{"id":1215532,"date":"2026-02-22T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yw9HdQYMp53GUTmpNakKF8"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:14:52","slug":"the-journey-was-long-two-years-later-than-planned-boomer-shooter-project-warlock-2-blasts-out-of-early-access-with-a-50-discount-and-a-request-to-submit-your-own-loading-screen-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-journey-was-long-two-years-later-than-planned-boomer-shooter-project-warlock-2-blasts-out-of-early-access-with-a-50-discount-and-a-request-to-submit-your-own-loading-screen-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The journey was long’: two years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Project Warlock was a thoroughly entertaining FPS throwback<\/a> which caught the bloody wave of the boomer shooter revival right at its height in 2018. As such, I was excited by the prospect of a sequel, and one was duly revealed at the PC Gaming Show in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, years passed. My eyesight deteriorated, flecks of grey appeared in my beard, and my short-term memory was obliterated by a delightful bout of Covid. As such, I completely forgot about Project Warlock 2 until this very week, when the game sprung unexpectedly out of early access.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the last four years have been a bit of a trial for developer Buckshot Software, which concedes to biting off a little more than it could chew with the sequel (or at least, chew efficiently<\/em>). “Project Warlock II continues a story of the first game, but was always meant to be more than just a remix of the old locales, weapons and enemies within a given template,” writes Buckshot in its Steam post announcing the launch<\/a>. “It was ambitious, it was bigger, longer, meatier and offered not one, but three protagonists.”<\/p>\n

Apparently, this ambition led to the game taking significantly longer than anticipated. “In hindsight, perhaps that second step sequel-wise should have been a smaller one, as this resulted in the game being pushed from the originally conceived date of 2023 to 2025,” Buckshot continues. “But I feel this is the best version of Project Warlock 2 both the team [at] Buckshot and I could come up with.”<\/p>\n

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