Starbreeze and Krafton have introduced a PUBG Payday crossover, with the latter set to infiltrate the world of the previous by what feels like a brand new gameplay expertise inside PUBG: Battlegrounds.
In an official announcement on Starbreeze’s web site, the studio says the crossover is about growing “the visibility and attain of the Payday franchise”, which Starbreeze goals to do by “bringing the heisting expertise to a broader viewers by PUBG“.
It is a aim that Starbreeze moderately desperately must chase proper now, since Payday 3‘s in a little bit of a decent spot. Lately, Payday 3 noticed its director step down within the run-up to its first anniversary, and the sport’s poor efficiency additionally led to Starbreeze’s CEO quitting again in March.
In keeping with the aforementioned announcement, the collaboration will contain “a few quarter of Starbreeze’s growth group throughout a yr” below what Starbreeze calls a “work-for-hire settlement”.
It sounds, then, like Starbreeze might be creating the Payday content material that can make its means into PUBG: Battlegrounds. The 2 studios say they’re “at present collaborating on the mission’s integration roadmap”, and we’ll get extra updates later down the road.
It has been a rocky highway for Payday 3, with Starbreeze admitting again in February that the sport was acting at “considerably decrease ranges” than it needed.
Maybe extra embarrassingly for Starbreeze, Payday 2 is at present leagues forward of Payday 3 within the Steam participant depend stakes; ultimately depend, Payday 3‘s 24-hour participant peak was 860, whereas Payday 2‘s stood at a much more respectable 38,324.
Krafton, in the meantime, is in a really sturdy place with regards to PUBG: Battlegrounds. The sport’s 24-hour Steam participant peak is a princely 756,872, which most likely goes a way in the direction of explaining why Starbreeze needs to combine Payday into the battle royale hit.
With reference to the 2 studios’ future plans, Krafton is at present engaged on a cell model of survival hit Palworld, and it is also overseeing a sequel to Hello-Fi Rush, the IP for which (together with developer Tango Gameworks) it purchased earlier this yr.
Starbreeze, in the meantime, is engaged in a multi-stage plan to try to enhance Payday 3‘s fortunes, and the studio can also be engaged on a multiplayer sport utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons IP.
