Area Marine 2 devs to tweak Veteran problem, repair bots, and extra in future Xbox updates

Area Marine 2 Q+A reveals upcoming enhancements and fixes

In a Q+A submit on Steam, Saber Interactive says its ‘Focus Collectively’ boards have been flooded with participant requests, and that the developer now have solutions to most of the highest community-rated questions. Whereas the Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2 roadmap reveals loads of content material updates for us to look ahead to, we are able to anticipate different updates to reach with connectivity enhancements, fixes, and extra in between every Season.

Saber says that bots have been talked about an honest quantity, with gamers suggesting that they are too “inefficient” for solo play, together with the marketing campaign’s Veteran problem — one thing we additionally highlighted in our Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2 assessment. Saber says the bots are designed to be extra passive so they do not take the highlight from gamers, however agrees they are often too passive. “Within the subsequent patch, now we have just a few enhancements of their habits in opposition to boss fights within the marketing campaign,” Saber says. “We’re additionally contemplating enhancing their involvement throughout particular targets within the marketing campaign for a later patch.” In a future patch, the group will “alter Veteran problem” in order that it’s nonetheless difficult however “barely extra honest as a result of we’ll tweak AI aggressiveness on this problem.”

One other design selection gamers dislike is the category locking in Operations, which solely lets one participant use every class. Saber says it does not “Need to change that rule for normal matchmaking, however we’re contemplating it as an enlargement of personal lobbies sooner or later.” For now, although, the group is “specializing in enhancing matchmaking in order that you’ll not matchmake with gamers of the identical class.”

In response to gamers suggesting that Bolter weapons are underpowered, Saber believes the problem is extra associated to enemies being far harder on greater difficulties. “We hear you, and a few weapons can underdeliver on the facility fantasy at greater problem ranges,” Saber says. “We additionally acknowledge that enemies will be too bullet spongy on greater problem, which isn’t a lot enjoyable. That’s the core difficulty, relatively than the bolters themselves. For now, we’re testing some tweaks in problem to make the enemies have much less well being however maintain the participating problem.”

Different notable modifications coming sooner or later embrace paying out expertise for the content material you had performed by means of earlier than being kicked from a co-op match, plans to enhance group balancing in multiplayer matches, and new customization choices in your Area Marine, together with new faces.

Area Marine 2 has had a implausible launch, drawing in a ton of gamers. In actual fact, it is the largest Warhammer 40K recreation launch we have seen on Xbox up to now.