The 4.5 update for Space Marine 2 is now live! In addition to bringing a new Secondary Weapon to all players, Patch 4.5 provides buffs to a handful of Primary Weapons and addresses a number of bugs and connection issues.

Read the patch notes below for the complete details:



The Neo-Volkite Pistol, a powerful thermal ray weapon, is now available for the Assault, Vanguard, and Bulwark classes!

Unlike other weapons, the Neo-Volkite Pistol blasts a heat ray onto your enemies, dealing accumulative thermal damage. Focusing on one enemy will ramp up the damage—until it generates a localised explosion for huge damage to your target and all nearby enemies.

Please note that the Neo-Volkite Pistol will only be available in Operations mode for now as we continue to experiment with balancing in PvP. It will be added to Eternal War mode in our next major update alongside a new Operations map, a new enemy, and the Dark Angels cosmetics. Until then though, you’ll be able to try it out against your friends in the Battle Barge’s Sparring Arena!

👉 Slightly reduced amount of heat generated by normal and charged shots for versions:

• Master-Crafted - Alpha
  
• Salvation of Bakka - Alpha
  
• Gathalamor Crusade - Alpha

👉 Fixed a bug that would cause several versions not producing heat at all.
👉 Fire rate increased from 50 to 60 rounds per minute.
👉 Headshot bonus increased from x2 to x2.5.
👉 Scope added
👉 Headshot bonus increased from x1 to x1.33
👉 Adjusted damage falloff curve: Base damage increased by 50% for the first 10 meters, after that, the damage drops to the original pre-patch value.
👉 Max ammo increased by 1 magazine for each version.

• Fixed a bug causing unlocked DLC cosmetic items to get locked again after a restart
  
• Fixed a bug causing the Sniper perk "Targeted Shot" to not work after swapping weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the Sniper invisibility not getting removed after a shot in rare cases.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing players from muting the others in PvP.
  
• Fixed several perks not triggering correctly from enemy kills.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain weapon perks from triggering correctly when reaching a specific HP threshold.

• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.
  
• Fixed server disconnects with unstable user connection.
  
• General connectivity improvements.

This month we released new content: the new Termination map and the new Lethal difficulty. We’ve loved seeing you provide feedback and challenge yourself with the new difficulty. We also took into account the constructive criticism and have implemented some balancing features and tweaks into the game. We truly hope you’re enjoying the game.


Let’s start this off with great news: we are now over 4 and a half million Space Marines defending the Imperium!

Seeing the community grow so wide, so fast, makes us incredibly proud. We’re working hard to provide new content for you, listening closely to your feedback, and we cannot wait for you to discover what’s next for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2!

So, thank you, four and a half million times 💙


As for every single release, we closely read the feedback from the players. Therefore, we’ve seen that the new content did not meet everyone’s expectations and that the adjustments disappointed many of you.

To make amends and fix the issues that Patch 4.0 brought, we released a hotfix (4.1), which you may find right here[community.focus-entmt.com]. It brings gameplay and balancing tweaks on weapons, difficulty, AI and much more. Make sure you read the patch note! ⚙️


Another update is coming soon with a brand new weapon: The Neo-Volkite Pistol!

The Neo-Volkite Pistol is a thermal weapon with accumulative damage. Its heat rays have a deadly impact on organic matter, incinerating flesh into ash with explosive force and jets of flame. A weapon of choice against Tyranids! ☢️🔥
The Bulwark, Assault and Vanguard will have access to the Neo-Volkite as a secondary weapon.

On top of this addition, this update will also come with buffs for several firearms.

Later this year – around early-December – will come the much awaited Dark Angel Chapter Pack, along with a new enemy, the Tzaangor Enlightened and a new PvE map set on Demerium: “Obelisk”.

On another note, we’ve seen your feedback about “Blocking” weapons feeling unsatisfying to play with, and are currently in the process of reworking them!

Be patient Marines!

You are constantly submitting new ideas on Focus Together[community.focus-entmt.com] to our great delight. Let’s answer some of them:


New Melee weapons
→ Adding a new melee weapon is something we’d love to have later. However, it also takes a lot of time and production resources to integrate. Be sure that we’ll let you know once we’re more advanced on that subject.

More Campaign missions
→ We’re currently not thinking about adding new campaign missions in Space Marine 2. We rather focus on creating new Operations and Eternal War content.

Eternal war party size
→ We’re currently working on implementing custom PvP lobbies. You’ll be able to invite your friends, alongside various other options to customise your experience (score limit, time limit, class limit and so on)..

Heretic Astartes playable in Operations
→ This will not be implemented due to Space Marine 2's specific setting, how Operations are designed and even the game as a whole. All of the dialogue is written as Astartes talking to other Astartes for example. Missions are also designed so that our characters fight to help the Imperium's war effort.

Add the possibility to replay the Campaign Prologue
→ Whilst not a priority at the moment, this is something we might consider in the future.

Consider adding a bonus reward for players using quickmatch
→ This is something we are considering adding in the future.



Colour lenses
→ We are ready to release the colour lenses with the next big update, which will bring the Dark Angels Chapter Pack.

More than 4 customisation slots
→ This is not a priority right now, we prefer to focus on developing other features at the moment. We’ll come back later on this.

Customisation add-ons
→ More customisation will come in the future. More precise customisation options is a must have as well.

More helmet customisation and patterns
→ This is something we’re actively working on. It will arrive in the lifespan of the game.

Ability to recolor cloth pieces / tabards
→ We can consider adding this option later down the line. But creating a satisfying level of quality for this feature is harder than it looks.

Lieutenant colour customisation
→ This has been greenlit. More customisation is coming for helmets, corresponding to other Chapters.

Change the skin colour of your Marine
→ We’re currently working on an option to add head customisation to your Space Marines.

Allow Deathwatch icons to be placed on the right shoulder
→ Yes, this is something already in the works.


Our VP community is very prolific so let's do a quick shoutout to some creators, by highlighting the GORE in Space Marine 2!!



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See you next time.