Owlcat Video games has revealed the primary DLC growth for its well-received role-playing sport Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer on the Warhammer Skulls showcase.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer launched in December 2023 on PC by way of Steam, GOG, and the Epic Video games Retailer, along with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection S and X, and was met with optimistic evaluations from gamers and critics. IGN’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer evaluate returned an 8/10. We stated: “Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer is an extremely crunchy, 130-hour area epic with wonderful writing and fight, however sadly, additionally quite a lot of bugs.”
Now, half a yr later, Owlcat has introduced Void Shadows, Rogue Trader’s first DLC. Based on the developer, the growth provides 15 hours of recent content material, and launches throughout all platforms on August 8, 2024.
Void Shadows provides a brand new romanceable companion, absolutely built-in into the sport’s predominant story. Right here’s the official blurb:
The DLC permits the gamers to personally delve into the depths of their voidship in an enthralling story that can pit them towards a wholly new enemy who’s attempting to deliver smash to the von Valancius dynasty from the within.
There are two new archetypes with distinctive talents, and new lore content material added to the primary marketing campaign. The brand new companion is Kibellah, a Dying Cult Murderer “able to pledge her life in service of the von Valancius dynasty simply as her predecessors did for generations earlier than her.” This new companion can have romance choices as a part of the brand new story, Owlcat confirmed.
In the meantime, there are new crew members to work together with. These high-level officers play a “vital” function within the new story. The brand new menace is the Genestealer Cult, the Tyranid-obsessed faction Warhammer 40,000 followers will know nicely. Right here’s Owlcat’s line on the Genestealer Cult:
Arising from inside the deepest and darkest bowels of the participant’s very personal voidship is the malignant Genestealer Cult – a horrific breed of xenos who work from the shadows and infect your crew with their genetic code to transform them and slowly twist their loyalties for his or her wretched objectives.
New quests after all imply new nooks and crannies hidden across the voidship “the place no Lord Captain has explored earlier than, till now.” You possibly can improve your voidship with a brand new hangar, capable of launch teams of fighters and bombers “to achieve determined, large area battles and even greater threats.”
Forward of the DLC launch, Owlcat confirmed Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer now has full Steam Deck assist. Multiplayer co-op is stay now on the Home windows PC model and is coming in a future patch for Mac and console variations.
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