Recent reviews by Mercuriusds

It's a point and click adventure from daedalic.
This means good animation, great drawings and great humor.
It was fun playing. The puzzles were not too tricky or nonsensical, so all in all a good adventure game!

Good game.
A lot of great features and it's simply fun to play

######## Update after Patch 1.0.1 ##############

So, after 1 Month we received a patch. First and foremost, things did improve, sure. Some graphic bugs were solved, some exploit for faster weapon leveling were patched... but this was not the issue. I want to pull up the Overdrill Example from Payday the Heist. You needed to literally wait for an hour for the drill to finish... it was the most boring stuff. But why did people do it? Because they progressed and unlocked skills allowing them to play the rest of the game.
In my opinion you can see the same thing with the weapon level exploit. Why do the people do it? Because the system is not fun. That's why people looked for exploits and why they used them. To modify the weapons in a way, that you can use them. Now, the exploit is fixed. This dod not solve the problem. This solved the exploit, for sure, but not the problem, that the system is annoying.

And this summarises this patch in my opinion so well. It was a lot of cosmetic stuff and really low hanging fruits. I would be more willing to forgive, if they wouldn't have a website, where you can see, that most of the issues and problems with the game are known to them since August.
Like I prophesised. I have now problems finding lobbies to play with people. If I find a lobby, they need to wait for my stuff to load... however, since you removed the percentages showing, I'm loading, the guys don't know why I'm not pressing ready.
And while I'm on the lobby topic. Still, no text chat. So I still don't have a way to select if I need a stealth load out or my loud loadout. You don't have enough skill points to make a build which would support both in a way that would make sense...
So, yeah...just add a text chat. You have one...it would solve SO MUCH!
I also leave the issue with the always on in here. Yeah, sure, servers are now stable... but if I want to play this game in 5 years, do I still have a server or do I have a nice launcher, which is telling me to play something else, because it can not connect. And don't bring up Anti-Cheat or Anti-Piracy Mechanics. I played with cheaters and there are people pirating the game, so yeah... this did not solve it.

For now, I leave this review negative. This patch did patch some things, but not the stuff, which mattered.

######## Original Review: ####################

So, I loved Payday 1, I loved Payday 2... and I'm in shock about Payday 3.
Qualitywise, this is a mess. The game does not feel like years of development.
The navgiation and UX feels as no one really put a lot of work into it. UI and graphic wise, one can see clear design and modeling problems/erros...
And then there is the always online matchmaking. Boy, oh boy, this doesn't work. So, when you buy the game right now, you have a high likelihood you are unable to play, because the servers can't handle the load.
Now, I'm wondering, what will happen in the future? You know, in Payday 2 I had "a list", where I could see how many people are playing what, and i could decide to jump in and join them.
In Payday 3? I don't get this information. So, if I wantto play a heist, I need to queue and pray, that the combination of heist and difficulty will attract enough people to get a full lobby. In which I can wait a maximum of 5 minutes to gather it... otherwise, gg. Like I said, now, post launch, not the biggest issue...but if you wait for some time. This will become problematic.
I'm actually also suprised noone complained about the number of heists... Payday 1 launched with 6 heists, which was ok. It was a new game from a young Dev-Team. I mean, it literally had a price tag of 20€. Payday 2 launched with 11 heists, got 2 more FREE(!) soon after. It had a price tag of 40€. And Payday 3? 6, with a statement, that 4 will be added via DLC. Are you kidding me?
I don't even know what to say to this. I'm angry the way Payday went. Shame on who ever is responsible for this.
I loved this franchise... but I feel like Payday 3 is a punch in the gut. I recommended Payday 1 and Payday 2 to everyone who would listen... Payday 3? Before I ever recommend it, a lot of fixing and a lot of community support needs to happen!

It's a nice game. It allows you to feel like a mighty hacker with huge automation skills, while really, you just coded some basic stuff.
The addition of the coding contracts are very interesting; The story is ok and the different levels are nice. You always feel like you are progressing somewhere. Although, it gets slow some times.

It's a bit short and I'm missing the replayability a bit, but it is a great game and I loved the stroy. I played it through basically in two days doing nothing else. The game is just this engaging. You can prolong your game by bulding a bigger bunker, but it never really is needed to build a huge bunker.

It is a really great game, which finds a great balance between complex and simple. It has awesome grafics and the concept is really nice. However some tutorials should explain more... i.e. maning a tavern and getting it running is not as straight forward as expected.

Update:
The addition of Koop improvment the experience! It is a true blast to build a town with friends.

It's a nice simple game. I like it. Don't expect too much depth on it, it is still complex and challenging enough. But it is more of a nice friendly build your little settlement game in your lunch break.

I like this game. It's calm, has a nice story and rememberable characters. It is a lovely game

I really like this game. It is all it promised and it gets developed in the right direction. Currentlly the cops seem a bit unfair, but to be honest, it is ok, because it makes the game a little bit more challenging in a positive sense.
urther ore the stealing of cars and all the mini games to solve little chalenges are really awesome. Just one shot in the dark: It would be awesome to et some feedback duing the dismanling of the car.
Some better translations into german would be great(sometime really wired translations appear, but nothing game breaking.

I bought this game expecting a follow up title for payday 2. But boy was I wrong:
This game loolks a little bit like Payday 2, but when you play it, it feels more like inglorious bastards. The difficulties settings in this game are good managed and the weapon mechanics are rather good. The weapon leveling reminded me of Payday the heist , which isn't bad at all! The only thing I personally dislike is the charcter leveling mechanic. 4 times grinding your way to level 40... not the best idea. But other than that: It makes fun to collect the Nazi Gold, to look for hidden intel, dogtaks and so on, while you need to finish your mission.

Only one little advice: I'm from germany and I have a cut version. You see this in the cinematic scenes of the game. They are "fine" but nothing more. However if you can get an uncut version with the original cutscences, do so! They are way better and way funnier. Please check out the differences on Youtube and see for yourself.