Suicide Squad is at the moment within the midst of its first post-launch season starring the Joker, and whereas participant numbers for the loot shooter have did not materialize, the sport will nonetheless ship its promised year-one roadmap, writer Warner Bros. confirms. That signifies that it received’t pull a full Anthem and utterly ditch its post-launch plans, regardless of a report that Rocksteady Studios is already largely centered on different tasks.
“Suicide Squad will full its at the moment introduced roadmap,” a spokesperson for the writer informed Kotaku in an electronic mail on June 7. That roadmap at the moment runs by 4 seasons, every with a brand new playable character, a brand new playable surroundings, and extra actions, skins, and stability updates. Suicide Squad is at the moment ending the primary episode of season 1 with a second episode anticipated to drop quickly, however Rocksteady Video games hasn’t been clear in regards to the timing, or if future seasons will final simply as lengthy.
Anybody who’s performed a live-service recreation that’s died, like BioWare’s ill-fated Anthem or Crystal Dynamics’ Marvel’s Avengers, is aware of that future plans are on the mercy of preliminary momentum. It’s not clear Suicide Squad ever made a large enough optimistic splash within the first place to have a significant viewers to win again over, not to mention the legs to slowly construct one over a expensive first 12 months of updates. With no frank acknowledgement of the recreation’s struggles since launch, and weekly replace weblog posts now changing into extra intermittent, followers have naturally started to marvel if Warner Bros. was quietly pulling again from its over $200 million flop.
Then final week Bloomberg reported that many builders at Rocksteady had already been moved to engaged on a director’s minimize of Hogwarts Legacy whereas studio management tried to pitch Warner Bros. on a brand new single-player venture that will return the Batman: Arkham maker to its roots. Warner Bros. didn’t touch upon these components of the report, or supply any suggestion that Suicide Squad would proceed releasing new updates after its promised first 12 months. It’s additionally unclear how a lot of these post-launch seasons, which have been anticipated to wrap up the principle marketing campaign’s inconclusive non-ending, are accomplished, or if a variety of work nonetheless must be accomplished on them.
Mr. Freeze has already been leaked as the subsequent seasonal character, although Suicide Squad must increase adjustments than that to make it value enjoying.