{"id":5245,"date":"2024-10-18T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldclassservers.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-dev-responds-to-steam-review-bomb-campaign-over-nerf-patch\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:26:34","slug":"warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-dev-responds-to-steam-review-bomb-campaign-over-nerf-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-dev-responds-to-steam-review-bomb-campaign-over-nerf-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Responds to Steam Review Bomb Campaign Over Nerf Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a turbulent week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-ii\">Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2<\/a>, its developer, its publisher, and its players. In the same breath as it announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-sells-45-million-in-just-over-a-month\">an incredible 4.5 million sales in just over a month<\/a>, publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive sparked an angry backlash with the release of the hotly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2s-first-major-post-launch-update-out-now-adds-new-pve-map-and-lethal-difficulty\">Update 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2-players-up-in-arms-over-bullst-nerfs-have-you-learnt-nothing-from-helldivers-2\">IGN has reported on the details of this update and why it\u2019s caused so much upset<\/a>, but in short, it makes a number of significant nerfs to the Space Marines&#8217; ability to fight back against the Tyranid horde and Thousand Sons Chaos Marines. The popular PvE co-op mode Operations was made harder, deliberately so, Focus said in the patch notes, after it deemed the missions too easy. The new Lethal difficulty, via a new mechanic that forces players to stick close together in an almost impossible fashion, was slammed by frustrated players who are now saying that Space Marine 2 is doing a Helldivers 2 and going so far with nerfs that it\u2019s killing the fun. <\/p>\n<p>These nerfs have gone down so badly with Space Marine 2 players that the game has suffered a now familiar review bomb campaign on Steam, with over 1,200 negative reviews in just two days. Space Marine 2\u2019s official Discord and subreddit are packed with complaints, too.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two days after the patch came out, publisher Focus Entertainment has signaled its intent to release a follow-up patch next week with \u201cbalancing fixes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe closely read your feedback regarding the latest patch for Space Marine 2 and we&#8217;re actively working on another one including balancing fixes,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Focus_entmt\/status\/1847275025528696871\">Focus said<\/a>. \u201cIt should release next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hope, of course, is this patch rights the ship. Perhaps it will revert some of this week\u2019s changes completely, tweak them slightly, or maybe even include a few buffs. We\u2019ll have to wait and see. 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