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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II - Q3/Q4 2024


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2 hours ago, Joe said:

2023 was what we last heard; given Saber apparently pulled staff off of virtually every project to try and salvage Aspyr's botched KOTOR Remake, it's possible this may slip as a result.

That would be a real shame, I just got myself a 6800 XT and wanted to give this a whirl soon.

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Focus Entertainment will reveal the official launch date of the highly anticipated Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - the iconic Games Workshop licence – in early December. The game is now poised to ship in the second half of 2024, to provide the time needed to properly polish the game and to ensure the best possible experience. Focus Entertainment is committed to releasing a game that is of the highest quality and that exceeds the expectations of the countless fans of the franchise. Space Marine 2 has already accumulated over a million wish lists to date. 

 

From Focus Entertainment's Update on execution of the line-up and partnerships document from today.

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Sabre, Focus, etc are not great studios. If the big studios are struggling to get games out feature complete it’s going to take small ball studios even longer. From the select footage we saw there was still a ton of issues with things like the attacks actually connecting, cloth clipping through armor, the weird thickness of the guard helmets. Hopefully this will let them clean up enough to avoid another dark tide. 

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I really hope the delay results in a highly polished release, thats as fun as the first game but with nids instead. 

 

But usually long-delayed games are still very messy. Darktide basically hit what people expected it to be at launch a year later. Halo Infinite was threadbare. Diablo 4 had the very basics. Cyberpunk....

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With the state of the gaming industry lately and the amount of games coming out completely unfinished just to satisfy arbitrary release dates, a delay is certainly no problem for me. Would rather it come out in 2025 and be amazing than tomorrow and be a bug-riddled mess (pun intended)

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From what I've heard from people who got to play the beta, the game (gameplay, story, visuals) is excellent and a perfect sequel to the original. They're holding it back to optimize the performance, as the issues present were stutters, framerate swings, and so on.

The game's "quality" doesn't seem to be in question or "breakable" by Saber. They just need to polish the performance part.

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31 minutes ago, Kastor Krieg said:

The game's "quality" doesn't seem to be in question or "breakable" by Saber. They just need to polish the performance part.

 

Performance is part of a game's overall quality though. It could have the best art, sound and systems going but if it's basically unplayable due to bad optimization then it's a bad quality game.

 

Don't get me wrong I agree with you that the impressions I've seen about the core of the game seem to be positive. Just saying that performance is not somehow divorced from the overall product.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Halandaar said:

 

Performance is part of a game's overall quality though. It could have the best art, sound and systems going but if it's basically unplayable due to bad optimization then it's a bad quality game.

 

Don't get me wrong I agree with you that the impressions I've seen about the core of the game seem to be positive. Just saying that performance is not somehow divorced from the overall product.

 

 

Yeah, but the concern is "Saber = bad game". The game is great already, it just needs a bit of hammering into better technological shape. And that's not really rocket science, they will get there and it's great it didn't get shipped unoptimized.

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Release date 09/09/2024.

Visible Phobos armour Marine, with a Crux Terminatus shoulder pad. Does the Crux indicate seniority only, or will we be able to play as TDA?

Confirmed Tzaangors and Rubric Marines as enemies - not sure if this is just the horde mode, or in main story as well.

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