This should have been Dark Heresy

[Brandhil]

So I just finished the game last night and even with all the bugs and atrocious balance I thoroughly enjoyed the story.

That being said I never did feel like a Rogue Trader, an Inquistor/Acolyte absolutely, but never a rogue trader (aside from the 5 min every so often I had to deal with my colonies).

We spend the majority of the game uncovering plots of heretical cults, xenos infiltrations and dealing with the inquisition and its dirty laundry.

When I started the game I thought that the chaos cult would end up being a major part of the game, but not it's hole story line. Exploration, venturing into the unknown founding new colonies, making trade deals, and getting into a major conflict with rival rogue traders that's what I hoped playing a ROGUE TRADER would be about.

Again I loved the game (partly beacause i'm a huge 40k fan) but this... this is Dark Heresy, not Rogue trader.

[His Divine Shadow]

I feel like a rogue trader a lot more than an inquisitor/acolyte. Maybe that’ll be their next game and they’ll keep growing as a company, taking and learning from mistakes.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Brandhil:

We spend the majority of the game uncovering plots of heretical cults, xenos infiltrations and dealing with the inquisition and its dirty laundry.

That probably because you'd picked Dogmatic-only options. With being Iconolast - you would for example worked on making fragile alliance with local Aeldari.

[lazytopaz]

One can only hope that Owlcat decides to go full space marine and uber dense fights against all odds with small group of elite super soldiers from Deathwatch or just some space marine pack/squad on a perilous death oath journey (aka like BloodQuest graphic series with Captain Leonatos and his loyal brethen of Blood Angels trying to get back Blade Encarmine). Game was good but you got that feeling of abrupt end when you enter chapter 4 (which is reeeeally short and chapter 5 it's even shorter).

[His Divine Shadow]

Originally posted by lazytopaz:

One can only hope that Owlcat decides to go full space marine and uber dense fights against all odds with small group of elite super soldiers from Deathwatch or just some space marine pack/squad on a perilous death oath journey (aka like BloodQuest graphic series with Captain Leonatos and his loyal brethen of Blood Angels trying to get back Blade Encarmine). Game was good but you got that feeling of abrupt end when you enter chapter 4 (which is reeeeally short and chapter 5 it's even shorter).

Boo

[Brandhil]

Originally posted by lazytopaz:

One can only hope that Owlcat decides to go full space marine and uber dense fights against all odds with small group of elite super soldiers from Deathwatch or just some space marine pack/squad on a perilous death oath journey (aka like BloodQuest graphic series with Captain Leonatos and his loyal brethen of Blood Angels trying to get back Blade Encarmine). Game was good but you got that feeling of abrupt end when you enter chapter 4 (which is reeeeally short and chapter 5 it's even shorter).

Ohh yeah chapter 5 is just "Somehow the necrons are here" and it felt really abrupt.
I would LOVE a deathwatch game, but only if they adapted the PnP rules and not try to make their own system.

One of the things i love about the 40k PnP TRPG's is the focus on damage reduction and not HP bloat, this game is HP bloat city.

In Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch, if you get caught without your armor and gear, you will get gonne, it's lethal and brutal and I love it.

[Brandhil]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by Brandhil:

We spend the majority of the game uncovering plots of heretical cults, xenos infiltrations and dealing with the inquisition and its dirty laundry.

That probably because you'd picked Dogmatic-only options. With being Iconolast - you would for example worked on making fragile alliance with local Aeldari.

maybe, i kept Yrlet and Marazhai around, did a mix do Dogmatic and Iconoclast, but aside from Janus and the Jungle planet in chapter 4 i did not notice many oportunities to forge alliances and such.

My main gripe with this fealling like Dark Heresy is the lack of the "Venture into the unknown and uncover things on your own" feeling, being able to found new colonies, be more involved in their managment, have to juggle political intrigues between the various factions on the expanse (and no their horrible rep system does not count lol) you know doing RT stuff.

[talemore]

https://youtu.be/DCKcBeHefv8?si=3NcFyXf4_3jrqZoS

[Megapewpew]

I dunno, it's been a long time since I've read Eye of Terror but I'm not seeing too much conflicting narrative tbh, at least in terms of what the RT is involved with.