Space Marine 2 is the most painfully mediocre game I've played in a long time. And 3 months after release, this opinion has only become more and more solidified.
I'm also 100% certain the "community", at least on their focus forums and reddit for sure, are astroturfed to fucking hell. It's the only way I can explain the level of assmad I see on display when people critique the game in anyway. Even something as simple as "the game really isn't GOTY worthy" has been met with a level of defense that only makes sense if it's coming from a dev using a sock puppet.
I mean fuck, the game went from 225k players on release to ~80k within the first week. That's a 60% drop within the first week where hype and word of mouth is what makes or breaks the long-term success of your game. And that's just on steam. If I look at playstation trophies it tells me a sad story. Let's look at 3 simple things that 75% of the playstion base hasn't even done yet
1. Customize a full armor set(this means swapping out your head, arms, legs, chest, and backpack). This can be done within an hour or two of operstions.
2. Max out a gun/melee weapon/class. All of these are separate achievements. Any one these things can be done in just a few hours of cumulative playtime. Even faster if you're picking up the XP boost.
3. Complete an operation on ruthless. The original hardest, now 2nd, difficulty. This is a cakewalk. Especially if you have a team.
These 3 things are so painfully easy to do, that it's genuinely shocking that 75% of playstation players haven't done them. And I sincerely doubt the numbers are much better on xbox.
So you've got a game that lost 60% of it's players in THE FIRST WEEK on steam, and 75% of its console players haven't even done the simplest thing of changing their armor. Either everyone is sticking to pvp(the numbers say otherwise on this as well since it would still count towards the class and weapon progressions) or the vast majority of people who played the game only did the campaign and never looked back. I'm leaning towards the latter.