Rocksteady Pulls Suicide Squad in Early Access After Players Face Major Bug

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League appears to have hit a brand new hurdle proper out of the gate. The co-op looter shooter from Rocksteady Studios is all set for a full launch on February 2 and was imagined to be in its three-day early entry launch for patrons who pre-ordered the Deluxe Version. The builders, nevertheless, had been pressured to tug the title offline barely an hour into its early entry launch resulting from a serious bug. Rocksteady confirmed Monday that a number of gamers, who logged into the sport in early entry, encountered a bug that resulted in full story completion. Because of this, the studio took down Suicide Squad servers to work on fixing the problem.

“We’re conscious that various gamers are at present experiencing a problem whereby upon logging into the sport for the primary time, they’ve full story completion,” Rocksteady mentioned in a submit on X. “To resolve this concern, we will probably be performing upkeep on the sport servers. Throughout this time the sport will probably be unavailable. We count on this to take a number of hours and can replace as soon as we have now extra info. We apologise for the inconvenience.”

Discovering the total story accomplished after logging into the sport may expose gamers to main story spoilers and end-game content material. It’s unclear if gamers are capable of begin a brand new recreation or are pressured to proceed from the purpose of story completion. 

Rocksteady offered an replace on the problem late Monday, confirming it had recognized the issue that led to full story completion for a number of participant profiles. The studio mentioned it was testing a repair however hasn’t since confirmed if the bug has been resolved. “We hope to implement it and have the sport again on-line as quickly as doable,” Rocksteady mentioned in its replace submit on X.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has had a tough highway main as much as its launch, proper from the primary gameplay reveal in February 2023. The sport attracted criticism for incorporating parts from generic looter shooters and ditching the single-player narrative focus from Batman Arkham titles that earned Rocksteady its reputation. Suicide Squad was additionally hit with multiple delays after fan backlash. Initially slated to launch Could 26, 2023, the dwell service title finally set a February 2, 2024, launch date.

In the meantime, writer Warner Bros. has mentioned that it intends to remodel its largest recreation franchises into dwell service titles. In the course of the firm’s Q3 earnings name in November final yr, CEO David Zaslav confirmed that Warner Bros. video games will comply with the dwell service mannequin to change into long-term merchandise, with post-launch content material drops, season passes and extra DLC. “Finally we need to drive engagement and monetization of longer cycles and at greater ranges,” Zaslav had mentioned throughout the name.

Rocksteady, too, has mentioned that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will characteristic free post-launch seasonal content material, with every season bringing new playable characters, challenges, missions and extra. Simply final week, the studio confirmed that the Joker would arrive as a playable character within the recreation throughout its first post-launch season in March.