Space Marine 2 Patch 3.0 Notes Revealed Here

Patch 3.0 for Space Marine 2 introduces significant gameplay improvements, bug fixes, and new features, enhancing the overall experience for players while refining combat mechanics and visuals in the game.

by Madhumitha

Updated Sep 27, 2024

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Space Marine 2 Patch 3.0

The latest update for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is now available, with exciting new features. It now supports ultrawide screens and adds private lobbies in Operations mode!

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There's also a new Sparring Arena on the Battle Barge. You can access it from the Launch Bay while in Operations or Eternal War mode. In the arena, you'll get weapons and grenades like in a PvP match and can practice with your teammates before your next mission.

New features

  • The Hub Sparring Arena is a new special arena on the Battlebarge available in Operations & Eternal War Game mode where players can compete in friendly PvP with the players in their squad.

  • Ultrawide support for PC
  • Private mode for Operation mode that gives players the ability to play operation alone with bots or alongside one friend without being matchmaked with random players during the mission.
  • Added What's New & Message of the Day
  • Added option to reset custom color presets
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Gameplay and balancing tweaks

  • The marking tool has been updated:

    Difficulty:

    • Enemy aggressiveness on Veteran Difficulty in Campaign decreased for better singleplayer experience.
    • Player's health on Veteran Difficulty in Campaign is slightly reduced to compensate for AI aggressiveness and armor management updates

    Bots:

    • Various inhibiting restrictions were lifted, allowing bots to be more helpful and effective, while still not beating the game for the player
    • Bots will now help focus-firing zoanthropes when the player attacks them.
    • Heavily eased restrictions on bots finishing of enemies instead of leaving them for the player, to reduce annoyance.
    • Bots are now allowed to help with Gargoyle objectives
    • Fixed a variety of bugs related to bots getting stuck
    • Fixed a bug where bots can run out of ammo on weapons without a magazine

    Operations Mode

    • Tweaked AI Director and spawn rules of Chaos enemies in Operations mode:
      - Max number of Tzaangors With Shield on the arena at the same time reduced from 10 to 4
      - Max number of Cultists Snipers on the arena at the same time reduced from 10 to 3
      - Max number of Tzaangors on the arena at the same time reduced from 30 to 20
      - Max number of Rubric Marines with Boltguns on the arena at the same time reduced from 8 to 5
      - Max number of Rubric Marines with Warpflamers on the arena at the same time reduced from 4 to 3
       
    • Perfect parry has been updated, now restores armour for killing minoris, not only for countering their special attacks
    • Regarding Block and Fencing Weapons, a bug has been fixed in perfect parry window for fencing weapons. Now it has 20 frames window for perfect parry and 10 frames of vulnerability at the end of animation, instead of 30 frames of perfect parry for full animation as it was intended originally.
    • Assault Class: Base groundpound damage increased by 30%
    • Armor boost drops from destructible crates are now less common (cooldown raised from 30 secs to 60 secs)

    PVP

    • Improved player spawn system. It should make spawn killing more difficult
    • Reworked Vanguard's Grapnel Launcher in PVP. Instead of full stun it will now stagger enemy and will slow him down drastically.

    AI

    • Reduced ability to stunlock enemies with ranged attacks across all AI characters
    • Accuracy of ranged enemies is reduced when attacking from off-screen and accuracy of ranged enemies is reduced when attacking melee-engaged players
    • Regarding Hormagaunts and Tzaangors:
       Melee damage now deals specific amount damage instead of removing 1 complete armour segment per attack
    • Zoanthrope: - Increased psychic scream damage sparsing time from 0.5s to 2s to prevent one shot damage
      - Psychic scream damage reduced from 11 to 8
      - Psychic scream effective range reduced from 50 to 40m
      - Psychic scream cast range is reduced by 10m

    • Termagant: - Fleshborer spray attack damage reduced from 1 to 0.5
      - Flashborer spray attack damage reduced from 0.3 to 0.1

    • Tyranid Warrior with Devourer:  Projectile damage reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 per projectile

    • Rubric Marine With Warpflamer: - Icon of flame damage reduced from 9 to 6
      - Flamer burst damage reduced from 6 to 4 per shoot
      - Flamer shooting damage reduced from 6 to 4 per projectile
      -Health reduced by 10%

    • Rubric Marine with Boltgun: - Spray attack damage reduced from 1.5 to 1
      - Precise shot attack (with red indicator) damage reduced from 4 to 2 per projectile
      - Reduced frequency of teleports used to disengage players to make them less annoying to fight Health reduced by 10%

    • Tzaangor With Shield:  HP greatly reduced

    • Carnifex: - Rage phase updated, carnifex becomes faster and more aggressive
      - Taunt frequency reduced
      - Fixed a bug where his cone of thorns attack wouldn't fire projectiles

    • Hive Tyrant: - Health slightly increased.
      - Resistance to explosives and melta weapons increased by 20%.

    Customization

    • Fixed icon colour for the Administratum Grey, Auric Armour Gold and Celestra Grey colours
    • Fixed several issues with default colors being wrong on some chapters (i.e. Iron Warriors)
    • Vanguard Relic Right Greave part now requires 29 victories instead of 36
    • Added a Colour pattern called "Greaves Pattern" allowing the player to customize bottom and top half of the leg separately
  • - Improved responsiveness and comfort of Social Wheel control with a mouse
    - Disabled unnecessary objects that do not require highlighting and worked poorly with it
    - Several minor bug fixes
  • Power Fist:  Damage for fully charged attacks has been greatly increased

  • Heavy Plasma: - Base ammo increased by 5. Blast damage radious increased.
    - Overheat per shoot drastically decreased from 50 to 30 for charged shoots and from 20 to 15 for base shooting.
    - Base damage slightly increased by 10%.

  • Med Stims restore contested health in addition to actual healing

  • Aux grenade launcher ammo now can be refilled only with the Ammo Boxes and can not be refilled from the infinite Ammo Cache Campaign

Maps

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  • Fixed several issues that were preventing players from progressing within some levels
  • Fixed a lot of minor collision issues
  • Tweaked dust storm density and duration in Ballistic Engine operation
  • Tweaked Heldrake fire timings on the bridge in Reliquary operation
  • Trials can be now accessed via Hypnomat in Armoury

General fixes

  • Fixed a bug where changing loadout mid operation would restore your health
  • Improved Jump Pack Ability responsiveness
  • Fixed several issues in Trials
  • Fixed a bug where in some rare cases controls would stop working after performing a finisher
  • Fixed a bug where player does not receive armor data from Hellbrute spawned from chaos portal
  • Fixed a bug that caused Vanguard's "Adrenaline Rush" perk description to show 1% instead of actual 10%
  • Fixed Announcer spam in Eternal War mode
  • Fixed multiple ways of duplicating ammo in Operations mode
  • Fixed a bug where Grapnel Launcher would get canceled if overlapped by small geometry
  • Fixed a bug where Tactical perk EMPEROR'S VENGEANCE did not work with Plasma Incinerator.
  • Fixed a bug where several weapons could restore more than actual contested health (i.e. Meltas, AoE weapons etc)
  • Fixed several issues that were causing loss of saves
  • Fixed an unidentified voice at the end of the story that was assigned to the wrong character.
  • Lots of minor UI fixes and improvements
  • Lots of minor animation fixes and improvements
  • Localization fixes
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a video game that combines shooting and melee combat. Developed by Saber Interactive, it was released on September 9, 2024, for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. This game is a sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, which came out in 2011. Players take on the role of Space Marines, fighting against various enemies in a sci-fi universe.

The game has received mostly positive reviews from critics, praising its action-packed gameplay and visuals. Fans of the Warhammer series can enjoy this exciting new installment with improved mechanics and graphics.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Gameplay

In Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, players fight enemies using both melee and ranged attacks from a third-person view. You control Titus, a lieutenant of the Ultramarines, who is joined by fellow Space Marines, Chairon and Gadriel. The game has a mix of single-player and cooperative modes.

Players use guns to take down weaker enemies but must use melee attacks against stronger foes that can block shots. You can parry attacks, dodge unblockable ones, and regain health by finding medkits. There are also multiplayer modes where players can customize their characters and compete in team battles.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Available Platforms

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is available on multiple gaming platforms. You can play it on PlayStation 5, Windows computers, and Xbox Series X/S. This means players can enjoy the game on both consoles and PCs. The game was released on September 9, 2024, and it offers a mix of single-player and multiplayer modes.

Whether you prefer playing alone or teaming up with friends, you can experience the action-packed gameplay on any of these platforms. The game’s availability on popular systems allows more players to join in on the fun of battling in the Warhammer universe.

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