The primary hotfix for Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2 is dwell, with fixes for a couple of uncommon crash points and a efficiency increase for some {hardware}. Developer Saber Interactive says a much bigger patch, that includes larger modifications, is on the best way quickly.
Area Marine 2 is ticking alongside very properly, hitting a peak concurrent participant rely of greater than 225,000 on Steam on launch day—a Monday, no much less. The sport has since racked up greater than two million gamers, and Saber Interactive chief artistic officer Tim Willits mentioned he thinks it is the fastest-selling recreation he and fellow former id man Todd Hollenshead have ever labored on, “together with all of the Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, and Rage video games through the years.”
Todd Hollenshead (former CEO of id Software program) and I imagine that Area Marine 2 is the quickest promoting recreation we’ve ever labored on, together with all of the Quake, DOOM, Wolfenstein, and RAGE video games through the years. #SpaceMarine2September 11, 2024
(By means of comparability, the 2016 Doom reboot, which got here out whereas Willits was nonetheless studio head at id Software program, had a peak concurrent participant rely of simply over 44,000 on Steam. So yeah, I can imagine it.)
After all, Area Marine 2 is not good (however what’s?) and a few gamers have been battling crashes and efficiency points. At this time’s “fast repair” is geared toward addressing a minimum of a few of these issues.
Here is what’s on the menu:
Crashes and bug fixes
- Mounted some uncommon doable crashes when beginning the sport
- Mounted a uncommon doable crash that occured through the first cutscene
- Mounted a number of different uncommon crashes
- Mounted a number of uncommon bugs that had been inflicting smooth locks within the story mode
PC Solely
- Optimized CPU habits on excessive finish CPUs
A much bigger patch within the works, anticipated to reach later in September, will add assist for ultrawide shows, non-public PvE lobbies, add a brand new “sparring enviornment” within the battle barge, and the same old “and extra!” together with one other, presumably larger spherical of bug fixes.
“Please imagine us after we say we’re studying all your suggestions with nice consideration,” the dev group mentioned. “It takes time due to the quantity of messages we’ve got to take care of, clearly. However we see and listen to you.
“We’re additionally utterly conscious of the completely different bugs you’ve got been encountering. We’re working laborious to repair them.”
Area Marine 2 gamers who encounter any bugs are inspired to report them on Focus Residence’s new neighborhood platform.