'Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League' Out to Pasture After Season 4 Update With New Character, Offline Mode

[Cpt.Jank]

It looks like the much maligned Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will officially join the likes of Foamstars in not-quite-abandonware purgatory after the upcoming Season 4 content update. The new update, titled "Season 4, Episode 7: Control" will be the game's penultimate episode, releasing on December 10. Episode 7 will add a long-promised offline mode to the game, as well as a new character, Deathstroke. In the same blog post announcing the arrival of the infamous DC villain, Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros also announced that Season 4 will officially be the game's final season, with Episode 8: Balance, scheduled for 14 January 2025 being the final episode in the game's live service lifetime. As of the release of Episode 8, Rocksteady will no longer provide any more content updates to the game, although the silver lining is that online co-op will still be available. Co-op will notably not be available in the offline mode, suggesting that when the game's servers are inevitably shut down, there will be no co-op gameplay available.

Rocksteady and Warner Bros. will continue to sell Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, seemingly at full retail price, and all past seasons' content will become available, even in offline mode after the end of Season 4. This is a similar approach taken by Square Enix with Foamstars, when the developer announced last week that it would also stop supporting the PS5 game, despite leaving the online play servers and in-game items shop available after halting further development and support of the game.



Suicide Squad launched early in 2024 to an almost universal sigh of disappointment, having reached a middling 60% on Metacritic, so it's unlikely that too many gamers will be saddened to hear the news that Rocksteady is effectively abandoning the game. Regardless of the lackluster launch, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League still amassed a sizeable player base, peaking at over 13,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB.

Read the full update notes about the changes coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League here.

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[Why_Me]

Hopefully they lost a grip of money on this game as they deserve it.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

For all the games faults. At least WB was nice enough to give the players an offline mode for the people who DO enjoy the game and want to keep playing regardless of how unsuccessful the game was. WB deserve some kudos for doing that

 

[arbiter]

adding an offline mode already kinda bad sign for servers IMO. Might be sign they won't be kept up for to much longer.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Gotham Knights felt like a poor man's Batman, had connectivity issues and performance issues well after it was launched. My brother and I had to resort to player fixes to get the game to work so we could play co-op. I'm not surprised that Suicide Squad game is kind of bleh and never caught on.

 

[AsRock]

For all the games faults. At least WB was nice enough to give the players an offline mode for the people who DO enjoy the game and want to keep playing regardless of how unsuccessful the game was. WB deserve some kudos for doing that

Cheaper than giving them their money back.

 

[TechLurker]

Good; this game deserves to be laid to rest and made a lesson on how to not make a game.

It would be funny though if Marvel Rivals bought in the Thunderbolts and have them be far more popular there not long after SSquad:KtJL was fully shut down.

 

[the54thvoid]

For the Gen X and Boomers among us, we all associate DC with Batman and Superman. Those IP's (on their own) work. Almost everything else is derivative (from a gaming perspective.) Suicide Squad was always niche and sort of pointless. There were some great comics from DC, but they were just meant to be comics. Games need more than that (for reach), or they need a heavyweight tag, i.e., Batman.

 

[Scattergrunt]

For the Gen X and Boomers among us, we all associate DC with Batman and Superman. Those IP's (on their own) work. Almost everything else is derivative (from a gaming perspective.) Suicide Squad was always niche and sort of pointless. There were some great comics from DC, but they were just meant to be comics. Games need more than that (for reach), or they need a heavyweight tag, i.e., Batman.

I doubt we'll ever get games as beloved and amazing as the Arkham games for other DC heroes or IP's in general. You are right though, not everything should be a game. Speaking of that, I bet you SS:KTJL would of been an actually decent comic if it was a comic instead of a game. The game did have some geuinenly good moments atleast in terms of story but those were very few in my opinion.

 

[tpa-pr]

For all the games faults. At least WB was nice enough to give the players an offline mode for the people who DO enjoy the game and want to keep playing regardless of how unsuccessful the game was. WB deserve some kudos for doing that

Not to poo-poo on that too much, but they actually promised an offline mode early into development. I think it was always intended.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Not to poo-poo on that too much, but they actually promised an offline mode early into development. I think it was always intended.

Sometimes devs/publishers can promise a lot of things... And deliver none.

But my point being at least they didnt pull a Ubi, EA or Sony and completely delete the game from sale and peoples accounts because they were shutting down the game..

 

[Vayra86]

Sometimes devs/publishers can promise a lot of things... And deliver none.

But my point being at least they didnt pull a Ubi, EA or Sony and completely delete the game from sale and peoples accounts because they were shutting down the game..

Well there is the minor legal tidbit that if it was promised at launch and is not delivered with product still on shelves is that you're a liar and your class action lawsuit is warming up already.

Its not entirely like WB is known for its fantastic customer service and non-predatory achievements in gaming...

For the Gen X and Boomers among us, we all associate DC with Batman and Superman. Those IP's (on their own) work. Almost everything else is derivative (from a gaming perspective.) Suicide Squad was always niche and sort of pointless. There were some great comics from DC, but they were just meant to be comics. Games need more than that (for reach), or they need a heavyweight tag, i.e., Batman.

Agreed. A game needs mechanics and you never see those in the cartoons.

I watched the Super Mario movie the other day. It illustrates that nicely. The only thing that's really good about it, is all the links it has to the games, and how they are implemented in the movie. That's genuinely fun to see. But if you'd turn it around and Super Mario was always a series and now turned game... that'd be a weird as hell series to watch.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well there is the minor legal tidbit that if it was promised at launch and is not delivered with product still on shelves is that you're a liar and your class action lawsuit is warming up already.

Unfortunately as good as this sounds. it rarely happens. Thats why Gaben recently announced a season pass refund option on steam. If a developer promises something and doesnt deliver. Players who have paid for season pass can have it refunded.

class action lawsuits against developers who dont keep their promises is pretty rare.

 

[Vayra86]

True but like you say, a lot of publishers are looking actively at ways to soften the blow. Its a fine line between the last shred of goodwill that keeps people away from the courts, and going to court, I think.

We might be seeing a lot more of them in the future, if you look at the trajectory lots of publishers are on now with monetization and overselling.