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- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has reached 4.5 million players, with positive reviews and upcoming content updates.
- Focus Entertainment plans Season Pass rewards based on Space Marine chapters and new updates such as Operation Termination.
- The CEO of Saber Interactive claims that Space Marine 2 was their fastest selling game ever with a huge number of players on Steam.
About 4.5 million people have played Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2revealed the game's publisher, Focus Entertainment. The company previously claimed that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 managed to attract two million players when it launched on September 9.
Developed by Saber Interactive, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 is a third-person shooter that acts as a direct sequel to the 2011 original by Relic Entertainment. The latest title has been praised by many for its satisfying battle system, impressive visuals and accurate representation of the grimdark sci-fi universe created by Games Workshop. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 currently has an overall score of 82 on Metacritic, making it one of the highest-rated games of 2024 on the review aggregator site, alongside the fantasy RPG. Dragon's Dogma 2 and roguelike deck builder Balatro. Saber Interactive's recent release continues to thrive more than a month after its release, as the shooter has hit another impressive milestone for the player.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 managed to reach 4.5 million players, Focus Entertainment said in a statement on Twitter. The company also shared a video that teased future additions to the game, including PvE missions, enemies, and cosmetics based on the Dark Angels chapter. Previous rumors suggested that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 would get new armor pieces, notably the Mark 6 Corvus and Mark 7 Aquila helmets, which are still popular among franchise veterans.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Players
- 4.5 million (October 2024)
According to Focus Entertainment year, a roadmap for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2Season Pass holders will receive cosmetics based on a chosen chapter each season. The first cosmetics were focused on the successor chapters of Ultramarines, while the next season, which will be released before the end of 2024, will have themed packs for champions, cosmetics and weapons for dark weapons. Focus Entertainment has not revealed the chapters shown for Season 3 and Season 4, which are planned to be released in the winter and spring of 2025, respectively.
First major update for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 should be out very soon, Focus Entertainment said in a recent blog post. This will introduce Termination, a new operation that will give players the opportunity to fight a monstrous Tyranid Hierophant Bio-Titan, as well as a new difficulty setting called Lethal. Future free updates will also add more operations, the Neo-Volkite gun, and a Horde mode, among others.
Saber Interactive CEO Tim Willits and the studio's head of publishing Todd Hollensaid claimed in a previous interview that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 it was probably the fastest selling game they ever worked on. On Steam alone, the shooter had a peak number of concurrent players of around 225,000, data provided by analytics tracker SteamDB showed.