tl;dr: highly recommend, one of the best game I've ever played period.
First off, the hero being truly Someone from the get go, with huge responsabilities on his shoulders, is quite a unique setup which hooked me straight up.
It doesn't feel like you're following a straight storyline path at all, there's multiple stuff happening all the time and you do what interests you first which even lead to consequences sometimes. There's alot of side quest that do not feel boring to me whatsoever, the lore is immaculate from 40k, storywise 10/10
I only am on my first playthrough but it really seems that choices matter, and if not it's really well sold.
I quite enjoyed the alignment aspect as well, between dogmatic, iconoclast, or heretic. I played as one of them and stuck to it, even when the choices stung sometimes, and I found that really fun.
The dizzying depth of this game's character specialization system is really cool to me, but if you don't like it just check online there's stuff I used on the companions I don't have in my main comp that is quite solid (revan619's seems to be the reference)
Now obviously at that point you understand that I really like the game but it's not perfect either, like everythig it has some flaws, here's a list from the top of my head:
- most cutscene are a bit too slow
- combat is great but sometimes feel awkward on certain setup, on line of sight that you missred, e.g. or certain grid which feel worse than others
- trap system feels unecessary sometimes and can be tedious, but that's minor
- the combat camera feels clunky, especially on fights where there's long distance and/or elevation. It tend to jump back alot to your character during animation which can be frustrating, especially on sniper shots where you don't even see the result of your shot sometimes
- with a good build you can one shot easily, i'm playing a pyro psyker as my MC and it needs to play with already burning enemy, but most of the time my burning skills one shot the guy \_(^-^')_/
- not really a negative but more a warning: there's a lot of reading to do, if you're not into that, this game ain't for you
- i'm not sure about the trade system, I mean It can create frustration because some of the loot that would have really interested me are gated behind faction reputations that I would rather not go for lorewise, but that's really a minor thing
final comment/advice DLC wise: you don't have to get them for the start of the playthrough, i'd advise to play the first chapter (which is great, but just more linear than the next ones) and decide from here because the DLCs have close to zero impact on chapter one (at most it delays the content). As I'm writting this review i'm not done at all with the game so i can't give feedback on all of them because some impact you're playthrough later than others, but I can already tell you:
- "void shadows" is a no brainer, it gives the game alot of content on your ship itself which would be lacking otherwise, I just didn't like the companion the game gave you with it, too strong for my taste. so great lore okay new mechanics
- "The infinite museion" starts strong and the companion is quite unique I like it alot so far, and it gives a new feature which is really good aswell and on par with the lore. both lore and mechanics are good
- "Lex imperialis" I can only talk about the mechanics of it, the new class and weapons is cool but not game changing, for the lore It seems from other reviews that it's much more poor than the other two I can say for myself. If you wanna skip one I'd suggest this one but i bought all three and will buy the last one without any hesitations once it comes out.
