A WH40k fan and an Owlcat despiser in me are now clashed in an endless struggle. On one hand, them finally letting go of Pathfinder means less bloatedness and potentially a far more balanced and useable system in play, and the very prospect for an RPG set in the Warhammer 40.000 is incredibly appealing, so there are hopes that it will continue the last few years' trend of WH games stopping being hot garbage.
On the other, it's still Owlcat. I wouldn't be surprised if it releases as a broken pile of manure and even a myriad of patches doesn't fully fix it, and that it'd have some poorly designed system stitched on top that has nothing to do with the normal gameplay but is more or less mandatory to engage with in order to get through the game. No, the "turn it off" option doesn't really fix the fact that it exists and took resources and time to make when the rest of the game could have been more polished and better put together.
I guess "cautiously optimistic" is what I am about it. Third time's the charm and all.
