Heart of Deimos: Necramech and Warframe gamebreaking bug (Nekros)

[Possesstime]

As the title says, gamebreaking bug for real.

So since there is very few ways to level up necramechs right now, I do it in Iso vault runs with other people for affinity boost. For this I am using Nekros with the Despoil augment which makes him take health damage instead of energy to use desecrate. By design or by flaw, being able to use desecrate while in the mech is really a life saver, especially for the energy requirement for the GuardMode ability.

However, the bug is that since your warframe is taking direct damage (Despoil Nekros in this instance) your warframe dies, making you loose all (up to that point) progress including mods, materials and affinity all gone. While I am kind of sure using desecrate while in the mech isn't actually intended, it still is great (and fun).

So the order of the bug is this: Despoil augment on Nekros > forget to heal Nekros (warframe) > frame dies > all progress lost > stuck with Necramech and operator (can only gain resources operator picks up from that point)

I've tested this multiple times, even though Nekros seems to be the easiest to do this with, I am sure that the same can happen with other frames who takes direct health damage when using the Necramech. I was not host in these instances, but I tried solo runs and the same happened there too. This all happens of course in the Cambian drift open world on Deimos.

I hope this can be fixed next hotfix.

 

Sincerely,

Possesstime

Ps. I would include video, but i am no tech head and screenshots cannot really capture this any better than what i can describe.

[Dyonivan]

Okay, I came to report my Nekros was disappearing, but this sounds exactly like what probably happened to me. Hopefully they get eyes on this because it's pretty significant.

 

Edit: It also occurred to me to mention, both times this happened to me my bounty fell into a broken state where I failed, and the second time was on a T2 vault which actually caused me to lose ALL bounty progress, including affinity and rewards from my first, successful T1 vault bounty.

Edit2: A comment on reddit pointed out that what might be happening here is related to warframes receiving 90% damage reduction during transference if they have abilities running, while they have damage immunity if no abilities are running. Normally in the 90% DR case, if your warframe receives near-lethal damage you get booted from transference back to the warframe, which will have 2 HP. The bug here seems to be that if you are in a Necramech instead of operator, the warframe just dies and disappears instead, leading to the broken game state.