Space Marine 2's Best Hope For More Content Might Not Come From Its Official Roadmap

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has already received several exciting content updates, with more additions already on the way in early 2025. Even though the updates may be somewhat infrequent compared to other major titles, each patch provides plenty of replayability and new ways to tear apart the enemies of mankind. While it's hard to beat the level of quality official updates and patches can provide, community-made content might be the best bet for 's future.

With being locked into a canonical point on the timeline, some fan-favorite additions would be hard to add without breaking the game's continuity. Thankfully, fan-made content doesn't have nearly as many of the same restrictions as official updates, as dedicated modders are more than capable of adding their own high-quality, worthwhile content additions. With 's community growing ever-hungry for more updates, there's an easy alternative to simply waiting for an official patch.

Even though has received several powerful new enemies, operations, and equipment for players to unlock, there's only so much time players can spend replaying the operations and PvP modes currently available. While 's lethal mode added a new challenge for players to strive towards, community mods are a much better way to pass the time for players tired of grinding the same content.

's developers have even gone on record supporting their modding community as well, although players using them will be limited to private lobbies for the sake of providing a fair and consistent experience for other players.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 took the world by storm at launch, but now players want games that offer similar gameplay. Luckily, there are plenty.

With being filled with incredibly iconic weapons that still haven't made the cut in recent patches, it's little surprise that players have started to take matters into their own hands with fan-made mods. Only being a small part of the massive Astartes Overhaul mod, fans like asd_slasher on Reddit have noted some of the