Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader News

• Winner is determined by beating the game or reaching the furthest Act without the player’s party ever being defeated.
  
• If multiple players have reached the same act or have beaten the game, tiebreakers are resolved by the number of quests completed (you can check completed quests in the journal).
  
• If still tied, the victory is determined in favor of the player who spent the least in-game time on their playthrough.
  

• Grim Darkness mode must be enabled;
  
• Daring Difficulty must be enabled;
  
• Void Shadows DLC must be installed and enabled;
  
• All free and cosmetic DLCs can be enabled;
  
• Any background or character-selection choices are allowed;
  
• Any ship type is allowed;
  
• Only single player is allowed;
  
• No mercenaries are allowed (only story companions);
  
• No mods can be used;
  
• It is prohibited to shutdown or alter the game in any way in order to prevent a death, make a different choice, or redo a skillcheck. Live with the consequences of your choices!
  

• After each game session, the participant must upload the following stats to the provided Discord channel:
  - Time played this session;
  - Total time played in campaign;
  - Current Act # reached
  - Number of completed quests (visible in the quest log)
  - Party setup that was used most of the time for this session (companions and archetypes). Builds don't need to be uploaded, but must be available on request.
  
  
• Playthroughs must happen strictly LIVE, with the streams and their records saved in case a need arises to check them. If you have connection issues, please save the game and continue when your connection is restored.
  
  
• All participants must manually make a backup of their save after every session (by default it is located in C:\Users\ \AppData\LocalLow\Owlcat Games\Warhammer 40000 Rogue Trader) to prevent unexpected progress loss due to power outages, Steam Cloud issues, bugs, and other force majeure factors.
  
  
• If continuing or finishing the playthrough is impossible due to a non-gameplay related reason (a bug, power failure, hardware or software issues, etc.), contact the organizers. We may be able to let you continue from a previous backed-up save or restart the game, depending on the circumstances.
  
  
• We strongly urge all participants to use the #GrimDarknessChallenge hashtag in their media.
  

• It is forbidden to exploit bugs and a clearly unintended use of game mechanics to gain a gameplay advantage. If you are in doubt as to whether the situation can be classified as such, contact the organizers.
  
• No mods or external software may be used to modify the game or save or to alter them in any way.
  

• Some space battles could become stuck after defeating all enemies - fixed;
  
• Abilities in space combat could become unavailable after the first use - fixed;
  
• In rare cases, UI in space combat could disappear - fixed;
  
• The main enemy of the battle in Astropathic Chapel refused to die if the difficulty was set to Custom and NPC stat modifiers were set below a certain threshold - fixed;
  
• Since the last update, the player could experience severe lag when using some abilities such as burst attacks - fixed;
  
• The main menu button “Continue” used to ignore the existence of Grim Darkness saves, forcing the player to load game manually through the Load Game menu - fixed, now continuing the game is possible as normal;
  
• Making four incorrect choices in The Haunting of Zacchary Weisz quest no longer causes all party members to instantly die (which caused a Grim Darkness game over), only inflicting damage and trauma instead;
  

The thing you must remember about the universe of Warhammer 40k is that it isn't ours, despite some similarities. One key difference is that, unless proven otherwise in an Event Horizon-esque experiment, I'm pretty sure our reality doesn't float upon a gestalt ocean made up of the most horrifying emotions from a multitude of species. In this fictional universe, traversing this galaxy means sailing through those terrifying depths. In Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader you do so in your voidship - which is the focus of the new DLC, Void Shadows, and you can play it now.

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