Rocksteady is pulling the plug on new content material for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League after Season 4, with the developer asserting its plans to finish assist for the troubled on-line sport in January 2025.
Rocksteady revealed the information in an official blog detailing Suicide Squad’s final season, which is able to embrace the discharge of an offline mode and a brand new playable character in Deathstroke. While Rocksteady does not plan to launch any new content material, Suicide Squad’s story will stay playable by way of offline mode and it is going to be attainable to play co-op with associates. Previous seasonal content material may also proceed to be obtainable.
Elsewhere, Rocksteady mentioned Suicide Squad will stay obtainable for buy and that its in-game retailer will proceed to operate after Season 4 together with its in-game LutherCoin forex. Rocksteady did not point out how lengthy it plans to maintain Suicide Squad on-line after it finishes releasing new content material.
A troublesome launch for Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad Season 4 will mark the top of what has been a fraught launch for Rocksteady. It struggled with blended opinions when it got here out again in February and by no means actually recovered its momentum. We wrote in on the time, “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a completely irritating sport to play. There are issues to take pleasure in right here, with fight that’s snappy sufficient to hold it via a genuinely good DC comics story artfully wearing excessive manufacturing values. But all the things else simply falls down round it.”
Suicide Squad ended up struggling on the gross sales entrance, spurring a double-digit decline in income for Warner Bros. gaming. It joins a number of different on-line video games which have struggled in 2024, together with Concord and XDefiant.
Suicide Squad’s last season will start with the discharge of Episode 7 on December 10 and can conclude with the discharge of Episode 8 subsequent month. For extra, try our full rationalization of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s endgame.
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