(PSN)palebluelight

Hello, I wanted to disclaim I’m an avid destiny player but I got my start in Warframe over 5 years ago. I’ve been through a lot of the changes some good really good others not so much but one of those that wasn’t so good after many breaks and lulls of not playing I hope would get looked at and that’s the gunplay. Overall in my opinion none of the guns in Warframe actually feel good to use as in there’s no ability synergy or loop that a gun adds to. A while back the the team decided to nerf ammo economy overall I think this was dumb change because it wasn’t necessarily effective in anything but for narrowing the pool of viable weapons. A good example is since these changes I haven’t used anything that has a low pool of ammo like the proboscis cernos or even the acceltra prime it’s pointless because ammo is so sparse. In my opinion weapons should’ve been family tuned or specifically tuned rather than blanket nerfs. There is no mitigating the ammo changes for some weapons and the game is worse for it. I’ve only used battery weapons like kitguns or weapons with ammo mechanics. But the issue is that at base level most weapons aren’t fun to shoot. For example base phenmor is a terrible gun no one would really want to use it that state. Things like “scout rifles” or “snipers” feel terrible in this game. The game has evolved in a direction where single target weapons don’t just feel terrible to sight up and shoot they’re a liability in the horde style combat in Warframe. But to get back to sighting up and shooting I want to point out incarnons. Overall grineer have teeny tiny headshot hit boxes and as warframe doesnt have any of the gunplay special sauce that destiny does its a chore to put it lightly to use incarnons with a controller in hand amongst the hordes and overall fast paced combat in the game. Some like the boar prime fare well enough but weapons like the laetum and phenmor feel like garbage to use for the majority of the time you have then equipped. In a game where you can affect the speed of mobs and teleport across the map you really want me to stop all of that to use this peeshooter that spits out one bullet to get it to evolve for 5 seconds. In my opinion Incarnons only really surfaced the lack of console controller design in gunplay and although itd be nice if we could all click individual pixels of some random mobs head some of us simply cannot. There is no magnetism or useable zoom when sighting the lack of iteration on gunplay over the years just really makes playing for more than once a week a chore because the lack of fun weapon/ability synergy. Incarnons only being operated through precision hits is the worst choice you could have made. It even violates the reasoning de uses for nerfing things which is if something becomes the only way to play its a problem. Precision shots in a poorly developed gunplay situation is not a good thing. Warframe used to be my main game but I just cant anymore I always get to a point where I feel like my guns just suck to use and the direction the studio is going in with incarnons are just way too uninspiring. It used to be fun to shoot proboscis cernos to navigate the rhythm of fully pulling it but now because it has no reserves and just shooting a gaze or vermisplicer in the direction if mobs is easier than running out of ammo having to use a secondary until you randomly find 2 arrows which in combat is inconsequential. Mitigating your ammo changes just isn't worth it. Guns need love they need to be fun to play to aim and shoot please consider revert the bad ammo changes and giving gunplay especially for controller a serious pass.

The viral damage nerfs go way too far. Nerfing for popularity is the worst type of nerf possible it doesn’t perform out of any ordinary Warframe ability loop. Completely unnecessary. I’m a vet have everything this just kills motivation to play. These are the worst kind of nerfs because it’s just devs looking for something as opposed to something being exploited.

Got to say I’m pretty sick of these garbage tier challenges and literally I’ve opened 30+ rivens to view the challenges and 26 were headshot related. It’s just beyond infuriating to get dupe after dupe and you can only open one at a time it’s just a terrible experience. Console precision shooting sucks it’s slow and tedious the gunplay needs work but the regularity of these challenges need to be nerfed into the ground it makes me turn the game off with the constant dupes of these kind of challenges. Take them out of the game most boring thing I’ve wasted my time on in Warframe.