Starbreeze and Krafton have introduced a PUBG Payday crossover, with the latter set to infiltrate the world of the previous via what seems 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 rising “the visibility and attain of the Payday franchise”, which Starbreeze goals to do by “bringing the heisting expertise to a broader viewers via PUBG“.
It is a aim that Starbreeze reasonably desperately must chase proper now, since Payday 3‘s in a little bit of a good 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 line with the aforementioned announcement, the collaboration will contain “a few quarter of Starbreeze’s growth group throughout a yr” underneath what Starbreeze calls a “work-for-hire settlement”.
It sounds, then, like Starbreeze shall be creating the Payday content material that may make its manner into PUBG: Battlegrounds. The 2 studios say they’re “at present collaborating on the challenge’s integration roadmap”, and we’ll get extra updates later down the road.
It has been a rocky street for Payday 3, with Starbreeze admitting again in February that the sport was acting at “considerably decrease ranges” than it wished.
Maybe extra embarrassingly for Starbreeze, Payday 2 is at present leagues forward of Payday 3 within the Steam participant depend stakes; finally 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 robust place relating 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 desires to combine Payday into the battle royale hit.
On the subject of 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 attempt to enhance Payday 3‘s fortunes, and the studio can be engaged on a multiplayer sport utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons IP.