Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2’s newest replace added new options, stability modifications, and a few welcome quality-of-life changes to developer Saber Interactive’s grimdark shooter, nevertheless it’s one small change to the sport’s ending that has followers buzzing.
Spoilers for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2’s ending forward.
Through the last moments of Space Marine 2’s marketing campaign, Lieutenant Titus and his squad discover themselves battling in opposition to the pressure of Chaos within the Immaterium. It is within the sport’s last cutscene that we see Titus attain out to destroy a Chaos artifact, practically overwhelmed by the forces of the Warp. As he struggles, a voice (one which previous to Space Marine 2’s patch 3.0 was attributed to Ultramarines Chapter Grasp Marneus Calgar) tells Titus “Rise, son of Gulliman.” Titus then overcomes the Chaos power and destroys the artifact.
Now, nonetheless, that voice is now not attributed to Calgar. Because the patch notes learn, the replace “mounted an unidentified voice on the finish of the story that was assigned to the fallacious character.” With no new identify assigned to the voice, followers are actually speculating that the one telling Titus to “rise” could also be none aside from the Emperor of Mankind himself, utilizing his psychic powers to talk to Titus straight from throughout the universe.
That will be a reasonably enormous revelation, largely as a result of the Emperor, who has been on the verge of dying and strapped to his Golden Throne (aka life assist system) for 10,000 years, does not play a lot of a direct position within the Warhammer 40K universe. Followers now assume Big E (as followers name him) could also be indirectly accountable for Titus’s resistance to the Warp not solely in Space Marine 2 however within the authentic Space Marine sport as nicely.
The proprietor of the franchise, Video games Workshop, is not prone to affirm by some means. Space Marine 2 artistic director Oliver Hollis-Leick in a reply on X did say the road “might be from the Emperor, nevertheless it’s meant to be open to interpretation.
“It might be in Titus’s thoughts, might be Calgar, or it might be the Emperor (although GW may disagree on that),” Hollis-Leick stated. “I do know who I meant it to be once I wrote it however I will hold that to myself ;).”
Saber is at the moment “catching its breath” after the discharge of Space Marine 2, which has offered greater than 2 million copies, however is already formulating plans for potential story DLC or a Space Marine 3.
In GameSpot’s Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 evaluation, we known as Saber’s sequel a “worthy successor to the unique” that brings Video games Workshop’s universe to life “in all its grimdark splendor.”