Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

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Posted on: December 27, 2023

Fincarn

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Games: 335 Reviews: 1

Best owlcat bame so far. Give me more.

So after over 90 hours of gameplay, I feel like I can give my honest opinion. + The setting. If you are a fan of 40k this is an unmissable experience. The game does its utmost to immerse you into the 42nd millennium (This game happens after cicatrix maledictum so yes it is the 42nd). The characters make sense. Some you will like, others you will annoy, others you will hate but all of them have a place in 40k. If you are not familiar with 40k there are handy notes to give you context but be forewarned, treachery abounds and the "good solution" is not always the correct solution. + Story. It is really good. Can't say too much or get into details without spoiling it so this section will be short. Just don't expect deep romances + Turn-based combat. If you have played the other 2 Owlcat games (Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) you know people either moded turn-based combat or it was implemented post-launch. Not the case in Rogue Trader, we get to enjoy Turn-based strategy from the start. + Voice acting. The voice lines for all characters are gold. None of them feel out of place and the pronunciation is really good even for terms unique to 40k. The only bad aspect is that there isn't any more of it. - Bugs. In the technical sense, I haven't noticed that many bugs, but some of them are noticeable, from passive bonuses from characters that are not active party members remaining and having extra turns when they should not to some missing text or events shown out of order. If you have low tolerance for bugs wait a while until the game gets patched. - Poorly explained combat system. The game doesn't teach you about the combat system and the description of some abilities is up to interpretation. Mercifully the game lets you respec on your void ship so you are never really locked into a bad decision (build-wise) - Is easy to break the game. Maybe due to some of the bugs explained earlier but 2 companions break the game in half, even at Daring.

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Posted on: January 1, 2024

Gobybear

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Games: 163 Reviews: 6

Great game but...

Rogue Trader is a great game with a solid writing, interesting game mecanics and a compeling story for you to explore. The characters are well written. They have a solid background story for the most part and your interactions with them do not feel off at all. You can also romance most of them (that includes the eldars) and your interactions within said romance are also very good. The game offers you a large variety of build, psyker, gunner, support, sniper and whatever can come across your mind is possible for your character. Your crew has less choices due to its base preset of abilities but you still have some freedom of build for them regardless. The game is full of powerful gears to use as well. A good combination of your character's build with the right weapons can offer devastating results against your enemies. The endings are good ngl. They offer an extensive amount of writing for absolutely everything that is going on the expanse after your victory and how your retinue will live after the events of the game. However... Despite all the good things Owlcat has been cooking, the release is rather rocky at best. Many critical bugs can be found, forcing you to back to your previous save. Some bugs will even lock your save forcing to redo the entire game from the start. Personally, I only came across one of these. It is also poorly optimised at times, too many enemies can cause the game to lag a lot in certain areas. I have played the alpha and the beta. Considering how short the development time was, it is a miracle that owlcat managed to get this far. Only 6 months of dev time after the beta release and another 6 months between the beta and the alpha. I would give it 2 years of development top. It is likely that Games Workshop breathed down their neck on this one as most Warhammer 40k games tend to release quite quickly. Despite all this, it's a good game and you should wait some time before purchasing it.

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Posted on: July 20, 2024

allpointtwo

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 9

What a wonderful journey

Very well written characters, interesting and deep story, side missions are delight to do. Your retinue will grow close to your heart as well as your domain in ruins.

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Posted on: December 13, 2023

Ravial

Verified owner

Games: 89 Reviews: 4

A Genuinely Good Game

I've been an Alpha and Beta tester for this game, admittedly, so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. The launch has a good amount of minor visual bugs, but nothing thoroughly game-breaking. All of those will be eliminated in the coming patches. It's a very great and faithful adaptation of both WH40k setting and Rogue Trader RPG system. I'm a sucker for turn-based combat myself. It's also based on D100 setting, rather than D20 like Dungeons & Dragons. There are more stats that are important, but also more levels and a great number of interesting and useful talents, all of which manage to be at least somewhat useful in every fight. The characters you meet- they're just writing gold. It's not a game that creates memes, like BG3, but one where the characters treat everything very seriously. The galaxy is a very grim place, after all. The voice acting of all characters is also seriously good. I, personally, couldn't stop grinning when I heard the expressiveness of the acting. TL;DR - Really, just buy the game. It's worth it.

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Posted on: December 14, 2023

Gennadios

Games: 106 Reviews: 6

It's almost painful at times.

I'm about 8 hours in and I'm at the point where I'm just forcing myself to complete it because I love the WH40K setting. Problem is their rule sets are almost universally trash for PC. Trash Optimization: I have a top DDR4 machine, fast SSD, 4090, etc. Need to heal party - walk through 2 loading screens, get to bridge, scripted event triggers loading screen to personal chambers, loading screen to go back to bridge, go through previous two loading screens to get to where I started. Each loading screen takes up to a minutes, congrats, getting healed took 20+ minutes. Overly complex, not particularly fun rule set: You know what was great about Baldur's Gate? Your warriors hit stuff with their swords, your rogues hit stuff with their daggers (occasionally going invisible) your rangers hit stuff with their bows, you only had to learn wizard spells to be successful and your melee/ranged classes just did their thing. The Rogue Trader rule set is convoluted AF, you HAVE to learn the skill trees of your entire party, or rely on youtube guides, it's way too easy to build your team into a corner where you can't proceed. They have 'recommended' traits at level up but they're universally useless and won't get you through anything but story mode. Player Trolling encounter design: Owlcat loves to bury high level encounters in newbie areas, fine. In one case, they buried the combat after a prolonged puzzle sequence, before the player has any idea that they're about to be reamed in the ---, it's a situation where you basically have to swallow the loss and reload 20 minutes back. Aside from that, the game is atrocious at conveying encounter information, and it absolutely loves having hidden conditions, such as 'these lanterns will heal your enemies every turn, you have to shoot them, but they respawn every turn, and they're in a corner so only one character at a time can shoot them, but no one character has the DPS or accuracy to actually kill it" type of encounters.

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