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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 surpasses 5 million players and Patch 5.0 is coming soon

Another milestone done and dusted

Marco Wutz

Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment

The triumphant campaign of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 continues with another sales milestone being reached – as Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive have announced, the game has officially surpassed five million players.

In addition to celebrating this success, the publisher revealed that Patch 5.0 for Space Marine 2 will arrive “in the first half of December” with free updates alongside a paid cosmetic DLC.

Update 5.0 will contain a brand-new co-op Operation, Obelisk. Players will be sent to Demerium, where they are ordered to disrupt the Aurora device’s energy flow. Operation: Obelisk happens at the same time as the final events of the single-player story, during which Titus and his squad are occupied by other issues.

Operation: Obelisk will have players battle their way through a dark tomb occupied by forces of Chaos, which count a brand-new enemy type among their ranks – the Tzaangor Enlightened. A new Majoris-type foe, they will appear in all Operations involving Chaos starting with Update 5.0.

Upon reaching their destination, players will have to use a console to keep a replica of the obelisk in steady rotation to disrupt Aurora.

Patch 5.0 will also make the Neo-Volkite Pistol, which was added in Update 4.5 for Space Marine 2, available to use in PvP multiplayer.

Additional armor pieces and customization options are on the update’s menu as well, whereas the paid Dark Angels Chapter Pack brings the unique Dark Angels Champion set and Dark Angels Storm Shield for the Bulwark class, exclusive skins for Auto Bolt Rifles, Plasma Pistols, and Power Swords, and heraldry items for the the Angels of Absolution, the Angels of Redemption, the Angels of Vengeance, the Unnamed, the Blades of Vengeance, the Cowled Wardens, the Bringers of Judgement and the Angels of Defiance.

Expect this all to arrive on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in December 2024.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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