Plague Star is the worst

[Fuegan1431]

That Plague Star event was the worst gaming experience I've had in my life.  It's lazy, recycled content with one of the most tedious bosses in the game and its mechanics for fighting it are completely unchanged.  As if the farm on the Plains wasn't bad enough, you're so lazy and bankrupt for ideas that you had to recycle the lame ass Bounties (which is another irritation in how not one of them has a unique bounty of their own).

How can you have the audacity to bring this garbage event again?  You should be ashamed, I would be.

The worst part is that it disguises itself by describing a simple Infested mission so you have newbies who come in with horde clear but then the ultra tedious, Lephanis comes up that you ahve to destroy: FOUR times and DE is so ashamed by this that they hide the fact you have to kill him so many times by giving a percent infested counter on the screen that is a flat out LIE.  It has nothing to do with killing infested, that has nothing to do with the counter, you just fight that uninspired boss four times, that is the only measure to victory.  All the while Vay Hek is repeating the same lines on repeat on a 90 second script like we're playing a cranked out Playstation 1 game or a pre Half-Life 2 game.

Then the rotten cherry on this sewer sandwich is this fight expects you to essentially bring in your Eidolon hunting rifle because DE's damage system is so ineptly made that only 1% of their weapons are even compatible for these bosses.  You have to go in here, no fun mode, just bring your same old crap you always bring in for Plains and GRIND.  Isn't there enough of that in this game?  Why are you making new content if all you can do is made a boring grind?  It. Is. Not. Fun.  If it's not fun then why bother, what are you doing??  You've failed at making a game.  Plains is no fun mode.  The best part about it is if you bring a Zephyr and troll around in the sky, the actual content there is awful.  And never is it more highlighted then playing Plague Star, all that's missing is required mining.

[THeMooN85]

GRIND - get me 73 formas so ❤️

[WorstPlayer]

Haha, I needed this to uplift my day. Good work for amusing me, OP.

[LSG501]

As you've already said it's been here before so unless you needed something why did you spend so much time farming it... I had the intention of farming it for forma but I just couldn't be bothered in the end, think I did it about 10 times, if that, in the end. 

Also don't think you fully understand the percentage counter, that's there for when there isn't a 'hemacyte' element to the mission, you know the one where he doesn't turn up and all you need to do is kill the infested....

As boring and repetitive as it is, it still has the best system in game for rewarding players for their effort, and there will always be newbies who need the weapons/arcanes etc so expect it back '6 monthly' which imo is fine, it's not like ghouls which turn up every other week lol

[Rhyandra]

I couldn't agree more. As much as I need Formas, I simply couldn't take it too much. I farmed a few, the plague zaws, the weapons. Everything about it was annoying as hell.
The toxin cannister that you have to get in the caves > then fly all over the way to the mixer > use tons of resources so you get higher standing > fly to the drone > wait even more for it to arrive > kill the boss 4 times. 

I don't have a problem with the amount of time spent in it, but the way it's designed is just boring as hell.

[Gabbynaru]

Yep, I did an aborted run this time around, then didn't touch it again. Discount Lephantis is not fun at all, DE doesn't respect their own rules with the defense part of the operation, and all the forma in the world is not worth the boredom. If only Discount Lephantis wasn't such a bulletsponge you could mistake it for a Destiny boss (aka, where's the original version), this wouldn't be so bad, but, like this... nah, this operation can be put in a museum of bad game design, for all I care.

[Inquizitor]

There were worse events than plague star, but yes, undeniably it is really terrible and lame design. Only positive thing can be the possibility of grinding standings and then supplying self with the formas or other stuff.

Back then, DE used to add events as sort of introduction to some new content, not a reskinned Lephantis. Defection, Ambulas Reborn is the kind of event that is done correctly (Defection is terrible, annoying gamemode, but it still is somewhat new, same for reworked Ambulas)

[SneakyErvin]

Yeah that darn tedious boss that gets flatlined in a matter of seconds no matter if it is boss #1 or #4.

And it is no wonder you find it tedious when you dont even understand how it works. Do not bring your eidolon hunting weapons, it simply does no good on neither Lephantis himself or this Hemocyte clone of him. You want a fast shooting weapons, a fast shooting weapon with pellets makes it even better.

People complaining here simply have no idea what a proper loadout is.

I ran the previous Plague Star with my Synapse. I ran the recent one with Pyrana Prime. I mixed between the frames, Rhino Prime, Nova Prime, Mag Prime, Oberon Prime and Titania. With Mag and Oberon it was the smoothest because you strip the armor of the Hemocyte and then just blow up the heads in a few shots, it simply doesnt matter what the rest of the group is using since you can carry them just as quickly.

The only thing they need to add is shared mixer contribution, so everyone needs to use a phylaxis/catalyst if one person does, just like it is with Fomorian and Razorback i.e no leeching on other peoples materials.

Absolutley awesome event otherwise because it is actually very rewarding for the time spent.

[Critical]

While the boss fight is far from being fun (immunity stages always suck), Plague Star is far from being the worst thing in the game.

Doing this in a squad has some serious issues with registering damage, "Shattering Impact" not working for Clients & general lag;

 

...but even with all these issues, it's a great event... to solo... for stuff.

 

[000l000]

Avoid other players and skip Lephantis, i've found it funnier that way even if on a 10 min run you spend 5 min running or flying your archwing. I didn't bother much with the final boss cause it makes the run way longer. Do it solo or with friends and you won't have to bother with leechers or whatever.

Globally a uninspired and badly designed event. Repetitive missions with too much fedex objectives make this event really boring. But as usual no one is forced to do it, except from plague zaws rewards are really skippable !

[sv650racer]

If you don't like the event then don't play it; very simple. 

I farm it a few times a day then go do something else, no complaints form me. 

 

[Fuegan1431]

I see that everyone defending this event is only really doing so based around the rewards that can be farmed from it and not the actual content being enjoyable.  I'm sorry to say but you've been trained to grind, my friend.  I don't care if I get 10 nano-spores or a legendary core per run.  It. Is. Not. Fun.  Clearly no one gave them that feedback the first time if they brought it back in this state.  We can hope DE learns from this event on how to change their rewards in the future but the fact that it plays the way it does shows me they think the way this plays is okay and to me, it's not.

Edited September 30, 2018 by Fuegan1431

[Critical]

Warframe is all about grinding, it's a loot shooter - you either like it and play the game, or you play different kinds of games.

There's plenty of content in the game thatI don't enjoy, nor find any fun, yet I do it anyway, since the 'fun' comes from the rewards those grinds sometimes provide. I don't find a single boss encounter in the entire game as "fun" (only their personalities), they all royally suck as invincibility states is a (as Vay Hek puts it) feculent mechanic (and the Sergeant is a joke). Pointlessly long Defense missions, especially in PoE, that drag out for the sake of the almighty timer are pathetic as well. There are plenty of other examples like that, but my point was that Plague Star is not "the worst" offender in that list, as despite having both defense & escort parts, it offers guaranteed rewards that even the vast majority of MR25s can still utilize elsewhere & have their fun there.

Edited September 30, 2018 by Critical

[LSG501]

1 hour ago, Fuegan1431 said:

I see that everyone defending this event is only really doing so based around the rewards that can be farmed from it and not the actual content being enjoyable.  I'm sorry to say but you've been trained to grind, my friend.  I don't care if I get 10 nano-spores or a legendary core per run.  It. Is. Not. Fun. 

The point most of us have made is that the rewards, which as I said has the best system in game (you can grind as little or as much as you want basically), are worth the 'grind' for many, which arguably means doing plague star is more fun than getting them the 'normal' way. 

Personally I see no reason to complain over it, unless you actually needed something from it, in which case you likely didn't do it last time or the time before (ie newbies or people on holiday), means you only have to do it if you want to, nothing is forcing you to do it again....

1 hour ago, Fuegan1431 said:

Clearly no one gave them that feedback the first time if they brought it back in this state.  We can hope DE learns from this event on how to change their rewards in the future but the fact that it plays the way it does shows me they think the way this plays is okay and to me, it's not. 

Um... must be new because there was a LOT of feedback about it the first 2 times....the only change was basically a nerf to the 'quick way' to kill it from the first time.