First of all, we wanted to wish you all a wonderful holiday season. Our teams are taking a well-deserved break during the winter holidays. 😉

First, we want to address the connectivity issues some of you have been experiencing since the 11.0 update. We are actively working on it, and we apologize for not addressing these issues earlier, as we were collecting more information to confirm it was not isolated cases. You may find the Patch notes for Hotfix 11.1[community.focus-entmt.com] and 11.2[community.focus-entmt.com] here.

We wanted to kindly and sincerely thank you for 2025. 💙

Throughout the whole year, you’ve been showing immense support towards Space Marine 2 and the dev team. This year has seen the closing of the first year of live ops content, as well as the beginning of the second year, and we cannot wait to show you what’s in store for 2026. 😊

The next Space Marines Chapters to receive cosmetic DLCs are the Raven Guard and the Carcharodons in Patch 12. Tell us, which one are you most excited to see?

Patch 12 will come with a new class: The Techmarine with the Omnissiah Axe, a new Operation, new Battlefield Conditions for Stratagems, new Heroic Weapons, technical improvements, as usual, and more! 🤫 The Battlebarge Expansion will unfortunately have to be delayed to a later Patch. We prefer releasing a version we're satisfied with rather than just follow a schedule at all costs.

Alongside patch 12 comes new DLC content: a pack of heads & voices based on the Blood Angels, Black Templars and Space Wolves chapters. It will include over 450 voicelines – localized in all existing languages – per Chapter, including unique lines based on the Chapter (for example, the Space Wolf will shout “For the Allfather” instead of the usual “For the Emperor”) and your Space Marine will shout these new lines.

Here’s how they look:

Please note that this DLC is not included in the Season Pass 2

Since it’s the end of the year and you all deserve a gift, you shall be given a little hint on the upcoming Operation, “Disruption”:

• It takes place on Avarax.

• Your squad will deploy to purge Xenos presence and help besieged Cadians.

• An iconic character from the Campaign will come back 🤫

Stay tuned in January for more info regarding the 12.0 update!

Here are some more hints on what to expect in 2026, from Game Director Dmitry Grigorenko:

• With the announcement of chapter specific heads and voicelines you can strike out “Something we said we are going to do, but nobody noticed” from the list of upcoming customization additions we’ve mentioned in September. We’re really happy to deliver what you have been asking for months now. Nevertheless, the other 2 hints still remain: 🤫

• We’ve adjusted our plans and decided to throw in a bit more free stuff than what the Y2 roadmap originally listed.

• The progression update item listed in the roadmap is going to be a whole new feature, we will talk about it closer to its release. On top of that we are going to expand the Datavault’s current Ordeal system next year.

• We are working on a lot of QoL things and sandbox improvements. For example, a highly requested feature of perk loadouts is in the works. 

• Contested Health rebalance will happen alongside with Patch 13, but there are going to be a lot of minor QoL improvements before that to build a proper foundation first.

• Siege mode will get a big expansion of its sandbox gameplay and we have big plans for its second map.

For the end of the year, launch the Stratagems mode and complete 2 weekly or daily Stratagems in any difficulty to earn the Death or Glory left greave! 🔥

Please note that the Weekly Stratagems are now reset each Wednesday.

The event starts on December 17 and runs until December 31st!

Onward, Space Marines. 🫡

This month, we asked you in a poll[community.focus-entmt.com], which “big” Tyranid was the most terrifying in Space Marine 2. Among the suggested answers, you’ve picked the Biovore! 🕷️

Now, we’re curious: what exactly makes it so scary to you? 😁

If you want to participate in such polls, we publish them each week and sometimes it’s about Space Marine 2. Keep an eye out on our socials for it! Sometimes we even use the data to refine our games. By casting your vote, you’re doing your part. 😉

In October, we took some time to address some of the latest and most discussed ideas, while bringing answers from Game Director Dmitry Grigorenko. This month we’d like to do it again, but we also wanted to address THE idea that’s gotten the most votes!

You may want to read them here[community.focus-entmt.com] and here[community.focus-entmt.com] first.

💬 Hello there. First off: it's a great idea, and we thank you for it. Such constructed and well-put ideas help us greatly. We're taking notes of the shortcomings in the game's UI. In retrospect, this is how we should have built our customization system for Space Marine 2. 

But the reality is that we can't do it (for Space Marine 2 😉), not only is it an insane amount of work, you have to consider that we will need to migrate millions of existing save files to a completely new system without breaking anything and without making anyone unhappy with migration.

On top of that, we're devoting our resources to other priorities, such as producing maps, DLCs, weapons, enemies, etc.

• Dmitry Grigorenko, Game Director

Again, we wanted to express our gratitude for your unwavering support and your dedication! Collecting, reading and hearing your feedback on the game throughout all 2025 has been a great help to us.

Space Marine 2 wouldn’t be the game it is without you, and we’re far from being done! ⭐

Thank you, dear Space Marines,

The Saber & Focus teams