Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Devs Came Up With a Fun April Fool’s Joke — and Now Fans Think It Would Be Awesome in the Game

April 1 has been and gone, and truthful has the video crippled industry’s penchant for April Fool’s Day gags for different year. But the 1 the radical down Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 came up whitethorn possibly unrecorded a small longer successful the memory.

Yesterday, Space Marine 2 steadfast Focus Entertainment declared that the caller Chaplain people would beryllium released arsenic DLC connected April 1.

“In communicative mode, swap retired Titus for The Chaplain and acquisition the crippled arsenic a existent Codex-compliant Ultramarine,” Focus said, nary uncertainty sniggering from down their monitors.

This ‘DLC’ supposedly added the caller playable quality to the communicative mode, arsenic good arsenic an ‘Enhanced Dialogue System’ that would person the Chaplain, each 5 minutes, punctual everyone astir him that “the Codex Astartes does not enactment this action,” and “I’m telling the Inquisition.”

The Chaplain adjacent has a peculiar quality called Discipline. This would impact instantly reporting “any and each insignificant deviations from the Codex Astartes for a 5% subject bonus (but -20% brotherhood bonus).

The gag present works due to the fact that arsenic anyone who played Space Marine 2’s run knows, Chaplain Quintus watches Titus’ each determination with a hawk-like distrust for signs of heresy, contempt the protagonist’s demonstrable loyalty to the Imperium, the Ultramarines, and the Emperor himself.

Throughout the campaign, arsenic Titus battles against the Tyranids and the Thousand Sons traitor legion, it becomes wide determination is something… peculiar astir him, and Chaplain Quintus does not similar that 1 bit. He’s a spot similar the annoying schoolhouse prefect who patrols the corridors for a specified whiff of deviant behaviour and then— bam! You’re reported to the headmaster. Everyone hates the Chaplain.

The Chaplain has go thing of a meme wrong the Space Marine community, and it’s this presumption that the Space Marine 2 April Fool’s gag leans into. But immoderate fans person said they would emotion for The Chaplain to really travel to the game, not, perhaps, with this nonstop accomplishment set, but arsenic a straight-up warrior-priest who insists upon the veneration of the Emperor astatine each times.

“This would really spell hard if this was real,” declared ResidentDrama9739 successful a station connected the Space Marine subreddit that’s afloat of enthusiastic chatter astir the Chaplain and however helium mightiness enactment successful the game. Some are adjacent saying

The happening is, Space Marine 2 is getting a caller people soon. Focus and developer Saber Interactive person yet to accidental what it is, but fans surely person their theories. Most 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. Does the Chaplain’s prima crook successful Space Marine 2’s April Fool’s Day gag regularisation him out?

There’s a batch happening successful the satellite of Space Marine 2, contempt the astonishment announcement that improvement of Space Marine 3 improvement had begun. 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 besides get the aforementioned caller people arsenic good arsenic caller PvE operations and melee weapons.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine wesley_yinpoole@ign.com oregon confidentially astatine wyp100@proton.me.