As Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League nears its launch, developer Rocksteady has confirmed that the sport’s post-launch DLC will convey iconic DC villain Joker as a playable character. The studio made the announcement Monday in the third episode of its Suicide Squad Insider developer diary sequence, detailing its plans for delivering free post-launch seasonal content material to gamers who purchase the sport, multiversal ideas and a few multiplayer options that can be current at launch. According to Rocksteady, every post-launch season will function two episodes and can observe the theme of a DC villain, bringing new methods to play. The new announcement follows the builders teasing a whole bunch of character builds and distinct loadouts earlier this month.
In the Suicide Squad Insider episode titled “Introducing Elseworlds,” Rocksteady laid out its plans for alternate universes in the sport, every of them bringing distinctive DC characters to the combine. With the launch of the first season of post-game content material in March, gamers will have the ability to unlock the Joker as a playable character for his or her squads, Rocksteady confirmed. The video exhibits off a youthful model of the Clown Prince of Crime from an alternate universe — Elseworld, as Rocksteady calls it. Bear in thoughts that the Joker in Rocksteady’s Arkham sequence of video games died in Batman: Arkham City. “He (Joker) was part of the Suicide Squad in the Elseworld that he’s from,” affiliate design director at the studio Johnny Armstrong defined in the video.
While the Elseworld Joker retains the look and mannerism we have come to anticipate from the iconic villain — the purple swimsuit, the inexperienced hair and face make-up and a penchant for chaos, he should work out his place in a new universe, Rocksteady stated. The youthful, extra inexperienced Joker will, nonetheless, come together with his personal distinctive fight and traversal gameplay methods and distinct weapons as well. Joker’s new traversal mechanics are primarily based round a rocket-power umbrella, which can be utilized to propel the DC villain up in the air and glide round. Joker’s umbrella can be flipped all the way down to grind alongside buildings like a skateboard and knock away enemies in your path.
From the Joker gameplay footage proven in the video, the villain might be seen gliding round the map together with his umbrella and dispatching enemies with glee utilizing melee weapons and firearms. Joker can be the first of a sequence of DC villain recruits that gamers will have the ability to unlock as a part of post-launch seasonal content material. Rocksteady stated it intends to construct a library of playable DC characters over time, every with their distinctive transfer units for fight and traversal.
Along with new characters, post-launch content material additionally guarantees to convey new environments, challenges, missions, gear and extra, all at no further price to gamers who’ve bought the foremost sport. Rocksteady additionally confirmed that post-launch playable content material is not going to be locked behind a Battle Pass system and can be straight delivered into the sport with the launch of a new season. In addition to detailing their seasonal content material plans of their newest video, Rocksteady additionally offered particulars on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s multiplayer options like squad-based leaderboards and emotes. Additionally, the builders confirmed off an outfit customisation system for the squad members.
While Suicide Squad builders have promised a ton of free post-launch content material to maintain gamers engaged, the studio, which was earlier recognized for narrative-focussed single participant titles in the Arkham sequence, and publishers Warner Bros. have attracted criticism over the stay service course of their upcoming DC sport. The gameplay reveal for the title again in February 2023 was met with fan backlash over its looter shooter leanings.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League places gamers in the sneakers of 4 DC supervillains — Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark, permitting gamers to play solo or as much as four-player co-op and tackle brainwashed and rogue members of the Justice League. The sport releases February 2 throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.
