Rocksteady Studios emphasised that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League shall be a story-driven motion journey in its newest deep-dive reveal, however its post-launch plans appear to nonetheless fall very squarely into the live-service mildew. The studio offered extra element on the sport’s seasonal updates and battle passes immediately, together with that gamers gained’t have to spend cash to accumulate new characters.
Regardless of current within the Batman: Arkham Knight universe, Suicide Squad comes with the entire fashionable multiplayer options, boondogles, and annoyances. A press launch accompanying immediately’s announcement is virtually a guidelines of each method main publishers are making an attempt to recoup the prices of huge price range blockbusters with out frequently elevating the value of their video games.
For instance, whereas Suicide Squad technically comes out on February 2, gamers who purchase the $100 Deluxe Version will get to entry to it three days early. That dearer model will even include one token for a “premium battle go” in addition to some extra gadgets and outfits. Rocksteady additionally makes clear, nonetheless, that gamers who purchase the common model of the sport will nonetheless get entry to post-launch content material “at no extra price.”
“Publish-launch seasonal updates and earnable characters to broaden the story with new missions, gadgets, and extra, accessible at no extra price,” the studio writes. That features, “entry to all free seasonal battle go tiers (as every turns into accessible).” It sounds just like the always-online sport won’t be locking players out of new story content and missions, simply doubtlessly charging for sure particular seasonal rewards. In fact, the proof will at all times be within the last sport. Extra characters is likely to be “free” however nonetheless require an unreasonable quantity of in-game grinding to unlock.
Hopefully, Suicide Squad can get the stability proper the place different video games like Marvel’s Avengers haven’t. The final time Rocksteady revealed new gameplay footage again in February, followers have been largely repulsed by gear scores and different signifiers of live-service padding and monetization. The sport subsequently went darkish and received delayed for nearly a yr to work on including extra polish. It will be a pleasant shock if all of that stuff ended up feeling principally separate and straightforward to disregard within the completed sport. We’ll discover out quickly sufficient.
