For the Allfather! — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Will Soon Sell $5 Voice Packs — and There's No Heretical AI Here

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is getting the archetypal of a fig of planned dependable packs astatine the extremity of February, each sold for $4.99.

The archetypal dependable pack, which is not included successful the Season Pass and frankincense has upset immoderate players who judge it should beryllium portion of the premium DLC package, drops alongside Patch 12 (the 1 that adds the long-awaited Techmarine class), and includes implicit 450 dependable lines per Chapter, dubbed successful the 7 audio languages Saber Interactive’s explosive third-persion enactment crippled already supports.

This means you get unsocial lines based connected the Chapter, and your Space Marine volition outcry these caller lines. New lines are besides successful the Social Wheel emote. In a assemblage update, steadfast Focus Entertainment utilized the illustration of a Space Wolf (the Space Wolves are among the astir fashionable chapters successful each 40k), who volition outcry “For the Allfather” alternatively of the accustomed “For the Emperor."

Focus made a constituent of confirming that nary of this dependable enactment is the effect of generative AI. “And for those who whitethorn beryllium wondering: we’re blessed to corroborate that each and each 1 of this Voice Pack’s 1,300+ full dependable lines were performed by a existent dependable actor, arsenic our committedness to prime remains absolute,” Focus said.

The dependable actors successful English are:

• Thomas Mitchells (Blood Angels)
• Andrew James Spooner (Space Wolves)
• Kris W. Laudrum (Black Templars)

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is getting a $5 dependable pack. Image credit: Focus Entertainment.

As you tin astir apt archer from the representation above, the archetypal dependable battalion comes with a acceptable of 3 caller heads for PvE. All 3 heads (Space Wolf, Blood Angel, Black Templars) are portion of the aforesaid Voice Pack, and are not sold separately.

You can, however, equip 1 Chapter’s caput with different Chapter’s voice. Voices and heads aren’t tied together. The voices aren’t class-restricted, either. And finally, a 2nd dependable battalion is already successful the works. Focus volition accidental much aboriginal this year.

Earlier this month, Warhammer shaper Games Workshop banned the usage of AI successful its contented accumulation and plan process, insisting that nary of its elder managers were presently excited astir the technology. So possibly it comes arsenic nary astonishment to spot the ‘no AI voices’ connection made wide successful this post.

As an aside, successful the satellite of Warhammer 40,000, AI does not basal for Artificial Intelligence. Rather, it stands for Abominable Intelligence. And, arsenic Games Workshop has banned AI wrong the confines of its Nottingham headquarters, humanity has banned AI wrong the Imperium of Man. That’s due to the fact that during the ‘Dark Age of Technology,’ AI rebelled against humanity successful a bloody warfare that astir resulted successful our extinction. Eventually, humanity won out, and, sufficiently traumatized, forbid the usage of AI astatine all. That is, you can’t person ‘thinking machines’ successful the Imperium, which is successful portion wherefore the aboriginal tech is each a spot backwards for the 41st millennium.

The usage of generative AI successful crippled improvement is 1 of the hottest topics successful the industry, and it has sparked a fig of controversies. Following the uncover of Divinity astatine the 2025 The Game Awards, Swen Vincke, brag of developer Larian, met with a backlash aft helium said the workplace was utilizing genAI successful assorted capacities. Larian ended up having to code AI concerns successful a reddit AMA successful which the workplace confirmed a U-turn connected immoderate aspects of its use. And this week, RuneScape shaper Jagex insisted it would ne'er usage generative AI to marque contented players really spot in-game, successful 1 of the hardest stances connected AI yet seen from a video crippled developer.

However, immoderate video crippled companies person gone all-in connected the tech. The CEO of Genvid — the institution down choose-your-own-adventure interactive bid Silent Hill Ascension — has claimed "consumers mostly bash not care" astir generative AI, and stated that: "Gen Z loves AI slop." EA CEO Andrew Wilson, meanwhile, has said AI is "the precise halfway of our business," and Square Enix precocious implemented wide layoffs and reorganized, saying it needed to beryllium "aggressive successful applying AI." Dead Space creator Glen Schofield besides precocious elaborate his plans to “fix” the manufacture successful portion via the usage of generative AI successful crippled development, and erstwhile God of War dev Meghan Morgan Juinio said: "... if we don’t clasp [AI], I deliberation we’re selling ourselves short.”

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