[Derelict Revised Proposal]

This is really just a thought but it's a way to make Derelicts viable again and start bringing in some of these disparate islands of systems that exist today. One of my most fondest memories of Warframe is getting a team together to do a Vault Run. It was the most difficult at the time things in the game. Being the one to find the vault and having the right key in hand felt amazing. Now the Derelicts, how they are setup now, you can just run a solo capture put on all 4 vault keys and get it done in 2 minutes. A forgotten relic, but I believe could be with a few changes just something amazing again.

Main Proposal:

My proposal is to make the Delicts more of a cohesive dungeon experience. Bring all 8 Derelict nodes together into one node. Just name it a Orokin Derelict Mission. Consolidate all keys into 1 and add a queueing system so that you can actually have match making. Each current mission type would be set randomly as a string of 5 "Levels" with Assassination always as the end Level. You must complete the objective of each Level before the "door" to the next level is opened. 

For example you would start a Derelict Mission and for that mission you would get the following string of Levels: Survival as the Level 1 objective, Capture as the Level 2 objective, Sabotage as the Level 3 objective, Mobile Defense as the Level 4 objective, and Assassinate at Level 5. For the next run you could possibly get the following string: Capture as the Level 1 objective, Defense as the Level 2 objective, Exterminate as the Level 3 objective, Survival as the Level 4 objective, and Assassinate at Level 5. The objective types do not repeat. One of the 5 Levels of the Derelict ship will have an Orokin Vault. The Dungeon crawl would be meant to be a 40 - 45 minute experience.

Twists and Turns:

Mod Slots Temporarily Disabled:

When you first arrive to a Derelict ship you are hit with an Infested Mind-Flayers mod slot scramble. The infested have inactivated your Warframe mod slots except for Auras and Exilus slots for a total of 8 blocked slots. On each of the first 4 Levels 2 Mind-Flayers would be hidden that control of one of the 8 slots. Killing (Parazon Kill) them would unlock a blocked slot. So you start weak, but as you continue thru the Derelict you get stronger. Mind-Flayers influence the Warframe's Infested Flesh to effect the Warframe mod slots. Your Weapon Slots are unaffected.

Vault Keys:

Vault Keys should stay exactly the same. It's up to the players to see if they want to add that to the difficulty madness or not.

Arcane Revivals Only:

Your standard 4 revivals don't work on the Derelict ship(Infested influence is too strong), but Arcane Revivals do. Having a few high MR team mates with 2x Rank 3 Arcanes would be a god send.

The Randoms:

Void Fissures:

At a random interval the Derelict ship will get hit by a Void Storm and Void Fissures will be active for that time period (total of 4 times per mission) load up your 4 relics (1x Lith, 1x Meso, 1x Neo, 1x Axi) before the start of the mission (optional).

Thrall Invasion:

While it would be cool if your Lich showed up I think it would be kinda overkill. I would really like to leave the Lich system to extend over to Railjack as shown before by DE. I really liked that. But what I would propose is that your Lich sends a squad of Lich Thralls at random if a player has an active Kuva Lich. Kuva and murmurs as a reword for killing them. The higher rank Lich stronger the thralls and the greater the Kuva reward.

4th Level Mini-Boss:

At the end of Level 4 at random one of the current field bosses will spawn and must be vanquished before you can move on to the Assassinate level. I would include all current Field Bosses. That's Shadow Stalker, Zenuka Hunter, Leekter from the G3, Shik Tal from the G3, Vem Tabook from the G3, Ven'kra Tel, Sprag, World of Saturn Six, Angst, Malace, Mania, Torment, Violence, and Corrupted Vor. Leave Juggernaut as an optional mini-boss the way it is now. Up to the team to take it on or not. I would also upgrade the field bosses to make them susceptible to status like Kuva Lich are now and also make them a bit more tanky where needed. I wouldn't include any of the planet bosses, but I would make it so that defeating one of the planet bosses increases the likely hood of a specific field boss to spawn(Like when Stalker sends you an email now).

Rewards:

Rewards are super tricky but for me along with all the mods I would say you add an arcane as a reward at the end along with items to use to convert for focus points along with Lenses. Maybe revamp the Lens system to make it more upgrade based instead of replace based.  Make it 20 Ranks of Focus Lens Rank with the dungeon crawl reward dropping items that increase your Len's Rank. Also maybe that item that makes your Warframe act on It's own like Umbra for 24 hours when you switch to operator mode. That sounded cool without the 24 hour thing. Maybe having a Rank 20 Lens does that automatically for your Warframe as long as that Rank 20 Lens is installed on your Warframe.  Would be something to work towards for all of your favorite Warframes.

Would be cool to bring all these mechanics together and make Derelict ships fun again. I have some fond memories of my old derelict runs.  MAKE DERELICTS GREAT AGAIN!! 🙃

Thanks for reading!

[Nightwave + alerts removal feedback]

I had a really good time doing the 60 minute survival challenge. Clan members were busy so I went on Recruiting Channel got a few players "friended" them. Then set off to do the kuva challenge one. 2 birds with one stone. At the 60 minute mark we hauled butt right out not sure we were really equipped to go further.  The only issue I had with the survival missions were that there were 2 at the same time. Really limits player choice on how to complete it. Forced to friend and forced to do Kuva specifically or you would be waisting time.

[Content Drought & Ideas For Improvement]

Starchart: It would be great to see the starchart flipped so that you can run it again after 100% completion, but this time around Earth starts at level 60 and each planet gets harder from their. Setup a unique reward per planet completion that makes it worth it. Would give a lot of content to people to complete without major effort. Nintendo has been doing this in most of their games for decades.