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Rogue Trader - Void Shadows Preview

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Jul 12, 2024.

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    [​IMG]Polygon checked out the DLC Void Shadows:

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    Rogue Trader's post-launch patches paved the way for Void Shadows

    The CRPG's first expansion focuses on your voidship

    Kibbelah, a Death Cult Assassin, approaches a vast statue of the God-Emperor, a mythic figure in the setting of Warhammer 40,000.

    Cass Marshall is a news writer focusing on gaming and culture coverage, taking a particular interest in the human stories of the wild world of online games.
    At launch, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was a tricky game to recommend, even though it's a lovingly crafted adaptation of the Koronus Expanse, building off lore that I love from the tabletop RPGs. The initial conflict pulled me into the story, and I stuck around to help my companions achieve their goals. But there was an opaque leveling system that required constant math homework, there were bugs in the latter half of the game, and it had some awkward, fiddly bits. Luckily, developer Owlcat Games has continued to work on Rogue Trader, patching it regularly. Now, with the game's first expansion within sight, I'm thrilled to see what the story looks like with extra layers of long-term polish.

    Rogue Trader is both big and dense; it's so complex that even Owlcat lost track of all the various interlocking scenarios. "There were some sequences and scenes that were performing in a way we didn't expect. It was an almost scientific discovery to understand how things would work or not work together in combination," said Anatoly Shestov, executive producer on Rogue Trader.

    Having players go through the campaign provided much more data to Owlcat than internal playtests. Since the game's original release, Owlcat has released 10 patches, fixing thousands of issues and implementing quality-of-life updates, and tweaks to UI art, difficulty, boss design, character progression, narrative issues, and more. This process paved the road toward the game's first expansion: Void Shadows. According to Shestov, Void Shadows is inspired by mechanics that the team wanted to tackle for launch, but ultimately had to put on the back burner.

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