Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros. try to include Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League leaks, together with main story spoilers and unannounced playable characters, as particulars on subsequent 12 months’s sport unfold throughout the web. The leak, a few of which seems to have come from an alpha take a look at of the sport, is upsetting not solely its developer and writer, however followers of Rocksteady’s Batman video games as properly. Some story spoilers, whereas unconfirmed, might have main implications for Rocksteady’s “Arkham-verse.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League particulars have been leaking for the previous few weeks, as dataminers pored by way of sport recordsdata accessible by way of a “closed alpha tech test” that ran from Nov. 30 by way of Dec. 3. That technical take a look at consisted of a “smaller, particular part” of the sport’s marketing campaign and its gamers have been sure by a restrictive non-disclosure settlement (NDA).
Regardless, unannounced particulars from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have gone public, a lot to the displeasure of its developer. On Monday, Rocksteady known as the leaks “very disappointing” and warned gamers that potential spoilers have been within the wild.
“We’re wanting ahead to gamers experiencing the story we’ve crafted in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as soon as the sport launches within the new 12 months,” Rocksteady said in a statement posted to its official X account. “We hope everybody can play the sport and really feel every second of the narrative for themselves. It is extremely disappointing to see particulars being share forward of the sport’s launch, so we will solely urge you to attempt to keep away from spoilers the place you may. And please strive to not impression the enjoyment of different gamers by posting spoilers. We stay up for seeing you all in Metropolis on 02-02-24.”
[Warning: The rest of this article contains potential spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.]
Plot particulars, together with sure DC universe characters making shock appearances and sure characters dying, have been leaked by way of audio and sport clips (which Warner Bros. has accomplished its finest to clean from the web utilizing copyright claims). That features the attainable return of Batman villain Poison Ivy, who died in Batman: Arkham Knight, however returns in Kill the Justice League in a really completely different type. Different leaked and unconfirmed story particulars embrace revealing the Suicide Squad’s strategies for killing sure members of the Brainiac-controlled Justice League and utilizing the DC multiverse as a plot gadget.
One leaked side of the sport’s story entails the killing of Batman — which shouldn’t be a lot of a shock in a sport titled Kill the Justice League, which incorporates a menacing model of the caped crusader, as proven in earlier sport trailers. Some Batman followers are expressing shock and disappointment at how Rocksteady is dealing with the character, nonetheless, notably with it being the ultimate flip for the late Kevin Conroy.
However as followers of the Batman Arkham sequence ought to know by now, surprising plot twists in Rocksteady’s video games aren’t all the time what they appear.
Past story spoilers, a dataminer on X says he’s uncovered additional game modes for Kill the Justice League, together with a horde mode known as Elevating Hell and a 4v4v4v4 PvPvE mode described as “a distant cousin of Future 2’s Gambit.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will even get playable characters past the core roster of Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, in accordance with leaked particulars. Gamers will allegedly be capable of play as The Joker, Deathstroke, and different unannounced DC characters.
Warner Bros. and Rocksteady plan to launch Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League on Feb. 2, 2024, after a sequence of delays. The sport is sure for PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.