WH40k Rogue Trader - Convictions System

foreign [Music] what's going on everybody mortum here this time bringing you some more Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader content this time focused on the convictions system we got our first look at this as part of the beta which is going live what should be the same day this video is as owlcac games provided me a little bit of early access to the beta to make some content on it and one of the more interesting things I came across was the conviction system as this is a game set in the Warhammer 40K Universe there's a lot of role playing to be had around either staying true to the Imperium of man or going the more heretical route or potentially straddling some in between and I know I've seen a lot of questions that people have had about how that's going to play out well look no further than the convictions system now in some ways this is a basic morality system that I would say touches upon much of the game it's going to change how people react to you potentially provides you new abilities or unique dialogue lines so basically if you want to be a heretic this is how you do it but in the most simple form as we move through the game make decisions choose dialogue options we will be gaining conviction ratings for one of three convictions imperialis benevolentia and hereticus which correspond with basically what you would expect each of these has five ranks the more you lean into one aspect the higher your rank in that will become thus strengthening your convictions which is a simple enough system but the real interesting things here are the consequences of said decisions but most importantly some dialogue options are locked behind these ranks so it's not enough to just choose the heretic option but you have to have say like rank three or four in the heretic option to use that instance in this one particular case so later in the game you'll have to have adhered to a specific conviction path in order to take certain options kind of thing so each of these will give us unique opportunities to solve situations a certain way potentially side with the bad guy so to speak or strike a more neutral stance these are in addition to the regular ways of going about solving a problem though but outside of dialogue and events there's also a few other things this affects as well such as granting just the ability to wear certain equipment certain equipment will have a required convictions rank meaning that some types of equipment will only be available to certain types of characters which is important because even our companions do have specific ratings as far as this is concerned so even outside of just our own character some of our companions might not be able to use certain equipment based on their own convictions most importantly I would say on the role-playing side of things is that Rogue Trader is a crpg which means a lot of the interesting things about the game in its Story come down to the decisions you make and the consequences they give you we saw this in alcat's other work with Pathfinder most recently with Wrath of the righteous where certain Mythic paths would cause certain companions to leave you needless to say in a universe where the only thing holding much of our companions together is our own authority as a rogue Trader and the fact that we're on a rogue Trader ship which are granted just broad authority to do as they please means that a good amount of that role-playing is exactly the situations between these companions that you would expect how are certain ones getting along with certain other ones that they absolutely should not be getting along with that type of thing how is the unsanctioned psycho not infesting the place with demons and what are you doing about those potential situations and convictions are kind of at the heart of that especially since as I mentioned some of these companions will have their own convictions which might not line up so well with yours so in that respect such as getting a sister of battle and an unsanctioned psycher to cooperate or how people put up with our Eldar companion for instance could all come into play and have ramifications here so I think for me that's the most interesting thing about the conviction system but broadly speaking if you are wondering how to become a heretic how to defend the god Emperor so to speak or anything in between it looks like the system is your answer but I do want to mention that what I wasn't able to cover here is the romances we know there's probably going to be romances to some degree but I also know that they are not implemented in the beta yet so exactly how the conviction systems plays into the romance systems is not an answer I have for you as it stands but I do imagine that will also have some degree of interactivity but exactly how remains to be seen that is pretty much all I've got for you guys today I certainly hope you enjoyed this video I hope you found it informative and interesting let me know what you think of this system down below and if you're planning on taking the hereticus options do go ahead and report to your closest Inquisition office but either way thank you so much for watching I really do appreciate it may you wander in wisdom and have an amazing day [Music] foreign [Music]

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Id: xKEG_21V2tw

Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 01 2023