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

[Technomancer]

Are they bringing back Malal? Tell me they're bringing back Malal.

They can't due to copyright issues.

Thought they replaced it with "Malice" or smth?

 

[Humbaba]

Are they bringing back Malal? Tell me they're bringing back Malal.

They can't due to copyright issues.

Thought they replaced it with "Malice" or smth?

They did and there were the "Sons of Malice", a chaos marine legion but that shit has been abandoned afaik. Not sure if copyright had anything to do with it.

 

[Camel]

guns = bows

laser guns = wand of lightning bolt

grenades/rockets = wand of fireball

Expecting the Jagged Alliance 2 ballistics system would be too much, but if Owlcat manages to at least copy Fallout 2 & Wasteland 3 guns variety I'd pretty happy. Devs also better make some visceral and flashy melee combat.

 

[Sunri]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

 

[Serus]

Oh no a strawman comic. Kick the chair, /b/tard.

Also nice job locking your profile, like the faggot ass snowflake you are.

I have this feeling, I know your style of writing shitposting. Did i miss something? Who were you in your previous Codex incarnation? Or whose alt are you? I can almost pinpoint you but not quite. And i am very bad at keeping tabs on who is who on the Dex when they change accounts.

 

[Sarathiour]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

That was the bait.

 

[Sarathiour]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

Heresy detected

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Are they bringing back Malal? Tell me they're bringing back Malal.

They can't due to copyright issues.

Thought they replaced it with "Malice" or smth?

It's just a wink to Malal, but no deity proper. (Originally Malal was intended to be brought back as the real hivemind behind the Tyranids.)

Anyhow, if you're interested in how the lore around him evolved:

 

[Technomancer]

Originally Malal was intended to be brought back as the real hivemind behind the Tyranids

That would suck ass. Everything doesn't have to revolve around chaos. And mysterious, unknown intelligence and origins of tyranids work much better.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Discussion about release timeline speculation and also Owlcat's projects in the pipeline.

 

[Thonius]

It's the lack of intellectual maturity from the authors themselves.

Oh, the authors are basically Netflix writer rejects.

Here's a quote from ADB, a person who has massive, MASSIVE daddy issues and seems very upset his father never sexually molested him - so he takes it out on 40k characters by constantly trying to shit on the Emperor as the embodiment of the Patriarchal Ideal, while at the same time someone over at GW constantly sabotages his plans and retcons whatever he writes.

Another question is, we learn about that deal as a story from Chaos "side" only(?). At least i only saw it told that way in ne book. Perhaps it is later told also from Emperor's or all-knowing narrator perspective as well. I hope not. Such things are better left ambiguous. If the former is true, this is a very good story.

Yeah, it's basically a daemon saying the Emperor made a deal with Chaos, making the whole thing biased at best, and an outright fabrication at worst. We do know the Emperor did go to the Molech Gate and enter the Warp - however, what transpired there is anyone's guess.

On the other hand, many Black Library authors, chiefly that disgusting faggot ADB, have an axe to grind with the Emperor and keep trying to "subvert expectations" by making Him into the bad guy, which then makes fans angry, which forces GW to bring some other schmuck on board to retcon the leftist retardation.

Dunno, Abnet can provide nice toilet break read. Eisenhorn one love.

 

[Tyranicon]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

Bottom tier by what metric? Tabletop balance?

Big-boobed space nuns score pretty high on the coolness factor.

Unless you meant to type that they are bottoms, high tier faction.

 

[Sunri]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

Bottom tier by what metric? Tabletop balance?

Big-boobed space nuns score pretty high on the coolness factor.

Unless you meant to type that they are bottoms, high tier faction.

Bottom tier in terms of ascetic and lore I never got into tabletop only watched some games didn't seem too fun so I never invested.

 

[Thonius]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

Bottom tier by what metric? Tabletop balance?

Big-boobed space nuns score pretty high on the coolness factor.

Unless you meant to type that they are bottoms, high tier faction.

Bottom tier in terms of ascetic and lore I never got into tabletop only watched some games didn't seem too fun so I never invested.

Imperial Guard and Orcks > Rest.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Imperial Guard and Orcks > Rest.

I do like the Imperial Guard, but personally...

Spoiler

 

[Parsimonious cook]

They should make female space marines.

Adeptus Sororitas already exist, and they're glorious.

Not really they are bottom, tier faction.

Bottom tier by what metric? Tabletop balance?

Big-boobed space nuns score pretty high on the coolness factor.

Unless you meant to type that they are bottoms, high tier faction.

Bottom tier in terms of ascetic and lore I never got into tabletop only watched some games didn't seem too fun so I never invested.

TBH fam I find the Adepta Sororitas lore to be fine (its just kinda sad that there arent any novels set in the Age of Apostasy, it would IMO deserve the same attention as Horus Heresy) and the aesthetics are OK too (I guess it helps that I am a fan of Ecclesiarchy and Ordo Hereticus is my favorite branch of the Inquistion). The bigest problem that held the faction back in terms of table top was that their original 3rd edition Codex Witch Hunters (not sure about the current state of affairs, hopefuly they got better by now) had several broken units (most notably Penitent Engines and Arco-flagellants), so the army list wasnt really competitive and the few people who played them mostly did it for the lulz (which is a very expensive thing to do).

 

[Alienman]

Imperial Guard and Orcks > Rest.

I do like the Imperial Guard, but personally...

Spoiler

Roadside work in progress marines?

 

[luj1]

I'm sure Owlcuck will make the God Emperor a tranny.

Those russian vatniks should keep their marxist hands of 40k.

After this nobody is gonna look at Wh40k with the same eyes

 

[Thac0]

What game should one play to get more familiar with Warhammer 40k?
Need to get more familiar with the lore till this one comes out. (Besides there is a sale rn)

Out of recent stuff I played Mechanicus and Battlesector are all around good turn based tactics, Sanctus Reach can be a load of fun but also has some huge caveats with randomly generated missions.
Heard good things about Gladius.

 

[Thonius]

What game should one play to get more familiar with Warhammer 40k?
Need to get more familiar with the lore till this one comes out. (Besides there is a sale rn)

Out of recent stuff I played Mechanicus and Battlesector are all around good turn based tactics, Sanctus Reach can be a load of fun but also has some huge caveats with randomly generated missions.
Heard good things about Gladius.

Fantasy branch doing alright too.

 

[Sarathiour]

By the way lad, owlcat CM recently confirmed that there will be romance

 

[mediocrepoet]

Eldar / Tyranid / Space Marine orgy cutscene LET'S GOOOOO!!!

 

[Sunri]

By the way lad, owlcat CM recently confirmed that there will be romance

That's a good thing, romance is a must in modern rpg.

 

[Yoomazir]

By the way lad, owlcat CM recently confirmed that there will be romance

Does owning a cute eldar sex slave count as romance?

 

[Aemar]

Slaaneshi space marines. Pronouns: xe/xir. I'm sure Owlcat will implement this in the game.