Beefy Space Marine 2 update reworks the AI, spawning and overall difficulty and adds a friendly sparring arena | Gaming

In the grim darkness of the far future you will no longer get quite so violently annoyed with your Spiced Margerine battle-bros Chairon and Gadriel, because they will actually finish off flickering, near-dead Tyranids rather than waiting for you to clean up. Sometimes when I’m playing Space Marine 2‘s campaign, I feel like I’m trying to direct untrained child actors from the orchestra pit. No, don’t look at me, Gadriel – look at the Tyranid. He can only act concussed for so long. Hit him with your chainsword now, there’s a dear.

I get that the thinking behind Gadriel and Charion’s reluctance to carry out the finishing blow is that they’re saving the associated armour restoration for you, the player, but still, it don’t suspend ma disbelief, so I’m happy that…