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Payday 2 Gets New Engine 13 Years Post-Launch and Officially Loses Native Linux Version
Payday 2 launch in 2013, but the co-op shooter still regularly brings in over 30,000 concurrent daily players, despite its age. Now, 13 years on, the developer, Overkill, has anno…
Payday 2 launch in 2013, but the co-op shooter still regularly brings in over 30,000 concurrent daily players, despite its age. Now, 13 years on, the developer, Overkill, has announced the official launch of the V3 game engine for main Payday 2 branch.
The new Diesel Engine V3 improves the game in a number of ways, but the highlights include moving to a 64-bit architecture, adopting DirectX 11, improving CPU utilization for modern multithreaded CPUs, improving load times and the installed game size, and adding native VR support. Of course, this hasn't come without some trade-offs, one of the most impactful of which is the loss of the native Linux build of the game.
The new Diesel Engine V3 improves the game in a number of ways, but the highlights include moving to a 64-bit architecture, adopting DirectX 11, improving CPU utilization for modern multithreaded CPUs, improving load times and the installed game size, and adding native VR support. Of course, this hasn't come without some trade-offs, one of the most impactful of which is the loss of the native Linux build of the game.