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Good video, no violence but mych world build. The Forge planet was good for combat so we due some talking XD

Sometimes it's better to rip the band-aid off.

Funnily enough with mon’keigh technology, there are actual orangutan creatures called jokero who are some of the best creators of digi-tech or microtechnology.

Jocasta looks like a dude O.o

46:13, elves of any sort give me mental whiplash, freakin leaf lovers taking speech to riddle levels

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Hello! How did you manage to get 13 of those planet digger machines? Do vendors refresh? Great video, many thanks

wait... why finding who made the confessions? thats weird

Hello! I just discovered this playlist and noticed it dates back over 5 months, any chance you activated the DLC during the run? Many thanks!

Like and good video.👍👍 Mann Great Lord Guilliman must have titanic patience if that what it feels to talk to an eldar.

You're picking up on some subtle clues about the secret project. Still not a lot to go on yet, but good job, IMO. Some comments on dialogs with bridge crew: (1) If you had spoken with Vigdis before Idira's little breakdown with the fake Lady Theodora, you have an optional way to calm Idira down, which can lead to some minor interactions that can actually end in a different ending slide for Idira. Not a big deal, but it does encourage the player to speak with NPCs early and often. I know that this can be tedious, but I encourage periodically going around and looking for new interactions with both companions and the bridge crew. Maybe off screen unless you find something? And yeah, personal skills are necessary for these interactions, both persuasion and awareness (at least that I noticed). (2) Heinrix will also offer gift advice for Jae. (3) Yrliet will have a random ship event with you now that you expressed interest in how she sees things. Try to trigger that before you end the chapter. (4) Try to get the space cat before the end of the chapter from Jae as well. I know it's not exciting viewing for some without the thrill of combat, but I enjoy the character interactions, your comments on their personalities, speculation about lore info gained, and even paraphrases of the prompts your Rogue Trader says. So...my two cents.

10:00 I guess shooting a man in the spine a couple of times could sort of be considered "watching his back". Also, you think activating the dlc might have anything to do with all the conversations that are showing up.

Lord Retcon, could you ask someone on the Bridge to straighten out that carpet!

I doubt Mort's death was because of Theodora's intrigues. Examining Mort when you first find him reveals he was killed before he could draw his weapon and that he was killed with some kind of auto-gun (not a bolter or energy weapon). Who killed Mort and Theodora seemed fairly obvious to me from the information gained at the crime scene.

Funnily enough, i have exactly 1h15min before going to work. Just enough for a energizing episode of rogue trader from my favorite GM/youtuber. Thanks for treat Retcon!

To those that don't want to look up Battlefleet Gothic games, best representation of Eldar craftworld would unironically be protoss Spear of Adun colony ark.

30:35: "... Embrace Eternity!"? ;)

I have just realised that Vigdis is named after Centauri Beta aka Toliman.

To quote Nate Bargatze ... thats not what one full swoop means.

I think it's going to be painfully obvious if I'm right about who it is.

I lived in Boulder. At the time the game design doc was drafted, IBM was probably about as big as Google (is, was) in 2010. So as a game design doc, I'd say noting IBM is a general placeholder for saying large tech companies like Google. Which is funny because Google has a bunch of offices here now. Alongside tech, Boulder also has a massive ton of worldly important environmental science research IRL. All sorts of just random critically important government-science-military things. Like you know those clocks you had in School you'd stare at to count down minutes until class ends? All of those are calibrated via radio signal from Boulder. This is an example of like science-project government-military-research I'm talking about. More specific to Fallout lore / gameplay, there's a ton of research around gov/mil (NASA) material science. So you'd probably have some sort of cutting edge power armor research for game lore here. Extrapolating game lore with IRL, kind of a common ground that both IRL and I think the game would naturally have concluded to is just how elite / expensive everything is there. Which is boring to talk about because everyone knows what expensive is... But more importantly I think are the side effects where anyone in supporting jobs gets pushed out. So like plumbers, restaurant chefs, grocery store workers.... You'll have a lot of people commuting because the pay is a lot higher, but otherwise a lot of the other customers you see are going to be either students or CEOs at the grocery store. The people working there could very well be related to someone super important, or be an extra shift for an underpaid government teacher. The lore here seems to focus on kind of merging the Government science with tech, which is basically like NASA and Google merging. Sounds OK / interesting at face value, but when you actually try to work the details out, that's so bizarre. The simplification is probably good enough for gameplay though as Google does have military contracts for example. At the time this plot was thought up, I think Boulder was a semi hippy town. So a lot of care free people kind of wandering the town and being friendly / sharing things while you have a mix of hardcore elite scientists doing space science things. IRL it has shifted primarily in the mid to later 2010's with Google coming to town which has caused the price of things to skyrocket. As a result, along with Denver, and kind of a chain of side effects you have a somewhat hippy vibe left over but some crime (raiders) coming in to try to take advantage of things as well. I could see Boulder both becoming an off-limits government research city in game, or just leave that to the dome and have the rebelling hippy people kind of policing the area against general trouble. A lot of the real community vibes kind of feel like they got completely lost though and overshadowed by somebody who essentially just read off a wikipedia page of highlights about the city or something, without really understanding the culture.

Finally getting to this from my watch later list, apparently 7 years behind. This intro story is funny because it sort of parallels what happened since 2020 except it gives way too much credit to people taking action / being able to take action and it kind of focuses off problems around the war in particular, with the war being like an AI hallucination if you asked it to consider World War 2 and then come up with ideas for what a next war would be like and what sort of problems they'd have. I've been in CO probably since this video originally came out and I've been in all these cities. This kind of feels like what someone from California would come up with by looking at Colorado on a map and using some News articles from 1945 - 1990 to come up with like plot ideas. People wouldn't live in Denver for Boulder work. You'd live in one of the slightly closer cities to avoid all the traffic and chaos in Denver. In supporting THOSE support cities, people would move to Denver however. It doesn't really make sense to say Denver is exploding directly because of Boulder. You might expand on the airport or like logistics to explain this, I guess, but it's still kind of silly. People also aren't really like patriotic here. This is more of a mix of people ending up here from everywhere, with Denver being a major sanctuary city and central hub logistically. IRL this means a lot of drugs come up not only because of the bit city, but because of its central location. And when drugs come up, you get gangs and gang activity which indeed is what we see IRL. This should've been highlighted better in the lore recap. People here might not even be from this country, hence it's kind of silly to have absolute patriotism. We see people IRL desperate for food too but it turns more into a mad max crime free for all rather than people getting themselves arrested. Hindsight is 20/20 with being able to see sort of similar things happen, but even if I was writing this plot I'd come up with more of a criminal organization plot surrounded by Boulder scientific research / Rocky mountain nuclear weapons shenannigans which was a well known IRL thing at the time of this development, and Colorado Springs with the large military presence. The Denver police could've gotten some military funding in lore and become like Robocop super police because of how lucritive the city is for crime which would make sense. Then they could've been working with the military to test out ideas on some of the population under the justification that crime is out of control. Instead we kind of get this weird lore where people are generally playing by the rules and here's a couple of general theme stereotypes, let's just all go on board with that with no controversy or objection.

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That last confession sounds like something idira might say just to mess with them.

Tbh I hoped that Einrich, Jocasta and the artifact acolyte would have served as resource dumps for equipment you no longer need in return for flavour text and lore. And make choices on how their respective bureaus/ministries operate. Jocasta is internal affairs, Einrich is emergency services, chirurgeon is healthcare and confessor is both religion and education if I understand right? Only confessor had an option to change something so far. Would be cool to sponsor Einrich to outfit the liquidators with environmental suits and voidsuits. Maybe they'd get an impact on Warp events akin to Safety rating on colony events?

Good lord, they were coming out of the woodworks in that second mission!

Yeah, it's all available very early, the new companion has comments on meeting Kasia and Pasq

I wish you would show us the full portraits (eye icon on the top left corner of portraits, for your portrait its the officer cap).

Jocasta smells of stolen valor.

Ah, Retcon is a follower of Disturbed. A man of taste and refinement.

45:21 ... did the alien ship crash land on someone? I see a corpse under there.

idk if it lowers panic but can you stun gun civis so they survive missions?

Like and good video.👍👍

4:49, watch out for that one, Slenesh probably has their claws in her

Thanks Retcon, an enjoyable slice of world building. Also, some conversations very much from the past. At this stage Sauer would probably know that Lord Retcon and the Navigator were mmm close.

4:49 Oh no. She’s a masochist. Or worse, a sadist! RUN!

I'm 21 minutes in, and Retcon's descent into sadness is a sight to behold! A Sauer taste of the new crew, eh? But don't be too paranoid, it's not like they're all some form of chaos worshipper or another... Just be careful while taking your baths, really! Also, I didn't get that reaction from the master at arms in my new playthrough, at least not in chapter 1. Perhaps I failed the awareness test? But interesting to know.

Einrich "Monteg" as the Infernus Master -- that must be a nod to Guy Montag, the main character of Fahrenheit 451. A member of the Fire Department...no longer tasked with putting out fires, in a futuristic age of fire-proof construction, but instead setting books on fire.

>Visits the Imperial Chapel >Chaos theme song intensifies That's not ominous at all...

Hilarious new companion. Wonder if she's a slaanesheei cultist or just...energetic.

Innovations i feel should be in these Xcom style games. Rather than Aimed snap auto, Target a body part, Leg shots could double movement Ap. Arm shots could make them drop their weapon. A whole host of other things could happen with this simple thing, you could kncok an enemy over, or make them crawl. Head shots dont have to be leathal you could blind them stun them

Personally I would have prefered to have more tiers to research and unlock and stuff to build, makes the game feel bigger. It's also pretty easy to not have it impact that hard in a way that it makes the ressource juggling tedious... just make everything cheaper, and make sale prices more stable to guarantee continuous income through loot. I'd prefer a more "discover and build"-playstyle instead of feeling rushed and hopefully there will be mods adding tons of new equipment and enemies, just to have a continuous inflow of variation.

12:20 "At first I complained about being on Guard duty for awhile, but being here watching them develop these upgrades has been worth it. They even let me test fire the prototype. I was shocked! Literally! Glad they worked that out" Bowmen's official testing statement 52:49 "Put me in, Put me in, YEEEEAAAAH" That's now 18 kills and 5? caps for Bowmen, Yippie

do aliens get stronger over time or just with next plot research? or combination of those two?

if you have another mission with possession, you could name the segment "Possession is 9/10 of the war".

Fa-FATALITIES?!??! We've lost three people in this entire campaign! The game is way too lenient to be dropping assumed body counts into the lore bits. The Xenonaut team is a capping machine and all but immortal! Get outta here with that 'fatality' nonsense, Doc!

It'd be cool if players could make a SAM site with advanced missiles to intercept alien ships, and have it be at increased risk of base attack

I like how the text for Advanced Stun Weapons says that the Stun Batons are "perfectly serviceable weapons". They need to rename it the "Miss Stick". The alien tank has a blue shield and a white shield. What's the difference between the two?