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If Erra is being controlled by Ballas, it's not a betrayal to fight back against him when possible. In the same vein, who is Hunhow betraying by siding with us in the New War? Hunhow's main antagonist was the Orokin. He may have been working with Ballas in the Old War, but now Ballas is the only Orokin left. Erra is either not in control or deceived; Hunhow doesn't view him as culpable. Although Hunhow is sort of fighting against the Sentients in the New War, I find it pretty hard to call it a betrayal. Ah yes, I sometimes forget Pazuul is a separate entity. In that sense the Archons absolutely betrayed Erra. I have suggested this in the past. I'm not aware of any comments by DE, though it's very possible I missed it. It should be noted that by the time we got Veilbreaker and Pazuul, Steve had publicly stepped down as Creative Director for Warframe, so I don't imagine he's said anything about this.

This was due to reprogramming by Ballas. It's not clear that Erra even knows Hunhow is still alive until Hunhow shows up in The New War. I think it's also likely that Ballas has some form of leverage or control over Erra, rebuilding or resurrecting him after Lotus killed him in the Old War. There are a few ways to look at this. On one hand, the Orokin are dead, and the last surviving Orokin leader is the person Hunhow seeks to frustrate during The New War. Not confirmed how Erra became Pazuul. Although Nira is sort of implied to be involved, I'm not sure how she did that after being killed by the Drifter in The New War. Erra does call her a "Queen" (as does Palladino, but that's irrelevant), so it does seem implied that she's intended to be part of their monarchy or leadership.

Hm. I didn't see it as a smirk, just a satisfied smile that the struggle was over (Ballas was killed and the Void portal shut). What storyline within the Void? She was maybe on Lua while it was in the Void, but other than that she hasn't spent significant time within the Void as far as we know. She didn't even believe he existed during Chains of Harrow. Lotus: "Don't give into these delusions of Void exposure. There is no Man in the Wall." Although she comes to realise his existence later (Natah: "I have seen the wall's other face, too. I have heard the Voice."), she doesn't know anything we don't know. At least not as far as we've seen. Most of her knowledge comes from the Orokin, and they didn't know about him (Albrecht Entrati: "I never spoke of him, that man, trapped in the wall. And while there have been countless souls who have followed me through […] not a single one ever saw him."). Well, she is. Or was. Her "true" form is whatever she chose at the end of The New War, whether that be Natah, Margulis, or Lotus. But her being a Sentient queen has nothing to do with the Man in the Wall; in fact, the Void is poison to Sentients, so any interaction would be inimical to them. The Man in the Wall offered a deal. We saw this during The New War. The terms were incredibly vague, both what we would give and what we would receive. It appears that our end of the deal is "do whatever the Man in the Wall asks us to do", which we are obviously not doing. During Whispers of the Walls, he asks for the grimoire page, and we say no. So in a sense we have "welched" on the deal, quite recently. It's fair to speculate. I just don't think there's much in that particular direction.

That is still there; you can run into it on occasion. There are quite a few warframes and Tenno/Prime weapons with Orokin text. DE uses text assets for environmental storytelling. For example, everything we know about the Corpus Merchant Guilds is based on their logos and text stamped all over the place; no one ever mentions them in dialogue. The Hayden Tenno thing was a callback on the first few warframes to DE's game Dark Sector. In the years since then, they have distanced themselves from Dark Sector and stated that the canon is different. Thus the text is currently meaningless, although you can come up with a number of reasons to explain it in-universe. I suppose this is inside the realm of possibility, but it doesn't seem likely to me. Everything since the New War has been to push back against the Man in the Wall (stopping the Void Angels on the Zariman, fighting against the Indifference on Deimos). Is there anything that points you in this direction? Nyx's base skin is mostly just Excalibur's body, yes. I believe this stems from an early attempt to make female versions of all male frames. This was scrapped, and female Excalibur was turned into Nyx. The "Nemesis" skin is another callback to Dark Sector, and has little to no canonical significance. I don't really see a tie to Eternalism or Dualism. Nyx and Excalibur date back to the beginning of the game. I highly doubt there are any ties to concepts that were likely developed years, possibly more than a decade later. These "1999 warframes" are likely different, with a completely separate origin than the warframes we know. Albrecht Entrati travelled to 1999 after Ballas had already created the first warframes, including Excalibur (who is stated to be the first warframe in his Codex entry). So Albrecht's ministrations turned Arthur into a warframe resembling Excalibur, but that's not the origin of the Excalibur from our time, even if Arthur eventually turns into something identical. Aoi (the female voice) is likely in a similar situation with Mag, according to Albrecht's sketches on the inside of the Netracells. Have you listened to Albrecht's Notes? All the dialogue and lore we have regarding 1999 treats it as actual time travel, not conceptual embodiment. And Albrecht and Loid are familiar with CE, so they would likely have clarified if it were taking place. It's theoretically possible that it's not the real 1999, but none of the characters seem to think so. Loid: "Perhaps, between us, we may change history."

The Kengineer did a great video on Arcane Dissolution and Vosfor rates. He said that he reached out to DE to ask for the official drop rates and they told him they were not releasing that information at this time. Usually the drop tables are updated the same day as new content releases, maybe with a few hours' delay, but in this case the drop tables may not be updated for a few weeks/months, or ever. Note that the drop tables for other Whispers content are live, just not Arcane packs.

Oh okay I was wondering what I was doing wrong, haha.

There are only two versions of the Operator, unlike everyone else. There's the other Operator, and the Drifter. The other versions of the Main Character were shown to be erased from reality. And after The New War, the two are united again in coexistence. So there are no second chances for the Operator from Eternalism. And, as others have pointed out, the Holdfasts are conceptual embodiments.

Hopefully I can summarise most of the major things in those updates without leaving anything out: Update 34: Abyss of Dagath In terms of new additions, this update only had a few: a new warframe and weapon (Dagath and her Dorrclave) and a new mission to farm her (Abyssal Zone, just a modified Exterminate). There were also a bunch of new cosmetics, mostly Halloween-themed. However, this update was full of reworks, changes, buffs, and overhauls. Shields and shield-gating, modding math, the new player experience, accessibility options, companions, and Hydroid all received substantial changes, with more minor changes to Nightwave, Break Narmer missions, Archon damage attenuation, and, of all things, explosive barrels. The shield-gating, companions, and Hydroid reworks are probably of most interest. If you used those regularly, you may want to change your builds. Companions (pets and sentinels) no longer perma-die in missions, and have many new mods available from the open-world vendors that can make them quite good. Update 35: Whispers in the Walls This update is big on new things. Whispers in the Walls is the next big quest in the story, with lots of dense lore. After you do the quest, you have access to a new syndicate with vendors, bounties, and missions, and a new tileset (or two new tilesets depending on how you view it). These missions are added on to Deimos, so no new planet. There is also a new warframe, three new weapons, new ways to upgrade your melee weapons (melee Arcanes and Exilus mods, and a new system Tennokai), changes to Archon Shards (three new types of Shards obtained by combining the old types, as well as a new way to get more Shards), and Arcane trading (you can dissolve your unused Arcanes and use the dust to buy random packs of Arcanes, including rare ones such as Energise). All these features require the Whispers in the Walls quest to be completed. One of the new weapons is a brand new weapon time, Tome (a magical book/grimoire equipped as a secondary) and it has unique mods. There are also minor improvements to Archgun deployment in normal missions (heavy weapons), more changes to the new player experience including a big reshuffling of the main quest path, and some new cosmetics.

Apparently the nose ring was a mistake and it has been removed from the cutscenes as well:

I used a guide to find them. Many of the fragments are near notable locations (so check near every village, Dax fort, named character, etc), but some of them are really out of the way. Fragments are grouped by location (so all the "We Are Not What We Were" fragments are on Thrax's Island, etc). They make a Shawzin strum sound when nearby, so if you crank your volume up that'll help. Of course, keep in mind that not all islands are present during the same mood (Archarbor and Amphitheatre have fragments), so it'll take at least 2 sessions unless you're in Joy or Envy. Some of the fragments are hidden in little caves that you can't know exist unless you jump sideways into a bush or something, so unless you want to drive yourself mad, I recommend using a guide. If you like, you can hunt for most of them on your own, and then use the guide to find the really tricky ones. This is good advice for the Albrecht's Notes fragments… which are different than the Lost Islands of Duviri fragments the OP is asking about.

Oh for sure. DE always does this, of course. They make a new tileset and they want to show it off in the quest or event that introduces it. I have no problem with this! It's just for this update, it seems like the Albrecht's Laboratory tileset has fewer tiles than others. I'm not sure if that's really the case or just my perception, but having a lot of the quest setpieces reused as normal tiles just sort of reinforces the notion. It's not even a real criticism of DE in my view, but it is something I've noticed with the new tileset. I was responding to someone who commented something similar.

This is certainly not it. All of the Entrati except Daughter, Son, and Otak also voice different characters with voice lines that have come out more recently, and they brought back the characters of Mother, Grandmother, Daughter, and Otak quite recently for new lines. They appear to have no issue getting these voice actors when they need them.

This current update is actually an outlier in this regard. Quests usually have distinct tiles that are used for pivotal moments and not encountered in usual gameplay. The War Within had the Queens' Throne Room and the whole mountain pass area The Sacrifice had the Orokin cemetery, Ballas' laboratory, and Umbra's hospital room The New War had a number of unique areas, some of which were later brought back for Archon Hunts and Kahl missions but some of which weren't, including Praghasa's Throne Room and the entire Narmer Sealab tileset The Duviri Paradox has Dominus Thrax's Throne Room which still hasn't even shown up as a Captura scene In contrast, every single tile from Whispers in the Walls shows up in normal missions (except the train one), and with all the quest details (the chair the Man in the Wall sits in, Loid's casket, etc). They went back and removed some stuff like the grimoire and some Requiem glyphs in a hotfix but a lot of quest stuff is still there. This is uncharacteristically sloppy in my view. I mean, when we go to the Granum Void for Protea farming it's not like you still see Parvos Granum hanging out there like he does during the quest.

Forgive her for what? She was manipulated and controlled directly (via her programming). Ballas was literally pulling her strings. At the climax of The New War, he commands her to say "I love you" and she does it. Did that look like it was her choice? I mean the game has to have stakes. I think the Zariman update (and The New War ending) did a good job of setting it up. Things change. Just because DE says they want to do something doesn't mean they can't change direction later. Praghasa (Lotus' mother) was going to be a major character, and then they decided not to (for reasons we don't know, but The New War underwent many script revisions over the years). I don't see how this is a knock on DE; this is just the reality of creating an ongoing story. This is explained DURING THE QUEST when you see that your Tenno (singular) made a deal with the Man in the Wall for their powers. This clearly implies that, if something happens to that one Tenno, all the other Tenno lose their powers. Yes, there's more than one Tenno, but your Tenno is Special. The Holdfasts on the Zariman aren't survivors. They died during the Void-jump incident or shortly afterwards. They were recreated by the Void through Conceptual Embodiment; they're basically ghosts you can touch. It actually doesn't have anything to do with Eternalism (and I can agree with many of the criticisms of Eternalism as a plot device). The Paracesis was initially relevant for plot progression; you needed it to unlock the Erra cinematic, which is part of the main story quest line. However, this was removed later, and now you can just start the Erra quest in your Codex. The Paracesis is still considered lore-important because it gets forced into your inventory twice during The New War; if you don't have a Paracesis you get a temporary one for the quest. I think this has really only happened twice in the game's history. For the first couple years, the focus was on the Grineer and the Corpus (and sometimes Infested) – the enemy factions collectively were the "big bad" and there was the understanding that the Tenno could never hope to overcome them. Then in 2015, we had Natah and The Second Dream set up the Sentients as the big bad – this was the first major tone shift. Instead of mundane factions squabbling over turf, you had an unknown threat from another solar system that was hostile to all human life. It required all major factions to unite together, which was shown (very briefly) in The New War. I think it's a common viewpoint that the end result of the Sentient invasion was not satisfying, but it was the culmination of the "big bad Sentients". And then after that we have our current shift to the Man in the Wall as the big bad – a development foreshadowed as far back as Chains of Harrow (2017 I think?) and reinforced at times during the Sentient arc. Since the end of The New War I think Warframe has been pretty consistent in framing "Wally" as the new bad guy. While DE does introduce new antagonists into its universe from time to time (Parvos Granum, the Queens, Dominus Thrax, etc), the "big bad" rarely changes.

It searches for the Netracell in Netracell missions. Hacking it narrows the radius of the search circle. However, I have heard people report that "Search" computers show up in non-Netracell missions; while I haven't seen this myself, I would wager this is what you're encountering.

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Albrecht says that Euleria has her mother's eyes, but doesn't go more into detail. He says he raised Euleria alone, so his wife either died or left or something. And just to cover all the bases, the fact that Euleria had a mother doesn't mean that she was Albrecht's wife or that they were even in a relationship.

This is a weird take for me to read since this is always my favourite part of new updates.

I believe it's said during the quest that they do in fact speak the Voidtongue.

This is video form of my older Discussion article about the Zariman 10-0: its origins, its fateful journey, and the events that followed. Spoilers for The Second Dream, The New War, Angels of the Zariman, and post-Angels Holdfasts dialogue. You are recommended to play through the story first.

It sounds like the worst-case scenario DE is picturing is a bunch of console players who intend to play on PC buying a whole bunch of TennoGen right now, today, with stockpiled Platinum so they can use the cosmetics in the future on PC. Those purchases, like all other console purchases, would not go to the artist.

Oh weird. My bad then.

While you're right about the subreddit, the Discord server is official, created by DE staff.

This is a great point. People who have been playing since 2013 are more likely to have the Rubedo Rhino skin or that Nvidia skin Rebecca mentioned.

As others have said, the Defixios are probably affecting the syndicate Operatives in ways they don't affect the warframes. Additionally, the syndicate joint operation appears to be mostly inexperienced or new members; most of the Operatives names are "Trainee" or "Recruit" or "Probationer". They may not have seen much combat before.