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

[Infinitron]

It’s time for our biggest update yet! Let’s take a brief look at what was added and changed!

Damn , she's looks good under the mask.

Goth Milla Jovovich

Not the first time: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-go-to-new-thread.115243/page-96#post-5718398

 

[Dishonoredbr]

It’s time for our biggest update yet! Let’s take a brief look at what was added and changed!

Damn , she's looks good under the mask.

Goth Milla Jovovich

Not the first time: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-go-to-new-thread.115243/page-96#post-5718398

Someone at Owlcat really like Milla Jovovich. Not complaining tho.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Bruh how is it heresy to kill heretics in the Emprah's name.

 

[Space Satan]

I appreciate they reworked obvious op stuff like officers' free turns. How it will play it is a different matter. Will try when gotch chick dlc will release

 

[skaraher]

Currently binge playing it, just started Act 5. The game kinda falls apart after Commoragh, at all levels, design, combat and narratively. Shameful.

But still a fun experience, they got the Wh40k verse themes and vibes. And no wokeshit like the Pozzfinder games.

Went full dogmatic, never compromise with xenos or heresy. I think I missed all the Eldar plotpoints because I massacred them every chance I got. Betray them before they betray you, the Mon-Keigh is a learning animal.

I allied with Marazhai and farseer to survive Commoragh and betrayed them both once I returned to human space. Like most of Act 4 they're put on a bus without much development or resistance if you choose to do it. Missed opportunities for drama.

Good atmospherics too, really enjoy those part where you're just dicking around with your spaceship being a 40k Harlock.

Best minigames of the Owlcat's three. Was pleasantly supprised by the space battles. Used to play BFG as a kid.

Worst romance though, I've read doujins better written than Cassia's dialogue.

Worse game than Kingmaker, but I'm a 40k addict so I enjoyed it more. Will benefit from a EE.

Combat is a joke once you learn that it's all about rushing momentum to deny the enemy a chance to act while you abuse the Officier op heroic ability. Read a lot of complaints about Space Marine companion sucking. I guess they buffed him to suck less as of the version I'm playing (1.168) cause I didn't notice it.

Act 4 is blatlantly unfinished, lots of poorly structured dialogue tree, lack of conviction choices, plot threads and quest items that lead nowhere etc.

 

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[Dishonoredbr]

Localization tools for Rogue Trader.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2186680/announcements/detail/4248664999224147276?

Localization Tool for Our Community

Lord Captain!

We sometimes receive requests from players interested in creating a fan localization of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader into languages that are not represented in the game. We are very happy with such enthusiasm and would like to help our fans in such a glorious deed!

We want to share with you a localization tool that you can use to create your own translation:

https://github.com/OwlcatGames/LocalizationTool

This is an open repository that contains the Localization Tool. You can use it for both Rogue Trader and Wrath of the Righteous fan translation/mod-making (you can even utilize it for your own projects).

To start the fan translation process, you should feed the tool with the game strings. As for Rogue Trader, you can find them inside a mod template archive that is stored on your computer (the game should be installed on your device). The example path for Steam - Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader\Modding\WhRtModificationTemplate.tar

The text lines in the tool are divided into columns for ease of searching and translation. You can quickly find the needed line or term in it.

In addition, this tool allows you to conveniently edit any in-game text, for example, correct existing dialogue lines or descriptions. This may be of particular interest to mod creators.

We will be thrilled if this helps you in your endeavors!

 

[Cryomancer]

Now that there have been some days since the patch, my two greatest problems with the game when I played were:

1 - Psykers were too weak and dissociated from gameplay. IMO, a pyropsyker MC should be like 1/3 stronger than a Melta gun, and his powers should be like 30x more dangerous to everyone, including himself. Did the patch make his powers at least akin to firearms damage-wise?
2: There is too much gamey stuff similar to D&D 4e(Some Telepath powers works EXACTLY like 4e instead of previous OwlCat games and TT Rogue Trader/Dark Heresy), and too much of the gameplay is about stacking 164641634563516853468 debuffs and buffs and getting so many extra turns that the enemy can barely move. Did this patch also solve it?

As a psyker, I was just using officer abilities to give extra turns to Argenta while she did everything. It was not fun, imo. I reached chapter 4 and stopped playing due boredom waiting till a mod fixes this game, just like all "no fun allowed" bs in NwN2 was fixed by modders.

PS : At least melee combat in this game is great.

 

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A recorded Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader developer stream from June 21, 2024, featuring the Owlcat Sound team and composers.

 

[Agame]

Now that there have been some days since the patch, my two greatest problems with the game when I played were:

1 - Psykers were too weak and dissociated from gameplay. IMO, a pyropsyker MC should be like 1/3 stronger than a Melta gun, and his powers should be like 30x more dangerous to everyone, including himself. Did the patch make his powers at least akin to firearms damage-wise?
2: There is too much gamey stuff similar to D&D 4e(Some Telepath powers works EXACTLY like 4e instead of previous OwlCat games and TT Rogue Trader/Dark Heresy), and too much of the gameplay is about stacking 164641634563516853468 debuffs and buffs and getting so many extra turns that the enemy can barely move. Did this patch also solve it?

As a psyker, I was just using officer abilities to give extra turns to Argenta while she did everything. It was not fun, imo. I reached chapter 4 and stopped playing due boredom waiting till a mod fixes this game, just like all "no fun allowed" bs in NwN2 was fixed by modders.

PS : At least melee combat in this game is great.

That was apparently the goal of the patch: fix 'extra turns' and psychers. At least they are aware of the problems, but the extra turn stuff is baked into the game so hard to see it ever getting 'fixed'.

 

[Lyre Mors]

This is just depressing at this point.

I feel for the bros who already bought this. I'd feel ripped off.

 

[Yosharian]

Come on guys give Owlcat a bit longer to iron things out

 

[Fedora Master]

It is actually baffling that Kingmaker still has the overall best end game of the three games Owlcat has released, especially since the end game of Kingmaker was still the worst part of THAT game. Owlcat either needs to take longer in development time and actually finish their games, or cut back on their scope so they have a fully complete set of content. I would have much rather had only three acts in Rogue Trader that were fully finished and content rich, than the half finished jokes that are Act 4-5.

As I've said repeatedly, they've learned nothing between Kingmaker and RT.

 

[thesecret1]

Did they nerf Cassia yet, or is she still a walking nuke? Wondering whether I should start a playthrough or wait for longer – I dropped my first run during act 2 since combat became easy to the point where the enemy didn't even get to have a turn before being obliterated.

 

[Cryomancer]

That was apparently the goal of the patch: fix 'extra turns' and psychers. At least they are aware of the problems, but the extra turn stuff is baked into the game so hard to see it ever getting 'fixed'.

Seems like they only fixed Pyromancer. Biomancy is all about life manipulation in lore, able to do really nasty stuff, similar to Blood Magic in VtMB/Dragon Age Origins. In game is only a buffer and debuffer. Don't get me wrong. Ranged weapons are fine and melee is great. If you don't care about psykers, this game can still be great for you.

Did they nerf Cassia yet, or is she still a walking nuke? Wondering whether I should start a playthrough or wait for longer – I dropped my first run during act 2 since combat became easy to the point where the enemy didn't even get to have a turn before being obliterated.

Apparently, no. I read the patch notes and she still by far the best companion
https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/news/en/38

 

[ArchAngel]

That was apparently the goal of the patch: fix 'extra turns' and psychers. At least they are aware of the problems, but the extra turn stuff is baked into the game so hard to see it ever getting 'fixed'.

Seems like they only fixed Pyromancer. Biomancy is all about life manipulation in lore, able to do really nasty stuff, similar to Blood Magic in VtMB/Dragon Age Origins. In game is only a buffer and debuffer. Don't get me wrong. Ranged weapons are fine and melee is great. If you don't care about psykers, this game can still be great for you.

Did they nerf Cassia yet, or is she still a walking nuke? Wondering whether I should start a playthrough or wait for longer – I dropped my first run during act 2 since combat became easy to the point where the enemy didn't even get to have a turn before being obliterated.

Apparently, no. I read the patch notes and she still by far the best companion
https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/news/en/38

Her light ability received multiple nerfs which is good. It was cause for many of her other abilities being OP.

 

[skaraher]

They should have stuck with the tabletop rules.

 

[Raghar]

Did they nerf Cassia yet, or is she still a walking nuke? Wondering whether I should start a playthrough or wait for longer – I dropped my first run during act 2 since combat became easy to the point where the enemy didn't even get to have a turn before being obliterated.

They could like restrict her deployment because losing a navigator is bad for the ship. Thus players would have underleveled walking nuke in some combats, but not in nearly every combat.

 

[Cryomancer]

1. I installed the game.
2. I created the character.
3. I saw that my basic pistol is doing 7~11 damage (9 avg) while my ignite powers are doing 1~10 (5.5 avg), meaning that a sanctioned psyker who passed all harowing tests by the imperium has about half (60%) of the power of the most basic pistol.
4. I saw that it still takes an eternity to get any PSI rating, requiring LV 34 for 4 of the maximum.
5. No new cool biomancy was added, no bio lightning, no blood boil, no hemorrhage, and other P&P abilities
6. I saw all the tele-CC abilities still work like D&D 4E tier shit.
7. Read the description of feats, and it seems that a lot of unlimited stacking BS is still in the game.
8. I exited the game.
9. I uninstalled the game after 15 minutes of play.

I want to enjoy this game, but seriously. This psyker powers are 4th edition tier trash. Was designed by people who don't care about immersion and consistency of mechanics and lore.

I know how to code in C#, despite not using it much in my professional life. Does anyone here have a good modding tutorial for this game? And preferentially, can I write my mods in Linux? I just want to make basic PR = 2 and max PR = 6, remove this abilities that gives unlimited stack BS, add bio lightning, blood boil and hemorrhage to biomancy and if modding in this game is easy enough, add Telekinesis into the game.

 

[Yosharian]

Uhh I'm assuming Psykers start off weak but get stronger?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Uhh I'm assuming Psykers start off weak but get stronger?

Cryomancer can't play psykers unless they fry the entire battlefield and summon an army greater daemons that kill the player every time they sneeze.

 

[ArchAngel]

Uhh I'm assuming Psykers start off weak but get stronger?

They have some of the most OP items in the game for all body slots. That is how they are scaled. My melee biomancer can basically solo all encounters and Indira has 10+ psi rating after 2 turns.
They even have items for either heavy armor play or light armor/dodge play.

 

[Cryomancer]

Uhh I'm assuming Psykers start off weak but get stronger?

Is not a matter of how strong or weak they are. My problem is that the powers is too dissociated from P&P and lore. OwlCat could make ignite deal 666 trillion damage, would still be trash.

unless they fry the entire battlefield

Never said it. I suggested maximum PR = 6, that is what the story considers "beta"

I honestly think that they are so badly implemented that would be better for the game to not have it into the game.

They have some of the most OP items in the game for all body slots. That is how they are scaled. My melee biomancer can basically solo all encounters and Indira has 10+ psi rating after 2 turns.

That is the problem with the game.

PR >= 7 is "alpha" class and depending upon items to boost your PR is silly imo. In lore, some Psykers, mainly Eldar uses limitations to limit their power.

You talked about biomancy.

There are so many cool biomancy abilities in P&P. Yet Owlcat decided that Biomancy should only be used for buffs and debuffs.

 

[ArchAngel]

Nobody cares if it is following some pnp rules or not. Barely anyone even played that PnP.
You are boring us with this same shit, you already told us this 5 times

 

[mediocrepoet]

Nobody cares if it is following some pnp rules or not. Barely anyone even played that PnP.
You are boring us with this same shit, you already told us this 5 times

Welcome to Victor's autism. First time?