The 5.0 update is now live, bringing the long-awaited Dark Angels Chapter Pack, the new “Obelisk” Operation, a new Majoris enemy, new customisation options, and various gameplay and balancing tweaks.

Read the full patch notes down below for further details.

In this new Operation, you’ll be sent to Demerium and your mission is to rotate a replica of the obelisk to disrupt the flow of energy protecting the Aurora device. This operation takes place in parallel to the final events of the campaign.

To reach the console control of the obelisk, you’ll have to make it through a tomb plunged into darkness.


A new Majoris enemy can spawn in all Operations featuring the Thousand Sons.

Note from our Game Director: “The Tzaangor Enlightened is a disk-flying, melee/ranged-hybrid unit. They are fearsome opponents, especially when met in greater numbers. However, catching them after parry or during a long animation makes them an easy target.

We strongly advise you to use Target Lock to face this enemy!”


Added: Dark Angels Successor Chapters cosmetics

Added: Dark Angels Champion skin (Bulwark)

Added: Dark Angels–themed weapon skins for:

• Auto Bolt Rifle
  
• Plasma Pistol
  
• Power Sword
  
• Bulwark’s Storm Shield

Note from our Game Director: “The melee system has been our main focus recently. The issue that we saw is that, on higher difficulties, the melee combat relied too heavily on the “Parry -> Gun Strike” flow. This also made Fencing Melee Weapons a universal choice for almost all situations, and we want to give players more options. To try and achieve that, we’ve made the following changes.

First, normal Melee Damage has increased across the board, so there will be more options instead of just Parry -> Gun Strike.

Second, we are drastically changing how Blocking Weapons work. In short, by blocking enemy attacks, the player will accumulate up to 3 stacks of Melee Damage buffs. Attacking while having those stacks of buffs will spend them and will result in massive AoE Damage discharge.

With these changes, Fencing Weapons will still be great versus limited numbers of enemies, Balanced Weapons will be good versus big crowds, and Blocking Weapons will become ‘damage dealer’ type weapons.”

All Block Weapons have been reworked with a new mechanic: Perfect Block and Adrenaline Surge
Perfectly timed blocks grant up to 3 Adrenaline Surge stacks. Adrenaline Surge stacks greatly increase Melee Damage and are consumed after the next melee attack.

Attacking with 3 stacks of Adrenaline Surge deals massive AoE Damage, staggers enemies, and restores 1 Armour Segment.

Fencing Weapons:

• Perfect Parry AoE stagger radius slightly reduced.

Balanced Weapons:

• Perfect Parry AoE stagger radius greatly increased.
  
• Master-crafted versions: Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Artificer versions: Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Relic versions: Damage increased by 10%.

Blocking Weapons:

• Master-crafted versions: Damage increased by 20%.
  
• Artificer versions: Damage increased by 20%.
  
• Relic versions: Damage increased by 20%.

Unarmed/Firearm Melee:

• Stomps can now be chained indefinitely.

Note from our Game Director: “We are quite happy with recent updates to firearms. Pretty much all firearms are viable on the hardest difficulties now, and our win rate/pick rate data shows drastic improvements.

Still, there are a few weapons that are better than the others, and minor tweaks will be coming with Patch 6.

Further into the future, with Patch 7, we are planning to focus on reworking Weapons Perks. Weapons Perks are underwhelming compared to Class Perks right now, and the issues with some weapons are actually a result of them having a bad Perk tree rather than their basic stats.

The other big outstanding problem that we have is the Grenade Launcher. There are quite a few bugs/misconfigurations that make it the way it is.

1. Due to a bug, a certain Perk restores its full Ammo when it shouldn’t.
   
2. Due to a misconfiguration on our side, its Artificer and Relic versions deal 4x more damage than the Master-crafted version, which was not intended.
   
3. Due to a bug, Perks that increase Auspex Scan damage stack buffs inconsistently. Normally all damage stacks buffs additively, thus providing consistent and predictable results. This bug results in crazy damage numbers with Auspex Scan Perks depending on the order they were activated. This is why bosses get erased by Grenade Launchers with certain builds.

If we approach this directly and fix all 3 bugs, it will make the Grenade Launcher useless and will hurt the entire Tactical class. We will be very careful with how we address this issue. We do want to keep the fun element of destroying entire waves of enemies with the Grenade Launcher. At the same time, no other weapon can match a Grenade Launcher with potentially unlimited Ammo.

Because of these complications, we want to take the time to carefully analyse and make the best decision possible about the Grenade Launcher, so we’re not modifying it in this patch.”

Volkite Damage sensitivity has been increased from 1 to 1.5 for these enemies:

• Devourer Tyranid Warrior
  
• Barbed Strangler Tyranid Warrior
  
• Venom Cannon Tyranid Warrior
  
• Rubric Marine
  
• Flamer Rubric Marine
  
• Zoanthrope

Note from our Game Director: “This change simply increases the amount of XP players are getting in Operations mode if they are zealously exterminating enemy waves. This aims to:

1. incentivise players to not skip encounters, without punishing those who want to skip, and
   
2. makes the game less grindy in preparation for new features coming down the line (e.g., Prestige Ranks).”

Added a new feature that increases the amount of XP players gain based on % of enemies killed during an Operation:

• Rank A: killing more than 85% spawned enemies grants 120% XP pre-patch value.
  
• Rank B: killing more than 60% spawned enemies grants 110% XP pre-patch value.
  
• Rank C: killing less than 60% spawned enemies grants 100% XP pre-patch value.

*The rank is common to the party, everyone gets the same.

• Dodge invulnerability logic is now client sided, meaning that Dodges will be responsive and more accurate with higher ping.
  
• Players are now invulnerable to new instances of damage while in Knockback animation.
  
• Added 10 frames of invulnerability at the start of Jump Pack launch animation (Campaign and Operations only).
  
• Dodge and Parry sound notification clarity has been greatly improved.
  
• Heavy’s Barrier can be activated in more player states (e.g., during stagger animation).
  
• Player controls are slightly more responsive after using Vanguard’s Grapnel Launcher.
  
• Added spawn protection in PvP.
  
• Added Neo-Volkite Pistol in PvP.

Zoanthrope:

• Shielded Zoanthrope will now attack much less frequently.

Enemy Spawn Director:

• You will no longer fight Extremis-level enemies on your first encounter right after the start of a Mission.
  
• Lots of minor animation fixes for various enemies.

Added: Lenses colour customisation.

• Fixed shading of Balthasar Gold and Ushabti Bone colours.

• Fixed a number of small bugs with certain armour pieces not applying colours correctly.

Made adjustments to scripting to make this level shorter and more in line with the duration of other levels:

• The second sequence with the Dreadnought (Repel the Assault) is randomised now and may not happen.
  
• The fusion battery needs to be charged only once in the final sequence.

Large amounts of small fixes in level geometry collision and Terminus enemies getting stuck in some areas.

Note from our Game Director: “In this patch, we are only fixing bugs with existing Perks, but trust me, we are seeing the issues with them. A lot of the Class Perks are not as good as we wanted them to be, and some Perk tree choices are really more efficient than others. With Patch 6, we are planning to massively rework a bunch of lacking Perks to make more builds viable.”

• Getting kicked out of a session will still grant kicked player XP rewards based on checkpoint completion.
  
• Exiting the Turret Charging Wheel in the “Termination” Operation is now quicker.
  
• Improved a few enemies counting for Purge Them All Achievement.
  
• Fixed a bug where Combat Knife charged attacks would occasionally Heavy Hit every time without charging.
  
• Fixed a bug where Heavy’s Primary Weapon was not shooting after joining in progress.
  
• Fixed a bug where party leader could get stuck on a loading screen in rare cases.
  
• Fixed Hierophant’s damage sensitivity to certain weapons (it can still be damaged by normal weapons, but the damage is reduced).
  
• Fixed a bug where Heldrake was not taking any damage from shots in rare cases.
  
• Fixed a bug where Heldrake could be knocked off its pedestal by shots from an under-barrel Grenade Launcher.
  
• Fixed a bug where Imurah would not take any damage from shots in the final mission in rare cases.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where players were shown a long black screen instead of death screen in PvP.
  
• Fixed a bug where players could not see each other's customisation in rare cases.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Neo-Volkite Pistol would deal damage further than its actual visual FX.
  
• Fixed a bug where enemies were able to pierce Block stance with double attack.
  
• Fixed a bug with Bulwark’s Armour of Contempt Perk not triggering correctly and dealing friendly fire.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Neo-Volkite Pistol would sometimes trigger a chain of explosions and cause performance issues.
  
• Fixed a rare bug with Vanguard’s Zone of Impact Perk not triggering correctly.
  
• Fixed Perks that grant player immunity to Heavy Hits and Knockback during charging melee attacks not working with charged attacks unlocked via Weapons Perks.
  
• Combat Knife charged attack buffs from other Perks (e.g., Sniper's Shadow Stab) are now correctly applied on both damage instances.
  
• Large number of minor fixes in Perks, how they stack, and how they trigger in rare cases.
  
• Minor UI fixes and improvements.
  
• Localisation fixes.

Added: FSR 3 / DLSS 3: Support of "Frame Generation" component for DLSS and FSR. For more details about FSR and DLSS, check our FAQ[community.focus-entmt.com].

• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.
  
• General connectivity improvements.
  
• Slightly improved performance.
  
• Slightly improved texture streaming speed.
  
• Improved Anti-Cheat.

Mod Support

Please note that starting from 5.0 update, mods will no longer be supported in public lobbies. You can find the complete explanation here.


“That’s it for the 5.0 update! We hope you’ll like the new Operation and you’ll have fun customising your Marines with the new items available!

Let us know your thoughts on the new gameplay tweaks we made, especially on the revamped melee mechanics. As we previously said, your feedback is invaluable to us as it helps us pinpoint what you really want and would like to see in the future.

Enjoy this update, and have happy winter holidays!

The Emperor protects.”

—Dmitriy Grigorenko, Game Director

The end of the year is approaching, to celebrate this wonderful year that has brought so much joy to us and to the players, we have a few surprises for you! ⭐


On November 12 we released Patch 4.5. This update was important as it brought a brand new weapon: The Neo-Volkite Pistol, as well as loads of balancing tweaks on several weapons (Plasma Incinerator / Bolt Sniper Rifle / Occulus Bolt Carbine / Bolt Carbine (SMG) / Auto Bolt Rifle).

To read the entire patch note, click here[community.focus-entmt.com].

How cool is it? 😎
Note that the Neo-Volkite Pistol will be available in PvP starting from the 5.0 update.

As for every month, we keep reading your feedback closely, and reviewing the ideas submitted onto Focus Together[community.focus-entmt.com]! There’s more and more each week, which gives us plenty of ideas to work with! We want to thank you for that. We keep reviewing them but it takes time!

To see the answers devs have already provided, check it here[community.focus-entmt.com].


5 million Space Marines have joined our ranks to purge Xenos & Chaos! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who's joined the fight. It’s been incredible to see the community grow (and to keep seeing it grow)! Here’s to many more battles ahead. ⚔️


As you may have seen, the story of Titus continues in Amazon Prime Video’s Secret Level series!

A new trailer dropped to tease the upcoming episode.

The series will start on December 10. One episode will be fully dedicated to Warhammer 40,000. Stay tuned, it’s gonna be epic! 💥


The 5.0 update will be released in the first half of December! This update contains the very much awaited Dark Angels Chapter Pack, alongside another Operation: Obelisk.

The Dark Angels Chapter Pack features the Dark Angels Champion, which is a unique armour set and banner for the Bulwark Class.

Please note that this set can’t be customised

Three weapons will also receive exclusive visuals based on the Dark Angels Chapter: the Auto Bolt Rifle, the Plasma Pistol and the Power Sword. The Bulwark class will also get a unique Dark Angels Storm Shield.

The Dark Angels Chapter Pack includes the heraldry items of the Second Foundings and Successor Chapters of the Dark Angels: the Angels of Absolution, the Angels of Redemption, the Angels of Vengeance, the Unnamed, the Blades of Vengeance, the Cowled Wardens, the Bringers of Judgement and the Angels of Defiance.

New armour pieces will also be added, including a fan-favourite helmet: the Mark VIII Ravenwing! All these items will be available to unlock as part of an heraldry cosmetic.

Last addition to the customisation menu, the colour lenses are finally here! Choose among 15 different colours to customise your Space Marine even more!

This update does not only bring new customisation, a new Operation will also be added! Called “Obelisk”, you’ll be sent to Demerium and your mission is to rotate a replica of the obelisk to disrupt the flow of energy protecting the Aurora device. This operation takes place in parallel to the final events of the campaign.

To reach the console control of the obelisk, you’ll have to make it through a tomb plunged into darkness. To make your progression even tougher, the Chaos forces see a new addition to their roster: the Tzaangor Enlightened, a new Majoris enemy! They will now appear in every PvE Operation with Chaos.

Finally, on tech side, 5.0 update will bring Frame generation support with the integration of DLSS 3 and FSR 3.1.


Space Marine 2 has been nominated in 2 categories at The Game Awards!

You can show your support and vote for us as Best Multiplayer Game[www.thegameawards.com] and Best Action Game[www.thegameawards.com]!

Also, we're so glad to announce that Space Marine 2 has been nominated for the Steam Awards in the "Game Of The Year" category! ⚔️You can vote here.


Huge congrats to @MendesWithAnS[x.com] for winning the Space Marine 2 fan art contest! Your work left us in awe! It really captures the essence of the Warhammer universe. This win is well-deserved, Brother! 🫡


In case you missed it, our Game Director expressed himself on the mod support on Space Marine 2. You’ll find the complete message here[community.focus-entmt.com]. In short, starting from the next update, mods will no longer be available in public PvE sessions, but will remain the private ones.


That’s it for this month! Thanks again for sticking with us. See you again in December! ⚔️

The Emperor protects.

The Focus and Saber teams