Owlcat reveals two new 40K companions, one for Rogue Trader and one for the upcoming Dark Heresy

Owlcat's RPGs have a history of launching in a terrible state but improving significantly over time. When I replayed Rogue Trader last year, with the benefit of a bunch of patches and a couple of expansions, I had a much better time than I did when it was brand new and I hit a progress-blocking bug that meant I had to replay all of act one. But even then, when I told people it was finally a good time to jump in, the most vocal response was from people who would rather keep waiting.

And fair enough. Because we knew there would be even more to come, and that's what Owlcat is promoting now, with a character trailer revealing the companion being added in The Infinite Museion DLC. It's Eogann Februs, a tech-priest.

Which is a bit underwhelming if you were expecting something a bit more exotic. There's already a tech-priest among Rogue Trader's crew of companions, and although the Adeptus Mechanicus certainly do contain multitudes—Bulwark's tactics game Mechanicus was a great example of that—if you thought we were getting Trazyn the Infinite or an ork or a tau or something mad like that, this must be a bit of a letdown.

At the same time, Owlcat's just released a trailer showcasing a companion you can recruit in the playable alpha for Dark Heresy. Haymar Devos is a guardsman from the infamous death world of Catachan, which is basically the jungle from Predator stretched over an entire planet. Every single trooper recruited on Catachan is an '80s action-movie hero, including a Rambo analogue called Sly Marbo. Which is pretty rad.

Fraser's been playing the Dark Heresy alpha and he's impressed so far, saying it has everything he wants from a CRPG. It's still labeled as "coming soon" on Steam, as is the Infinite Museion DLC for Rogue Trader.