Start of the episode: Oh no, the eldari are going to assassinate the governor. End of the episode: Right, time to go assassinate the governor on the eldari's behalf.
"I can't start summarily executing subordinates" - Perun "Can't you?" - Me "Because their replacements will probably be just as incompetent." - Perun "Fair enough. 😂" - Me By the throne, I love this rogue trader series!
I mean I personally wouldn’t do it, can’t help but try to be decent in games, but yeah… that’s about as 40k of an option as you get. Maybe even more so -because- the replacement would be worse.
Let me just say: Perun may be right when he’s saying that there are many strategic reasons for keeping Cassia in the best possible mood, but also, that was very cute.
I mentally translated it as "This is my justification." I think both Perun-the-player and Perun-the-trader can see the writing on the wall here. Cassia isn't exactly a big mystery. She's a sheltered noble who thinks romance plays out according to the 999.M41 equivalent of Pride and Prejudice.
That should probably be the motto of the channel. I particularly liked the "Henry Ford the sh^t out of it" also from the Q & A video on his main channel.
If you want some defence economics in gaming, look up the Nazca playthrough on Perun's main channel. That series, If it's still there, is an absolute masterclass of rags to riches to world domination through superior air power :)
@Self-replicating_whatnot that run is great. Watched it once when I had no idea about dominions and then watched it again after I learned more about the game. It's a great game. His underwater bastards play was just as good.
Setting is post Great Rift, isn't it? Eldar are allies of imperium now. Well, Craftworld and the Dead God followers. Not like Ordo Xenos shoots on sight, THREATS are shot, but what get's a Inquisitor have a stiffy is the opportunity to gaslight and doublespeak a Eldar into fucking up.
I don’t know about allies. Yes, the Eldar are relatively reasonable and are not actively malicious where humanity is concerned, the issue is they are still willing to kill humans over stuff like maiden worlds because human life has no value if it cannot be used to preserve Aledari lives or interests. However, since Inquisitors canonically represent the best and brightest of the human race I’d imagine most Ordo Xenos inquisitors understand the importance of talking with the rational aliens since they can at least be convinced that our can goals align in a given theatre. The issue is that Henrix is definitely just an interrogator and his boss may not have made him privy to any cooperation.
Nono, post Great Rift eldari ARE allies. Guilliman was revived by Ynnari, followers of eldar god of death. And they hang around enough to be seen working together on multiple instances on multiple battlegrounds. When Cadia Fell eldar were in active cooperation with humans near and around the gate. Ynnari leader might have even visited Holy Terra iirc. There was a great reimagining of eldar/human relationships past that point in the current lore. Question is if that news got to this sector or didn't in this games timeline i suppose. Eldar know, they are connected by instant comms.
Just as a heads up, Yrilet makes an absolutely horrifying assassin. Spec her right under that tree and give her some freakish Eldar sniper rifles with high crit chance/damage and she gives Cassia a run for her money in damage potential. As a bounty hunter she's okay-ish, but isn't able to dish out anywhere near as much damage.
@@ktkr5273Excellent, I'm running 2 snipers and just killing almost everything before they get in range, nice to know they can feel even more OP. It feels like Long War again
I support Yrilet as assasin. She does provide absolutely brutal support that way in removing choice targets. Also i think she is generally better served doing Dead Eye Shots. Since she normally hits 95% of the time with those anyway.
I know making Cassia happy is good, but... giving her a flower and sharing a quiet moment on the beach? That moment when Perun has to let her down gently will be rough.
You've missed one plot detail, a little minor: You can find a guy (chronicler or something like that) that can give you a skull. Yrliet will "reveal" that's an Aeldari skull and durring conversation with the Farseer she will "reveal" that she wasn't the first one he sent to "help" the governor and if she would die, he would have sent another one.
Perun after the ambush: “The Loots gone? Where has the Loot gone? Also, you might want to check because I think Owlcat nerfed Cassia a bit in an update.
They claim to have but she's still absurd. People have said it's accurate to the tabletop, and it seems accurate to how she's characterized, for her to be absurdly OP, so I guess she is how they meant her to be.
@@TOASTEngineer They didn't nerf her dmg or her free turns, both of which are the actual incredibly broken part of her kit. Mind you, I think they're good.
Giving her extra turns does not trigger in my sights, but you can chain it so she makes multiple attacks on her next turn with it. Basically you can have her make several shots at her next turn by giving her more turns and ending it with in my sights. Heinrix would actually call out Yrillet as Eldar literally immediatly. He chews out the govenor calling her a "mutant"
I tried out Yrliet as a Bounty Hunter too, but her damage output was very disappointing. She just couldn't get kills on tier 4+ enemies to get her crit buffs. In my experience she's much better as an assassin. Her damage output is way higher and she some survivability skills to stay alive and untargeted. Can't remember what the ability is called, but I'm pretty sure it also boosts her damage output if she attacks when it's applied.
I did Bounty Hunter for my PC, and after reaching Exemplar was very relieved to see that you can change it by retraining. Yrliet has been dishing out thousands of damage as assassin while my PC really rarely got to do anything useful. The ability is Elusive Shadow and makes the assassin the lowest priority target for everyone. Though it doesn't really seem entirely necessary in my opinion. The +10% damage seems nice, but the openings give 200-300% so it's not really something to write home about.
@@3DiversionsDeep no, Elusive Shadow is mostly a waste - Killing *something* is the most powerful assassin ability that will doing 2-3+k damage in Act4-5.
@@demiareu8741That's Killing Edge. I just looked it up and it seems the description is bugged. You get +40% damage + lethality/7 additional damage. In the tooltip it says that addtional damage is increased by 15 (lethality/7)%, but if you hover over it it's lethality%. I'd love to know how you get 2k damage from that though, I've given Yrliet the Eye of Hecaton with 45 max damage and she's usually between 150 and 200 lethality and the highest damage I have ever had was about 650 I think.
@@3DiversionsDeep a) Assassin deal 15% of hp max damage as extra damage when attack an opening (and have ability to create it on demand). b) Crit damage & damage multipliers are applied on top of it. Feed on some trash enemies for extra +% damage from another talent. c) Assassin have a talent that produce additional direct damage based on damage you'd dealed with attack. So against late-game bosses on higher difficulties - it's easy to achieve 2+k crits.
26:30 Hardly surprising, considering your team's powers of yelling at each other make them able to conquer CSMs. 47:45 In this episode, Perun's temporarily fill-in move ends up being unexpectedly permanent. YET AGAIN.
lets goooooooooo loving this series!!!! also someone commented before the video was a minute old that it was a great video... i didn't know we had speed of light as a playback speed option lmfao
I love having Pascal along when Yrliet mentions the loss of her Craftworld on the border of the Galaxy. "Oh such a shame. Which border exactly? Exact coordinates please."
Thank you for continuing this series. I voted for Terra Invicta for the next game, but I need to see how this playthrough turns out first. Thank you for the great content.
Yrilet is frankly a scary edition to my RT's team, with an assassin build her damage is massive, but the having to take the massive constant smugness of Elder superiority takes a lot, especially as it comes from a species that birthed a literal chaos god, it's not like humanity for all its flaws has ever done something like that... *pauses to look at Big E nervously*
@@legionofthedamned157 if you squint hard enough, the Imperium is pretty much just the Aeldari right before their fall, just considerably less horny and more stupid. So "yet" might be "soon."
@warmachine5835 I think a large part of the 'soon' may come about if GW works up the nerve to 'End Times's' 40k which I've been seeing the warning signs of for a quite a while and suspect it was originally the plan, but AOS's luke warm reception shook their confidence so we'll have to see if they follow though and Big E gets off the throne
@1:38 I would be hardly convinced Perun didn't play this before recording session and practiced to read her name over and over again. @11:34 I am not sure if that's what the game dev had in mind...
At this point Perun is unknowingly leading Cassia on. That beach moment intentionally being romantic and it just flies over Perun the Rogue Trader. Classic defense economist thinking
When I actually bothered to look into the Eldar lore, I was actually surprised by the twist that the Druhkari are closer to how the old Aeldari empire were than craftworlders.
And of course, the Aeldari are so far up their own fundament and so crafty and full of betrayal that they even betray each other and themselves. Checks out.
Lorewise the fact that it's Perun (a "mon-kay") who chastises Eldari for not being rational and telling them to shut up, calm down and get their shit together made me giggle a lot.
I'm impressed by the end of the episode. I found it unreasonable to not kill the corrupt aeldari. Especially not after you talk to the keeper of seals of the adeptus administratum on the central fountain of the estate and she hands you over a skull of the previous person she sent to do Yrliet's current spy-role.
20:44 you do. Jae has an aeldari pistol, but Jae is capable of holding drukhari and aeldari gear as well as normal human gear, while Yrliet can only hold aeldari gear unless you pick new talents... For me the decision is obvious.
Can we talk about how completely insane options number 6 at 1:02:57 is? Surprised Perun didn't highlight it. I almost wanted to pick it just to see if Muaran would assume we were scheming something horrible because there is no way a mon-keigh would openly propose such a thing! Nor would I expect an Aeldari to lower themselves to an agreement that implies mon-keigh and the Children of Asuryan were equals. At least with the persuasion option, each side is merely agreeing to tolerate the other.
@@PerunGamingAUIf you wish to speak of proficiencies, Jae has dual wielding proficiency... She can shoot twice per turn, once per weapon, and you're not taking advantage of that by having her hold one two-handed weapon instead of two one-hand weapons. Give Yrliet Jae's Aeldari pistol and give Jae some Drukhari sword + Drukhari pistol I say.
Lilethan? Janus is named after Lileth? No wonder they are here in force and numbers. This world might be far more important than it seems for them. Depends how lorebuff writers are, they seem to be on it tho. Last time world was named after one Eldari mythological deities it held a Crone Sword. >long winded explanation cut< Extra plus important. The kind of importance that creates a new God. Who knows. Aside from, you know, eldar just randomly saying the name of Slaneesh in eldari that's like "ten most dumb things to do as eldar". They are all already destined to be eaten by Slaneesh, calling that name out just cut few hundred years of her life expectancy. Aaaand she kept doing it lol.
That might be a plot detail the writers intentionally left out, since the characters have to be understandable by the player. One little lore detail might not be worth including, if it impedes the writing.
if you want to loot you need to say let me find my own way. (I did the same thing you did first time. then i Reloaded the autosave. fought again and clicked find my own way. lots of loot there.)
Yes but no. It's very hard to explain to an anglo speaker. Hispanics and chinese understand this instantly, you may not... It's all about the tone giving meaning. You can have "the SUBject matter" or "subJECT you to a challenge". Same word, but the different tone communicates an entirely different meaning. MONkey is an animal, monKEY is the negative connotation used to humans by aeldari.
What an incredibly fun series. I can't get enough of this man :D Maybe, once you finish this playthrough, you could have a go at a heavily Heretical series. Be hilarious and...'chaotic'... I'll see myself out.
It is exceptionally difficult to romance Yrliet. It's very easy to lock yourself out of it since she's not sexually attracted to humans, makes that very clear from the start, and any sign (no matter how small) that you want to get physically connected will immediately lock you out of it. She grows interested in your soul, not your body, as she begins to like you. It's weird. Moreover I can't possibly imagine Perun not straight up Henrix-ing her after act 3.
You were much more patient with the Eldar than i was! I shook the humans from the illusion and they helped me fight. For all the good that did, with the Farseer around the eldar have 95% Dodge!!! (Can't dodge Cassia's eye though...)
Perun I am shocked and disappointed that you would take the word of Xenos and Traitors over the word of the esteemed and most noble Governor. Maybe instead you should just relax, enjoy the beach, have some fun. You deserve it. Just let the Governor and her not-at-all suspicious handmade take care of everything.
Please try WARNO on the channel. It's a cold war gone hot RTS with deep combined arms battles and a large roster of period correct units and tech. It would be a joy to watch you optimize and analyze it.
I think the single most egregious example of "you don't get the loot" in an Owlcat game is probably in Pathfinder WotR, because toward the end of Act 1 there's a ginormous absurdly long defence battle where you don't get to loot ANYTHING. Even during the battle, a massive number of the enemies just don't drop anything, despite being armed. And when the battle ends, there's no chance to loot even in "you're leaving, do you want to loot" type way. And then, while there's new loot available in the defence area, it's a paltry fraction of the bare minimum loot available in the fight. Ugggggh.
Would seriously suggest benching Cassia. Or at least respecing away the talent that boosts her willpower up to 200+. I know that fun is a pretty broad concept. But Cassia is already seriously OP without that talent, and without 2 people yelling orders at her. Without that gimmic trivialisering most encounters, it would be possible to run at a lower difficulty. And possibly do things a bit more tactical than just "yell at Cassia =>stuff dies". Edit: Oh possibly Mastery of Time was nerfed?
A few points 1) Sus governor tries to steal Abelard's thunder. Abelard: Hold my rotgut. Truly the (cue the Metallica) 'Master, Master; Master of Pompage announcing his liege, bringing the sas and holding the siege." 2) Which heretical booty smoshing is Perun Stefanovic going to get himself into? Argenta or Cas? Or can that be 'sanctioned' too? Is it even heretical? I've only a passing knowledge of 40k lore.
@@togamid Perun the officer can give Cassia extra turns. One possibility would be to spec Pasqal to buff everyone, which would yield better results than Jae I reckon
