‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ Pulled One Hour Into Early Access Launch After Game-Completing Bug Discovered

Harley Quinn (Tara Strong), King Shark (Samoa Joe), Deadshot (Bumper Robinson), and Captain Boomerang (Daniel Lapaine) stare downwards in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios

Harley Quinn (Tara Strong), King Shark (Samoa Joe), Deadshot (Bumper Robinson), and Captain Boomerang (Daniel Lapaine) stare downwards in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios

Rocksteady Studios closed servers for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, due to a bug that gave a completed save-file.

Rocksteady Studios showcase the differences between the standard and Deluxe Editions of Squad: Kill The Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios

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The $99.99 Deluxe Edition of the game features additional costumes, weapons, a Battle Pass token, and more. Those who pre-ordered the special edition would also receive 72-hour early access ahead of the February 2nd launch. However, as this early access period began in some territories, issues arose immediately.

Confirming the issue on X, Rocksteady Studios announced, “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.”

Harley Quinn (Tara Strong) begins to lose confidence in the team’s chances at stopping Braniac’s takeover in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios

“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,” Rocksteady concluded.

VGC and IGN report the servers were pulled within an hour of the game’s launch. At this time of writing, the front page of the game’s subReddit features at least ten different threads of users frustrated (and in some cases surprised) the game was offline.

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Back in March of last year, the game met with heavy back-lash after revealing it required an always-online connection, even for solo play. Combined with confirmation of the game having a Battle Pass while still being $69.99, then-recent trailers saw an almost 3:1 dislike/like ratio.

While the bug is an obvious issue, being able to play offline would have enabled some players to enjoy it. A completed save-file may tempt some to jump to the end, but otherwise shouldn’t impede someone who wants to play from the start.

Hack (TBA) serves as the player’s gear vendor in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Games

This is the latest in a long-line of issues Rocksteady Studios have suffered developing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. For example, the game had three delays — originally aiming to launch in 2022, then delayed to Spring 2023, a May 26th release date, then delayed to February 2nd, 2024.

That last delay came a month after the aforementioned always online DRM and live-service elements announcements.

Rocksteady Studios also attempted to placate a whistleblower and scriptwriter who walked away from the project over the alleged sexual harassment of 16 women.

Batman (Kevin Conroy) has a surprise for the titular team in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios

Finally, when the entire plot for the game leaked, many felt Kevin Conroy’s final performance as Batman ended on a sour note.

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