The Omnissiah has granted us access to some primary weapon buffs, addressed some bugs (pun definitely intended) and connection issues and allowed us use of a new secondary pistol The Neo-Volkite pistol in the forms of patch 4.5

The Neo-Volkite Pistol is available for the Assault, Vanguard and Bulwark classes. The Pistol is a little different from other weapons in Space Marine 2 as it’s a beam weapon. Its got 100 rounds in the magazine and 500 reserves. The longer you hold the beam on an enemy it ramps up the damage leading to a devastating explosion. I have used it against most enemies in the game and it just carves through most of them. The Marines will give you a little trouble on higher difficulties. Be warned this weapon rips through ammo like a plasma sword through flesh.

As a side note the Neo-Volkite is only available in Operations mode while balancing issues are worked out for PVP. It will be added to The Eternal War in the next major update alongside a new Operation.

Balancing Tweaks

Keeping in mind these changes are only for Operations (PVE)

Plasma Incinerator

Slightly reduced amount of heat generated by normal and charged shots for versions: 

• Master-Crafted – Alpha 
• Salvation of Bakka – Alpha 
• Gathalamor Crusade – Alpha

Fixed a bug that would cause several versions not producing heat at all.

Bolt Sniper Rifle

• Fire rate increased from 50 to 60 rounds per minute. 
• Headshot bonus increased from x2 to x2.5.

Occulus Bolt Carbine

• Scope added 
• Headshot bonus increased from x1 to x1.33 

Bolt Carbine (SMG)

• Adjusted damage falloff curve: Base damage increased by 50% for the first 10 meters, after that, the damage drops to the original pre-patch value. 

Auto Bolt Rifle

• Max ammo increased by 1 magazine for each version. 

GENERAL FIXES

 – Fixed a bug causing unlocked DLC cosmetic items to get locked again after a restart.

 – Fixed a bug causing the Sniper perk “Targeted Shot” to not work after swapping weapons. 

 – Fixed a bug causing the Sniper invisibility not getting removed after a shot in rare cases. 

 – Fixed a bug preventing players from muting the others in PvP. 

 – Fixed several perks not triggering correctly from enemy kills. 

 – Fixed a bug that prevented certain weapon perks from triggering correctly when reaching a specific HP threshold.

TECH IMPROVEMENTS

 – Crash fixes and general stability improvements. 

 – Fixed server disconnects with unstable user connection. 

 – General connectivity improvements.