Tak_Thoan

Honestly, the worst about it is : any undercroft portal can simply terminate your run if you don't have a good warframe to deal with this madness or a ton of decrees. Even OPTIONAL portals will just end your run if you have the bad luck of ending up in that defense too soon. Currently at 6 runs in solo SP ruined just because I got that objective instead of any other (one of which happened because I accidentaly fell into a portal I didn't see). I do solo Duviri to chill essentially and this just made me alt+f4 every single time. One could argue that I could just not go in SP, but since I take my sweet time and roll on everything very fast in normal, I need the spice (not to mention the better rewards). So basically everytime I go in Duviri SP and I don't get a good loadout selection (happens relatively frequently, most of my frames are not SP-proof), I'm obligated to stockpile on decrees before getting any actual progress done, because I have the sword of Damocles over my head and it could fall every time I go to the undercroft, making my run more of a grinding than it needs to be. My other choices are cutting my run halfway (goodbye pathos clamps and arcanes), renouncing to SP (goodbye challenge) or go multi every time (goodbye chill). Quite frustrating. I find myself playing less and less Duviri Experience as a result, even though I enjoy it. I know Steel Path is supposed to be hard, but that in particular is a straight up no-fun, mood-killing absurdity. If the spawn was more reasonable on wave 3 (I legit struggle to find a single regular, devoid of overguard ennemy at that point, let alone aiming among all the FX), if there was more CC options around the pod (having traps all around the map is usually nice, but 90% of them are pretty much useless in defense) or if it was just more tanky... I would be perfectly ok with it. I'd like my defeat to be caused by my lack of focus or skill, not by bad luck and a balance flaw. It contrasts badly with the other undercroft objectives. Even in SP circuit I don't end up fighting a >95% eximus horde that fast. It feels like a splinter in my runs, and I really hope it gets sanded down.