Focus Entertainment recently rolled out a patch for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, introducing ultrawide support for PCs and private lobbies for PvE in Operation mode.
The update, detailed on the Space Marine 2 community page, includes the new Hub Sparring Arena. This stage is located on the Battle Barge for Operations and Eternal War modes, allowing players to fight friends before starting a mission. Private lobbies now let you play with bots or a friend instead of random players. Other tweaks involve resetting custom color presets and adjusting Veteran difficulty, with reduced health and less aggressive enemies during campaigns.
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Space Marine 2 has already set new records for the Warhammer franchise, sparking concerns about the pressure on Saber Interactive. But CEO Tim Willits is confident, saying, “Through the success lens that we have, we will just make far better products in the future.” This could hint at future story DLC or even a third installment in the series.
The patch also offers more customization for your grimdark soldiers, including the ability to customize the bottom and top halves of legs separately. They are exploring other options, like face changes, more decals, colors, and AI squadmate customization.
For more details, check out GameSpot’s review of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Below are the full patch notes:
New Features
- The Hub Sparring Arena: A special arena on the Battlebarge for friendly PvP in Operations & Eternal War modes.
- Ultrawide support for PC.
- Private mode for Operation mode: Play alone with bots or with a friend without random matchmaking.
- Added What’s New & Message of the Day.
- Option to reset custom color presets.
Gameplay and Balancing Tweaks
- The marking tool: Improved Social Wheel control with a mouse, disabled unnecessary objects, and fixed minor bugs.
- Power Fist: Increased damage for fully charged attacks.
- Heavy Plasma: Increased base ammo, blast damage radius, and reduced overheat per shot.
- Med Stims: Now restore contested health along with actual healing.
- Aux grenade launcher: Ammo can now only be refilled with Ammo Boxes.
Campaign
- Reduced enemy aggressiveness and slightly reduced player’s health on Veteran Difficulty.
Bots
- Bots are more helpful and effective, focusing on enemies and completing objectives better.
Operations Mode
- Tweaked AI Director and spawn rules, reducing the number of certain enemies in the arena at the same time.
PVP
- Improved player spawn system to reduce spawn killing.
- Reworked Vanguard’s Grapnel Launcher to stagger and slow enemies instead of fully stunning them.
AI
- Reduced ability to stunlock enemies with ranged attacks.
- Decreased accuracy of off-screen and melee-engaged enemies.
Customization
- Fixed color issues for certain colors and chapters.
- Added a new color pattern for leg customization.
Maps
- Fixed issues preventing progression in levels and minor collision problems.
- Adjusted dust storm density and duration in Ballistic Engine operation.
- Tweaked Heldrake fire timings on the bridge in Reliquary operation.
- Trials can now be accessed via Hypnomat in Armoury.
General Fixes
- Fixed bugs affecting loadouts, jump pack abilities, trials, and story voice assignments.
- Improved UI, animations, and localization.
