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WH40K: Rogue Trader’s “first major update” is out, and everyone gets a free respec17,000 words of patch notes to dig through
17,000 words of patch notes to dig through
Image credit:Owlcat Games/RockPaperShotgun
Image credit:Owlcat Games/RockPaperShotgun
A colossal new update forWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Traderlaunched last night, hitting the grimdark space-aristocratRPGwith so many changes that the patch notes are almost 17,000 words long. Fitting for a game that ourRogue Trader reviewcalled “engrossing, obscure and absolutely exhausting”. It adds loads of new voiced lines, fixes everything from wonky abilities to broken quests, reworks balance, improves performance, and so much more. Enough is changed that developers Owlcat are giving everyone in your party a free respec to adjust to what the game has become.
See theRogue Trader v1.1.28 patch notesfor oh so much more, including changes affecting spoiler-y things. Here’s what the developers flag as the highlights:
The combined changes are so major that you’ll likely want (and need) to rebuild your party, so all current party members in existing saves are getting one free respec to reassign their everything. If you haven’t yet reached the point in the game where respecs unlock, your party will have a special ability to get a free one-time respec. If you have, hey, you can claim a bonus free respec in the usual High Factotum way.
Thoughthe blurb on Steamcalls this the “first major update”, they did previouslycall a December patchthe “third major patch”. I don’t know if this is some fuzzy difference of implication between “update” and “patch” or simply if this one is so giant that it requires a full readjustment of scale. This is the new major; all previous majors are now minor.
