Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has officially been delayed, on Epic Game Store.
17.02.2024 - 18:59 / gamerant.com / Harley Quinn / Robert Pattinson / Rocksteady Studios / Michael Brandon Ingram
The newly released Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is continuing to lose players on Steam, with player counts dipping every day since the game's launch. The newest shooter from Rocksteady Studios in the Batman: Arkham universe shifts players to an anti-hero role, taking control of villains like Harley Quinn and King Shark to battle a mind-controlled Justice League. Reception to the game has largely been mixed since its launch, with many criticizing its lackluster gameplay. Now, even more fans are stepping away from the new DC shooter.
Early reviews of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have been heavily critical of the game's third-person shooter gameplay following its early February debut. Many fans and critics have claimed that the game's campaign is too repetitive, with several missions boasting similar gameplay loops and causing the game to feel «dull.» The game also gained notoriety among reviewers ahead of its launch, with Rocksteady not providing review copies to several major gaming outlets. Now, just days after its launch, Suicide Squad is continuing to lose players.
Recent updates to popular Steam aggregator SteamDB reveal that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is consistently losing players with each passing day. Kill the Justice League peaked on February 3, the day after its launch, boasting 13,459 players throughout the day. However, the game's player count has continually dwindled, losing hundreds of players per day and peaking at 2,007 players within the past 24 hours. The decline represents a greater than 80% dropoff in the game's playerbase on Steam since its launch on February 2.
While Suicide Squad's gameplay has been one of its heaviest points of criticism, reception has been largely positive towards the game's story. Many fans have praised Rocksteady's writing for the titular anti-heroes, feeling the main cast's portrayal is one of the best parts of the game. The narrative of the game's campaign has also seen praise as a unique entry in the DC Comics lineup, despite the shortcomings of Suicide Squad's gameplay.
While Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has seen mixed reception, the game's launch saw surprising benefits for one of the franchise's previous games. Kill the Justice League's debut saw a spike in the player count for Batman: Arkham Knight, with Arkham Knight even beating Suicide Squad's player count. Arkham Knight also recently added a new skin to the game, inspired by Robert Pattinson's portrayal in 2022's The Batman. Suicide Squad's continued decline on Steam does not bode well for the game's ambitious future as a live-service game.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has officially been delayed, on Epic Game Store.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season of post-launch content gets underway on 28th March, introducing The Joker as a new playable character. Additionally, the delayed Epic Games Store version of Suicide Squad is now scheduled to launch on 26th March.
Developer Rocksteady Studios has revealed that it will be kicking off Season 1 of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on March 28. As part of the game’s first bit of post-launch content, Joker will be joining Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
The release date for has been revealed, with the Clown Prince of Crime’s playable debut coming by the end of the month.
Rocksteady Studios has outlined several changes coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, particularly for its Mutators, in future patches. Unfortunately, players will have to keep waiting. In a new Developer Update, the developer confirmed there won’t be a patch next week.
Long before the Suicide Squad went on to try about killing the Justice League, it dug its own grave. The action-adventure shooter from Rocksteady was born with the burden of living up to the lofty standards set by the studio's beloved Batman: Arkham games. Then, it stepped on a rake when last year's gameplay reveal confirmed that the game would be an always-online, live service looter shooter — a departure from Rocksteady's repertoire of narrative-focussed single-player experiences. And when it finally came out in early access ahead of its February 2 release, the developers had to pull it offline due to a bug that led to full story completion just as players logged in to the game for the first time.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has “fallen short” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s expectations.
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has failed to meet publisher Warner Bros' expectations.
Upon first impressions, I argued that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a monotonous, uninspired ordeal. The introduction to Metropolis drags along, only to feel worse thanks to messy presentation and unintuitive mechanics, though I admit the latter may be a product of my own faults. Those early thoughts still stand, as Kill the Justice League doesn’t offer an enticing first few hours. Eventually, some of those pieces improve. Others, not so much.
Along with assuring players that future patches would fix server and login issues for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, game director Axel Rydby also revealed other upcoming changes. First is a buff to Promethium earned from Raising Hell.