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Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate Daemonhunters Research Tech Guide

Warhammer: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters ⁠— Research and techs guide

Research techs to progress further in the campaign in Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters.

Shortly after starting the campaign in Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, your hapless band of Grey Knights is joined by Inquisitor Vakir. This enables the research system in the game, as Vakir is out to discover a way to stop Nurgle’s plague. Here’s our Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters research guide to help you with the tech tree and campaign progression.

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Note: For more information, check out our Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters guides and features hub. Likewise, please be reminded that this guide contains minor spoilers.

 

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters research techs and campaign progression guide

Vakir and research speed

All the techs that you research in Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters require Bloom Seeds. As such, it’s imperative that you always try to collect seeds whenever you can during missions.

Other factors also affect research speed:

  • Grimoires are items rewards from missions. The Libris Malleus ship upgrades increase research speed depending on the Grimoires that you have.
  • Some random events and Armory of Titan dilemmas may affect Vakir’s morale and research speed.
  • Missions and events may cause Vakir to get injured or be indisposed. If Vakir is unavailable, then research will be halted until she recovers.

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The tech tree

In any case, the research menu is divided into two halves. The left-hand side predominantly contains Strategems, abilities that can be used on the battlefield. We discuss these further in our Strategems guide.

As for the right-hand side techs, some of which are also Strategems, you can see them listed below:

Research Tech/Strategem Effect
Poxwalker Necropsy Campaign progression
Psychic Attunement -2 corruption in the system
The Seed +1 Requisition; campaign progression
Advanced Seed Access +1 seed from missions; unlocks Extractor Servo Skull
Enhanced Attunement +1 Strategem slot
Bloom Suppression 1 -5% Warp Surge per turn
Tides of Escalation +1 WP each time there’s a Warp Surge
Source of the Bloom +1 Requisition; campaign progression
Advanced Seed Extraction +1 seed on extraction
Willpower 1 Target a Knight who regains all WP
Bloom Suppression 2 -10% Warp Surge per turn
Surge Prevention 1 Reduce Warp Surge by 100%
Bloom Seed Purification
– includes linked variants
-1 seed cost for Purification Seals; the linked techs are for other seed variants (i.e., Mortus, Dolorus, and the like)
Willpower 2 All Knights recover +3 WP
Bloom Suppression 3 -15% Warp Surge per turn
Surge Prevention 2 Reduce Warp Surge by 100% for three turns
Codex Toxicus +2 Requisition; campaign progression
Codex Attunement
– All five techs in the bottom row
These techs, once researched, allow you to find a Reaper boss that harnesses a strain of the plague.
Only one Reaper target may be active at any given point in time. You have to defeat that boss to select another attunement.

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Campaign progress techs

As you can see in the image above, the first column begins with the “Poxwalker Necropsy” tech, followed by “The Seed.” These lead to early-game tasks where you learn about the Bloom Seeds/seed collection mechanic.

Shortly thereafter, you’ll need to research the “Source of the Bloom” tech. This reveals an Eldar Craftworld that has been corrupted by Nurgle, with a main mission called “The Nexus.”

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Completing “The Nexus” unveils more research techs in Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, as four additional strains of the plague get discovered. The branch below that has “Codex Toxicus,” which unlocks five “Codex Attunement” options.

Each attunement tech requires seven Bloom Seeds of a particular strain/color. Once researched, it will reveal the location of a Reaper boss. This boss has to be defeated before you can select another attunement. Since there are five Reapers/plague strains, you’ll need to do this five times as well to progress the campaign further.

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