Batman: Arkham Origins - Online Supply Drop 2 (DLC)

I'll be straight with you: this is one of the smallest DLC drops in the Arkham catalogue, and you should know exactly what you're buying before the purchase screen closes. Online Supply Drop 2 adds four clothing items split between the Bane and Joker gang factions, each carrying passive gameplay enhancements for their respective team, plus a Light Machine Gun with its own weapon progression track and additional skins. That's the full inventory. No new maps, no story content, no challenge rooms. The multiplayer mode this DLC feeds into is a genuinely interesting footnote in the Arkham series. Two teams of three thugs, one loyal to Joker and one to Bane, battle each other and territory across Gotham while two human players drop in as Batman and Robin to stalk and dismantle both sides. The asymmetry works on paper: playing as the caped crusader, using stealth to hunt armed gangs, feels tense and creative. Playing as a thug, however, is a different story. The third-person shooter side of the mode never matched the polish of the main game's brawler combat, and early server issues hammered matchmaking hard at launch. The community consensus is that the mode was underappreciated rather than excellent, a side experiment that didn't get the player base it needed to sustain itself. That context matters a lot here. Supply Drop 2 is gear for a multiplayer mode with a thin active population, on a game that released over a decade ago. The clothing enhancements might have shifted team balance when lobbies were full. In practice today, the value proposition collapses unless you're specifically chasing completion or playing in an organised group that's deliberately keeping the mode alive. Steam's community threads are pretty unambiguous: the story DLC (Cold Cold Heart) and the challenge-map packs (Initiation, Black Mask Challenge Pack) are the Arkham Origins add-ons worth your attention. The supply drops sit firmly in the completionist tier. If you own the Season Pass, you already have this included and should treat it as a bonus wardrobe. If you're looking at it as a standalone purchase, the honest answer is that the content volume does not justify independent buying for most players. The base game itself still holds up well enough at a 74 on Metacritic and with a very positive Steam rating built across tens of thousands of reviews, so the foundation is solid. This DLC just doesn't add enough on top of it to move the needle.

Alex · Scout Team

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