Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Hackers Are Playing With Unreleased Characters and Skins

05.04.2024 - 15:01 / ign.com

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is currently embroiled in a hacker problem that has resulted in unreleased skins, seasons, and even playable characters leaking online.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for upcoming Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League content!

Publisher Warner Bros. is working to remove images showing hackers using unreleased character Deathstroke, unreleased skins, and even details on gear set to be added to the game in Season 2. This is an obvious concern for Warner Bros. and developer Rocksteady, given hackers are freely accessing content it plans to sell to players in the future.

According to online reports, one hacker in particular appears to have accessed Deathstroke and all associated gear, although the model for Deathstroke fails to load when viewed online by other players. Warner Bros. has removed a number of assets from tweets published in the last 24 hours in a bid to contain the breach.

It’s another troubling development for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Season 1, which adds Joker as a playable character, launched last week just under two months after Rocksteady’s embattled live-service looter shooter came out, and just a month after Warner Bros. admitted Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League "has fallen short of our expectations".

Season 1 arrived amid low player numbers for Suicide Squad on Steam (player numbers for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S are unavailable), and it doesn’t look like it moved the needle meaningfully. On Steam, the live-service action game peaked with 13,459 concurrent players, a figure that has plummeted since launch. At the time of this article's publication, just 588 people were playing the game on Valve's platform with a 24-hour peak of 840, according to SteamDB.

Tough questions are now being asked about the future of Suicide Squad. Ahead of launch, Rocksteady committed to four seasons of support, each of which adding a new playable character as well as new environments, loot, and activities. IGN has reported on how a Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League player unearthed a hidden message that looked like a strong hint at the return of Batman. Datamining has shown strong hints that Flash and Green Lantern are set to return in some form. Other playable characters suspected to be on their way include Mrs Freeze (Nora Fries), Lawless, and the aforementioned Deathstroke.

IGN's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review returned a 5/10. We called it "a repetitive and bland looter-shooter that, despite an engaging story, never stays fun for long enough."

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