Developer Owlcat Games has taken to the Steam page of turn-based cRPG Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader to share some of the changes coming in the major update 1.2. Koronus Expanse is in for some rebalancing with over 2,500 changes coming to the game with the patch.
“Having already dealt with most of the critical bugs, we felt that the upcoming patch would be a great time to revisit game balance. With these balance changes, we are aiming to provide a better challenge, offer more interesting gameplay, and expand the variety of viable builds, especially on higher difficulties.”
The team identified four major categories that had the biggest negative impact on player experience:
- Excess of additional turns – Stacking additional turns gives such a dominating advantage that players who utilize it can entirely trivialize combat, sometimes to the point where the enemy doesn’t even get to take a single turn;
- Overscaling in the late game – There were still a handful of items and abilities in the game with multiplicative scaling that did silly things when stacked. Killing Edge being the main offender.
- Sanctioned psykers and pyromancy – sanctioned psykers can take psy rating-increasing talents earlier. This will not only reduce the eventual difference in psy rating when compared to unsanctioned psykers, but it will also allow sanctioned psykers to take advanced psychic powers earlier.
- Arch-militant overtuning – the devs slightly reduced versatility generation and scaling from it to put the Arch-Militant more in line with the rest of the archetypes.
However, the upcoming patch 1.2 does not signify the end of support for Koronus Expanse. Later, the developers intend to go over all encounters that are either known to be difficulty spikes or feel too easy for their level and tune them accordingly. Additionally, changes will be coming to conviction points distribution.
In other Rogue Trader news, the developers also revealed the release date of the first major DLC. Void Shadows will be arriving in Koronus Expanse on August 8.
“Brace yourself, Lord Captain! New adventures await you in the Koronus Expanse — thrilling, bewildering, ominous. Engage with the sinister representatives of an ancient Death Cult, and with their aid, uncover the menacing secrets concealed in the darkest corners of your voidship. Welcome a new companion into your retinue — Kibellah, a skilled Death Cult Assassin. As you get to know her, you may begin to take a different view of your faith in the Emperor.”
