Ahead of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Patch 8, Fans Believe Datamines Have Revealed Everything From the New Class to a New, Much-Wanted Melee Weapon and a Surprising New Gun

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 volition soon spot the merchandise of Patch 8, which steadfast Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive person already said heralds the accomplishment of the hotly anticipated Horde mode.

But what other mightiness it include? Recent datamines of Space Marine 2 itself whitethorn clasp clues.

Warning! Potential spoilers for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 follow:

Let’s commencement with possibly the biggest question Space Marine 2 fans person close now: what is the caller class? Datamines suggest it is the Techmarine. Why? Because successful the files was notation of a perk called ‘shoulder weapon bolter,’ which is simply a wide denotation that Techmarines are yet successful play.

For the uninitiated, a Techmarine is simply a Space Marine engineer-type people who’s a large instrumentality of the Cult Mechanicus arsenic good arsenic their Chapter. They’re large connected exertion and specialize successful fixing and maintaining vehicles and different large stuff, specified arsenic Dreadnaughts.

You tin spot however a Techmarine mightiness slot into a Space Marine 2 squad, which presently lacks a people of this type. And this ties into different datamined detail: the evident quality to “summon” a Dreadnaught successful Horde mode. Dreadnaughts are a portion of the Space Marine 2 run (one viral infinitesimal involves a Dreadnaught being peculiarly heroic and badass), and you besides combat alongside 1 successful a PvE Operations mission. Could you gain the close to summon a Dreadnaught and, arsenic a Techmarine, support it alive, successful Horde mode?

Now onto the promised caller melee weapon. Datamines suggest Space Marine 2 volition yet get a Power Axe, which again, makes consciousness successful the discourse of Games Workshop’s large Space Wolves propulsion for the tabletop game. And let’s remember, successful December, IGN reported connected Space Marine 2 modders who enactment the axe from Secret Level’s Warhammer 40,000 occurrence into the game.

There’s more! As discussed successful a caller video by Warhammer 40,000 YouTuber Chapter Master Valrak, dataminers precocious unearthed grounds of a Grav-cannon successful Space Marine 2. This is, typically, a large weapon utilized by Space Marines that manipulate gravity to origin a people to crush itself to death. Could the Techmarine class, should it beryllium a genuine upcoming arrival, exclusively wield the Grav-cannon? If so, I ideate determination volition beryllium galore players who gravitate towards it with the merchandise of Patch 8.

It’s worthy noting that Patch 8 remains nether wraps for now, but we’re expecting Space Marine 2-related announcements during the upcoming Warhammer Skulls livestream this Thursday, May 22. Perhaps we’ll find retired much there.

There’s a batch happening successful the satellite of Space Marine 2, contempt the astonishment announcement that improvement of Space Marine 3 improvement had begun. Space Marine 2’s twelvemonth 1 roadmap remains successful place.

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