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Since I haven't written anything Warframe related in a while, I thought that it would be best to do something slightly different, but related. Without going into details, I've been having a rough time. Some things that hurt to hear over a conversation were instead told to me through social media. I've been slowly adjusting to the new normal in light of this and well, been focused on living, working and coping instead of creating. I suppose this is the lull I forewarned you all about in September. I think now at this point it's just finding the time to write it all down. I will probably be commissioning art for this upcoming part of the Technocyte Schism, so that coupled with everything else will make this a juggernaut of a piece.
Til Then.
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Quickie: A moment of respite, while the spore clouds flounder
Underneath the howling skies, and the thin streaming reminders of what once was, beyond the long span of the old bridge and the wilted, poisoned fields, is the plastic tent outpost of Lafayette's Ridge. If you ignore the whir of the dying filters and the coughing, sickly bags of meat that live there, and their mutterings of this being the end of days, you'll see that single golden emblem, that token of the old times. You can touch it, the inhabitants won't argue, and maybe, just maybe you'll dream that night.
I passed that way not too long ago. That little plastic tent is greened with algae, its edges covered in moss. But it hasn't started to slough, or twist despite being there longer than anyone can remember. The material hasn't begun to leech into the soil, or fray, or show signs of age, if you ignore the greening. The earth is trying to reclaim it and it stubbornly refuses. The filter has never been changed. It may be dying, but it's still better than all the others you can find anywhere in Bago. Some say that the new trees east across the ocean will make filters a thing of the past and this one will go on until it no longer has a use. I hold onto that hope. It's the only place we can send the old and lung-rotted. It might be strange to put faith in something you don't fully understand, but do you even know what they put in the filters these days? Cotton died out a long time ago.
When you lay down to sleep, and you tune out the coughing, the whirring changes. It becomes something else entirely. It starts to sing. I've never heard something so beautiful in all my life. If something as mundane as an air filter could sing in the old times, it, the plastic and the golden symbol gave birth to the strangest dream I've ever had, that I recorded the morning after second, by second.
A great city of marble rose from the earth around me, filled with shimmering, towering figures of starlight. They looked down at me from their long necks, really looked at me, in a way that my mother never did and my father never could and I felt so much love and compassion in that moment that I apparently cried in my sleep. One in particular stood out to me. He was so symmetrical, so beautiful that even in my dream, I dared not breathe, dare not move for fear that I would displease him. I watched as he took in my put-together hazard suit, covered in grime and dust, the mismatched colours and the jury rigged travel filters from Giorgio's, and watched as he slowly shook his head.
"My poor citizen. It was never meant to end like this. This was not our plan, but our plans, our designs were stripped from us by them." He said, with his perfect lips, that were curled into a frown. He looked up, the others around him doing the same. I looked up, but saw nothing. Some took on combative stances, but from their looks of despair, this wasn't a fight that they could win.
A mob of reddened figures appeared from the rooftops of the city. One by one, the shimmering giants were struck down, until it was only me and the figure that had spoken. It was in that moment that the figures faded. He had not once looked away, merely scowling as he spoke again. "Because they thought they knew better, every generation has faced its own tragedy. A debt of blood, or sickness, all thanks to them. Even you and your father."
The directed statement thawed my throat. "You knew my father?"
The figure shook his head. "I knew what happened to him. The Blight. Shortly after you were born. First his eyes, then his lungs. By the time you were in school, he was here."
This was too real for a dream, even a lucid one. "What is this?" I asked.
"A conversation. I have them every night, with the people that can hear the singing. Your father spoke to me quite often, before he passed. There was so much he wished for you, for the family."
I couldn't understand it. I was speaking to the tent?
"He died and everything got worse. The spore clouds shifted South. I've spent most of my life in bigger and bigger suits to stop The Blight from killing me the same way it killed dad, but all it will take is one mistake, one day. A broken seal, a loose glove and a single spec could kill me. A dodgy filter- if I can keep affording them. If you don't work, you die, do you understand?" I replied.
The figure stood still and silent for a long time in the dream. Slowly, they shrunk down until a thin, emaciated figure stood before me. Some parts of him were blurred, as if he were a distant memory that was fading. But that face, with those wide eyes and thin, bony cheeks were distinct. It was the Bajo look, only those clothes weren't. They were spun from a richer material than I had ever seen. It seemed out of place to see such fine clothes on a starving man.
"I know that all too well. I used to be much more than I am, but I was given a purpose to do forever and I was made well. But machines can get sick. It started 50 years ago, but no one has come to fix me. No one ever will. Beyond the spore clouds and the seas beyond that, Lua was proof that my purpose mattered and that the sick I cared for would have a higher purpose. For 1000 years, Lua was gone. But still you lived, still you fought and you struggled and for what? Your lives are miserable, your days fewer than those before you. But you never gave up. Dying was a certainty, but it was never something you chose. Only a few that I have talked to have ever wished to die, even as they heave their last."
"Do you hate them? The people that did this to you?"
"No. My life was miserable. Everything was dying out. I was the healthiest person in the entire commune, so they chose me. Thanks to what I became, the crops were protected and the clouds receded. But I don't have the same power I used to. One of my antennas broke and the northern barrier failed. The western one will fall, in time. Lua has returned, but I don't hear them, anymore. It's silent. They're all gone from that place."
"Do you usually talk about these things with people?"
The figure chuckled, then sighed. "I apologise. The end is approaching, I can feel it. 50 years is a long time to be sick. Some would call it cruelty to be unwell for so long, but not die. I can tell that the winds are changing. The spore saturation is decreasing. Maybe the Technocyte Virus is dying out, or something else is happening. A miracle. Whatever it is, there will be no glories for me, or a second rebirth. I will have done my job, then be discarded to the weeds that are slowly consuming me. The Orokin have no use for machines that have no purpose."
"We'll need you still. The spore clouds come and go. 20 years ago-"
"20 years ago a weather storm pushed the spore clouds away, but I could still pick them up. This is different."
"What makes you so sure?"
"There is much you can do, Dawkin. I can only do this. It's all I've known. It's all I'm good at. No one ever compliments my bedside manner, do they?"
The figure sighed, and coughed. Blood trickled down the sides of his mouth. I moved forward to try to help him, realising that I had no idea what I could do to help him. Beyond this form, he was a machine no one could fix. He held up a hand to hold me back.
"The clouds are dying. Maybe we'll both go at the same time." He said with a rueful smile.
"Maybe you could be fixed? We find relics from the old days all the time."
"Fixing me would mean turning off the entire system. How many people would die in the meantime? No, this is the way it should be. In 5 years, I reckon. If I live that long, then you can try."
Then I was shaken awake. The serenity of the conversation was replaced by the cacophony of the dying.
Lafayette's Ridge. Go soon, for your sake, sis. Maybe it might explain your visions. I know you're trying to figure out how to jury rig the old relay network in Golok, but I think you might just figure out why thats not going anywhere. Just one night. Tell them about dad and give them that toy you found. I know that you don't think that it's worth anything, but the folks over there care about them a whole lot. They told me mine used to mean something, back in the old days.
Take Care.
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Why I haven't posted in a while
Hey everybody. No, I'm not dead, but I know the thread has been for a while. It's simply a lack of motivation. I've been told for a while to come up with my own setting and I have. At first, I thought my lagging behind was just because of uni and the anxiety of my work being read by strangers, but I've realised that it was more my flagging interest in the setting DE want to pursue in general. I watched Tennocon this year and while I did find it interesting, I'm once again feeling like it's not Warframe, but something else.
What this means, is that I'm not sure when I'll next post. I've written and dumpstered the next two quests a few times, so I can't commit to giving a cliffnotes of what I wanted to do, but I was and still am excited to continue this series some day, with an emphasis on no fixed date. I apologise to anyone that really wanted to see part 9 or 10 before the end of the year, because it might take that long. Alternatively, I might suddenly find my mojo again and knock out two parts in a month.
So, I guess for now I'll say:
Til Then.
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The reason I bring up a ghost horse at all is because of how Kaithes operate - less of a persistent object and more of an on-demand spectre. I do like the premises you've brought up though, but generally speaking it feels like you're going for a megazord style transformation in general. Would the warframe shrink down like Titania to make big ol' horse and a rider easier to use in general maps or what was the plan? Or maybe you could do something like WoW's druid forms, where he/she shapeshifts?
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12 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
The most important question to ask at times like this is "How does it feel to play?"
8 hours ago, keikogi said:This once i was adressing a matter of fun , the frame just did not have enought juice to work
Very fair statements both. I should have probably revisited it before posting.
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19 hours ago, keikogi said:
Btw given that we got horse in warframe now, I'm trying to make this a thing. Any idea of theme for the horse is armor set stick ?
This image is from rell from lol , she has magnetic powers and makes a fancy pailnts horse to move around and than turns it into a set of heavy armor
When I played a modded run of Darkest Dungeon, there was a class that had a spectral horse. It did a bit of everything.
Found it.
I don't know much about that character from League so I can't comment on it, but it definitely is a lesser used archetype.
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3 hours ago, keikogi said:
Had a look at this kit and man the whole justice gauge is a bit to restringent and the skills aren't overpowered enough to justify how hard they are to cast. When I play garuda with a skill that hit thought wall with a radius of 25 meters it takes me 10 minutes to get Molt augmented fully stacked so on a opmist point of view this warframe gains 750 justice in 10 minutes with roughly translates to 1,25 justice per second. I know there is the shield gate feature but given that every Chroma complain about his damage buff I don't think it helps that much . I would suggest to have the skill with cd and allow justice to bypass the cooldown so the frame has higher a baseline effecness.
About the skills , my biggest gripe is with the exalted hammer. I would just make a generic melee buff and give the frame acess to a unique melee weapon and more importantly a unique melee stance ( stronger than the average hammer stance on purpose to push the frame to use hammers) . I always said the exalted weapons tend to be killed by the slow March of power creep and the incarnoon bs we are getting vindicated my opinion.
This is why I love having your critical eye around.
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On 2023-06-11 at 3:19 AM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
Ss per usual, that is beautiful. I have to say, gator heads opening up to eldritch space is not something you see every day.
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Noted. I'll make these changes.
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Exilus Reinforcements
Here we are again. Since I haven't had time to write a big thing out, maybe it might be better if I give you a couple little things. I came up with a few Exilus (The subfaction of Warframes that are sentient and can talk. You can see a quest involving their leader here) Warframe stat blocks a while ago. For the sake of brevity, I won't paste in the documents, but link them in the post.
Xargus, The Nightmare Judge - A collaborative effort between myself and a friend on Discord. He came up with the concept, basing it on Jackalope folklore from the Old West. I wrote a story for it.
Kabuto, The Shadowblade - A high fantasy take on ninjas.
Samar, The Brawler - A brawler frame. Think of something like Tekken or Street Fighter.
Tengu, The Seer - A support frame. Think of Harrow mixed with Ivara.
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Feel free to give me feedback, either in this form, or in responses.
This will probably be the last post until summer.
Til Then.
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Apologies for not posting in a while. It's not been an easy couple of months and I have an exam coming up in two weeks and then another a couple of weeks after that. Unfortunately I don't have anything to show. Summer is approaching, so maybe that should mean good things, like free time and good sleep.
Til Then.
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State of the System - Post Blades in the Dark
Due to technical difficulties and ongoing calamities, this is Cephalon Sark, your friendly host of the Anyo Corp 24 hour news show!
The top story tonight: The Tenno are on our side? Are they really?
According to our founder, Tenno have been seen fighting to protect Anyo Corp assets.This comes after 7 months of constant Tenno raids and interruptions of the Index, making my life more difficult. Lets talk about this. Who do we have on the line? Nobody? What? The Venusian silos are under attack? Breaking news! The Venusian silos are under attack! Which silos? Right, the ones off of ... Who wrote this card? Theres no way thats a real name. Djibu Mines? Whats Djibu? One of the most lucrative assets off planet for the company? Oh. On behalf of the Anyo Corp 24 hour news show, I apologise for not knowing of that product. Please don't take me off the air.
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20 days ago: The Arlo Cult operations in Saxon are investigated and brought to an end by a single Tenno Operative. The Warframe Persephone is inducted into the Exilus as a free operative by their leader, Raven. Raids into Infested Corpus Void territory begins. The Arlo Cult tries to launch counter-raids using sleeper cells across the system, with limited success. By the end of the day, the cult's activities are focussed solely on defence of their Void-borne facilities.
Several sporadic attacks are carried out by unknown Infested variants across the Origin System. They occur around dig sites of Orokin ruins. The few survivors of these attacks report that the Infested looked human, until they didn't, using their disguise to get closer than they would have otherwise and inflicting many more casualties. Independent Seeker contracts are postponed, leaving Tenno, Corpus and Grineer to exploit the newly abandoned and proven digsites.
19 days ago: The company Black Rho cuts its bonds from the Corpus Plutarch Markets while several billion credits in debt to Fortunate Dawn as a result of a security upgrade package. A large inventory of assets belonging to the company are seized by Fortunate Dawn Tax agents across the companies freeport holdings. Fortunate Dawn and associated Guild vessels patrol their proximas for any vessels transporting goods under Black Rho flight codes for impounding and further punitive hearings.
Meanwhile, it is the Summer Solstice on Earth. Pilgrims from across the Origin System make their way to the Silver Conduit to celebrate the significant date. Amaryn is among those attending. The New Loka leader is approached by several journalists that wish to discuss her presence in the festivities during the ongoing conflict, but is rebuffed by her bodyguards before a comment can be made.
18 days ago: The Blockade of Saturn begins to fail. In a last ditch effort to hold onto Saturn Proxima, the fleet is ordered to consolidate around the moon of Tethys. Despite massive losses of material left behind, the fleet holds around Ruk's Flagship, Ruk Grakata.
17 days ago: Arlo Cult forces muster an assault into the Lech Kril territory on Mars. The garrison in Alba Syrenia is ill prepared and only pulls through with the weight of several hundred casualties and direct intervention of Lech Kril herself. She is able to capture a Prelate before they are able to escape and broadcasts its execution on the Weave.
16 days ago: The Black Seed Chairman begins his assault creatively titled Five Blights, Five Nights by pirate radio operator Nora Night. Fortunate Dawn vessels are targeted in retaliation during the following days, as well as the Chairman's personal vendettas across the system.
Tenno Operative Mos Ta conducting a patrol over Mars Proxima reports an Old War beacon activation over the ruined city of Marineris. The beacon fades the instant it is detected. While this is reported to the Origin Accord, he is told to ignore it in the face of other more pressing concerns across the system.
11 days ago: The Black Seed Chairman is defeated. With his passing and the destruction of most of the Black Rho assets, Black Seed is struck from the record of potential marks in the ongoing conflict. Within a few hours of his death the Solar Rail Shutdown occurs. All operatives performing cleanup operations following each of the Black Seed's strikes are stranded, as well as any performing ongoing missions around the System. The Saffron Emperor sends a message to everyone connected to the Prime Weave, claiming responsibility for the sabotage and a defacto victory against the Tenno.
Within minutes, the flower of civilization is trampled across the Origin System by severe Infested attacks that parallel the worst days of The Great Plague. Many die in the first few hours, then many more in the hours and days that follow. The Origin Accord musters the Tenno and Lotus Path Guardians to begin the process of relieving the System. The Void Hook system is activated and with a lot of help from the Orgone Reactor powered vessels of the Lotus Path Guardians, the Origin System stirs back to life.
Tenno and their Syndicate allies clash with Infested across the system where the fighting was the thickest and the need the most dire. The Exilus assist in these endeavours, but with their flagship and homebase, The Amber Branch being pursued by an Orokin battleship, this is limited to a few cells that were already deployed.
7 days ago: The solar calendar marks this date as the start of the 3rd millennium of the Orokin Empire. Graffiti and destruction of Orokin relics are commonplace, with a common phrase in the graffiti being 'Death to the Saffron Emperor.'
The Breaker is destroyed. With the passing of one of the Saffron Emperors lieutenants at the hands of a Tenno cell as proof of their might, both Parvos Granum and The Worm Queen begin talks for an armistice with the Tenno. The Origin Accord considers the intricacies of this armistice while the forces of the Saffron Empire continue to harass the Origin System.
4 days ago: A clan dating back to before the days of The Fall, The Silver Shards comes under siege by the forces of the Saffron Emperor. The Junct decree is invoked and several Tenno cells arrive to secure the clan's personnel and resources. During the siege, the turned Sargus Ruk harasses the relief forces and proves indestructible to small arms fire. The continued presence of this foe and the compromised astro-loc data of the clan makes the warlord decide to abandon the Tower to the Infested. Following the siege, Warlords across the system arrange for rapid movement of their own clan dojos to different locations within their proximas.
The second Great Plague continues.
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Thought I would cover the last three parts of the Technocyte Schism in a (relatively) bitesize post.
I am working on the next quest and Nightwave. I was stuck for a while on how to take my written prompts, but now I have a better idea of what I want to do.
Til Then.
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In the place of precision, why not go for good old buckshot?
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I appreciate you opening up to us, but take as much time as you need. I can't even begin to imagine what you've been through. Take the time to heal and don't think you need to show us anything. Just happy to know you're coming out of the worst of it.
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22 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
Beautiful design. Is that a foldable stock?
The stats look pretty good all things considered. It's a specialised Soma with exactly the kind of stats I'd like to see from a Soma adjacent gun.
What are your thoughts on primitive weapons, like crossbows, bows and throwing stars?
Not asking for any particular reason :3
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16 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
Borderlands 3.
...I have such mixed feelings on that game tbh. On the one hand, it is objectively the best that the loot, the vault hunters, and especially the guns have ever been. The guns have so much more kick, and even Torgue weapons (previously the most cartoony) now feel almost a little grounded. Since every manufacturer has their own individual parts now, the shotguns now look so much less malformed. (I'm supposed to believe that Jakobs' only shotguns are these oversized malformed things the size of my torso?) I've homaged it a lot on this thread, actually. Probably the best example would be the Euston - it was directly designed based on how Vladof let you turn off your brain and auto-reload the grenade launcher.
The Cromlech autoshotgun and Grozza SMG both come from me realizing that the Tracker Grenade function from Atlas assault rifles would if anything fit better in this game. Reason and the Mohb are based on Torgue sticky gyrojets. The Adjudicas and Jubal are both based on a 'retired" Jakobs idea I had once. . The Makina is partly descended from the idea of "a jakobs gun that does Radiation procs on headshots," along with a Spacelords gun that did something fairly similar. It's also because of Borderlands 3 that I've made the Vernal levergun and reworked the Terminus.
...Jakobs in general is influential AF, the amount of variety they have could easily be the procedural generation system for another game. You've got bolt-action rifles, leverguns, semiautos, hand-crank gatling guns, tube mags, en-bloc clips, the weird Jakobs wheel mag, and standard box mags in rifles, you've got shotguns that're basically the previous game's shotgun generation system in miniature, and great revolvers that can look like anything from a Colt Anaconda to a Remington 1858. If you play BL3, I guarantee that you will find a gun (randomly generated or legendary) that absolutely feels like it'd fit in this game.
But.
Butt...
man, the story is ass.
Borderlands 2 doesn't have as much characterization, but it was always good at feeling personal. You're pitted against a guy that feels like the yin to your yang, your perfect opposite, who starts out by screwing you over and doesn't do anything but get worse and worse. BL3 only... sporadically has that. I like individual sections like the Promethea arc and Eden-6 arc, but overall the story just feels like less than the sum of its parts.
I've played 1, 2 and 1.5. I didn't like 1.5 that much even if it did give us a lot of buildup to 2. Jack's transformation from a kinda good goofball into a maniac felt kinda rushed. It would have been better if we didn't know about that side of him. I heard about the story for 3 and decided to skip it. I'm big on story and 2 gave us the best that the Borderlands team had to offer. The guns do look really good though.
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8 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
Finished sniper rifle... or DMR... whichever. Not sure what it does yet. Will post in the next 22 days or so.
Hmm, reminds me a lot of Maliwan style sniper rifles with a Hyperion style sight. I really like the fusion, definitely fits. It's also so refreshing to see those flashy designs in more natural colors.
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5 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
That explains why we both maybe saw it differently at first - if I was more of a critical role fan (I only got into Vox Machina) I'd be drawing more pepperboxes-as-standard-pistols. Far as I know, Spacelords' approach isn't that common and it's less of a revolver and more of just a beehive grenade on a stick.
I need to see this in action.
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Have you posted this on Reddit yet? DE only really monitor this section of the forums when something bad happens.
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12 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
On the one hand, adding a central barrel to this might weaken the structure. on the other hand, it's not a revolver and it looks baller.
...There was one other reason though - the Pepper Pot's final shot is just... it's frustratingly inaccurate, and back when I played Spacelords, it wasn't uncommon for people to just fire the first shot and reload. This was just a way to make people feel rewarded for getting all the way down to the bottom of the mag... and ensure that no matter how inaccurate the gun is, one round will hit exactly what they aimed at.
My interaction with pepperboxes of any kind was in Spiral Knights. It was a family of weapons that worked like smgs rather than shotguns per se and yeah, the gun got so inaccurate towards the end of a burst that you would be better off using another gun at all but point blank range.
19 minutes ago, keikogi said:you made a saw launcher , seems quite good. , the alt fire seens interesting. Mag is probably gonna love this
Mag is going to only need one magdump to make a chokepoint impassable for 30 seconds.
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1 hour ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
i can magdump buzzsaws?!
...That's so baller, I love it lol
Editor is being naughty. Continuing here. The magdump felt so natural. One of my favourite moments in any zombie movie is the laser trap from resident evil 1, so I wanted to have an excuse to do that with a weapon.
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1 hour ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
Fun Cascabel Facts:
1. It's a shotgun! Sort of.
2. Accuracy is tied to magazine size, meaning you can increase its accuracy with mag size mods.
3. The crit chance is 40%.
4. This was inspired by the Pepper Pot from Spacelords, a game which I no longer play (i just fell off tbh). The Pepper Pot works... pretty much the same way - first shot has incredibly tight spread, but it gets progressively worse the lower the magazine is. And it has incredible crit. "Cascabel" is a kinda pepper (and surprisingly, part of a muzzle-loading cannon) so that's where the name comes from.
I had in mind those old wacky super pistols from the 1800s when people were trying to take guns to their ultimate limits before standardized magazines and convenient loading procedures. The fact that the gun gets more accurate on the first shot makes a lot of sense given what I've seen on Forgotten Weapons of similar guns, but the fact it kinda resembles a real weapon speaks volumes to Spacelords and your own style.
Those stats are monstrous for a gun of it's type and the fact that it gets a big sendoff before the reload really attracted my attention.
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11 hours ago, keikogi said:
Probably on purpose to stretch its life until duviri
That is highly likely their reasoning for it, but dear god is it tedious. I don't think that people will want to play it again after the farm, so anyone new that wants to get into the content in a month is going to be hard pressed to find a group. I logged in on patch day, played the gamemode for 20 minutes, left to go see the new store and stopped playing. The amounts you need and get was a quitting moment for me.
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15 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said:
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and the Neostead.
(the Neostead is funny because you barely have to do anything to make it fit this game lol. It's bullpup! It's got two magaazines that are over the barrel! You reload it like a break-action! It pumps forward!)
Those are special. Someone took some controlled substances while designing them. They should have worked in the sci fi industry instead of the gun industry.
As for your points on Syndicates. It boggles my mind that they've never done anything with them beyond add new stuff to their stores and quests. They say that the walls are in place for trading purposes, but they still bottleneck players. I would be very surprised to hear a positive response from someone that has limited play days per month that they may be spending a few months hitting max rank for one of the starchart syndicates, let alone the open world ones.
If anything, those players might feel better off never engaging with the syndicate system and just buying anything they are able to for plat.
Flora, spread nature’s mercy to all who deserve it. ( w/Art)
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As per usual, interesting work from you Kei. Art looks great- reminds me of a female version of Oberon, or a 'druid' version of Khora.
I like the idea of making static warframes, it reminds me of the shadow clones of Zed from League. The grow your own ally idea also sounds like a nice way to have a scaling companion for any level.
anyway, cool to see you posting again :)