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It's whatever you take from it. There's a ton of stuff there, and you can engage with it as seriously as you want. The product and the lore have evolved quite a bit in the past 30 years. There's satire there, and also a lot of way-too-serious tryhard poo poo, and increasingly nowadays there's even good, serious storytelling. You can find as much cool and engaging stuff as you like. You can also find Inquisitor Sherlock Obi-Wan Clousseau. Just don't give yourself terminal brain poisoning and you'll be fine. It's just a game.
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Lady Radia posted:sorry im sure i'm coming off more argumentative than i intend. my takeaway from that sort of description is just that it's.. another really grimdark "look how GRITTY our storytelling is" sort of thing, where people take the piss out of it occasionally, and that it's as a result.. just kind of skindeep. i dunno. Nah, you're good. There are distinct eras of 'hams that are exactly what you describe. In the past few years they have tried very, very hard to step away from that and be serious, but still grim and dark.
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pentyne posted:Aside from the tank sized weapons that can one-shot anyone at the drop of hat in RT, doesn't the w40k game in general emphasize melee? The tabletop game always seemed to have that RPS balance component where charging melee can absolutely gently caress up ranged units once in range, and why Tau having their ludicrous gun range was a big deal because they would straight up melt in physical combat. From an old post where a goon played out what would happen if an Eversor with a Halo Artifact fought a Bloodthirster using the FFG 40k rules: The Bloodthirster Malathax roared in triumph. The puny rabble before it all lay dead or dying. Now, nothing would stop it from breaching the fortress walls. It cared little for the reasons it had been summoned, or why those who had called it wanted this fortress destroyed, for all it sought was blood for the blood god, and much blood had been shed this day. It knew that within the walls were more battles, and the skull of an Inquisitor, quite the prize compared to the chaff they had sent to delay it. All it had to was break the walls. And, as fate would have it, the walls broke for it. A meltabomb from within the fortress ripped a hole in its defenses, and Malathrax heard a strange keening from within. Before the smoke even had time to clear, a black blur flew screaming from the hole and was upon Malathrax before he could even react. quote:Eversor Initiative: 36 quote:
It didn't stop flailing. quote:Bloodthirster Round 1: The Eversor, exploiting Malathrax's stubbornness, ducked under its swipes and stuck its melta charges on both of its knees. As they exploded, engulfing the daemon in flame and nearly ruining its legs, it slid out of range of the blast, letting out its maddening keening. quote:Round 2: quote:97/85 WP roll for being on fire, Bloodthirster runs around screaming. quote:
------ Inside the fortress, the Inquisitor watched as his little toy ripped its way through the hordes of daemons, never slowing in its eternal killing sprint. It had been quite a challenge to appropriate an Eversor from the Officio Assasinorum without them noticing anything was amiss. It had been even more difficult to bargain his way into possession of a Halo Artifact without the wrong eyes noticing. It had been nearly impossible to keep the Eversor controllable after fusing it with the Halo Artifact, even with cryostasis and hypnotic suggestions. And yet, as he watched a daemonic incursion that could break a thousand regiments fleeing before a single man, he knew that it had all been worth it. _____ Melee gets a little nuts.
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Jun 10, 2022 06:24
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In theory, beyond the boundaries of the Imperium proper, within the remit granted by the Writ of Trade, a Rogue Trader speaks with the Emperor’s Voice and is not subordinate to the Inquisition. In practice, this depends on 1) How much power and influence the Rogue Trader has, 2) how much power and influence the Inquisitor has, and 3) Whether or not either side thinks they can get away with trying to flex on the other.
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Oct 21, 2022 00:07
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CommissarMega posted:I don't think it will be, if it's anywhere near to how Rogue Traders are usually presented, honestly- after all, you not just the 1% of the Imperium's 1%, you're also a space-conquistador. Think to all the excesses of colonialism, then realize that you're not only encouraged to turn all that to 11, you're expected to. Indeed, it is a sacred duty (and I'm not speaking figuratively here). From one of my group’s Rogue Trader sessions: Psyker: Isn’t this entire endeavor completely hosed? We just orbitally bombarded the largest city on this feudal world out of existence! Navigator: And tomorrow, we’ll visit the largest city remaining on this planet. And the next day, we’ll visit the largest city on this planet. And we’ll keep on visiting the largest city on this planet, day after day, until there are no more cities, or until they give us what we want.
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Nov 13, 2022 19:13
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Lassitude posted:Navigators are definitely mutants. Abhumans are genetically stable, navigators aren't. Two ogryns will produce a little baby ogryn that will have a totally predictable form, teratogens aside. Navigators, on the other hand, have pretty random mutations. Extra eyes. No eyes. More joints in limbs or digits. Weird tumours. Whatever. It's such that within navigator houses they actually tightly control who can produce children and who can't. Too many mutations and you're single for life. My personal favorite is the house pairing that lead to all the babies being born as writhing masses of flesh around a massively enlarged and permanently opened pineal eye, killing everyone in the room when they popped out.
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Nov 20, 2022 18:24
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I played WOTR at launch. Every single NPC had a horse or a bear, inexplicably. I think there was a bug where it was generating characters with more feats than they were supposed to have, so they defaulted to Animal Companion.
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pentyne posted:Also, I'm playing on the lowest possible settings because I don't want to deal with fps and frame stutters more then what is already happening in combat so its kind of a ugly late 2000s looking mess. Giving me that old Fallout/Fallout 2 vibe, nice
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Dec 8, 2022 19:23
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Their third eye sees into the Warp, and through it, the Warp sees back. Because of the Navigator gene, they can survive looking into the Warp; other people are not so lucky and tend to have their souls annihilated.
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Dec 8, 2022 23:37
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Which is funny, because frag grenades are more utility items rather than viable weapons in tabletop.
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Megasabin posted:As someone who has not played their 2 previous games, the idea I’m getting from reading this thread and others on different forums, is that this is an amazing concept for a turned based RPG, but Owlcat is not at all equipped to be the company to pull it off with the merit the concept deserves. We bitch, but it is because we love their poo poo. They really do need to work on ridiculous number inflation, but that’s all stuff that can be fixed, if not by themselves then by mods.
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Dec 14, 2022 01:41
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40K: Rogue Trader - Beta released! More bugs than ‘nids!
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Buschmaki posted:I'm gonna romance the chick with the third eye The navigator probably has even more money than you do and wields considerable influence in society, so that’s fine from our ethical framework; her family would have you killed in the most blatant fashion though.
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Jun 14, 2023 22:59
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Captain Oblivious posted:Basically all of the romances in The Old Republic are a nightmare of power imbalances. You are 80% of the time romancing your padawan, your military subordinate who MUST follow your orders , or your literal slave. The only vanilla romances in SWTOR that don’t have that kind of creepy dynamic are the bounty hunter (partners) and the smuggler (your former boss and business partner, warrior lady who definitely takes the lead on you, or the galaxy’s biggest simp).
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Jun 15, 2023 01:58
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Eldar: My race is dying, our souls doomed to be consumed by She-who-thirsts, because of the wanton debauchery and degeneracy of those we left behind. We must live lives of strict discipline in order to have any hope of avoiding a fate worse than death. Also Eldar: lmao now watch me gently caress this mon’keigh
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Jun 16, 2023 01:04
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chainchompz posted:They're based in Cyprus, though? Everything Russian is, for financial reasons.
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Oct 4, 2023 00:05
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If you aren’t cheating, is it really grimdark space capitalism?
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Nov 5, 2023 15:40
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pentyne posted:Unless this is an endgame weapon disregard what I said about starting equipment holding up midway into the game because holy poo poo I don’t know how directly those numbers are relatable to the FFG games but sometimes you just need to be able to melee a leman russ to get at the juicy center.
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Nov 7, 2023 22:52
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I had to restart WotR six times in the first two weeks because of progress-stopping bugs. On the first day, every NPC had a horse companion, including all townspeople. Sosiel had a bear. The bear had wings. Launches are very special times.
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Nov 17, 2023 22:15
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Arglebargle III posted:There is kind of an explanation for why the Expanse wouldn't be too badly affected by the Great Rift: that far out you can't see the Astronomican half the time anyway. Don’t worry, there’s something similar to the astronomican in the Expanse. It’s on Iniquity!
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Dec 5, 2023 01:18
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Sab669 posted:Confused by Gleam of the Final Dawn - I've walked all around the Upperway and there doesn't seem to be anything for me to Interact with or anything. I've cleared the Warehouse, the Sewer, I've talked to the Governor. No idea what I'm supposed to be doing. Leave to your ship, then go back to the planet but to the newly revealed area this time (the monastery but it’s named something funny).
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Dec 9, 2023 22:36
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Sab669 posted:I did walk all the way back to the Starport but I couldn't seem to board it You should be able to board your shuttle from the governor’s bunker. If you can’t, it’s because you haven’t destroyed the AA battery yet. Go back to the battery and click on it a few times to blow it up.
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Dec 9, 2023 22:40
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Mulva posted:In a game that includes a Space Marine he may not be the biggest bruiser, but the only ride or die on my team is Abelard. If only because of the man's perfect ability to respond to "Abelard, announce me." as like 30 people are dead and a demon has popped into reality or some such. Having Abelard announce you is always the correct option, except for the one time you can tell Pasqal to announce you. Completely loving awesome.
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Kobal2 posted:House of Habsburg... IN SPACE! She does have the strangely elongated limbs mutation, as well as toothy gills, talons, and whatever is going on with her projective empathy.
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Alchenar posted:Okay so I looked away and suddenly this thread had 800 unread posts which is usually a pretty good sign for a game that's just been released. What's the consensus view on release? Is this is a classic Owlbear 'wait a few months for them to patch it up?' case? The only bug I’ve encountered so far is a heroic moment that glitched out and prevented me from ending my turn; all I lost was about 5 minutes of one combat. I guess the bounty hunter ultimate couldn’t figure out which prey to shoot or something.
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Dec 10, 2023 21:50
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Nelson Mandingo posted:For the life of me, I can't find the bar in the shadow section of Footfall. Any advice? The furthest point north on the map.
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Dec 11, 2023 01:02
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Caidin posted:So assuming you go to the prison planatoid thing first, and happen to save Evayne in the process, does he actually show up on the ship anywhere I can talk to him or something? I'd sort of like to hob nob. He shows up on the ship even if you don’t go there first, just in a lightly-used condition. He then leaves.
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Dec 11, 2023 02:46
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I like to think that the Emperor is constantly observing and living vicariously through Ciaphis Cain, because after 10000 years of torment and all of human history before that he was finally curious what life would be like if he wasn’t a colossal dick and could just enjoy things. It’s why he never dies in all his wacky adventures, because the Emperor refuses to let his favorite show get cancelled and demands a new season.
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Dandywalken posted:How are plasma weapons in this? Thinking to give Pasqal a rifle but damage looks kind of middling vs his needle rifle They’re pretty good. With the right talents you can overpenetrate quite a bit, you get an area attack, and in chapter 2 you can get a plasma gun that never overheats. They generally have decent magazine sizes but only fire one shot at a time.
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Dandywalken posted:Oh drat, mind sharing where that plasma is? Got a multimelta last night for Argenta so once I get her the proficiency I will try that while Pasqal uses plasma. It’s one of the possible first tier project rewards from the Kiava Gamma colony.
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It’s quite a bit west of Janus.
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Kobal2 posted:Considering the canon move for Inquisitors is to try and prod the chaos relic "just to see what it does before destroying it" ; then either immediately blow up into an abomination in a shower of innards or go stir fry cazy enough that another Inquisitor has to dome the first ; they oughta. Remember that one scene in Astartes? When something like that started to happen you bet your rear end I was looking for the “execute immediately” option.
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40k: Rogue Trader: Fully manual misery heretical space capitalism
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Your ship carries like 80% of a cruiser’s armament, moves like a raider, and when upgraded ends up with grand cruiser shields and cruiser or better armor, not to mention that one of your prowess armaments can be a loving lance. It’s a ridiculous ship.
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Eifert Posting posted:I'm concerned I might be accidentally flirting with the elf. From what I’ve seen, you have to spend a lot of time trying to convince her you’re a person and not an animal to progress down that track. Just keep agreeing to disagree and love won’t bloom.
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Outside of the prologue I have noticed almost no reactivity to the Rogue Trader being a psyker, but I’m only most of the way through chapter 2.
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Lord Koth posted:If she ever complains, just point out to her that even the highly looked up to Celestine is entirely fine working alongside them depending on the circumstances - and in fact possibly is doing so at the exact same time as this adventure is taking place (depending on just where we are timeframe-wise in relation to the survivors of Cadia retreating). It is highly unlikely she even knows that Celestine exists or that Cadia fell. Not only is she temporally displaced, the people of the Koronus sector don’t know what is happening in the greater Imperium, only that the Maw has closed and the astronomicon is shrouded. There is no mention of the cicatrix maledictum because they are on the wrong side of it and the Maw is between it and them.
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SHISHKABOB posted:id like a tip about spoilers for Janus: do I HAVE to kill all these rebels in the forest after i let the Eldar lady take me there? Some but not all of them. The first encounter from the climb-down is mandatory. You can talk your way out of the one by the webway portal, and if you do, the ones from the upper ledge before the climbdown despawn.
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Further Reading posted:My character hosed Jae and then became invisible for a long period of time. You just went down to the agri-world to pick up some lho.
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There is even a dogmatic choice for cooperation where you tell the filthy xenos they can live out in the jungles and coexist with some level of cooperation but humans will only be ruled by humans. I appreciate how much this game lets you get away with so long as you can justify it For The Emperor.
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