Suggestion: Helminth "Umbral Strain" (Post-The Sacrifice)

[CarstairsTV]

I've been thinking about a way to add the benefits of Excalibur Umbra to other frames since The Sacrifice came out but I ended up taking a break from the game and only recently came back. Since The Sacrifice was the first time they talked about Helminth in a very long time, this may be the perfect way to implement Umbra with all current frames without needing to make new versions. Just keep Excalibur Umbra as the poor man's Excalibur Prime and move on to better things. For anyone who has finished The Sacrifice, let them enter the Helminth room with Umbra and extract an "Umbral strain", which we can then inject into our other frames, preferably only Prime frames and frames that do not currently have a Prime version. Once a Prime gets released, send out a message to everyone with The Sacrifice done telling them that the strain has been rendered inert in that particular normal frame. This strain could give every frame the ability to move like a specter while using Transference and maybe give the option to put an Umbral forma on each frame you inject the strain into.

[Podge]

i dont think it should give them the ability to move during transference, because that isnt related to the virus used to create excal umbra, but rather that excal umbra was an actual person, with his own consciousness before he became a warframe. also giving a free umbra forma to every frame somewhat defeats the point of the umbra forma as a reward, cause theyre really difficult to get normally.

[CarstairsTV]

Well it has been hinted for a long time now that all Warframes use a human surrogate (the Warframe Cryopods that contain human subjects and the bed in the back of the Helminth infirmary), and while the free Umbra Forma would benefit a lot of frames, there are many that would not benefit from any Umbral mod, and many others that still require two Umbral Forma for their most powerful builds. This would also allow those of us who are melee fanatics (such as me), to add Umbral polarities to melee weapons with our Umbral Forma, since we wouldn't need to use them all on our frames. I personally have a Zaw dagger that I would like to put an Umbral Forma on, since I am missing 8 points to install the build I really want, but Umbral Forma are way too valuable to use on a Zaw at the moment. With inevitably stronger and higher capacity mods coming in the future, the need for two Umbral polarities is more common, so the free Umbral polarity from Helminth would be a huge help. I would also like there to be some sort of cost to injecting a Warframe with an Umbral strain, but I did not suggest anything as I am not good at balancing an in-game economy. This would prevent every person from injecting every single one of their Warframes, at least at first, and it would give an alternative method to maxing our favorite Warframes and melee weapons.

Edited July 29, 2019 by Cephalon_Carstairs

[DeathDweller]

1 personally i'm full and bored by the amount of frames we already have and those that come out every now and then.

2 The reason that Umbra moves on his is that Ballas wanted him to, by leaving him a bit of consciousness through reliving his memory.There is no strain.

3 If they did plan to make more frames like him should be Mag and Volt with different names than Umbra obv and end it there.

4 With the release of Umbral Formas there's no even a point to do so.