Overview
- Sidetrack Games, a team with roots in the Payday modding community, will take over ongoing PC updates for Payday 2 with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
- The first Sidetrack-built patch is scheduled for Thursday, October 23, and targets stability and overall player experience.
- Starbreeze says the collaboration lets it maintain full focus on improving Payday 3 after a troubled 2023 launch.
- A Starbreeze livestream on October 23 will outline the partnership and invite community input on Payday 2's next steps.
- Recent SteamDB figures reported roughly 27,000 concurrent players on Payday 2 versus just over 500 on Payday 3 at the time of coverage.