Space Marine 2 is a title that many Warhammer 40K fans are excited about. Captain Titus and the team’s highly anticipated return has fans boarding the hype train as the game moves closer to its launch.
Space Marines are the best of the best when it comes to engaging with forces of chaos and Tyranids. However, the game’s team recently revealed in an interview that one of the challenges they faced while developing the title was entirely unexpected.
Space Marine 2 Developers Settled on 3-Player Co-op to Provide a Challenge to Players
Anyone who has played the first game in the Space Marine subseries knows that Space Marines are absolute units when battling Tyranid hordes. Despite the eight confirmed Tyranid types appearing intimidating to future players, Space Marines are known to make short work of them.
Talking to PCGamer in an interview, the game’s dev team revealed that the team had trouble making the game challenging enough when four such war machines were on the battlefield.
Yann François, brand and creative manager for Saber Interactive’s upcoming Space Marine 2, discussed this and elaborated on the team’s struggles with developing the game’s co-op element:
[It] was quite a challenge for the team to say: ‘OK, [Space Marines] are almost invincible. How do we create a challenge around it?’ Because it could be super easy…That is what led to the choice of creating a multiplayer of up to three players.
It makes sense that reducing the number of players in the game’s co-op mode was the only way out of this sticky situation. The team couldn’t possibly alter with the power dynamic in the lore or massively underpower Space Marines. As that would have been a sure-shot way of attracting flak from fans.
The Gameplay Trailers and the Footage for Space Marine 2 Revealed So Far Showcase Interesting Details
Space Marines and Ultra Marines are superhuman juggernauts with multiple beating hearts, measuring multiple meters in height. Fans had expressed anticipation and excitement. That is because they were waiting for the second installment in the Space Marine subseries for close to thirteen years.
Everything in the upcoming game seems to have been fine-tuned to take advantage of all the details from the miniature war game’s lore. This includes some Tyranid bioforms acting as the nodes for the hivemind in the game as revealed in the footage shared by the game’s team so far:
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The game will also feature an AI gamemaster to keep things fresh for players. This will also ensure that players feel enough challenge is being thrown at them. Overall, the game looks to be a roller coaster of an experience for all of the passionate fans of Warhammer 40K.
Are you excited to go against the order of chaos and slay terminids with your brothers in arms when Space Marine 2 launches on 9 September 2024? In the comments below, we would love to know how excited you are about the upcoming game!
