Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is presently embroiled in a hacker downside that has resulted in unreleased skins, seasons, and even playable characters leaking online.
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Publisher Warner Bros. is working to take away photographs displaying hackers utilizing unreleased character Deathstroke, unreleased skins, and even details on gear set to be added to the game in Season 2. This is an apparent concern for Warner Bros. and developer Rocksteady, given hackers are freely accessing content material it plans to promote to gamers in the future.
According to online experiences, one hacker specifically seems to have accessed Deathstroke and all related gear, though the mannequin for Deathstroke fails to load when seen online by different gamers. Warner Bros. has eliminated a quantity of belongings from tweets revealed in the final 24 hours in a bid to include the breach. IGN has requested Warner Bros. for remark.
It’s one other troubling improvement for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Season 1, which adds Joker as a playable character, launched final week just below two months after Rocksteady’s embattled live-service looter shooter got here out, and simply a month after Warner Bros. admitted Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League "has fallen short of our expectations".
Season 1 arrived amid low participant numbers for Suicide Squad on Steam (participant numbers for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S are unavailable), and it doesn’t appear to be it moved the needle meaningfully. On Steam, the live-service action game peaked with 13,459 concurrent gamers, a determine that has plummeted since launch. At the time of this text's publication, simply 588 people had been enjoying the game on Valve's platform with a 24-hour peak of 840, in accordance with SteamDB.
Tough questions are actually being requested about the future of Suicide Squad. Ahead of launch, Rocksteady dedicated to 4 seasons of help, every of which including a new playable character in addition to new environments, loot, and actions. 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 proven robust hints that Flash and Green Lantern are set to return in some type. Other playable characters suspected to be on their means embrace Mrs Freeze (Nora Fries), Lawless, and the aforementioned Deathstroke.
IGN's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review returned a 5/10. We known as it "a repetitive and bland looter-shooter that, despite an engaging story, never stays fun for long enough."
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