You missed something fairly early that I feel would've been a dead giveaway to what was going on had you found it - The shrine to the Emperor was abandoned and in bad repair. Aint no proper imperial planet would have an abandoned shrine to the Emperor... in the capital, no less.
Is he sidestepping them or is it just the sensible path to not hit on in a blatant way either the racist "Alien" (I'm admittedly a newcomer to 40K but I'm convinced there's some panspermia thing going on with the Eldari, like, oh, lanky humanoid, so alien, nothing like the 3-eyed, lanky, pale mutant but very much human lady already with us?) or the powerfully psychic Navigator who is also unrestrained enough to accidentally kill a hundred birds with her thoughts alone? Like, I haven't gotten this far in the game yet, but Cassia, at least, seems like someone you want to find her own way into your arms, trying to force her there (all the options so far have seemed _very_ forward) seems like it runs a very real risk of your head or nutsack exploding. Say nothing of the "alien" having just said she's disgusted at the idea of sex with your species, like, yeah, that's the perfect time to try to romance her.
@@Lazarus7000 Navigator gene is recessive. Wasting or destroying Navigator gene is not exactly Heresy but it's suicide politically and if you do that, you will never EVER have navigators on your ships again. And that's like baked in to the "constitution" of the Imperium if not directly, then by default it just is like that because Navigator Houses are part of the Senate. They derive their power directly from that gene and uh, no, don't do that what you just thought. This on top of the fact that Cassia will mutate constantly over her entire life. She might be "good looking" now but hundred years later she will be closer to an amorphous blob from warp exposure. Her genes marry her to be half-there-half-realspace. It's not pretty. Navigator gene itself is result of technology, way to make it are lost to the Long Night. (sentient robots rebelled, Eye of Terror opened, most planets went full chaos or devolved to Medieval, no warp travel was possible, every psyker (entirely new concept to humans) became a portal that popped out things called "Enslavers" or went full "warlord with mind control powers" and then went chaos, terrible times all told) As for panspermia? Yees? Eldar, orks and arguably humans are result of the War in Heaven between Necrons and Old Ones 60mil years ago, Eldar were warp linked biological warmachines to fight warp-deaddened Necrons, Orks were "one spore to create a population of fighters with genetically in-built technological prowess". Made to purpose. Eldar Gods are Old One's, (now all dead or worse) their mythology is factual account of the War in Heaven. Humans aren't directly referenced but there's hints in lore it might be the case. Old One's were profilic about creating new life. As for Eldar? Well, if she is into bestiality.
@@Lazarus7000 romancing cassia is the worst possible option, lore-wise... it basically means the rogue trader dynasty goes byebye... also who knows what happens to the ship if cassia every has a sudden increase in joy (phrased to avoid another shadowban by yt) the aeldari is... problematic... she feels all the feels, ever and perun is a wax figure compared to her... argenta is married to big e, so out of question... the psyker... no, just no... she already summons random daemons, she should be vented into space asap there was(is?) another follower on footfall, she *could* be feasable, but she's pretty much a cutthroat black/grey market merchant, so kinda risky in her own rights
I think it's a little ironic that you built your strategy around yelling at your people to make them powerful, but you have to bring Abelard for when someone not on your team needs talking to
An Aeldari lecturing another species about 'animalistic lust'? Could you remind me of the origin story of 'She who Thirsts' again oh sanctimonious one?
And to even more irony - Yrliet lecturing us is basically a teenager (she doing only her first adult Path). And *very* naughty one (picked Outcast to be first path).
There are very few things in this world more comforting than laying in bed, hugging a 120cm long 1:3 scale plushie of an AIM-54, and listening to an Aussie bloke explain Warhammer lore.
"Remember who entrusted this world to me without fear of treachery" You mean the woman who got assassinated because she trusted the wrong person and faced treachery? Why in the Emperor's name would you think that makes you trustworthy?
Honestly, the notion that anyone who's legally human in 40k would be trustworthy is kind of wild. The empire's a sprawling hellscape with virtually the entirely leadership trending very strongly towards some mix of maximum corruption, incompetence and callous indifference to human suffering...
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That's specifically so Abelard can use his Brace for Impact ability, which gives everyone a buff for the battle and then gives everyone a short move so they can *then* disperse.
I mean, you see from the options in talking to the governor, asking if Theodora knew and what not, that the player is realizing that Theodora's whole infrastructure was pretty heretical
After 49:47, I wish you had shown how the conversation went, or at least summarized Yrliet's response. It would have been nice to know if she ended up being dismissive or more appreciative.
It's too bad that you're not much of a fan of Yrilet in the squad. I know Argenta and Cassia are super powerful, but there's something about an assassin-specced Eldar doing hundreds or thousands of damage with crits that is so satisfying. Maybe you can build her that way and bring her along for later boss fights.
Yep, when she's specced as an assassin she can really deal the hurt to the very beefy later bosses, especially with the ultimate that does bonus 25% of missing wounds.
I personally love giving her the officer ultimate and having 5 attacks of 300-400 dmg. The bounty hunter just seems generally disappointing. Also Perun just uses in my sights instead of actually shooting and then all targets die too quickly so she doesn't do anything.
Perun gives Cassia a flower: "hey, it's for the safety of my crew." Perun asks Cassia to give him a painting: "hey, it's for the safety of my crew." Perun wakes up in bed after a long night with Cassia: "hey, it's for the safety of my crew."
"Mon-keigh, I have worked tirelessly to put into words what it feels like to be immersed in a higher consciousness." [Talks like a neopagan describing psilocybin]
Oh god for all thats holy, Perun need to do the quest to give Jae her trade license. As it brings him into contact with the BLESSED BUREAUCRACY of the Emperor! Newer have i seen a quest so perfectly illustrate what the empire is all about.
Perun, you might want to consider going to a custom difficulty setting to make land combat harder but keep space combat the same - every boss fight is a slam dunk! You killed the governor before the Aeldari could do anything...
Ive checked the dificulty settings (found some vid from early access so it might not be acurate) and since Perun already set it to unfair there's not much more he can do to increese it, here's all the remaining options: Increese enemy dodge bonus from +20% to +30% Increese enemy demage from +20% to +30% Increese NPC stat buffs from +20% to +30% Increese enemy health from +80% to +100% With all the free turns and the demage Cassia and Argenta can do i don't think it will change much
Now imagine using all meta-builds (Perun trying his best to avoid or at least don't go for complete min-maxing) & hand-crafter party (because hand-made shooter is waaaay better then Argenta or Yrliet) & not being lazy with buffing like Perun... Game is ridiculously easy. Probably it's even good as previous Owlcat games were too complex for new players unfamiliar with table-top Pathfinder / D&D 3E.
In the Lore there are multiple Inquisitors who had themselves Eldar in their retinues. Plus a little spoiler: The inquisitor Heinrix belongs to works himself with Xenos, so he might have influenced Heinrix to be more open to that.
@@pieter-bashoogsteen2283 nah, they are simultaneously one of the most rational as well as irrational as they often make decisions based on visions of future
Note that in later chapters more colony projects unlock, so you can potentially lock yourself out of a couple projects. Several are similarly exclusive projects, so it won't be too bad, but just a heads up.
I would like to throw in another recommendation for Yrliet as an assasin. It works a lot better with her stats and choice of weapon. Also possibly it was overlooked that she can use her Special Snipe Ability AFTER she has made a regular Dead-Eye shot. Meaning that by default she shoots twice. 3 times if you pick the special assasin attack. As an assasin she was able to snipe down the maid of honor before she could act in my run. Edit. On the +str gauntlets their best use is likely helping someone weak use a heavy weapon.
As Wanderer's Portent is fixed now - she quickly have unlimited amount of attacks per turn (100% crit chance isn't hard to achieve) and her unique ability is useless.
As Wanderer's Portent is fixed now - she quickly have unlimited amount of attacks per turn (100% crit chance isn't hard to achieve) and her unique ability is useless.
Thank you for the episode, and as kind of backhanded compliment because of you I can't watch other let's plays of this game the editing the RP the logical decisions they are a rare thing...
@@PerunGamingAU I haven't done much in depth testing of it so I don't know if it counts as a different attack for the purposes of any follow-up. but if you're shooting with Wildfire it always generates some versatility if you're doing say, two burst attacks in a row, with the latter with Wildfire
I've had a a week or so break from Rogue Trader, but the sight (and sound) of Argenta letting rip with a heavy bolter stirs my soul. In a thoroughly pious manner, of course... I need to get playing again.
Yrilet calling humans weak minded is pretty funny to me considering all the extremely stupid, self-destructive stuff the eldar do for no good reason later.
I'd recommend the painful respec for Yrielt into assassin as she does a ton of damage in act 3 that you will really need. She took over Argenta's spot of being buffed in my triple officer setup
I am running similar Cassia and main chracter oficer build. And one oficer is enough supplementing cassia until some act three bosses who screw player over by interrupting player turn when they lost third of their lives and start their own full turn in which they go immediately after Cassia.
Out of curiosity, why not have Cassia use Inspire more liberally on Argenta? Ends up being a solid damage boost, especially with the heavy bolter and the flat + damage on inspire talent.
It's a time to return on investment thing so far - i can convert those stacks into an extra hundred damage now or X per turn. as Argentas rate of fire increases, the trade-off favours doing it more and more (since it's per round fired) which is why I picked up the talent at all. you'll see me do it more now that argenta has a heavy bolter and wildfire
Might i suggest not using Yrliet's skill (which ends her turn and doesn't do much damage. Hot on the trail isn't great either.) You can/should mark 3 prey targets and it uses no actions. Others killing those prey targets will give Yrleit a turn - which she should use to shoot. (If she was an Assassin she would be a killing machine.)
I'm new to 40K but are the Eldar really aliens, or are they just some long-lost offshoot of humanity? Because the mutant human navigator, with three eyes and gills and long limbs and claws is way more "alien" than a lanky humanoid with two eyes and no gills. I can't help but wonder if it's something like in Star Control II, which has no end of appropriately alien aliens, with shellfish and regular fish (which are psychic projections of extradimensional entities) in power armor and flesh blobs and sentient fungus and sentient plants and so-on, and then you meet the Syreen, which are blue humans. They are in fact related to humans, or we to them, through influence of the setting's interpretation of the "Little Green/Grey Saucer Men" who are from yet _another_ dimension. They warn you that the fish men are basically 40K Warp horrors that disappeared the only other humanlike race, who were simply synthetic humans that left to forge their own path, and vanished.
Without lore diving too far, there was a species called the old ones that appear to have their fingerprints on a couple of species but the eldar are not humans. i believe there is some very old fluff about human eldar hybrids though. someone can correct me on that.
@@PerunGamingAU Would that be Illiyan Nastase - a half-Eldar, half-Human Imperial Astropath (and Chief Librarian of the Ultramarines) from ... First Edition? There was a lot of crazy in the early editions.
the Aldari or Elder as humanity refers to them are ancient far far more ancient than us. the reason they call us monkeys... sorry. Monkaigh is because when they ruled the stars that is all we were. we originate from different places (and they were purpose crafted and elevated to fight in a space war on behalf of a race that meddled in the evolution of countless worlds.) they are however one of the Xenos races most similar to us. there is some indication that in the past when relations were better that some interbred with us (though their kind views that as akin to beasialtiy... then again the Deamon Prince of violation and Pleasure and excess was born of them... so a little beastiality wouldn't be anywhere near the worst of their excesses.) even by 30K (the horus herasy) relations were rocky.... and yet the emperor had a webway gate in his palace and frequently sought the advice of and advised an Aldari Farseer. and we had ongoing trade relations at the time that are the foundation of the rouge trader permissions to trade with Xenos to this day. we are more related than either side would like to admit. but also totally distinct species. even if we can produce the occasional mule between us.
The pool's closed due to heresy. 35:12 in any other case i would quip that lady doth protest too much but it's Craftworld Eldar we're talking about, they really do be like that.
I think perhaps 'mon-keigh' is pronounced 'mon-kay' (for the Poms among us) or possibly 'mon-kee' (in either case: monkey). WH40K is full of weird references like that. Goff Orks are goths, for instance.
I had a sudden thought while watching this. The governess may well have been perfectly aware of the Eldari's xenos nature, and simply chosen to pretend she thought they were mutants, since even as a planetary govenor, it would be illegal to consort with xenos, but there is nothing wrong with making use of the local inbreds. And really, who is to say what a Xenos is anyway?
Despite of all WH40k grim dark and "there is only war" stuff - countless Imperial worlds are living peaceful life. Most of population never saw a living xeno.
In my game the Maid of Honour stabbed the governor in the back before retreating into the debauchery-den, I couldn't loot her after that tho, no needler for me :(
Its honestly kind of funny to play this game as a heretic. The game constantly beats you over the head with how stupid, short-sighted and obviously terrible any kind of even slightly heretical belief is and then you, the guy who witnesses all this, turns around and goes "but i'm built different".
@@scorpioneldaractually the Monkeigh name is just a catch-all term that they use to describe violent, brutish races after they suffered from such a race before they exterminated them, it's really just sheer coincidence that the pronunciation matches with our name for Monkeys, not that the general 40k human knows what a monkey is as they've been extinct for many millennias.
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.
Ah, im sort of annoyed that Yrliet comes to Perun to complain about humans. I do not see how would be any different. (Sure, he did a thing, but it shouldnt be impressive enough to change her view of him.) Idk, that felt very scripted. So far the game felt rather well designed in that regard. Ah, nevermind, it will be alright.
... I'll have you reminded that this is an intentionally dystopian universe. Don't get offended or let it get to you or whatever. The game represents a very dark outlook on the future of humanity and it's relationship with other denizens of the universe that are also pretty evil as well. Nobody is "good" here.
