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FOR THE EMPEROR ⚔️

The 4.5 update for Space Marine 2 is now live! In addition to bringing a new Secondary Weapon to all players, Patch 4.5 provides buffs to a handful of Primary Weapons and addresses a number of bugs and connection issues.

Read the patch notes below for the complete details:



The Neo-Volkite Pistol, a powerful thermal ray weapon, is now available for the Assault, Vanguard, and Bulwark classes!

Unlike other weapons, the Neo-Volkite Pistol blasts a heat ray onto your enemies, dealing accumulative thermal damage. Focusing on one enemy will ramp up the damage—until it generates a localised explosion for huge damage to your target and all nearby enemies.

Please note that the Neo-Volkite Pistol will only be available in Operations mode for now as we continue to experiment with balancing in PvP. It will be added to Eternal War mode in our next major update alongside a new Operations map, a new enemy, and the Dark Angels cosmetics. Until then though, you’ll be able to try it out against your friends in the Battle Barge’s Sparring Arena!

👉 Slightly reduced amount of heat generated by normal and charged shots for versions:

• Master-Crafted - Alpha
  
• Salvation of Bakka - Alpha
  
• Gathalamor Crusade - Alpha

👉 Fixed a bug that would cause several versions not producing heat at all.
👉 Fire rate increased from 50 to 60 rounds per minute.
👉 Headshot bonus increased from x2 to x2.5.
👉 Scope added
👉 Headshot bonus increased from x1 to x1.33
👉 Adjusted damage falloff curve: Base damage increased by 50% for the first 10 meters, after that, the damage drops to the original pre-patch value.
👉 Max ammo increased by 1 magazine for each version.

• Fixed a bug causing unlocked DLC cosmetic items to get locked again after a restart
  
• Fixed a bug causing the Sniper perk "Targeted Shot" to not work after swapping weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the Sniper invisibility not getting removed after a shot in rare cases.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing players from muting the others in PvP.
  
• Fixed several perks not triggering correctly from enemy kills.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain weapon perks from triggering correctly when reaching a specific HP threshold.

• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.
  
• Fixed server disconnects with unstable user connection.
  
• General connectivity improvements.

This month we released new content: the new Termination map and the new Lethal difficulty. We’ve loved seeing you provide feedback and challenge yourself with the new difficulty. We also took into account the constructive criticism and have implemented some balancing features and tweaks into the game. We truly hope you’re enjoying the game.


Let’s start this off with great news: we are now over 4 and a half million Space Marines defending the Imperium!

Seeing the community grow so wide, so fast, makes us incredibly proud. We’re working hard to provide new content for you, listening closely to your feedback, and we cannot wait for you to discover what’s next for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2!

So, thank you, four and a half million times 💙


As for every single release, we closely read the feedback from the players. Therefore, we’ve seen that the new content did not meet everyone’s expectations and that the adjustments disappointed many of you.

To make amends and fix the issues that Patch 4.0 brought, we released a hotfix (4.1), which you may find right here[community.focus-entmt.com]. It brings gameplay and balancing tweaks on weapons, difficulty, AI and much more. Make sure you read the patch note! ⚙️


Another update is coming soon with a brand new weapon: The Neo-Volkite Pistol!

The Neo-Volkite Pistol is a thermal weapon with accumulative damage. Its heat rays have a deadly impact on organic matter, incinerating flesh into ash with explosive force and jets of flame. A weapon of choice against Tyranids! ☢️🔥
The Bulwark, Assault and Vanguard will have access to the Neo-Volkite as a secondary weapon.

On top of this addition, this update will also come with buffs for several firearms.

Later this year – around early-December – will come the much awaited Dark Angel Chapter Pack, along with a new enemy, the Tzaangor Enlightened and a new PvE map set on Demerium: “Obelisk”.

On another note, we’ve seen your feedback about “Blocking” weapons feeling unsatisfying to play with, and are currently in the process of reworking them!

Be patient Marines!

You are constantly submitting new ideas on Focus Together[community.focus-entmt.com] to our great delight. Let’s answer some of them:


New Melee weapons
→ Adding a new melee weapon is something we’d love to have later. However, it also takes a lot of time and production resources to integrate. Be sure that we’ll let you know once we’re more advanced on that subject.

More Campaign missions
→ We’re currently not thinking about adding new campaign missions in Space Marine 2. We rather focus on creating new Operations and Eternal War content.

Eternal war party size
→ We’re currently working on implementing custom PvP lobbies. You’ll be able to invite your friends, alongside various other options to customise your experience (score limit, time limit, class limit and so on)..

Heretic Astartes playable in Operations
→ This will not be implemented due to Space Marine 2's specific setting, how Operations are designed and even the game as a whole. All of the dialogue is written as Astartes talking to other Astartes for example. Missions are also designed so that our characters fight to help the Imperium's war effort.

Add the possibility to replay the Campaign Prologue
→ Whilst not a priority at the moment, this is something we might consider in the future.

Consider adding a bonus reward for players using quickmatch
→ This is something we are considering adding in the future.



Colour lenses
→ We are ready to release the colour lenses with the next big update, which will bring the Dark Angels Chapter Pack.

More than 4 customisation slots
→ This is not a priority right now, we prefer to focus on developing other features at the moment. We’ll come back later on this.

Customisation add-ons
→ More customisation will come in the future. More precise customisation options is a must have as well.

More helmet customisation and patterns
→ This is something we’re actively working on. It will arrive in the lifespan of the game.

Ability to recolor cloth pieces / tabards
→ We can consider adding this option later down the line. But creating a satisfying level of quality for this feature is harder than it looks.

Lieutenant colour customisation
→ This has been greenlit. More customisation is coming for helmets, corresponding to other Chapters.

Change the skin colour of your Marine
→ We’re currently working on an option to add head customisation to your Space Marines.

Allow Deathwatch icons to be placed on the right shoulder
→ Yes, this is something already in the works.


Our VP community is very prolific so let's do a quick shoutout to some creators, by highlighting the GORE in Space Marine 2!!



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See you next time.

As we discussed late last week, we’ve been monitoring your feedback since last Thursday’s Patch 4.0 and have decided to address your most pressing concerns with a new balancing update, coming this Thursday.

Before we get to the details of the new patch, we want to thank you all for being so involved with the game and making your opinions heard. While we noticed criticism with regards to difficulty adjustments—and rightly so—we’d also like to thank you for your very positive feedback on the new “Termination” map. No matter the feedback, we’re grateful that you feel so passionate about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. The key takeaway for me, personally, is that I forgot that once the game comes out, it's no longer a dev's game. It's yours first and foremost.

This is why, moving forward, we’d like to harness this energy by establishing Public Test Servers. They would let you try out major balancing updates and make your voices heard before they are pushed onto public branches. We’re hoping to make these available around early 2025, so stay tuned to our channels for more info.

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DG: Here was our reasoning before Patch 4.0: When the game came out in September, the Ruthless difficulty win rate hovered around 60%. Weeks later, and with the changes introduced by Patch 3.0, we saw that the same win rate had jumped to over 80%, and we received a lot of feedback stating that the game had become too easy—even at its maximum difficulty (at the time).

With Patch 4.0, our aim was to tweak enemy spawns to increase the overall number of enemies rather than reverting to buffing their Health. Unfortunately, this had an impact on the easier difficulty levels as well.

For example, the win rate on the easiest difficulty dropped slightly after Patch 4.0, from 95% to 93%. This may not look like a lot, but numbers aren’t everything. Your feedback made it clear that the game had become more intense and stressful on lower difficulties, and this was never our intention. As I’ve personally emphasised in interviews, Space Marine 2 is all about the power fantasy, and Patch 4.0 negatively impacted it for many of you.

This is why we’re rolling back these changes. Extremis enemies’ spawn rates in Minimal, Average, and Substantial difficulties will revert back to their pre-Patch 4.0 levels and will be significantly reduced in Ruthless difficulty to hopefully strike a balance between how hard the game was at launch and how “easy” it became with Patch 3.0.
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Minimal, Average, and Substantial Difficulties:

• Reduced spawn rate of Extremis enemies to match pre-Patch 4.0 levels

Ruthless Difficulty:

• Significantly reduced spawn rate of Extremis enemies

DG: We've been wanting to address the Bolter family for a while, as they've been underperforming across all difficulty levels. This has been a frequent piece of feedback from many of you, and the data confirmed improvements were needed across the board. The percent Damage increase is based on which classes have access to which kind of weapon and how the Bolters compete with the other options available.
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• Auto Bolt Rifle -> Damage increased by 20%
  
• Bolt Rifle -> Damage increased by 10%
  
• Heavy Bolt Rifle -> Damage increased by 15%
  
• Stalker Bolt Rifle -> Damage increased by 10%
  
• Marksman Bolt Carbine -> Damage increased by 10%
  
• Instigator Bolt Carbine -> Damage increased by 10%
  
• Bolt Sniper Rifle -> Damage increased by 12.5%
  
• Bolt Carbine -> Damage increased by 15%
  
• Occulus Bolt Carbine -> Damage increased by 15%
  
• Heavy Bolter -> Damage increased by 5%

⚙️ Ruthless: Player’s Armour is increased by 10%

DG: We are partially rolling back the change from the previous patch on Ruthless difficulty following your feedback. With Patch 4.1, we’re hoping to find the right compromise between how easy Ruthless difficulty felt after Patch 3.0 and how it felt after last week’s Patch 4.0.

The reason why it was reduced last week was that we noticed a very substantial bump in win rates on Ruthless after Patch 3.0, as Minoris enemies would no longer remove the entire Armour bar with their attacks, ranged AI Damage was nerfed across the board, and the ability to regenerate Armour by parrying normal Minoris attacks was added.

Additional note: Despite the last patch notes listing a decrease in Armour in Substantial difficulty, this change was mistakenly left out of our last update, hence why you won’t see it being reverted as part of this week’s patch.
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⚙️ Lethal: “Tight Formation” system is removed

DG: Before anything else, let us clarify our reasoning for the introduction of this mechanic. As we worked on adding a new difficulty tier, we needed to make sure this new challenge was meaningful and interesting. With “Tight Formation”, our objective was to add a new layer of challenge for our most skilled players by adding horizontal progression rather than just vertical progression (i.e., dealing more damage to ever stronger enemies). This game is about the power fantasy, and enemies that take dozens of melee hits break it. Thus the challenge needed to come from other sources.

This system was also designed as a first step towards the introduction of gameplay modifiers down the line, both negative and positive—something World War Z players will be familiar with—but your feedback showed that the proximity requirements felt too restrictive. Classes like Assault and Vanguard felt especially penalised as playing them effectively requires a certain freedom of movement.

As a result, we’re removing the system entirely and will continue to work on modifiers until they’re ready. We will continue to monitor your feedback after the deployment of Patch 4.1 to make sure Lethal difficulty feels as challenging and rewarding as it should.
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⚙️ AI

DG: A recurrent piece of feedback we’ve seen is that the AI allies can feel useless at times. We already improved allies’ behaviour in Patch 3.0, and we hope this additional buff will help solo players complete their Operations.

• Bots deal 30% more damage to bosses.

DG: Fighting Zoanthropes is often reported as a source of frustration. Alongside the changes to the AI Director, we’re taking away some of their shields’ effectiveness to alleviate some of that frustration.

• Zoanthrope: Shield swap cooldown with another paired Zoanthrope is increased by 10%.

• Fixed a bug that caused roll distance to be shorter than before.

DG: This was probably the most impactful and annoying consequence of Patch 4.0. While i-frames were the same, the distance difference made it much less effective versus ranged attacks. With this bug fixed, you should feel a great improvement in your fights against ranged enemies and bosses.

• Fixed bug with unlocking Lethal difficulty rewards decals.
  
• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.

Our teams are constantly working on improvements to the game’s stability. This patch is no exception, so you should encounter fewer crashes.

That’s it for Patch 4.1! Your feedback is absolutely invaluable to us, and we’re looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this new update.


The Space Marine 2 team

The latest Patch is here! It brings NEW CONTENT along with various tweaks and improvements!
Make sure you read the full note here:


💥 New Operation - Termination.

This new Operation takes place on planet Kadaku. New dreadful foes have arrived. Make good use of the artillery to annihilate them.

💥 Added Lethal difficulty for Operations

Major highlights of it:

• Ammo Crates have limited refills per player.
  
• Majoris enemies can become enraged and will be more deadly and harder to kill.
  
• Armour restores from finishers only if you stay close to your battle-brothers.
  
• Overcoming such a challenge will grant you new cosmetics…

💥 Added photo mode in Operations (works only in solo). Also, characters can now follow the camera with their eyes.


Melee Archetypes: Fencing weapons' perfect parry window will now have the same duration as balanced weapons but it will start from the first frame of parry animation.

Melee Perks: Chainsword, Power Fist, Combat Knife charged attacks perks get significant damage increase.

Basic Auspex Scan: bonus damage on bosses is reduced by 30%.

Melta Charge: damage to bosses is reduced by 70%.

​Enemy Spawn Director PvE:

• Tweaked idle spawns.
  
• Enemy variety within waves is now less random while enemy variety between waves is bigger.
  
• Extremis enemies can now spawn with additional enemies.

Difficulty:

• Ruthless: Ammo crates have limited refills per player.
  
• Ruthless: Player's armour reduced by 15%.

Note from the devs:

"With Patch 3 we have noticed that Operations mode became noticeably easier, especially Chaos operations. We are happier with what we have right now compared to what we had on release, because before Patch 3 Chaos missions were unpopular. Still, we think that currently Operations mode is a bit too easy.

Overall these changes are going to make Operations mode harder, but it is difficult to measure by how much. We will continue to monitor those changes and will continue to adjust the balance of Operations mode. This is not the last change."

• Increased delay between announcer messages in PvP.
  
• The starting animation of the Grapnel Launcher for the Vanguard is shorter in PvP.
  
• Fixed Power Fist in PvP dealing too much damage with short charged attacks.

• Enemy Dodges: Globally replaced full invulnerability on dodge moves of enemies with heavy melee damage resistance.
  
• Rubric Marine with Boltgun: Disengage teleport max distance is slightly reduced.

• More options for colours customisation for Chaos:
  
  • Tertiary colours: Sotek Green, Night Lords Blue, Death Guard Green, Khorne Red.
• Decal colours: Sotek Green, Khorne Red.
  
• Colours: Added Liberator Gold colour to default for primary and secondary colours palettes.
  
• Fixed a lot of issues with display of colours, now they should be more lore accurate (Mechanicus Standard Grey, Ushabti Bone, Phoenician Purple, The Fang, Iron Hands Steel, Retributor Armour).
  
• Decals: Added new Chaos faction decals for the right shoulder.

• Vox Liberatis - Daemonhost: Disabled respawn until the last altar in the final arena.

• Fixed a bug where the Assault perk "Ascension" could kill its owner.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Sniper perk "Targeted Shot" wasn’t always working in some cases.
  
• Fixed an unintended animation cancel with the Bulwark by using the block, which resulted in faster attacks.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Tactical team perk "Close Targeting" not triggering properly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Tactical perk "Radiating Impact" not triggering properly.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Sniper perk "Guardian Protocol" cooldown not working properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where sound was lost after switching the speaker configuration.
  
• Fixed several issues in Trials.
  
• Fixed several issues that were causing loss of saves.
  
• The Thunder Hammer perk "Patience Rewarded" description is now accurate with its actual effect (added "When your Health is below 30%” part).
  
• Lots of minor UI fixes and improvements.
  
• Lots of minor animation fixes and improvements.
  
• Localisation fixes.

• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.
  
• Fixed several connectivity issues causing disconnects for players.
  
• Slightly improved performance.
  
• Fixed issues controllers not working with Steam Input enabled.

• General improvements and fixes.

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A whole year of new content awaits you in Space Marine 2. New Operations, new Dark Angel themed cosmetics, new foes to annihilate, and more.

Get ready for the upcoming new Lethal Difficulty and new PvE operation: Termination, where you will face off against the largest threat the Tyranid swarm has to offer, the Hierophant Bio-Titan.



The first major update, featuring Termination and the new Lethal Difficulty mode, is coming for free and for all players very, very soon.

This year and throughout 2025, new content will keep coming to Space Marine 2. Free updates include the upcoming Neo-Volkite pistol, and later new PvE operations, PvP maps and modes and a blood-pumping Horde Mode with just one challenge: survive.

Further awesome cosmetics for all your favorite Space Marine chapters are also on the way soon.


The Season Pass will soon come to life with a Dark Angels theme pack. New weapon styles, armor pieces, and color schemes featuring the Unforgiven, that will expand customisation options to unlock in the Battle Barge, are coming soon as part of the first Season Pass.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is available on PC. Join millions of players today!

Season Pass is included in the Gold and Ultra Edition[store.focus-entmt.com].


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We just pushed a small hotfix that brings various fixes. Thank you for your support!

• Fixed several crashes
  
• Fixed heavy stutters on some CPUs
  
• Fixed launch issue on Linux and Steam Deck
  
• Fixed issue with dynamic resolution and ultrawide screens
  
• Fixed issue with upscalers using wrong resolution parameters

Congratulations, after more than a decade of waiting, you’ve finally pursued Lieutenant Titus’ journey and you’re now honoring your pledge to the Emperor!
We have some news to share in this Community Update, make sure you read it carefully!


On September 9, we released a long-time project - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and your feedback has overflown us with pride and joy. We saw you smile, laugh, purge xenos and demonstrate undeniable loyalty to the Imperium.

The amount of players kept increasing over the month, rallying more Space Marines to the cause, which is amazing. We want to let you know that we love the game as much as you do, and we’ll take good care of it, offering new content and listening to the community in the upcoming months.

A hotfix will arrive very soon! It mostly intends to fix crashes and improve stability.
In the future, expect quality of life improvements, additional customization features (such as new colors for the lenses), and more. For PC players: a 4K Texture Pack will be downloadable! It will be entirely free.

The new map for Operations mode, located on Planet Kadaku, will arrive in October. Here’s your brief:

The Tyranid invasion of Kadaku is ending. The planet’s organic material is being transformed into biomass, and Tyranid Capillary Towers stretch high into the skies above, where the Hive Ships wait to taste their victory.
The Cadian forces have made a valiant attempt to push back against the Tyranids. A team of Space Marines arrives on Kadaku with a simple mission: help the Cadians destroy the towers. The Tyranids may win the planet, but the Imperium will make it as painful as possible for them.


Therefore, our duty is not done here.

We’ve seen that many of you were experiencing server issues and other bugs. We’re taking your feedback into account for our future updates. An important patch was deployed here[community.focus-entmt.com]. It corrected a few bugs and added features such as:

• Private mode for Operations
  
• The Hub Sparring Arena
  
• Ultrawide support (for PC)
  
• Improved spawns in multiplayer
  
• Rebalancing of various enemies you encounter in Campaign and Operations mode
  
• Correction of bugs that prevented players from progressing through certain levels

Nevertheless, we’re still working on the remaining bugs.

We’ve also brought answers to many questions raised by you, on different platforms (mostly Focus Together, Discord and Steam). Many of these questions were answered in our Message to Community, which you may find here[community.focus-entmt.com].

It has been reported that some players were displaying hurtful behaviors or comments in-game. We do not tolerate that and will take action to prevent it.

First and foremost, we kindly ask you to remain respectful, mature and mannerly with your fellow Space Marines. You can never know how old the other players may be, how their day is going, how sensitive they may be… overall, you never know who your brothers and sisters are… It could even be Henry Cavill 😏 … you don’t want to insult Henry Cavill, brother, no you don’t.

That’s it for September! These community updates will take place at the very end of every month. The goal is to keep players updated on upcoming content, updates, patches and news! So stay tuned and sign in to Focus Together to make sure you don’t miss a piece of it.

If you want to join the community and easily find mates to play with, you should join the official Space Marine 2 Discord Server!

The grimdark universe of Warhammer 40,000 can be daunting to dive into! This is why we're are thrilled to introduce the second episode of the “Titus Talks” a 3-part video series presented by Lieutenant Titus himself, Clive Standen, and dedicated to welcoming newcomers to the rich expanse that is the 41st millennium. ✨

• What is the backstory of Titus from Space Marine 1?
  
• What is Space Marine 2's gameplay like?
  
• Once I'm done with the campaign, what are mulitplayer modes like?

Presented by Clive Standen, who voices Lieutenant Titus in the game, today’s video lecture is the conclusion to a three part series you can find on the Focus Entertainment YouTube channel.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is available now on PC. Get the Gold or Ultra Editions[store.focus-entmt.com] to secure your Season Pass!

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