A seemingly innocuous change made to Space Marine 2 as part of this week’s big Patch 3.0 has got Warhammer 40,000 lore fans excited about potentially huge implications for the game’s story and the wider setting itself.

Christopher Dring has revealed in a post on X that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 sales are going from strength to strength, with the game already ranking as Europe’s second biggest new title of the year after just two weeks on the market.

Saber Interactive’s third-person action shooter launched to record-breaking success last month, but it lacked a number of crucial features, including ultrawide support on PC and private PvE lobbies in Operations Mode.

Space Marine 2 Patch Finally Adds The One Feature Everybody Was Waiting For, along with many other quality of life changes

Space Marine 2’s new patch lets battle brothers spar like the Emperor intended

A week after Saber Interactive promised a whole bunch of player-requested features and fixes for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, the first of these are now here - with the sci-fi shooter's latest patch introducing "more helpful and effective" bots,

Space Marine 2 has been updated to version 1.0.0.1 and the Space Marine 2 patch notes detail the changes and new content available in the game right now after the brief maintenance period