Payday 3 Update 6: I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream 

Gotta love how Payday 3's biggest positive impact was having youtubers who were previously only playing payday a reason to branch out in their content.

I have no chat, and i must heist

At this point it's obligatory to put "It's Clown Time" for every Payday 3 announcement

Speaking (ironically) as a PD2 player who physically can not speak, devs who assume that people are just going to use a mic and don't let you use a text chat can go take a long walk off a short pier.

corporate overlord engagement boost

PAYDAY 3 is about to get a paydillion players with these massive updates

I'll be honest man I don't even play Payday 3, I just watch your videos because they're high quality and entertaining

What is most staggering to me is the fact that they give you fundamental things that were in payday 2 and any other coop game for that matter and they treat it like some sort of big thing. They expect praise for the bare minimum.

I don't want to give up on the game but they're making it really hard

bro that’s not vlad that’s glad

Pog more views in 1 minute than this game has active players, lets see if this will change (probably not)

Payday 3 is reaching the point where, like No Man’s Sky, they’re going to just have to put their heads down and focus on fixing it, and maybe a year or two from now they drop Payday 3 Next or something. A big content update to bring everyone back once all the bugs and problems are gone.

Feels like every new Knowley video is just further cementing how out of touch Starbreeze is with us. I want you guys to remember they have a skeleton crew on this while they're trying to churn out another two live service games by 2028. Starbreeze is blind to the point of it feeling intentional. It's like they want the game to die.

There being no chat function now is too funny for me, cause this was how I had to play Payday 2 years ago. I couldn't use chat or mic at all due to my scuffed computer system, so I had to charades a lot to get points across. And yes, I was playing a Jacket during this time.

Payday 2 faithfully remade in Unreal Engine 5 is much more of what we want than a "payday 3". if it aint broke dont fix it, payday 2 on a better engine is all we want.

payday 3’s updates feel like bandaid fixes on a bullet wound

Think its overdue Knowley find a new game to upload, payday shat the bed and is on the process of kicking the bucket

Here I thought this game was going to be GOTY. Boy was i wrong

I appreciate your vids as a way to determine if its worth jumping back into PD3. So far it hasn't been, but im hoping that will change in time, as unlikey as it seems.

Thanks for keeping doing these and being honest with perspective, at end of the day we here for you and faking emotion would be a disserve to self and level headed fans, cheers for the vids

Basic features after 7 months, YAY!!!

I sadly won’t play til there’s a filter for heists. I keep joining a heist with loud load out when people are stealthing or stealth loud out when people are loud.

I have more fun looking at the titles and thumbnails for these videos than i do playing paycheck 3

Ngl the main reason I clicked this video was because of "I have no mouth and I must scream" ref, since I love that game and world around it. And I love it you used it as lack of chat function :D

I bought HellDivers 2 on friday and will likely surpass my payday 3 playtime sometime this week. That's shameful for a game that came out MONTHS ago. I really want to enjoy PD3, but I just can't. I find myself struggling to finish one heist.

Yay, i love my gaming field slowly becoming a nuclear winter.

I have watched and followed you for a long time a few years. I have to ask at this point is their anything else that you love that you are just as passionate about that isn't such a demoralising thing to cover. I honestly would enjoy to see you cover other games as well giving you an eventual out should the entire payday franchise collapse if things come to the worst. thank you for your coverage sir.

Thanks for reminding me I have to listen to the radio show of that book still. also I agree, they managed to give actions for their words (all be it barely)

I thought this was gonna be another rant video but im happy to see that you actually say alot of positive things in this update! In my eyes, payday 3 has alot of potential but it just released too early with not enough content and way to many bugs. I really hope next year or maybe late this year PD3 will get better and more popular! They are starting to go into the right direction

these update videos are the only payday 3 media that i consume. Seems like this game is starting to get to a ok state. It makes me happy that they're still pushing through this mess

title flashbanged me because never would i have thought you'd know that book

1:30 its because I don't care. I did care. I cared a lot. I pre-ordered PD3 and I dealt with launch problems and not getting my pre-order bonuses for a month. Now I see a game that could have been good and maybe eventually it will be but I just don't care anymore.

I really love how honest you’ve been about payday 3 when a lot of RU-vidrs for other games tend to be misleading for games. It’s good to see the community acknowledging that this game is dog shit (at least at this time), and there needs to be far more work put in to fix this game.

modern gaming remains a parody of itself.

It’s as if they wanted to *have to* go back to PAYDAY 2 updates

It's so utterly fascinating that they had Payday 2 right there, one of the most fun, entertaining and personally best multiplayer games of the last decade and instead of taking what worked from that to make the best multiplayer game of THIS decade they instead spaffed it so far up the wall it starting to drip from the ceiling and there attempts to fix it amount to putting a bucket on the floor to catch the dripping. Like man i bought the pre-order editions cause I loved payday 2 and i really wanna love payday 3 but its getting difficult my dudes

I genuinely appreciate the new pdth style running animations so much, because it gives it that little bit of a cinematic flair that pd2 was missing.

I’m still holding out hoping a “no man’s sky” situation takes place. Where they turn a launched mess into a now fan followed and enjoyed game

I had almost no issues with payday 3 from a technical standpoint, me and my friends kind of just played all the heists had our fun with it and I have no reason to want to come back. It's worth noting that personally for payday 2, I only returned to the game after about 3-4 years afterwards once the game was filled with loads of content to see all the stuff I missed

Well that's a quick one

To me, I think PD3's update have had a trend of "One step forward...and that's it." The Form a Party system is a perfect example. You can finally stay with the group you were playing, just like the lobby systems from PD:TH and PD2, except that's all they added and didn't bother to add simple stuff like a chat box, voicechat or any other means of communication, something that would have been a glaring problem in QA testing, yet they didn't do anything about it. They added part of a system, but not the other part of the system that really makes it work. "Good enough (for now)" seems to be the mindset of...well I'm not sure honestly (devs, directors, management, big stockholders?)

These updates are like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound it may hide the bleeding and cover the hole but does nothing to fix the core problem of a lack of ability to improve upon the last game and has lost the interest of the majority of the gamers who thought the game did have some potential but was squandered in less than the first month

Can sit in the van = good update

I think the biggest issue with payday 3 is the lack of a game to play whatsoever. The launch heists are realistically all anyone will get to play without any future dlc, and every single one of them are beyond boring in comparison to even the most mundane heists from payday 2.

I still want to like this game, I genuinely hope they add more changes like those weapon animations that give the game some character. Anything that brings it away from its blue-green desaturated dark and edgy 2010's movie remake aesthetic it currently has. Great and informative video as always!

Can't believe I didn't comment on a Knowley video yet. Man, I love your vids. I stopped playing Payday 3 a month in but continue to follow along on each of your content upload. To keep track with what's being worked on, but mostly for your dry, subtle humor, quality scripts lacking any kind of bloat, and soft, comforting delivery of said script. I really enjoyed you taking the time to separate devs from the art team, and actually giving props where it's due. You seem always fair in your judgement, while keeping that passion for the payday franchise through and through. Thanks for sticking around dude, and please keep making vids ❤

I do hope they can bring the game to a decent point and get the amount of players up. I just need a reason to play once I get my main PC hooked up again. I kinda just wish they kept the core of what Payday 2 was then got the modern AAA game look/feel. The game looked/felt amazing but there’s not that much substance to it, like why am I trying to get money/exp? I wish a game I have been playing stops nerfing every goddamn thing and making the game harder and less fun especially for solo players.

throwable that hard counter certain special enemies could make them more useful instead of some being clear winners

they just gotta weather the storm and once all the problems are sorted a new audience will pick it up

Crazy to think, all of the accolades it got in basically it's beta stage, now here we are. An astonishingly big leap, wrong direction.

Remember that time when in promotions for PAYDAY 3 they said something like "This is the year of PAYDAY"? Yea... I wounder how that turned out...

Was not expecting the LilGuyG cameo

Yay we can get into the van , about time 😂

One thing ive noticed, is that they have added Intel's xess upscaling to the game files, yet that change is nowhere to be seen on their patch notes page

Basic features after 7 months lets gooo

We need a new UI. Either revert to the old dark web feel, or keep going with the heister safehouse feel like in the menu background. The actual gameplay ui is fine btw.

No worries, will likely begin heisting in a few years when they finally put their shit together

I really hope they can pull it together. This has been rough.

So I finally found time to play again in between my school terms (and I lost my job LMAO 😭) and I gotta say damn this game feels lonely…. On Xbox at least. When I play on PC I get into quickplay pretty quick and with other people can you believe it. Kinda a side note but why ain’t there a shooting range…. Swapping between platforms (while rare for me) makes it really tricky to get my sensitivity feeling right, especially with the frame rate difference. It would be nice to have a way to test it without being in a heist

I Have No Mouth And I NEED A MEDIC BAG

I bought payday 3 after a month or so of release (always online difficulties at the start were something i 100% predicted, and was 100% correct on happening, even said it on your own videos), and i think the game is fun. But i'm going to have to say one of the negatives i had at the time was that it feels like payday 1. I know. Alot of people adore payday 1... but there's a reason people keep playing payday 2 compared to 1. Payday 1 had a ton of problems, it was extremely unforgiving, not just to new players, but to everyone. Which might sound good, but it really never felt like there was improvement because of it. Yes, i learned where things were, yes i could get to them faster, but if something went wrong just a small bit, it was game over. An ally misses a vital shot on cloaker, an enemy runs inbetween a shot meant for a dozer's visor, etc. etc. all the little things out of your control felt too punishing. It's a problem in payday 2 but only when you're on the hardest difficulties. Problem is that it feels like it's a problem at all times in payday 3, like it did in payday 1. That said, i also warned people that when the game came out it was gonna be in a horrible state. I know they had a ton of time to work on it, but they were coming off a horrible situation with money laundering, their company almost went bankrupt, guarantee they had to fire people, probably ended up having to hire new people, and to add to that... payday 2 sucked when it came out. That's the thing. Payday 2 wasn't good when it came out. i remember hearing so many people complaining about it. It's like tf2 in that regard. Most people forget that before they started adding cosmetics, tf2 was an abject failure struggling to keep player count going. The same was true for early payday 2, and it took a ton of work to fix it. I don't want the return to the death sentence one down BS from payday 2, but i will fully admit i want the rpg-logic, unrealistic meme-y gameplay elements from payday 2 back. Payday 3 feels boring right now, even though the gameplay itself is smooth. It's missing what made payday 2 great, and alot of that has to do, believe it or not, with the arcadey way payday 2 was compared to pd1 and pd3. I will say the grenade does seem like a step in what i, personally, would consider "the right direction". but i fully admit my opinion is subjective.

That book is so fucking good btw.

I can't really be excited about changes that feel like I paid full price for a beta, or should have been there in the first place (especially if it was in PD2), which is how I see many of these updates. But content is really the culprit keeping me and my friends from playing. It needs a bucketload of new content if its going to pull us back to playing with any regularity. That said, its in all of our libraries, so if it gets good at some point, we may check it out, but we've moved on from watching for it too closely at this point, and won't likely be the first folks back when/if it gets its act together, we'll hear about it in passing and either be like, "cool" or shrug.

To me it seems like in the news they promise big changes and then we see small changes at best, or things that go in a whole other direction than what they said they would do. I am a diehard payday fan and I haven't touched this game since February. In fact I haven't touched pd2 either. I've just been playing Hitman and Thief Sim 2 instead.

Goddamnit Kknowley, my ping isn’t THAT bad. Then again, for your next challenge run, send Yelwonkk down under lol

I have no converted officers, yet i must play loud

Seeing the most basic of features get added MONTHS after release really tells how much extra time this game needed in the kitchen

I have no pay, but I must day

Payday 3 was THE ONLY game ive ever pre-ordered, because I absolutely LOVED Payday 2, and heard so many good things about Payday 3 from content creators. I loved it at first, the menu was pretty crap, but y'know I thought it was probably just a low-priority thing, some devs are pushed just a bit too fast and hard so maybe a fully cropped out menu and GUI hadn't been made yet... I started playing it the literal hour it came out, and for the first few hours it ran perfectly fine, apart from me having to play on lowest graphics to avoid lag (which wasn't a me issue, it got fixed after a couple updates), but after a few hours of launch, the game became unplayable with the long as hell waiting times, which just made me want to play it more. Finally, after god knows how long, that all got fixed and I got straight back into playing it.... But after just a few more hours I finally realized that, really that was it, there weren't really that many guns, not many heists and all the heists were the exact same every time, no matter how many times I played them, there was maybe one thing in two heists that would ever change, and the cops were pretty easy to deal with, that and the no chat in the menu, the still crappy GUI and other bugs and unfinished things started to really get to me, including the fact that there was only really 3 good guns that were a strong cut above the rest, and certain perks that you absolutely had to run to have a good time... After that I stopped playing, and really unless they do a big overhaul of everything, I still probably wont come back, and I know a large group of people who feel the exact same way as me on this. its gotten to the point now where we just dont like the game anymore, which sucks because Payday 2 is still in my heart as one of my top 3 favorite games.

If you're wanting dramatic titles, could playoff famous movie titles

It feels like they come out with an update without considering the implications. Such as adding quickplay and teaming but no vc or text chat

I know this is weird but I’d unironically enjoy your voice analyzing “I have no mouth and I must scream”

KNOWLEY... I CAN JUMP IN THE BACK OF THE VAN NOW?! YASSSSSSSSSSSSSS

update looks good, one thing i'm still hoping they do soon is let steam players upgrade their game edition, because i'm not paying the full price for the new DLCs no way at all. So I still haven't played the newest heist

Honestly, I'd probably be one of the players of this game if it didn't feel like my pc was struggling to run the tutorial. But with everything that's happening, it's honestly quite a wild ride that this game is still active but with so many features that were either half-baked or probably ignored until they were forced to address them. I wonder how much stuff was mandated by deep silver and how much of it is Starbreeze trying to course correct, but that's my optimistic view on it.

I lay in wait.

The continued rollout of added animations just proves we're still in beta release.

New voicelines were also added, but for some reason that wasn’t brought up in the change log. I don’t understand why that would happen. It seems like it’d be super simple to just write down every change you make, then sit down and make a list of all the changes between each team of devs. But what do I know.

i checked the steam charts on the plus side this update made the player count double the highest amount the game has had within th last week

I have no bag and I must heal

i have massive hope for the first liek 2 months they could change the game but once helldvers came out i realized imo that theyre not doing enough at all, tbh they need to pull a cyberpunk asap

I have no ARGHHHH and I must NEED A MEDIC BAG!

PSA: set up the server browser mod it allows connection to all regions and is here to save pd3 It doesn't play nice with Avast antivirus, tho

theres a good reason i havent touched the game in a long ass time. there hasent been a new heist to play since NOVEMBER for me and there hasent been a new heist in general since DECEMBER theres just nothing to do

I am not gonna give up on this game, not yet.

In PD2, I was a Socio ICTV frenzerker. Seeing the shock grenade gave me the same feeling as the panic skill, but it was also a reminder that PD3 was not built with players like me in mind. I was excited for PD3, but seeing how they completely removed the playstyle I love, in addition to the horrid launch, I can't help but feel apathy towards the game. The updates the game is making just isn't doing anything to make a player who felt burned actually care about the game.

we shoulda had a feature-length payday movie before this slop

I think they are forgetting that 10 Chambers (Ulf Anderson which was the heart of Payday) are making their own Payday Formula and they really seem to get the attention. So it's either Payday 3 Stepping up and Giving the Game a good Fresh Haircut along with a Sale to increase the Reputation of that dumpster fire Or The new Game (Den Of Wolves) is Probably going to take over The Payday Franchise as a whole.

Man you didn't have to out me with that australian ping comment.

Mr.Knowley would you please tell me what is that smg loadout you are using in this epik video?

When i play a l4d2 server thats accross the globe with 199+ ping do i give up? NO. Do i ever back down? NO. NEVER GIVE UP

i have no medic bag and i must heist

Back to payday 2

2:54 I don't think anyone has faith in payday 3 anymore

My few fps friends gave up on this game yesterday. They been frustated for months. Im a outsider to the series. I remember hearing them be hype before launch. Then just frustrated since. Its crazy how much they dropped the bag.

Call it a skill issue, I find PD3 to heavily punish combat now with both health and armor being a finite resource and requiring half your skill points to barely rectify, I just can't play knowing eliminating enemies, arguably the main gameplay loop, is cutting into the amount of time I can spend on the map before I have 0 armor and a slither of health.

You play with LilguyG? Nice.

"Ability to enter the van had been reinstated." WE ARE SO BACK, BOYS

I have no mouth and I must AAAAAHH

I feel like the party up function best summarizes Payday 3 so far. Good feature, but not fully implemented. It's like the game is always going two steps forward and one step back.