Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Desiderius]

All these panties twisted yet we all know you'll spread your wallets when the time comes

I've opened my wallet exactly once for Dorks vs Huemans:



And that was enough. I'll let all you phaggots be the guinea pigs this time around and you let me know how it goes first.

 

[S.torch]

You know, I just had the thought that if this game was being made by Vault Dweller, that would be something interesting. Since he would give the cold militaristic theme that the setting aims, instead of that soft approach.

 

[frajaq]

holy fucking shit im excited

 

[Brickfrog]

Well this will be a change of pace

 

[Viata]

All these panties twisted yet we all know you'll spread your wallets when the time comes

Paying for games

 

[mondblut]

possible companions

Nah, too white.

 

[Stoned Ape]

"In fact, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, a goblins-and-gnomes war game, and Warhammer 40k are ridiculous, over-the-top pastiches, created by people who were bored and angry under Margaret Thatcher, and channelled that rage into worlds where everyone is the villain, and hope has been extinguished for millennia." (c) Grauniad.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...5ejYULXzwmPTZQVImoz2y_FYPkOFWruzSjEXZYcW_Y1rk

GW originally started as a company that had the sole contract to import and retail D&D to the UK.

40k was directly inspired by 2000AD comics, but then cranked them up to 11.

Steve Jackson (one of the original GW founders) was linked to my university course and gave a couple of lectures and sat in on my dissertation presentation. He was a really nice guy, intelligent but generally quite laid back and down to earth.

I also met Ian Livingstone (another GW founders who also wrote the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks with Steve) during my degree as well. He gave a lecture about when he was part of Eidos (after selling his share of GW), how he transformed Rick Dangerous into Tomb Raider and got to spend time with the various official Lara Croft models.

I've also met Jarvis Johnson at various times over the years. He's really approachable and seems very interested in trying to build character and narrative/campaign play into GW's tabletop games rather than setting up rules for competitive matches.

 

[EtcEtcEtc]

Of course it is a strong wombyn giving the announcement trailer, Owltrannies can't help themselves. Let's see expect gay marine sodomy from red bearded marine, the andogenous character standing next to the lady looks like someone who used a laspistol on his genitals. I expect there will be aliens who will lecture how they do not use gender pronouns, probably the eldar.

In the grim dark future there is only xer.

 

[Morality Games]

I hope the completely ditch any kind of management aspect, apart from the shitty performance, constant loading screens, the fucking management layer is the single worst design decision they keep making in their games.

Lol, I also mostly dislike the management but I doubt Rogue Trader is the concept where they abandon that design element; Rogue Traders are actually supposed to manage stuff.

 

[Brickfrog]

In the grim dark future, there is limited character development tbh

Having a setting that's so oppressively shitty makes for characters that are pretty one dimensional. I'm kind of struggling to think of a 40k video game franchise that had any interesting characters at all tbh

A softer/fuzzier 40k will have more room for the kind of storytelling wer accustomed to in crpgs.

 

[Serus]

I hope the completely ditch any kind of management aspect, apart from the shitty performance, constant loading screens, the fucking management layer is the single worst design decision they keep making in their games.

Lol, I also mostly dislike the management but I doubt Rogue Trader is the concept where they abandon that design element; Rogue Traders are actually supposed to manage stuff.

Third time the charm? <fabulously optimistic>

 

[Harthwain]

Just watched the trailer, the gameplay bits look cool. The cartoon is gay, but I assume that's just marketing stuff to fill out the trailer like some of the Wrath hype stuff before release.

I suspect they will replace anything that usually uses cinematics with cartoon. I don't mind the idea to be honest (I do enjoy cartoon aesthetic as such), but the lady doesn't appear to be cool enough, nor is her voice good enough to narrate (in my opinion) so I find it less interesting than it could've been otherwise.

because who cares about 40K lore?

It's less about the lore and more about the theme.

the difference is that colorful early edition shit was made by nerds who, as people, were interesting. ie see photo of some gw guy from 80s with messy hair with his fantase army. modern colorful stuff is made by people who are entirely, by their natur, are uninteresting.

Eh, I can easily see people doing colorful WH40K even today:


What you need is the correct mindset.

 

[Alienman]

You all know there is going to be a friendly Tyranid right?

 

[Brickfrog]

You all know there is going to be a friendly Tyranid right?

Good

 

[rusty_shackleford]

You all know there is going to be a friendly Tyranid right?

and you're going to crush space fascists together while wearing ukraine-themed armor

 

[mondblut]

In the grim dark future, there is limited character development tbh

Wrong. You can stack as many stats and abilities as you like regardless of the setting.

Having a setting that's so oppressively shitty makes for characters that are pretty one dimensional.

Good. "I kill shit with weapons" and "I kill shit with spells" is all the dimensions we need.

A softer/fuzzier 40k will have more room for the kind of storytelling wer accustomed to in crpgs.

Happy pride month!

 

[mondblut]

You all know there is going to be a friendly Tyranid right?

A quest to save a hive from evil human destroyers of biodiversity, yay.

Calling dibs on romanceable Slaaneshite companion.

 

[Brickfrog]

The more sacrilegious it is to lore dorks the better.

Give us animated romance between Tyranids and orks. Who gives a shit.

 

[Jenkem]

dark eldar tranny companion

 

[jf8350143]

From the trailer seems like we can only play as human, but not as other species.

It's a bummer but I guess that's 40k for you.

 

[Tyranicon]

I'm a huge pessimist, but I can't help but be excited. A 40k CRPG, holy shit.

Needs to be 40% more grimdark though, judging by the trailer.

 

[Dodo1610]

The game will actually use the mechanics from the 2009 Fantasy Flight Games RPG



Honestly expected them to just use 3.5 OGL DND so that they could simply copy-paste everything from Pathfinder.

 

[Ruchy]

Hmmm I don't know anything about the Table top game unfortunately so not sure what to make of that. Overall fairly excited though and will support it even if it's shit if only to show that their is interest in a 40k cRPG. What can I say I'm a huggy buggy faggot like that.

 

[Drop Duck]

Of course it is a strong wombyn giving the announcement trailer, Owltrannies can't help themselves.

They are playing it safe by having a cis-passing white woman as the hero of the trailer sand nazi.

 

[Desiderius]

I suspect they will replace anything that usually uses cinematics with cartoon. I don't mind the idea to be honest (I do enjoy cartoon aesthetic as such)