# Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Abelard, Announce the Fifth Gargantuan Update - 1.5! - Product: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/warhammer-40-000-rogue-trader) - Vendor: Owlcat Games - Date: 2025-10-22 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2186680/view/533239065676349753 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/warhammer-40-000-rogue-trader/releases/2025-10-22-abelard-announce-the-fifth-gargantuan-update-1.5 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add 4 new NPC portraits for Malice, Commissar, Clementia Werserian, and Abel - **added** — Add 45 new Xeno and Astartes items - **added** — Add 25 new talents and mechanical changes for rare and exotic weapons - **added** — Add Convictions for Familiars - **changed** — Rework Astra Militarum Commander, Ministorum Priest, Commissar and Navy Officer Origins - **changed** — Polish Lex Imperialis content with corrections to tone of voice, style of text and descriptions on Thassera - **changed** — Improve epilogue slides related to Nomos - **changed** — Review companion starting builds - **changed** — Rebalance experience - **changed** — Rebalance abilities - **changed** — Rebalance colonisation and update rewards - **changed** — Redistribute and change items, loot and vendor tables - **changed** — Apply a pass on consistency, tone of voice and style of Leethus dialogues - **fixed** — Fix crematorium floor to always break correctly and prevent softlock - **fixed** — Fix turn in combat getting stuck when hitting an enemy with Reckless Strike and stunning them simultaneously - **fixed** — Fix game freeze when switching two-handed shotguns equipped in one hand between slots - **fixed** — Fix two-handed shotguns equipped into a single slot through talent stopping working after saving and loading - **fixed** — Fix game crash when quickly scrolling stick in character creation screen on PS5 - **fixed** — Fix black screen when loading autosave before cutscene at Eurac-V With the gargantuan update 1.5, the Koronus Expanse shifts once more. QoL updates, rebalance, a lot of new content and hundreds of bugfixes await. Step back aboard, Lord Captain! ##### Highlights: - 4 new NPC portraits: Malice, Commissar, Clementia Werserian, Abel; - 45 new Xeno and Astartes items; - Astra Militarum Commander, Ministorum Priest, Commissar and Navy Officer Origin rework; - 25 new talents and mechanical changes for rare and exotic weapons; - Lex Imperialis content polishing; - Convictions for Familiars; - Companion starting builds review; - Experience rebalance; - Ability rebalance; - Colonisation rebalance and reward updates; - Redistribution and changes to items, loot and vendor tables; - Hundreds of bugfixes, including Epilogue and Yrliet issues; - And much more! The previous build (1.4.1.231) **remains available through the beta branches**. Use it if you have issues with mods or wish to finish your playthrough without the changes. Note that saves made on 1.5 won't load on 1.4. Please note that we do not guarantee compatibility of this legacy branch with co-op, future content and mods, will not be able to help with any issues or bugs you may encounter while playing it, and will not process any bug reports sent from this branch. Also note that https://steamcommunity.com/app/2186680/discussions/0/4027970580228219058/ always contains up-to-date information on known issues and the roadmap of upcoming patches. Please be aware of the plot spoilers below! ##### Patch Notes ##### System and stability ##### Crashes and softlocks - The floor in the crematorium will now always break correctly - previously it could sometimes fail to trigger, causing a softlock; - The turn in combat no longer gets stuck if you hit an enemy with Reckless Strike and stun them at the same time; - The talent allowing to use two-handed shotguns in one hand could cause the game to freeze when switching the weapon between slots - fixed; - Saving and loading the game no longer causes two-handed shotguns equipped into a single slot through the effect of the talent to stop working until reequipped; - Quickly scrolling the stick in the character creation screen no longer crashes the game on PS5; - Loading an autosave before the cutscene at Eurac-V could cause a black screen - fixed; - Glaito will no longer sometimes disappear completely when entering the Bloodspun Web temple, locking the Lex Imperialis story; - Fixed an endless combat turn loop in one of the encounters at Rykad Minoris; - Fixed a number of crashes on PS5; - Fixed a number of cases where the game would load to 100% and freeze; - Familiars sometimes disappeared without a trace after a romantic scene with Cassia. While we know she has a... thing for animals (and birds in particular), this time it wasn't her fault; ##### Lag and freezing - Fixed a few problems that caused freezing during burst shots; ##### Narrative ##### Epilogues - Vladaym's epilogue will no longer appear if he didn't survive the unfolding events; - A Heretical Rogue Trader can no longer become the champion of the Dark Gods if he already ascended into something different in the ending, and that epilogue won't be shown in that case; - The epilogues related to the relationship between the Arbites and the von Valancius Dynasty will not be shown if the Rogue Trader has ascended into something entirely alien in the final scene; - The epilogue with Kibellah and Mattis played for Heretical Rogue Traders even if Mattis was dead - fixed; - Jae cannot both rule at Footfall and stay near the Rogue Trader in the epilogues at the same time anymore; - Improved epilogue slides related to Nomos; - Fixed narrative inconsistencies about Idira in Argenta and Jae epilogues; - Fixed inconsistencies in Abelard's epilogue related to Heretical conviction; - Fixed epilogue slides for Xavier Calcazar that contradicted each other; - Fixed contradictions in Kibellah _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2186680/view/533239065676349753]_