Warhammer 40,000: House Marines 2 was successful out of the gate final fall, however that does not imply its most devoted gamers love the whole lot about it. Many followers are particularly vocal in opposition to the thought of House Marines 2 turning right into a live-service sport, particularly after Focus Leisure and developer Saber Interactive launched neighborhood occasions seemingly as the one solution to get fascinating objects which might be solely accessible for a restricted time. This time, the pushback has been so intense that Focus has apologized to followers and guaranteed them {that a} live-service transformation is not within the playing cards for House Marines 2.
On this week’s neighborhood replace, Focus Leisure shared the next assertion: “Now we have famous that the Neighborhood Occasions have acquired chilly suggestions since we launched them as an extra solution to unlock beauty objects. We noticed that a lot of you talked about FOMO generated by the occasions. Relaxation assured, we’re not trying to remodel House Marine 2 right into a full live-service sport. The objects accessible by occasions WILL be accessible later, for everybody. We wish Neighborhood Occasions to be a solution to unlock the objects prematurely, for probably the most devoted gamers, and to not be a supply of frustration and stress for everybody.
“Nevertheless, meaning we should present a clean expertise in unlocking mentioned objects, which has not been the case to date. We deeply apologize for the difficulty, and are at the moment engaged on a simplified course of to unlock the objects, to make the expertise much less constraining.”
As a solution to make it as much as followers, the emblem-less Mk VIII Errant Helmet will now be accessible totally free to all gamers who hyperlink their PROS account to House Marine 2. Earlier than this transformation, the helmet was solely going to be given to gamers who had victories in every of the six lessons in Operations mode earlier than the Imperial Vigil neighborhood occasion got here to an finish.
Earlier this 12 months, Focus Leisure shared its roadmap for House Marine 2’s “substantial” updates all through 2025. Exterior of the sport, Amazon Prime Video’s Warhammer 40,000 live-action sequence might lastly be going ahead with Henry Cavill in a number one function.