TARINunit9

They way I think of it is this: After the Sacrifice, there's dialogue after the Sacrifice ends, your Z-kid talking to Wally. And your Z-kid admits, without any prompting, that during transference they flat-out cannot tell where their brain ends and the Warframe's begins. In that conversation specifically, the kid was talking about Excalibur Umbra. But going back to Mirage again: when Ballas "killed" and rebuilt the person who would become Mirage, her last words were a mocking laughter. And when Mirage the Warframe was slain in the Old War, i.e. when she was fighting with a Tenno, her last words... were her signature laughter. But I also like your way of putting it:

Press X to doubt I played Conclave in 2016. Specifically the Snowball Fight event (all players locked to the Ether Reaper and MK1 Kunai, re-skinned as candy canes and snowballs) and its non-seasonal Quick Steel variant (all players locked to the Hikou and Nikana). The queue was NOT poppin' and games with only three people were moderately common

Our disagreement is here. I don't believe ANY of them are blank puppets. Clones are people too, and we know from Umbra the clones even get a free copy of their host's memories. On a related note I do not believe the Z-kid saved themself at the end of the Second Dream, it was the Warframe of its own free will who destroyed War Indeed, this is one of those weird cases where the older canon might not still be in use. The Grineer Kweens have old voice clips from 2013, but they got new voice actors for War Within. Once Awake implies the Infested have been dormant for millennia, and only woke up after you personally finished the tutorial (so for me, seven years ago) but during Plague Star there's a story from Konzu about an Infested incident decades ago. The Tenno used to have a governing body between the soldiers and the Orokin, the Tenno Council, but they've completely vanished from the lore circa 2015 Revives are just one of many

Quite the different takeaway from how I saw it. How I read it was, the Orokin TRIED to steal their identity (because they're sociopaths) and couldn't. The first generation of Warframes managed to hold onto their souls, which is why they refused to obey. For the next generation, after the Warframes and Z-Kids merged into the Tenno, the Orokin didn't need to bother with the identity part as long as the Tenno obeyed But more to the point, The Orokin elite were not what I would call "still human." Human DNA in theory, but in practice they're transhuman, maybe even approaching posthuman. So yes, I could definitely see Ballas holding onto a Revive, both in terms of paranoia and being strong enough to actually use it

Warframes are people, that was the entire point of the Sacrifice. And no, I do NOT think that was exclusive to Excalibur Umbra: the Prime trailers make it clear, each and every original Warframe was a tortured political prisoner the Z-Kids had to give a lot of hugs Indeed, this much is pretty self-evident: Z-Kids don't have Revive systems. It's how we maintain narrative tension in Second Dream (our Warframes can Revive, but our Z-Kids can't, so if Stalker catches our Z-kid it's game over), and after the War Within it becomes a moot point anyway with the Transfer Static mechanic

There is one other candidate for what happened, but it may have been pushed out of the canon by now: Stolen Dreams, the Mirage quest Short story even shorter, the Revives we use in gameplay exist in canon. Or at least they did in 2014 when the quest was written. If they are still canon, then Ballas just held X and spent a revive after being stabbed by Karris. The Mirage quest also mentions it's possible to prevent Revives from working, either by jamming the system somehow or atomizing the corpse

I'd like to note that, at time of writing, the idea of a multiverse in Warframe is HEAVILY overblown in lore discussions compared to how much it actually impacts the lore. Currently the multiverse/eternalism in Warframe only exists to: A) explain where the Drifter comes from, and B) explain why consoles and PC used to have different relays after the Eyes of Blight event That is literally it. So far every playable segment in Warframe has taken place in one of the three "Operator timelines" (which are all identical anyway beyond the relays). That's including the entire New War quest, where the existence of the multiverse was confirmed in the first place Now this does loop back to the question: "Is the multiverse in Warframe a byproduct of conceptual embodiment from the Void?" Considering how vestigial the multiverse is in the first place... I wouldn't actually be surprised if the answer is "yes." This would also tie into... This is also in play, from my reading. As best I can tell, there's a time loop where the Drifter, free from the prisons of Thrax, helps the Kid in the New War. Then the Kid, having killed Ballas and won the New War, helps the Drifter escape Thrax and conquer the Duviri Paradox. Drifter then goes on to help the Kid win the New War and so on Such a time loop would make more sense if, as per OP's question, the Void is taking something that makes sense in our minds and forcing it to make sense in physic reality where it otherwise wouldn't work

I always thought the Ether Sword/Daggers were energy blades. And if those aren't, the Silva/Aegis (not Prime) definitely is

I haven't even bothered farming them because fighting archons and defending whatshisname isn't fun. I loaded up Frost with a bunch of +energy shards and from them on I didn't need to care about the others.

If there is going to be harm it's from the Riven disposition dropping. And since I gave up on Rivens YEARS ago there's still no harm on my end

Most sci-fi has marine-style elites being taller than base humans -- from the "wearing more armor than a Bradley" Marines in Starcraft, to the "I went through fifty years of super-puberty and now I have three lungs" Astartes from Warhammer 40k, to the "little of column A, little of column B" Elementals from BattleTech. Thus, it's understandable most people would assume Warframes are really big too But from what little lore we have, Warframes are humans infected with the Helminth strain to give them metal flesh. It's certainly possible Helminth made them taller, but such was never actually stated. Thus there's nothing saying Warframes are taller than the 5'6" to 6'2" human averages

It does if you broaden your scope of who is asking and what useful means. Because the people asking wasn't just me, it was DE themselves Reading through the patch notes again (Update 31.5) I get the impression one of two things happened: the lead designers flat-out didn't like Void Blast at all and wanted to move all its functionality to Void Sling and the casting animations or the other way around happened, the addition of Z-kid casting animations left Void Blast with very little to accomplish, so it was simply neater and cleaner to axe it for some sort of replacement

To answer this I have to ask: what was Void Blast for in the first place? Everyone else I've talked to, all they did with it was open crates slightly more efficiently, and all I could think of to do with it was experiment with ragdoll physics

This had very little to do with the Railjack 1.5 update being terrible (because Volatile Sabotage was actually pretty good) and a lot more to do with power creep. By the time they released Railjack 1.5 our ships were all SO powerful, SO much stronger (and the bug where RJ Grineer had 10x more health than intended was patched) that actually taking damage or getting boarded was almost impossible The taxi problem is still an existing problem I agree, but it's a separate issue of Corpus Railjack having godawful design. Railjack Defense and Survival are stupid, Railjack Spy could be interesting in theory but it isn't, only Volatile Sab is actually cool

By getting rid of them, they actually have HIGHER chance to show up

Which seems very strange given the other evidence, both outside the quest and within the very same quest. The only way I can make sense of that is, using a Warframe like Titania as practice was a very bad idea, and once she transferred to the trees it was much safer

No that's completely backwards: transference was cheap and easy as long as you could afford the somatics. The Myrmidon assassin was an Orokin emperor who could stay transferred indefinitely. Necramechs are set up for transference -- not just the player's Tenno, but Grandmother uses it as well. And I don't know why you think Sylvana was only able to stay transferred for a short time, unless you consider thousands of years to be a short time. And last but not least, let's not forget: according to Silvana, transference pods were originally a form of physical therapy. It wasn't just safe for ordinary people, it was hospital equipment!

NEW Warframes? Maybe, it depends if the "Tenno Council" that created Nova is still canon Copies of existing Warframes? Not really, they're clones that can be made in any standard-issue Orbiter Foundry ...he doesn't have a Z-kid because he's not a Tenno. The lore has lots of examples of non-Tenno using transference. Now this does need to get answered, I agree. All we know is "The Stalker has found others as twisted as himself" and that could means lots of different things. More surviving Low Guardians? Anti-Tenno sociopaths? Just more customized Warframes?

Let's see if this reply-merging feature still works Edit: it does not. Point is, Stalker tells you who he is in the codex: he's an Orokin security guard (official job title "Low Guardian") who was extremely racist against the Tenno during the Old War. He is NOT a Tenno himself by his own admission

Stalker tells you who he is in the codex: he's an Orokin security guard (official job title "Low Guardian") who was extremely racist against the Tenno during the Old War. At the end of the Old War, the Tenno slaughtered the Orokin (except Ballas who got away) and the man who would become Stalker swore eternal revenge. At some point Stalker acquired a way to use Transference into a customized Warframe. He hates that he had to use our tools to fight us, but considered it worth it as long as he got his revenge. During the New War his priorities changed, he now considers Ballas a bigger enemy than the Tenno

I decided to put this to the test last night: I would only buy decrees that are activated by rolling (can't do a true decree-less run because of OCD). And the combat was still pretty good! Not too slow and sloggy that I was tempted to start looking for +damage decrees, not too easy that the content became boring. It was an enjoyable way to spend a half hour getting 10 more of those freaking pathos clamps that we all need like 300 of >.> And it's that last part that we are in agreement on: yeah, the sheer level of grind does make me want to cheese things faster to grind faster. But after doing the decree-less run, stacking +damage decrees doesn't feel like the ticket to grinding faster anymore

Scarlet Spear was cancelled indefinitely and frankly that's for the best. Plague Star, wouldn't call it rewarding but I agree it should happen more often so new players can experience it

I agree with your entire post except this part: I've found that dueling Dax soldiers without any decrees is actually very well-balanced. The blocking mechanic feels like trying to pull my arms off old flypaper, but it's effective when it actually happens. Heavy attacks need more reach (the Azothane in general needs more reach) but their risk reward system works pretty well. Reckless play gets you punished but staggerlocking isn't inescapable, your abilities all work great with cooldown to prevent spam, your gun can whittle down enemies without being overpowered and rewards headshots... Honestly I wish decrees were restricted to Circuit mode (I loathe Steel Path and decrees are the only thing keeping it tolerable) because Drifter combat is pretty good when you aren't spamming all the +damage decrees to kill enemies in one hit

It is said the Roman soldier used his sword once a year to kill the enemy, and his shovel once a day to build the empire

There's more flavors of pacifism than just "no fighting ever"