Rogue Trader Void Shadows - Early Access Review

[@notalefty999]

Is it true that the Azata mythic path has been added as a secret in this DLC? Apparently, Owlcat thought it would be a good fit thematically.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Funny enough I think I saw something the other day where Pathfinder actually added some of the mythic paths from WotR into their PnP games, Azata was one of them I believe.

[@jakakeda8257]

If you are playing coop with friends does everyone have to own it or just host?

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Checked with owlcat: If it includes paid DLCs, then yes, everyone needs to have it. Only free and cosmetic dlcs are shared by the host

[@jakakeda8257]

@@CoredumpedGaming Thank you for the answer

[@Dzugoslav]

For the love of the God Emperor of Mankind, please tell me they added at least 1 new force weapon with this DLC.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

I don't believe I saw a new one :/ But since I wasn't using them it may have not been in my sights at the time. I'll check after work and let you know what the merchants have at this stage in the game. There may also be more in the later acts.

[@Dzugoslav]

@@CoredumpedGaming sad noises. and bladedancer would be perfect along with biomancer and pyromancer (better than warrior archetype).

[@MohammedKin99]

Nah fr why are there so little force weapon wtf

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Hum, just checked and nope, at least up to this stage in the game where I only have the first "tier" of merchant items there are no new force weapons :( Also, I agree on the bladedancer most likely being supremely excellent with bio and pyro. The main reason for it is that the bladedancer already has multiple attacks built in by default whereas the warrior can basically only attack once (twice with a charge).

[@notalefty999]

Is it true that a ship combat phase has been added to the last boss?

[@CoredumpedGaming]

You mustn't joke about such things. Do you not want me to be able to sleep at night?

[@wollyram6248]

Congratulations, nice to see a smaller creator get early access. The question on my mind is, are officers still breaking the game?

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Thank you! No, not so much any more in my opinion. I still feel like I want to have at least one in my party, but it is nowhere near the same level of power as before. For this review I got up to this level with only Cassia as my single officer and it was quite a different experience. Still quite good though.

[@ThiagoGraunke]

Which one do you like the most from Owlcat Games?

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Ah... you can't ask me a question like that xD I like them all. I don't think I can really compare Rogue Trader with the Pathfinder games as they are just very different from each other, my brain just cannot place them in the same basket. One of the main reasons is gameplay, and I always play Pathfinder in RTwP and this one is turn based only. The setting is *extremely* different also. All 3 games have things that I absolutely love, and others that annoy me to no end and drags them down in terms of enjoyment (mostly the additional "game-mode" they love to add like Kingdom Management, Crusade and here with the Ship combat). I believe I had previously already answered you about my rankings between the pathfinders, but I'll just leave it here also: Kingmaker > WotR for the story and the charm in a lot of really well done areas.

[@Asankeket]

Regarding the difficulty: isn't it so that you can play on custom mode and have the difficulty of everything but the space combat on the Unfair settings? So what's the problem. The achievement and the extra reward for Grim Darkness is unaffected. Also you can play Grim Darkness on any difficulty. I don't see the problem. Meanwhile, the new content looks great from what you could show without spoilers. I'll be getting this one for certain.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

The problem in my opinion would be for someone wanting to get the unfair achievement together with grim darkness. They would have to do 2 separate playthroughs for that. I guess it's not really an issue though since I don't think an unfair achievement exists (at least I don't think I got one when I beat the game on unfair, I only got something like "beat the game on core or above") but I suppose it just rubs me the wrong way since this was possible in their previous games but nor here. Also, I hate space combat so it just annoys me a little further xD it is definitely a minor thing for sure, but I did want to point it out as it caught my attention based on how I usually play. I suppose when I go for grim darkness, I can just try to suck it up and get good at space combat (??) or I'll just play on custom mode with space combat in some other difficulty to just get through it quickly. With that aside, I do think the new content is awesome and is worth trying out :D even if they did add some more "attempts at puzzles" here and there lol

[@Khalith]

I wonder how many players will use toybox to cheese the grim darkness mode?

[@Khalith]

Also I hate the space combat to. It’s so slow and tedious. Drives me crazy.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

I mean, if people want to cheat, it's something they can always do, but it does defeat the purpose of the challenge.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Yep.. I've tried to like it but every time I have to do one of those fights it kind of drains my motivation to play.

[@Burberrydalive]

What armor is your character wearing?

[@CoredumpedGaming]

He is using an armour called "Breacher's Armour". I believe it's a new one, looks good doesn't it ? :D It is a medium armour with 45% armour, 0.75 dodge penalty + Lore(Imperium)/10 armour% and +10 perception

[@Burberrydalive]

@@CoredumpedGaming it looks sick. Thanks for supplying the name and stats!

[@shahman76]

I’m pyro blade dancing and no one can stop me.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

A bladedancer with psyker pyromancy and biomancy is probably a super damage over time killing machine, I'm very much looking forward to trying one out myself as well :D

[@TylerKadle]

I feel like with blade dancer you'll have to not ignite yourself since you're already going to do self wounding so much

[@TylerKadle]

You'll have to ignite then death from above them

[@CoredumpedGaming]

There are some talents which mitigate the amount of fire damage or DoT damage you take, so I think it could be useable still, though you do need to be more careful. In this test playthrough I was constantly igniting her with my Pyromancer warrior, which did kill her a few times lol but my pyro was also going all out on willpower and psy rating. Even so, the majority of times it worked out quite nicely, I suppose it mostly depends on how much fire damage you output. My main concern about the bladedancer + psyker is the amount of different abilities you will want to take as well as your characteristics. Not sure if you would have points for everything you want/need.

[@TylerKadle]

@@CoredumpedGaming so I ended up going blade dancer biomancer with 45 weapon skill, 40 str, 40 agility, 40 toughness and 45 willpower with the rest of them as base level. Im starting my playthrough as soon as I wake up so I can't wait. I think the synergy between biomancer abilities will be crazy as well as helping it out when it gets to executioner and I could add pyromancy at that stage if I wanted

[@douglasburgos8393]

I kinda wish heinrix was an bladedancer now.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

I don't think it would fit him very well, thematically at least :p

[@TheOdog1970]

Thanks for the info!

[@Narklas_unavailable]

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