Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2 may be very a lot not a live-service recreation. That’s one of many issues that felt so refreshing in regards to the sci-fi shooter when gamers flocked to it final fall. But it surely felt eerily like one late final month when an in-game reward was locked behind a busted group occasion. “We’re not trying to remodel Area Marine 2 right into a full live-service recreation,” the builders mentioned in a latest replace.
The occasion in query was referred to as Imperial Vigil and went dwell on February 21 and ran by means of March 3. Gamers needed to compete to earn victories with every of the sport’s six lessons in operations mode to win the emblem-less Mark VIII Errant Helmet. Two issues rubbed gamers the mistaken means about this.
The primary was seemingly locking a cool in-game beauty behind a timed-event, leveraging FOMO (concern of lacking out) to make followers play the sport in an arbitrary means throughout an arbitrary time interval. The second was that each the progress meter for the occasion and unlocking the beauty have been busted.
“That is a number of the worst carried out ‘rewards’ system I’ve ever seen! I performed my 6 video games of every class on ruthless yesterday, then play some common lethals whereas I waited for it to replace,” one participant posted on the Area Marine subreddit early on throughout the occasion. “Hours later it mentioned 3/6 so I ran by means of all 6 once more on substantial then went to mattress. Once I awakened it mentioned 4/6 and now having run all 6 once more it’s nonetheless on 4/6! I’ve performed a minimal of 21 video games up to now 24 hours 18 of them targeted on getting this rattling helm!”
Many others have been struggling too. The occasion needed to be twice taken offline for fixes, narrowing the ten day window for it even additional. Plus, the entire enchantment of Area Marine 2 is that it’s not a recreation you need to continually sustain with like a second job. In a world of Futures, Apex Legendses, and Fortnites, it’s one of many uncommon on-line multiplayer shooters the place you may go browsing, have some enjoyable, after which neglect about it for some time. Until you have been making an attempt to get the Mark VIII Errant Helmet or different latest event-gated cosmetics.
“Now we have famous that the Group Occasions have obtained chilly suggestions since we launched them as an extra strategy to unlock beauty gadgets,” Area Marine 2‘s builders at Saber Interactive wrote on February 28. “We noticed that lots of you talked about FOMO generated by the occasions. Relaxation assured, we aren’t trying to remodel Area Marine 2 right into a full live-service recreation.”
The message continued:
The gadgets accessible by means of occasions WILL be accessible later, for everybody. We wish Group Occasions to be a strategy to unlock the gadgets upfront, for probably the most devoted gamers, and to not be a supply of frustration and stress for everybody.
Nevertheless, meaning we should present a easy expertise in unlocking mentioned gadgets, which has not been the case thus far. We deeply apologize for the difficulty, and are at present engaged on a simplified course of to unlock the gadgets, to make the expertise much less constraining.
So along with having group occasions run extra easily sooner or later, Saber additionally confirmed that their rewards will finally be circulated into the sport for everybody else no matter whether or not they have been round to take part within the unique occasion or not. It’s unclear if this was at all times the plan or solely one thing the event crew arrived at after the latest Imperial Vigil practice wreck. However given the Dwell-Service Lite™ nature of Area Marine 2, gamers can be extra wanting to know when the sport’s subsequent main content material replace and first story DLC will arrive.
The builders additionally lately confirmed {that a} huge 7.0 patch is on the best way and teased what gamers can anticipate from Area Marine 2‘s long-awaited Horde mode. “You’re very wanting to get extra data on the Horde Mode, it’s one among our prime priorities proper now,” they confirmed. “One factor we are able to say is that will probably be very totally different from the Area Marine 1 Horde Mode, and that there are surprises we are able to’t wait so that you can discover out about.”
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