Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros. are attempting to include Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League leaks, together with main story spoilers and unannounced playable characters, as particulars on subsequent yr’s recreation unfold throughout the web. The leak, a few of which seems to have come from an alpha check of the sport, is upsetting not solely its developer and writer, however followers of Rocksteady’s Batman video games as properly. Some story spoilers, whereas unconfirmed, may have main implications for Rocksteady’s “Arkham-verse.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League particulars have been leaking for the previous few weeks, as dataminers pored via recreation recordsdata accessible via a “closed alpha tech check” that ran from Nov. 30 via Dec. 3. That technical check consisted of a “smaller, particular part” of the sport’s marketing campaign and its gamers had been certain by a restrictive non-disclosure settlement (NDA).
Regardless, unannounced particulars from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have gone public, a lot to the displeasure of its developer. On Monday, Rocksteady referred to as the leaks “very disappointing” and warned gamers that potential spoilers had been within the wild.
“We’re trying ahead to gamers experiencing the story we’ve crafted in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as soon as the sport launches within the new yr,” Rocksteady said in a statement posted to its official X account. “We hope everybody can play the sport and really feel every second of the narrative for themselves. It is vitally disappointing to see particulars being share forward of the sport’s launch, so we are able to solely urge you to attempt to keep away from spoilers the place you’ll be able to. And please strive to not affect the enjoyment of different gamers by posting spoilers. We stay up for seeing you all in Metropolis on 02-02-24.”
[Warning: The rest of this article contains potential spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.]
Plot particulars, together with sure DC universe characters making shock appearances and sure characters dying, have been leaked via audio and recreation clips (which Warner Bros. has accomplished its finest to wash from the web utilizing copyright claims). That features the attainable return of Batman villain Poison Ivy, who died in Batman: Arkham Knight, however returns in Kill the Justice League in a really completely different type. Different leaked and unconfirmed story particulars embrace revealing the Suicide Squad’s strategies for killing sure members of the Brainiac-controlled Justice League and utilizing the DC multiverse as a plot gadget.
One leaked facet of the sport’s story includes the killing of Batman — which shouldn’t be a lot of a shock in a recreation titled Kill the Justice League, which contains a menacing model of the caped crusader, as proven in earlier recreation trailers. Some Batman followers are expressing shock and disappointment at how Rocksteady is dealing with the character, nevertheless, notably with it being the ultimate flip for the late Kevin Conroy.
However as followers of the Batman Arkham collection ought to know by now, stunning plot twists in Rocksteady’s video games aren’t all the time what they appear.
Past story spoilers, a dataminer on X says he’s uncovered additional game modes for Kill the Justice League, together with a horde mode referred to as Elevating Hell and a 4v4v4v4 PvPvE mode described as “a distant cousin of Future 2’s Gambit.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League can even get playable characters past the core roster of Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, in keeping with leaked particulars. Gamers will allegedly be capable to play as The Joker, Deathstroke, and different unannounced DC characters.
Warner Bros. and Rocksteady plan to launch Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on Feb. 2, 2024, after a collection of delays. The sport is certain for PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X.