Thread 725376619

What are the chances of getting a Tau companion in Dark Heresy now that we have a bird wife?

>>725376619 (OP)
>Rogue Trader had only two xeno companions and both were Eldar
>Dark Heresy revealed two xeno companions right off the bat, one of them being a xeno that's actually weird and alien looking instead of being a space elf
Guarantee that all the other companions are fucking Humans again. Only way I'm buying it is if they reveal at least 3 more alien companions, preferably something like a Tau Earth Caste engie, Sslyth mercenary and Ork freeboota/kommando. That would be sweet. The fact that they randomly decided to give Malice a portrait out of nowhere in the latest update to Rogue Trader gives me some copium that they'll add a snek companion in Dark Heresy.

>>725377110
>Guarantee that all the other companions are fucking Humans again
I have the same feeling honestly. Probably some GW mandate.

>>725376619 (OP)
low considering they only had 2 in RT but I think it's certainly possible

>>725376619 (OP)
Like 0%, the tau probably won't even appear in the game, and even if they did the companion would probably be male, and if she was female she wouldn't put out

>>725377374
Why do Owlcat make male xenos that put out, but refuse to have the female xenos do the same?

>>725377349
2 xenos for rogue trader, 4 xenos for dark heresy, wohoo!!!

>>725377445
Same reason that females and fags are the only ones to get weird and exotic romance options in video games, as well as other forms of media.
Slaaneshi fuckery.

>>725377734
I would be happy with this. A full party of four aliens and my based retard Ogryn pal would be giga-kino.

>>725376619 (OP)
low since the game is set on the other side of the Galaxy, Kroot are more spread out

>>725377813
>Same reason that females and fags are the only ones to get weird and exotic romance options in video games
You couldn't be more wrong even if you tried

>>725377881
Yeah it would have been awesome.

>>725377892
No chance of a water caste hitching a ride on a Kroot sphere? You have the Tau portal in the neighboring sector, too, right. There is the entire playable Tau module for RT.

>>725377903
Every straight romance option in role playing games is either a Human female, Elf female, or "alien" (Human with a wacky skin color) female. When was the last time a video game had a female non-human companion that you could romance that was actually niche and weird looking? Ra'akhti is probably the first weirdo option in a long time, but I'm not sure if she's actually a going to be a romance option.
Don't try to tell me I'm wrong when I have fucking eyes that can see. Elves and Tieflings and painted Humans aren't fucking exotic. I want actual freakshit, not normie trash.

>>725378083
Water Caste would not join an Imperial interrogator, it is why that's an RT splat rather than a DH splat

>>725378328
>Elves and Tieflings and painted Humans aren't fucking exotic
Then why the fuck are you pretending that women and fags do get those options, when they don't?

>>725378335
>Water Caste would not join an Imperial interrogator
Why not? See the universe, learn imperial culture for better subversion later on.

>>725377892
>>725378083
>>725378335
Honestly just using the convenient excuse of "warp fuckery" would be enough to explain why any species of xeno could end up anywhere and in the retinue of a member of the Inquisition.
>How the fuck did you end up on the other side of the galaxy from the Tau Empire?
>"ayy lmao idk some weird aliens did some weird ritual and I just woke up here haha"

>>725378421
Because the most mainstream and well known examples of Human x Non-Human relationships in media are between a Human female and some freaky non-Human male. Rarely is it the opposite.

>>725377734
>2 xenos for rogue trader, 4 xenos for dark heresy, wohoo!!!
To this day I think they fucked up and reversed the figures for RG and DH. Rogue Trader is far more likely to have alien retinue because he barely interacts with Imperium proper vs an Inquisitor.

>>725376619 (OP)
They definitely utilize the module to calcuate the Kroot weapons.

>>725377110
I don't get why Rogue Trader went cheap with the xenos companions. If anything they would have made most sense there as opposed to Dark Heresy.

>>725378525
True, it's a setting that is very easy to hand-wave in. Beneficial.

>>725378916
inquisitors technically only answer to the emperor, but in practice it comes down how they utilize soft power

>>725378916
>>725379095
I legitimately think they went overboard with Human companions and didn't only added two Eldars because they felt that grim derp retards would throw a fit if the game didn't have an obligatory space marine. Its so fucking weird that a CRPG about playing a Rogue Trader, some of the only people in the Imperium free to interact with and recruit aliens, only had a retarded Eldar and a evil spiky Eldar as companion options.

>>725378916
>>725379095
>>725379334
My worry is that's Owlcat reacting to community feedback from their surveys.

>>725379095
My guess: Either Games Workshop had some criteria that only allowed them to create so many xenos companions given the usual aim of the setting. Or two: they're retards.

>>725379334
>because they felt that grim derp retards would throw a fit if the game didn't have an obligatory space marine
What does a space marine have to do with the lack of xenos? You think that Ulfar's inclusion is what made them decide not to make the two DLC companion xenos? Or why filler like Jae exists? Or why a literal main villain that brutally tortures and almost kills you is a companion when there was a more sensible evil xenos option right there? (Malice)

>mfw waiting for Rogue Trader season pass 2 to release before playing
Another year, I guess.

>>725379219
90% of the time I feel that Inquisitors often have less power than Rogue Traders because Inquisitors often have to talk to other Inquisitors who constantly judge them so you're always walking a fine line of orthodoxy and heterodoxy.

>>725379582
>why a literal main villain that brutally tortures and almost kills you is a companion
that is a staple of CRPGs like Dragon Age or Baldur's Gate

>>725379997
Neither Loghain nor Sarevok put you through what Marazhai puts you through. Again, Malice would be a better example, or hell, Marazhai himself would be better if Yremeryss was the one who captured you and sent you to Cumrag, he would still have an antagonistic role but you wouldn't feel like a cuck for letting him live and simping for him while everyone else in your party (rightfully so) wants to kill him

>>725379582
I did think it was bizarre that instead of Malice or an Incubus, either of which could have been at least somewhat honorable, they gave us an almost comically unworthy Deldar in the form of Marazhai.

>>725376619 (OP)
Wait they are making another one? I didn't finish rogue trader

>>725378916
One of the RT companions for the next dlc is likely a Jokaero given the statement surrounding augmetics. And Orks are probably the most requested companion slot in Owlcat polls.

>>725379956
2026 for dlc 1, 2027 for dlc 2

>>725379958
Yes, but they're backed by the Imperium. Rogue Traders get their charter to do whatever and then fuck off to fringes of the galaxy. As long as they technically "advance the will of the Imperium" they can do how they wish, but they have to establish themselves somehow.

>>725380305
>Wait they are making another one? I
Yup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqOfHFJQFA

>>725380389
I thought both were slotted for 2026.

>>725380705
>owlcat
>releasing shit on time

>>725380705
They are, same release dates as the first two DLCs. But it wouldn't surprise me if they both got delayed

>>725380860
>>725380865
I know Lex Imperialis got delayed but was it the same for Void Shadows?

>>725380953
Yes

Thoughts on DH having full voice acting?

>>725381092
I don't like it. I feel like its a unnecessary waste of resources. I prefer it when CRPGs only have voice acting for important characters, and only for important moments.
I'll be fine with it so long as they didn't make the retarded fucking decision to have your player character have a voice. That shit was fucking annoying in BG3.

>>725381092
Hard hit or miss. It depends on how much less game we're getting.

>>725381290
>I'll be fine with it so long as they didn't make the retarded fucking decision to have your player character have a voice
Something that they've been doing since Kingmaker?

>>725379095
I am of the opinion that this is what the fanbase wants. The less you care about canon lore the more you wish to see every xeno in the party. People in this fanbase are so fucking autistic that they can't even conceive how an ork or a tyranid can join the Rogue Trader party....nigger its a fantasy game, they can bring brimblo scrimblo, there is nothing from stopping this from being written

>>725381472
>ork
They literally work as mercenaries, if anything they're the easiest kind of xenos to include
>tyranid
Yeah, no

>>725381092
They're scaling overall dialog level to Rogue Trader prologue, apparently.

>>725381559
What does that mean in practice?

>>725381539
>Yeah, no
This is what i mean. Its incredible how limited these people are. Then be happy with human but cop and human but blue i wish for more diversity in these games.

>>725381618
go look up what tyranid is, there is such a thing as characters that don't work as companions, and tyranids are literally at the top of the list

>>725381618
It's a tyrannid, anon. You might get a genestealer cultist as a plot twist, but not a fucking tyrannid. Other xenos, yes. They are fine.

>>725381719
>genestealer cultist
Oh. Oooooh.

>>725381682
I know what a tyranid is, i have played some 40k games and i dipped my toes in the universe. That doesn't mean that i accept this retarded wall that you have put in front of yourself.
>>725381719
Its a fictional creature anon, they can create rules around that for you people to be pleased about it. At the same time i just see a xeno and i say..i want to have that in my party be it necron, tau, tyranid or ork.

>>725381826
Hey baby, let's fuse biomass....

>>725381618
Nigger, you cannot ally with a Tyranid. A fucking NECRON is a more sensible as a party member than any form of Tyranid, barring at best genestealer cultists who are just humans with Tyranid toxoplasmosis in their very veins.

Tyranids are the most monstrous creatures in 40k, they are utterly inhuman, hiveminded biological weapons, that exiss to devour all non tyranid life. How exactly, would you ever justify a tyranid party member?

>>725381618
I get where you're coming from, but the Tyranids are most definitely off the table, dude. You could have a reason to have pretty much any of the other factions included as an ally or companion, but not them. It would make literally no sense to have a hungry swarm bug as a companion.
A genestealer cultist could make sense so long as its someone who regrets being tricked and drinking the Tyranid kool-aid and is trying to make amends

>>725381964
Seclude it from the hivemind, have it be mind mended to the MC.

>>725376619 (OP)
>still havent added Orks
I sleep. I need bantz.

>>725381891
I prefer *some* lore consistency in my universes even if 40k flops around all the time. Tyranids are the oldest xenos in the setting and they've always been inhuman monsters with a hivemind. Companion is out of the question, they are sacrosanct.

>>725381891
>what is setting consistency and established lore
anon? please fuck off.

>>725381891
>they can create rules around that for you people to be pleased about it
>what is consistency

>>725381891
>the rules of the setting should be changed on a whim with zero care for internal consistency or continuity.

Genuinely, fucking kill yourself. A core part of hobbies like this and even engaging with fiction is taking the rules and lore of such fictional worlds seriously enough that you respect what has been established and try to form a coherent view of how the setting works based on it.

>>725376619 (OP)
None. Wrong segmentum.
Kroot have real FTL warp drive, they can travel in galaxy, Tau untill recently had only cucked sub light travel and are still tied to their little empire and nexus connected via wormhole.
They are hoping their prototype FTL won't kill everyone next time they engage it.
Yes tau are that cucked, their client race had FTL for centuries while tau still had to travell sub light speeds.

>>725382068
There is not setting consistency in your lore, my dude. They are already changing your lore every time they want to do new figurines to sell more stuff to you.

>>725376619 (OP)
Who cares? Game will be incredibly unplayable on release and will take at least months to fix before its in playable state.

>>725381891
>its a fictional creature anon
And you're a retard. Doesn't matter if its a fiction setting. Fiction still has rules. You could head canon that you can have a Reaper from Mass Effect as a squad mate, but it would still be profoundly retarded and make no sense.

>>725382150
>They are hoping their prototype FTL won't kill everyone next time they engage it.
haha, that went well the first time

>>725381539
>They literally work as mercenaries
That's only one fringe clan

>>725382150
Calixis neighbors Koronus. It's not off the table, truly.

>>725376619 (OP)
if there were tau in the game, their marketing would have mentioned it by now.

you really think they're writing a game near the tau sector but keeping that stealth mode this whole time? the alpha is out in a month and there's no hiding it at that point.

>>725382046
Even when separated from the Hivemind, Tyranids are still just fucking monstrous predatory animals at best, or extremely intelligent genetically engineered killing machines at worst. There is nothing you can do to form some sort of alliance with a Tyranid, if a human would meld their mind with a tyranid's psyche you'd just get the inhuman, alien drive to kill and devour other life out from their cranium. Whatever form of "empathy" nids have is only a form of weaponized psychopathy that lets them do psychological warfare on their prey, by terrorizing them like Lictors are capable of.

They are fucking monsters to their core, an ultimate form of predatory life.

>>725382181
>>725382136
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>>725382068
Then clap like seals in the next space marines game where they make you watch from a distance a fun set piece and not letting you interact with whatever is brought there because "your character has no right to access that" and not because "we were too lazy to add some interaction with the thing so we will hide behind it not being lore accurate". Jesus Fucking Christ you people are insane. You have such a rich setting and you let yourselves get fucked in the ass by "its not lore accurate so i will fight for it"

>>725382172
I for one am looking forward to play the alpha. I love seeing Owlcat products change over time.

>>725382330
You're so stupid it hurts to read

>>725382150
Its not unreasonable to assume that a lone Tau could end up pretty much anywhere. You could find one as a slave to Orks or Dark Eldar, a lone survivor of a lost Tau exploration vessel, the auxiliary of another Rogue Trader or Inquisitor who joins you have their former employer is slain.
>>725382254
An Blood Axe Ork would be so fucking cool as a companion that I feel like it would still make sense for one to be out and about who throws his lot in with some Humies, especially if that Human goes around killing a lot of other Orks.

>>725382297
Datamine will reveal it, right?

>>725382297
>their marketing would have mentioned it by now
The marketing of this game has been utter garbage, we literally have no idea who the companions are outside of the ones on the cover and the asian guy Owlcat hasn't even promoted (we only know of him thanks to the gamescom event)
For comparison RT started showing off info about the companions like a week after the announcement

>>725379958
It's diferent kind of power.
Inquisitor is only second to the Emperor, on paper, but still can just order imperial navy, guard even marines to assist him with his job. This is after Inquisitor's own assets.
Rogue Trader on other hand have "I can do whatever I want*" *outside Imperial space. RT is operating outside Imperial space and if something goes wrong he dies, when he return to Imperium he have to follow the rules and have to obey whatever Inquisitor will tell him.
So they hold simlar power in "can do whatever I want" but one have to navigate imperial politics and other inquisitors, while RT is doing it outside of Imperium where law doesn't apply anyway. Koronus Expanse is rare place that is colonised but isn't in Imperium yet.

>>725382330
The setting would not be made richer if we just ignore the rules and lore of the setting, you pea brained nigger.
If you want to play as nids, there are games that let you do that, like Gladious or Dawn of War 2. Nobody is opposed to making nids playable, or playing as nids, people are opposed to your retarded ida of making nids party members in an RPG game for some insane reason.

If you want tactical combat with nids play as genestealers in Space Hulk for fucks sake.

>>725382330
Bro......it's been like this since the 80s. Stop trying to retrofit shit.

I'm actually surprised how many minor xeno species there are in 40k that are little more than a footnote or throwaway line. And then there's examples like the Rangdan who were a major factor and yet never expanded upon.

>>725382330
Anon, doubling down on your retarded take only makes you look pathetic. There is nothing wrong with admitting you were wrong, because you are fucking wrong to think that fictional settings don't need concrete rules and should just bend to suit your weird wants. You clearly don't care enough about the setting if you are this insistent on your silly nonsensical fanfic idea.

>>725382537
When was Jae revealed?

>>725382634
GW should just release some sort of codex of alien mercenaries etc that you can use as axilary troops for various armies.

>>725382537
What marketing? Game doesn't even have a release date yet.

>>725382634
Because sadly the setting mostly just exists as a playground for Space Marines to do cool badass shit in. Hearing about all the cool Human empires that existed before the Imperium ruined everything makes me mad because some of them seemed really fucking cool, like the Interex, but sadly they only existed to show how powerful the Imperium was and how retarded its Primarchs were.

>>725381092
I play with voice acting muted.

>>725382685
https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/news/en/15
3 months after RT's reveal
For comparison DH was first revealed in may

>>725382708
I would love it if they released a bunch of new models for the Tau that gives them their auxiliary species that only exist in lore. I hate that on the table top and in 40k video games, the Tau only have Tau, Kroot, Vespids and mechs. They never have Gue'vesa or any of the other cool ayyliums that make up their empire.

>>725382950
Damn, they really are not marketing this well are they. On the other hand I see shit for their Expanse game almost every day. Guess they have priorities.

>>725382537
why do you think there will be additional companions?

and yes you have a point that if owlcat hadn't done any marketing prior to about a week on other games, they could be doing that again now. that would be beyond stupid, and it's not like they are understaffed, but if anyone is gonna be retarded on this sort of thing it's them.

>>725382502
this too. they don't have the talent, or really the bandwidth, to securely keep a parallel game to the alpha. that's hard enough to do for a team of professional software engineers, no way owlcat can do it with their cobbled-together unity editor config.

>>725382634
seems black library writers like to introduce whole species and absurdly strong characters like the cacodominus as a sacrifical offering to whatever space marine chapter they want to wank

>>725382634
what even are all those xenos. i don't recognize any of them. maybe CSM top right?

>>725382029
Genestealer cultists don't really get tricked, they are basically born brainwashed and entrhalled to the will of the patriarch of their brood. It is a fucked up process where even if they appear human and appear to have free will and agency on some level, they are all essentially slaves to the alien will of the Genestealer that sired their brood from the moment they are born. People that are caught into the cult (as in, being made victims of the genestealers or being inducted into an already established cult) are also just dominated by the psychic will of the genestealers.

So I dunno if it is even possible for them to "break free" from the cult. It should also be said that each genestealer cultists, even the very human looking ones, barring fresh inductees is at least partially alien due to the genestealer influence on them.

>>725383017
>On the other hand I see shit for their Expanse game almost every day
They're barely showing anything about that game too, they're both the same, maybe they post some concept art on reddit and twitter, they also revealed the main themes, but that's about it
>>725383035
>why do you think there will be additional companions?
Because that's what they always do with all their games, and because they said so

>>725382279
>Calixis neighbors Koronus
And? Calixis is on western fringe of Segmentum Obscurus, while Tau Empire is in easter fringe of Segmentum Ultima, they are almost entire galaxy apart.
It's like saying that Spain is close to Japan because Spain borders Portugal.

>>725383170
>all their games
which companions were announced late for RT? i won't ask about km or wotr.
from what i recall, it was known for a long time that there would be a space marine.

>>725383186
>And
The Tau have a portal in the Calixis sector. They are literally written into the RT PnP. You can play as one.

>>725383418
Koronus, I mean.

>>725383317
By "all their games" I meant that for all their games the companions you see on the cover are not the only ones, Starrok has also confirmed this repeatedly
also, it was Marazhai who was revealed late, technically Ulfar too, we knew he was there but we knew nothing about him

How do i acquire the ttrpg autism?

>>725383640
/tg/

>>725383640
Play one and enjoy it.

>>725383640
Go into a Warhammer store and let the sales rep talk to you for half an hour trying to sell you the newest box sets.

I don't like Owlcat's main composer. No talent. Where is Sergey Eybog?

>>725383780
No, you can't play a TTRPG and still be this Autistic about it.
You just have to buy all the splat books and read them

>>725383805
They don't sell the TTRPGs at GW stores or even they online store

>>725384136
Oh, those! Like Imperial Maledictum and so on. Yeah it's kind of strange. My other local hobby store sells the pnp's though. Fun games.

>>725380441
if they make it a partry of 4 im going to lose my mind

>>725383805
Are they always so pushy in the officially branded stores?
Went in mostly to look around and the guy running the place started to psychoanalyze me when I said I don't own any models and I don't really want any.
Then he tried to sell me a copy of Genefather despite never having read any Fabius Bile or Belisarius Cawl.

>>725384254
Yeah, it's due to GW just licensing them out to an RPG company called Cubicle 7, who I think do all the GW TTRPGs now have have like three or four upcoming ones next year, like the HH TTRPG or the Talisman TTRPG

>>725384318
Somewhat GW stores are mostly about onboarding new players to the hobby

>>725383519
i see. so then there could indeed be more companions.
I looked up the guy you named, he is a community manager for owlcat. He doesn't mention anything like this going back a month, so maybe he said it longer ago than that. I didn't check any further back.

Still, on their website, the companions list image looks to have about four places available. since they're said to have announced popular characters like marazhai late in a prior game, they might release another popular one too.

It's kinda nuts that they aren't doing any more marketing. But I guess they're just bad at it and don't want to smear poop and turn people away. Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut, I guess is their reasoning.

>>725384318
>never having read any Fabius Bile
get his omnibus right now

>>725384558
>It's kinda nuts that they aren't doing any more marketing.
also. to be fair to them. i wouldn't want to market the existing characters either.
I don't know what compelled them to release a roster of the ugliest motherfuckers i've ever seen as companions, less one, but maybe it's better to wait until we have some art that is nice to look at before marketing.

>>725384462
Yeah, I guess I was shutting him down pretty hard while he was just trying to "Yes and".
Dude did offer to do a intro model painting session but I turned him down cause I had places to be.

>>725384563
I've got it loaded onto an ereader and it's ready to go. It's pretty high on my list but I do gravitate to the physical stuff I have. Reading Know No Fear at the moment, probably followed by Betrayer and then I should really get around to finishing Lords of Silence since I stopped halfway through that book for some reason.

>>725384820
all these characters besides kroot and women are based. That said if they make it a party of 4 instead of six i wont use any of them

>>725384563
>Fabius Bile
>mfw he's a fucking boss out of nowhere in Inquisitor - Martyr

>>725385053
>besides kroot
Nothing wrong with kroot, it's just that almost nobody wants one as a romance option

>>725383640
>>725384136
>>725384382
This made me think about running 40k games in Mothership. Could work pretty well if people are looking for the low power Necromunda-ish side of 40k.

>>725385128
kroot are stupid and gay

>>725385128
Well. Flipside is she really, REALLY, wants your genetic material.

>>725384978
tbf it's a bit of a conundrum for a Redshirt(GW Employee) to figure out what someone wants to buy if they flat out refused interest in Models, and Painting so some BL books are basically the only other option.
I guess GW could put some more side games in those stores, like the Gene-stealer Werewolf game or the Darktide Dungeon Crawler Cardgame for that group, but it's still a bit of a hard sale.

>>725385053
>all these characters besides kroot
You are a faggot. Kroot, especially female kroot, are based. Can't wait to romance one.

>>725384558
>It's kinda nuts that they aren't doing any more marketing.
The game is still a ways out. I'd expect to see more around the alpha release in December.

>>725384558
https://www.reddit.com/r/RogueTraderCRPG/comments/1ktdc0b/owlcat_developing_3_games_while_also_making_dlc/mtt3e7n/?context=3

>>725385237
western devs don't have the courage to make their female characters look like that

>>725385260
Problem was and remains how to onboard someone into minis in a way that gives them a complete package they can play with. Kill Teams are basically the easiest introduction, but you're still looking at $100+ entry cost. Which is nothing if you're serious about the hobby, but for your average person it might as well be no-go.

>>725385128
Speak for yourself, homo
Its about time the alien romance option in a sci-fi video game was actually kind of gross and inhuman. A cannibal bird lady is infinitely more interesting than some Human waifu.

>>725385431
Please let it be Tau please let it be Tau please let it be Tau

>>725385409
anon it's the second week of november. december is not that far off. the beta for RT ran about a year, didn't it? starting the marketing a year before launch is not too early - if anything, it's quite late.

of course their marketing has always been quite bad. basically people buy the games because of word of mouth. so they just have to not fuck it up.

>>725385607
I wasn't speaking for myself, it's why I said "almost" because I know we have contrarians like you

>>725385237
I like how this dude made his Kroot sluts kind of look like Yautja. Like I can see these ladies stalking a Catachan dude through the jungle, trying to get the jump on him.

>>725385440
Owlcat is Russian though

>>725385478
GW does do a bunch of Cheap Target games, but those are generally very mechanically weak, like the Space Marine 2 Board Game or Space Marine Adventures Games

>>725385607
much like tranies, you retards are an extremely vocal hyper minority

>>725385260
Yeah it is interesting to think about the puzzle I presented him in retrospect.
I walked in off the street saying I'd watched a bunch of lore videos but never read a book and when he asked what factions I liked I responded with "Mechanicum and Chaos".
He recommended Genefather(probably cause it was the only Mechanicum thing they had) and the Night Lords Omnibus. Not a bad call but he pushed a little too hard and I walked out.
Ordered The Infinite and the Divine and Eisenhorn Omnibus off Amazon a couple days later and had a great time. Little did I know I would've actually really enjoyed picking up the Night Lords Omnibus there and then.

>>725385478
man, tabletop warhammer looks so bad. how can people like playing with those figures? it's cringe.

no disrespect, i guess, it's the origin of it, but it's really hard to look at and think that grown ass men are playing this.

>>725385623
If you want a tau I hope you're not a waifufag because there's no chance it would be a woman, and even if she was, she would probably be a cunt (and no sex allowed either)

>>725385708
>muh contrarianism
If not wanting every companion in fantasy and sci-fi to be boring as fuck Humans that doesn't see elves sluts with big tits as the peak of exoticism makes me a contrarian, than sure.

>>725385760
i thought they were in greece

>>725385867
Being a boring normie with basic tastes in waifus doesn't make you cool, faggot.

>>725385903
I just want to hear more from them

>>725385901
It's all in the paint job.

>>725385910
>muh humans
RT already had a companion filled with mutations that looked in-human enough without being some weird looking monster that doesn't even have a vagina. Again, you're a contrarian, I get it, you're getting your wish (probably)

>>725385903
>>If you want a tau I hope you're not a waifufag because there's no chance it would be a woman, and even if she was, she would probably be a cunt (and no sex allowed either)
owlcat would never mistreat us like that

>>725385981
They moved their office to Cyprus because it's a tax haven and very popular with Russians.

>>725385879
>Night Lords Omnibus
pure fucking gold. widely considered some of the best novels.

>>725386114
>move to the greek isles
that means they're greek now.

>>725386028
Neither does being a contrarian.

>>725386092
It's fucking Owclat. They'll do it and laugh in your face.

>>725385901
It gets worse seeing it played when two fat balding guys break out the rulers to decide who has covering fire.
It's the sort of thing where I say we have the video game technology now, we don't have to play like cave men.

>>725386092
Anon, I just described Yrliet...

>>725386092
hahaha.......

>>725386114
>They moved their office to Cyprus
My brother, my nigga. Only Owlcat employee on Cyprus is whoever does their taxes. It's an open secret they're lying for tax reasons.

I still hope for a SoB romance

>>725386142
Yup, it's the rare case where I actually bought something I pirated. Bought the physical version after finishing the first book cause I wanted to have it on a shelf.

If you weirdoes want to get into Horus Heresy they'll be reprinting key 12 novels.

Likely DH companion roster list:
Spire noble
Underhive ganger or Wasteland rider
Some form of space marine chapter to juxtapose it with the Night Lord companion
Noire detective investigator

>>725385901
It really varies depending on the game, the table, or the models being painted
The linked video is very much on the artsy end of the hobby, where a guy kitbashes a Warband and attends an event for Mordheim, where everything is clearly very high effort, but it's also wanky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwnmNuEQjk

>>725386634
>Some form of space marine chapter to juxtapose it with the Night Lord companion
ONE CHANCE
ONE OPPORTUNITY

>>725386629
>Prospero Burns is included but not A Thousand Sons
Yeah I'm not getting this trash.

>painting your nails, but for men
>it's soldier figures so it's not girly

>>725386739
Why Raven Guard?

>>725386884
raven guards and night lords have a long history together

>>725386851
Painting models has been a male hobby since at least the 19th century in the UK, since you had rule sets like Little Wars by HG Wells, and even had somewhat famous actors like Peter Cushing do it into adulthood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw

>>725387186
Aah I see

I have an inside man at owlcat (a writer) and he told me the eldar romance ends with him giving you a reluctant handjob

>>725386629
can't they compile all the books instead. Make a guinnes world record.

>>725387976
Doubt because he's a corsair and corsairs do whatever the fuck they want. They're the least prudish eldar.

>>725387238
and it was gay then too.
but now it's also mind-bogglingly stupid. in the age of precision machines? get a robot to do it. i guess if you're poor you can hand paint it but it's not something i'd be proud of.

>>725387976
>farseer sees a future where distracting the inquisitor mc with a handjob leads to saving some eldars

This is want I want my roster to be like¨https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxWYErcff0

>>725388162
shame Agents of the Inqusistion is a terrible book

>>725376619 (OP)
Unlikely. Due to the locations in the galactic Map. We will probably see Tau babes if a Deathwatch games is ever produced.

It could be done in the Jericho Reach but the last I heard the Great Rift destroyed it.

>>725387976
give us more schizo leaks, anon

>>725388938
My boyfriend is fucking the CEO of Owlcat and he said that the first DLC will include Skaven waifu companion that ended up in 40K because of Tzeentch fuckery.

>>725389606
woah!!!!

>>725388813
At least we're getting a Kroot I guess...

>>725386230
I'm going to die assmad that Argenta wasn't a romance option for dogmatards

>>725390628
Owlcat is the master of miss opportunities. Like the crazy shortstack bitch from WOTR that should have been a companion if you went with the Trickster route.

>>725388938
thats the only thing i asked about

>>725390628
iconilist you mean? dogma would just make her more duty orientated. She basically admits that she had an orgasm when you were kind to the orphan

>>725390767
can you romance the halfling in kangmaker?
i thought she was cute but i must have messed up a dialogue option or something

>>725390926
call him RIGHT NOW and tell him that 4chan wants more schizo leaks

>>725390998
No. You can't.
For some fucking reason, despite being the first character you talk to, the first companion you get and the one who is literally writing (you)r story in the game, Owlcat didn't think or didn't care that people would find her cute and would want to romance her. So fucking stupid.

>>725391463
They really have no fucking idea what they're doing and anything that actually is nice, like the Wenduag romance, is just pure luck

>>725390998
no and she turns into a book

>>725391524
>actually is nice
>Wenduag romance
lol
lmao

>>725390628
I blame GW.

>>725391596
Yeah, I thought it was really nice on my 'demon to legend' playthrough

>>725391524
>wendufag
Yeah no.

Linzi is extremely annoying, juts use visual adjustments and turn one of the other girls into a midget and there, fetish fulfilled

>>725380389
>2026 for dlc 1, 2027 for dlc 2
Jesus Christ, I guess it'll take ages before I replay the game.
I did complete it for the second time yesterday, this time as Heretic Psyker.

>>725391528
i can't fuck that

>>725392098
>heretic psyker
Is going for a heretic playthrough worth it?

>>725392182
Not really, there were only a few minor differences compared to my Dogmautist playthrough.

>>725392182
no, its terribly done

>>725392289
Sad. I'm currently playing a dogmatic campaign now as a priest warrior, with the previous one being Iconoclast. Both are fun in their own way. Shame about Heretic being really undercooked in RT.

>>725392382
I guess I'll do an Iconocuck playthrough when the other two DLCs are released.

Also, I did enjoy the Arbites DLC a lot more than the Void Shadows one, I disliked the Bloodspinner shit so much but loved the expanded Genestealer content.

>>725392542
>Iconocuck
I don't get how anyone can play this game and not end up like half ico /half dog on their first play through. You have to go full retard not to get at least 200 ico points

>>725379018
These were balanced around rarity and requiring exotic weapons training to use on tabletop.

>>725392542
>Also, I did enjoy the Arbites DLC a lot more than the Void Shadows one
That's a first. Personally I loved the medieval world of Lex Imperialis but Solomorne is such a wet blanket.

>>725392061
sucks to be you. i had a blast having her around because i was able to like her.
must have sucked donkey balls to be you playing that game if you find her annoying

>>725392764
you're kidding, right? iconoclast is a complete death trap half the time, and the other half it's a straight downgrade from dogmatic.

>>725381601
Yes
No (Yes)
Yes Sarcastically
Question (Then choose 1 of above)

>>725392764
Because it's the 40k universe, being nice is almost as bad as being a Heretard. This is how it ended for my last playthrough.

>>725393028
Based

>>725393024
>must have sucked donkey balls to be you playing that game if you find her annoying
No, not really, thankfully she's not forced onto you outside of like one section

>>725392917
>Solomorne is such a wet blanket.
my dog
look at my dog
isnt my dog great
dog
hi dog
my dog can do that

>>725393285
Aptly summed up.

>>725384558
>The Rogue Trader stol my acolytes
>so I'll steal his xenos!

>>725393285
And his dog sucked, I used Adira with the Raven and Pasqal had an Eagle, both did far more DPS, with and without the pets.

>>725393028
im playing through it right now and it really really feels like after chapter 2 they re balanced it so you get like +50 points after every choice.

>>725393024
thats why i said 50/50, both ico and dog have full retard options while their reverse is the logical choice.

-Encounter 1: "sir the governor is a heretic!!! her servants have purple pincers and they eat/pinch people!!!"
>Dog: "did you just question your governor? I will now kill you and forget everything you said. Everything is fine!"
>ICO: "I should investigate this"

-Encounter 2: "Sir the alien mutants that just tried to take over the ship want peace now that you beat them
>ICO: "LET BYGONS BE BYGONES LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE ON THE SHIP"
>DOG: "finish them off or they will just do it again"

>>725391524
Cassia's romance is the only time Owlcat understood what players need.

>>725393285
>>725393368
He's basically Ekundayo but instead of being a cunt to his animal companion at first he loves his dog from the get-go.

>>725393745
But I love Ekundayo and have nothing but disinterest for Solomorne.

>>725393745
Yeah but Ekundayo is racist so /v/ loves him

>>725393830
Ekun has the benefit of being a core companion in the base game of Pathfinder. Solomorne is a DLC companion, which always end up being half baked and tacked on because Owlcat are fucking shit at doing DLCs. I think if Solomorne was a companion the day Rogue Trader came out he would have been cooler and more liked.

>>725393694
well i played at launch when the points were really hard to get.
and i didn't get a single iconoclast point.

from what you wrote, my understanding is that they have changed it, and moved some options which were originally neutral ("i should investigate this") into giving you icono points.
we can make guesses why they did that.

>>725393991
given how he feels like glaito's sidekick, we shouldve just found his corpse and adopted the dog as a standalone companion

>>725393903
>the racist community is a very diverse community, they don't care what race you are so long as you are also racist

>>725393991
Hmm, I feel Kibbles is woven in pretty well, and I am not a waifufag either. Generally speaking though, for sure. Owlcat generally choose terrible options for dlc companions, outside of the twins in Kingmaker and Kibbles in Void Shadows. Incredibly hit or miss.

>>725386092
They'll even wait 50 hours so you would have no choice but locking it in.

>>725393696
lol no, they sold the only good girl as DLC like they always do

>>725394301
wow it's so grimdark.....
Frankly I'm not a fan of the way RT does its ending slides compared to Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.

>>725394436
pretty sure this is the first time there's been a good woman sold as dlc in an owlcat game

Is it true that GW aggressively goes after free fan projects?

>>725394594
bro, the twins?!

>>725394675
twins bad

>>725394272
>I feel Kibbles is woven in pretty well
She sticks out like a sore thumb because of how unique and special she is
>and I am not a waifufag either
And you expect me to believe that when you say only the girls you can fuck are good but not the guys? Only a waifufag would unironically say that the twins are objectively better than Ulbrig (and the wild cards better than the last sarkorians, for that matter)

>>725394510
>I'm not a fan of the way RT does its ending
The bit where companions interact with other companions outside of the strict, ever-absorbing orbit of the main character is great imo.
What do you have to do for Psaqal to shotgun blast Yirlet by the way?

>>725393696
True

>>725394602
yeah. theyre very protective of their IP, even if the fan content is top tier and free publicity like the Astartes series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpK4fcFNKbM&list=RDJpK4fcFNKbM&start_radio=1

>>725394810
>She sticks out like a sore thumb because of how unique and special she is
Maybe. I have never enjoyed how Owlcat has written companion interjections in dialogue. It feels like a bad stage play.
"Of course Rogue Trader :)"
*The man glanzes over to your companion and gulps, his eyes striken with fear though he tries to conceal it*
"you are not here to kill me are you?"
*queue a companion line*
"Anyway, I am glad we got this wrapped up Rogue Trader :)"

>>725394972
You have to embrace his heretek path as Armanat.

>>725394973
i didn't play any of kibbles stuff because i had already beaten the game.
she's hot based on the art, i'd probably have picked her. but i went with the fishy girl

considering that kibbles is dlc-only, i think she did quite a bit better than expected: she's even tied with argenta who is the most beautiful woman in the base game.

>>725394973
>stutter mid-prayer
>get shot

>>725394973
>would you rather do chores
>or go walk in the park

>>725395249
I'm surprised Argenta is as popular as she is considering her companion quest is painfully unfinished. She's only popular because she has good art and an excellent voice actor.

>>725395527
You shouldn't be, SoB are extremely popular so any SoB companion was going to be popular just because of that, if it wasn't for that I guarantee you she would drop off massively
same with Yrliet, being an eldar. The only reason why people like her despite her attitude and what she does in act 3 is specifically because muh eldar gf

>>725395527
anyone even use the power armor reward? second skin and soldier's agi bonuses just scream medium armor

>>725395527
have you heard her praise the god-emperor?
i want a woman to love me as much as argenta loves the emperor.

of course she's popular, she's beautiful and sounds like sex in a bottle. companion quests are mostly just annoying errands. her final quest was pretty okay. if the reward was babymaking sex i would have been happy.

as it stands, i realized late that she was simply bugged/not romanceable and had to scramble to fuck the fish.

>>725394116
thats not true even remotely, because I also played at launch. Like the first choice you make is to either walk through a wall of fire in the name of GOD or save your crew men from burning alive by leading them out of the smoke. there are dozens of choices like this. Giving rations and batteries on your coronation instead of hanging prostitutes.

>>725395872
>companion quests are mostly just annoying errands. her final quest was pretty okay. if the reward was babymaking sex i would have been happy
That just speaks more about your low standards than anything else

>>725395872
same desu senpai

I'm currently romancing Jae God-Emperor help me.

>>725378623
Such as?

>>725395934
the wall of fire was the only place you could get a single full point of your initial dogma/heretic/icono. if you didn't get +1 there, you wouldn't even unlock +1 if you went full *tard in a direction until act 2.
so yeah, it was hard to get.
>dozens of choices like this
like what, exactly? to give up your life for a bunch of crew you've never met before, on a ship you entered a matter of minutes ago, by going the long way around at a time when every second you delay is another second for the heretics to continue their chaos ritual? where any delay in re-establishing control could send the entire voidship into its doom in the empyreum?

no wonder everyone laughs at the iconoclasts.

>>725376619 (OP)
How will Owlcat handle her romance?

>>725393696
Wrong, but she is the best one

>>725397051
I don't like Cassia's portrait. She should have small white pupils but they don't come across in her image. And her nose is too prominent. Too much of a frown too.

>>725395979
>i have standards!
sounds like a skill issue on your part: you can't enjoy as many things as i can.

>>725397185
if you can't love her how she is, you don't deserve her

Isn't equipping the halo device supposed to overrule one of the ending slides? My heretic psyker ascended to a chaos champion and there was absolutely no mention of the fact that he had equipped the halo device.

>>725397185
You're only right about her nose, but that's okay, imperfections make perfection

>>725397351
Owlcat bugging their slides, more news at 11.

>>725397297
That's fine. I'm not fond of Owlcat romances regardless.

>>725397051
I like this artist.

>>725384558
>two humans
>one abhuman
>two xenos
Already a better roster than RT.

>>725400085
there's only one human though?

>>725400449
hehehehehehehehe

>>725378916
Why do they look like that? They're apes?

>>725378328
>When was the last time a video game had a female non-human companion that you could romance that was actually niche and weird looking
off my head the only one i can think of is vetra from mass effect andromeda, and that took several games for them to realise people even wanted to SEE female turians much less fuck them

>>725401698
Bioware is a retarded studio for capitalizing on it so late.

>>725376619 (OP)
I want to give her my pinky

>>725401295
theyre cool aliens with an extremely lazy orangutan design, yeah

>>725403903
Very nice

>>725386230
Argenta could spit on me every day...

>>725392142
Not with that attitude.

>>725387976
hot

>>725387976
he's gay?

>>725405828
hes an elf

>>725406038
Elves are straight

>>725381092
Ought to teach Owlcat to write with some brevity.