Suicide Squad is presently within the midst of its first post-launch season starring the Joker, and whereas participant numbers for the loot shooter have did not materialize, the sport will nonetheless ship its promised year-one roadmap, writer Warner Bros. confirms. That implies that it gained’t pull a full Anthem and utterly ditch its post-launch plans, regardless of a report that Rocksteady Studios is already largely centered on different initiatives.
“Suicide Squad will full its presently introduced roadmap,” a spokesperson for the writer instructed Kotaku in an e-mail on June 7. That roadmap presently runs via 4 seasons, every with a brand new playable character, a brand new playable setting, and extra actions, skins, and steadiness updates. Suicide Squad is presently ending the primary episode of season 1 with a second episode anticipated to drop quickly, however Rocksteady Video games hasn’t been clear in regards to the timing, or if future seasons will final simply as lengthy.
Anybody who’s performed a live-service sport that’s died, like BioWare’s ill-fated Anthem or Crystal Dynamics’ Marvel’s Avengers, is aware of that future plans are on the mercy of preliminary momentum. It’s not clear Suicide Squad ever made a large enough optimistic splash within the first place to have a serious viewers to win again over, not to mention the legs to slowly construct one over a pricey first yr of updates. With no frank acknowledgement of the sport’s struggles since launch, and weekly replace weblog posts now changing into extra intermittent, followers have naturally started to marvel if Warner Bros. was quietly pulling again from its over $200 million flop.
Then final week Bloomberg reported that many builders at Rocksteady had already been moved to engaged on a director’s minimize of Hogwarts Legacy whereas studio management tried to pitch Warner Bros. on a brand new single-player undertaking that might return the Batman: Arkham maker to its roots. Warner Bros. didn’t touch upon these elements of the report, or supply any suggestion that Suicide Squad would proceed releasing new updates after its promised first yr. It’s additionally unclear how a lot of these post-launch seasons, which have been anticipated to wrap up the principle marketing campaign’s inconclusive non-ending, are accomplished, or if lots of work nonetheless must be finished on them.
Mr. Freeze has already been leaked as the following seasonal character, although Suicide Squad should extend adjustments than that to make it value taking part in.
