If you're a Switch owner and you haven't had the pleasure of planning out your very own virtual heists in Payday 2 then you're in for a treat as Strarbreeze Studios unique shooter is set to arrive on Switch in 2018. In fact, you won't have to wait long - that vague 'winter release' window we were given earlier in the year has transformed into 23 February 2018 for Europe and 27 February for the US and Australia.
If you're new to Payday 2's special brand of co-operative fun, you and up to three other players team up to plan and execute a robbery. Your journey into virtual larceny starts as you scout out the location of your heist (ranging from small jewelry stores to hitting convoys of security trucks in a busy city street) before donning a mask, battling police and looking after a set of drills as they bore they way into many a safe. It's proved a hit on other platforms, and it's going to be right at home on Switch.
There will be both digital and physical versions, so all you box collectors can add one more case to your collections. Are you a prospective robber looking to try Payday 2 for the very first time or will you be double dipping back into a life of crime?
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Keep bringing the 3rd parties.
Nice!
I’m sure a lot of people forgot about this. Glad it’s finally slated for release
I hope they fixed the AI issues described in the most recent releases of the game.
Nice
Thats three games confirmed for February. Its a shame they are ports though. I haven't played Payday 2 so it's new to me.
Bought this a while ago on PC. It was pretty fun with a group of friends, I'd highly recommend it if you have buddies with Switch's willing to play co-op. However, the AI issues @ballistic90 mentioned are real. Hopefully they are fixed here.
Hopefully this will sell enough as without others online to team up with it's a waste of time. You can play with AI team mates in single player but they're supposed to be completely useless.
The Nintendo Switch units featured in the video are actually the console's dev kits. You can tell from the text on the backside.
I was just thinking about this the other day.
It's sad that I can't even look forward to a retail Switch game now (especially third party) without wondering whether the full game will be playable from the cartridge. Rockstar had the gall to announce the fact that L.A. Noire required a mandatory download a mere fortnight or so prior to launch.
If they issue a proper physical release of the game, I'll be there on day one.
After watching the video I'm wondering whether there will be offline co-op for this or if it will be online only. It's online only on other platforms, right?
Awesome. Really looking forward to this. Not a big fan of shooting games but the fact that it’s co-op vs the cpu interest me.
Apparently, the Devs are TERRIBLE in terms of supporting their games. So I'll take a hard pass on this one.
@sillygostly
It wasn't mandatory. The game was actually playable from cart. I think just half of the case files had to be downloaded, but the open world and a good portion of the cases were on cart and playable.
As a physical gamer and collector, this has been a hot topic for me, but I rest easy at night now once I just learned to accept it. I realized pretty much all games are incomplete without a download now (only half of Splatoon 2 and ARMS is on cart, DLC isn't on cart like with Zelda, or the patch that fixes framerate, etc etc). It's just the nature of the beast.
So I settled in my mind that either I'm going to miss half the games available now a days, or I just need to get past it and enjoy the video games. I chose the latter. As long as the game will physically launch and play from the cart, even if it needs a hefty download (which, thus far every game has played from cart in some capacity, and will continue to since Nintendo has a rule in place mandating such), I can tolerate it. Because even if the full game was on cart, The full game still likely wouldn't be on cart. It would either need a day one patch to fix performance issues or it would have added content or it would have DLC... it's always something.
In the case of Bayonetta 1, just having a physical case will be enough to satiate me. And the JP Climax Edition actually comes with both the case and the game. Hopefully it has English, but if it doesn't, I preordered the Climax Edition goodies without the game from Nin Nin, just for the Bayo 1 case and steelbook really. And at the end of the day having the case on the shelf is enough. More and more I'm realizing digital is the future and it's just so convenient, especially on a system that you take with you.
Yeah...maybe
Price, all on cart or huge download, how well it runs and online functionality. When all of this is answered then I can make a choice. After the 2K games and of course the Troll and I debacle, I have to see some quality effort before throwing down my cash. I love the third party support but, it needs to be just that, support. Not buggy, shovelwarish jank ports that need 3 patches to be fixed. I say this because of the track record of the devs behind Payday. It still doesn't even run that great on PC and Xbone. If the effort is their, I will be too.
Is this the kind of game you need to have people to play with to really enjoy? If so I probably have to pass.
Lol! I played this on the PS3. Its like $7 dollars - another 3rd party rehash.
So many new games start of 2018, no reason to waste time and money on this. They announced #3, hopefully that gets a Switch release.
Cant wait for this one since i play doom multiplayer online i keep my ass beaten really hard.
Was curious about this when it was announced...then Doom came along.
I use my Switch almost exclusively as a portable, where I mostly don't have any Internet connection, so this one's not for me as I've heard it is all about the co-op multiplayer.
Can't wait for this. Wish they'd done a double-set including the first game though to introduce Nintendo fans to the series.
They really should include splitscreen multiplayer.
Honestly a little surprised they are bothering with this one, but then again I guess the developer has nothing better to do. I got the game a long time ago on PC, it was just alright. Kinda fun for a while but then it gets really repetitive, the kinda game where you really gotta be into it.
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