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I was unable to join my friend in co-op only getting a constant "The game you tried to join is no longer available" whenever either of us tried to join one another. Troubleshooting it only led to hackneyed solutions or going to techland directly for support in fixing the issue which is unacceptable for a triple A game that's at least two years old.

Just play the first game

The games as a service model chosen for Payday 3 reeks of a top down decision and really permeates some of the on-going issues with the game's launch.

Always online alongside a loss of peer to peer connections means potential instability and frustration with the game experience always looms above it. This alongside gameplay decisions aimed more for player retention than player enjoyment ultimately weighs down on some solid fundamental improvements the game has displayed compared to its predecessor when you actually get to sit down and enjoy it.

Ultimately Payday 3 is best described right now as "Could be fun, but needs fixing before it's even worth considering."
Save your money and come back to it sometime in the future like I plan to do to see if they've got their ♥♥♥♥ together by then.

DISCLAIMBER: This is a very angry review, I also had to install the normal version of the game and play it for 10 minutes if I wanted to review the DC version which I have 47 hours in. With that out of the way...

I had an incredibly long and detailed essay which I wasn't even sure was gonna fit in a steam review, on why I think Wasteland 2 is not a good game which I spent about two hours writing and going into explicit details what I thought brought the game down for me, using flowery prose, language and detailed examples but I lost all my progress and frankly, I really do not feel like rewriting all of that. It was a passion project that I lost the passion for after losing all progress on it once it was finished. So instead of even bothering the futile action of rewriting that ridiculously long review I'll just summarize the points as bluntly and crudely as possible.

IN SUMMARY
MY PARTY OF FIVE (I JURY RIGGEG VULTURE'S CRY INTO A PC) WAS THE ONLY EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT I HAD ALL GAME

COMBAT WAS A VISCERAL EXPERIENCE BUT THE SHOOT FIRST MECHANIC VS THEIR VISION IS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AND UNBALANCED, PISS POOR LEVEL DESIGN WITH COMBAT NOT IN MIND
THE FINAL ENCOUNTER WAS THE WORST FIGHT I'D EVER SEEN DESIGNED IN A TACTICAL RPG, INFLATED STATS TERRIBLE LEVEL DESIGN MAKES FOR AN ANGRY, UNFUN TIME

WRITING FOR CHARACTERS IS ONE DIMENSIONAL, GODAWFUL
EVERY FACTION/TRIBE/SETTLEMENT IS A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ USAGE OF PLANET OF HATS TROPE
HUMOR IS INFANTILE AND INSULTING, 80'S POP CULTURE REFERENCES FORCEFULLY DEEPTHROATED DOWN YOUR THROAT AT EVERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TURN
ORIGINAL WASTELAND NOSTALGIA GOGGLES SO ROSE TINTED THEY ENDED UP DOING ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TO HAVE ANYTHING INTERESTING LOREWISE OTHER THAN MAKING CALLBACKS TO THE FIRST GAME, PLOT COMPLETELY RECYCLED FROM THE FIRST GAME, LITERALLY WORST PART OF THE WRITING AND IS JARRING AS ♥♥♥♥ WHEN YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE FIRST GAME WHICH IS WHAT IS PROBABLY HAPPENED SINCE IT WAS MADE IN ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 1988

IN SHORT WASTELAND 2 DID NOT INNOVATE IN COMBAT, NOR IN WRITING, I WILL ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO DISCOURAGE SOMEONE FROM PLAYING THIS.
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The game is fun. If it's not fun, why bother?

While I've had my fun, this game just keeps on going downhill at every step. But we can ignore that as long as our base game was still the fun Payday 2 we knew.

Unfortunately now, Oveyshill at every corner keeps trying to swindle money out of the fans at every. single. step.
Be it in the dozens of DLC they release at minimum 5 dollars, or the new introduction of these poorly done CS:GO skins: Payday 2 edition, they want their money. Even if it's terrible content, they want their money. Even if they destroy the game, they want their money.

And as a fan, I'm sick of it. I can't support this game anymore.