Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive is planning to ban using customized mods within the recreation’s on-line public matches, because it says they’re contributing to a “non-negligible quantity of current server stability points.”
Come the sport’s subsequent large replace in December, gamers utilizing mods will now not be capable to matchmake with different gamers within the recreation’s PvE Operations mode or PvP Everlasting Struggle modes. Mods will nonetheless be usable in non-public Operations lobbies. As soon as customized Everlasting Struggle lobbies are added, mods might be allowed there as effectively.
In a message posted to Steam, recreation director Dmitriy Grigorenko made clear Saber loves mods and the neighborhood’s creativity, calling them “nice” and that they may “little question contribute to this recreation’s longevity.”
Nonetheless, Saber wants to make sure that the sport works correctly for all gamers. Grigorenko attributed current bouts of server stability points, in addition to stories of gamers who haven’t got mods put in having their save information corrupted after taking part in with mod customers, as causes for the coverage change.
Even when mods are being banned from on-line public matches, Saber mentioned it will make modding the sport even simpler sooner or later by offering quick access to the sport’s backend and by releasing a few of Saber’s personal inner instruments so modders can develop “with better ease.”
Space Marine 2 has been an enormous success for Saber, promoting greater than 4 million copies. A current replace added a brand new problem possibility, and a brand new mission, to the sport’s Operation mode–alongside a flurry of ill-received steadiness modifications. Saber reverted a lot of these modifications following neighborhood backlash.
For these eager to know what occurs subsequent in Space Marine 2’s single-player marketing campaign, an episode of the upcoming Amazon Prime anthology sequence Secret Stage will proceed the sport’s story.