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The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week

The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week
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The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week

If covering Helldivers 2 this year has taught me anything, it’s that balancing a horde shooter is monstrously hard—starting with an unpopular major balance patch that dented the Railgun, it wasn’t until this month that, after a big overhaul, Arrowhead started hitting the mark again. So to see Space Marine 2 now running into the same problems has given me an unpleasant sense of intergalactic déjà vu.

Late last week, Saber Interactive released a patch retooling the difficulty for Operations, which are the game’s multiplayer mode—on the plus side, there’s a new Operation for players to enjoy, praise the emperor, as well as a new difficulty mode. Issue being, that difficulty mode’s unpopular for a couple of reasons.

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