Kill the Justice League Game Pulled Offline Over Glitch
The early-release version of Warner Bros. Games‘ “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” had with a weird glitch that let players “have full story completion” after logging on for the first time — prompting the game’s developer to pull it offline as it sought to fix the issue.
“Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” is billed as a “genre-defying third-person action-shooter,” developed by Rocksteady Studios, creators of the best-selling “Batman: Arkham” series.
In a post on X Monday, Rocksteady wrote, “We’re aware that a number of players are currently experiencing an issue whereby upon logging into the game for the first time, they have full story completion. To resolve this issue, we will be performing maintenance on the game servers. During this time the game will be unavailable. We expect this to take several hours and will update once we have more information. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
In the game, you can play as Harley Quinn (a.k.a. Dr. Harleen Quinzel), Deadshot (a.k.a. Floyd Lawton), Captain Boomerang (a.k.a. Digger Harkness) and King Shark (a.k.a. Nanaue) and “embark on an impossible mission through Metropolis to save Earth and take down the world’s greatest DC Super Heroes, the Justice League,” per the title’s official description.
“Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League” is scheduled to be available worldwide on Feb. 2, 2024, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam). The Epic Games Store (PC) version be available on March 5, 2024. The game is priced at $69.99 for the standard edition and $99.99 for the deluxe edition.