Deathstroke Completes Suicide Squad's PS5 Content Roadmap

Ironic that a character named "Deathstroke" is the final DLC for this game.

Good - Now to see if Rocksteady and WB do the honourable thing and let it die with what little dignity it has left 🙄🙂

There's still around 1000 people playing it on Steam, but then again it was only $5 a week ago.

But has Rocksteady learned their lesson or will WB get their way and push more garbage live service. I know everyone wants another Batman which I am all for but there are other paths. We can only hope they will realize that good story driven single player are what made them famous.

@Perturbator This is exactly the reason. If you like the characters it's tough to pass it up for 5 bucks even when it's a kind of boring trainwreck. I almost picked it up for $13 on PS5 but just couldn't pull the trigger.

Should have opened with Deathstroke. Might have gotten 10's of more players.

I mean for being such a disaster it still holds 2x the player count of Concord on launch day 🤣

Well compared to Concord this could be called a success

So - silly question - if you so desired to purchase Suicide Squad today... how much of it (and the DLC) is dependent on the servers? This is sort of a hypothetical... I was looking at some of the prices around at the moment, and was thnking this might be an Anthem moment (I saw that go for AUD4 for a phyical version)...

Perhaps hypothetical isn't the right word - I am half seriously thinking of buying it. I think it's part of gaming history - good or bad - and I'd like to understand, would it be viable to play if they turned the servers off? I assume it operates primarily as a single-player gamer... but with server-based co-op?

Got the £4.99 special just for the ridiculousness of it,might give it a look when they announce the servers are being shut down

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare The game is online only. They did talk about adding an offline mode but i don't think they ever did and unless its added with Deathstroke i doubt they ever will now.

@DennisReynolds thanks for that - kinda makes it less appealing (even as a gaming history note).

I know a lot of people rushed out to buy Concord physical media... but to me the baseline as a collector should be the game is always playable in some form. An always online game is just a piece of plastic (physically) unless it can be played offline too.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare

I was going to ask the same. So once they shut it down the game is dead? Surely you can't sell a game cheap now but it becomes useless when the season ends?

I'm debating paying £5 for it but don't know how it works. Can I still get the characters that have been added to the game since launch and what happens when the next season ends. It may be super cheap but surely they can't sell something they know will no longer work in a very short space of time??

@ANJB78 for all it's faults - at least Redfall eventually put an off-line only mode in. That should be the least that developers can do (and should do as a fall-back in online game-dev). It does take a bit of effort - and I'm sure is much harder to do in retrospect.

Anyway - I don't know that Suicide Squad will be 'turned off' soon... but it will be only a matter of time.

Both SS players are losing it

@ironcrow86
Dignity? Doubtful.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I hope they do. I think I'll probably take the punt for the sake of a fiver and it being the deluxe edition too. I'd like to think it would have a long life one way or the other but at that price it's probably not much to lose.

It'll be one of the epic stores giveaways any week now... And then I'll probably still ignore it.

I normally try to be Mr. Positivity but this one should've been left to (w)ither on the vine.

@Mintie you know Suicide Squad was already given away for free from Epic Games; I had completely forgotten! And, not surprisingly, I hadn't even installed it. Haha.... you just saved me some pocket-money

PS - I think you meant "wither"...

This game works well in single player mode? I want to play it, but not online.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I did.. teach me to type responses on the phone whilst still cocooned in bed!

I missed it then when it was free on Epic, it'll probably come round again (and I'll probably ignore it again)

@Deadhunter I did. It's actually not terrible, IMO. It's a little repetitive, but the combat and traversal is fun, it looks good, performance is smooth, and the writing and cut scenes are great.

It feels a lot like Marvel's Avengers to me, but far less clunky. Same as that game, I can already tell I'll probably really enjoy the story then will pass on the endgame stuff, save for maybe just trying it out.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare also have to wonder what happens if they don’t add the promised offline mode, which was a major draw pre launch. Valve updated their refund policies so they’d have to refund it, but I can’t imagine it’s retroactive. Either way, I’m sure the drama isn’t over yet. WB loves to surprises us with bad decisions.

@gonzilla it’s not a terrible game, gameplay itself is super fun and flashy. Like a beat em up with loot. But the thing that killed it so early was server issues, which they never really acknowledged until it got so bad no one played. Too little too late.

I'm expecting the game to go on the PlayStation sub in the coming months before being shut down a bit later. I wouldn't buy it even for $5.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Good news they confirmed an offline mode with the update.

They can make superman playable and it still wouldn't save it

I played and finished the game in co-op and while I enjoyed it, it definitely got very repetitive towards the end. The best part of the game is very early on when you’re walking through a museum or something. The lights are off and your team is getting picked off one by one by Batman. For a moment it didn’t feel like a live service game.