Warhammer Space Marine 2 patches its patch after plentiful player complaints that the game is now way too hard

Patch number four for Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 arrived last week, heralded by much excitement, but soon after the worm turned and it seemed the patch was annoying, rather than enthusing the game’s players, mainly around the difficulty balancing.

In an effort to reduce player win rates, the devs had massively upped the number of enemies across the board leading to players on lower difficulties getting their backsides handed to them, and well, just reducing the overall fun factor.

Now Game Director, Dmitriy Grigorenko has posted a message to the Space Marine 2’s community saying, “As we discussed late last week, we’ve been monitoring your feedback since last Thursday’s Patch 4.0 and have decided to address your most pressing concerns with a new balancing update, coming this Thursday.

“Before we get to the details of the new patch, we want to thank you all for being so involved with the game and making your opinions heard. While we noticed criticism with regards to difficulty adjustments—and rightly so—we’d also like to thank you for your very positive feedback on the new “Termination” map. No matter the feedback, we’re grateful that you feel so passionate about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.

“The key takeaway for me, personally, is that I forgot that once the game comes out, it’s no longer a dev’s game. It’s yours first and foremost.

“This is why, moving forward, we’d like to harness this energy by establishing Public Test Servers. They would let you try out major balancing updates and make your voices heard before they are pushed onto public branches. We’re hoping to make these available around early 2025, so stay tuned to our channels for more info.”

So that’s all good then. New Public test Servers in a few months time will really help forward the development of the game and allow errors such as these to be stamped on before future patches hit the mainline.

Grigorenko continued, “Your feedback made it clear that the game had become more intense and stressful on lower difficulties, and this was never our intention. As I’ve personally emphasized in interviews, Space Marine 2 is all about the power fantasy, and Patch 4.0 negatively impacted it for many of you.”

We've heard your feedback on #SpaceMarine2's 4.0 patch, and 4.1 will implement it tomorrow.

It'll bring key balancing changes: enemy spawns and difficulty tweaks are rolled back, Bolt weapons get buffs and more.