Warhammer Space Marine 2 patch notes: What changes in the update?

As a seasoned gamer with over two decades of gaming under my belt, I must say that this update brings some much-needed balance to the game. The Spray attack and Precise shot attack reductions are welcome changes as they were becoming too overpowering in certain situations. The adjustments to Tzaangor With Shield and Carnifex make them less frustrating to fight, which is always a good thing.

As a devoted follower, I’ve always had the anticipation that Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 would fly off the shelves. The global Warhammer community is not just extensive, but it also boasts some high-profile members like Superman himself, Henry Cavill.

Fortunately, it exceeds anticipations, confirming that the extended wait since the initial release in 2011 was justified.

Playing this intense action game with its fast-paced combat and shooting, offers a release for strong emotions. Gathering those achievement awards, feels quite rewarding too.

There’s also a lot more content to come, so don’t think the base game is all there will be.

As a passionate cinephile, I must say that this latest update is more than just a simple bug fix; it’s a cinematic enhancement! It introduces some fresh, captivating elements that truly elevate the user experience.

Let’s take a look at Patch 3.0, and see what changes are in the update.

What changes in the Warhammer Space Marine 2 patch notes?

One notable feature could be the introduction of the “Hub Sparring Arena”. Located on the Battlebarge, this venue allows players to engage in combat with their fellow squad members. However, it’s important to note that these are friendly skirmishes.

Additionally, ultra-wide screen compatibility for PC is available, a fresh private operation mode has been introduced, along with updates on ‘What’s New’ and ‘Message of the Day’. Furthermore, you can now choose to restore default color settings if needed.

There are many more changes, which we’ll share below!

Full patch notes for Warhammer Space Marine 2

The following is the complete patch notes, taken word for word from the official Steam page:

New features

The Hub Sparring Arena, a new special arena on the Battlebarge available in Operations & Eternal War Game mode where players can compete in friendly PvP with the players in their squad
Ultrawide support for PC
Private mode for Operation mode that gives players ability to play operation alone with bots or alongside one friend without being matchmaked with random players during the mission.
Added What’s New & Message of the Day
Added option to reset custom colour presets

Gameplay and balancing tweaks

The marking tool has been updated:
– Improved responsiveness and comfort of Social Wheel control with a mouse
– Disabled unnecessary objects that do not require highlighting and worked poorly with it
– Several minor bug fixes
Power Fist: Damage for fully charged attacks has been greatly increased
Heavy Plasma:
– Base ammo increased by five. Blast damage radius increased
– Overheat per shoot drastically decreased from 50 to 30 for charged shoots and from 20 to 15 for base shooting
– Base damage slightly increased by 10 per cent
Med Stims restore contested health in addition to actual healing
Aux grenade launcher ammo now can be refilled only with the Ammo Boxes and can not be refilled from the infinite Ammo Cache

Campaign

Difficulty

Enemy aggressiveness on Veteran Difficulty in Campaign decreased for better single-player experience
Player’s health on Veteran Difficulty in Campaign is slightly reduced to compensate for AI aggressiveness and armour management updates

Bots

Various inhibiting restrictions were lifted, allowing bots to be more helpful and effective, while still not beating the game for the player
Bots will now help focus-firing zoanthropes when the player attacks them
Heavily eased restrictions on bots finishing of enemies instead of leaving them for the player, to reduce annoyance
Bots are now allowed to help with Gargoyle objectives
Fixed a variety of bugs related to bots getting stuck
Fixed a bug where bots can run out of ammo on weapons without a magazine

Operations Mode

Tweaked AI Director and spawn rules of Chaos enemies in Operations mode:
– Max number of Tzaangors With Shield on the arena at the same time reduced from 10 to four
– Max number of Cultists Snipers on the arena at the same time reduced from 10 to three
– Max number of Tzaangors on the arena at the same time reduced from 30 to 20
– Max number of Rubric Marines with Boltguns on the arena at the same time reduced from eight to five
– Max number of Rubric Marines with Warpflamers on the arena at the same time reduced from four to three
Perfect parry has been updated, now restores armour for killing minoris, not only for countering their special attacks
Regarding Block and Fencing Weapons, a bug has been fixed in perfect parry window for fencing weapons. Now it has 20 frames window for perfect parry and 10 frames of vulnerability at the end of animation, instead of 30 frames of perfect parry for full animation as it was intended originally
Assault Class: Base groundpound damage increased by 30 per cent
Armour boost drops from destructible crates are now less common (cooldown raised from 30 secs to 60 secs)

PVP

Improved player spawn system. It should make spawn killing more difficult
Reworked Vanguard’s Grapnel Launcher in PVP. Instead of full stun it will now stagger enemy and will slow him down drastically

AI

Reduced ability to stunlock enemies with ranged attacks across all AI characters
Accuracy of ranged enemies is reduced when attacking from off-screen and accuracy of ranged enemies is reduced when attacking melee-engaged players
Regarding Hormagaunts and Tzaangors: Melee damage now deals specific amount damage instead of removing 1 complete armour segment per attack
Zoanthrope:
– Increased psychic scream damage sparsing time from 0.5s to 2s to prevent one shot damage
– Psychic scream damage reduced from 11 to eight
– Psychic scream effective range reduced from 50 to 40m
– Psychic scream cast range is reduced by 10m
Termagant:
– Fleshborer spray attack damage reduced from one to 0.5
– Flashborer spray attack damage reduced from 0.3 to 0.1
Tyranid Warrior with Devourer: Projectile damage reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 per projectile
Rubric Marine With Warpflamer:
– Icon of flame damage reduced from nine to six
– Flamer burst damage reduced from six to four per shoot
– Flamer shooting damage reduced from six to four per projectile
– Health reduced by 10 per cent
Rubric Marine with Boltgun:
– Spray attack damage reduced from 1.5 to one
– Precise shot attack (with red indicator) damage reduced from four to two per projectile
– Reduced frequency of teleports used to disengage players to make them less annoying to fight Health reduced by 10 per cent
Tzaangor With Shield: HP greatly reduced
Carnifex:
– Rage phase updated, carnifex becomes faster and more aggressive
– Taunt frequency reduced
– Fixed a bug where his cone of thorns attack wouldn’t fire projectiles
Hive Tyrant:
– Health slightly increased.
– Resistance to explosives and melta weapons increased by 20 per cent

Customisation

Fixed icon colour for the Administratum Grey, Auric Armour Gold and Celestra Grey colours
Fixed several issues with default colors being wrong on some chapters (i.e. Iron Warriors)
Vanguard Relic Right Greave part now requires 29 victories instead of 36
Added a Colour pattern called “Greaves Pattern” allowing the player to customize bottom and top half of the leg separately

Maps

Fixed several issues that were preventing players from progressing within some levels
Fixed a lot of minor collision issues
Tweaked dust storm density and duration in Ballistic Engine operation
Tweaked Heldrake fire timings on the bridge in Reliquary operation
Trials can be now accessed via Hypnomat in Armoury

General fixes

Fixed a bug where changing loadout mid operation would restore your health
Improved Jump Pack Ability responsiveness
Fixed several issues in Trials
Fixed a bug where in some rare cases controls would stop working after performing a finisher
Fixed a bug where player does not receive armour data from Hellbrute spawned from chaos portal
Fixed a bug that caused Vanguard’s “Adrenaline Rush” perk description to show one per cent instead of actual 10 per cent
Fixed Announcer spam in Eternal War mode
Fixed multiple ways of duplicating ammo in Operations mode
Fixed a bug where Grapnel Launcher would get canceled if overlapped by small geometry
Fixed a bug where Tactical perk EMPEROR’S VENGEANCE did not work with Plasma Incinerator
Fixed a bug where several weapons could restore more than actual contested health (i.e. Meltas, AoE weapons etc)
Fixed several issues that were causing loss of saves
Fixed an unidentified voice at the end of the story that was assigned to the wrong character
Lots of minor UI fixes and improvements
Lots of minor animation fixes and improvements
Localisation fixes

2024-09-27 15:04