Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Moves to 'Set the Record Straight,' Insists It's Not Abandoning the Game Following Space Marine 3 Announcement

The astonishment announcement that improvement of Space Marine 3 improvement had begun sent shockwaves done the Warhammer 40,000 community, and sparked interest astir the aboriginal of Space Marine 2.

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive announced Space Marine 3 successful mid-March, conscionable six months aft Space Marine 2 came out, and amid existing interest astir the magnitude of contented coming to the crippled to support existing players interested.

In a caller blog post, some companies addressed this concern, promising to proceed to enactment Space Marine 2 and adjacent making a important announcement astir what’s to come.

“Mid-March, we announced that Space Marine 3 had begun improvement and we’re excited to spot your enthusiasm, though we perceive those of you who fearfulness for Space Marine 2 and its aboriginal support,” the connection read.

“So fto america acceptable the grounds straight: Space Marine 3 does not mean the extremity of Space Marine 2's development. ​Far from it. No teams are shifting over, nary 1 is abandoning the game, and our plans to bring much awesome contented to Space Marine 2 remain.”

So, what are those plans? Space Marine 2’s twelvemonth 1 roadmap remains, and Patch 7 is acceptable to beryllium released mid-April. But successful the coming months Space Marine 2 volition get a caller people arsenic good arsenic caller PvE operations and melee weapons. “Trust us, determination are surprises adjacent dataminers haven’t recovered retired astir :)” the connection teased.

“This announcement simply marks the genesis of a caller project, years distant from release. We’ve made a determination and person conscionable started the process.

“Many of you were precise excited for this task and this makes america incredibly blessed and motivated. Thank you for the unwavering support.

“That being said, we inactive person a batch to connection to the players with Space Marine 2.”

The large announcement present is the caller class, though the caller melee limb isn’t acold behind. Fans are already speculating astir what these could be. In presumption of the caller class, astir presume it volition beryllium the Apothecary, arsenic adjacent to a medic people arsenic Space Marines have. But determination is anticipation that it could beryllium the Librarian, which would mean ace chill warp-powered abstraction magic.

As for the melee weapon, fans person already said they’d emotion to spot the axe from Secret Level’s fantabulous Warhammer 40,000 animated occurrence successful the crippled — truthful overmuch truthful that modders went up and did it themselves.

The go-ahead for Space Marine 3 comes arsenic small astonishment fixed however good Space Marine 2 did. Speaking to IGN pursuing Space Marine 2's launch, Saber Interactive Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits said determination was the anticipation of communicative DLC, and revealed that ideas were already floating astir for Space Marine 3. Without spoiling the Space Marine 2 campaign, it powerfully suggests a continuation (IGN has reported connected the force faction we’ll astir apt spot successful Space Marine 3).

“Our crippled manager Dmitry Grigorenko, helium has projected immoderate communicative ideas that could either beryllium DLC oregon a sequel,” Willits said astatine the time. “Yes, yes, yes! There's truthful galore antithetic factions... determination are different chapters, too, that are interesting...”

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].