The amount of detail in this game is insane. Truly an incredible experience if you enjoy fantastic writing, politics, build variety. I can't stress enough how obvious it is how much work and love went into making this; it's apparent at every turn. I hope that everyone that worked on this (especially the writers!!!) are proud of themselves.
The only shortcomings for me:
- equipment variety is certainly deep enough, but I did feel a little pigeonholed by the archetypes. Coming from WotR where the class options were both wide and deep, it just felt more narrow in scope. You really only have a few classes to choose from, but to be fair you can build them out in many different ways.
- morality feels very narrow as well. In most cases you basically have the option to be dogmatic / neutral / heretical with very little in between. I get this, as the 40k universe is so focused on the contrast between these things, but it often felt like choices lacked nuance. I ended up not minding this too much though. I just had to reframe it in my mind as essentially choosing between the three at the start of the run. Then I was able to treat the game a bit more linearly, rather than a universe sandbox. With how good literally all of the writing is, it's probably a good thing they tightened the focus a bit rather than branch out and sacrifice quality honestly.
- the economy is AWESOME, but I wish they had explained it a bit more. It took me like 30hrs to realize that you lose nothing by purchasing things. I'm willing to accept that I'm just not the brightest consumer, but it's such a vastly different way of approaching economy that I think it needed more reinforcement/clarification. For anyone reading this: Profit Factor is basically your kingdom's GDP. Your relationships with factions determine what they'll be willing to give you. If you have high enough GDP and a strong enough relationship, a faction essentially just gives you items. If you have the access to get an item from a faction, you just take it. It costs you nothing.
