[Parasitic Vitality is a step in the wrong direction]

1 hour ago, 0_The_F00l said:

Here was one of my thoughts for an augment for parasitic link:

Parasitic leash:

Enemies that are held by parasitic link are now mind controlled and follow you as an ally. The link is psychic and stays even when the enemy is beyond your original range. Allies affected by the link share healing with Nidus.

 

That would be great as it fixes several things: You could stay mobile with link in solo, you keep the DR, and you keep the target alive as long as you heal yourself (which is a big problem currently as linked targets have a tendency to die suddenly and subtly). Honestly, it feels like it should be part of the core kit (exempting bosses from the healing).

[Parasitic Vitality is a step in the wrong direction]

21 minutes ago, 0_The_F00l said:

i dont think DE will give players another wuclone  -_-

But i do agree that the parasitic link augment feels ... situational but lacking, to be worth the slot. I would rather just get the 90% DR from linking to enemies and have armor that will give even more DR and EHP.

 

He has a lot of niggling issues, but my main issue with him right now is requiring him to stand in place if playing solo to benefit from his link. Warframe is a pretty fast moving game these days (the prevalence of speed frames speaks to this) and Nidus kinda sucks in that regard. 

I see a lot of people saying Nidus is fine, but he's only fine when doing one thing, which is standing in 1 place and spamming virulence or larva. Ironically he sucks on defense since none of his abilities really benefit the defense objective (the ultimate HP/s is trivial).

Imo his design age is starting to show with the current state of the game. I don't necessarily advocate for increasing his power level (except his ultimate), but giving him more flexibility and generic survivability instead of his 15 stack immortality gimmick. My top 4 things to improve are:

1. Make it so he can use link but still stay mobile in solo play (and also change the augment so he doesn't get immediately 1-shot in level 400 missions before he can use a single ability).

2. His stack generation in teams sucks, it's antithetical with traditional teamplay (you don't want enemies to die until a certain point). The larva changes don't really help. It also sucks in solo play against low density targets, like when fighting bosses. I'd rather require 30 stacks for immortality but be able to get them more consistently against both numerous and few targets.

3. His immortality is pretty OP in generic missions with lots of enemies, and almost completely worthless in boss fight without many trash mobs. It would be nice to have a middle ground. Since his immortality is tied to his stack generation, this is actually the same point as 2.

4. His ultimate sucks. It's only useful for the augment, and the augment is only useful because of the stack generation issue. The maggots cause enemies to stop and flail (the opposite of what you want generally speaking), and the heal over time barely does anything in this generation of Warframe. There are so many extra things it could do that fit with the virus/Nidus theme, like inflicting constant Viral procs on enemies in the field, pausing Link timer while you stand in it, giving you a heal that scales with stack count, etc. The recent Kullervo augment that allows his storm to be moved when he uses Wrathful Advance shows DE is aware of how limited static field abilities are, so I'm hoping something similar can be done with Nidus.

[This week's EDA is so scuffed (esp for solo play)]

First mission (Alchemy): Some enemies are invulnerable until throwing the appropriate amphor on them, except eventually too many immune enemies are leftover and 1-2 Blitz Eximus continuously hit you with that insta-kill ground blast. It's just very annoying.

Second mission (Defense): DE definitely learned their lesson from Duviri Circuit defense, right? Nah, objective is made of wet tissue paper. RNG frames, no way to defend the objective, no way to crowd control unless you lucked out on frame choice. Finished the mission with barely 150 or so HP on the defense objective, only won due to killing the Rogue Eximus Voidrigs and being able to use my own melee.

Third mission (Assassination): I had Eclipse on for 75% DR, 1800 Armour, Adaptation, and I got instantly smashed from 3340 to 114 HP in 1 hit. Tell me you want me to use gating mechanics without telling me you want me to use gating mechanics. Also, losing 2 energy per second plus 2 Liminus draining your energy in an arena that you're forced to stay in is questionable.

I finished it and felt annoyed and uninspired, especially for the defense mission. I feel like no matter what frame I picked for this week, I was going to struggle in the defense mission, and I had to use gating mechanics to survive against the fragmented tide. Inflating numbers are probably the most boring and frustrating way to increase difficulty. Next to draining player's energy at every opportunity.

[Elite Archimedea Top Rewards are severely lacking]

I would because shards can always be swapped onto the frame you choose from the selection. With reactors and catalysts (namely catalysts) they're used up permanently and due to the unlikely chance for repeats in selection availability I'd expect to be burning at least 1 catalyst and 3 forma every week to make whatever arbitrary weapon selection work in Elite AM.

[Elite Archimedea Top Rewards are severely lacking]

34 points: archon shards needs to go

37 points: 50 Vosfor - absolutely terrible

First problem, these are supposed to be endgame rewards. You get a good amount of archon shards relatively quickly, and most players attempting this gamemode likely already have full sets of tauforged for their favourite frames. They can be moved around on frames so collecting dozens of them is unnecessary. They cannot be sold for platinum. Endgame rewards should always be useful, or at minimum things that can be liquidated for platinum. Examples: Arcanes. x3 Forma Bundle. Umbra Forma. Orokin Catalyst. Orokin Reactor. Things like Archon shards and focus lens (the latter of which thankfully are not reward candidates) eventually become increasingly valueless. An unacceptable trait for endgame rewards.

Second problem, the rewards don't accurately reflect the difficulty of the randomised items. 34 point threshold should be legendary melee arcanes only. This bracket is already difficult enough due to forced choices. However, the difference between 34 and 37 is massive. 34 allows using 1 self-selected weapon or frame, meaning you can always reliably take at least 1 of your most powerful item with you. 37 requires complete adherence to the randomised selection. 50 Vosfor is a joke. There is absolutely no reason to shoot yourself in the foot for 37 points when you can get the value equivalent of 50 Vosfor by doing literally any Steel Path mission for 12.5 minutes. For 37 points you should be given the choice to pick x1 of any legendary arcane in the game.

In fact, you should have the choice to pick from a list of many rare or useful rewards, see my example above.

And yes, you should be able to pick your rewards at the highest tiers. Forced equipment is one thing, finishing the slog and then being "rewarded" your 20th Tauforged Yellow Shard and then 50 Vosfor after that is just a kick in the nuts and gives me many reasons to not engage in the new "content".

I'm actually one of the few people not against the forced equipment, I get that it's supposed to be a borderline inaccessible gamemode that serves as a cheap and easy way to force players to burn forma and reactors/catalysts on stuff they'd never otherwise use. But when the rewards are crap and also laced with more RNG, it's just a slap in the face.

[Parasitic Vitality is a step in the wrong direction]

(TLDR: Parasitic Vitality doesn't help solve any of Nidus's issues and does the opposite of making it more boom or bust, and this is a huge misstep.)

 

As someone who has almost exclusively played Nidus since 2017 (with a bit of an affair with Kullervo), I want to give my 2 cents on Parasitic Vitality (PV) from a design perspective.

When talking about augments, it's necessary to point out that augments take up a mod slot and therefore need to be competitive with whatever else could have been in that slot. Parasitic Vitality is somewhat unique in that it is mutually exclusive with other Vitality mods, so less weight can be put on the opportunity cost. That being said, I think PV is an interesting idea but taken completely in the wrong direction.

PV gives Nidus the ability to have tons of health, but at the cost of essentially constantly being required to be tethered (or you die). In other words, it just conditionally makes him more tanky. If you're level capping using his passive then this mod is even more useless. The problem I have with this is that this mod doesn't bring anything new to the table for him, and doesn't solve the inherent issues of Parasitic Link.

Parasitic Link's effects have always been amazing, both in solo and co-op. The problem is that it's too conditional and janky to rely on. If you're fighting a boss solo and there are no other enemies around, you can't link. If you are playing pubs and link to an ally, your link is guaranteed to be broken when they rush to another room. PV just makes these issues even worse, because if you don't notice your link is broken, you are even more likely to die. Having to constantly check if my link is still on an ally, or track the health of the enemy I just linked to, on top of checking when my link duration is, and then worry about keeping enough enemies nearby to link to, is just really annoying. It's micromanagement that doesn't add any value to his playstyle. This issue is excaerbated in pubs if all the enemies are just instantly killed by others and you're just desperately trying to build stacks (this is more of an issue with his Mutation stack mechanic in general).

I was really hoping when Parasitic Link did get its augment it would be something that addressed these issues, but instead it just makes Nidus even more tanky, at the cost of regular Vitality. This is extremely disappointing. Having 20k health is fun for 60 seconds, and then the management of keeping it up constantly kicks in and I realise I would much rather have had QOL with Parasitic Link instead of more health.

I will give two concrete solutions to make Parasitic Link much more user-friendly and require less micro without changing its power level:

Solution 1:

Parasitic Link no longer requires a target, it instead automatically acquires a target in range as long as any duration remains, and will automatically reacquire any valid target when it can if the original target either becomes out of range or dies. Single tap will enable enemy acquisition mode, hold-press enables ally acquisition mode, but will target enemies instead if no allies are in range. This doesn't make Parasitic Link any stronger, it just makes it less annoying to use and more reliable.

 

Solution 2:

Add a new augment for Parasitic Link: Parasitic Servitude.

This augment would add a new mode to Parasitic Link. Press-holding the ability would create a Nidus clone (pretty much same as WuClone or deployable Spectre) that is tethered to you using your Parasitic Link. It has the same health pool as you and uses clones of your weapons but does not cast abilities. This would finally allow you to use ally link functionality in solo play, and give you a way to reliably have PV up. Additionally, it's a way to have offensive Parasitic Link up without worrying about allies jumping out of your range and de-tethering you. For balance reasons, if the clone dies, the Parasitic Link would instantly be cancelled.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read.

[Parasitic Vitality augment not actually benefiting from ability strength]

The arsenal UI reflects the augmented health value with ability strength factored in so ability strength is clearly intended to affect it, but in testing (at least in simulacrum) the bonus health per stack is always 4% (regardless of actual AS, at one mutation stack I gain +26 max hp, which is 0.04 of 650 - Nidus's health value at rank 30).

 

 

Edit: Since this already isn't working, it's also worth ensuring the fix accounts for Parasitic AS value being evaluated after the existing multiplicative AS increase on AS when linking to allies.

(example assumes rank 30 Nidus Prime and does not account for internal rounding)

Expected outcome with 269% AS + Enemy Link @ 100 mutation stacks:
650 * (1 + (0.04 * 2.69 * 100)) = 7644 HP

Expected outcome with 269% AS + Friendly Link @ 100 mutation stacks:
650 * (1 + (0.04 * (2.69 * (1 + 0.25 * 2.69)) * 100)) = 12,347 HP

Expected outcome with 269% AS + Friendly Link @ 300 mutation stacks w/ Abundant Mutation:
650 * (1 + (0.04 * (2.69 * (1 + 0.25 * 2.69)) * 300)) = 37,042 HP

 

Just for fun:

Expected outcome with 408% AS + Friendly Link @ 300 mutation stacks w/ Abundant Mutation:
650 * (1 + (0.04 * (4.08 * (1 + 0.25 * 4.08)) * 300)) = 64,934 HP

Linking to a rank 30 Inaros Prime in this context should give him (before any of his own mods):
2415* (1 + (0.04 * (4.08 * (1 + 0.25 * 4.08)) * 300)) = 241,256 HP

[Railjack discussion]

2 minutes ago, (PS4)guzmantt1977 said:

You're right, of course, but if you think about it, letting ramsleds bring cannon fodder to the railjack is a pretty quick way to farm Intrinsics. Not saying that it's a smart way, or the fastest, mind you, just a quick way. 

 

Also more of us are becoming competent at managing to do everything. This may be causing the newbs to be carried far more often by ships with void hole and particle ram, where they're not really required to do anything. I mean if the ship is well built and even 2 people out of 4 are good at Railjack Missions, the other two are really just hood ornaments. 

 

It's a possibility that several of those factors have combined to be create the conditions that the OP is experiencing. 

For sure, I am not blaming others for not 'getting gud'. However when you've reached Veil, you expect a certain degree of knowledge such as prioritising crewships to minimise their cannon damage, prevent ramsleds spawning, and remove healing bubbles.

The situation is not that different from an ESO mission where randos contribute nothing, but not as problematic because in that situation, a single person can effectively carry everyone else. You can host ESO with that expectation in mind. The difference with Railjack is that you physically cannot simultaneously pilot the ship and destroy Crewships.

[Railjack discussion]

1 minute ago, Vaeldious said:

Cuz its a public match. You can't seriously expect streamlined teamwork in pubs.

I don't think my expectations qualify as teamwork, it's just common sense...see crewship, destroy it, just like every other enemy in-game.

[Railjack discussion]

Why do my teammates in Veil Proxima operate like bots? Virtually every pub match I've had, no one destroys the crewships until the very end of the mission. They prefer to either use the turrets or go solo Archwing and destroy fighters. They don't respond if I request crewship priority. If I take over crewship duties, every pilot manages to get the railjack to 0 HP due to knowing only how to shoot and not evade. This experience is extremely frustrating and makes me prefer solo mode.

[3/6 Crewships Mission Stuck]

Finally got Munitions Vortex and then the mission decided to stop spawning Crewships at 3/6 destroyed. No choice but to abort.

Strategy Used: Destroyed all fighters first then destroyed crewships.

[12 Liches, 5 Seers]

This is a brief open letter to DE. I've been playing since 2015 and loved every update - grinding all the content, embracing every rework even if I didn't personally like it.

This is the first update that actively makes me want to stop playing. I'm on my 12th Lich and he is holding what will be my 5th Kuva Seer.

I personally don't care about the weapon bonus, because I'm not interested in min-maxing. I'm interested in getting something for something instead of nothing for something.

There is nothing in the game up till this point that has pissed me off so much as seeing weapon duplicates. I need to spend several hours grinding out boring mission after mission, getting insta-killed by a Lich whose repetitive voicelines are now seared into my skull, knowing the 'reward' is effectively only a 'reroll' of possibly getting a Lich weapon I haven't got yet. Rinse and repeat in futility.

The RNG of Reqiuem-guessing layered over the RNG of Liches spawning layered over the RNG of Lich weapon spawns is too much for me to not make a complaint on the forums. My voice is only 1 more of many who share the same disappointment.

[Kuva Lich mission difficulty]

Even though I don't have trouble with any lich missions in terms of difficulty (Nidus main) the way the enemies in the mission level skyrockets for no apparent reason doesn't make any sense. Seems like Grineer mooks just level vicariously through a Lich they've never met or even heard of.

[NVIDIA drivers crash only in Warframe]

I encountered a situation in I can almost guarantee causing the GPU driver to crash (for my machine at least).

I began decorating my 1-person bare dojo today (as it was almost empty previously) by adding decorations to the Architect Room. I added around 50 props and experienced 2 GPU driver crashes during the decoration process (a lot of crashes for just 30 mins of play).

However, when I enter my dojo now with all the new props around, the GPU drivers almost always crash within 5 mins (it didn't do this previously, I was able to stand in my dojo for hours). It crashes almost every time within 1 minute.

I tried this 8 times for consistency, and the drivers crashed every one of those 8 times within 5 minutes of standing in the dojo.

I then played for about 2 more hours doing normal missions and experienced no driver crashes for the rest of the session.

 

So hopefully this might shed a little bit of light on what might be causing these problems.

[Cannot Trade (invisible players)]

For anyone who finds this post in the future, I found a solution for myself although I was not able to specifically identify what the problem was.

I used a program called UU Accelerator (网易UU加速器 in Chinese) which allows me to connect to a proxy server in Hong Kong (or any region of your choosing).

When playing Warframe while connected to a server in Hong Kong, I can finally trade normally without the invisible players issue.

Unfortunately the program uses paid subscription. There are possibly free candidates that achieve the same thing but I was not able to find any. Someone more tech savvy than myself might be able to give a more knowledgeable response in this regard.

What I can conclude from this is that the issue (at least, the cause of the issue specifically for my problem) is China specific and DE's approach to this issue is limited.

[NVIDIA drivers crash only in Warframe]

My Warframe client will cause my NVIDIA drivers to crash resulting in a white screen and forced minimise of the game window (I am playing in borderless fullscreen).

This happens randomly and immediately - some days there is no crash at all, some days it happens every 15 minutes of play time.

I can't play the game properly as this effectively forces me to forfeit any missions as soon as the crash happens. Every second I'm in game I'm consciously praying it doesn't crash. I don't want to play this way.

 

Relevant Specs:

Windows 10

Zotac GTX 980Ti

Intel 4790k

16GB RAM

 

 

I have already:

-Used DDU to completely uninstall and then install the latest NVIDIA drivers

-Tried playing on every graphics quality preset

-Tried playing with Debug Mode set to on in NVIDIA Control Panel

-Tried playing in Borderless Fullscreen, Fullscreen, and Windowed

-Turned V-sync on

-Turned V-sync off and FPS limiter to 60

-Verified game files using Warframe launcher

-Checked hardware temperatures for overheating during playtime (all component temperatures nominal)

 

Notes:

-Driver crash only happens for Warframe - never experienced once on any other game or application

-Already attempted contacting support but they were unable to resolve my issue

[Cannot Trade (invisible players)]

Yes, as these players are able to trade as soon as they appear - which sometimes takes so long they just leave.

As far as I have been able to find, it is a problem specific to players in China, which also means there is not much information available on the forums about how to handle this specific issue, even though it is a crippling one.

[Cannot Trade (invisible players)]

I live in China and I'm having the issue where trade specifically doesn't work. Players are invisible (not just visually, but don't register at all as a trade option) when attempting to join a dojo (doesn't matter mine or theirs or even maroo's). I've heard others in China have had this issue before, but I have not seen any of them actually find any kind of solution to it.

[Tons of connection issues (playing from China)]

2 hours ago, krc473 said:

I was not aware of this. The only thing I have come across is using a VPN to get stuff cheaper (plat, PA etc). As far as I recall there was no issue with this. Maybe ask Support.

When I try accessing the launcher with my VPN on it times out immediately every time, as soon as I switch it off, the launcher works, albeit haphazardly. When I looked online for solutions, that was the answer I came up with (VPNs are blocked to prevent low-price Plat buying)

 

[Tons of connection issues (playing from China)]

Recently moved to China from the UK and I'm experiencing a number of frustrating errors that I'm positive are at least partially caused by the Great Firewall, but I have no known solutions to these issues:

Very consistently getting ERROR_INTERNET_CONNECTION_RESET errors when attempting to update the game in the launcher, making it very hard actually get into the game

Sometimes when I'm in the login screen in-game, it will give me "Incorrect username/password" error even if the input is actually correct, forcing me to login multiple times

Very frequently, the game will give me the "Networking not responding" message on screen, causing everything on a mission to freeze in place for anything from 2-15 seconds. Rarely these will lead to me getting pulled from the game straight back to the login screen, forfeiting all mission rewards.

Lastly, attempting to trade is extremely buggy. Often times the trade UI screens will take 2 minutes to load, trades won't register until after I log out, multiple trade sessions open concurrently, etc. It's an absolute mess and this happens 90% of the time.

 

I have a VPN that I would normally use to bypass these issues, but as I understand it, Warframe does not allow you to play or login via VPN, and as a result I have no real control over my play experience.