Recent reviews by Greyskulduggery

[[It's gotten better.]]

Currently, as of 12/28/2023, I can't recommend this game. I was really enjoying it up until Act 3, where not only were bugs constant, but the narrative takes a nose dive into a buggy mess that honestly feels like contrived Drukhari fan-fiction. You lose all of your equipment and companions and almost all sense of Rogue Trader power fantasy.

The act is almost totally linear (yet somehow maze-like), insanely difficult compared to the previous two acts, and the narrative takes an absolute nose-dive in quality and basic sense both narratively and in terms of game design.

Owlcat, please... Tell me please, why you thought an edgy third person text-based combat sequence with a winged dark elf consisting of a series of mandatory 0-8% skill checks that result in INSTANT DEATH was a good idea. I'm absolutely baffled.

Ironically, the amount of suffering you'll experience having to play through it is very appropriate for the act's sole setting of Commorragh.

At the moment of writing this, I'm not sure I can stomach playing it anymore, which is a shame because up until Act 3, the game was a bit buggy, and awkward, but really hit the mark on not only the 40k setting, but the Big Boss power fantasy that is so rare.

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Edit: 6/6/2024:
Having waited for a good while, I've finally gone back and finished the game. The game is at this stage less buggy than it was, and knowing what I was getting into, the aforementioned section wasn't as bothersome, but that was mostly because I had better informed builds and more or less knew where to go. I still can't recommend the game, however.

Chapters 4 and 5 feel very rushed. It's not only that they're particularly short in comparison to the earlier chapters, but also that there's very little reactivity at this stage, and the end-slides seemed to be extremely basic, not really reflecting on the decisions you made all that accurately, or with much detail.

I found the companion end-slides to be particularly disappointing.

TL;DR: If you're really into CRPGs or Warhammer, its probably worth playing just for the game's interesting mechanics and its actually interesting Warhammer lore. If you like breaking games with ridiculous builds, you'll also probably enjoy it.

I don't recommend it in general though, because of how user-unfriendly the tooltips for abilities are, and due to its disappointing final chapters.