As a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer fan, I’ve never been happier for a game to succeed than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Space Marine 2. I’ve seen so many new people join the hobby thanks to the game, lore YouTubers are seeing their numbers shoot up, and I’ve been able to roleplay as a Dark Angel purging the online servers of Chaos heretics. What more c𓄧ould I ask for?
The cosmetics looked good; the monetisation was clever, utilising the Warhammer 40K IP ඣwithout a loot box in sight; and the combat was crunchy and felt good. Just last week Space Marine 2 , a runawa🍨y success. So where did it all go wrong?
Where Did Space Marine 2 Go Wrong?
Space Marine 2 has gone from strength to strength to fatal weakness. The game, which fans were tipping for Game of the Year just a month prior, has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dropped to Mostly Positive on Steam,𝓀 with just 73 percent of recent reviews being positive. That may seem like a decent number, but this is a game that people had been raving about until now.
The problems started with a recent patch, which nerfed Auspex Scans, Melta Charges, and arbitrarily increased the difficulty of Ruthless missions by reducing ammo spawns. As a player with over 1,000 hours in Apex Legends who has chatted with the developers on numerous occasions, I have a good understanding of how♏ you balance a live-service game. This is not it.
You don’t suddenly reduce a weapon’s damage by 70 percent. You tweak and tinker with minimal adjustments (after thorough testing in a non-live environment) until the weapon is at a level you want it. Such sweeping changes suggest panic or inexperience with live-service games. - Developer♑ Saber Interactive needs to take a deep breath and ✅approach things with more care in future.
Zoanthropes, Zoanthropes Everywhere
Zoant🙈hropes were always the worst enemy in Space Marine 2. There’s a mi🐓ssion in the campaign where you have to deal with multiple of the flying psychic bastards while fighting through a Ripper Swarm so 𓂃thick you can’t see the steel floor beneath your feet. However, they’re even worse in PvE.
In the campaign, Titus is nearly always equipped with a ranged weapon. That’s not always the case in PvE. If you’re running the Assault class (guilty) or you love playi💮ng as a Breacher, you only have close combat weapons. You usually have a sidearm, but that’s only useful for killing a Gaunt and won’t touch an Extremis opponent.
At least I’ll be able to swing a Thunder Hammer at a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hierophant's ankles when it arrives.
Here’s where Zoanthropes get really annoying. As a close combat character, you have no way of touching a flying monster. There’s also no way to parry ranged attacks, making you more vulnerable to damage from th🐭ese creatures. That would be an even more pressing issue if parrying wasn’t broken in this update, too.
On top of Zoanthropes already being annoying, the latest update seems to spawn them all the time. Their attacks are more frequent too, and iFrames or hitboxes seem to have been altered so dodging out of the꧑ way feels impossible. Put simply, fighting against Zoanthropes fee🐬ls terrible, and is ruining players’ fun.
Space Marine 2 Needs To Make It Up To The Players
The first step for Saber is to immediately roll back these changes. Again referencing the live-service game I know so well, Apex Legends has done this in the past. Remember when Seer launched? The Charge Rifle in Season 3? Respawn worked quickly to rework these Legends and weapons, nerfing Seer into the gro🀅und immediately to slowly build him back up in a more balanced manner.
Whatever updates the new patch pushed need to be pulled. After that, while the developers quietly work on fixing the update in the background, the developers should give the players something. Some kind of cosmetic, a fancy skin for a weapon, enough currency to unlock one Chapter’s colours, or ꦿsomething.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the players need compensation. But Saber desperately needs to get them back onside if it wants to keep its live-service gam♊e alive, and the best way to do that is with free stuff. Players love free stuff. I love free stuff. If Space Marine 2 was rolled back to its previous state and players also got a nifty little Dark Angels upgrade for their troubles, it would go a long way to smoothing things over.
If Saber follow༒s that up with slower paced, better thought out updates, then players will stay happy. I understand the urge to keep adding more, more, more, when players’ attention is being pulled away at every turn, but updates need to be careful and considered. And Zoanthropes need to get in the sea.
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