Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is already off to a powerful begin, netting a 24 hour peak of 134,302 concurrents. Its begin was good for fifth general on Steam’s charts regardless of solely with the ability to gamers who bought the Gold and Extremely editions of the sport.
But it surely wasn’t a wholly flawless victory for the anticipated sequel. Gamers quickly reported issues with becoming a member of the server, together with members of the IGN employees. Followers shortly took to X/Twitter and different boards to specific their frustration with the expertise.
Repair the servers. “Becoming a member of server” is killing all of us. And being caught on “becoming a member of server” after finishing a mission is not enjoyable. We’ve got to shut the sport and reopen simply to be informed to redo the mission we simply accomplished
— kurokami🌑⚡️ (@kurokamekami2) September 5, 2024
Equally, whereas Space Marine 2’s Steam evaluations presently sit at “Principally Constructive,” a couple of followers complained about graphics drivers and a scarcity of ultrawide help, amongst different points.
Focus Dwelling Entertainment acknowledged the issues in a submit to its official website, saying, “We’re conscious of the technical points you are encountering on #SpaceMarine2 and are sorry for the inconvenience. Our groups are presently working to repair them.Please preserve offering suggestions and ensure your learn this word on the most typical points.”
We’re conscious of the technical points you are encountering on #SpaceMarine2 and are sorry for the inconvenience. 🙏 Our groups are presently working to repair them.
Please preserve offering suggestions and ensure your learn this word on the most typical points: https://t.co/ueyOCA9ixs 📝 pic.twitter.com/lIwzEwRvZr
— Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt) September 5, 2024
The complete submit lists some of the most typical points, together with crashing on the primary cinematic, controller issues, and infinity loading. It additionally notes that linking Steam and Epic accounts isn’t required to play the sport, saying that the Epic On-line Companies set up was applied to “help optionally available cross-play between Steam and Epic gamers and to synchronize buddy lists between the 2 shops.”
In any other case, we have been typically constructive in our assessment of Space Marine 2, writing, “Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a terrific third-person shooter with a compelling story, masses of weapons which are a blast to make use of, and a wholesome selection of enemies to make use of them on. It as soon as once more borrows many of its concepts from the Gears of Battle collection, however they’re good concepts, and Space Marine 2 does a tremendous job of making them its personal. And whereas the Operations PvE mode that accompanies it doesn’t presently supply sufficient to maintain me coming again, the deep customization choices in your Space Marine do look promising if it’s supported in post-launch updates as deliberate. Apart from, whenever you’re eviscerating aliens on planets as fairly as these, it’s laborious to not go away happy.”
Space Marine 2 is slated to completely launch on September 9 on PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC.
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