(XBOX)Lady Ukita

Yeah, I find it baffling that people think it's utterly impossible for DE to make any changes to the Heirloom Packs when Jagex quickly reversed the changes they brought with Hero Pass and even offered refunds for those who were no longer satisfied with the purchase. Albeit circumstances are different, and I don't know much about Jagex, but what we're asking from DE isn't as unreasonable as some are making it out to be.

I genuinely hate to be that guy, but this issue is easily solved by playing solo or with friends/clanmates. As annoying as it is to hear, you can't control the behavior or actions of public squads, but what you can control is the people you decide to play with. I won't deny that AOE is dominating a lot of missions, but the nerfs intended for them also caused collateral damage to less problematic weapons (Merciless getting nerfed, and the ammo economy getting nerfed as well).

I initially liked the gamemode, but after getting all the incarnons I wanted it the cracks started to form, ESPECIALLY after they added the Jackal for some reason which made your loadout matter much more—despite it ultimately being left to Rngesus's hands. Maybe if you had a degree of agency in regards to the cave offerings, like prioritizing formaed equipment rather than unowned/unused items in SP circuit, then that'll probably mitigate some of the friction.

It's been over a year and I still think void sling is a complete downgrade compared to void dash. It's slower, clunkier, covers less distance, and has less skill expression. DE still pushed it despite the overwhelmingly negative feedback, and people are still salty about it to this day. There was no reason to arbitrarily replace void dash, which has been perfectly fine and functionable for over five years, with void sling other than making it more accessible to the mobile audience.

Although I mostly agree with the aspect of platinum being hard to obtain, this brings up an issue with new players being absolutely deprived of slots, reactors and catalysts. Let's be real, starting with 2 warframe slots and 8 weapon slots when the game has 400+ weapons and 50+ unique warframes is absurd. Nightwave remedied this a little, but it wouldn't hurt if players started the game with more slots so they don't hit a progression stopper within the first few hours of playing.

You said DE doesn't encourage extended gameplay sessions, Circuit rewards extended gameplay sessions the way it is designed. The amount of exp you get scales until stage 5, and continuing onwards will make farming the rewards considerably faster than breaking it up into smaller sessions. There's also the fact of your loadout being randomized, so if you do happen to get the ideal loadout then it'll make more sense to run a longer session due to the unlikelihood of having another effective loadout in the future, further exacerbated in the Steel Path. Also decrees: the longer you play circuit the more powerful you get, which in some cases makes longer runs easier despite the heightened enemy level. There's also the case of endless void fissure missions applying a scaling booster for affinity, credit, and resources the longer you stay; which makes longer sessions more ideal if you're planning to farm in bulk. If DE didn't want to encourage long/endurance runs, then the amount of exp you gained from circuit would've been equal per stage, or endless void fissures wouldn't apply an incremental booster per rotation. Then again, it's hard to take what DE says at face value when their actions are often contradictory.

Not only do they release these overpriced cosmetics, but they also had the audacity to bring back Dog Days. Talk about a double whammy.

Meanwhile, Circuit.

It's not even a rare drop, two is guaranteed per Hydrolyst Capture. I have 105 transmuters which is more than I'll ever need, and I haven't done tridolons in years. It would not hurt to make riven transmuters available from other sources, and I could tell you that nobody is playing tridolons to farm them; just a consequence for farming for the actual rare rewards like arcane energize or grace.

Anything but another open world

You only have to beat him once, at least.

I don't see the problem, and removing her acquisition from the Circuit makes negative sense. In fact, I'm glad people are able to obtain her blueprints from the Circuit so they could fight Exploiter Orb less; personally that boss is a complete slog to fight, let alone farm while hoping you get good rng for Hildryn's components.

My only problem is that forming squads sucks, Recruiting Chat is barely serviceable. Legit just copy AlecaFrame's TennoFinder feature so forming groups with players is easier/less of a headache.

You're giving way too much credit to a simple damage buff when Octavia, for an example, can cast her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ability without disabling her invincibility whilst in operator mode. Wisp can buff with her motes without disabling her invincibility in operator mode, and her motes has infinite duration while giving insane buffs; much more impactful than buffing the damage of your weapons. Meanwhile, if Kullervo casts his 2nd ability and enters operator mode during its cast time, he remains vulnerable for the entire time you're transferred out despite the fact his 2nd ability only channels for 5 seconds, and it's only a self-centered healing tool—not as impactful as Octavia's kit or Wisp's motes despite the fact they retain their invincibility. I hope you see the issue, it's the inconsistency. Gauss can have Thermal Sunder active, an AOE damage and CC ability, while retaining invincibility in operator mode. Kullervo having Storm of Ukko active, an AOE damage and CC (somewhat) ability, disables his invincibility in operator mode. Does that make sense?

As someone who plays a lot of SP Void Cascade and Circuit, when enemy level or density reaches a certain threshold where health-tanking is basically suicide unless your frame's kit can support it—Baruuk, Citrine, Chroma, etc.—going into operator mode even for a second sometimes leads to your frame getting instantly evaporated within the incoming fire, despite the 90% DR. Most warframes either have a channeled or duration-based ability in their kit, so rarely will you ever benefit from the invincibility you get transferring into your operator, unless you're just not using abilities. I do agree that having frame invincibility even with an ability active for the entire duration within operator mode is blatantly broken, as Xaku's kit, for an example, would be even more busted if you were able to camp in operator mode with no risk. Although, I don't see why we can't have like, a few seconds of invincibility while transferring outside of operator mode so your frame is protected for a little bit as you do operator things. Like I said before, 90% DR falls off in high-end content, and for someone who tends to play glass cannons like Gyre or Xaku it gets a little frustrating when my frame gets nuked the moment I transfer out.

It's not that big of a deal since nobody actually looks at each other's stats.

I don't know if a lot of people know this, but you can roll to get Malice's magnetize off of your frame. Made him a trivial fight once I learned that, but yeah he's still annoying.

I know, that's why I want them to make it less tedious to grind so we don't have incentivize people into buying adapters with plat. Remember when crafting Railjack armaments on launch was borderline impossible, and the fastest way to build them was buying the rush repair drones to skip the resource costs & time? DE removed rush repair drones from the market whilst improving the overall grind for RJ armaments, so I think it's backwards for DE making the new round of incarnon adapters purchasable with plat instead of improving the circuit grind to make it less tedious.

I rather they improve the incarnon acquisition method than just monetizing it by adding a way to skip the grind altogether.

Can we stop using this lazy excuse? The survey from last year which had more than 70,000 responses, which exceeds the average concurrent players of about 40-50,000 judging from steamcharts. 58% of responses wanted trails/raids to return, and DE themselves explicitly stated that, "Players would like to see Trials come back, in addition to some more challenging end game content." I don't know where people got the notion where it's only a miniscule minority or small 1% of players asking for an engaging endgame loop when we have the evidence to confirm otherwise. A lot of people want challenging endgame content, and we wouldn't be having this nigh decade long discussion/argument if that wasn't the case. How DE will approach it is a different discussion, but the SP Orowyrm fight is seemingly treading the waters for dungeon/raid-like encounters.

Not surprised that Caliban borderline doesn't exist.

I personally think that losing all of your loot for failing a mission is a bit archaic, but this risk/reward aspect is the only thing keeping most missions having an ounce of challenge to them; building your loadout and playing adeptly to avoid failing, and consequently losing everything you gained. However, with stuff like Railjack & Bounties keeping loot from previous stages, host migration, questionably designed enemies like the Thrax Legatus, host migration bugs, poor connectivity that can result in failing a mission, and Warframe being ported to mobile so we can also consider the instability of mobile hosts—losing everything from failing a mission increasingly makes no sense to me.

No, being F2P shouldn't be an excuse for lowered expectations and tolerance, especially if the said F2P game is being backed by Tencent while most systems within said F2P game are monetized. DE isn't a struggling indie company like they were several years ago, they can afford to chill with the cheap time-gated content that ultimately discourages some players from engaging with the content altogether—as portrayed by the OP.

Agreed, main reason why I stopped doing Tridolons was because of the time-gating, having to play around day/night cycles is not fun. The fact that they’re doing this with Kullervo is disappointing, grinding SP Circuit for Incarnons is a bit annoying already. Despite having a new team leading development they’re continuing making the same mistakes they’ve made for several years, doesn’t feel me with confidence for the future.

As someone who went through the pain of having polarity issues and needing to forma a frame/gun more than necessary, I'm not against this idea. Although I would prefer the system similar to kuva/tenet/paracesis where formaing increases the max rank and mod capacity, but without locking MR behind the extra ranks.