Upcoming Suicide Squad game also requires internet connection for single player

Rocksteady’s upcoming third-person action game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League requires a constant internet connection during gameplay, including single-player. Why that is, publisher Warner Bros. Games unknown.

That writes the publisher on the game’s website. “An internet connection is required to play Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League solo and in online co-op.” An earlier game from the same publisher, Back 4 Blood, faced the same situation. That game eventually got an offline solo mode thanks to an update, about two months after release.

The requirement of an internet connection where this is not strictly necessary is something that many people find distasteful. Such conditions are not actually necessary for the game to function; things like calculations for AI and physics are almost never done in the cloud in practice, so the Ethernet cable can most likely just be pulled out during solo gameplay.

While it wouldn’t hurt for many to leave the Ethernet cable alone, critics fear that the game’s servers will go offline in the future because the costs no longer outweigh the benefits. Without an update to the game, it is no longer playable.

On Thursday, Sony presented its first State of Play presentation from this year. It shows several upcoming games. Suicide Squad was also on hand, featuring 6 minutes of co-op gameplay footage. The game will be released on May 26 this year for Windows and the current generation Xbox and PlayStation. Developer Rocksteady is known for the Batman: Arkham games.