Here's Our First Look at Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's Techmarine Class — Complete With PNG File Name Easter Eggs

We yet person our archetypal look astatine Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s caller class, the Techmarine, arsenic good arsenic an representation of its Omnissian Axe.

Publisher Focus Entertainment released 1 screenshot of the Omnissian Axe, below, arsenic good arsenic an representation showing disconnected the Techmarine exemplary from aggregate angles.

Space Marine 2's upcoming Omnissian Axe. Image credit: Focus Entertainment.

The Techmarine. Image credit: Focus Entertainment.

The Techmarine is acceptable to deed Saber Interactive’s explosive third-person enactment crippled arsenic portion of Patch 12 aboriginal adjacent year. Its Omnissian Axe is simply a caller melee limb — a halberd-style limb that comes with its ain acceptable of unsocial animations, finishers and progression, Focus confirmed successful a blog post.

Meanwhile, the Techmarine has a Servo-Gun ability. Activating it volition alteration the weapon to automatically prosecute enemies. The caller people besides has a passive quality to reconstruct Tarantula Sentry Guns that tin spawn connected existing PvE levels. It each sounds beauteous powerful.

As has go Space Marine 2 tradition, Focus popped amusive small Easter eggs successful the PNG record names for the Techmarine and its Omnissian Axe. The Omnissian Axe PNG is called ‘toothpick,’ and, brilliantly, the Techmarine PNG is called ‘01100110_01101001_01101110_01100101_00100000_01110011_01101000_01111001_01110100.’

Fans were speedy to enactment retired that this binary series really translates to a phrase: "fine shyt."

• 01100110 = f
• 01101001 = i
• 01101110 = n
• 01100101 = e
• 00100000 = (space)
• 01110011 = s
• 01101000 = h
• 01111001 = y
• 01110100 = t

If you’re not into Warhammer 40,000, that mightiness beryllium a tad confusing, but it volition marque astir fans of the grimdark mounting smirk. For the uninitiated, a Techmarine is simply a Space Marine engineer-type people who's a large instrumentality of the Cult Mechanicus arsenic good arsenic their Chapter. They’re large connected exertion and specialize successful soothing the instrumentality spirits of wounded warfare engines, specified arsenic tanks and Dreadnoughts. All those bits and bobs coming retired the Techmarine’s backmost are its servo-arm, mechadendrite, and a shoulder-mounted forge bolter.

Focus wouldn’t accidental which Traitor Legion the Chaos Techmarine volition beryllium associated with successful PvP. Expect much connected that soon.

In August, Focus revealed plans for Space Marine 2 patches each the mode up to 15, taking fans to the extremity of the 2nd 4th of adjacent twelvemonth (June 2026). The Techmarine is acceptable for merchandise during the archetypal 4th of 2026, a caller Battle Barge enlargement is owed during the aforesaid period, and a caller Siege representation is planned for Q2 2026.

Of course, Saber Interactive is besides moving connected Space Marine 3, though it’s insisted ongoing Space Marine 2 enactment and the sequel are "definitely not competing for resources."

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