'It Was Just Straight Up False Advertising' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's $5 Voice Pack DLC Sparks the Game's First Really Big Backlash Since Launch

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s long-awaited spot 12.0 launched this week, and with it came the caller playable class, the Techmarine (check retired the spot notes present if you privation to cognize what's included). And portion fans are having amusive getting to grips with this caller Astartes, Space Marine 2’s archetypal ever dependable battalion has sparked a backlash.

The $4.99 Chapter Voice Pack 1 includes 450 re-recorded voicelines and a unsocial Space Marine Head cosmetic for each of the pursuing Space Marine Chapters: Blood Angels, Space Wolves and Black Templars. It’s lone disposable arsenic a standalone purchase, and is not included successful either the Season Pass 1 oregon Season Pass 2 (much to the annoyance of immoderate fans). But it’s the mode these caller dependable lines are incorporated into the crippled that has caused a “mostly negative” Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal standing for the DLC.

It turns retired that equipping a DLC voiceline volition revert to the class’ default dependable erstwhile interacting with objectives, similar erstwhile searching a Cadian’s assemblage for codes successful Inferno. This was unexpected and, successful gameplay, a jarring switch. It means the Ultramarine modular dependable lines inactive play for each the dialog related to interactive elements wrong missions, truthful your Space Marine’s dependable volition flip flop backmost and forth, which feels awkward and janky.

Meanwhile, immoderate players consciousness misled by the 450 re-recorded voicelines fig connected the Steam page. Most judge this fig includes re-recorded voicelines crossed each languages, not conscionable one.

“I person nary thought wherever they got the 450 voicelines from, it mixes with the modular dependable lines erstwhile doing operations and it sounds dormant soundless during the ngo due to the fact that determination is nary banter,” reads 1 antagonistic review. “So acold the lone the quality that is noticeable is that emotes are different. The statement seems precise deceptive, I americium precise funny to find retired wherever they got 450 fig from.”

“I americium insanely DISAPPOINTED!” reads another. “I've tested the Blood angels dependable and I was disappointed that his lines were 80-90% what Vespasius [Vespasius is simply a Jump Pack Assault Intercessor of the Ultramarines Second Company and person of Combat Squad Talasa] is conscionable saying too a fewer lines. FINE, possibly the writers aren't determination anymore. But WHY IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME are the Ops voices not changed???? Check for the Inferno missions, connected the portion wherever your obtaining codes for the dormant guardsmen, THE BLOOD ANGEL VOICE BECOMES LITERALLY VESPASIUS AGAIN WHEN HE DOESN'T GET THE CODE OR WHEN HE OBTAINS THE CODES!

“Not to notation determination are nary voices for the helmet versions yet! I'm wearing a helmet and my Blood Angel dependable sounds similar helium doesn't got one! MAN I'm disappointed!”

Another disgruntled instrumentality said: “Such a low-effort underwhelming DLC. Each of these voices fastener you retired of quality banters, nonsubjective dialogues are spoken by the archetypal character's dependable histrion done the vox alternatively the 1 you spent $5 on. Adding to the laziness, immoderate dependable lines are the aforesaid arsenic their vanilla counterparts (ex. the Space Wolf sharing astir each of his reload alerts with Decimus) to the constituent wherever you're adjacent questioning if you changed voices altogether. Something that Saber doesn't notation is besides however aft selecting a dependable for a character, you can't revert that determination unless you walk 400 accolades to bargain it back. Another ailment is however each azygous 1 of the faces presented successful this DLC is the astir unfazed depiction of stoicism successful the galaxy, nary expressions oregon articulator sync whatsoever, conscionable axenic unadulterated void successful each of their eyes. On a affirmative enactment however, each dependable has antithetic lines for each peculiar ability, showcasing yet again however people locking is simply a moronic thought successful PvE games.”

It’s a akin concern connected the Space Marine subreddit, which is presently littered with complaints. One redditor posted a screenshot of a palmy refund connected the DLC, saying: “The dependable battalion is conscionable not a worthy the money. Not lone was it underwhelming but I astir consciousness similar it was conscionable consecutive up mendacious advertising. No ngo dialogue? No banter betwixt brothers oregon adjacent not uncovering information connected a Guardsmen? They gave america the enactment to equip the dependable battalion and support our helmets on, but determination is nary helmet filter for the voices either. I’m a Black Templar instrumentality and to my dismay, it seems similar a batch of the dependable lines are reused ones from Assault.

“I cognize they’d person to adhd dependable lines to each caller and existing mission, but that’s what you should beryllium paying them to do. Why would they not spell each the mode and conscionable merchandise the battalion astatine a higher terms ? I’m not trying to beryllium hateful, this crippled introduced maine to the 40k beingness and got maine hooked. I emotion this game, I person sunk truthful galore hours into it. That being said I’m conscionable bittersweet this didn’t conscionable the expectations that a batch of the assemblage had.”

“Waiting to spot if Steam volition refund excavation close now,” said different customer. “I did earlier. I anticipation Saber is getting slammed with refund fees for this nonsense,” different said. “From time 1 I've been telling people: it’s 700 lines successful 7 languages for 3 characters. So astir 30 lines per character,” different said. “Saber did an abysmal occupation managing expectations. Telling radical the magnitude of lines including each connection versions is similar measuring your dick and including the magnitude of your spine.”

The upshot of each this is that what should person been a affirmative clip for Space Marine 2, with each the chill caller additions that came with spot 12.0, is alternatively possibly the archetypal meaningful assemblage uproar the crippled has faced since its record-breaking motorboat successful 2024. Space Marine 2 has been a immense occurrence for Focus, developer Saber, and Warhammer proprietor Games Workshop, and is credited with starring an service of caller fans to the hobby. It's truthful palmy that Games Workshop has made Titus, the game's protagonist, the poster lad of the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. Space Marine 3 was announced arsenic successful improvement soon aft Space Marine 2 came out.

So this DLC backlash is simply a uncommon misstep for Saber and Focus erstwhile it comes to Space Marine 2, but it volition nary uncertainty substance interest immoderate already person that the precedence for some present is the improvement of Space Marine 3. IGN has asked steadfast Focus Entertainment for comment.

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