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eye in the sky, shouts as the gloves come off and the clown masks go on. A moment ago, I was leaning inconspicuously against a wall, using a cellphone to monitor footage from the bug-sized camera I had so carefully hidden in the restricted VIP room of the jewelry store. The subterfuge is about to be traded for gunpowder, and we\u2019re officially doing this the hard way. That security guard just HAD to press the whole \u201ctrespassing\u201d thing. All hell breaks loose. My partner in crime begins mowing down the storefront, and then\u2026two of the four players disconnect from the heist. Payday 3 is a game that knows exactly what it\u2019s trying to be. It has tons of heart, gripping action, suspenseful heists, and, unfortunately\u2014one very frustrating error. Let\u2019s get into it. The freedom in anarchy My first clue that Payday 3 was going to be an absolute riot came before I even loaded into my first heist. During a stylized and inky intro animation, a character remarked after learning that somebody had drained the teams\u2019 bank accounts, \u201cIt\u2019s a conspiracy theory\u2026\u201d To which another character promptly responded, \u201cwell, it\u2019s actually happening\u2026so it\u2019s just a conspiracy.\u201d Payday 3 is filled with this kind of witty, tongue in cheek humor. It combines some of the meanest, most morally bankrupt ruffians with silly and sometimes downright wholesome one liners. The actual description of one of the weapons is \u201cAll the range of a sniper, all the Fuck You of an anti-material rifle.\u201d I mean, come on\u2014who can say no to that? The writing and general vibe of Starbreeze\u2019s FPS feels like the video game equivalent of that person who is just so unabashedly themself that you can\u2019t help but be charmed. The developer didn\u2019t seem to pander to anybody or play it safe with any aspect of the game\u2014it just did its damn thing, and it\u2019s truly refreshing. There are two key gameplay elements that go together like vault doors and C4 in Payday 3: suave hijinx that feel straight out of Oceans 11\u2014and action that feels like the lovechild of Tony Montana and a Tarantino screenplay. A heist can be completed with such stealth that the bank won\u2019t ever even know it\u2019s been hit, or you can have your mask on and gun out before you even walk in the front door. What blows me away is that I can\u2019t decide which approach is more fun. I was expecting to feel that I had \u201cfailed\u201d a heist when the police were called and the shooting started, but part of me looks forward to it. It\u2019s a ton of fun to pick locks, override security cameras, and blackmail jewelry store managers into opening biometric locks\u2014but that fun is only enhanced by the knowledge that at literally any second during the heist, it can all change, and you\u2019ll suddenly be just as focused on getting out alive as you are on securing expensive jewelry. However, this \u201cblink and you\u2019ll miss it\u201d change of pace can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing, which brings me to my primary complaint with the game: multiplayer matchmaking. Blind Dating Payday 3 doesn\u2019t give you any say or input on what kind of heisters you are paired with in public matchmaking. If you\u2019re hell bent on trying to stealth your way through a heist, you'd better have friends. Otherwise, you kind of just have to close your eyes and wish for the best\u2014it\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess what your online party will be looking to do. This creates a very frustrating online multiplayer experience, as it feels like the odds of landing three randos that all happen to be on the same page as you are damn near zero. More than likely, at least one player is going to quit the heist as soon as stealth is broken. It\u2019s hard to blame those players, too. The game offers so many different ways to play, and then gives online strangers the ability to force you to play their way without even giving anyone a chance to talk it over. Payday 3 is designed to be played online\u2014so much so that there is not an option for offline play. It literally doesn\u2019t have a single player mode. Gameplay is focused entirely on working together, and yet you can\u2019t set a preference for playstyle when entering matchmaking, nor is there any sort of post-heist lobby where you can chat with the people you played with or vote to stay as a team. It\u2019s like Starbreeze made a teamwork oriented game, and then actively tried to prevent players from being able to work as a team. Payday 3 really is a great time, but only if you have a reliable group of friends to play with. 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\u201cI smell bacon!\u201d Shade, our heist team\u2019s eye in the sky, shouts as the gloves come off and the clown masks go on. A moment ago, I was leaning inconspicuously against a wall, using a cellphone to monitor footage from the bug-sized camera I had so carefully hidden in the restricted VIP room of the jewelry store. The subterfuge is about to be traded for gunpowder, and we\u2019re officially doing this the hard way. That security guard just HAD to press the whole \u201ctrespassing\u201d thing. All hell breaks loose. My partner in crime begins mowing down the storefront, and then\u2026two of the four players disconnect from the heist.<\/p>

Payday 3<\/em> is a game that knows exactly what it\u2019s trying to be. It has tons of heart, gripping action, suspenseful heists, and, unfortunately\u2014one very frustrating error. Let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>