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

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

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

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

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

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

Typical SC moment

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

Slaneesh LITERALLY enters ...

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

Beat me to it 😆

@@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.

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

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.

​@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.

This is the way

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

Unions are Heresy

BLAM!!!!

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.

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

Me too!

Agreed.

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

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.

@@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

Hes play it on stream maybe check out his twitch

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

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

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

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

​@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemihuh

@@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.

@@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!

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.

Yeah!!

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).

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.

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 .

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

@@poppers7317 it does indeed

Wait till you get a heavy bolter :D

@@entr0pic_ ohhh that'll be great

It was surprising and incredible.

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

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

Good to know!

@@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.

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

​@@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

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.

@@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.

@@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

@@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.

@@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

Splat just loves russians (:

Larian is 30% owned by Tencent.

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

@@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 😅

​@@TrueRandomization Bad Day?

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

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

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

His LPs were great, IMO

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?

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

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.

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!

100% agree with that.

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!

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

@@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.

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

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.

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.

Wait a year and then be excited, right now I dont see whats special about it. It costs as much as BG3 while looking very dated, having very few voice lines, lots of missing portraits for any non-main characters and even the objects/animations as well as cutscenes are buggy, goofy or nonexistant. You see someone throw something in a cutscene but he didn't throw anything. You only see the impact. You have to turn a valve but they never implemented an animation for that.. For this price tag its really bad, for 20€ it would be something to be excited about but for this much? Oof. I could overlook alot like the dated visuals but there are things not there which are PLAIN OBVIOUS.

Rogue Trader is one of my favorites out of all the 40k TTRPGs, and can make for some really memorable moments. Especially when you have a GM who cares less about "balancing the game for your party" and more for "balancing the game for the setting." Needless to say, hiring a drunkard NPC Navigator was probably a mistake, but at least we only lost *one* Astropathic Choir to a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh manifesting on our first-ever Warp voyage.

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

​@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemiIndie =/= buggy

@@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" :)

​@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.

@@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.))

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).

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

Tyranny was excellent. I loved that game.

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.

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

Tyranny was trash.

Lots of Chaos shinenigans I imagine...

​@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.

@@johnd1441 hahahahaha nice!

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

what is your point?

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.

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.

playing an unfinished game with everything missing?

damn! that's high praise!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

@@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

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.

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