[Feedback] Allow us to create private lobbies (gives possibility of solo heists or friends only)

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As the title suggests. Playing this with randoms is incredibly frustrating, especially when you want to go a few rounds with your friends in a game with actual coordination, only for the option not to be there.
Currently, it is somewhat possible if you disable cross-play and have your buddies joining you or if you fail a heist and remain as the only one left in a lobby. Having to jump through hoops to play with your friends in a COOP game is sub-optimal.

Planned Feedback Operation Medic Bag Suggested by: Frus (03 Aug, '23) • Upvoted: 30 Mar, '24 • Comments: 45

Comments: 45

04 Aug, '23
LukeDaJager Merged
can there be a solo heist option i don't want to join other people.
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05 Aug, '23
N/A Merged
We the community really need an option to play heists solo as sometimes playing with randoms can really ruin the experience and enjoyment (if your trying to do it stealth especially). Overall I think adding this feature would really improve the game’s enjoyment and overall fun level.
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05 Aug, '23
M.S. Merged
Heya, as a Veteran, i lived and experimented with solo/Private Lobbies, outside of PdtH and PD2,

Thats said, its the biggest advantage for a game, to really pinpoint out bugs/Errors or just simple exploits, and i can tell that by knowing the Pd2 Community as a Veteran (at that point, sorry Mods BUT i am looking forward to Mods UwU)

I personally dont want to thrown into a lobby of random People when i just want to play alone or test boundaries of the games...

Create a Option or invite Hardcore players to test Bugs and such...

Ir3os, beloved Heister and also a Hardcore Heister...

Almir will know :)
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05 Aug, '23
AlexShinomiya Merged
Hello,

Your Beta is good but we cannnot set private lobby to play with our Friends or alone. Result, i'm in stealth game (after 10 minutes) and a player joined me. I can't Enjoy my stealth game. So for the moment, i need to wait for the evening (late so less people in the beta), select the highest level et try to discoverd the stealth game with highest difficulty. Actually is not funny to play like that.

For Stealth, Beta is not ok. I pre-ordered so I will wait for the game to come out to enjoy this part of Payday3.
06 Aug, '23
Snaex Admin
"Solo Heists" (suggested by LukeDaJager on 2023-08-04), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Aug, '23
Snaex Admin
"Private/solo Lobbies" (suggested by M.S. on 2023-08-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Aug, '23
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] Option to play a hiest solo." (suggested by N/A on 2023-08-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Aug, '23
Snaex Admin
"Offline Lobby in Beta and more" (suggested by AlexShinomiya on 2023-08-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
07 Aug, '23
hamilton
Solo games were a must in payday 2 for me when achievement hunting. as some one that can never get a group together for achievements some times you just got to do it on your own.
07 Aug, '23
Nameless Merged
whatever, I want to play by myself but there is no private lobby just only public lobbies.
The reason I want a private lobby is because i want to do it solo stealth, but people join in and ruin it for me, I was frustrated they do that.
07 Aug, '23
Vintage Admin
"[Feedback] they need add private sever/lobby to play by yourself." (suggested by Nameless on 2023-08-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
09 Sep, '23
Big C Merged
Please add private heist lobbies that dont fill with random teammates. Its kind of weird that it isnt in the beta considering its kind of industry standard,
09 Sep, '23
cristian Merged
It just more of an easier way to play with friend that arnt a full squad or just playing solos a lot easier.
12 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] Private lobbies" (suggested by Big C on 2023-09-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] The option to enable private or open servers" (suggested by cristian on 2023-09-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Sep, '23
Nick Merged
Please make it so you are able to make parties private. I think that having it so always online and looking for groups makes it extremely unreliable and could run into people that troll and ruin the heists that people are trying to stealth. Most people that are playing payday have 1-2 friends that wouldnt like to have a random in the game and would like to try a duo run like in payday 2. As well for the people that like to do solo runs.
14 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin
"[FEEDBACK] Matchmaking" (suggested by Nick on 2023-09-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Sep, '23
Shesh Merged
Whether I go public or friends only matchmaking is taking far too long. It should not exist at all for friends only and invite only games. How is there even a step down from Pd2?
As soon as it takes more than say 10 or 15 seconds to find other players the game should just instantly let me host my own.
21 Sep, '23
Premium__Gamer Merged
The matchmaking (PS5) just loads infinitely. Trying to play "Only Friends".
21 Sep, '23
Under Merged
Instead of waiting for a empty lobby you should have more servers open for players who want to solo run and not wait 10-15 minutes to get into a new heist because all the other lobbies have 1 player in it
21 Sep, '23
callmesydney Merged
Hi. After experiencing mulitple server issues since the 18th, I genuinely think that this game needs a P2P option. Yes, servers are great because there isn't a host which makes the experience as stable as it can be. BUT a P2P option would be great to make the game future-proof
21 Sep, '23
Benjamin Stuen Merged
Im a solo player most of the time and have issues start a game. Looking for a game for ages and no progress. Why do i need to look for a game if i select invite only and play alone? makes no sense. Please fix asap
21 Sep, '23
Ryan Levesque Merged
whenever i launch up an invite only game to play solo, it take roughly 20 times longer to get into a lobby than joining public. why?
21 Sep, '23
Ryan Levesque Merged
whenever i launch up an invite only game to play solo, it take roughly 20 times longer to get into a lobby than joining public. why?
21 Sep, '23
Daniel Frazier Merged
I’ve set matchmaking to invite only because that seems to be the only way to solo play and I’m still waiting longer than 15 minutes for the game to start the mission. This is ridiculous and the match should automatically start
21 Sep, '23
Matt Merged
Given the dedicated server issues it would be a good idea to give the option for users to host their own dedicated servers. Could also have servers with mods enabled etc.
22 Sep, '23
Playegage Merged
It is unnecessary since you aren't looking for anyone and can take 10 minutes to join a game that we are probably going to be doing solo anyway.
22 Sep, '23
Nikita Merged
Given the high load of servers, there should be an optional version of the game for two friends!
23 Sep, '23
Faiz Merged
Why don't you provide server tools like Killing Floor 2, Left4 Dead 2, etc. so that they can be run privately on a rental server?
Why not mix it with the current matchmaking?
There is an option to implement the existing P2P way of connecting, but I thought the specification of being interrupted in the middle of the game would not change.
That would be plain stressful.
It may be out of line to overcome the current situation.
However, I think it's not a bad thing to have it for the future.

Thanks to everyone at Starbreeze for all your hard work.
(Sorry if some parts are not correct, because I use a machine translation)
25 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"Fix Matchmaking/No Matchmaking for Private Games" (suggested by Shesh on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"Long matchmaking times for solo play" (suggested by Daniel Frazier on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"[BUG] Matchmaking not working" (suggested by Premium__Gamer on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"[Feedback] No Matchmaking When Making Private Lobby" (suggested by Playegage on 2023-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"[Feedback] A peer to peer option" (suggested by callmesydney on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"Looking for private lobby take forever" (suggested by Benjamin Stuen on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"looking for match solo (long load times)" (suggested by Ryan Levesque on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"looking for match solo (long load times)" (suggested by Ryan Levesque on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
27 Sep, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"[Feedback] P2P" (suggested by Nikita on 2023-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Oct, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"[Feedback] Why not mix in matchmaking by making rental servers available?" (suggested by Faiz on 2023-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Oct, '23
jonathan b Merged
cant get a simple invite for the payday game to have a friend from the same counsel to play in invite only sessions. this game is broken and I have more bugs to repoer as well with communications with random players as well as friends
24 Oct, '23
Snaex Admin Merged
"Invite friends and invite only lobbies" (suggested by jonathan b on 2023-10-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
16 Nov, '23
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] Private Dedicated Server Option" (suggested by Matt on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (6) and comments (6), was merged into this suggestion.
16 Nov, '23
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] Make private lobbies easier to go into (solo and friend lobbies)" (suggested by Under on 2023-09-21), including upvotes (11) and comments (16), was merged into this suggestion.
18 Jan, '24
Mark Merged
When queuing Friends Only (or Invite Only), there's no 'matchmaking' to do.

If the delay is for a server to become available, it would be nice to have more feedback about what we're waiting for and where we are in the queue.

If the delay is for the server to load the game before we can connect, it would be nice for servers to preload and pause games before the first player joins to improve the matchmaking experience.
19 Jan, '24
Snaex Admin
"[Feedback] Matchmaking is slow for Friends Only lobbies" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.