Space Marine 2’s main campaign can be polished off in a few hours, but Saber Interactive has continued to update the game with new operations and multiplayer features. On Thursday, Saber announced the third major content update for the game. Dubbed Datavault, the patch adds a new chamber to the battle barge, lots of new cosmetics, a new PvP map, and the terrifying Tyranid Biovore.
In Space Marine 2, the player can either serve as Commander Titus for the main story, or they can take part in ancillary Operations. These missions are not critical to the main campaign, but they take place around the story, explaining how certain military maneuvers were pulled off. While queueing for Operations or the game’s PvP mode, they can hang out on the Ultramarine battle barge. Now, the battle barge has the titular Datavault, a chamber where Tech-Priests catalogue data on the game’s enemies. Players can compete challenges to earn that data, which accumulates a research data currency that can be turned into sweet, sweet power armor pieces and weapon skins.
With the Datavault update, Operations can now include the monstrous Biovore. This Tyranid unit is a particularly cool model from the tabletop with crab-like legs and a massive organic cannon mounted on its chitinous back. PvP players can also enjoy a new map, which is themed like a Necron tomb.
The Datavault update also includes a new season pass, with Raven Guard and Salamander armor sets, a new Absolute difficulty mode, lots of quality-of-life improvements, and other balance tweaks. The full patch notes can be found on the Focus website.
