Nearly nine years after Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady is about to release Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. With only a couple of weeks left before the February 2 launch date, the London-based developer is pulling all the stops when it comes to sharing more information about the third-person action/shooter game.
Recently, the studio claimed the Batman: Arkham trilogy DNA is still there in the new game. They also lifted the Alpha NDA and shared the updated PC system requirements.
Rocksteady is also engaging directly with the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League community via the official Discord channel. After gathering a plethora of questions, a few key developers answered them in great detail. Game Director Axel Rydby provided one particularly meaty response on what players can expect from the endgame.
Our core philosophy for Endgame was, essentially, Mastery. Mastery of your character, traversal, Talents, enemy types, mission mechanics and, of course, your choice of build. And as the difficulty increases, you will have to find new builds to overcome the challenge. That’s why we have three distinct Tiers of Infamy Sets in Endgame, all themed around an iconic DC character. For launch, that character is Bane, and his Infamy Sets are all themed around different ways of dominating your enemies and harnessing the chaos around you.
We have a somewhat chaotic game in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, with a constantly changing battlefield with lots of things going on. […] Because our game is chaotic and because we wanted our Endgame to lean into build construction as well as Mastery of mechanics, we’ve made our Endgame revolve around a core backbone of mission types that provide a more predictable experience and challenge. But that doesn’t mean that Brainiac is just going to sit back and let you go head to head with his forces without throwing a spanner in the works, or that you know what’s going to happen in each mission. Brainiac keeps evolving his forces throughout Endgame and you’ll have to adapt your builds to match this.
There will be several types of Endgame missions in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, from the snappier Incursion Missions, where the poor Squad is sent into Brainiac’s domain under the protection of a very fickle Promethium Shield that protects you from the Skull Ship’s tentacles as well as the full force of Brainiac’s army. The Squad have to fight their way through Brainiac’s forces – often with the help of the Support Squad – to make it back to Metropolis. But once the mission is completed, the Promethium Shield goes down, so the Squad has to leg it.
Then we have the more grand Killing Time missions where the Squad is battling an increasingly frantic horde of Brainiac’s enemies, and they have to keep killing enemies to fuel the Promethium Shield because once it goes down, there’s no hiding from the Skull Ship’s tentacles.
As the difficulty levels go up, so do the rewards, and we have some quite frankly insane Infamy Sets and Notorious items earned from the highest tiers of Endgame. That, paired with Global leaderboards for Solo, 2-player, 3-player and 4-player groups, mean that there’s plenty of friendly competition to go around.
The very last message in the Q&A channel also teased ‘something that might come out later’ as part of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s endgame: the image you can see at the top of the article. Considering that it shows Joker’s The Daily Chuckle, fans are wondering if the Joker might make an appearance in the future. Of course, he technically died in Batman: Arkham City, but it’s possible this would be another version of the character; after all, the DC Universe is very well acquainted with the concept of the multiverse.
In the aforementioned Q&A, Rocksteady also revealed an interesting feature called Social Squad. When playing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League solo, users will be able to replace their own squadmates with those of another player, kind of like Dragon’s Dogma’s pawns. These NPCs will retain the gear, cosmetics, and talents set by that player, and they can be grabbed not only from the user’s friends but from the global leaderboards, too. You could get the characters used by a top player or a famous streamer.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League promised robust live service support with free new characters, new missions, modes, and much more.
