Warhammer: 40,000 - Rogue Trader - CRPG by Owlcat games

[Male Idiot]

I don't like the space combat much, but you can set just that part to easiest.

I did explore, but usually nevwr bothered with greening all routes out. The ship enemy encounters are free xp sessions, after all. Especially when you get Argenta and later Ulfar going. The two with Cassia and another officer can absolutely bulldoze those encounters.

 

[ShitLurker]

Kingmaker is pretty rough, being their first game. The first half is a very charming, low level(ish) fantasy RPG that's great, but then the second half is rushed to Hell. I'd still recommend it if you like party based RPGs with a focus on story and questing.

I was enjoying it till I hit the kingdom maker part, got overwhelmed and haven't touched it since.

Are Wrath and Rogue Trader more focused? Though I have Rogue Trader in my wishlist, I am aware owlcat has a fame of releasing games half baked and it's best to wait for all dlc and specially all patching to be done. Is that the case or is RT solid enough that I wouldn't regret getting it sooner rather than later?

 

[Overly Serious]

Are Wrath and Rogue Trader more focused? Though I have Rogue Trader in my wishlist, I am aware owlcat has a fame of releasing games half baked and it's best to wait for all dlc and specially all patching to be done. Is that the case or is RT solid enough that I wouldn't regret getting it sooner rather than later?

Rogue Trader had a lot of bugs, many serious, when it was released. Now it's a year later and it has far fewer bugs and rarely are they serious. Void Shadows DLC was actually, dare I say it, pretty well tested and functional from release.

You're good to start playing now. The only caveat would be if you wanted to wait for the next DLC but there's no release date or even previews for that yet and this game has such high replayability that you might want to go through it again anyway.

 

[Lach]

As a side note of early exploration, you don't always have to turn the route green, you can just spend one point making the route safer(yellow) and travel around the immediate area because you get 1 point back every time you press the scan-for-routes button-erino, with it being usafe-yellow you will only get molested a very small percentage of the time which if your a save-scummy chad like me you can always do. Anyways theres two events that I remember that can give you a LOT of warp-points if you do them correctly, theres a navigator thats semi corrupted on a derelict chaos encrusted ship that can give you a shit ton of warp points if you save him(but comes with a consequence of the inquistor giving you a finger wagging later) and then later down Cassia's navigator-intrigue quest line you can set up a deal with the house that gives you a shit ton of points so you can set up a lot of convenient green warp routes between your colonies, plus theres minor options during book-choices on the ship that grant you generous warp points if you select them so you can steadily grow them that way.

 

[God of Nothing]

Rogue Trader had a lot of bugs, many serious, when it was released. Now it's a year later and it has far fewer bugs and rarely are they serious. Void Shadows DLC was actually, dare I say it, pretty well tested and functional from release.

You're good to start playing now. The only caveat would be if you wanted to wait for the next DLC but there's no release date or even previews for that yet and this game has such high replayability that you might want to go through it again anyway.

romancing the death cultist as a chaos gigachad is good
dare i say, kino

 

[Vassal]

Don't over do that. The goal isn't to turn the entire sector green and if you try you'll run out of navigator points and not be able to forge new routes to some necessary systems. At least until you manage to scrape together a pittance of additional points from random events. That happened to me as I didn't realise overdoing route improvement was a trap. Plus I used red routes to level up a little more for some of the tougher fights. Of course I play on Unfair so YMMV if you play on something else.

I figured it was possible to run out of points, so I've tried to avoid charting paths to distant systems as much as possible and only going along the routes I've discovered, trying to keep my warp points around 20, just in case. Good to know though! I'm running out of Extractiums at this point too so I'm going to Kiava to unfuck that situation, I imagine that's the planet that I'll be able to get more of those from. Though, given that derelict mechanicus ship from Kiava that I came across, I might be wrong.

I presume you've done one of the planetary projects that gets you a second ship, right?

I have not, good to know that exists as well, I assume it acts as an escort of sorts? What happens if it blows up? Do you get a new one or is that it? I think the two colonies I currently have are both working on their third projects, don't remember seeing anything in regards to building/being rewarded a ship.

theres a navigator thats semi corrupted on a derelict chaos encrusted ship that can give you a shit ton of warp points if you save him

Is that the one where they were carrying a gift meant for you that turned out to be a tainted chaos relic that fucked everyone up? I don't remember if that guy was a navigator or not.

 

[Trogspawn]

Did people really hate the space combat that much? I thought it was perfectly serviceable, besides the strange jump in enemy ships' stats between hard and normal. I think it's something like 50% more damage.

 

[Vassal]

Space combat is pretty good overall, just got some niggling issues that irk me personally. Most notably, shields. I have to take down an enemy's shield in order to do damage to them, but even the scrubbiest of pirates could just politely ask my void shield to go fuck itself and it would, causing me to spend a ton of scrap on repairs that I'd much rather not have. Less of an issue now that I have a slightly stronger shield generator, but it feels like a case of Owlcat going "How do we make space combat challenging? No ideas? Alright just make the shield only work sometimes, that'll teach 'em." I ran into several encounters early that I barely scraped by or even lost on first attempt, but with a couple of upgraded parts I can cruise by most encounters relatively easily. Took out 5-6 Chaos ships outside of Kiava without sustaining a single point of damage, for example.