Owlcat Games Announces Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy

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Lord Captains! We are proud to announce that our new Warhammer 40,000 game is on its way! Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy is already in development, and we urge you not to miss it. Prepare for a completely new story unfolding in the Calixis Sector. By the decree of the Holy Inquisition, you have been chosen for a perilous mission that will dictate the future of the Calixis Sector. Become an agent of the Holy Golden Throne and hunt down all those who would dare stray from the Emperor's light. Hold fast to your duty, eradicate the enemies of the Imperium and battle the horrors of the void in the long-anticipated Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy!

Explore the Warhammer 40,000 universe like you've never seen it before! Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy is an upcoming turn-based CRPG with a unique and thrilling narrative that follows the shadowy agents of the Inquisition. Take on the mantle of an Inquisitor, and use every tool at your disposal to root out corruption, sedition and heresy, bringing the Emperor's wrath to those who would see the Imperium fall. Hunt down clues, investigate mysteries, and uncover vile conspiracies.




Owlcat Games reveal a new game in Warhammer 40,000 Universe. Become an acolyte of the Inquisition in this grim dark, party-based, story-driven cRPG. Lead investigations, uncover grand conspiracies, master tactical combat, and wage a secret war against heresy.

In this brand-new game, deep reactivity with countless variations will grant you the ultimate role-playing experience. The path of an Inquisitor is not for the fainthearted. There are no easy decisions in the war for humanity's soul—will you choose to hold fast to the puritanical mandate of the Emperor, or embrace a more radical and pragmatic approach? The choice is yours.

They operate in the shadows of the Imperium, trusted by few and feared by many. Wishlist Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy on Steam to stay up to date with all the latest news on the game.

Pre-order Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy on our website. Don't miss your chance to purchase the Collector's Edition, receive exclusive rewards, and more.



And remember, Acolyte—innocence proves nothing.

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[Kadath]

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Glad to see we're getting an inquisition CRPG.

Honestly surprised we got a Rogue Trader RPG first, the Inquisition is much better known and has a huge amount of latitude for roleplaying.

Hope we get a chance to bind a daemonhost and go full chaos at some point in the story.

 

[Easo]

Abelard, get me my coat, we are going undercover!

 

[Onasi]

Hopefully, this one will be less absolutely broken on release than their previous endeavors… but it’s Owlcat, so probably not. I am still waiting for them to finish fixing and releasing all the content for Rogue Trader before a playthrough. Owlcat are their worst enemies in a sense that buying their games Day One is just inflicting torture on oneself.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Hopefully, this one will be less absolutely broken on release than their previous endeavors… but it’s Owlcat, so probably not. I am still waiting for them to finish fixing and releasing all the content for Rogue Trader before a playthrough. Owlcat are their worst enemies in a sense that buying their games Day One is just inflicting torture on oneself.

- 100%.

Was so excited to finally get a 40K RPG but early reviews said that Rogue Trader was basically unfinished and the last few chapters had only enough content to finish the main plot and not much else.

I am already pre-disposed to just waiting for the $10 complete edition of games anyway and with Owlcat it feels like the only way to fly.

 

[Vayra86]

'Brand new game'... well... its just Rogue Trader 2 with new paint, and a new floodgate of bugs opening up.

That's not a bad thing though. I've come to view Owlcat games like I do Bethesda open world games. You know how they work. And in the meantime, you can play with absolutely broken mechanics and have some fun while exploring a story.

Just don't take it too seriously and their formula works well. I mean looking at Rogue Trader, some of those progression trees must have been thought up on a friday afternoon office drinking party. The better half just doesn't even make a sliver of sense, but you can still use it somehow and make something completely not viable with it.

Its quite refreshing to play games built with such dedication and scope, but not polished down to perfection.

- 100%.

Was so excited to finally get a 40K RPG but early reviews said that Rogue Trader was basically unfinished and the last few chapters had only enough content to finish the main plot and not much else.

I am already pre-disposed to just waiting for the $10 complete edition of games anyway and with Owlcat it feels like the only way to fly.

Rogue Trader is still worth a play though. Cool stuff happens.

 

[L'Eliminateur]

- 100%.

Was so excited to finally get a 40K RPG but early reviews said that Rogue Trader was basically unfinished and the last few chapters had only enough content to finish the main plot and not much else.

I am already pre-disposed to just waiting for the $10 complete edition of games anyway and with Owlcat it feels like the only way to fly.

yeah owlcat really is bad at making a finished product, they lack any kind of meaningful QA or playtesting, an owlcat release shoulld be treated as a paid alpha at best, their games are essentially unplayable until at least a full year has passed or more. Look at WOTR, waaay more than a year in and they're still releasing BIG bugfix patches with game-breaking stuff fixed, it's insane.

 

[Vayra86]

yeah owlcat really is bad at making a finished product, they lack any kind of meaningful QA or playtesting, an owlcat release shoulld be treated as a paid alpha at best, their games are essentially unplayable until at least a full year has passed or more. Look at WOTR, waaay more than a year in and they're still releasing BIG bugfix patches with game-breaking stuff fixed, it's insane.

True. It does seem to be getting slightly better, Rogue Trader wasn't half as bad as I expected. Then again you might expect them to after making the umpteenth CRPG on the same engine with similar mechanics.

I think Owlcat's strategy is 'quantity first, quality later'. I mean every single one of those CRPGs is expansive, you can throw 90-120 hours in each no problem.

 

[Onasi]

Just don't take it too seriously and their formula works well. I mean looking at Rogue Trader, some of those progression trees must have been thought up on a friday afternoon office drinking party. The better half just doesn't even make a sliver of sense, but you can still use it somehow and make something completely not viable with it.

The issue is you never know with them when then janky build-defining stuff is intentional and works as it should or a fucked up implementation that they will patch out later. In WotR, the stacking CHA to AC thing has been around for a year since release, more if we count Beta. Yeah, it was obviously not as intended on PnP, but they didn’t fix that, so everyone and their mother ran Nature Oracle+Scaled Fist Monk dips. Then OwlCat woke up, realized this is bugged and patched that, which killed a shitton of builds. Same when they fixed Vital Strike and mounted Tower Shield exploits. So even from the point of theory crafting builds you aren’t safe until you are sure they released the definitive final for real patch.

 

[Bloste]

The issue is you never know with them when then janky build-defining stuff is intentional and works as it should or a fucked up implementation that they will patch out later. In WotR, the stacking CHA to AC thing has been around for a year since release, more if we count Beta. Yeah, it was obviously not as intended on PnP, but they didn’t fix that, so everyone and their mother ran Nature Oracle+Scaled Fist Monk dips. Then OwlCat woke up, realized this is bugged and patched that, which killed a shitton of builds. Same when they fixed Vital Strike and mounted Tower Shield exploits. So even from the point of theory crafting builds you aren’t safe until you are sure they released the definitive final for real patch.

From the point of view of youtubers, that's perfect. You can drop tutorial videos of the same game year after year!