[My lowly opinion on SotR Update]

47 minutes ago, Kaoru_Sugimura said:

My only issues with this update:

- Magnetize was nerfed into the dirt.

- Kavats can be really aids to obtain.

- Currently there isn't a "fast" leveling zone to replace Draco.

I know people are already going to say "Magnetize was OP and needed a change" but it was her only viable skill and now that the dmg is, well, s-h-i-t she is more of a troll frame. Low dmg, Aids CC and low survivability. The Kavats issue is apparent and people have reported doing more than 40 scans without any codes, obviously this is done to try and sell the genetic pack and get some of the plat off the trade market. :d The leveling one i already know people are going to say "Well, why don't you go and play other places for once and level there" blah blah. I have played since before u5 and i know why i play, i want to get my s-h-i-t, level it, forma it, and THEN enjoy it because it isn't "fun" to struggle with things or to take forever to get things how i want them. I've played all of the other mission types and it doesn't matter what type i play they are all repetitive because i am use to all of them. I just want to get my stuff up and enjoy the "new toys" for a bit before taking another break and playing something else.

Has for a quick leveling zone you have Xini, Rhea, Berehynia, Void Interception (the name escapes me), and high level spy missions without alerts. I've gotten my lvl 0 melee to mid 20s without boosters, full party, no other weapons, slow 1 round with a specific team composition. they also diverge in drops like Rhea would be great to farm Nano Spores used for pads while leveling, it's just a matter of looking for those nodes and understanding what team comps to use, there will always be the one node that is more efficient period. 

Has for Kavat while i agree that they are scarce and DE possibly might release a patch increasing the odds (wouldn't be the 1st time they do something similar) you have to remember they are a new item and has we've seen new items are getting more costly with every release, while this can be very annoying to newer players we also have to remind ourselves, a lot of us have ungodly amounts of resources that we can use at a moments notice and obviously DE needs to make some money and the game is F2P, the Kavat bundle is currently something people realy want.

Has for magnetize nerf, i haven't noticed it at all, i've been using Mag P with Lanka for all junctions and haven't had much problems, including long survivals i did, has for sortie or raids i didn't do today sortie or used Mag on LoR/JV.

[My lowly opinion on SotR Update]

Well first and foremost congratulations on the new update Specters of the Rail, it's a good update and a needed breath of fresh air, despite a lot of the community not agreeing with it at first glance.

 

For the most part the update is great, the new star map 3.0 is great eye candy (congratulation to DE-Steve and everyone at DE), reducing the amount of nodes was a very smart and the new progression system is very fluid even to players who had finished the nodes like me, the new void system is what i was personally hoping for and despite the initial backlash people seem to begin to understand that this new system is for the best and will decrease the amount RNG farming to a more focused farm based system were getting the item you desire is easier. The Kavat, well lets just say everyone in my clan loves them (The Remnants of the Void) and are happy just for them alone. Has for the Archwing it's just a nausea inducing session that is just hard to control specially on closed spaces.

Even the nerfs to Draco (Ceres was nerfed in general) and the amount of credit prizes can be overlooked has a business and gameplay progression point of view for the creators at DE incentivising the player to spend platinum on credit/affinity boosters and a more dispersed player base trough out the nodes which increases the chances of getting a party (despite we all knowing there will always be a new "Draco" unless affinity distribution is revisited). At DE they have the right to make these changes but we has a community also have the right to complain in a constructive way and not the way we have been doing so in these forums, it's not right to call names to the developer nor to the people who enjoyed the playstyle.
_{Has a side-note the people calling players who used Draco cancerous, please understand just because you don't like that playstyle and DE "agrees" that it's not the way they want players to play their game, each and every last one of us has it's own way of playing the game and telling someone they are wrong and that's not how you play it's not a legitimate opinion.}

 

What can't and shouldn't be overlooked by the community is the sheer amount of bugs and glitches the update brought. There's been several forum threads asking DE to use a form of PTS ( public test server) so these can be ironed out before they reach the general population, using the excuse such has the game is still in BETA is not much of an argument (mostly the community seem to use it has a way to defend DE).
I've experienced more crashes since this update than all of my gameplay hours put together, not only crashes but other "game breaking bugs" such has not being able to select a mission and being forced to restart the game, video settings resetting every log-in, other UI bugs, people joining solo missions somehow at 19min in Defense, operator appearing without textures, not being able to type in chat window and a lot of other old bugs, most of which are harmless for the most part but the game breaking bugs should have been addressed on the first hot-fix and even before that.
Another issue that needs to be addressed and this is mostly just confusion by the player base is the Market, people have been asking every day in clan chat "how do i buy blueprint with credits" or "what happened to the market option i don't see them", while to some it might appear intuitive it is a bit confusing for some especial the younger players.

 

So that's my rant/congratulations feedback note on the update, i only took the time to do this because i care for the game, i hope the game thrives and is supported for a very long time. I can't wait for the War Within Update and the new Prime Access items.

 

EDIT: DE:Steve addressed some of the issues i've stated above on this reddit post (thnx Stoner74 for the link):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/4rz6s7/hate_me_all_you_want_but_sotr_was_and_is_a/d55gwi4

EDIT2: Ok this is getting crazy, the game keeps crashing and bugging to the point it needs a restart, I'm gonna stop playing until they release some fixes, hopefully it wont take a week do so.