Developer Rocksteady have detailed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s preliminary post-launch plans, confirming The Joker will arrive as a playable character in a free content material replace accompanying the sport’s first “season”.
As per Rocksteady’s latest Insider video, every of Suicide Squad’s post-launch seasons will likely be themed round a unique DC character, with The Joker kicking issues off when Season 1 arrives in March. The Joker – effectively, a Joker technically, seeing as he is an alternate-reality Elseworlds variant hoovered into the Arkhamverse by Brainiac – guarantees distinctive traversal skills and weaponry, together with a dainty mace and a rocket-powered umbrella that’ll let him launch into the air, drift, and grind on buildings to knock enemies out of the best way.
Suicide Squad’s Season 1 can also be set to incorporate a brand new Joker-themed playable surroundings, two new episodes – that includes new missions, actions, and strongholds – new boss fights and enemy variants, new Riddler content material, and new DC Villain-themed weapons and equipment.
And that, it appears, would be the fundamental template for all seasons to observe; Rocksteady is at present committing to releasing Seasons 2, 3, and 4, and each guarantees a brand new playable character – once more yanked from an alternate-reality Elseworlds by Braniac – plus a corresponding playable surroundings, new actions, new weapons and themed gear units, mid-season updates, and “more”.
Rocksteady says all of the above will free to all gamers and stresses that no playable content material will likely be locked behind Suicide Squad’s seasonal battle move. It additionally reiterates that the paid in-game store will solely function cosmetics – though judging by the in depth vary of emotes, rival taunts, outfits, and different cosmetics outlined in at the moment’s developer replace, it would not sound just like the in-game retailer will likely be wanting stuff to spend cash on.
Eurogamer’s Ed Nightingale just lately went hands-on with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and wasn’t overly smitten by the entire thing. “It’s clear Rocksteady is keen to try something new with Suicide Squad while remaining tied to the studio’s past,” he wrote, “but as an online shooter with live service elements it’s perhaps trend-chasing more than sticking to what the studio does best. Its Arkham-verse lineage and characterful storytelling are strong, but this might not be the superhero fantasy you’re looking for.”
