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Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - turn-based Warhammer 40k RPG from Owlcat Games - now with Void Shadows DLC

GentlemanCthulhu

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i don't think further premium DLC will happen for this game. void shadows will do well enough, but lex imperialis'll fail since it doesn't have a strong hook like void shadows. i'm already not interested in it.
 

Iluvcheezcake

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i don't think further premium DLC will happen for this game. void shadows will do well enough, but lex imperialis'll fail since it doesn't have a strong hook like void shadows. i'm already not interested in it.
If they make the Arbites companion a proper bro with interesting quest and story involvement it will sell well.
 

Harthwain

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'WH40K is based franchise, rite?'
'Uh oh, Owlcat logo'
[Obnoxious girlboss in prelude]
:negative:
It is fairly woke-free (if having a female Rogue Trader is the reason for you to despair, then you are really reaching).

The worst you can say, objectively speaking, is that penalties for being open-minded are either mild or non-existent, which undermines the reason for the Mankind being the way it is in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. Frankly, having your iconoclast choices backfire (maybe not literally every time, but when appopriate) would be a good introduction into the setting.
 

ArchAngel

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'WH40K is based franchise, rite?'
'Uh oh, Owlcat logo'
[Obnoxious girlboss in prelude]
:negative:
It is fairly woke-free (if having a female Rogue Trader is the reason for you to despair, then you are really reaching).

The worst you can say, objectively speaking, is that penalties for being open-minded are either mild or non-existent, which undermines the reason for the Mankind being the way it is in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. Frankly, having your iconoclast choices backfire (maybe not literally every time, but when appopriate) would be a good introduction into the setting.
They would backfire if you were anyone else less powerful than a Rogue Trader. This way the worst thing that can happen is some "peasants" die that nobody really cares about. Like the Demon Planet you make, almost nobody even mentions it again.
 
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InD_ImaginE

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'WH40K is based franchise, rite?'
'Uh oh, Owlcat logo'
[Obnoxious girlboss in prelude]
:negative:
It is fairly woke-free (if having a female Rogue Trader is the reason for you to despair, then you are really reaching).

The worst you can say, objectively speaking, is that penalties for being open-minded are either mild or non-existent, which undermines the reason for the Mankind being the way it is in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. Frankly, having your iconoclast choices backfire (maybe not literally every time, but when appopriate) would be a good introduction into the setting.

They do backfire on some occasions iirc? Not nuking the prologue planet will result you getting a permanent malus to your RT
 

Harthwain

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They do backfire on some occasions iirc? Not nuking the prologue planet will result you getting a permanent malus to your RT
The malus is small and goes away after some time (or was it a bug?). On strategic scale there are no problems with having a daemon world whatsoever. Although the same can be said for the archeotech: you'd think preserving such a relic would be worth much more than it really is.

They would backfire if you were anyone else less powerful than a Rogue Trader. This way the worst thing that can happen is some "peasants" die that nobody really cares about. Like the Demon Planet you make, almost nobody even mentions it again.
Even with you being a Rogue Trader, the consequences for the in-game world are really poorly implemented.
 

ArchAngel

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'WH40K is based franchise, rite?'
'Uh oh, Owlcat logo'
[Obnoxious girlboss in prelude]
:negative:
It is fairly woke-free (if having a female Rogue Trader is the reason for you to despair, then you are really reaching).

The worst you can say, objectively speaking, is that penalties for being open-minded are either mild or non-existent, which undermines the reason for the Mankind being the way it is in the universe of Warhammer 40,000. Frankly, having your iconoclast choices backfire (maybe not literally every time, but when appopriate) would be a good introduction into the setting.

They do backfire on some occasions iirc? Not nuking the prologue planet will result you getting a permanent malus to your RT
It is a tiny penalty. Also no penalty for letting Space Elves use Janus as they please.
 

ga♥

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Do you have more alignment choices in the DLC? In my first playthrough I finished 494/500 and I was decently upset about it.
 

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The Grim Darkness Challenge is here!
Lord Captains!

The Grim Darkness challenge is here!

What is The Grim Darkness Challenge?
It is an intense competitive event for streamers, where, over the course of two weeks, participants will compete live in beating (or making it as far as they can in!) Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader on Daring difficulty in Grim Darkness mode - a newly introduced brutal gameplay mode where only a single save is allowed and is rewritten every time a player exits the game. All decisions and consequences in this mode are final, reloading is impossible, and if the party is defeated—the game is over!

The challenge will begin in just a few hours, on 00:00 GMT October 22, and last for 2 weeks until 23:59 GMT November 4, or until all players have successfully completed their playthroughs or were eliminated.

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Watch your favourite streamer best the hardest trial or fail on the road to the grand prize!

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thesecret1

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So um... who gives a shit? I don't get it. There's no incentive for a person to watch and no manner for a person to participate so... eh. Aimed at kids, I guess.
The goal is not to get new people to watch, but rather to get the existing audience of said streamers to buy the game. It's a marketing stunt.
 

mediocrepoet

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So um... who gives a shit? I don't get it. There's no incentive for a person to watch and no manner for a person to participate so... eh. Aimed at kids, I guess.
The goal is not to get new people to watch, but rather to get the existing audience of said streamers to buy the game. It's a marketing stunt.

Yeah, makes sense. I suppose it's more like... I wouldn't think the Codex's game thread would be full of people who A) haven't bought the game and who B) watch any of this crap and are going to be swayed by it as opposed to the last 200 pages.
 

thesecret1

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So um... who gives a shit? I don't get it. There's no incentive for a person to watch and no manner for a person to participate so... eh. Aimed at kids, I guess.
The goal is not to get new people to watch, but rather to get the existing audience of said streamers to buy the game. It's a marketing stunt.

Yeah, makes sense. I suppose it's more like... I wouldn't think the Codex's game thread would be full of people who A) haven't bought the game and who B) watch any of this crap and are going to be swayed by it as opposed to the last 200 pages.
It was posted by Infinitron. You should be glad he didn't put it on the front page.
 

Mei Scarlet

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How's the state of the game after a fuckton of patches, huge rebalance and DLC release, worth a replay? Or wait for some Ultimate Definitive edition a year from now?
 

SpaceWizardz

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How's the state of the game after a fuckton of patches, huge rebalance and DLC release
Technically it's in a good place,
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-wise not so much.
Or wait for some Ultimate Definitive edition a year from now?
I don't think they're doing that this time around, 2nd DLC will be the final update for the game most likely.
 
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So after all dust was settled is this game any good?
Mixed bag. Gets worse the further you get in, on all fronts.

Had two runs completely brick back to back on release, so ya know, the Owlcat standard.

Prob wait until the next DLC and then a few mos for patches before ya consider picking it up.
 

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