Starbreeze announced a new Payday 3 roadmap with future additions to the action game and revealed two new characters in a separate trailer. The Payday 3 newcomers are Pearl and Joy, and the roadmap posted on Twitter promises four rounds of substantial DLC, with spurts of new cosmetics, characters, and more in between.
Starbreeze said each round of major DLC will launch in each season, with the first planned for winter 2023.
- Syntax Error – winter 2023
- Boys in Blue – spring 2024
- The Land of the Free – summer 2024
- Fear and Greed – fall 2024
The roadmap doesn’t say what the DLC will actually consist of, though the studio said to expect “playable characters, new enemy, weapons, Unreal Engine 5 upgrade, cosmetics, quality of life improvements, new features and much more.”
As for the two new characters, Starbreeze said Pearl is “an expert con artist and infiltrator,” while Joy excels at hacking and manipulating security systems.
Payday 3 releases on Sep. 21, 2023, for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and it’s one of our most anticipated video games releasing in September. An open beta running the weekend of Sep. 8, 2023, through Sep. 11, 2023, and as it’s an open beta, anyone can join. Expect plenty of bugs, errors, and server problems if you log in, though. Starbreeze is using the weekend to work out issues in the lead-up to launch.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
