Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Ultramarines Cosmetic Pack

I'll be straight with you: I review games for their gunfeel, their netcode, whether the ranked ladder has actual teeth. A cosmetic DLC pack is not my natural habitat. But I've put enough hours into Space Marine 2's Operations and Eternal War modes to have an opinion on whether the Ultramarines Cosmetic Pack deserves space on your hard drive, so here goes. What you're buying is a collection of over 30 items built around 12 Ultramarines Successor Chapters - think Doom Eagles, Novamarines, Scythes of the Emperor, Praetors of Orpheus, Iron Hounds, and several others. The specific items break down into left and right pauldron heraldry, unique helmets, knee greave markings, and colour packs that apply Citadel-named shades (Zamesi Desert, Lothern Blue, Dark Reaper, Leadbelcher metal, and so on) to your armour sets. Once purchased, the content unlocks inside the Armouring Hall and you spend requisition points earned through PvE Operations or Eternal War PvP to actually apply the pieces. That is not made obvious at checkout, so know going in: buying this DLC gates the items behind the unlock system, it does not hand them to you fully assembled. The cosmetics themselves are class-agnostic on the helmet and pauldron side, which is the right call. Nothing kills the vibe faster than grinding to Bulwark Veteran only to find the cool-looking helm is locked to Tactical. The colour packs are also applied globally to your armour palette slots rather than being single-piece overrides, which gives you more mixing flexibility if you care about that level of hobby expression. For players who paint Warhammer miniatures in real life, the paint-name shoutouts will land. For everyone else, they are just colour presets. The community's mixed Steam verdict (sitting around 42 percent positive at time of writing) is not primarily aimed at this pack's content quality - it reflects broader frustration across the paid DLC catalogue with item count relative to price, and the fact that Saber's model pushes cosmetic packs pretty aggressively while the base game's free content roadmap stays genuinely healthy. The Ultramarines pack specifically gets dinged for thinner per-chapter content compared to what some later chapter packs deliver. Three unique helmets across 12 chapters means most chapters contribute only heraldry decals and a colour swatch - that ratio feels lean if you are a dedicated fan of a specific successor chapter who was hoping for a full look. If you play Space Marine 2 regularly in Operations or Eternal War and you are attached to Ultramarine lineage lore, the pack has enough material to refresh your loadout across multiple classes. If you were hoping to represent a single specific chapter like the Genesis Chapter or Libators in full visual detail, manage your expectations - the depth is uneven chapter to chapter. And if you are on the fence about the base game at all, this DLC is the last thing you should be looking at. Fred, Scout Team