Deimos: Arcana: Hotfix 29.5.6

[[DE]Megan]

Deimos: Arcana: Hotfix 29.5.6
 

BONEWIDOW ABILITY CHANGES:
Bonewidow has had a bit of an iterative release - there’s all the changes we made post-test cluster weekend, some pretty nasty bug fixes, and now, another big round of changes. Feedback regarding Bonewidow’s abilities have brought forth the upcoming Ability overhaul changes you see below! We appreciate all the suggestions on our second Necramech thus far, take a look at the new changes:

MEATHOOK: 

An important raised issue with Bonewidow is being unable to regenerate Health, as Bonewidow is geared towards the more “tankier” focused Necramech in comparison to Voidrig. This change to Meathook aims to tackle that head on. 

• Held enemies will lose Health over time, the Health lost will be transferred into Bonewidow. Held enemies will also have Damage Over Time applied to them. 

  • Drain speed and % of Health transferred can be upgradable.

• Improved Meathook grab to feel sharper and more consistent. 

  • We found that the animation was sliding forward before the grab trigger was enabled, so if the AI was close, you would slide past before the grab would ever engage.

 

SHIELD MAIDEN: 

• Damage Reflection added to the shield, incoming blocked damage will be reflected back at the target.

  • Damage Reflection can be upgraded with level and Strength Mods.

• Meleeing with Shield Maiden will give you access to the Shield Bash you get while using Exalted Ironbride.

 

FIRING LINE:

Firing Line needs to work as a better set up to let Exalted Ironbride shred enemies, and we’ve ensured it’s casting leads to better set up opportunities with these changes:

• Added the Lifted Status to enemies hit for 5 seconds (upgradeable by Mods).

• 1.5x Damage multiplier on Lifted enemies.

 

EXALTED IRONBRIDE: 

• Radial ragdoll added to 3rd melee strike with the ability to Critical hit - but not full knock back as to keep enemies contained within striking distance.

• Exalted Ironbride now has a slight aim assist that will help prevent over swing.

 

Shield Bash

The Shield Bash has been expanded to work whenever you have a Shield equipped, not just when you have a Sword and Shield!

• • Gun/Shield: The melee 'E' Key

  • Sword/Shield: The left mouse button

• Added Lift Status to Shield Bash.

General:

• Truncated Bonewidow jump Melee strikes by 1 second to improve responsiveness.

 

Changes:

• Improved support for unusual Dx12 video drivers that don't support any full-screen video modes.

• Altered dialog timing in the Toxicity (2nd) stage of the Isolation Vault for better pacing of Loid/Otak dialog. Also tuned escalation timing slightly to delay arrival of higher tier enemies. 

• The 'Hint Transmission' audio toggle now applies to Glass Fissure Transmissions.

• Rebalanced Necramech Efficiency Mods so that they do not stack over 100%. This applies to both the Necramech Drift Mod and Necramech Efficiency Mod. Necramech Drift max rank is now 60% Hover Efficiency and Necramech Efficiency max rank is now 30% Engine Efficiency (as it boosts all stats). Combined you receive a maximum efficiency of 90%.

  • Necramech Efficiency Mods boost the efficiency of all Stamina-affecting maneuvers to 60% at max rank, which leaves little room to expand with other Mods. When combined with Hover Efficiency (Necramech Drift) which already caps out at a problematic 125% efficiency, we get some really undesired values. We missed the mark on balancing these before they were pushed out the door, which is our mistake.

• Increased the Standing Rank font size of Standing Rank up from 18 to 19 to make standard and hopefully fix occasionally displaying a blank square instead of a number.

• Improved the Railjack Inventory Slot flow for more exposure and overall clarity:

  • Changed Wreckage Capacity count to use an icon instead of text + scrap button: hover to see text and click to open scrap window.

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  • Added an additional button for combined Components and Armaments (constructed Wreckage) to show Components & Armaments Capacity and allow you to Scrap multiple at the same time using the dedicated Scrap window.

• Adjusted reverb sound settings to the Color Key Captura Scene to better fit the level.

 

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that could occur in DirectX 12 on multi-core systems in levels with snow that could leave tracks.

• Fixed potential crash due to memory corruption if you had the game minimized while it was loading a new level and then alt-tabbed back into fullscreen mode.

• Fixed Scintillant sound not being replicated for Clients, resulting in Clients not seeing Scintillant and thus inability to obtain it.  

• Fixed an issue when using the same Arc-gun in Heavy Weapon slot and Necramech gun slot, where Affinity earned before first summoning your Necramech wouldn't apply to the Necramech's version of the Arc-gun.

• Fixed (again) UI becoming unresponsive when holding down a key while using Fast Travel/Decoration mode in the Dojo. 

• Fixed activating Aerial Ace while using Chroma resulting in his Passive extra jump being removed and causing the dragon wings to show on double jump instead.

• Fixed recasting Xaku’s Grasp of Lohk with no targets nearby resulting in all guns to be lost.

• Fixed Nekros Soulpunching an enemy to raise them as Shadow not respecting modified Shield of Shadows power strength if that enemy is your first Shadow.

• Fixed Nekros Soulpunching a victim to death not raising the victim as a Shadow for Clients.

  • Known issue: using Soulpunch to ‘mark’ a victim and then killing them with a weapon will not raise them as a Shadow for Clients

• Fixed Residual Arcane zone damage numbers not showing up for Clients.

• Fixed Bonewidow’s Meathook grabbing Dargyns.

• Fixed force feedback not working properly with beam Kitguns.

• Fixed Infested Research Bounty Fluid Sac throw objective text being erroneously replicated when the Host holds the sac.

• Fixed End of Mission Medals not showing in the Last Mission Results UI screen.

• Fixed seeing a grey box in the Market if viewing an item you already own after just logging in.  

• Fixed a script error when attempting to use the Railjack Pilot context action during a  level transition. 

• Fixed a script error when an Excavation encounter starts in the Cambion Drift.

[Voltage]

Thank you for the hotfix!

Deimos Arcana has had many bumps in the weeks leading up to release as well as the weeks after. I hope this is a situation of learning and growth as this update showcased many hiccups with the disconnection with actual gameplay.

For starters, let's take a look at some issues with various parts of the update that should be noted.

• Bonewidow's Exalted Ironbride is underwhelming for the same reason Excalibur's Exalted Blade, Wukong's Iron Staff, Valkyr's Hysteria, and other Warframe Exalted Melee weapons are. This is due to poor modding selection. Mods are most of the fight in this game, and this fundamental oversight is why people want a Jaw Sword Riven for Khora's Whipclaw or to run Condition Overload over Primed Pressure Point. Furor for example gives a measly 10% attack speed to Arch-Melee while normal Melee have Quickening, Primed Fury, and Berserker on top of Warframe Speed buffs. Ironbride has the same base range as the usual Polearm. Polearms have more total Critical Chance from Blood Rush, more range from Riven Mods, more attack speed from better attack speed mods, and just have more inherent practicality. The only way to really make Bonewidow even a choice over Voidrig is to make it a rewarding effort to use this melee weapon over any other.
• While [DE]Rebecca did touch on prerequisite bounties being removed in a coming update, it needs to be noted that this change should have never been required. The change coming is simply what the Profit-Taker has had since day one in 2018. This type of mistake leaves a bad taste in many mouths, and these impressions are lasting. Nightwave suffers from this same mistake as Sortie Seasons proved that scheduled seasons would also run long overdue.
• The new Theorem and Residual Arcanes are still underwhelming while requiring quite a bit of effort for aquisition. This offset makes them even less compelling to grind for or equip.
• Most of the bounty objectives are similar in gameplay than what we currently have played through for many hours. The Juggernaut objective is infuriating for the same reason the Defection gamemode or the Drone Escort bounty in Plains of Eidolon is. Waiting on AI is always slow. There is a reason people use Wisp in Defection or use Nova/Loki to move a Drone hundreds of meters at a time in the Plains. The problem is the same principle in each example listed.
• Feedback is often taken into account too late. Please use Dev Workshops and the Test Cluster as a way to get feedback before committing to (potentially negative) ideas, and feedback before launch. This sort of structure would make sure healthy ideas make it to the Test Cluster, and the testing done within the cluster will iron things out for a smooth release. The way Deimos Arcana has released has left many players questioning what the Test Cluster accomplished due to poor balancing in pacing as well as how this update makes a player feel about their time spent. Writing a Dev Workshop while already committed to most of the coming changes doesn't do many favors for developers either. This was most apparent in both "Why Do We UI Like We UI" Dev Workshops. A great example of this working perfectly is when you guys considered Eximus weak points on a Devstream long ago. Since it was still a thought, when hearing the idea was not good for the game, it was easy to toss it aside without wasted development being put into that mechanic. 

These large issues are just to name a few. I hope the conclusion of 2020 and beyond use Deimos Arcana as a learning point to make the game feel better to play with less bad tastes in the mouths of many players who are quick to digest new content as they are hungry for content between these longs periods of waiting.

I understand this year was tough on everyone, and now is the holiday season, but please realize how deep the issues are in these major updates that get the negative reception they do. The Old Blood, Empyrean, Scarlet Spear, and Deimos Arcana all have similarities, and they are rooted in the structure of how these updates launch in the (questionable) state they are in on release.

[Faras]

How are you this fast Voltage, man...

[---Swaggi---]

thx
Anyway There is still so much to be done here!!!
It‘s still not good.
Ironbride shouldnt be a Arch Melee but like a heavy blade weapon so we can mod it way better.
Also since he is considered as a frontliner he definitely needs more damage.
Since the Massive Artillery of Voidrig deals hundreds of thousand of dmg without greater problems, Bonewidow is still lacking this since with his melee its more like single target where we can kill with voidrig a whole crowd of enemies in an instant.

Make his frist more like garudas 1st: When enemies HP dropping under a certain treshold bonewidow can instakill them and absorb remaining hp from them.

Also make his 3rd more Crowd gathering focused like Khoras Ensnare or Mags Magnetize Bubble and give a total dmg mutliplier of 2.0 on top of it.
That would look like more like a good ability setup kit than his current or „changed“ one now...

[only.my.RAILGUN.]

Voltage I SEE YOU

[Markov]

Where's the fix for Ayatan Amber Stars not dropping??
 

 

[Rebore]

[A7roboBOT]

Thanks!

[Ochan]

Broken vomvalyst spawn? We got new spawns now, please don't break these ;-;

[SallyShears]

what about proboscis cernos not accepting cernos riven?

[Cloud]

Ty ! I'll give a try to the changes, but I can say by now they are all very welcomed. I would have appreciated more range on Firing Line, but I guess we still have time for tuning.

[Terrablademaster]

hotfix, neat

[G4b1t]

Bonedaddy is pleased.

[Qamelion]

vor 5 Minuten schrieb [DE]Megan:

We missed the mark on balancing

Well.. DE. This is the case since 2012.

[wirecard]

glass spawn remove when

[Berzerkules]

Khora fix when? LoS is totally scuffed. Enemies stuck in Strangledome take zero damage until Strangledome duration ends.

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This does not even show LoS check fails due to level geometry. 

Do you plan on just leaving her like this?

[Jem991]

1 minute ago, wirecard said:

glass spawn remove when

When nightwave season 3 end

[HemlockSky]

Xaku’s 2 is totally broken when I’m a client. I cast it and it gets stuck in what I imagine is casting, as it won’t take guns, the guns won’t fire, and it won’t let me recast the ability (says “Ability in Use”). Can you look into that so I can continue to play one of my favorite frames while client-side?

[Drachnyn]

Deimos arcanes are still the worst thing ever released.

[bnuy]

Fixes... aaah, fixes. Gotta love 'em!

[Envy-NV]

3 minutes ago, SallyShears said:

what about proboscis cernos not accepting cernos riven?

Thats intended. It has its own riven

[Tenno00221]

2 minutes ago, SallyShears said:

what about proboscis cernos not accepting cernos riven?

this is intended you can get proboscis cernos rivens its a seperate weapon

[Ziallangeist]

plz fix the bug on sigma & octantis ;c

 

the bug on slam attack and normal attack still exists ;c

[PublikDomain]

Whipclaw remains buggy and unreliable after the added LoS. Replace the nerf with something more sensible like a simple damage falloff like any other explosive weapon. This also affects Ember's Fireball and primary Tombfinger kitguns in the same way for the same reason, so it'd be nice if you could do the same for those as well.

Making an ability buggy isn't the right way to balance it.

Here's a good recent example of the fundamental failure of the LoS checks:

The level geometry is detailed enough that I whipped in between the steps and detonated on the other side, but those same steps blocked LoS for the runner.

[Kamachi]

2 minutes ago, Qamelion said:

Well.. DE. This is the case since 2012.