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Owlcat’s RPGs have a history of launching in a terrible state but improving significantly over time. When I replayed Rogue Trader last year, with the benefit of a bunch of patches and a couple of expansions, I had a much better time than I did when it was brand new and I hit a progress-blocking bug that meant I had to replay all of act one. But even then, when I told people it was finally a good time to jump in, the most vocal response was from people who would rather keep waiting.
Which is a bit underwhelming if you were expecting something a bit more exotic. There’s already a tech-priest among Rogue Trader’s crew of companions, and although the Adeptus Mechanicus certainly do contain multitudes—Bulwark’s tactics game Mechanicus was a great example of that—if you thought we were getting Trazyn the Infinite or an ork or a tau or something mad like that, this must be a bit of a letdown.
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At the same time, Owlcat’s just released a trailer showcasing a companion you can recruit in the playable alpha for Dark Heresy. Haymar Devos is a guardsman from the infamous death world of Catachan, which is basically the jungle from Predator stretched over an entire planet. Every single trooper recruited on Catachan is an ’80s action-movie hero, including a Rambo analogue called Sly Marbo. Which is pretty rad.
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Fraser’s been playing the Dark Heresy alpha and he’s impressed so far, saying it has everything he wants from a CRPG. It’s still labeled as “coming soon” on Steam, as is the Infinite Museion DLC for Rogue Trader.
