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Just as an example of silly game-breaking stuff, my MC literally one-shot the final boss with a melee attack doing several thousand wounds worth of damage (as in, like 4k+.) The combination of buffing your own dudes and debuffing enemies just results in, as already stated, silly amounts of damage coming from stacking flat damage, crit damage, and misc. damage multipliers. Edit: shameful snipe. Anybody else beaten the game yet? What were your endings like?
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I found the Halo Device in this run. I know what it does. My Rogue Trader knows what it does. Please tell me I can load this thing into a torpedo and shoot it into the nearest star.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:07
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Not sure if this was added but you can get a list of all systems and which ones you put extractors on and what they are extracting. It's from the "i" icon on the left side of the map.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:19
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Warmachine posted:I found the Halo Device in this run. Does it cause a game over eventually.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:25
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I guess I missed the Halo Device because I'm in act V now. Curious as to how much content I ended up missing overall.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:29
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NewMars posted:About the warrant of trade discussion from a while back: most warrants of trade are not from the emperor. They're actually issued by the high lords of terra, the oligarchs in charge of the imperium, whenever they feel like it. Ones straight from the hands of the emperor are very rare in comparison. Yeah, the fact the Von Valancius Warrant is signed by the blood of Big E is actually a huge deal. 90% of Rogue Traders just have Warrants signed by the High Lords. We aren't just "I can do what I want.", we are VERY BIG "The EMPEROR says I can do what I want." levels. It's why we can get away with as much as we do. Mixed in of course with the fact the other two Rogue Traders in the Koronus Expanse are uh, indisposed by how stupid they are.
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Runa posted:Part of their self-inflicted problem is that in a turn-based game, Action Economy is king. And they added a lot of different ways to break the game's action economy over the player's knee. So now they can either balance around the people who realize that and become wildly punishing for people who allow enemies to have more than a single turn at most or they balance around people who don't know how to break the game with the tools they're given and thus make the game too easy for the people who do know how to actually put together a coherent build out of the toolkit they let you play around with.
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Rookersh posted:Yeah, the fact the Von Valancius Warrant is signed by the blood of Big E is actually a huge deal. 90% of Rogue Traders just have Warrants signed by the High Lords. I think it's kind of funny that our impressive flagship is just an escort frigate then, when other rogue traders get cruisers at least. Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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The Lone Badger posted:It’s a frigate, which in 40k is the step above destroyer. Also kind of the minimum you can get away with as a Rogue Trader. A lot of them have fleets. We have a fleet with bigger ships in it, we just don't use them.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:54
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The biggest ship that a Rogue Trader can have is usually a Grand Cruiser, which is quite rare and also the biggest thing that the Navy will allow anyone but them to own.
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Well, the Imperial Fists chapter have the Phalanx, but I think that's less the Navy letting them have it than "uh, we don't want to piss off 1/9th of all the loyalist space marines in existence by trying to take it away, and we'd lose a whole lot of irreplaceable ships if we tried."
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I think the combat balance would've been better if the difference between high and low characters wasn't so immense and there weren't so many character levels (also it gets so tedious picking perks x6). There's way too much of a power curve and something a bit more Xcom-ish would've been good. It would fit the lore a bit better too if some random dude like Abelard can't become a chaos marine wrecking ball with enough leveling. This isn't Wrath where you are coming into your divine power the RT is special because of their social status. They are sorta half there with the items because for a while they keep the power creep out of the itemization so it's more of a choice than a quality ladder (no Lasgun +2 and such), but eventually you get some absurdly powerful uniques. Then with less godly character we wouldn't have these tedious fights against a zillion minions to keep any semblance of difficulty. Maybe some of this is legacy pnp stuff as I know nothing about the WH rpg.
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Trip report: Post-nerf Argenta is still pretty loving deadly. I have hit a bug that I wouldn't have encountered before in the fight in the Spire Halls after the final Arena fight. I removed Abelard from my party to make room for Wulfy but he is here waiting to escape. When the fight starts he joins in, under my control but not in my party. When it gets to his turn I can't take any actions, including ending the turn. Presumably because he's not in my party and isn't eligible to do anything?
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Curious if the flags for companion endings/missing scenes got fixed through all these patches now.
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Sab669 posted:Do what now? (bit of necro, sorry, I was away from home for the whole Winter Solstice Ritual thingy) Heretic III's ability is "psychic phenomena increase momentum by 2d5 instead of decreasing it by 1d5" (psychic phenomena are those harmless "The air becomes sticky" or "chills run down your spine" text bits that happen when psykers gently caress up but not too badly). Since Idira has MUCH higher chances of causing those than anyone, even moreso when the Veil is gone to poo poo (ie past the "woops" bar) she can turn into a momentum battery, especially when she has a bunch of 1AP buffs/debuffs she can cast every turn. Or, yknow. Blow her own brains out. Chaos psykering is a whole process, man. Kobal2 fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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At least one of my party gets killed by the chaos space marine in the first round of the first turn. I’m playing on daring and this is the first actual challenge I’ve faced. I’d assume my party is underleveled, but I had no issues at all with the run up to the fight. Am I missing something?
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Is toy box working with the latest patch?
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The Kingfish posted:At least one of my party gets killed by the chaos space marine in the first round of the first turn. I’m playing on daring and this is the first actual challenge I’ve faced. I’d assume my party is underleveled, but I had no issues at all with the run up to the fight. Am I missing something? He'll often get distracted and spend a turn blowing up shuttles instead of finishing you off. Take out the sniper first thing, he's dangerous. Then keep your crew dispersed so they don't all get boltered at once and keep hammering him with Indrid and Cassia - his armour makes him difficult to hurt much with weapons but Warp damage works fine. Janissary Hop posted:Is toy box working with the latest patch? Seems to be.
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Eifert Posting posted:It's one of those things that isn't really codified as clearly but my impression is like 300 to 400 years in real space isn't unrealistic for the wealthiest people. The time you travel in the warp isn't consistent or predictable but you're generally spending days your time for weeks or months normal time. The thing about rogue traders is that warp travel adds up fast. It's not about one catastrophe, it's about living a life of routine warp travel. You might live to three hundred in the imperium, but if you're out traveling the warp every day you could easily end up being 300 in ship years and 1,000 in Terran standard years. That's why it's not surprising the most important Rogue Traders from tabletop are still around. For realspace it's been 180 years, but for them they've only passed a few decades. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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habeasdorkus posted:Well, the Imperial Fists chapter have the Phalanx, but I think that's less the Navy letting them have it than "uh, we don't want to piss off 1/9th of all the loyalist space marines in existence by trying to take it away, and we'd lose a whole lot of irreplaceable ships if we tried." The Fists have had the Phalanx since before the Imperial Navy even existed and who's going to take it off them?
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Space Marine chapters are very specifically not meant to have fleet-combat voidships and are supposed to limit themselves to troop transports only. They don't pay much attention to that though. Since Argenta is too provincial to do so, I hired a merc to use the Shuriken Cannon. It's pretty good.
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doingitwrong posted:The challenge they have made for themselves is that the gap between the floor and ceiling of what kind of character you can build. They've made a system full of flat bonuses and multipliers that can result in extremely large numbers on the high end and middling numbers on the low end. I kinda feel like with all 3 games the only people who Owlcat have as testers are min-maxers who are absolute 100% experts at the game and they balance around those experts. That's especially noticable in Kingmaker where they were baffled by people having difficulty with some of the fights
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Kobal2 posted:(bit of necro, sorry, I was away from home for the whole Winter Solstice Ritual thingy) Honestly, probably save yourself the trouble and bolt gun the psykers. I left Idira alive this time against my better judgement and... yeah, her bit just isn't very interesting. The most interesting part is finding out exactly what was hiding Tervantes' lab from the Farseers, but her own involvement was just kinda whatever. Compared to Abelard or Yrliet, her story just didn't have anything interesting to say. Yep, psykers have a bad lot. The end, no moral.
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The Lone Badger posted:Space Marine chapters are very specifically not meant to have fleet-combat voidships and are supposed to limit themselves to troop transports only. They don't pay much attention to that though. More assault transports than troopships. So fast, heavily armoured and equipped with weapons fits designed to prioritise small craft and heavy short-range firepower, to land troops and provide orbital fire support. This just also happens to make them quite deadly in a ship-to-ship battle under the right circumstances, but it can genuinely put them at a disadvantage in large-scale fleet actions. (Also, the AdMech just laugh at the Navy's bitching when they even deign to notice.)
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I'm suddenly unable to build any more colony improvements. The boxes are all x'd out. I think this might have happened once I filled every box on Foulstone. Anyone else experienced this?
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Dec 29, 2023 11:05
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Is there anything in toybox to flip a specific check? A switch is bugged for me in the admech monastery and won't let me interact with it.
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Taear posted:I kinda feel like with all 3 games the only people who Owlcat have as testers are min-maxers who are absolute 100% experts at the game and they balance around those experts. Owlcat very specially wanted to adapy Pathfinder first edition because they love the crunch and optimization, and refuses to consider the second edition, which does it darnest to be more balanced and approachable. This is what they like and I'll actually be surprised if they go back and try to re-balance RT in anyway that significantly impacts the gap between optimal and casual play.
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The Rogue Trader trilogy 40k books I just read had the space marines flying a number of frigates that could participate in space combat. The third book opens with one of them destroying some smaller tau ships (I don't recall the hull size). Definitely nothing much compared to the cruiser of the main character but seemingly of some use. Also, it sucks we can't upgrade our ship in RT. Lemme get some cruisers options with various strengths and weaknesses. Whenever they do the survey for RT I'm going all in on more space suggestions.
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FuzzySlippers posted:The Rogue Trader trilogy 40k books I just read had the space marines flying a number of frigates that could participate in space combat. The third book opens with one of them destroying some smaller tau ships (I don't recall the hull size). Definitely nothing much compared to the cruiser of the main character but seemingly of some use. While I also want different ship classes to play as, I have to admit that the von Valencius flagship is loving ridiculous. Fully upgraded it combines about 3/4 of a cruiser’s worth of armaments with raider’s maneuverability, cruiser-grade armor and hull, and grand cruiser void shields. Still though give me that sweet loving grand cruiser the pirates have.
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Is anyone else seeing veil degradation fire off three~five times per ability use since the patch?
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FuzzySlippers posted:Also, it sucks we can't upgrade our ship in RT. Lemme get some cruisers options with various strengths and weaknesses. Whenever they do the survey for RT I'm going all in on more space suggestions. Let me construct a Grand Cruiser hull around the frigate sized original vessel, so I get to keep all the history and plot significance of the original ship and have a handy escape pod if needed. It's like the ship is wearing power armour, should fit right into 40K. Preechr posted:While I also want different ship classes to play as, I have to admit that the von Valencius flagship is loving ridiculous. Fully upgraded it combines about 3/4 of a cruiser’s worth of armaments with raider’s maneuverability, cruiser-grade armor and hull, and grand cruiser void shields. It's the Post abilities that make Von Valancius an utter cheating bastard who cheats. I can only imagine the rage of a hypothetical pirate player facing all that bullshit from the other side.
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Clerical Terrors posted:Owlcat very specially wanted to adapy Pathfinder first edition because they love the crunch and optimization, and refuses to consider the second edition, which does it darnest to be more balanced and approachable. This is what they like and I'll actually be surprised if they go back and try to re-balance RT in anyway that significantly impacts the gap between optimal and casual play. I do get that but they also way overtuned a load of mobs if you remember Which feels like not only do they love crunch they ALSO crunch loads and loads and kinda assume everyone else does too RT and Wrath aren't as bad as Kingmaker was but it's still got that air to it
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I'm starting to think friendly AI is using the enemy-forced-to-attack-allies AI. It does everything it can to line up shots that hit your squad as much as possible. going out of its way to move if its current firing line doesn't hit any of your squad.
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The Lone Badger posted:I'm suddenly unable to build any more colony improvements. The boxes are all x'd out. yeah. not sure why it happens and slots will randomly open up at times, but I found out you can click the projects button instead of a slot to build if the slots are closed.
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I'm thinking of giving wrath of the righteous a go while I wait for a few more Rogue Trader patches. What kind of mess am I in for?
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Further Reading posted:I'm thinking of giving wrath of the righteous a go while I wait for a few more Rogue Trader patches. What kind of mess am I in for? Very occasionally a relationship trigger will be delayed but other than that it works fine tbh.
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Further Reading posted:I'm thinking of giving wrath of the righteous a go while I wait for a few more Rogue Trader patches. What kind of mess am I in for? Don't play above Normal if you're not intimately familiar with Pathfinder 1e. Install ToyBox so you can cheat whenever you stumble upon some loving bullshit, like an unavoidable lvl 20 dragon encounter that will 1-shot your whole party if you're not precognizant. There's a thread for it here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3869934
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Also a lot of the builds Owlcat gives/recommends for your companions suck poo poo with a few exceptions so deffo don't hesitate to look at the thread or google some builds.
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