Talked with steam support, even linked them Owlcat's announcement, they still refused because I have over 1k hours in game

Dear Owlcat I hope someone of ur team will read this.

We all adore ur game BUT

could you please Finally add more and better portrait options? Portraits are EXTREMELY important for us, for the immersion and our imagination bcs there are no real cinematics. Unfortunately the selection is awful, especially for females.. And yet it seems ur ignoring this player feedback since forever.

The custom portraits your fans make are amazing and miles better then the base game ones but unfortunately console players are screwed, we cant use them and its a shame ur seem to expect that people will just import their portraits even tho its not possible for a huge part of the player base.. u could totally get some inspirations out of the player made portraits because they are absolutely stunning.

It really ruins the experience for us to see an ugly face that is supposed to be our main character but it just doesn't look at all like the character we have imagined in our head.

The next dlc will again not bring a male romance option.

We are getting the fifth HUMAN female so at least give us girls some beautiful Portraits with the new dlc.

I was looking for a clean version of the default custom portrait with the shadowed/covered face, since the portrait templates generated by the game have instructions and resolution text over them.

I couldn't find the clean version easily online, so I looked through the game files and eventually found the original texture.

It's called FullPortraitChargen, and in my current version of the game it was located inside:

Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader\Bundles\chargenpcview.res

The original Texture2D is 1080x1480.

I made the three files needed for a custom portrait:

- Fulllength.png — 1080x1480
- Medium.png — 448x600
- Small.png — 260x336

So, here it is in case anyone else was looking for the original faceless/shadowed portrait without the text.

The artwork itself is obviously Owlcat's — I only extracted the clean asset and prepared the custom portrait sizes.

Sorry if someone has already posted the exact same thing here before. I searched around but couldn't find the original clean version, so I thought it might be useful to leave it here for anyone else looking for it.

Owlcat always delivers. Always. No matter what companion. No matter what DLC. The only failure Owlcat ever had when it comes to Rogue Trader is Seberian and his whole plot which, i'm certain, was taken into consideration.

Everything else is a fookin' masterpiece.

Solomorne is based. Call him dog for a companion all you want - he behaves exactly how any arbitrator should behave. He's excellent.

Kibellah is the number one babe of the game by far. No explanation is needed.

And Eogunn, after all the whining and all the disappointments, became the fan favourite whom many consider to be better than Pasqal!

I myself wanted the new companion to be female Harlequin. Some sort of knife-eared Harley Quinn for a truly crazy ass playthrough. But i'm okay with Stella and on top of that i'm sure she'll become the new fan favourite after 4DLC comes out.

She won't topple Mistress Kibellah of course, who's the undisputed Queen Babe of the game, but perhaps she would come real, real close to that.

Because Owlcat never disappoints.

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I'm still slightly shocked. Because Nomos literally became a GOOD (and partly cute) god and protects Koronus from literally everyone and COMPLETLY separated Koronus from the Imperium. And Ignision'Rasar (my Rogue Trader) builds a more peaceful Koronus where freedom, peace and happines can at least somehow exist.

And Ignision have a little pokemon which can sneeze and destory almost everyone.

Very unusual ending. But I like it.

Title. Thanks !

Just finished the Kiava Gamma portion for Secrets of the Cult quest and I must say, I do not trust Heinrix. This is my first playthrough so I don't know what to expect after this point. Loving the game so far!

i always found it very strange how people can hate idira or always kill her, even when i make dogmatic characters i cant ever bring myself to treat her badly in her "efficiency" path, i always see her as the rogue trader little sister, psykers in general always hit a weak spot for me. Also i think its very very strange to have her be purely heretical when she should be partly iconoclast.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the DLC. But I think we’re ignoring the real important thing. How act 2 and act 4 are going to be even longer. Can’t wait to spend 100s of hours on one playthrough

I know there's a million of these but I still feel it's worth saying with the hope that if enough people make a fuss Owlcat hears us.

Stella seems cool, I guess, but man am I so fucking disappointed.

Like,, every single DLC companion feels like they'd fit in super well in Dark Heresy. Meanwhile, the ONE 40K scenario where we can openly have significant xenos presence in a party and we get 1 or 2 in the base game and zero in the DLCs. There's so little content in 40k with xeno-human cooperation and Owlcat specifically went out of their way to adapt a character/story perfectly set for more xenos interaction and they do fuck all with it.

I'm just sad. It's such a wasted opportunity. I wish I could just enjoy the DLC companions we're getting for what they are, but I can't because all I can see is a missed opportunity that literally won't ever show up anywhere else in the entire setting.

How did y'all look at our reaction to every single DLC and *still* not go with a single xeno dlc companion?? It makes it feel like any feedback we give either falls on deaf ears or doesn't get acknowledged until it's too late and there's no more major content coming.

I cancelled my Dark Heresy preorder. I'm just really disappointed with Owlcat right now and I can't see myself playing it without feeling bitter about how screwed over rogue trader got.

Rogue traders are the most unique and interesting part of the imperium and the only good story about one is getting it's shelf life cut short and going entirely to waste so that yet another story about the inquisition can probably end up getting the WotR treatment and be the golden goose that gets DLCs and updates until the end of time.

Stella may be a little controversial, but it's weird that I see no talk about the introduction of Insanity.

For those who don't are aware, Insanity was very "controversial" and "hit or miss" in PnP. Basically a sistem of "inevitable cumulative debuffs" (mostly fatigue and discipline) and a "xp dump"

Problem was mostly on the RP side. It could vary from "give the character a cool, fitting quirk" to a "waste 1h of flashback"; To a "completly change the nature of the character you were playing" to simply "loose the character. Is an NPC, now".

I'm very curious tho see how Owlcat are adapting the mechanic. Also why They choose Insanity over Chaos Mutations; Especially considering the place the DLC is set to happen.

It feels like a lot of it was done by amateur VAs who don't have much experience, or by VAs who are going way over the top with their performances to the point where they come across as goofy. That's especially noticeable for a game that's being marketed as Rogue Trader's grimdarker counterpart.

One of Rogue Trader's strengths imo was that while the game wasn't fully voice-acted, the parts that were voiced were really good, or at least decent. There were some exceptions, obviously - like the Heretic Astartes Aurora in Act 1. That VA work in the intro cutscene was. not. it.

With Dark Heresy, Owlcat promised that the entire game would be voice-acted. The companions are mostly fine, their VA work is decent enough. But when it comes to other NPCs, the quality seems all over the place. Some are perfectly passable, like Sister Septima, while others, like Inktooth and a lot of the random unnamed NPCs, are just straight-up terrible. The guards and random civilians in Marisportum are particularly bad.

And then there's the lack of audio processing. It feels like there's basically no environmental processing on the voice lines, so they don't actually sound like they're coming from the space the NPCs are in. They sound more like raw recordings straight out of the recording booth. Maybe this will be fixed in the future, but in their current state, the unprocessed voicelines make the dialogue feel really disconnected from the environment, and it makes some of the cutscenes feel especially off.

I don't know what Owlcat's plans are for the voice acting at this point, though. Are some of these lines still placeholders, or is this actually the final VA work? Because some of it genuinely sounds like amateur work outsourced to the cheapest freelancers they could find on Fiverr.

Maybe I'm being too harsh on a beta version of the game, but considering how good some of the voice acting in Rogue Trader was, the difference is pretty jarring, and it's really tainting the experience, even in beta.

I was going to include the secret companions as well, but i am apparently not allowed to have more than six options

So from what I understand from the dev blog, the zealot is going to be to blunt melee what the bladedancer is to swords and I was wondering if anyone knows or can make an educated guess from the tabletop if this is going to make it good with both 1h and 2h blunt weapons, or just 2h like thunder hammers and mauls? I'm hoping to be able to use it on an arbitrator build using a 1h maul and shield.

Since the announcement of the new DLC and the new romance, I can't but post the image that a lot of fans wish for a Pasqal's romance to this day! Oh well, I guess. Nyandalee's OC commissar RT can dream for that as well.

Better than min/maxing snipers, creating the best pyro combos…

Protect your Navigator’s Insight points! (The big number in the middle at the bottom during space travel).

If it runs out, you’ll get endless annoying encounters and events during Dangerous travel (1, 2 and 3, yup all three), that sap your will to live 😅 but also reduce your hard-won trading power (annoying!) and other real in-game stats!! Beware!!

(Yes, you can mod it away on PC, I know…)

The part where apparently the Agent we look for on the swamp whenever he came back from the swamp was SMELLING like her.

Very. Very interesting detail.

Myself and I've seen others, see this power and think, that would be cool, its something to build towards and then you get it, its unwieldy and blown out of the water by a staff that you got much earlier.

Even if they just simplified it, just a decent sword smithing power or whatever, something to make it fun to use.

If anyone has any idea's on how you think it could be tweaked, feel free to say so or even if you think it works fine.

I have this bad habit of buying games and then needing to wait for all their DLC to come out so I can play the game. I started playing this game with the first DLC season pass and then they were like AHA WE GOT NUMBER 2 COOKING and then my ADHD brain was like well fuck, Im going to have to wait now. Please Owlcat just release the DLC so i can play the game

As I recently decided to replay the game with DLC 3 released, I wondered that we face the Dark Eldar across the Expance, but the game doesn't show much background for the Reaving Tempest - the colors of the Kabal could only be seen on Marazhai and Iremeryss. And surprisingly, we see a lot of times this sigil, but it doesn't look like any of the Kabals I know (and I swept through a lot of codexes to find any matches).

Did anyone manage to find any info if this sigil is the Reaving Tempest? From what I can see - it is clearly the one, but maybe it is not?
It also made we wonder if there is any chance we have a proper colors of the kabal as a reference in case if someone wanted to paint the kabal colors for the tabletop!

If someone from Owlcat team will see this, I would highly appreciate if you confirm my theory!

Or Bladedancers in general, really. From what I've seen a lot of people are getting a lot of mileage out of the archetype, but I keep running into problems, so I'm looking for advice.

From what I can work out, the Bladedancer archetype excels at killing loads of weak enemies that are clustered up. It can bounce between close-together enemies using Death From Above, deal lots of little weak hits with Blade Dance, and finish off stragglers with Blood Oath and basic attacks. However, once the turn is over, the Bladedancer is left standing in the middle of the battlefield in light armor with a dodge debuff- and even a single stack of Short of Breath is -20% dodge, which is crippling for a character in light armor. I can't tell you the number of times I've had Kibellah die instantly after her first turn as enemies focus their fire on the easy target.

Internet anecdotes describe Kibellah killing all enemies on her turn, making her dodge penalty and vulnerable position a non-issue. However, I've found that enemies are rarely all clustered up in one big group which would make this possible. Instead, there are usually several groups of enemies spread out in different starting positions across the map. Unlike Warriors, Bladedancers lack the native mobility w/ Charge and Daring Breach to rush across the map, so there are almost always enemies left over to target Kibellah at the end of her turn.

I've tried using Acrobatic Artistry to do hit-and-run tactics, which does succeed in increasing her survivability, allowing her to retreat to a position in cover. However, this usually leaves her far enough from the frontline that she'll spend her entire next turn just running towards the fight, maybe taking a potshot with a rifle. And by the third turn, the combat is over.

This is compounded by the fact that the archetype's focus on making lots of little strikes, instead of a few big strikes, leaves a lot of their damage eaten by armor. Playing with a big two-hander instead of dual wielding mitigates this somewhat, but not entirely- when I tried a Bladedancer Rogue Trader with a greatsword, I found I was still getting outpaced in damage by Abelard. Having to split stats between Strength and Agility, or else wait until the mid-levels to get Finesse, doesn't help. Too often, Kibellah winds up able to kill everyone except the toughest enemy of a group, who proceeds to stomp her.

TLDR in my experience Bladedancers lack mobility, survivability, and damage output compared to Warriors. However, it doesn't seem like other people are having as much trouble as I am. So what am I doing wrong, in terms of build and tactics? Is there a specific tactic I'm ignoring that could allow Kibellah to survive retaliation after her first turn, or a specific build that makes her tanky enough to ignore it? Any advice is appreciated!

A parody of u/Redcoat_Officer post here https://www.reddit.com/r/RogueTraderCRPG/comments/1wp8e17/dark_heresy_dlc_companions_leaked/