Deimos and Quest First Impressions

[DeltaPangaea]

Okay so HERE WE GO. Time for Delta to rev up the COMPLAINING ENGINES once more.

Except not entirely. But what I do have to complain about got me REAL MAD, so I think it works out. I've only just finished the main Deimos intro quest, so keep that in mind thus far.

 

First off, a good thing! The Vallis runs like garbage on my computer. That's not it, incidentally, but is contrast to Deimos running pretty good! It doesn't take seven thousand years to load in or out of the base, and after loading into the open world it doesn't take several minutes for the game to stop stuttering like a dork on prom night, like Vallis does. So that's nice! Here's hoping it also doesn't tank performance until I restart the game like Vallis too. Fingers crossed.

I was a little bit disappointed when our 'infested allies' just turned out to be more goddamn Orokin nerds with infested flowers for asses, but you know. That's fine, what's a warframe update without disappointment?

Necramechs are kinda cool, what I've seen of them. Deimos as a replacement for the Derelict was a surprise, but not unwelcome.

 

Now for things I'm not happy about. People have made much ado about how much they DETEST compulsory conservation, and while I haven't tried to do any of it myself yet I'm really not happy about that either, but moving on.

The Necramech you fight in the heart chamber? That can go #*!% itself right the pissing blimey off, and is what aggravated me enough to come out here to the forums to complain. DE, you NEED to figure out how to make bosses because with the new Jackal and this it feels like it's only getting worse and worse and worse. Do you want to know what those little grey zeroes mean to YOUR ENTIRE PLAYERBASE? If you shoot something and get them, YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. It means you're hitting an arbitrary invulnerability spot, or they're in an entire invuln phase, it DOES NOT mean 'Just keep shooting them, it'll work eventually.' Pay attention to what your feedback teaches your goddamn players and don't just give a boss goddamn Iron Skin and expect us to know that THESE grey zeroes are different to the grey zeroes that exist on pretty much every other goddamn boss in the game.

Oh, and that's not enough, it also has arbitrary weakpoints. Except they aren't weakpoints, those are for pleb enemies, bosses get 'you're allowed to do damage' points. Shooting a Necramech in 90% of its body does nothing, getting you more of those joyous little grey zeroes. Their arms take damage to the health bar, oh that's nice! Then they fall off. And you can't do S#&$. Until they put them back on when they get around to it, then you can again. Oh but apparently the real weakpoint is on the BACK.

The BACK of the enemy that is CONSTANTLY TURNING TO FACE YOU.

And the worst bit is we had Father on the line! The dude we've met and is established as the Necramech guy! He references Metal Gear Solid when you die (And decent odds you will die at least once, oh and then revive for free because nobody would get past the Mission if you didn't, why even give it health?). It would have been the easiest thing in the world to have him say like 'Hey try and shoot it in the back' or 'hey shoot its arms off' at least once or twice. You had Lotus babble CONSTANTLY during the Jackal fight, was my aggravation too scathing and make you not want to have anyone say ANYTHING in this one?

 

Okay. I'm done. I'm gonna go make a sandwich. DE, please fire your boss design guy or at least give them a playful slap in the face from me, cuz this is honestly tiring. There's gotta be a better solution than seven million layers of invuln.

[DeltaPangaea]

Oh yeah also, not fond of the STILL-continuing 'Warframes are actually super S#&$ lol'.

Void heart gets popped, warframe go bye bye. Necramechs are a thing that came before Warframes and they're basically walking tanks. They were apparently stupid, but Operators can pilot them too so what even was the point of that?

The game's called Warframe, and they're constantly the butt of every joke. Reduced from a cool mystery to a mindless fleshbot remotely driven by a prepubescent irritant in a loungechair. Outclassed by their predecessors in every way except 'smaller I guess'.

 

Do you even LIKE Warframes, DE? Do you regret making the game about them? Ideally story and gameplay align, but you seem to want to do everything you can storywise to make Warframes as irrelevant and pathetic as possible.