40k is very human-centric. Humans have the largest empire, the largest armies, exert an incredible amount of influence, and could present the greatest threat to chaos.
The God Emperor wills it.
Not exactly. IIRC chaos gods (minus Slaanesh) existed already in times when humans still inhabited a single planet. In fact the chaos gods are even older than the Emperor himself. The latter was created/born/came to be in ancient era or even prehistory on Earth. This means Earth and human race weren't even a very populous on this one planet back then. It is possible that i remember it wrong.Population size.It still doesn't explain why 1000s of intelligent races that existed or still exist in the galaxy, sometimes ages before humans, didn't spawn their own chaos gods
Not exactly. IIRC chaos gods (minus Slaanesh) existed already in times when humans still inhabited a single planet. In fact the chaos gods are even older than the Emperor himself. The latter was created/born/came to be in ancient era or even prehistory on Earth. This means Earth and human race weren't even a very populous on this one planet back then. It is possible that i remember it wrong.Population size.It still doesn't explain why 1000s of intelligent races that existed or still exist in the galaxy, sometimes ages before humans, didn't spawn their own chaos gods
Thanks for the info!The Goddess T'au'va is an entity created by human members of the Tau Empire when they slipped a ship into warpspace - she appears to be benevolent. Spoilers I guess. It, or she, became such a problem that the Ethereals dispatched Shadowsun to eradicate the "Church of the T'au'va" from the face of the Empire. After speaking (and having it aid her) with the "goddess" and realizing that it was fairly benevolent, Shadowsun refused to genocide her followers, much the the chagrin of the Ethereals (who have now lost Farsight and are suffering insubordination from their last remaining Puretide prodigy).
Humanity fuck yeah! For good and bad.40k is very human-centric. Humans have the largest empire, the largest armies, exert an incredible amount of influence, and could present the greatest threat to chaos.
The God Emperor wills it.
Well, I was right at least in that chaos god existed already when Humans still inhabited only one planet - Earth and didn't even populate it well at the time. Which means human population size had nothing to do with god-creation. Which was the point I answered. "Population size" was not the reason why humans created chaos gods and all the other races (but one) did not. It could only be true if chaos gods came to be AFTER humans colonized significant parts of the galaxy. Which is not the case. Which also makes the concept of humans being uniquely capable of creating them a little more sensible. But still nonsensical. In a densely populated galaxy (and we know that there are or were lots of different sentient species, many humanoid, some older than humans) there is no reason to believe humans are THAT unique. Which returns me to my original issue. Chaos gods - 3/4 of them to be exact - being "human-made" make no f***g sense. Just like half of the lore but at least it serves a purpose of adding cool stuff to miniatures or whatever. There is nothing that would be lost if Chaos gods weren't specifically human-made at all, just the result of everyone adding a little - including humans.Not exactly. IIRC chaos gods (minus Slaanesh) existed already in times when humans still inhabited a single planet. In fact the chaos gods are even older than the Emperor himself. The latter was created/born/came to be in ancient era or even prehistory on Earth. This means Earth and human race weren't even a very populous on this one planet back then. It is possible that i remember it wrong.Population size.It still doesn't explain why 1000s of intelligent races that existed or still exist in the galaxy, sometimes ages before humans, didn't spawn their own chaos gods
In the old lore, the three eldest chaos gods were "born" at various points, starting around the middle ages (IIRC Khorne is the oldest and was awakened during the mongol conquest). It was heavily implied that humanity itself was responsible for their creation, but that has been walked back in the new lore and now believed that tumultous events on earth was caused by their awakening, not the other way around.
Also in the old lore, the Emperor was born around the 8th millennium BC in Anatolia, as a result of a fusion dance between a bunch of shamans. This has since been mostly retconned into "I dunno, nobody knows."
I booted up beta again after the patch that came last week or so and ffs they broke it. For me pre-patch beta worked mostly flawless, now game is stuttering, in some fights enemy units are unkillable, and so on and so forth.
Truly, Owlcat is true to their form and that game is now real Bug Trader :/
It's definitely on the easier side, not as bad as BG3 since some of the early bosses can actually put up a fight but once you're level'd up and have a better AP economy you just anihilate everything.Can anyone from the beta comment on the difficulty in Rogue Trader? Compared to the Pathfinder games this should be much simpler and easier. I suspect Core here should be much easier than the one Pathfinder.
Beta systems are blatantly unfinished, just wait for release.Is it worth it to play the Beta just to get a better hang of the systems? Or do you think most of it would be reworked by the time things are released?
The idea behind it, at least as I read it, is that the belief in the Greater Good (or "Tau'va" in the Tau's language) was so strong in these humans that they produced her, or called to her. As I recall from her novel, Shadowsun had dreams of this goddess when she was a kid or some shit, but it is not clear if the goddess was actually formed then or if that was the warp trying to reach out to the non-warp-connected Shadowsun. Regardless of where or why, the goddess is not fleshed out in lore, and probably won't ever be. I know nu-fans, and people who haven't been around the setting or hobby that long pick up on old hatred (from reading /tg/, 1d4, or god help them, leddit) from the Tau's "glory days" on the table top, but they are about as far from "Mary Sue" as you can get now (3E and 4E Tau are a much different story), Mary Sues usually get, at the very least, some attention. Ward's boys still hold that flag strong.So... The Cau somehow get a Warp goddess thanks to having a bunch of humans sticking around, despite having been around for a VERY short time (it took the Loldar centuries to spawn Slaanny IIRC) and, rather than being a Greater Daemon trying to eat them all, it's a benevolent entity. Just like that.
The Tau weren't Mary Sue enough I guess. Or maybe it is a demon trying to eat them all. Weren't the Nids threatening to devour their entire "empire"/small territories the Tau have?
100%Beta systems are blatantly unfinished, just wait for release.
Beta systems are blatantly unfinished, just wait for release.
Because real release happens 1 year after "release" date.Beta systems are blatantly unfinished, just wait for release.
In case of Owlcat, the Release TM is also unfinished!
I have stopped playing most alphas/betas, they almost always end up souring the game for me in the long run.
I booted up beta again after the patch that came last week or so and ffs they broke it. For me pre-patch beta worked mostly flawless, now game is stuttering, in some fights enemy units are unkillable, and so on and so forth.
Truly, Owlcat is true to their form and that game is now real Bug Trader :/
Difficulty will be reworked. And there will be more different presetsI think I've asked this before but not sure if here. Can anyone from the beta comment on the difficulty in Rogue Trader? Compared to the Pathfinder games this should be much simpler and easier. I suspect Core here should be much easier than the one Pathfinder.
Is it worth it to play the Beta just to get a better hang of the systems? Or do you think most of it would be reworked by the time things are released? Also how are they testing the later parts of the game? I suppose it would be some sort of in-house beta.
Age of SigmarWhat is the latest Warhammer core rulebook available now?