Finished the game - thoughts and questions (some spoilers)

[amills1]

1. Did I miss what happened with the warp entity that infects you at the start of the game? It just seemed to stop coming up in dialog after a while.

2. Near the end of the game I found Argenta to be a real MVP - possibly because my character was a military officer. She had a bolter with a high burst rate and, due to various bonuses, was sometimes doing hundreds of points of damage with each shot.

3. Some of the colony events that needed the rogue trader to be present didn't actually seem to require you to actually be there.

4. Bolters in this game don't feel quite lore accurate. Generally speaking, bolts are high explosive, armour piercing rounds. They should be capable of over penetration because they should explode in impact unless the range was too short for the charge to finish arming. They also feel weak early on even though a single bolt round should kill a standard human.

5. Some of the battles - like against chaos space marines seem to indicate the rogue trader and their retinue are a lot stronger than they should be. I mean, you win a fight against chaos marines just after actual astartes lose against them.

[SecretDragonSludge (Drugs)]

Originally posted by amills1:

5. Some of the battles - like against chaos space marines seem to indicate the rogue trader and their retinue are a lot stronger than they should be. I mean, you win a fight against chaos marines just after actual astartes lose against them.

This is pretty typical for the setting. A lotta things are described as the most OP hard to kill thing in the lore, and then end up getting easily killed by a main character. See: every special Eldar unit like Avatar of Khaine, Carnifex and Hive Tyrant in Space Marine 2

[Sin]

THIS IS A SPOILER - WHO EVER YOU ARE DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED THE GAME.


The shard Kunrad sticks you with in the tutorial is a fragment of an Aeldari blade from the craftworld that Theodora and her allies destroyed. The blade was used to imprison a lord of change (greater demon of tzeench) into it which through the act of cutting you managed to get a foot hold in your head.
Depending on your choices the voice guides you / attempts to influence you / vanishes, but eventually you kill the source unless you are on a heretic run (I do not know what happens there and I do not want to know).

[amills1]

OK, thanks. I remember fighting that demon and the voice was gone by that point. Come to think of it, I recall ejecting a blade of some sort from the ship much earlier in the game so maybe that is why.