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Space Marine 2 settled on 3-player co-op because having 4 lore-accurate 40K marines made it too much of 'a massacre'

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/space-marine-2-settled-on-3-player-co-op-because-having-4-lore-accurate-40k-marines-made-it-a-massacre/

Three is a magic number.

Space Marine 2 settled on 3-player co-op because having 4 lore-accurate 40K marines made it too much of 'a massacre'

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NeryK

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Yeah, that's PR-speak for "our game design and/or performance does not scale well to more than 3 players".

In the middle of their marketing blitz they try and cover all their bases I guess.

callouscomic

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Then I guess all other games like MMOs with 4 player dungeons aren't designed around 4 players?

The original Space Marine story was largely focused on 3 Marines. It's kind of how the series is. They likely wrote the story around that, and adding another would give yiu too much advantage. It's entirely possible their vision for the story and difficulty required a balance that works well with 3.