Developer Saber Interactive and writer Focus Leisure have introduced that Warhammer 40k: Area Marine 2 will get a second yr of free updates and paid DLC.
In a neighborhood replace, the studios say {that a} second yearly season move is within the works, made doable by the “unwavering assist” of the Area Marine 2 neighborhood. The brand new move will provide “new PvE missions, enemies, weapons, and…extra”, in response to Focus, but it surely’s too early for the studio to pin down precisely what’s coming.
In addition to that second yr of content material, a serious Area Marine 2 replace is coming in September. Replace 10.0 will embrace a model new PvP mode, with the intervening Replace 9.0 bringing “solely balancing modifications”.
In response to Focus and Saber, the brand new PvP mode will happen on a model new map, and it will pit two warring Chaos factions towards each other. Additionally, you will have the ability to pilot a Helbrute, which just about justifies the brand new mode in and of itself.
As a part of this new mode, you can even count on new Chaos-themed armor units to be added to Area Marine 2, and a brand new melee weapon can even be added within the type of the Energy Axe, so you will have one other approach to cleave heretics in twain (or followers of the False Emperor, no matter your poison could also be).
Replace 10.0 will moreover carry a brand new class within the type of the Techmarine, which Focus and Saber say they will reveal extra about within the coming weeks.
The most recent neighborhood replace additionally accommodates plenty of details about how Saber and Focus discovered from the brand new Siege Mode’s public check interval, so if you happen to had robust opinions about that mode, you may wish to take a look at their ideas on that.
Elsewhere in Area Marine information, it was revealed not too long ago {that a} third Area Marine sport is in growth, and whereas not a lot has been revealed about it but, we do know that it’ll probably see protagonist Captain Titus getting back from the earlier two installments.
Not solely that, however the devs behind Area Marine 2 are presently engaged on a model new AAA-level sport utilizing a “tentpole” Hasbro IP. If it does not turn into a Monopoly Soulslike, I will be very unhappy certainly.
You may take a look at Warhammer 40k: Area Marine 2 proper now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S, and you’ll learn my overview of the sport (from earlier than its many updates) proper right here.