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I will be trustworthy, I virtually handed on writing about Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2’s datavault replace. I like libraries as a lot as the subsequent introvert, however they do not precisely make for gripping headlines (except it is a library of digitised videogame magazines, that stuff guidelines). However then I found the datavault replace would not simply increase your in-game battle-barge with a fictional archive. It additionally provides a hulking new tyranid enemy with an enormous organic gun on its again. Speak about burying the lede, Saber Interactive!
This new foe known as a Biovore, and you will encounter it in House Marine 2’s Left4Dead-ish ‘operations’ mode, particularly any map that has tyranids, solely tyranids, and nothing however tyranids. It is an Extremis degree foe, which is House Marine 2 discuss for ‘correct nasty’. That is primarily as a result of it’s equally efficient at vary and up shut, capable of pepper the battlefield with spore mines from the cartilaginous artillery cannon on its again, and in addition slice an Ultramarine into sushi with its huge claws. As somebody who completely loved House Marine 2’s co-op, I am glad to see Saber is including extra selection to normal play alongside new ranges like Termination, which arrived shortly after launch.
Now we have loved dessert first, time to eat our greens. The headline occasion of the datavault replace is, shockingly, a datavault, a brand new chamber in House Marine 2’s battle-barge the place “Tech-Monks accumulate and retailer intel on the various enemies of the Imperium.” You, nevertheless, use it to accumulate analysis knowledge by finishing ordeals, which you’ll commerce for requisition factors, cosmetics, and armour items. It is a substantial addition, in equity, but it surely additionally is not a organic railway gun.
The datavault replace throws in a couple of smaller options. House Marine 2’s aggressive ‘everlasting struggle’ mode will get a brand new map referred to as ‘Tomb’. A number of new finisher animations have been added whenever you execute zoanthropes, scarab occult terminators, or rubric marines. There’s an in depth stability rework to perks in operations mode. And it provides the ultimate issue degree for the sport, forebodingly named ‘Absolute’.
You possibly can learn the replace’s full particulars right here. Whereas House Marine 2’s participant depend has dropped considerably since launch (unsurprising for a singleplayer-led title) it nonetheless has a fairly wholesome neighborhood, with over 11,000 gamers at present clocked in to batter some tyranids. Personally, I am glad it discovered an viewers, as I dug its old skool linear marketing campaign, that are few and much between today. It appears like we’ll see extra video games of its ilk within the not to date and (hopefully) not so grim future, although, judging by Video games Workshop’s response to House Marine 2’s spectacular business efficiency.
