Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[yes plz]

shitty final act confirmed

again, for the third time straight

 

[Tyranicon]

I am 100% sure it's going to be a buggy mess at launch but I'm also far too excited and impatient to wait so I will be there on day 1 running into the brick wall of gamebreaking bugs again and again.

I did that with both Pathfinders and paid a premium for the privilege. I think I'll let you guys jump on this grenade and check it out in early 2025 or so.

A lot of us already did that with the beta. In my experience it has been way less buggy than the Pathfinder games, perhaps because of the less complex (?) build system.

Maybe Owlcat is improving. But there are still hilarious bugs like characters talking in Russian during cutscenes.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I am 100% sure it's going to be a buggy mess at launch but I'm also far too excited and impatient to wait so I will be there on day 1 running into the brick wall of gamebreaking bugs again and again.

I did that with both Pathfinders and paid a premium for the privilege. I think I'll let you guys jump on this grenade and check it out in early 2025 or so.

A lot of us already did that with the beta. In my experience it has been way less buggy than the Pathfinder games, perhaps because of the less complex (?) build system.

Probably. I mean, Pathfinder not only has a fuckton of classes that they tried to implement, but also so many weird edge case abilities and rule exceptions that trying to design a coherent CRPG out of it seems miserable unless you want to start streamlining things.

I hope this next game is cool. I really like the Pathfinder ones, just don't mind waiting on 40k, especially since most Warhammer video games are ass or mediocre at best.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Well, it can't be as bad as Kingmaker's release, right?...

I had 6 Amiri sitting on my party selection back then.

 

[Softgels]

December 7th

 

[Dishonoredbr]

I had 6 Amiri sitting on my party selection back then.

think of the possibilities ..

6 Sisters of Battle.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I had 6 Amiri sitting on my party selection back then.

think of the possibilities ..

6 Sisters of Battle.

Battle Sisters are a playable "class"?

 

[ArchAngel]

I had 6 Amiri sitting on my party selection back then.

think of the possibilities ..

6 Sisters of Battle.

Battle Sisters are a playable "class"?

They will be in first 6 months until the bug is fixed.

 

[Infinitron]

Official upload:

 

[Dishonoredbr]

I can't wait to play a Schizo and get some Navigussy that gonna make my character act unwise.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I had 6 Amiri sitting on my party selection back then.

think of the possibilities ..

6 Sisters of Battle.

Battle Sisters are a playable "class"?

They will be in first 6 months until the bug is fixed.

Maybe there will be a "Battle of the Sisters" expansion.

 

[Shaki]

Praise Owlcat, they're rushing to release the game in 2023, and save us from BG3/Space Skyrim as Codex GOTY

 

[ArchAngel]

Praise Owlcat, they're rushing to release the game in 2023, and save us from BG3/Space Skyrim as Codex GOTY

I fear Codex is already fallen enough that BG3 is still going to win, especially if Rogue Trade will also have out of place woke shit.

 

[Cryomancer]

Will the new monetization of unity hurts this game? Or other owlcat games? Also, any chance that Larian will license their engine?

 

[Fedora Master]

Will the new monetization of unity hurts this game? Or other owlcat games?

We can only hope

 

[Bohrain]

I got different impression from my reading this morning. But there has been several updates to the articles talking about this as well

I got the impression that it's retroactive in the sense that it applies to games released before next year, but it only starts counting installs made since January 1st 2024. But who knows how deep their depth of jewery goes. Anyhow it's always better to get a game out for christmas season rather than january.

 

[Desiderius]

PF and Wrath both had vaporware where a lot of the basic functionality was supposed to be. That's neither bugs nor complexity, it's a dev bottleneck.

 

[The_Mask]

shitty final act confirmed

again, for the third time straight

Imagine Owlcat actually learns?

Act I: more combat, less writing.
Act II: equal parts combat and writing.
Act III: less, but more meaningful combat, more writing.

Imagine both BG III *and* Starbore lose to Owlcat?
Oh my heart...

 

[Dishonoredbr]

It's romance presented

shitty final act confirmed

again, for the third time straight

Imagine Owlcat actually learns?

Act I: more combat, less writing.
Act II: equal parts combat and writing.
Act III: less, but more meaningful combat, more writing.

Imagine both BG III *and* Starbore lose to Owlcat?
Oh my heart...

It isn't a question .. THEY WILL lose to Owlcat!

 

[Abu Antar]

I didn't think they would make the space marine take up more space in combat, but it does make sense.

 

[Grauken]

Wow, I'm shocked. Seems very risky to release in such a packed year.

Yeah, especially with BG3 it will have a hard time to compete

 

[Grauken]

I wonder if they've decided to push forward the full release to avoid the brunt of the new Unity fees coming in 2024?

the unity thing is retroactive

unity always had an install tracker even before 2024, that's how they gonna determine the "install number"

From everything I read they explicitly don't have this kind of tracker for various reasons and going to just guess how many installs are there, which is why its such an insane preposition to make, just trust me bros we will guess right

 

[scytheavatar]

Will the new monetization of unity hurts this game? Or other owlcat games? Also, any chance that Larian will license their engine?

Sven got asked this question before, basically Larian would have to be transformed into a company that babysits other devs if they license out their engine and that's not a direction he is interested in going. You think they are too big now with 450 employees, well they will need to become a 1000 employee company if they are serious about licensing their engine.

That said Unity is obviously a sinking ship, and Owlcat would need to start coming out with a plan to migrate away to another engine for their future games. The problems with Unity goes beyond them trying to make more money.

 

[scytheavatar]

Wow, I'm shocked. Seems very risky to release in such a packed year.

Yeah, especially with BG3 it will have a hard time to compete

It's the opposite, BG3 plus Starfield means interest in CRPG is at its sky high and now is the time to cash in. Even getting 1/5th the amount of attention that BG3 got is still a lot of money to be made.

 

[lightbane]

I didn't think they would make the space marine take up more space in combat, but it does make sense.

Funny that in the PNP game, Marines are easier to hit due their size, but the Black Caparace implant negates that bonus because they're superhumanly fast or something.
Everyone else prefers using lighter power armors that do not increase your size.