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    Update 29.10.0: Railjack Intrinsics 2.0 Feedback Megathread (Read First Post!)

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    Posted · Edited by Sitchrea

    Kuva Liches being unable to pilot, repair, or man the guns makes no #*!%ing sense. I recruited a Grineer grunt from the Steel Meridian, and she can do everything. Her dialogue is amazing, talking about her time in the Grineer war machine while she pilots my Railjack. As it stands right now, my former Grineer grunt can man every station on the Railjack, yet my Kuva Lich can't even talk?

    I have to assume this is because of some kind of lack of development bandwidth, because this doesn't even make sense in the context of the game itself, let alone being a major feature advertised about Kuva Liches in the past.

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    Update 29.10.0: Railjack Intrinsics 2.0 Feedback Megathread (Read First Post!)

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    Crew members NEED to be able to target mission objectives. This was one of the main reasons I was waiting for Command, was so crew members could target radiators and whatnot on the outside of an objective while I'm on the inside. As of right now, they do not - meaning I still have to lug my way all the way outside an objective just to come right back to an objective console, rinse repeat. What good are the crew if they don't actually help me accomplish the mission?

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    If You Hated Scarlet Spear, Bungie Just Had Us Wait An Hour and a Half To Watch A Skybox

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    4 minutes ago, (XB1)The Neko Otaku said:

    Have no idea what destiny has been doing since the Mars dlc, so what did this event do?

    They hyped up the event a week in advance and said to be in the Tower at noon my time. So I got there at noon. We then proceed to watch missiles sloooooooooowly arc across the sky and hit the almighty.

    AN HOUR AND A HALF OF THIS GOES BY, and we are treated with an admittedly badass skybox scene of the Almighty falling out of the sky.

    This should have been fifteen minutes. Not an hour and a half.

    Split Flights does not work on the Artemis bow or explosive bows [Dev Response]

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    Posted · Edited by Sitchrea

    15 minutes ago, [DE]Marcus said:

    Dear PC Tenno,

    Today Baro Ki’Teer brought back the Split Flight Mod that was leaked a few months ago when it wasn’t quite ready yet. At that time, we were working on the Kuva Bramma concept internally and knew this Mod would cause some issues, so we held the Split Flight Mod back.

    The Split Flights Mod, upon hit, drastically increases multishot while reducing accuracy for a short duration for bows. Making this Mod pretty powerful in the right moment!

    Split Flights is not compatible with Crossbows, the Lenz, Ivara’s Artemis Bow or the Kuva Bramma. This is intentional and completely our bad for not exposing that truth beforehand.

    While bows like the Lenz and the Kuva Bramma see plenty of use across the board, they already vastly outperform regular bows in terms of multishot and AOE damage. Split Flights give these regular bows a chance to still be viable options to fit your playstyle by increasing multishot. Extra multishot for the Kuva Bramma or the Lenz would remove any realm of choice for what bow to equip, as they already do an incredible amount of multishot! 

    Sorry for any confusion this may have caused!

    Oh look, another key piece of information DE didn't communicate in-game...

    Seriously, can you guys please stop this habit? It's just one occasion after another after another of players wasting resources because you did not communicate crucial information.

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    New player here, here's some positive thoughts and feedback on the game

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    Posted · Edited by Sitchrea

    Hi, new player!

    Currently the community is raging at the developers because a much-anticipated and years-long-awaited story beat has released in a broken state, is unfun, and makes little narrative sense. If you'd like to contribute to the outrage, the pitchforks are over there.

    As for the rest of the game, Railjacks are player-owned-and-crewed warships which transport you from planet to planet in the late game. They also are notoriously buggy and content-sparse.

    As a community we are very kind and stick up for one another. The community team is also super nice. 

    And as a long-time fan of DE from the UNreal Tournament days, I can say the relationship is mutual to yours. Welcome to Warframe!

    The game is good, normally. Great, even. Just not right now in the late game.

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    Scarlet Spear is a reflection on the state of the game.

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    Posted · Edited by Sitchrea

    21 hours ago, (XB1)TehChubbyDugan said:

    Even a really talented, solid developer would have trouble truly balancing like 40 warframes and hundreds of weapons for either a hoard shooter or a tactical shooter.  DE is trying to balance all those things to fit both and they flat out do not have the chops to do it.  They need to pick one.  

    An XCOM modder could do that in a weekend.

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    9 minutes ago, SneakyErvin said:

    Knowing what we know makes the Unum the obvious reason. Since it may actually give the sentients a chance to reproduce, which means it will allow them to refil their ranks with pure sentients and not just amalgams. The first New War cinematic was also set on the plains, but that part is likely further down the line since they switched from New War being a cinematic quest into it being an actual drawn out conflict/war. The Plains part will probably be near the end when Erra actually sets foot on earth. We dont know if other parts of Sol will also be attacked or reconed. Uranus would be a top candidate due to having Hunhow's remains there.

    SS could have surely had more lore, but we know plenty already to not sit in the dark as to why things are happening as they are. I guess we'll just have to see what happens next.

    I'd amend that to say we have a good guess as to why things are happening. We do not have confirmation.

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    1 minute ago, SneakyErvin said:

    The story of New War is planned to last throughout the year.

    The backstory to why the sentients want to attack Sol is covered in the game lore. They want to destroy any trace of the Orokin, which means pretty much everything in Sol. Earth is a target because of the Unum very likely since Natah has that knowledge due to the access she's had to Sol history in general and earth history specifically, which includes the myths and lore of Cetus, the plains and so on.

    Reason they dont attack Cetus straight up is because this is a scouting force of sentients, not the main armada. Murex ships are just recon ships and the troops they send out in the pods are scouts mostly by the looks of it. There are some heavier units and regular troops, but most are fragile and agile things with no real offensive or defensive potential.

    I feel like that is far more conjecture than canon. There is no reason stated as to why the Sentients are bypassing everywhere else to just attack Earth. The cinematic did little to explain what their motivations are.

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    43 minutes ago, Troposphere6 said:

    I see your point however, it is possible the lotus/natah knows something about earth that we don't currently know. Also at this point in time there not "attacking" anywhere there scouting around but honestly I'm just theorizing at this point and at the present time it's not massively sensible; however, I'm fairly sure it will be made to make sense in the end. Also just a thought but why aren't the murex throwing the condrex through the void? it's not like they need to be able to reproduce or anything. But like you say it is nonsensical at the moment.

    I don't know I would say it's nonsensical. Steve, Cam, and the team do have a vision, I just think Scarlet Spear did not serve that vision justice. Whatever they were trying to do with Scarlet Spear, this is not it. At least, not what it should have been.

    There's that word, again... "Potential..."

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    Just now, Troposphere6 said:

    Oh the hole I agree with you Teshin should have a role in all of this and little duck does seem like an unusual choice but the reason for the invasion of earth is really simple. Cetus more specifically the Unum whose temple Kuva can cure the sentients of being sterile after traveling through the void which would mean that they'd be able to move all the sentients from Tau to Sol (is that what the main system is called in warframe I can never remember) Now all that being said I do wish they'd spelt it out during the event and didn't force players to crawl through the codex to figure it out.

    That is can't be the motivation because they're not attacking the Plains of Eidolon.

    Also, the Eidolon who discovered that information never told the other Sentients, because the other Sentients were dead. The Gara Legend takes place after the death of the Orokin, and thus the Sentients. The Mothership couldn't have relayed that information because the Mothership was gone. So that is logistically impossible.

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    Just now, Firetempest said:

    The story is sand castles built on sand castles. They take personalities we have seen before and stick them elsewhere so the basic player thinks "oh, I know them". They lean heavily into alternate dimensions so any science problems are waved away as how this universe works "because". It took them ~5 years to make Phobos into a asteroid shape instead of a planet. Steve has said they have the basic history and path of the story created. But when they can just completely dump in and then re-write the origins of the Umbra just so the universal build can have the model which has far reaching repercussions in lore.

    The story is just a art house film of visions and ideas than anything solid. Its chaotic nature just makes it all appear to have deeper meaning we are just not privy to yet. The mystery is alluring yet its ankle deep when stitched together.

    I believe this is more a case of too much restraint. Warframe's writing team are top-notch at world building and dialogue, but have a history of witholding information for narrative effect (Natah, Second Dream). In this case, I believe too much is being witheld, especially about the Sentients. We need to know their motivations for the invasion, and, unfortunately, the short preceding cinematic did not answer those questions sufficiently.

    I Am Disappointed With The Story of Scarlet Spear

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    Posted · Edited by Sitchrea

    This came out a bit more rant-y than I anticipated but this still think it needs to be said. Scarlet Spear's story leaves out many elements of Warframe's world that I think could have been communicated better.
     
    NOTE: I spoke with the lead writer of Warframe on Twitter about the issues covered in this post. Read these as you will, perhaps they'll give you more clarity as to the intentions and constraints of the writing team (as he says, this is a videogame, not a novel, so there are certain constraints to the narrative). Give him a follow as he's a cool dude: https://twitter.com/Cam_Rogers/status/1243185685705773057
     
    So let's look at what is happening in Scarlet Spear from a macro point of view. ((Time for me to finally get some use out of that Creative Writing degree.))
     
    The Sentients are invading the Solar System for a reason not yet fully explained - and after two years of build up without answering this question, I wonder if there's really a reason at all. But that's jumping the gun.
     
    The Murex recon ships are sent to the Origin System to collect data. Whatever this "data" they are after is a mystery, because the cinematic which beings the Scarlet Spear says nothing about what the Sentients are after. These Murex, despite being recon ships, begin their data collection from inside the Veil, which is the Heliosphere. First of all, the ranges involved by having Murex in the Veil is insane. Let's do some quick math:
     
    Average distance to Oort Cloud: ~100,000 AU
     
    Time for light to travel 1 AU: ~500 seconds
     
    Time for light to travel 100,000 AU: 50,000,000 seconds ~ 13,889 hours ~ 579 days.
     
    This means it would take 579 days for Condrixes to reach Earth from the Murex Heliosphere. And that's if they're traveling at the speed of light, something Sentients cannot do in Warframe's universe. So yeah, that's some BS sci-fi right there. It just leads me to ask... Why aren't the Murex orbiting in the Earth skybox if they're invading Earth?
     
    Speaking of, why are the Sentients invading Earth? What objective are they trying to complete? Earth is, in the in-game Codex lore, strategically useful only for its fresh water supply, but is not the only planet with water, nor has the highest supply. Earth is a backwater planet. The only thing I could think of which the Sentients could be after are the petrified remains of the Sentient who died on the modern Plains of Eidolon, but they're not landing there - they're landing in the jungles. Why? Why are they doing this? What is the Sentients' motivation?
     
    On another note, there is another faction in Warframe's universe which happens to be obsessed with Earth, the human form, humanity... New Loka. Yeah, where is New Loka when an army of sentient machines are invading their sacred planet? Why is that syndicate not joining us on every mission, not throwing themselves in waves trying to protect the most important element of their faith?
     
    Beyond this, where are the rest of the Syndicates? I can buy that the Red Veil can't help because we really lobotomized them in Chains of Harrow, but what about the Steel Meridian, an actual military force? Is the Perrin Sequence bankrolling our operation? Were they the ones who gave Little Duck her relay, which she even admits is shoehorned into the story? I would ask where the Arbiter of Hexis are, but we still know absolutely nothing about their beliefs (What do they mean when they say "justice?" What does it mean when the game says they venerate the Tenno?). Major players in the Origin System are just nowhere to be found when they should be right front-and-center to the conflict.
     
    For those who are front and center, I want to ask, why does Sargas Ruk think the Tenno are working with the Sentients? There is no reason stated in-game for the Grineer to think that. Previous in the story, we killed Grineer for communicating with Sentients (Natah quest). This feels like it was just written to make jokes and have a second enemy to fight during missions. The dialogue which is written is funny, yes, but this makes no sense.
     
    On the idea of sensibility being replaced for the sake of humor, why is Teshin no more than a joke in this operation? Little Duck mentions that Teshin came to her asking for information about the Sentients, and she plays it off for laughs. This does fit her character, but this opens up the can of worms: Why is Little Duck in charge of this operation when she has no military background? Little Duck was a child assassin under the Business, but forwent her training to become a Merc-Merc until the events of the Warframe comics happen where she gets lopped in with the Quills. So now she is the voice of the Quills to the Tenno. That does not qualify her to oversee a military operation. What should have happened is making Little Duck one of many vendors aboard the Flotilla. She stays the voice of the Quills and supplies the Tenno Arcanes, but leave someone like Teshin, Cressa Tal, or Ameryn oversee the actual missions. Having an assassin play the role of general just makes no sense, and wastes an otherwise gorgeous cast of characters which have yet to be fully realized in the game.
     
    It all had so much potential. Scarlet Spear was marketed to be the largest story expansion in Warframe's history, but the first impression has just fallen flat - and the reason I'm so emotional over it is because I love Warframe's world. It has one of the most unique sci-fi worlds in videogames, but here, I just feel it went underused. This is also not to say the writing team is bad, we all know how good their previous work has been in places like Fortuna, the Sacrifice, etc. But in Scarlet Spear I just can't get behind some of the narrative decisions made.
     
    High-level potential solutions for operations going forward
     
    • Distance and time in Warframe have never been a big issue, so I wouldn't put too much thought into them. However, here in Scarlet Spear they did make me raise an eyebrow.
    • Establishing the motivation of the antagonists is paramount. Currently we do not know why the Sentients are invading Earth, what their objective on Earth is, or what their ultimate plan is aside from extermination. Please elaborate on what, specifically, the Sentients want to do in the Origin system and why.
    • Keep the Syndicates involved. The Flotilla is a relay, and if there was any time for the Syndicates to step into the world it would be now. Perhaps more than having their vendors on the Flotilla, why note also use the Syndicate Mission setups to allow Syndicate followers to spawn with players on missions? It would certainly help the Syndicates' narratives feel more connected to the gameplay.
    • I, personally, disagree with the use of Little Duck as the linchpin character here. There is a ton riding on this invasion if it is truly as apocalyptic as we're told, so to hand Little Duck the role of military leader I just can't get behind. She should still be a part of it, as she is the voice of the Quills, but have someone like Teshin, Cressa Tal, or Ameryn handle the strategic and tactical layers.
     
    Sorry about the rant-style essay, but I believe this feedback needed to be said. So much feedback has been going toward gameplay that issues in the story were being overlooked, so here's my post. Feedback would be plenty appreciated.
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    Squad link is a bad feature

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    At its best, when it works without any bugs or crashes, it is barely noticeable. I doubt I would have really noticed its implementation without the bugs, because we aren't actually interacting with other players' games.

    You know, like how we were promised at Tennocon.

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