As with the Pathfinder video games, builders Owlcat plan to doc the creation of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer with a sequence of dev diary movies on its YouTube channel (opens in new tab). The primary of them options lead narrative designer Olga Kellner giving an early have a look at the spacefaring CRPG.
Kellner says gamers will get to take pleasure in “house exploration, voidship battles, intrigues, bizarre warp phenomena, and plenty of different issues” recognizable from the Warhammer 40,000 setting. As a voidship captain with an uncommon diploma of freedom on the perimeter of the Imperium, together with management of a service provider empire, gamers will get to make choices with penalties mirrored by the setting and its characters. We would, as an example, “keep trustworthy to the Emperor or check the bounds of your privileges and the Inquisition’s endurance, wreak havoc in your planets, consort with the enemies of humankind, even fall into the clutches of Chaos.”
The dev diary additionally has a have a look at our entourage, with recruitable companions together with a seneschal, a psyker, a Sister of Battle, an eldar ranger, a tech-priest, and an area marine of the House Wolves chapter. Owlcat’s web site has already documented a few these characters, so we all know the seneschal is a person of obligation named Abelard Werserian (opens in new tab), whereas the psyker is a diviner named Idira Tlass (opens in new tab), “a tortured and damaged soul haunted by the whispers from past the veil.”
Owlcat’s web site additionally introduces Lord Captain Theodora von Valancius Massimo af Scarus (opens in new tab), the pinnacle of a dynastic household of rogue merchants who “owns a voidship crewed by hundreds of loyal servants, reigns over an unlimited conglomerate of worlds that deliver her immense wealth, and vies for supremacy with the opposite Rogue Merchants of the Koronus Expanse”. Appears probably she’ll be our character’s mentor, and perhaps we’ll inherit her voidship.
In contrast to Owlcat’s Pathfinder video games, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer will solely have turn-based fight. It is impressed by a tabletop RPG of the identical identify printed by Fantasy Flight, although “it will not be a direct switch from tabletop to a videogame” in accordance with Owlcat’s group supervisor (opens in new tab) on Reddit.
Although there is not any launch date but, the preorder FAQ (opens in new tab) says an alpha of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer is deliberate for this yr, with a beta following subsequent yr.
