This game series looks very interesting but looking at the steam store i have no idea where to begin

The addition of a playable organ really lets you chill like Gannondorf in your evil lair haha

My only character was a piromancer, and I didn't actually use any of those powers like ever, only the officer ones. I was not good at this game's combat so these nerfs hurt my soul, even if I can use the fire abilities now. Cassia dealing about 4000 damage the first turn and then exponentially more was the only reason I got through the chaos bosses of the game. And I just played on core.

I'm really not sold on this patch. I get that they probably wanted to change some of the most OP stuff, but hitting like 5 categories at a time was probably a bad move. Would have been a bit better to do one patch for extra turns, one patch for Arch Militant and one for Assassin. I think hitting all of the powerful options at once is gonna leave the game feeling really boring. Plus, people below also mentioned that they haven't rebalanced all the big lategame bosses so that's gonna suck.

I'll wait until they re-balance this balance patch. It's always best to wait a year before playing an Owlcat game, and these changes are 1000% evidence of that.

Terrible.Another bad take from you.

I love this game, but it's combat and progression symptoms are so complex! I used all your build guides for my playthrough. My next is pyromancer, so the improvement is handy. Pausing now until the dlc comes, do we know if we can start it with existing games?

I never knew about this unlimited turns, my favorite thing was to just charge Abelard in on my extra first turn. Now I can't play the way I want to it a game I already purchased and played for 80 hours. Its a single player game, not competitive, and NOT in early access, now is not the time for MAJOR balance reworks. Now, playing officer is boring, and I can't even switch classes. I'd rather play a warrior for my character now, but to do that I have to restart the game. So I am now forced to choose: restart, or grind through a game as a class I don't want to play.

YESS AMAZING PATCH

I dont like nerfs in single player games normally, but man were some of the skills and talents scaling waaaay too hard. When you can practically turn 1 encounters with 2 characters (Cassia and Argenta), something needs to change. I look forward to all the item and talent changes. It might makes some more "off meta" builds viable. I like the idea of a Finish the Job Soldier/MT buffed by Bounty Hunter skills and Talents.

The balance of the game's difficulty and flow of combat is not good. The way that the systems in this game are set up means that prolonged combat heavily favors the AI. If you don't simply destroy the enemy, then you're in a very bad position. Which is why it was important to make characters that could destroy your enemies in one to two turns. Without rebalancing The encounters and combat heavily nerfing the players in this way will make the pendulum swing too far in the other direction. To whereas the game was so easy because you were so strong, now it will probably be mind numbingly tedious at many points.

The big issue here is the difference between additive vs subtractive balancing. Doing what Lairian did with BG3, adding a harder difficulty and more difficulty customization? I'm all for that, it adds new features for those who want more of a challenge without screwing over those of us who were enjoying the game. What Owlet seems to be doing? Nerfing existing abilities and effectively saying if you don't like the new difficulty to start a new run on an easier difficulty? No, I cannot and will not approve of features or experiences being subtracted from a product I have bought and paid for.

I think hard nerfing the player character across the board is going to lead to some…unneeded frustration. Especially if they haven’t touched the actual encounter design if the game. A lot of those fights (act 3s final boss especially) seem made in such a way that the *only* way your able to beat them is by extra turn explotstion and massive stacking damage numbers. I mean, a lot of those encounters can be lost due initiative rolls alone

This game needs so much help. I preordered but no point in playing till all the DLC is out, it needs that many patches lol

Rowdy Rogue is amazing with Trickster when built right. AOE Greater Vital Strike + sneak attack with a 6ft weapon with high crits like fauchard? 600+ damage crits get very common. And any metamagic user in your party gets busted when you add the -1 level metamagic to the mix. Selective Tsunami? Coming right up.

Having pyromancer be basically worthless for the first half of the game is finally fixed

Its broken AF, keep getting stuck in a "knockout" loop so I can't do anything but quit and reload.

Yea think I'm waiting for some dlc and I'll give it another go.

How is mele Psyker now?

I will always remember Cassia as she should be remembered. In her prime. At her peak. She would fearlessly carry her comrades, and destroy her foes. The Cassia we knew... before 1.2. 😭

Probably necessary nerfs, but they say they didn't rebalance the boss fights in Acts 3 and 4 at all, which sounds like a recipe for disaster. Good luck whittling down Edge of Daybreak from 6,000+ wounds with only 100 damage per hit.

I didn't even know Rogue Trader had co-op! This game is definitely looking more interesting. Maybe after the 1st or 2nd DLC drops I'll give it a serious shot.

Yes, Pyromancer is actually playable!

I'm gonna have to start over and now I don't even know if the build I'm using is good anymore.

I ended up dropping the game in late act 4 because the fights became so trivial, these seem like great changes!

They nerfed 'take it down' so hard, for me, literally before the last few battles of the game. All of a sudden there was a huge difficulty spike because of it D:

I dunno mate, I already decided this game wasn't for me. I doubt any amount of patching is going to change my mind. Still, I encourage you to play it if you like it.

Thanks for the update news!

i'm so glad they de-crapped the pyromancer. calling it underperforming was the understatement of the year.

I would say Psyker does need a bit of a buff. While I was able to make Pyro Psyker fairly useful at a decently early point in the game. It wasn't entirely because of the psyker powers and choices itself but also the class that I paired it with. Soldier was a surprisingly good mix since it boosted ballistics which is what Psychic Barrage relies on. So using those two and long range attacks helped the damage quite a lot, even when Ignite was doing almost nothing up close. Stacks of Revel in Slaughter combined with Sparks of Greater Flame helped quite a lot too. Though I will admit that I did still pair it with a sniper rifle for certain parts of the build and encounters. So I wasn't completely weapons even with all of this working in my favor.

Fiendflesh Shifter seems to be the obvious choice for Demon.

if you cant find Psy Rating 1, 2, etc, they renamed it to 'Psyker Minoris/Terminus/Majoris/Extremis'

The game wasn't hard but it's not easy either. I hate when developers later debuff or drastically change games that have been out for quite a while.

I think this game could be better off with realtime pause like pathfinder. Problem is not that combat is easy, problem are infinite turns that make combat look like target practice.

Don’t forget guidance when you’re doing skill checks, it’s only one point but sometimes that’s all you need. Camellia has it.

Overall a good patch, I think. Some much needed nerfs to broken classes and abilities, with buffs to some less used options. I don't get why they buffed Psykers though. Pyromancer speficially, okay. Psykers in general? Eh. Sanctioned Psykers were already the best origin in the game by a mile and a half, and has been since release. Non-Psyker origins are now even further behind and they were barely worth considering to begin with.

Great video, thank you. =]

I've missed the first few let's play. will have to catch up. really clueless about WotR. Maybe I'll play it once I see what I has to offer from your vids.

I've never figured out who the tiefling woman who came to the shop was supposed to be. I'd guess Areelu, though technically not a tiefling, but her description doesn't match.

You really need to look into Delay Poison, Communal. You can get scrolls from Defender's Heart for cheap and most casters get it. Makes the many dretch fights in your future much, much easier.

Everyone is sad about the nerfs, and im just here hyped cause Pyro skills got buffed

I also recently went back and started a new playthrough of this and holy crap is the stinking cloud spam early game insane. I'm running on Core and yeah those first 4-5 levels you run into so many spam fights of stinking cloud.

Lol elden ring dlc its easy. PPl are just to dumb. Anyways... act 5 its trash, conviction its terrible both the gain and items. Anyways they will kill the game for the harder difficults. Waiting for the next encounter balance and maybe make a non psyker character.

you need to fix your playlist order man lmao

really appreciate your playthroughs sir keep them coming

I just started a officer build too LOL. I've fine with it cause my officer companion was just too much. At some points I she had more turns then most other characters. I want more VO and yea the last chapter was a slug.

Man I'm glad I just happened to see this video. I didn't realize the patch was going live so soon my whole team was built around those extra starting turns 😂

These are some major, major changes (read: nerfs). I'm curious how this will change up the meta now that (hopefully) more builds *should* be more viable.

Everytime I see crpg updates and stuff I think that the fact they dont realese the game fully feels awkward to anyone who tries to play in the future cuz "builds" are make mostly to the early phases of most crpgs.....

As a note about Jon Irenicus, in Minsc & Boo's Journal of Villainy it states that Jon and Bodhi rule a Domain of Dread centered in Suldanesselar. In this age, Jon is actually a lich now.