Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the upcoming on-line co-op motion shooter from Rocksteady, has formally been delayed from its deliberate Could launch to February 2024. This follows a report of a earlier delay in March and the discharge of latest gameplay footage in February that was met with a flood of detrimental reactions from followers and critics alike.
First revealed means again in August 2020, Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad recreation stars well-liked DC villains like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang and is predicated on a long-running collection of comics about villains being recruited by authorities agent Amanda Waller to tackle wildly harmful threats and full ethically doubtful missions. It’s additionally linked to the Arkham video games, not like 2022’s earlier DC co-op flop, Gotham Knights. However for those who have been nonetheless excited to play Rocksteady’s subsequent massive recreation, you’re going to have to attend practically a yr.
On Thursday, following a March report a few attainable delay from Bloomberg, WB Video games and Rocksteady formally confirmed that their Suicide Squad recreation has been delayed till February 2, 2024.
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What this would possibly imply for the Suicide Squad recreation
In March, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier explained on Twitter that the then-reportedly brief delay was possible not supposed to “overhaul the core gameplay” and as a substitute can be nearly “sprucing” what was already current. Nonetheless, the delay introduced immediately turned out to be a lot lengthier than first reported, and it appears that evidently the devs are going to have much more time to probably rip out among the live-service facets potential gamers reacted cooly towards.
Whereas I’m unsure you’ll be able to count on WB and Rocksteady to tear out all the live-service crap, a number of currencies, or the sport’s always-online requirement, I wouldn’t be shocked if a few of that stuff acquired lower or streamlined by the point the sport lastly comes out in 2024. (Assuming no additional delays, in fact.) Absolutely expunging all live-service facets appears unrealistic, and would require a for much longer and costlier delay.
Additionally, take into accout, this isn’t the primary time Rocksteady’s DC shooter has slipped. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was initially scheduled to ship final yr, however in early 2022 it acquired delayed till spring 2023. Now the troubled shooter will miss that deliberate launch date, too. And whereas it’s not practically as a lot of a saga as Ubisoft’s oft-delayed pirate recreation, it’s beginning to really feel like Suicide Squad is perhaps the subsequent AAA online game cursed to be ceaselessly caught in improvement hell. Let’s hope it will get out quickly for the sake of all the parents engaged on it.
Replace 4/13/2023 4:35 p.m. ET: This submit was initially revealed on March 9, 2023. It has been up to date and expanded to account for the official announcement of the sport’s delay into 2024.