Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 hit the ground running with a remarkably solid free content roadmap for 2024 and 2025. With Season 3 on the horizon and players hoping for a Dark Angels Chapter Pack arrival before the end of 2024, a new community update was expected in late November. On November 28, it came with lots of new details, and here’s the full rundown.
Before the next major update arrives, you can check out some of the best Space Marine 2 mods we’ve found so far in case you want to spice things up for yourself, especially now that Focus and Saber have confirmed they’ll be supporting modding in the future.
Space Marine 2 announces a Secret Level Event
You may or may not know that Space Marine 2 is part of Secret Level, an anthology series based on various iconic video game worlds coming to Amazon’s Prime Video service on December 10. As an extra surprise, Focus has announced that exclusive in-game rewards will be hitting “from December 10 to December 31 through Twitch drops.”
Space Marine 2’s Update 5.0 release window and details
As we’d discussed before, the Dark Angels chapter pack – part of the premium season pass – is coming in December with new (and free) playable content as part of Update 5.0. Now, we’ve been told that it’ll arrive during the first half of December.
The pack features “the Dark Angels Champion” for the Bulwark class, exclusive skins for the Auto Bolt Rifle, Plasma Pistol, and Power Sword, and a unique Storm Shield for the Bulwark class. You can check them out below:
Moreover, the premium Dark Angels chapter pack adds “heraldry items of the Second Foundings and Successor Chapters of the Dark Angels.” These include the fan-favourite Mark VIII Ravenwing helmet, which diehard Warhammer 40K fanatics will appreciate.
Finally, the customisation menu is adding colour lenses for everyone, with 15 colours available as soon as the 5.0 patch hits. On the performance improvements side of things, FSR3 and DLSS3 are being implemented as advertised before launch, which translates into Frame Generation for pretty much every PC user with a modern GPU.
Space Marine 2 gets new ‘Obelisk’ operation and Majoris enemy
Season 2 isn’t done yet, which is why we’re getting a new Operation and a new enemy to eviscerate in PvE missions at no extra cost alongside the premium paid content.
According to the developers, ‘Obelisk’ sends players to Demerium, where the mission is “to rotate a replica of the obelisk to disrupt the flow of energy protecting the Aurora device.” It takes place in parallel to the final stretch of the story campaign, which means spoilers, so get on that if you haven’t already.
The main setting is said to be a tomb “plunged into darkness,” with the Chaos forces adding the Tzaangor Enlightened (see above) to their forces. We doubt they’ll make veteran Space Marines scared though.
As a final note, players who have made the jump to PS5 Pro are getting improved resolution across both Quality and Performance modes thanks to PSSR upscaling.
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