Though the Insomniac Games hack and the data gleaned from it overwhelmed online game information for your entire week, it was the second “leak” to hit this week. Shortly earlier than, massive plot spoilers for Rocksteady’s upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had been posted on-line and shortly circulated. But for so far as they’ve unfold in current days, it could be that a few of them straight up don’t even exist within the recreation correct.
Per Forbes, the alleged leaker who began the entire shebang got here ahead to say among the occasions they described could have been “mischaracterized” or wholly fabricated. What they gave was a “bastardized retelling” of the sport’s occasions from cutscenes they present in Suicide Squad’s recordsdata following its current closed alpha take a look at, and people cutscenes had been “incomplete or out of context.” In their Reddit put up (you possibly can learn here, however has some spoilers), they cited examples whereas including these occasions had been both vaguely implied, unconfirmed, or simply don’t occur. Further, they admitted these leaks are lacking occasions from the post-game story, together with “something major” that they declare “completely recontextualizes the entire story of the game.”
“I’m sorry for completely mischaracterizing the game’s story,” they wrote. “It wasn’t my intention…if you read the leak, please disregard everything about it. While some of it is true, enough is wrong that it’s just overall misinformation.”
Ironically, the alleged leaker’s put up got here a day after Rocksteady launched a rundown video on Suicide Squad, which confirmed at the least one of the spoilers was legit. Even if the opposite massive ones going round get debunked or that twist is as massive a game-changer is implied, the injury is completed. Most individuals who’ve heard of the leak are actually going to go in anticipating the more severe, unaware that the one who drew their ire within the first place principally disavowed what they’d performed.
For the previous 12 months, Suicide Squad has been combating an uphill battle when it comes to its public picture. Players had been already not enthused in regards to the recreation as a co-op dwell service title that requires an internet web connection at launch. It’s unknown what totally pushed issues over into energetic distaste for the sport—perhaps it’s the builders repeatedly confirming that that is set in the identical universe as their Arkham trilogy, is also that it’s one among two multiplayer video games that comprise the ultimate efficiency of the late Kevin Conroy. Either method, the sport’s detractors are swinging away at it with no correct cause, whereas Rocksteady’s catching flak for issues which might be missing key context or may not even occur to start with. Nobody’s actually received right here.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will launch February 2, 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
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