"Abelard, thank Lord Mortismal for the Patch Highlights" 🧐

Holding off on rouge trader until its DLC are all out and its had a bit more time to cook. Great coverage as always, thanks for doing what you do mate. 😊

I don't mind the direct nerfs. What annoys me is how they changed Seize the Initiative. They didn't just nerf it, they fundamentally changed how it worked, and now it's functionally useless because of how heavily the turn order favors enemy targets. I'm having battles where I fight 20 enemies, and 3 of my people (two of whom are officers) go dead last. I've said this elsewhere but I feel a better change would've been to just have the skill apply your Fellowship bonus to your Agility bonus when determining turn order. Therefore it does what it says on the tin.

Damn. Seize the Initiative letting an ally take a turn was the MAIN power spike, and therefore reason, to play the officer.

I recently completed my second playtrough, Heretic path and I am a little bit burned out. Seeing Owlcat tirelessly working on updating, balancing out, and further improving the game, is just amazing. I can't wait for EE, with updates this solid.

While I'm happy with the changes, some of the stuff they added felt so necessary that I'm both amazed and annoyed that they weren't in the game at launch. For example, how did they not have quest and rumor markers on the galaxy map before now?

If they want to buff psykers, adding more force weapons should be one of the top to do list things. Especially two handed weapons. Right now we got 3 force weapons (one of which is locked to heretical creed and it's the only two hander in-game) and one spell. There's hope we will see one in DLC, but that's not enough.

Praise the Emperor for Owlcats diligence!

Love to see post-launch improvements. Waiting a few years to play single-player games keeps paying off.

Rip my officer noble, your power will never be forgotten

Love this patch so much. It's exactly what I've been waiting for since release. Cassia is still too obvious of a super power to not take in every group, but the officer stacking isn't nearly as broken and tempting as before. I'm having a lot more fun on a new save with pyromancy, too. Ignite is doing more damage than most guns and melee weapons. Really opens up the build options.

Thanks! Been wondering what the new things are. Rogue Trader is amazing. And I would be finishing it up, but Dawntrail is about to release, so it will have to wait.

Played a few hours of the patch last night - seems to work great, the UI is much cleaner (especially for controller). The game feels more polished for sure

Awesome. I put in 100 hours in testing but am still only halfway through Act 2. It is coming together nicely now. Playing Pathfinder: WotR and will jump back on with the DLC probably. Fingers crossed the Genestealer Magus gets a purple limousine.

versatility initially worked with psyker powers, then they patched it, now they're patching it back

Thank you for breaking this down for us! I was looking for a video on this last night.

I haven't started my first play through yet but I've got everything installed and ready to go. Sounds like after this patch it's a great time to start though! Thanks for the update

The Emperor Protects!

I appreciate games trying to be balanced for all playstyles, but I also appreciate when a game just lets you break the shit out of it and have fun any way you want. On my playthrough I absolutely abused chaining extra turns onto Argenta (arch-militant) and wiping whole encounters before the enemy even knew what was happening, and had a lot of fun just running through bringing the emperor's justice to the forces of chaos like a bunch of badasses. Kinda makes me sad that they are taking that play option out of the game.

Thanks for the video. Something I've only seen done a few times to this XCOM-like formula of combat, is an improvement to how you move. I think structuring a mechanic that limits your mobility will always run into problems in the late game when you've leveled up. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

I stopped playing at the point where I lost my equipment and had to find my party members again. I really need to finish it but I just never like that trope in games.

I'm optimistic for the future of the game

Great, that means I can play this with the DLC in August. Cause I tried twice to play through it but both save games broke at different points in act 4 and act 5 and I gave up there tbh.

I played the game back in March, absolutely loved it and only noticed a few bugs. Occasionally the pathing got wonky and nobody could interact with a point of interest. Another bug I encountered was very late game, where I couldn't complete a colony project. It was one of those projects where I'd have to physically travel to the planet, but the game just wouldn't register that I was there. And the weirdest bug I've ever seen was also very late game. The game started crashing to desktop, but it would NEVER crash until I went into the menu and clicked the button to exit to desktop. An error message would pop up and then the game would crash. I've never seen a game be so considerate with crashing before. I'll start a fresh playthrough when the DLC comes out, may give pyromancy a try. I didn't really know what I was doing with classes so I just picked officer, and that ended up being superfluous because Cassia is already an officer and she never left my party. Might spec Sister Argenta differently too, I built her into a sniper and she was great at it, but then I picked up Yrliet so I had double snipers.

thank you morty for covering these patch updates!

Cassia not being able to "Reveal the Light" on herself greatly diminished her own damage output. Taking into account that the Officer class can't throw bonus turns around as before means she and Argenta can't full clear maps before anyone can even flinch any more. But what I will miss most of all will be the casual 3000+ damage hits of Assassin Pascal and Yrliet. 😢

Idk why they nerfed the worst archetype (Bounty Hunter) to make it even worse.

I've been holding off on playing this game due to the bugs, but it seems like now is the perfect time to dive in.

"Pyromancer was a bit underwhelming" I won't like like 80% of what my Pyro was doing was just overusing op Officer abilities cause damage was generally bad xD

Thank you much appreciated.

Haven't gotten far enough to get to archmilitant, but pyromancer-soldier is already pretty solid. Never Stop Believing's synergy with crazy willpowers for fortress world and the run and gun ignite firestorm pretty much clears trash and mid tier mobs. Never stop shooting stacks and works with Psyker powers now too :D

Sanctioned Psykers being able to increase Psy Rating at earlier levels is wonderful

The changes pretty much gut the officer class. I was playing as a Commissar Officer main, which sucks for me

What bothered me the most before was the items that didn t work and some abilities that also didn t work properly including the ones that were too OP. Snipers were very much underwhelming compared to psyker or archmilitant with bolter.

I am going to put my next play through on hold until the conviction update.

Love the Game

Idk if it’s patched but the thunderfang restocks the shop in act 1. Idk what triggers it but I’ve gotten a bunch of medkits. Imma check if other shops restock

I might do a second run in the future but honestly, I think the sheer number of fights feels a little overwhelming to get through. I miss the Wrath of the Rightous's ability to switch between turn based and real time combat, it made getting through easy encounters much faster. If I do another playthrough it will probably be after all the dlc have been released.

I just couldn't get past the levelling process in this game. It was so convoluted. A spreadsheet may have actually been easier. This was definitely a time where being true to pen and paper means having an obscure computer game. Min Maxxers will probably love this, but I just don't have the energy for that anymore.

I just completed this game like two days ago :( Kinda wish I had held off a while longer, but oh well. I loved it.

What game is that intro screenshot from?

These sound like really positive changes. Looking forward to my next playthrough. It will be quite different without Yrliet spam.

Were there any improvements to leveling up characters, such as auto-leveling companions or better organized talents? I didn't like that each level up was a tiring half-hour distraction.

Passing a certain point you could soloed everything just with Cassia ^^.

i am so so so interested in this game but seeing how they did pathfinder ill wait for the goty. i play crpgs once or twice and that style doesnt vibe well with 4 staggered dlc released

Just loaded an old save with final battle. Balance tweaks are tangible, but Warrior/Archmil can still infilct thousands of emperror's grace per swing. And you can still do dozens of swings per round, so final boss didn't survive first one.

The pyro buff is cool and all but what sold me is the visual update. Before you just point your hand and suddenly enemy die of heart attack, now theres gonna be proper laser beam and flamestorm.

I've played the game during the beta and at launch. I had a great time, but the wheels realy started falling off at Act4. So i dropped it for now. But i'll definetly pick it up again once the larger pieces of DLC are out, wich should be at the end of thid year according to their roadmap

F in the chat for Cassia. 😵

A good side of this patch is that a replay should feel different :P I have not played it yet, so I expect it will be more challenging (hoping the first boss won't be impossible!).

Pyromancer build guide? C'monnn, you know you want to

Cool finally being able to use pyro without needing to get halfway through the game using a sniper before you can be useful

Thanks

I am holding off Rogue Trader as of now. Wil play when the dlc comes out in August. I do hope all the bugs, performance issues are fixed in this time.

Haven’t finished my play through yet but hoping to play some more soon

Psyker arch militant build, say no more.

Waiting for the enhanced edition to release before playing, even though I already bought it. Still got BG3 and DOS2 to finish and WotR to replay first lol

For the Emperor!

Hmm. Played it a bit on release. Could take another look after the hotfixes.

I suppose I will miss my Archmilitant Argenta being able to kill every encounter in one round, but I can't really say it was good for game health, so here's hoping my next playthrough will have a more balanced experience

I bought this to support owlcat but I feel like the longer I wait to play it, the better the game will get. Imma give them time to cook.

any news on bugged achievements...

they overnerfed the officer. removing the additional turn totally kills the class flavor - its a weak ass bard now. rip 77hr officer campaign :(

Did they fix the bug where an ability or attack just doesn't activate and you lose the AP or can't make another attack?

Rogue trader having issues with scaling, is rather appropriate as the tabletop rpg also had rather bad scaling issues.

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Hope it works out for the DLC

Good luck getting out of ACT 3 on the hardest difficulty after this patch... (I gave up lol)

I'm bad with the game but even i recognized the absolute power house of an officer build spamming extra rounds to his allies.

I put off Rogue Trade r4ight bow because in the final act(not to spoil it as much as possible) a glitch involving few enemies, reloading a save results in suddenly 35 enemies across the map. Whom are immune to damage or effects so I have been soft locked out of finishing the game. Which is a shame since that was 3 weeks ago

So for blaster casters, Archmilitant is still the way to go?

Yeah the balance was kinda shit in this game. The most broken build i did was just operator + 3 officers + yrilet. Set up everything for yrilet with that 10 magazine capacity eldar rifle thingy, and he just kills EVERYTHING in 1 turn and does hillariously large damage numbers.

well guess time to restart :D but I think I might wait for the assasin dlc

Warhammer 40,000: Starch Maker

Think these changes are right. Hopefully without nerfing excessively. But Cassia''s 4 figure stats were a bit much. 😂

Honestly, I feel that owlcat has missed the mark with the balancing. Its a single player game, if your combat build is broken beyond repair, you built them that way. They should have included different perks to make different playstyles more viable, instead of making the ones available worse

All these updates and such are neat, but I honestly just want the sword of faith psyker power to look cool rather than bodies hit the floor after swinging my normal-looking force sword around in the air.

Gronk!

Too bad the Pyromancer Staff ability is bugged to do 0 damage right now.

can someone say if this game is good playable on console? (will never run on my laptop)

25 min after post and 1300~ views....your a force of nature!

If the leveling system is still just comparing a bunch of math formulas I'll pass, leveling in the game is a chore

Is this worth playing on consoles? Specifically PS5

free comment.

"psyker path" (HAHAHA) i'm going to abuse it

I love Owlcat but I find this game a hard to play. It just seems to drag. And I am a huge fan of their Pathfinder series.

I don't understand why devs make games harder instead of more fun. What's wrong with broken builds cheesing through the game, it fun. Nerfs in a single player game is lame.

Huh, no wonder my pyromancer main character isnt doing damage worth a damn.

Noooo! I like having my OP assassin that just wipes everyone in the first round!

I bought this game at release, but sat on it knowing that it would be rough around the edges. Perhaps it's finally time to dive in.

I will continue my practice of ignoring CRPGs for at least a year after release to make sure the game is actually finished before I play it. This game looks cool though!

Not a fan of dmg nerfs. Unfair 1shots are a thing so without clearing everything before they can act, it would get very tedious. Especially act 4 end battle.

Thinking of maybe getting the game now since its on quite a good sale but waiting a few more months for more stuff to get ironed out.

great to see their dedication, but I'll wait the complete edition to really play it with all dlc. I want all the goth waifu! For the Emperor!

I'm playing as a sanctioner psycher on my first playthru. Then, I believe would be imortant changes.

im waiting for the day they add more voice over. i think VO is good for all CRPGs like some of the comedy chars in POE2 but imagine how epic they could make some of the warhammer voice overs.

Hope this game gets dlc!

9:58 what a madman

i still don't understand why they'd nerf extra turns considering how much this game relies on that "turn 1 gambit". hell the game doesn't even have a revive system mid combat what the hell are you supposed to do on fights where from turn 1 you get chaos marines one shotting our ass.

Who tf downvotes patchnotes? oO'