WH40K: Rogue Trader's "first major update" is out, and everyone gets a free respec
A colossal new update for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader launched last night, hitting the grimdark space-aristocrat RPG with so many changes that the patch notes are almost 17,000 words long. Fitting for a game that our Rogue Trader review called "engrossing, obscure and absolutely exhausting". It adds loads of new voiced lines, fixes everything from wonky abilities to broken quests, reworks balance, improves performance, and so much more. Enough is changed that developers Owlcat are giving everyone in your party a free respec to adjust to what the game has become.
See the Rogue Trader v1.1.28 patch notes for oh so much more, including changes affecting spoiler-y things. Here's what the developers flag as the highlights:
The combined changes are so major that you'll likely want (and need) to rebuild your party, so all current party members in existing saves are getting one free respec to reassign their everything. If you haven't yet reached the point in the game where respecs unlock, your party will have a special ability to get a free one-time respec. If you have, hey, you can claim a bonus free respec in the usual High Factotum way.
Though the blurb on Steam calls this the "first major update", they did previously call a December patch the "third major patch". I don't know if this is some fuzzy difference of implication between "update" and "patch" or simply if this one is so giant that it requires a full readjustment of scale. This is the new major; all previous majors are now minor.
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