Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is presently embroiled in a hacker drawback that has resulted in unreleased skins, seasons, and even playable characters leaking on-line.

Warning: this text comprises spoilers for upcoming Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League content material!

Writer Warner Bros. is working to take away photos displaying hackers utilizing unreleased character Deathstroke, unreleased skins, and even details on gear set to be added to the game in Season 2. That is an apparent concern for Warner Bros. and developer Rocksteady, given hackers are freely accessing content material it plans to promote to gamers in the future.

In line with on-line studies, one hacker particularly seems to have accessed Deathstroke and all related gear, though the mannequin for Deathstroke fails to load when seen on-line by different gamers. Warner Bros. has eliminated a variety of belongings from tweets printed in the final 24 hours in a bid to comprise the breach. IGN has requested Warner Bros. for remark.

It’s one other troubling improvement for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Season 1, which provides Joker as a playable character, launched final week just below two months after Rocksteady’s embattled live-service looter shooter got here out, and only a month after Warner Bros. admitted Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League “has fallen in need of our expectations”.

Season 1 arrived amid low participant numbers for Suicide Squad on Steam (participant numbers for PS5 and Xbox Collection X and S are unavailable), and it doesn’t appear like it moved the needle meaningfully. On Steam, the live-service motion sport peaked with 13,459 concurrent gamers, a determine that has plummeted since launch. At the time of this text’s publication, simply 588 individuals had been taking part in the sport on Valve’s platform with a 24-hour peak of 840, in response to SteamDB.

Powerful questions are actually being requested about the way forward for Suicide Squad. Forward of launch, Rocksteady dedicated to 4 seasons of assist, every of which including a brand new playable character in addition to new environments, loot, and actions. IGN has reported on how a Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League participant unearthed a hidden message that regarded like a powerful trace at the return of Batman. Datamining has proven sturdy hints that Flash and Inexperienced Lantern are set to return in some type. Different playable characters suspected to be on their method embody Mrs Freeze (Nora Fries), Lawless, and the aforementioned Deathstroke.

IGN’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League overview returned a 5/10. We known as it “a repetitive and bland looter-shooter that, regardless of a fascinating story, by no means stays enjoyable for lengthy sufficient.”

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