Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, the first CRPG set in the Warhammer universe, has sold over 500,000 copies since its release on December 7 last year. Coming from Owlcat Games who proved their CRPG mettle with the Pathfinder series, Rogue Trader is yet another game in the genre that has seen immense resurgence recently.
Owlcat Games has also released the game’s first major update, Patch 1.1, and an accolades trailer to celebrate the milestone. The patch houses over 1800 changes and additions including new voiceovers, combat balance updates, new visual effects, and of course, plenty of bugfixes.
These are the highlights of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader’s Patch 1.1:
- Brand new full voiceover for the Prologue and companion chatter across the game;
- New visual effects and icons;
- Narrative tweaks and new reactivity options;
- Fixes for broken quests and dialogues (including the long-anticipated Price of Humanity quest fix);
- Fixes for incorrect and inconsistent epilogues;
- A massive amount of fixes for incorrectly functioning abilities and items, including those that led to silly damage multiplication;
- Balance updates, including survivability and damage buffs to Space Marines, nerfs for Officers, weapon balance, encounter balance, and changes to calculations of many stats, bonuses and difficulty modifiers, resulting in an overall smoother game experience;
- A lot of performance improvements and optimization;
- Reputation thresholds for vendors being lowered by about 20%;
- Improvements for NPC AI, reducing the cases of friendly fire and unnecessary triggering of Attacks of Opportunity;
- Co-op desync fixes and possibility to hire mercenaries during multiplayer sessions;
- QoL UI improvements, including ability sorting, recommended skills and visibility of quests and extractums on the map;
- Marazhai and Yrliet gaining access to many previously human-restricted items.
But this is just scratching the surface. For detailed patch notes, head over to the official website.
Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader is out now on PC and Mac via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG, along with PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game has two planned major expansions—Void Shadows and Lex Imperialis—poised to release in June and December this year respectively.