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I don't know if you are bad at speaking I have not heard you speak, but your writing leaves something to be desired. Especially your examples. As to the rework of weapons , I don't know how long you have been active. But we actually have had a weapon stat rework some time ago where every weapon recieved a stat update and that got a lot of players back , as many players got a reason to try out old favourites So your example is not only inaccurate it is downright wrong. I do agree rework of frames is a different ballgame.

Did you miss the rest of my statement?

you are assuming the acquisition of mod slots/ resources to make augments part of the loadout is not going to be time gated , have a higher entry cost and be limited if introduced? lets get this straight: You : DE has not implemented fixes to augments to make them intrinsic and they will not do so in the future, Also You : DE should implement fixes to augments to make them intrinsic in this specific way that i am saying. I am not against your concept mate , but making such statements reduces your credibility.

DE has started showing some backbone recently (wukong and AoE changes along with not allowing players to bypass some quests) and i am happy about it, no matter how passionately they review bombed. This gives me some hope to that front. And the recent changes to their EULA (though a bit eyebrow raising) seems to be their attempt to take a bit more control. I also dont particularly care about completionist/ casual/ hardcore tags, communities arent that easily classified, things would be a lot easier if that was the case. No matter the changes there will always be those that will dislike it , so a developer should follow their own vision and not bend over backwards to loud mouthpieces.

I do agree with the core concept of what the OP is saying. I too would like to use all the power that I have accumulated over the years in meaningful challenges. But the thing is challenge changes based on where you are and what you are facing. A new player with no forma or endo to his name facing a level 40 enemy is challenging , completing the star chart while having no potatoes is challenging , but that challenge goes away as soon as you get some power. So there is challenge but it has a ceiling while our power can break that ceiling by a very wide margin. My stance has always been for a stat squish , not a popular opinion but that's the only way to actually have engaging content in my opinion. Else you will get more kahls and duviri , cause DE has clearly given up on the rest of the game.

I have advocated for exactly this in the past. ... Well either this or dedicated slots for augments I would settle for either. But since the archon system and the various arcanes that boost stats was introduced it has kinda been possible to be more flexible with them. As you could replace something like (p) continuity or natural talent or intensify or flow with the augment now. Yes , there are some frames where this doesn't work cause their stats are not impacted by said shards or arcanes. But these are very uncommon and are more about preference than requirement. I am totally in support of this despite it appearing that I am arguing against it , but it doesn't really fix augments themselves being not worth it on some frames and some augments being better or as part of the base kit. Also if implemented maybe some costs should be involved , like mod capacity or cost 3 shards (and their slots) so it doesn't get too powercreep for some frames.

Controlling warframes to end the old war , it was kinda their whole thing Ok sure. Pretty much what i am saying too you know. Question is how believable it will be to players , or atleast to someone like me. I am still pretty pissed off about the eternalism rubbish they filled their plot holes with. But getting a sentient companion ? Doesn't really feel far fetched.

By that logic the orokin failed in quite a few things where we succeeded , so does that mean the tenno are incapable of doing things the orokin could not do the tenno work differently , and are capable of quite a few things cause "void magic" ? But that's not what I meant I meant more from the reasoning of things , how believable it would be to make players accept it And as I said , multiple times which you repeatedly ignore , we already have a very good strategist that is entirely wentient (possibly a good manipulator as well) and a frame that is hybrid sentient and a scientist (possibly dead) that has created more sentient hybrids. So if DE wanted to , they can very easily explain away how they (in game lore) did it , that was the part where I said it would not be a challenge for them to come up with any excuse to make it plausible for tenno to have sentient companions.

I am surprised no one has mentioned the hate (or any scythe) yet, it just melts things and is perfect for kullervos hybrid melee playstyle. They have one of the best heavy attacks but also relatively smooth quick attacks. I would also recommend the zaws , some very good utility is possible.

Hah, have you seen the intelligence of our companions in general? - they seem to be programmed exceptional well to be stupid at times. a sufficiently well programmed entity can do the functions of a sentient one well enough. Sentients (that we see in the game) were also in the beginning programmed machines. The various "lysts" are all very single minded in their actions , so yeah i dont see it being a challenge to control/create one.

Huh, so you don't actually oppose sentient companions specifically , just eidolon variants. Cool that clarifies a few things. I don't particularly mind , we can get a "non eidolon" vomvalyst (or any sentient honestly) and could just get a ghostly skin for it as a seperate cosmetic.

It was actually there since the beginning , they removed it in the early hotfixes and only now re introduced it.

I think i have one of those , will need to check.

Such vehement denial , drama and defensiveness, all for naught. As i say many times , DE will do whatever they feel like, irrespective of what you or I think is the "proper" lore correct reason for why it happens. And why do you think the companion needs to be a regular sentient ? If irregular infestation can exist , irregular sentients can also exist. The Lotus is just such a being , a variant sentient that has chosen to ally with us no reason to believe she can't "convince" more to join us. Lotus purpose again is shrouded in mystery (even now , as no one knows what deal she made if any with the man in the wall), we can have a seperate debate about that in a different thread if you like. The drifter managed to keep the eidolon Lotus pacified and make a deal with the living hunhow , and now that a precedent is set it opens the door for similar endeavours. You really need to broaden your imagination.

I enjoy them well enough , I do dislike some of the ground to air checkpoints positions and tend to overshoot them cause how awkward the transition from land to air mode is.

Redundant question , if they keep adding new things they will not run out. Its like asking how long will things float downriver , they will keep floating as long as there is a river and floaty things fall in it. I already don't bother with forma farming cause i already got everything polarized to my specifications - so i have already reached that stage and already have a stockpile of forma that increases more than it decreases with every new update. They also keep adding cosmetics every time they update. My point wasn't that things will eventually run out , my point was that giving an excuse of "cosmetics will run out" was an empty one to make , just as you can keep getting new gear to use forma you can get cosmetics at the same time.

Caliban. Just like we spawn the ability to open our helminth room with Nidus and all his infested goodness to create a helminth charger. Really you pick the weirdest things to worry about. Cause she is sentient , duh. And vomvalysts are parts of sentients duh duh. Yeah , death by void magic - that's similar enough in my opinion. All eidolons are parts of a sentient after all. If a hand (also partf of an eidolon now) can come back to the aid of the tenno , so can a vomvalyst. So is it a pure sentient or is it an (undead) part of a sentient? pick an answer and i will let you know.

Did you miss the part where i said she could probably turn (or maybe make more just like like Caliban does ,but more permanently) one of the vomvalysts (eidolon variant or not) to work for us? And if we can "resurrect" one eidolon (which is much more powerful) which is antagonistic towards us we can probably do so with a vomvalyst much more easily, Really , feels like you dont read everything that is written until someone spells it out. I am highlighting how it is reasonable to expect a friendly (at best) or "controlled" (at worst) sentient companion.

been there done that dd you do as i asked about replacing the terms? Eidolon Lotus , remember?

Sure, replace "undead sentient" wherever i mentioned "sentient sentinel" and what i said still makes sense.

I was more taking about "allied" ones, As DE has established , everything exists at all times and so we have more sentinels and fewer sentinels as well that can be our companions. (yes thats a quip at the poor eternalism prop that is being used). So we also have a possibility of a friendly sentient sentinel - well we have had lotus (and her hand) for years already and she is sentient - she can probably control one to do our bidding.

Sure , i mean we have a sentient (ish?) frame, so a sentient sentinel isn't a wild idea.

Let me ask you this , why do you want forma? to add to weapons? how many weapons exist? Quite a few , what happens when you forma all of them? There will be more weapons made of course. So your "it will eventually end" statement assumes that the same cannot be done with cosmetics - which is not very likely as DE makes cosmetics just as much as they make gear. I do not want game altering items in the shop, as it will be followed by hues and cries of how "unfair" it is that those that can gain focus get an edge and those that dont like the operator and are now "forced" to do a farm and so DE should give them another alternative of some sort. a forma a week for 1 million focus? sure , not a significant enough problem and can be a sink , but something absolutely unique that adds power like a third arcane to you frames ? NO.

Thanks to the circuit recently , I have quite a bit of focus stocked up and wouldn't mind some more cosmetic things (and only cosmetic) to buy from the represent shop. Ephemeras are obvious , but some specific Armor sets (with transparent void aesthetic) wouldn't be out of the question either.

Considering that frames are infested , And infestation is a disease of sorts, And Trinity does not cure you of this disease , I would say her powers are limited to short term reversals , where you are reverted to a former "healthy" state.