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Rebecca Ford, aka Space Mom, did an interview with NPR's Planet Money staff, to talk about Digital Extremes, video games, live services, and Warframe. I felt some folks here might want to take a listen to it. It's about 9 to 11 minutes long. And yes, it was on the radio when I was driving home yesterday. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1197963994/indicator-from-planet-money-live-service-games-warframe Feel free to discuss it here.

Lots of Auto-Melee fixes in Dante's update. Still no Auto-Trigger options yet. Hope everyone has a good Easter, and don't forget to get your bunny ears accessories in a few days.

Thank you, DE. -- Dante Unbound Patch Notes:

Thank you for adding riven transmuters to Loid's store. Because this got asked by myself a while back. Thank you.

It's almost Easter time. No sign of auto-trigger options coming. Have fun into the random auto-melee getting stuck where I'll keep melee'ing constantly, till I do something to break out of the combo like using a power or swapping to Operator or something. Not sure which exactly. Just know it happens once in a while. And that makes me wonder if that's why we haven't seen any Auto-Trigger discussed, if the Auto-Melee is still being at issue. Speaking of Auto-Melee, the Pistol+Glaive combo really doesn't seem very fun to use like it used to be, with the new Auto-melee. Not sure why, but maybe it has more to do with not being able to use heavy attacks well when you wield pistol+glaive. I don't know. Something feels off, and the damage lackluster. So yeah, sorry for being away, but I've mostly been waiting for some fixes to come to Warframe, and I just have been playing less in general. I think last week I had maybe 5 or 6 total missions completed. Eh, anyways, I'm still here. Waiting.

It seems to have fixed itself now. I have no idea what's going on with DE's content servers. Please hit them with the pokey stick, DE. Thanks.

Was having issues with losing connection on Warframe. Had one crash where it just hung up. Now my game is stuck sitting on CHECKING FOR UPDATES... and not progressing. I even uninstalled the game from Steam to see if that would fix it. Not sure what else to do. I even went on the gear icon on the launcher and turned off stuff like Bulk Download, Aggressive Download, and whatever else seemed to be associated with downloading the game. Never seen it have this problem before. Other games work fine. Is it just Warframe's servers just being bad or what? PS: Well, after a few minutes, it got to the Downloading Updates. But it seems to be stuck, displaying 494.0 KB right now. Gunna give it some more time to see if it actually downloads stuff instead of just sitting there. PPS: Okay, it's finally finished downloading a few things. Now it's verify the cache. I got no idea why the game decided to freak out tonight of all days. Probably because I was having a bad day.

Wow, I wasn't aware that asking for a single Riven Transmuter, that can only be earned from a single Tridylon, that you can't even purchase from folks who DO farm the Tridylons... that was a bridge too far for you. Because having a Quality-of-Life item stuck behind a single location is gunna make folks REALLY want to do the content. Oh sure, you can sell those Arcanes, but hey, if you want to be able to manage your Riven quantity because you got a bunch of bad ones you don't need, you better capture the Hydrolyst. You don't have to make strawmen and then make them go bobsledding down your slippery slope argument like a Warframe version of the movie Cool Running. If I could buy said items like Arcanes from other players, I'd LOVE to do that, but I can't. And that's why I asked for another way.

Accessibility Updates? Folks have been asking for a toggle for auto-melee. Any chance that could happen? Also, any word on doing the same for auto-triggers so folks don't have to spam clicks for guns? Can we get Riven Transmuters in places other than JUST the hydrolyst? Nightwave would be a great place for folks to get a few, since you can't buy them from Tridylon sellers, forcing folks who don't want to do fight the 3 just to get a QoL item? You know... just asking for the community.

Except that's exactly what DE told Baker TV that was the reason behind his ban from the game. Either way, just because it MIGHT not be punishable by DE, hell, even if the issue was 100% not punishable by DE, the fact that there is no support for these sorts of modifications on console is going to leave out a large portion of the Warframe populous from being able to use semi-auto weapons comfortably in an accessibility way. DE has shown they can make these sorts of changes as they did with Auto-Melee. There's no reason they can't do the same for Auto-Trigger. DE does that, and no one risks being banned because they would never have a need to use an external program and/or macro. In the end, I'd rather avoid a possible landmine than to step on said space a few times to find out if it's actually a landmine.

It's February, and I didn't see the shadow of Auto-Trigger during the last Dev Stream. That means 6 more Prime Times before Spring. But anyways, I figured I'd bring up something, because I know around here it's been said "Oh, DE won't ban you for using macros". That's not 100% true. What they actually said is here: ...there are other factors involved in receive a ban due to the use of AutoHotKey.exe, including a review of multiple stats on the account in question. Should you receive a ban that you feel is not warranted, please submit a support ticket and we’ll be sure to review the circumstances regarding your ban as soon as possible. So, you might have a macro that can work on your mouse to help you shoot quickly, but it's okay... unless DE decides it's not okay. You know what's easier? Just giving players the option to user Auto-Trigger for both Melee and Ranged weapons. Give players a switch under accessibility. Not only will players NOT be forced to use an outside program that might or might not get them banned, but it helps people with accessibility requirements. Plus, it's not like DE hasn't banned a content creator for doing this very thing recently, and not just because he managed to go 95 hours in an Endurance Steel Run. Just asking for DE to fix this issue so it's not an issue so they can make a nice new PSA about how macros are actually bad or something. Because right now, it's a coin flip. And I can't tell others what to do till DE gives some clarity to the whole deal. Yes, maybe I could make a macro to help me play the game without pain, but then I'm subjecting myself to possible bans because DE said "we'll review the ban if you feel it's not warranted". That isn't exactly making me go "Why sure, let me get those macros loaded up!"

But will you be able to play Crysis 1 on Ultra settings with only that much ram?

Happy New Year. Almost 4 months away from this thread turning 2 years old. Melee has auto; accessibility has been getting some focus with visual options; still no auto-trigger for semi-auto weapons (especially ones with high RoF). Melee should have the option to choose to use Auto-Melee though, in the Accessibility option, but it doesn't currently happen. Hopefully we'll see some new changes in stuff in the new year.

Necraloid is just the use of the word "Necra" and "Loid". Considering that Entrati equipment all have the prefex of "Necra" in it, it would make sense that if they wanted to, they could make more Necraloid sentinel parts (called Loid Sentinel Skin, Mask, Wings, and Tail), which they sell to us for our own Sentinels. And yes, getting "Glassed" to varying degrees makes Cephalons. I didn't want to spoil that part, but since it seems that I can't do anything in this thread to keep it focused on the ACTUAL content, sure we can talk. Anyways, folks like Cephalon Suda elected to have herself turned into an AI, whereas some like Ordis had it forced upon them. How much they remember of their original lives is part of the "getting their brain all cleaned". Obviously, folks like Nihil, he remembered more than others, since well, he could control how much of his brain got "cleaned" during the process. Obviously the Loid Cephalon is in a Necra Loid Sentinel. The REAL question is... Since Cephalons are made in a process that is quite destructive to the original being, yet Loid Prime is okay... how did Albert Entrati make a clone mind of Loid to stuff into a Cephalon to stuff into a Sentinel body. Also, the CINTA bow. Those parts totally could be part of the Duviri faction and would allow folks to not have to farm. Not sure I mentioned that before but maybe I did.

Not that this is a lore-based feedback post but... hell, I'll mention my view on Cephalons and Necraloids. Cephalons are AIs made from folks who get their brain all cleaned and stuffed into some computer parts. Necraloids like Loid (not-original) are moving bodies that can house an AI and act like a physical and non-physical assistant. Loid the Necraloid has a copy of Loid installed in the shell as well as Otak, sort of crammed into one case. So like the updated Ordis seen in The New War, the Necraloid is just a fancy name for a moving shell, specifically the ones made by the Entrati family, where as Ordis' sentinel design was probably an actual type of sentinel with the Cephalon part wired into it. In the end, it's just a fancy title for an AI that's got a physical form. Also, speaking of buying mods... I'd be down for Little Duck selling a copy of Sabot Rounds for Archguns because I've had horrible luck getting that mod to drop as well from bounties. Again, more things could be added to give folks stuff to spend their rep on.