Owlcat Games Celebrates Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 1 Million Sales Milestone

[T0@st]

Abelard, announce that over 1 million Lord Captains have claimed their Warrant of Trade and ventured boldly into the Koronus Expanse! To be the paragon of Humanity, unbroken by adversity, to walk bravely first into darkness, to unite and reclaim what was lost, to triumph over nightmares untold, to hold boldly the reins of fate, to walk steadily the road of thorns, through pain to greatness. This was no easy task, but you have succeeded, Lord Captains. The Emperor protects!

Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Begin your adventure aboard your personal, giant voidship, traveling between the multitude of systems within the Koronus Expanse, a barely charted and incredibly perilous region of space. Despite being considered a backwater of the Imperium, this region encompasses an enormous stretch of the void, filled with dangerous creatures and prodigious opportunities for profit and exploration.



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[Vayra86]

Nice. Gotta say its a real treat, even if balance wise its broken AF, that is also part of its charm. You can do absolutely crazy builds. I have a party with a heavy bolter-wielding Soldier that can get 36 single target attacks from her ultimate skill... and thats after firing an entire clip in full auto.. and a navigator that can cast three times... and a blade dancer who just never stops as long as enemies are in range... and... and...

 

[droopyRO]

I almost finished the game, and have no ideea what you are talking about
I found it too tedious to keep track of all those skills and stats. So i just played the game, mosty trying to avoid combat and when i had to, i managed to win most of my fights no problems on Normal difficulty.

 

[Vayra86]

I almost finished the game, and have no ideea what you are talking about
I found it too tedious to keep track of all those skills and stats. So i just played the game, mosty trying to avoid combat and when i had to, i managed to win most of my fights no problems on Normal difficulty.

Knowing Owlcat games, I started this off on the higher difficulty. Its true though, you don't need all of that. I just enjoy finding that stuff in these waaay overdone skill trees. Can spend hours gazing at build options The game gives you specific items too that suddenly open up entirely new things to build for.

This is my party leader. A pysker oriented officer that can buff the party, give out extra attacks, has an item scaling melee damage by psy rating + the below item... he hits like a truck

Here's a 35 rate of fire Soldier that gets even more RoF as she kills... Resulting in over 10 attacks from the Soldier ultimate skill. Argenta can't touch this

 

[droopyRO]

Yeah, i read that Pathfinder Kingmaker is way worse/complicated in this regard.

 

[Vayra86]

The kingdom management is an absolute snorefest, although once I was invested in the game enough I could deal with it, at some point you just click through it choosing things rapidly. The game itself is remarkably similar to Rogue Trader otherwise. But: in character creation there are A LOT more classes to pick from, more races and other key options too, so the combinations are almost infinite. Lots of classes have partial overlap with other classes, or do similar things slightly better or worse than a 'purist' class with similar skillsets though, so its really a min-maxing affair if you want to get the most out of your characters. A lot of it seems inconsequential too, at first, and needs to scale with fitting gear before it gets better. Its also not very intuitive sometimes, and if you really want to figure out combat you have to know enemies well, too. So its very attractive to find the cheesy/OP/exploit-ish kinds of builds and go stupid. And for some weird reason, that's when the game shows itself best and you get to do actually cool things.

The pacing of Pathfinder Kingmaker though is a complete WTF all the way. Trial and error, so much trial and error...

 

[droopyRO]

Got it a few days ago on GOG for 8$, i will play it someday. For now i will finish Rogue Trader and i will replay it when the next DLC comes out, i think it is schedueled for spring-summer this year.

 

[tpa-pr]

Rogue Trader was fantastic. One of the few (possibly only?) CRPGs I finished. As a relatively new 40k fan I found the story pretty gripping. I'm looking forward to the next DLC for sure.