Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support explained

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support has been confirmed by the developers, but not in the way you'd expect. Given the nature of the game and the fact that it has both PvE (Operations/Campaigns) and PvP (Eternal War). certain limitations and/or restrictions will be implemented. This is due to issues that have been cropping up of late. This is what the developers had to say:

"Our data shows that a non-negligible amount of recent server stability issues are related to mods, and that instability impacts even those users who don’t have mods installed. We have also received user reports that their save files were corrupted after playing alongside players with mods."

Due to the aforementioned reasons, mods will be prohibited from public online sessions (also to avoid corrupting the Machine Spirit of the servers). Thus, after carefully considering knowledge obtained from The Omnissiah, following the next update (due in December 2024), mods will no longer work in public sessions.

However, since mods are fun and creative, they will be usable in Private Operations lobbies. However, as stated by the developers, your session might get trained by Forces of Chaos and Heresy. Proceed at your own risk. While this all may seem rather disappointing there is some good news at hand.

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Focus Entertainment to release tools for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support is going to spruce up PvP (Image via Focus Entertainment)

Although the Grimdark of the 41st Millennium constitutes mostly war, modding tools will be added as well. It is unclear if Roboute Guilliman himself took the call regarding Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support, but what is clear is that modders will have an easier time creating things to add to the game.

Of course, as mentioned, this will be limited to private/custom lobbies, but the option will be open to all. This is what the developers had to say:

"We will also be providing an easy entry point to our backend for games with mods installed, so modders won’t have to spend time hacking the game executable after each patch. If we somehow break this pipeline for mods by accident in the future, we’ll fix it. In addition to that, we will be releasing some of our tools to modders so they can develop mods with greater ease."

In addition to tools for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support, once custom Eternal War lobbies come into the picture, mods will be usable there as well. PvP matches are going to become very weird soon, but such is the way in the 40k universe.

It will also be interesting to see what modders come up with once tools have been made available to all. Developers will provide the latest news regarding Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 official mod support either before or during the next major update.

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