Starbreeze Studios and Prime Matter have dropped one other teaser trailer for cooperative heist sim sequel Payday 3 (opens in new tab), and it someway manages to supply much less details about the sport than the earlier teaser trailer. Lasting a complete 21 seconds, the teaser reveals a silhouetted determine saying “Alright guys, it is a easy job” earlier than chopping to the Payday 3 brand.
The one helpful bit of information the teaser supplies is once we can count on to see the sport in motion correctly, the reply to which is ‘this summer season’. Presumably, this implies we’ll see Payday 3 in one of many varied non-e3 summer season showcases occurring subsequent month, though there is not any affirmation of that from Starbreeze.
We will additionally glean a few different nuggets of information from round the trailer. In a Steam news-post (opens in new tab) accompanying the video, Starbreeze recommits to releasing the sport this yr, whereas additionally acknowledging the shortage of stories up so far. Past that, we additionally know the sport will run in Unreal Engine, and options the 4 playable protagonists from the primary two video games.
The largest query hovering over Payday 3, nevertheless, is whether or not it’s going to emerge unscathed from the disastrous couple of years Starbreeze skilled after the horrible launch (opens in new tab) of Overkill’s The Strolling Useless. Following that, the writer filed for reconstruction (opens in new tab)to keep away from chapter, then its workplaces had been raided (opens in new tab) by Swedish authorities, with CFO Sebastian Ahlskog accused of insider buying and selling. Ahlskog was initially convicted (opens in new tab), however the conviction was later quashed on attraction (opens in new tab).
Starbreeze has since claimed its cash troubles are over (opens in new tab) and that Payday 3’s growth goes high-quality. From the surface perspective, there is not any apparent purpose to query in any other case, though given the void of data surrounding the sport, there’s equally no purpose to consider Payday 3 represents a roaring comeback for the Swedish developer. Hopefully we’ll achieve a greater concept of how Payday 3 is shaping up in a month or two’s time.
