Overview
- Sidetrack Games assumes ongoing updates, bug fixes, quality-of-life changes, and live operations for Payday 2.
- The first Sidetrack-led patch is scheduled for Thursday, October 23, with a focus on stability and overall player experience.
- Starbreeze positions the move as a resource shift to concentrate on improving Payday 3 following its troubled launch and weaker engagement.
- Sidetrack has deep Payday modding roots and previously developed Raid: World War II, operating earlier as M.U.G. Team and Lion Game Lion.
- Starbreeze plans a Thursday livestream to outline the collaboration, following earlier steps that included canceling a Dungeons & Dragons co-op project to prioritize Payday 3.