Rogue Trader is the Deep Handcrafted Warhammer RPG That I've Been Waiting Years For

[@TheWasher18]

I don't think you noticed this... but the armor does indeed change

[@kennethgray7020]

I don't think he did lol. Cause I noticed that too and was like, "Dude! Seriously? You didn't see them all change just now?" lol

[@Anders4189]

Some characters don't change a lot. I think Argenta doesn't change too much.

[@sanniez]

@@Anders4189yes it depends on the overcoat they wear. Abelard changes a lot because he doesn’t wear a coat.

[@stoifan91]

In Argenta's case it does change. But as she's wearing an overcoat, so her chest pieece for example is usually hidden by her weapon in hand. You can see the changes if you remove the weapon from hands.@@Anders4189

[@Corusame]

14:08 "The chestpiece and all this other stuff doesn't change" 12:35 Changes the armor of two characters literally changing the graphic on them 😅

[@jeanstark8425]

This, and toggling every piece of armor *except* the chest slots while talking about it. What...

[@TheTrveMothlord]

Typical SC moment

[@leedsin3043]

Played as a Commisar on my first playthrough: The poor in my ship were causing trouble I went to see them to know what they want They made reasonable demands Executed them shortly after *HOW DARE THEY MAKE DEMANDS* The Emperor Protects.

[@GameTimeWhy]

This is the way

[@koolunit]

Reasonable....no one was even turned into a servitor...

[@AzraelSoulHunter]

Unions are Heresy

[@jamesgornall5731]

BLAM!!!!

[@Acesahn]

You made the right choice. I think that old lady is legit a heretic from how she speaks... shame about the innocent but ah well. The poor are very replaceable.

[@saggi201]

The chestpiece does show up with some exceptions such as the bodygloves which go under the outfit of the character and argenta for whom all chestpiece go under her sob outfit.

[@philmanticore4893]

Beat me to it 😆

[@saggi201]

@@philmanticore4893 classic splat changes a chest piece, it changes on the model and less than a minute later he starts lamenting how armor doesn't change.

[@dealwolfstriked272]

LOL I noticed also. Chest piece does change but your choice of colors for the cloth pieces you wear dont.

[@foxdavion6865]

Armour pieces used to go over and hide her SOB outfit in the Beta, but Games Workshop complained about this so it was changed, the community didn't have an issue with it, GW did, I was told their reasoning is as stupid as any other reasoning they provide "We don't want people who are new to the setting or don't know the setting to think she's a Guardsman, she's a Sister of Battle and we want her to look like a Sister of Battle" at the end of the day it boils down to them wanting to use the game to sell models and they want to sell Sisters of Battle models. Originally the starting outfit for all the characters was their base outfit and changing armour changed this. Body Gloves are visible under their base outfit still and Cassia's armour still shows different armour pieces over it like it did in the BETA because Games Workshop didn't care about that. GW was only anal about the Sister of Battle and the Space Wolf, they didn't much care about how the other characters were presented. Funny thing is, how Owlcat went about doing it, they just set it up so the SoB outfit doesn't disappear, you can still see parts of the armour under the SoB outfit. Also later in the game you get SoB specific armour pieces which do replace her base outfit, GW never had an issue with that obviously. Also *a lot* has changed since Beta, I've noticed the game is far more lore accurate now and has weird little things in it that the fans think are dumb, like not being able to romance the Sister of Battle despite the fact they never have Vows of Chasity, especially considering the fact she isn't from a militant order. So between BETA and release, Games Workshop stepped in and got the developers to make a lot of changes. One of the better changes GW pushed was how Boltguns function, they actually now feel like, sound like and chunk like a Boltgun, if you hit anything human sized or smaller with a bolt round who are not wearing heavy armour, they will explode into a shower of giblets.

[@XShrike0]

​@foxdavion6865 you cannot romance her? Booo! I know there are some with vows of chastity but it is no where near standard. I remember a Cain novel pointing this out.

[@ottonormal3354]

You dont really wanna have a guy up your butt in a 40k battle related situation. Chat: Slaneesh enters....

[@ostrowulf]

HAHA, I was flipping between that and thoughts of Khorn with a chsin sword saying "let's try this out!"

[@Kevin3dp]

Slaneesh LITERALLY enters ...

[@ottonormal3354]

@@Kevin3dp in more than one ways....

[@betterthantelevision]

Never had any interest in WH40K tabletop anything, but got into the lore the past couple years and am loving Rogue Trader. It has some flaws, but the setting is perfect and the combat has been tough but rewarding. Super pumped to play more and looking forward to whatever Owlcat decides to bring to the game in the future.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

Some flaws? the whole thing is a disaster and trash for the price. They charge you 60€ and absolutely cant deliver anything. THEY DID NOT EVEN HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO GIVE YOU PORTRAITS LMAO

[@Oblivisci........]

God I wish we could go back to OG splattercat days and get a walkthrough of this! Love ya Splatt! Hope you have a good Holiday and aloha!

[@KABLAMMATS]

Hes play it on stream maybe check out his twitch

[@peters6345]

Love this game finally a wh40k crpg. Hope it gets as much support and expansions as Wrath of Righteous and Kingmaker

[@Dracobyte]

Me too!

[@Blodhelm]

Agreed.

[@Squeeble00]

There's already a season pass on the steam store so dlc is a certainty

[@steverose3019]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker is still riddled with bugs after all these years. There's no reason to suspect W:RT is going to be any different. Ofc there's going to be DLC, and bugs will still be ignored.

[@peters6345]

@@steverose3019 Kingmaker was their first game. I finished Wrath of the Righteous no problem. They are both massive RPGs, with very complex systems. Personally I'm willing to overlook the bugs. In WotR they remade the Assasin Class and still doing fixes and balance tweaks. Their games are not perfect but I think they're a good developer

[@LiJunKun]

Splatt with 40K.. I liked the video even before I watched it!

[@mhjmstultiens]

Owlcat knocking it out of the park again.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

By proclaiming a game in that even the first cutscenes don't work properly good? lmao

[@Carnefice]

​@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemihuh

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@Carnefice The cutscenes in the game are almost all broken in one way or another. Either they look really silly or they are bugged or just goofy and so much love to detail is missing, for a game with such a price tag its unacceptable to me. Even in the first cutscenes that you see within 10 minutes of playing, soldiers vanish mid-cutscene while shooting. This is to me obviously rushed and nobody playtested this cause this is obvious stuff. Other times after a cutscene you can stare at a blank wall and close it. Noone of that is game breaking since its just a (ingame) cutscene but its so obvious. On other times I see no love for detail and with this price tag? Portraits are missing of anyone not important, many animations aren't there...its hard to feel immersed in this honestly when you watch a dock worker striking and throwing some goo on one of your officiers - except for when he does a throwing animation while nothing happens except for an explosion on the officier - must've been a wizard. Very little is voiced as well, for this price tag the quality is very lacking. For 20€ I'd say its a good indie game that needs polish.

[@Carnefice]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi okay now that you put some detail into your statement, I agree with you. I like this game a lot so far but I've only played a little bit last night. I was surprised that for example they didn't have a portrait for Theodora or a voice, despite the fact that she's a pivotal character even though I know she doesn't survive the beginning of the game. I don't know if they're planning on adding some of that stuff in later or what. Either way, I am still enjoying it and I'm going to keep playing the game but those are very fair criticisms!

[@stevens9625]

From what I've gathered, it's very much a day 1 owlcat game. Great story, interesting character but marred by repetitive combat, boring granular skill tree and BUGS! I'm waiting at least a month before I pick this up.

[@jeritron74]

About 15 hours in, loving it so far. Favourite rpg of the year.

[@GovernmentMuffins]

Always got to watch the splat 40k reviews

[@Dracobyte]

Yeah!!

[@jamesgornall5731]

They got boltguns right, i still laugh maniacally when a burst of bolter fire pulps a group of guys

[@entr0pic_]

Wait till you get a heavy bolter :D

[@jamesgornall5731]

@@entr0pic_ ohhh that'll be great

[@DownUnderDropBear]

3:50 - agreed, Firewatch is a real gem! I often go back to re-play.

[@AAX1975]

Very glad to see you review this game. Owlcat did a really good job, IMHO. I played a ton of the beta and have yet to dive into the release but plan to this week. I absolutely love the death animations and from what I had from the beta, the story was great and the mechanics were sound. Appreciate the playthrough. I hope this game sells well.

[@PrimarchX]

The Bolter Shell trinket (95% hits with bolters in single-shot) makes Argenta a beast!

[@claudiaborges8406]

Friendly fire? If they didn’t want to get shot they wouldn’t be standing anywhere close to MY TARGET! Btw I thought Mechanicus’ sound design was great, this is incredible

[@Carnefice]

Mechanicus has some of the best game music this side of the Homeworld series

[@claudiaborges8406]

@@Carnefice keep hearing dance of the cryptek and noosphere in my dreams

[@Carnefice]

@@claudiaborges8406 so good. Children of the Omnissiah too. If you want more of the composer's genius, look up the Ixion soundtrack.

[@EphemeralThought]

I'm really enjoying this game - scratches so many itches for me!

[@tank7737]

Thank you Splat. I've been waffling on this game. Thanks for the preview. Now it's on the to be bought asap list

[@Dracobyte]

I hope this game is newcomer friendly for entering both CRPG and the Warhammer 40k universe!

[@ostrowulf]

Yes to new to Warhammer. The coloured words in dialog can be moused over for breif explination pluss it apparently has an encilopedia. Also Mortisimal gaming did a intro lore video to help people into the game (as he was also new to WH40K, so had to learn it too). If you want a big lore dump on factions, you can watch Bricky's video on every faction in WH 40K. As for new to CRPGs, you can set the difficulty pretty low, and apparently can adjust it to harder later (I am told, once again, I have not tried adjusting it).

[@kennethgray7020]

32:52 Splat says this game has real tough combat. So it might not be the best for entry level crpg players. Cause Splat has played alot of these types of games. So if it's tough even with his experience level then it's gotta be pretty hard. So a player that hasn't played games like this much is probably gonna have a hard time. But if you go for it anyways just don't get discouraged. Games like this can be really tough, but they're really rewarding too if you're able to get a handle on things. Might just have to look up tip videos and stuff to help out at first if you're struggling. However, if you take your time and you're halfway decent at risk management type stuff then I think you'll be alright.

[@tearharvester]

as long as you go slow and read evreything then byou will be fine . CRPG's are sort of ment to be figured out so learning it as a new player is sort of part of it your shhould be good .

[@poppers7317]

@@kennethgray7020 the Pathfinder games had a story difficulty mode so surely this one has too.

[@tokeeriksen2425]

@@poppers7317 it does indeed

[@dls3939]

This game is so damn cool, started my play through two nights ago. Love it.

[@Menleah]

Awe man, I might need to pull the trigger on this. My past experiences with Owlcat say "wait for some patching" but dang.... tempting.

[@Dracobyte]

Good to know!

[@Blodhelm]

@@Menleah There are some rough edges and a few missing portraits from NPC's but it is mostly intact and well worth it. I expect the patches will come soon enough.

[@tangahkoncek6841]

There are some weird interaction like if you have 2 bounty hunter, game often confused which skills is which and forgot to give you your extra turns, otherwise is very polished and once you've unlocked exemplar levels(30 hours in give or take) you start wondering if you can build another team synergy and do it all over again

[@fitzviandraduivenab2790]

​@@MenleahMy experience is that... yes this is a traditional owl day 1 experience, lots of bugs but mostly visual stuff that a F5+F8 couldnt fix. There are only 2 gameplay bugs i've encountered so far. This is the most stable game owlcat has released yet

[@jimbryant2157]

I like the older Warhammer games (DOW 1 and 2), but this one was not on my radar - but it now may have to be.... It reminds me of Wasteland 2/3 with the tactical battles. Now to beg the 'Minister of Finance' (i.e. my wife) for money for yet another game! Thanks for the very thorough review and battle demonstration.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

I mean the older Warhammer games weren't overpriced and rushed releases like this mess of a "game" is with things missing and gamebreaking bugs everywhere. Heck they charge 50€ yet cant even give you portraits for most characters nor voice lines...nor animations...nor working cutscenes...nor bug-free combat where you dont have to reload twice within 10 minutes.

[@nonyabisness6306]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi It is fairly bugged still, though I haven't found any gamebreaking bugs, contrary to some other RPG that released recently. That's just kinda what you can expect these days. Most side characters not having portrais or voiced lines is the industry standard for CRPG's.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@nonyabisness6306 "Most side characters not having portrais or voiced lines is the industry standard for CRPG's." Nah, its just what you accept for 50€. Would be reasonable for a lower price however. I can forgive the voice lines since it all costs money, then again BG3 can voice everything and only costs 10€ more. But portraits? you cant tell me that would be a money sink or all the other things I talked about like the animations and such Also I guess I got really unlucky then that I had gamebreaking bugs in two battles in a row just when I reached the first planet

[@nonyabisness6306]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi It literally is the standard. You can look at other CRPG's to confirm. BG3 is not one btw. BG3 also hasd a vastly larger Budget, hence why they can afford to voice everything. One downside with voiced lines is that you ALLWAYS have less lines. It just costs too much to voice everything in classical CRPG's. Heck I played the heck of BG2 etc and they had virtually no voiced lines, not even for main characters.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@nonyabisness6306 "G3 also hasd a vastly larger Budget, hence why they can afford to voice everything." Not an argument unless the selling price would be far less. Yeah like I said I can forgive stuff like the voice lines or even the visuals that are from 10 years ago but not the other things

[@rb98769]

It's been a busy as hell couple of weeks for me, but I can't wait to jump into it as soon as I can

[@RedCascadian]

I made my character a face/sniper. Also, built properly, Cassia goes from being a glass cannon to a brass cannon. Girl tanks like an Abrams.

[@inkeddecker9964]

That gut runching nooooo scream sounds from the heart. If that is what you meant i can see why that stood out to you

[@terrykingpin1452]

It was surprising and incredible.

[@CrazyxEnigma]

Idira's va is the best one so far for me.

[@evidicus]

Owlcat is absolutely an indie developer. As is Larian for that matter.

[@Ratamahatatatatatatatatata]

Splat just loves russians (:

[@ludara8697]

Larian is 30% owned by Tencent.

[@bligh1156]

@ludara8697 Yeah, that's fairly recent, and they have no creative control - but you are correct.

[@Jellybelly98]

@@ludara8697 if games are good let's be real, noone cares who owns it. Hell even when games are bad it seems like noone cares 😅

[@AramazonVar]

There are only two people I am interested in watching play this: Henry Cavill and you. It would be cool if you uploaded a playthrough LP series like old school KZbin days.

[@Chuimhni]

​@@TrueRandomization Bad Day?

[@slobodanprpa5411]

Watch Werglia reviuw and guide gor this game. 1000 hours man played he knows everything about this game. He say its best crpg of the year miles ahead Baldurs 3

[@dahn57]

Splattercat often streams the games he likes, so you might find more of this on his twitch

[@dahn57]

@@TrueRandomization Your pathetic troll. Go spread hatred somewhere else

[@Phobosptt]

This game is genuinely a gem of a game on its own, but for WH40k fans its a love letter. I love it very very much

[@Wustenfuchs109]

I am a big WH40K nerd, but I have never played with this game system. I bought the game and it was a love at the first sight. Every.single.pixel of this game is pure Warhammer 40K! Owlcat studio went above and beyond with this one. Soundtrack - slaps as hard as the Emperor's power claw! I thought I was going to have a hard time with the new game system... but no. It is very clear. And, on normal, it is actually too easy. I've been slappin' boss level characters with ease with my group. Two officers (a psyker and a main character who is also a sniper), one other sniper/psyker, Argenta, Abelard (or the Inquisitor) for melee, and later Pasqal (tech-priest) for mix. I've been mowing through the enemies, even the biggest fights usually get done before the end of round 2. Officer characters are a huge deal. With all of their buffs and extra turns that they give, you basically double the firepower per turn of your group. There is one boss character on this planet Splattercat is on (the very last boss), in my playthrough he shot at me twice... that's all he could pull before I killed him. Overall, this for me is GOTY. Not only is it a great game in general, it is actually true to the world it is set in. This is a love letter to all WH40K fans out there. I could never get into Baldur's Gate 3 because it always felt like characters (especially companions) don't belong to the world they are in. They talk and behave like it is 2023. Breaks the immersion for me. Rogue Trader? Sucks you right in the world of 41st millennium and does not care about your real life morality and opinions. You are in the other world now, other rules. I am simply loving it! And as soon as I finish my goodie two-shoes Iconoclast down to earth playthrough, I am going to replay it going full dogmatic, head in the sky uptight noble... before I go full heretic! It is SO fun!

[@davefinfrock3324]

Figured this one was coming...picked it up last night and very much looking forward to getting started. Commissar from the getgo. Who's the man in the hat? It's going to be glorious.

[@russangel]

Good video this, actually shows you a lot about how the combat works without messing around filling the content with unnecessary chatter.

[@tearharvester]

This game is amazing . VERY old school CRPG with heavey reading . If that did not scare you off you will get one of the best writen storys iv read in years , love this game , better than baulders gate 3 if your a WH 40K nerd .

[@EphemeralThought]

Also, they don't encourage you to have to chat with EVERY damned irrelevant NPC... great dialogues with meaningful NPCs and into the action again!

[@bobloerakker7010]

100% agree with that.

[@AlbertoMonroy-lq2vw]

I have to agree, love it and it's better than BG3. The richness of the world just feels like when you see the Aliens film for the first time or a great franchise like terminator. It's that good!

[@Dracobyte]

Why do you say it is better thsn BG3? Honest question.

[@AlbertoMonroy-lq2vw]

@@Dracobyte because of the depth of the story and characters... No room here for stupid political correction or wokeness to get in the way of the harsh universe this game takes place in... Deeper combat mechanics and great sense of progression.

[@AdrienGagnonSoundTech]

You should really consider doing a playthrough series of this game. You don't even have to do it on your main channel incase you don't wanna screw up your analytics. Just throw up a let's play splattercat channel where you can do a deep dive and show games that you're interested. I for one love your commentary on this game in particular because you're so enthusiastic about the lore and makes watching you play it so much fun.

[@pelyphin0]

His LPs were great, IMO

[@Ethrianor]

I remember when they brought the original rules out (showing my age here) and we read through and wondered what the Rogue Trader part of it was. Great vid, always loved your passion for games😁

[@philiptandy8104]

I already love Owlcat/WOTR, and while I know very little about 40k I do find it fascinating. This video is all I needed to be convinced to buy it, even though it seems a bit expensive.

[@R3GARnator]

Another CRPG where you start with authority is Tyranny, where you're practically an evil overlord's Darth Vader.

[@Dracobyte]

From Obsidian. It is a shame that the game was not very popular.

[@1974greymalkin]

Tyranny was excellent. I loved that game.

[@philiptandy8104]

Tyranny was so well done. One of the best in its genre for sure. I can't play it anymore, I really wish it had a turn-based mode.

[@mjul84]

Tyranny was awesome, shame it was unfinished and barely a game. It ended just as it began to get interesting.

[@Setorrs]

Tyranny was trash.

[@maniacal1870]

As someone who has never dipped so much as a toe into the 40k universe, I am so fucking lost in this game. lol

[@peters6345]

Mortismal made a good primer for 40k beginners for this game

[@Blodhelm]

Luetin09 here on youtube also has serious deep dives into the lore in addition to beginner's guides. He's even got a 40 minute video specifically about Rogue Traders in the Koronus Expanse.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

You will be, better start with one of the good ones than play the bad one to get into it. Try Darktide, Dawn of War 1 or 2. This one here? wait 2 years, just scam right now for the price. Nothings working and incomplete everywhere.

[@owensthilaire8189]

Used to play WH40K back in the '90's. This looks very cool. I was wondering how long before Splat did a review.

[@KickmasterC]

Same! It’s so good, no offense to BG3 but I am way more into this one!

[@aidanengel]

32 minutes in, I'm yelling "Click on the person when you charge!" at my screen. At least you've got me invested, lol

[@Reoh0z]

> "Our Perils of the Warp isn't that high either, which is nice." Idira laughs, "That's my secret. I'm always a peril."

[@UltimateShoe]

Makes me think of the old days when Splat roleplayed Cassius Calligo XII in DH2e with Aavak, Bentham, Shen, and EE on roll4it. Good times

[@realmchat6665]

This game rocks, tied with Baldurs Gate III for goty imo.

[@lonesome_commie]

damn! that's high praise!

[@ostrowulf]

I think tied is fair from reviews I have seen. Some like this more, some like BGIII more, and some like them equally.

[@Juniel719]

Nah, i'm only 8 hours in and already had 2 game breaking bugs, i think i'm gonna wait 6 months like every game

[@Nitidus]

​@@Juniel719That's Owlcat for you. And it's apparently MUCH better than with their last few games

[@Nitidus]

Oof, no way. As someone who likes this game, universe and story better than BG3's, I'd still have to say that BG3 absolutely has a MUCH higher production quality, it's much better made, the combat is a lot more interesting and just plain feels better, narration and especially voice acting are much better... essentially everything is better from a quality point of view. Everything that's not personal preference, that is. It's also ridiculous how bad this game runs considering how very not special the graphics are.

[@dagoelius]

A Sister of Mercy using cover!?- HERESY! The emperors light is her shield!

[@kristopherscholefield1723]

To wrap up his basic overview on the quality of the game in few words. This game slaps harder than a grey knight, clapping demon cheeks.

[@brianm4393]

@Splattercatgaming Just wanna say I love this channel! You always recommend the best games for me. One question.. How to do have the time to play them all?? Some of them (like this one) are suuper long

[@ostrowulf]

This is his full time job. Much like Mortismal, though where Splat goes wide with all the games, Mort goes deep into 100%ing the ones he does. Both get a lot done fast, as it is what they do for 8-12 hours a day (though Splat looses more time sufting through games to find).

[@johnd1441]

Currently running dark heresy with 2 psykers. Oh boy, it's been fun.

[@Dracobyte]

Lots of Chaos shinenigans I imagine...

[@johnd1441]

​@Dracobyte, from how splat is describing it, I think im running the game wrong, or my players are hyper paranoid. One caused a mass riot by mistake once, and the sister of battle almost shot him.

[@Dracobyte]

@@johnd1441 hahahahaha nice!

[@tangahkoncek6841]

I hope those 2 not both unsanctioned, had my psycher and idira both spawn nurgle back to back.. I'm telling you 5% to misshap is all Lies

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

I think its established enough that you love 40k and if you're interested in a game in that setting, indie or not, you're probably gonna play it on the channel.

[@Dave-ef5mv]

Nice! thanks for your impression splat :D

[@chromekittyking5086]

Splat questioning an Arch magus's disciple tech skill is lowkey pretty hilarious.

[@garricksantos]

I don't think anyone would penalize Splat for covering a technically non-indie game. The most important thing is that his taste in games matches the audience.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

non indie? The game is a mess, even the most obvious things they MAKE YOU SEE like the cutscenes are buggy...

[@Lowkeh]

​@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemiIndie =/= buggy

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@Lowkeh Nowadays everything is lol, I just wanted to point out that this game looks very indie and not according to the price tag because visually it looks very dated and really clunky with all the bugs and awkward cutscenes and just so much is missing and unfinished, its like you play a internal dev build cause the game misses animations, portraits, objects, voice lines (with object I mean that a character throws something but he doesn't, you only see the impact and with voice lines I mean that VERY LITTLE is voiced) This game costs as much as BG3 which has EVERYTHING voiced with far more characters while it looks far, far better. Just as a comparison, but I wouldn't care honestly since this is a Warhammer game and we love Warhammer but I cant overlook the things I mentioned because they are very obvious things that everybody that did just 1 playtest would have noticed. So with indie I just wanted to point out "not according to the budget/price tag" :)

[@jamesgornall5731]

​@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi just wait for patches and DLC then, be patient, nowadays games are so big they can't squash all bugs in testing, BG3 has had numerous patches so far and RT will too.

[@Lowkeh]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Now, that's a great elaboration if I ever saw one, thanks! The visuals details do indeed look quite dated and the animations/in-game cutscenes are more akin to those of Warcraft 3 than anything modern. The latter of which (animations) is seldom addressed/fixed throughout a game's lifetime. That said, Owlcat did nail the overall look & feel of WH40K, and certainly did their research. (Tho, for the love of Emprah, WHY CAN'T WE BANG SPACE NUN?!? 40K SPACE NUNS BANG, OK?!) I don't know how big Owlcat's budget was, but seeing that the game's doing quite well, I can only hope it gets the Disco Elysium treatment where everything eventually gets voiced. Because, what little voice acting there is, is absolutely incredible, and I just wish there was more of it. It's certainly interesting how BG3 has set a new golden standard for CRPGs. I was gonna say "the industry", however, I do wanna point out that Larian Studios have this bad tendency to release their games with the first half being really well-polished while the second half is a bug-ridden mess.*cough*Act3*cough* This is often overlooked by most players and reviewers because of how lengthy their games are. Fortunately tho, Swen is a generous god and Larian have been absolutely incredible with their patches-and in general. (Funnily enough, my BG3 Act 1 experience was a trigger-bugged sh*tshow, whereas I'm ~halfway through Rogue Trader and it's been pmuch bug-free so far (tyranids aren't real, guys; they can't hurt you.))

[@inphuriated]

rough openings in that battle is doing a psychic scream with tlass that kills an enemy and the enemies death summoning a bloodletter that gets it's turn just after her and it wiping the whole group

[@animeyay4]

Gonna pick this up after the holidays, super excited thanks for showing it.

[@wildchild1823]

Im loving the game. Great job Owlcat ! Very fathfull to the lore. The emperor endorses this game !!! BTW Splatt you never used the "heroic power" your guys get.. thats the golden icont above the "momentum" wich gives you lots of diferent very powerfull moves that change a fight.. :)

[@Havok135]

The chest did change.

[@Antares-Dragon]

My first character is a crime lord sniper. You can shoot very far. Normally one tap. The navigator truly unlocks gameplay.

[@SusCalvin]

Part of the Rogue Trader tabletop RPG was driving around your ship. The game had a system for buying a starship hull and fitting it with different modules. As all 40k starships, the smallest possible ship of the PCs was a kilometer-long space cathedral with 25.000 crew and it just went upwards from there. You didn't even get to start with one of the big navy ships, you started with something like a small cruiser. I wasn't a fan of the starship rules. You might as well break out the Battlefleet Gothic rules and bust orks with them. Another was enterprises. As imperial nobility, your power measures in worlds under your control and how well-managed they are. Your PCs cruised around and took over new world, each one adding to the general wealth of your dynasty. You decided if you would plonk down extra militia barracks or a church mission on your worlds as they grew from crappy frontier settlements to proper imperial worlds. It was a small minigame to keep the newfound colony from rioting and starving. You could land with military force and invade places, but there wasn't really any system for large-scale warfare. At least one PC will be imperial nobility, the rogue trader herself. The rest of the PCs in RT will be lieutenants, advisors, personal confessors, militia captains and shipmasters of that rogue trader's inner circle. It sounds like a lot, but you are small fish compared to the people you really compare yourself with. Other imperial nobility and the great institutions of the Imperium. You can't do everything yourself, and part of growing in power means tangling up with the feudal structure of the Imperium. You land responsibilities to others, and they support you.

[@Dramn_]

what is your point?

[@DarrylCross]

From what I've seen of an earlier build, Argenta can talk a good game and she gets a pretty badass introduction but she will find new ways to disappoint you every battle. Yet you still keep her around because you are a Rouge trader at the end of the day, and you need someone to show off your line of cosmetics. For whatever reason, sales are never quite as good when it's just Abelard; he's clearly a workhorse and not a show horse, but he's always quite reliable when the inevitable tussle breaks out.

[@back2koma1]

You can place a holo on the field by clicking once with the mouse button. Then you could see if the planned action will hit as you wish by pressing it. :)

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

I've been enjoying the Perun playthrough of this a great deal.

[@Silath01]

I like Larian, can’t help but love owl cat more

[@Antares-Dragon]

If you only click one time it shows a hologram for the move. From the holo you can highlight skills to see if you have los

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

Thank you for getting the song "Backfield in Motion" stuck in my head by saying "backfield" so often in this video. =P

[@zigzagkillah7666]

I own every single WH40K game .... or owned them. I have to say, this is by far my most favorite of all the WH40k games, hands down. This diverted me form playing Baldur's Gate 3..... Owlcat did such a good job. I was kind of not looking forward to the ship combat, but I like it. The only thing that took me a little second was how the skill tree works, and still reading thru some of the skills. I will be completing this game, before I jump on anything else. And that says a lot. I have already sunk 24 hours into the game, and I have only owned for 68 hours ....

[@CooldaddyBBQ]

Pathfinder in the Warhammer 4k universe I am enjoying the game.

[@murasaki848]

Yep, looks like Wrath of the Righteous reskinned. Looks good.

[@johnreeves5152]

Seeing you play through that was like Deja Vu. I had to reload that first area 3 times and even then, my guys came out of it with trauma.

[@lorienninavah6696]

The only reason I didn't have someone go down was because I had two soldiers, downing a few people in a turn.

[@morgan5941]

He was overlooking some mechanics that would greatly increase his survivability. In the first round I find some hard cover and let the enemies come to me. I went to the derelict ship beforehand and bought a flamer for the sister of battle and with her rapid fire, she can annihilate half the field in one round if you let them group up properly.

[@scottcorso9247]

Awesome GAME! Glad you are playing it. 🙂

[@epencrep]

A recommendation is to not use the medicate in battle but after the battle to heal the fresh wound before it turns into a permanent wound that actually applies a negative status effect. Fresh wounds appear as a lightning bolt ⚡ in the top right of the characters portrait.

[@Blodhelm]

I don't normally get games when they first come out. I wait until the bugs are mostly fixed and any shenanigans have been worked out or ignored and so forth. I've got nearly a thousand hours in the other two Pathfinder games and haven't beaten either. Mostly because I spend a lot of time across multiple characters figuring out the differences between various classes and alignments and such. I figured that Owlcat has done right on the other two and gave them a chance for a day 1 purchase here. They have not disappointed. I've already got two character going down the Iconoclast and Heretic lines. Not only am I loving it, if they make expansions like they did for the other games, I'm all over them.

[@entr0pic_]

You dont have to move to see if things can hit from this range, its enough that you click the position once so that a hologram appears and then you can look with your abilities what it looks like from that new position. No need to waste movement like in the first few minutes where you looked if that lightning has enough range or not.

[@demonfandango]

Loving your work but I have a question - I made a Psyker - Pyromancer and when I got given a weapon set in the Prologue I was given a sniper rifle, so I am running 2 Pyskers but one of them is a sniper that occasionally sets people on fire :D

[@SusCalvin]

40k has no weapon, armour and kit limitations on psykers as far as I know. You can give a psyker any weapon they're strong enough to haul around. They are not guaranteed to be good, if they spend more time getting their Willpower up and developing new powers but you can definitely give them a flamepistol or melta or anything. They just get laspistols because laspistols is the cost-effective backup gun for everyone. You could give psykers heavy bionics and a human-sized power armour suit if you liked.

[@demonfandango]

@@SusCalvin Thanks for that but my point was answering Splatt who said that his issue with fights early on was that he had 2 Psykers and I was pointing out that early on he could've run one of them as a sniper...since he did specifically mention having a sniper might have been useful.......although that was not clear in my original post

[@CrazyxEnigma]

The weapon the game gives you at the start is dependent on your archetype choice. Splat picked Officer so he gets a sword and pistol, you probably picked Operative right? That or Soldier.

[@demonfandango]

@@CrazyxEnigma Ah, fair enough - didn't know it was that, that dictated the weaponry.

[@paultowers3544]

glad you covered this game looks great gonna have to get this as soon as i can afford

[@mikeclarke3990]

RT and Shadowrun are my favourite TT games ever.

[@ombra711]

This game is surprisingly great, deep into the 2nd chapter and its all coming together, I wish the skills were easier to understand but once you "get" it, you're crafting battles multiple steps in advance. And the lore is juicy, the amount of choice in just simple coversations is peak roleplay. I recommend playing with the Toybox to further fix the difficulty if you're someone who isn't hardcore. I heal fully after every battle and have infinite medine bag charges..and I'm considering fixed initiative rolls because normal normal difficulty would be hairpulling for my old ass!😂

[@nonyabisness6306]

initiative rolls are really annoying in this.

[@ombra711]

I'm enjoying it, put in about 20 hours and created 2 mercenaries to run with my team The only issue is I want to change my main characters' class, but you can only reset skills!😢 I'm tempted to start over😅 I wish plotting out skills was easier and clearer, why wouldn't people choose psyker? I can't see the point of the other classes above psyker, but I have too many psykers!😂

[@terrykingpin1452]

I feel you. Ofc I'm going to pick a psyker biomancer!

[@kennethgray7020]

I've always been cursed in the sense that I always wind up wanting to change up my character and class and end up restarting lol. The only way I've ever been able to go through these types of games is to make a basic warrior/soldier type character and sticking with him. As soon as I start wanting to try something else and start a new game it's over! I get stuck in that loop forever! Skyrim became The Elder Scrolls: Character Creation Simulator lol. I probably made 20 different characters in that game lol.

[@Nitidus]

As of yet I do also think there should be way harsher and earlier onsequences for psyker magic stuff, but also more options for those classes to attack while it cools down without using warp magic. Psykers feel OP.

[@roguerifter9724]

early game spoilers You have a. Warrant of Trade not a Letter of Marque. There are major differences the biggest one being a Letter of Marque is issued to a person and ends with them while a Warrant of Trade is hereditary. That how the protagonist get theirs. They are a distant member of the house (So distant they don't know they are part of the house the beginning of the game) and one of the potential heirs to the person who holds the Warrant when the game begins. (She dies early in the prologue and your character is the only potential heir to survive the events leading to her death besides a traitor)

[@totengunso4047]

I have sailed over 100 star systems, set forth and conquered thousands of worlds in the name of The Emperor of Mankind, who are you to deny me? - Rogue Trader

[@SpannSr1970]

It’s OG like AD&D? Man I love that!

[@parduke]

I is convinced haz bought ready to sacrifice some toons to the blood god

[@Hewardrv8]

Backed this game when it was being funded it's amazing!!

[@otakugaijin2298]

what they should've done is put a "random number generator" dice and a codec of the characters. when they click the RNG dice to roll and what ever number the result of the dice you base it on the character's codec.

[@J.B.1982]

Looks good, I’m interested. I really would like to see faster combat with these games. They need to lose the “miss with an 85% chance to hit” I miss those at least half the time. Bullet sponginess seems alright in this game. That’s always annoying too.

[@Wafflemarine22]

Saturday! Its Rogue Trader day been waiting all week. WHen I first read about this game I was like ugh another TTRPG but then played the other Owlcat games and I trust those devs now to make a good game.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

Well it is another TTRPG, right now its not done. Instead of blind trust watch a hour of gameplay or proper review, so much is missing.

[@TheReaLcatniP]

I've played this game for 70 hours and I've yet to finish act 2. A bug prevents me from progressing (a buggy dialogue and I can't land on a planet). I've been stuck this way since the game's release and I don't want to start over. It's still not fixed. Good job, Owlcat.

[@wilfredwayne7139]

Bought it yesterday cant wait to play it along with RoboCop.

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

I really miss your Table top play Wish we could have gotten the end of that D&d campaign

[@wmwwv3504]

I rolled up a warrior for my start. 2 warriors on the field is very dope. I think 2 warrior and/or 2 soldiers is the play for early game. Ive been cruising.

[@Squeeble00]

I went Noble/Officer and it started fairly good and got pretty nuts fast. I can give Argenta free reign to just rip through entire groups of enemies solo, and the trait that shares every 3rd officer buff you use with yourself combined with the one that gives you +5 fellowship when you hit someone gives you a pretty fun feedback loop to turn yourself into a scary fighter the course of a longer fight, and so far it seems to mesh well with master tactician which already gives you a bit more damage.

[@unclepaulie4233]

so so so good Love cassia so much she is hitting 200 DMG multiple times every turn

[@freeagent9511]

officer psyker mc gang! you make us proud Splat

[@Reoh0z]

I'm playing a Psyker Warrior who is a wrecking ball of destruction across the battlefield.

[@Reoh0z]

Biomancer discipline Psyker with Warrior, try it Splatty you'll love it. Its like Abelard with more bang.

[@oni1608]

Wow I like the sith lightning power your character has, that looks dope 👍

[@ViIgax]

In the somber vastness of the cosmos, a Rogue Trader is the quill that scribes new destinies upon the parchment of the stars. They are the torchbearers at the edge of night, the daring souls who venture where the map's edges fray and fall away into legend. Within their grasp, a Warrant of Trade - a holy scripture of purpose, etched in the blood of the God-Emperor and the ink of Imperial decree, a creed that blesses them with dominion over the uncharted reaches and whispers of power unknown. A Rogue Trader is the sovereign of the void, a regal monolith striding across the chessboard of the heavens. Theirs is a lineage or a destiny carved from the obsidian of deep space. In their hands, they wield not just the helm of their ship but the wheel of fate itself. Within the hollow halls of their starbound galleon, they command not just souls made of flesh and blood, but also the celestial spirits of adventure and the ravenous ghosts of ambition. On worlds where alien emperors reign unchallenged, a Rogue Trader is the shadow before the storm, the harbinger of a new dawn bedecked in war and wonder. With cannon and creed, they lay claim to these realms, scribing their names across the heavens in the indomitable language of conquest. They sail on the lonesome cosmic seas, where planets lie like unclaimed jewels, and nebulae drape over the black like the gossamer veils of celestial brides. A Rogue Trader gazes upon these wonders with the eyes of a ravening conqueror, a beneficent ruler, and a curious scholar, all at once. Each new world, a tome of unknown stories; each anomaly, a riddle wrapped in an enigma, swaddled in mystery. On occasion, like a thunderclap announcing the end of a storm, they come upon a world that sings with the echoes of ancient humanity-lost chords of a song once familiar. With the might of their Warrant, they weave these estranged brethren back into the Imperium's grand chorus. Elsewhere, they find planets that are silent, waiting for the sonorous boom of an Imperial banner unfurling or the guttural roar of a chainsword proclaiming conquest. In the boundless tableau of the universe, the Rogue Trader is the dauntless painter, the restless poet, whose every voyage scripts epic tales into the manuscript of the cosmos. They are the bridge between worlds known and unknown, the emissaries of the Imperium's insatiable hunger for dominion, and in their wake, they leave the enduring legacy of civilization twined with the dark beauty of the stars. So sails the Rogue Trader, a sovereign of the void, under the endless night of a million suns, each day a testament to human tenacity, each discovery a verse in the undying hymn to the God-Emperor. Their life is a battle, their path a crucible, as they cast the light of Holy Terra into the darkest corners of the galaxy.

[@chrisstokoe3169]

Ohhh been waiting for this for ages

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

Wait another year, its not done Portraits, animations and objects missing during cutscenes. They look 90% of the time goofy, dumb or buggy. Hardly anything is voiced too except for a bit from the main characters. Friendly reminder btw that this costs as much as BG3. I could overlook a lot like the dated graphics (cause we all love Warhammer) but stuff like portraits? come on or the cutscenes? Heck in one of the first cutscenes within 10 minutes I saw 3 guys running and vanishing then shooting while being invisible ghosts. Where was the playtest? Where is the love for attention to detail?

[@erikkelley412]

you play so many indie games would be cool to see a top 10 indie games of the year or something like that from you so we get more perspective from you personally!

[@winnie8614]

I like it. And I don't feel like player's team is underpowered like it was in Chaos Gate, where Gray Knigts was barely hitting zombies.

[@drshinobi3979]

Really good game i must say and was so pleased i picked it up. Def an contender of game of the year

[@bma4372]

That first combat you face right after landing on that planet is just plain fucking nasty. You shouldn't be facing something like that as (most likely) your first real combat outside the tutorial. All the enemies have either laser weapons (that basically ignore cover) or a melee attack that one-shots you and destroys any surrounding cover. It's fucking nuts. Only way to beat that encounter relatively easy is to deploy as far back as you can and let them come, lose time murdering the guards, etc.

[@SpartacusColo]

Four minutes in and I've learned that your impression of rogue traders is that they are incredibly powerful. And that's it.

[@seandan7873]

Yeah, that's because he decides to take 4 minutes to say what any normal person could convey in 30 seconds. Nothing but word salad because he loves the sound of his own voice.

[@AlbertoMonroy-lq2vw]

Seriously this game is so much better than BG3. The atmosphere, the difficulty and the combat depth. It's dark, gritty and so Warhammer and the characters don't give a damn about political agendas or inclusion, they live a harsh life in the galaxy. Amazing fucking game!

[@peters6345]

I'm in the minority but to me BG3 had incredibly artificial characters, all other incredibly over the top. So far Rogue Trader feels more grounded in the setting

[@Wustenfuchs109]

@@peters6345 The BG3 has cliche characters (completely safe, not a single quirk about them) and written like they come straight from some western country in 2020's. That is what made them bad and broke the immersion completely and destroyed the story. At least for me. Compare it to Pathfinder games where every character is very quirky, unique and interesting (and talks and behaves like they belong to a fantasy world actually), or Rogue Trader where to be a cliche character you have the quirky (if you are not, then you stand out actually) and you can see how that drives the whole story and the world forward. Lizel - a warrior with a chip on her shoulder. How original. Karlach - hyperactive butch girl that refers to herself as "Momma K" is giving me nightmares Gale - the whitest mf in the gaming history Shadowheart - broody goth-chick Astarion - dear lord, do I even have to comment on him? Whyll - so bland that I didn't even notice him as a character ... And what is also important - think for a moment who those characters are. Karlach is a lieutenant of a demon host, a veteran of the war in hell - she should be boss level from the get go. But, she starts as weak as everyone else. The game, as it develops, does not fit her storyline at all. Same goes for Whyll - the famous blade of the frontiers, made a deal with the devil for power, he should be an unstoppable force and solo the game until mid-game at least. But, he too is just as weak as everyone else. Astarion, vampire centuries old, he should posses knowledge and skills like no other in your group. Does he? No. Gale, the renown mage who is a lover with an actual god of magic... starts the game not knowing how to throw a fireball, has to learn it. And so on and so on. In Pathfinder, you start as nobodies, and you learn along the way. Makes sense to have that progression. In Rogue Trader as well, your characters develop based on the story you go through and they made it so that they can start on a certain level of power without it looking too weird. They are all somewhat accomplished characters, and even though they are LVL1, they still mow through the numerous enemies that outnumber them several times over. They are LVL1 on our screen, but they are DEFINITELY not LVL1 in that universe.

[@peters6345]

@@Wustenfuchs109 yeah I agree, that stuff definitely bothered me. For me the WotR characters some had very interesting things happen through the game. Regil surprised the heck out of me with his self sacrificial scheme. For an evil character that was pretty cool. On the other hand Camilla turns out to be a serial killer. You can even improve the narcissistic Count a tiny bit XD Lann can sacrifice himself for his tribe. Hard to express it properly but the Pathfinder characters felt a bit more real to me. Despite also being over the top at times

[@Alex-cq1zr]

How to describe 40k in short: a very dark space fantasy setting. There is no good faction - some better, some worse, but all at least somewhat horrible, with a lot of the better ones being in some of the most despairing conditions. There is an emotion and thought dimesion called Warp and it's got demons in it. Humans use it to space travel. There are also psychic who draw upon it's unstable powers. Humanity is overall in middle ages. Overall setting vibe is a satirization of fascism. Imperium might be humanity's sanctuary, but it is also digging humanity's grave with it's decaying dictatorship of a comatose emperor on life support and a self-devouring hydra of bureaucracy, nobility, theocracy, etc, which is beset by dangers from all sides, be it chaos gods and their demons and cultists, the ever-present orcs, the existential horror of ever-approaching horde of tyranids, the numerous and powerful hostile aliens (not like Imperium allied with the peaceful ones during it's "peak" days)