The visibility of the enemies is poor compared to other roguelikes, there is just way too much visual noise within the game that I don't wish to play it. It's hard to read some attacks too that it makes me not wish to play the game. It's otherwise a good game, but there's better games.

The game has much better gunplay than payday 2, and that's its strongest point. Everything doesn't seem overly powered like in payday 2 and it's more grounded.

I prefer payday 2's stealth mechanics though. It is absurd to be able to be caught in a private guard an infinite amount of times in a private area when stealthing a mission, I even sometimes intentionally get caught so I can steal the guard's keycard when he looks away (have i ever seen a female guard or cop in this game??). The old ECM jammers also are more fun and balance out the difficulty, as payday 3 lets you complete some stealth heists without needing to ever mask up. You can lockpick and perform other illegal actions while unmasked, which could be used for some interesting things but makes things easier.

The biggest weakness is probably that objectives seem repetitive, wandering the map to find cell phones people left behind and standing in circles.

I would feel otherwise if there was a true competitor in this genre, but there isn't. It's really just payday 3 against payday 2. I wouldn't play a thousand hours in this game and it seems worth it on sale just to play the included heists or maybe some of the previous year's heists when they are heavily discounted. The game is arguably not better than payday 2 in any specific way, other than being on a newer game engine.

Payday 2 even has some features payday 3 still doesn't have like the ability to play offline. Why do I have to find a match when I'm just playing with one other friend in a private game?

The game seems to be on a solid foundation to eventually be fun, probably around 2027 as long as the game keeps on being updated and improved as it currently is.

this game is extremely good but damn, releasing the same day as Silksong was not a good idea

sets a standard for puzzle games in terms of simplicity while maintaining depth that I have seen no other game achieve yet