Heart of Deimos: Update 29

[Ynkubus]

So far this update is looking stable and great with the only issues I've encountered so far being tied to the intor quest, such as Loid not properly showing us to the Vault behind the wall and the Omni-tool in the quest not being accessible despite it being a requirement for the current mission, halting progression.

*Leaving and restarting the quest steps mentioned seems to fix it for now, hopefully a hotfix will soon correct things.

[Testament94]

You know "trumna" it is Polish word for Coffin

[Nyrakav]

Glad to see you completely ignored all the feedback on the helminth system changes, way to go DE!

[RizzRustbolt]

I'm just past Brother's first appearance, and I'm pretty sure I've figured out the "twist" as it were.

[Thiadon]

Reiterating my comment from here:

https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1212921-the-helminth-dev-workshop/page/183/?tab=comments#comment-11776950

Please do not nerf abilities. We can only equip 1 per frame, and only 1 damage increase per frame, that's restriction enough to maintain balance. The reason why those abilities will be popular is that they bridge gaps in current kits for many frames, making those frames usable and competitive with the top tier frames. Just leave them as is. If you want other abilities to be more competitive, choose some of the better abilities from other frames, and boost the abilities so they are more competitive. For example:

Revenant: Give mesmer skin instead of reave.

Nova: Make it possible to recast Null Star to refresh orbs.

Then, you have 4 very good options to choose for defensive abilities, each work slightly differently. On high strength builds, you'd go for Null Star, low strength, mesmer skin. High armor, Defy or Elemental Ward.

Full list of such suggested changes below:

On 2020-08-12 at 1:27 PM, [DE]Rebecca said:

WARFRAME	ABILITY	AUGMENT	Thiadon NOTES
Ash	Shuriken	Seeking Shuriken	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Atlas	Petrify	Ore Gaze	We will not create Rubble, however, we will increase base cone area to 180 degrees, adding range can increase it to 360 degrees. This increase should also be for the base ability.
Banshee	Sonar		As with other damage increasing abilities, this will replace Roar, etc. on frames that have them.
Baruuk	Lull	Endless Lullaby	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Chroma	Elemental Ward	Everlasting Ward	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Ember	Fire Blast	Healing Flame	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Equinox	Rest & Rage	Calm & Frenzy	We will use Rest or Rage depending on your Energy Colour. This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Excalibur	Radial Blind	Radiant Finish	This is probably the best option for Excalibur's existing kit, maybe increase duration.
Frost	Ice Wave	Ice Wave Impede	Change ice wave to be a 360 degree aoe that does a percentage of enemy's health per tick, affected by strength, and creates a lasting frozen area which can freeze enemies walking on it over time.
Gara	Splinter storm		Gives an additional damage reduction option, Spectrorage will not get used without Gara's other synergies.
Garuda	Blood Altar	n/a	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Gauss	Thermal Sunder	n/a	Change Thermal Sunder to be a percentage of enemy health, affected by strength.
Grendel	Nourish	n/a	Keeps the heal and give Nourish Strike only. This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Harrow	Penance		Comparable to Warcry, give us Penance instead.
Hildryn	Pillage	Blazing Pillage	Drains 50 Energy instead of 50 Shield. This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Hydroid	Tempest Barrage	Corroding Barrage	Change from corrosive to an armor stripping effect that can reach 100% (like Ash Shuriken) with enough power strength.
Inaros	Desiccation	Desiccation’s Curse	This is a good ability, people may not realize. Maybe increase the base damage and health drain a bit.
Ivara	Quiver	Empowered Quiver	Give the full ability or give us Prowl.
Khora	Ensnare	n/a	This is probably the best option. Increase radius and duration significantly.
Limbo	Banish	Rift Haven	Base Ability Change: Add ‘Cancel ability on Hold’ to let enemies out of Rift. Additional change to make the ability do damage as a percent of enemy health, which scales with power strength.
Loki	Radial Disarm		Loki's kit needs a serious rework. He has not aged well. Radial disarm is the only usable ability, on top of giving us that ability, make it also increases damage to enemies affected.
Mag	Pull	Greedy Pull	This is a good ability, people may not realize. Boost radius.
Mesa	Shooting Gallery	Muzzle Flash	This is a good ability, people may not realize. Needs a bit of a boost to the effect and the duration to make it competitive.
Mirage	Eclipse	Total Eclipse	As is, no nerf required.
Nekros	Terrify	Creeping Terrify	This is probably the best choice from Nekros's kit. Increase armor reduction to be able to reach 100% at 300% power strength.
Nezha	Fire Walker	Pyroclastic Flow	Change damage to be a percentage of enemy health, scaling with power strength.
Nidus	Larva	Larva Burst	As is, no nerf required.
Nova	Null Star	Neutron Star	Make it possible to recast Null Star to refresh orbs.
Nyx	Psychic Bolts		Psychic Bolts would have been a better choice.
Oberon	Smite	Smite Infusion	This is a good ability, people may not realize. Needs an increase to the % of health damage though.
Octavia	Resonator		Metronome would be a better choice, either that or change resonator to do a % of enemy health, increasing with the number of enemies charmed.
Protea	Dispensary	n/a	As is, no nerf required.
Revenant	Mesmer Skin		Give mesmer skin as mentioned above.
Rhino	Roar	Piercing Roar	As is, no nerf required.
Saryn	Molt	Regen Molt	Double or triple base radius, make it do a percentage of enemy health, multiplying by the number of enemies distracted. Or give Toxic lash.
Titania	Spellbind	Spellbound Harvest	This is a good ability, people may not realize. Needs a significantly increased radius.
Trinity	Well Of Life	Pool of Life	Base Ability Buffed - Now does small amount of heal over time over a large range. If you hit the enemy, a % of the damage dealt gets converted into AoE heal. This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Valkyr	Warcry	Eternal War	As is, no nerf required.
Vauban	Tesla Nervos	Tesla Bank	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Volt	Speed		Speed is the Volt equivalent to Warcry.
Wisp	Breach Surge	n/a	This is a good ability, people may not realize.
Wukong	Defy	n/a	As is, no nerf required. Giving cloud walker would also be an alternative option, as much as I would hate to lose the exclusivity as a Wukong main.
Xaku	Xata’s Whisper	n/a	Can't comment.
Zephyr	Airburst	n/a	Base Ability Buffed - now has a HOLD or TAP functionality. HOLD to receive original functionality. TAP to suck enemies in a wind Vortex. Change ability to do a percent of enemy health, scaling with power strength.

 

And that's it. Now pretty much every ability is an attractive option, and can really help out those frames whose kits are lacking in one area or another. As for the rest, I'm MR24 and don't care when people can access Helminth.

 

[kiritochan18]

Stuck at "CHECKING FOR NEW CONTENT" for almost an hour now! ☹️



Any fix for this?

[V-it-O]

Fix this...

[Azrubel]

Thanks for the hard work, team, love y'all

[JacquesCartier]

So now I cannot even update. Same checking new content step ...

Fail ...

 

[lhardy]

In the first necramech mission, I can't get the last ground resources and then, when I finish the mission, I realize that all the resources I should have got, nothing.

 

[Chroia]

Not gonna talk about the Deimos stuff yet, since, ya know, still downloading.

I really like the Synd rep medallions.
You're still incentivised to log in daily to redeem them, but now you're no longer 'punished' for actually having a day with a bunch of time.

 

1 hour ago, [DE]Rebecca said:

NEW INFESTED ENEMY MOD SETS: 

> Carapase:
60% armor, yeah, okay. Half-ish of a Steel Fiber.
90% health?
What's your use-case for these? Which frames do you expect to use it? Or is that intended as a cost for the set bonus?

1 hour ago, [DE]Rebecca said:

Set Bonus (when all equipped): Lifted enemies explode on death dealing 30% Enemy Max Health as Impact Damage in a 6m radius. 

Ooh, a reason to use Lifted status.
Would still like Lifted enemies to be a bit less floaty, a bit heavier/more static though.

1 hour ago, [DE]Rebecca said:

Set Bonus (when all equipped): Heavy Slam attacks manifest tendrils that skewer enemies within 10m, dealing 75 Puncture Damage and stunning them for 3s. Cooldown: 6s.

So, Airslam incentive for standstill (non-Bloodrush/Weeping Wounds) builds?
Argueably a bit of CC for gun users, except that to heavy slam you need to be holding the weapon. Kinda awkward, but alright.

1 hour ago, [DE]Rebecca said:

Set Bonus (when all equipped): Killing an enemy with a Heavy Attack grants 30% Evasion and immunity to Status Effects for 6s. 

First blush reaction: O_O
We'll see how it works in practice.

I'm assuming that these sets are intended to be used together - or so it looks to me.

Also, having dual-stat IPS mods is nice esp now that IPS is no longer x4 proc weight - but you do realize that, unless they scale off total weapon damage, same as the elemental mods do, they're 90% effective, at best.

Helminth:
Still no word on cooldowns on the Helminth abilities (though I guess we'll see those when we get the abilities),
Still no word on cross-ability augments, i.e. Blazing Pillage (Haven + Pillage) and Tribunal (Condemn + Penance, Thurible) - I'm assuming no effect.
Still no word on gauge abilities, i.e. Thermal Sunder, Fire Blast. I'm assuming no effect, but very much hope the UI at least will be informative.

The K-Drive changes look good.
The K-Drive mods look potentially interesting - will have to see how they are in practice.

I appreciate the daily cap changes.
They don't help me much, but will make life significantly easier for newer players.

Prime weapon mods, a.k.a. Prime weapon augments. Alright.
Since you're touching weapon augments, please take a look at Twin Basolk's Rift Strike?

[Tristepin20]

il y a 10 minutes, kiritochan18 a dit :

Stuck at "CHECKING FOR NEW CONTENT" for almost an hour now! ☹️



Any fix for this?

Same thing unfortunetely 😕 

[lhardy]

There's a bug related with boosters. While in deimos mission, top-right corner you can see that icon in fron of health bar, please fix that.

[Karl0vich]

Deimos looks great. Thanks for the update!

However... I am currently stuck on the 'Enter the Vault" Nechramech section. A door simply will not open. Reloaded the whole mission twice now.

[M4T2E]

@[DE]Megan
There where some new challenges introduced with this update and they are not available as steam achievements.
Will they be added as steam achievements and if yes, are they unlocked retroactive?
I just want to avoid the problems like with the "Joyride" challenge, where I had to use another warframe account just to unlock it in steam because I had the challenge already unlocked in-game before the steam achievements were added.

[supernils]

42 minutes ago, [DE]Rebecca said:

You will be able to shoot from the back of a Velocipod, just like any other K-Drive!

finally!

[b4timert]

download stops at 249.5mb

[ExplosiveBolts]

Yo, do we really have to #*!%ing do the conservation minigame in order to increase Entrati rank? That's pretty #*!%ing wack. Ranking up should be tied to standing like the other planets.

[ZarTham]

Stuck in solo mode, twice.

[Amen1]

сломалась карта вселенной...

[lhardy]

hace 9 minutos, ZarTham dijo:

Stuck in solo mode, twice.

You need to go to the vault and talk with Loid. The problem there is that the game show the next step instead of the one you are right now (that is a bug but not the worst one)

 

The bonus part was bug for my group.

[-Miqu-]

"customization system for very experienced Warframe players (Mastery Rank 8 Prerequisite)" DE most people that are into hard warframe remember that you said most active players are around 10-15 mastery rank and that is NO WHERE NEAR "EXPERIENCED" player level.

[lhardy]

Bonus mission is bugged. Even if we tried to make the correct sequence, It fails always.

 

 

Could you make that all the lobby is available to finish the mission? It has no sense that only the centre part is available to finish the mission and the rest of the lobby isn't count.

 

 

Bug with Helios DEAD.... my helios has shield but no health, It seems dead cause it doesn't use the vacuum, but the UI is bugged.

[Ixxolos]

Make the mods/credits able to be picked up while in the Mech when doing the "Meet" missions for Heart of Deimos. Nothing infuriates a Tenno more than getting gold mod drops you canni collect...

[IamLoco]

1. I am not an english speaker and AGAIN your wording makes it absolutely impossible for me to follow your story. I have NO IDEA what the story is about. Do I need a #*!%ing dictonary, even though my english is certainly above average?!?!? Could you maybe use common english?! Like other studios do?

2. The fight for the heart bugged out 2 times, I had to cancel and start again. And even then it was very, very clumsy.

3. The "final fight" with the mech was completely random. I had NO IDEA what to do. After 5 tries I just spammed my 1-4 and somehow defeated him. That´s not a good game design. Giive us a hint what to do!

Guess it´s again a rough start.

EDIT: Does the "daughter" really need to wear glasses? I mean...that´s totally out of style and design. Seriously. It´s not funny, it´s just misplaced.