Rocksteady Studios’ first major game in almost a decade is off to a rocky start. Players who had early access to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League started the game on Monday and got a big surprise: when they logged in for the first time, they had completed the entire story.
That massive bug, which could potentially unlock certain game features and open the floodgate of story spoilers, forced Rocksteady to quickly take the game offline to perform maintenance. On Rocksteady’s X account for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the developer said it is “aware that a number of players are currently affected” by this issue. As it is working on the bug, the game will be unavailable.
“We expect this to take several hours and will be updated as soon as we have more information,” the developer said. “We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is an always-online game, meaning even the single-player portion of the game is unplayable.
We are aware that some players are currently experiencing an issue where when they log into the game for the first time, they are unable to complete the entire story.
To resolve this problem, we are performing maintenance on the game servers.
During this time the game will…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will officially launch on February 2, but customers who pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition of the game on PlayStation 5, Windows PC or Xbox Series X will get up to 72 hours of early access to the game.
That early access period now appears to have caused Rocksteady additional grief, as word is also circulating that publisher Warner Bros. Games did not provide a pre-release review code to the media. Publications such as IGN published stories over the weekend, noting that the publisher has opted not to send review code until the game’s servers go live — or not at all, in the case of IGN, which was running a negatively oriented preview of the game before launch. Polygon also did not receive a review code Suicide squad‘s launch.
Rocksteady’s journey to bring Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Coming to life was a challenge, beset by delays, major story leaks, backlash to the game’s live-service multiplayer focus, and the unwanted revival of certain characters from the Batman Arkham games.