Malconis
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I haven't been able to find anything on this anywhere, and I need to know: If certain weapon mods, like Hush, are placed on a companion, do those effects carry over to all the warframe's weapons, or only to the companion? I'm currently using Taxon because of the obvious vaccuum utility, but I can't tell if the Hush mod I have installed on it actually helps or not.
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On 2018-06-03 at 8:03 PM, YUNoJump said:
Raids (officially Trials) used to be in the game, but they were niche content at best. They offered organic challenge based on puzzles more than just surviving the enemy, but still had relatively high-level enemies (70-100ish), as well as having 8 players per squad. However, people quickly learned how to do the puzzles, and then all you needed was the ability to talk to your team and an online guide, and it was a cakewalk.
The gameplay became less about surviving difficult enemies while solving puzzles, and more about locking down the map with frames like Nyx and Nova. Even without the CC spam, the puzzles basically became a checklist of miscellaneous tasks like "carry and pick up a battery for the right amount of time" and "stand on a certain pressure plate".
By the time of their removal, they weren't so much endgame content as they were just a somewhat fun activity to do with your clan or friends. They were very frequently horrible in public due to lack of communication, and their rewards (a single arcane once per day per raid, 3 arcanes per day total) were nowhere near good enough to justify dealing with public.
They were also incredibly buggy. The unique nature of their puzzles always led to countless (and often progression stopping) bugs, that despite DE's efforts to patch, remained in effect.
In the end, DE decided to get rid of them because they were too much effort to maintain for the very small player base that actually played them. They've said that some form of Raid content will return, but they want to make it more accessible and less niche when they do. We have no other information on when or how that will happen.
When/if they do, they will most likely need to have extensive countermeasures put into place to counteract both CC/power spam, and the ludicrous damage our weapons now do. Nullifying (non-bullet-blocking) fields were used in the hardmode Raid to relatively good effect in this regard, but with endgame weapons currently able to melt enemies way over level 100, it would be very tough to find the damage sweet spot between "doesn't get melted by endgame weapons" and "anything below endgame weapons have any chance of killing something"
ahhh, okay, that makes sense.
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I understand there used to be raid missions available for whenever a player reached a certain milestone? Is there any way those might come back? I had heard that they were scrapped because people were abusing mechanics and abilities to cheese the fights, so maybe the warframes just need to be rebalanced? I would love to go through all the warframes and look into how they could be changed for such a purpose, if maybe the problem with doing that is lack of staff/production time?
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On 2018-01-31 at 3:22 PM, Ryim_Drykeon said:
As the OP is obviously new, I'll suggest the poster boy Excalibur. He has decent defense and can lay the smackdown just as easily.
Any other Frame and you'll need to farm it, or buy it. 99% of every play picks Excal as their first.
uh, where are you getting these statistics from? I highly doubt excalibur is picked for the starter nearly that often. I personally started with mag, and I had fun with her up until MR 6.
Why do people only stay for 10 waves on Hydron?
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A lot of players will only take a single weapon into battle in order to rank it up much quicker, and 10 waves is usually all it takes to level that one weapon to max, after all the bonuses are applied. Even when players have a full loadout, going past ten waves is less efficient, as enemies do take more damage to kill, which makes each wave more time consuming than it needs to be, much like running the high risk Index past the first goal. Even on Helene, Saturn, most groups will not go past wave 10.