I am currently MR L3 and I have been playing other games in the last 6 months. However, I decided to check the new update and... I love it! I have been a huge fan of the melee system before Tennokai, but now it's amazing.
1. POSITIVE: The new archon shards open the possibility for new builds that can be useful against different factions.
NEGATIVE: However, it is very inconvenient to constantly change shards depending on what build you want to play. And if you want to avoid changing builds, you have to craft multiple copies of the same warframe, level them all, format them and build them. The current system won't incentivize me either to build several copies of the same frame or to change archon shards once I have a particular build.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Can we have the option to buy additional loadouts for the archon shards as is the case for warframes and mods?
When I started this game 2 years ago, there was solid content for at least 1-1.5 years of gameplay. That was without Zariman and Duviri. Imagine what a new player, who is just starting now, will be facing... Limiting build experimentation in this way will also limit the experience for new players who would have enjoyed playing in a particular style, but didn't manage to get that far into the game to craft multiple copies of the same frame, get into the helminth system, gather resources, manage helminth feeding properly (because you can't just feed it the same resources over and over again in the same day) etc.
Thanks.
The game will crash if you equip Dread, Despair, and Hate simultaneously and try to enter a mission. Happens 100% of the time. You can't even load the mission. I am curious to find out if other players managed to enter a mission with all 3 weapons equipped at the same time.