over there? You can pick up, and I can search for some documents. Oh, we must have just unlocked that secondary objective from certain documents. Nice i'm assuming it's just a different guard with the key card. I see the guard with the rookie card.

This guy does have a blue key card. I've got it. I've got it. I'm coming, but be careful with the camera. I think it's a rotator. Tell me when that camera has moved back, and I'll go in. There's God in here. Can we take him down? I'm going to put masks on for that, though. Did we do it? No, unless we have to.

I think we want to do it, and then you can sneak out; I'll just stay in here. We don't have silencers, though you're going to have to do it. Melee Hey, human shield no, no okay.

Combat

He's dead what does that even do? Can we even get so close? Can we even do anything from here? Doesn't it look like you can even unlock the gate from here without doing something I have to do? That's a loud boy, okay? All right, that was a god. I guess he surrendered.

We can grab anyone with a human shield. We need to tie them up, don't we? Yeah, I'm tying him up in order to follow. Does that work, okay? He's coming; they're in; they're in. Okay, never mind, no okay. I see the snipers. Okay, right, pick up equipment got it light in The Firm right now. Optionally, we can add thermite, but I'm pretty sure they said don't overdo it.

I feel like we should add it because it's going to damage some of the goods. Maybe my hostage is now my human shield; they didn't want to take him, so I'm going to use them against them. Hey, this is still burning through. It's taken a while, but it's still burning. Should we go grab a bag and speed it up a bit?

No, it's been flashbang. I'm fine how long is this going to take? I've even got the second thermo on now. Do we grab another one plus the pin, all right? Let's grab one more. Why not smash through the roof window? Yeah, I'm dropping in; that might have been dumb. Yeah, I'm done with the window.

I was trying to do some cool Mission Impossible gems on the move. Look at those fireworks. No, it's huge. That's the worst that can happen. You lose all the money well unless you pick up that Medicare. The same thing happened to me, but it wasn't intentional. The floor just collapsed beneath me. I'll teammates got me the right attempts number , two.

Heist

No, I've done it again. I can't get you two minutes after you It's okay. Yeah, we are the vault, all right. There are some die packs. What are die packs? How do we let me grab this money? The song will die. Pack first; it's in the backpack.

What I still have are the small bills. Yeah, you can lockpick all of the safety deposit boxes. I mean, why is there a try? Let's get to work. I'm just picking up bills. Yeah, I'm getting a fair view. The bills are here. Okay, I've got a big one here if you can grab it for me. George just came at me all right, one bag secured.

I'm about halfway through these boxes. We need to get out of here badly. I'm nearly done. Yeah, I'll help you out of last year. Sports are back. Yeah, teammates should do that for us. Yeah, that's like they're doing both of them. They're dropping in through the hole. Room No looks good for now.

All right, there we go. All right, let's go. No, behind you, shotgun, let's stand our ground, and then wait for the assault to end. Yeah, I can see him. I can really see blue smoke coming off your backpack while Steve died. I don't know about heavy police assaults. Look at this big guy. He's taking me down.

What no, it's not good at all. Grenades grenades actually, I'm just going over the big guy. Yeah, go for it. I'm low ah, shut the door, please. Um, let's try it out this way. You go to the other one, the sniper. There's a sniper, but I can't get him. Where is it? No up on the building up there.

God, nice yeah, so down right, let's go back. It's going in. I'll grab the other one's three bags. I think it looks like we just have enough. Yeah, let's go. Okay, all right. let's go Yeah, there it is.

Final thoughts

Escape that'll ; do that would do; would we recommend payday? Even though we did enjoy our time on the first mission, I really didn't see a huge difference between this version of the game and Payday 2, which launched over 10 years ago. Lowdown seemed almost entirely the same, and while I'm sure there's plenty to unlock and customize with only eight missions, from what we can tell, there really isn't that much content here.

Luckily, it isn't a full-price game, so it's not a terrible deal, but we really hope that there will be more on offer here. Hopefully, with future DLC, this can be improved, and based on the post-launch support for Payday 2. I really don't think that it's going to be an issue, although what is a problem is the technical aspect.

Performance was okay, apart from some pretty annoying compilation issues before a game was released in 2023. The visuals can look pretty outdated. Of course, this isn't a huge issue, and if you liked Payday 2, you'll almost certainly like this, but it's just not enough of an upgrade for us to recommend it.