Mutations: A new idea for the Helminth Segment

[Brinstar7777]

What if the Helminth could directly influence your warframe's stats, instead of rearranging abilities? Here's how it works:

Feed the Helminth the right resources, and it produces a Mutation. These can be equipped to your warframe, and provide boosts to ability range, weapon damage, sprint speed, etc. They're basically warframe mods, but without polarities, capacity, or a limited number of slots. You can equip as many mutations as you like, but there's a catch; mutations also provide penalties when equipped.

For example, a Heavy Armor mutation could increase a warframe's armor but reduce it's movement speed. Kinda like Malfunctions in Returnal.

What do you think?

[LupoDWolf]

pff, DE in years still didn't gave us augments slots, imagine something like that 

[Brinstar7777]

Just now, LupoDWolf said:

pff, DE in years still didn't gave us augments slots, imagine something like that 

Uhh, I'm kinda looking for opinions on the idea itself, not how likely it is for DE to do something like this.

[LupoDWolf]

9 minutes ago, Brinstar7777 said:

Uhh, I'm kinda looking for opinions on the idea itself, not how likely it is for DE to do something like this.

ok.
If they work like mods(% of the base balue at 1), the gains will either be weak to be worth or be OP in a lot of cases
if they work like base status, they will be way strong in some cases, way weak in other (think 100 armor to a valkyr / 100 armor to a Nyx) 

[Brinstar7777]

3 minutes ago, LupoDWolf said:

ok.
If they work like mods(% of the base balue at 1), the gains will either be weak to be worth or be OP in a lot of cases
if they work like base status, they will be way strong in some cases, way weak in other (think 100 armor to a valkyr / 100 armor to a Nyx) 

They're supposed to work like a trade-off: A bonus to one area in exchange for a penalty in another. The strength of the penalty scales with the strength of the bonus. The idea here is to make it easier to pursue a certain build with a given warframe.

[LupoDWolf]

4 minutes ago, Brinstar7777 said:

They're supposed to work like a trade-off: A bonus to one area in exchange for a penalty in another. The strength of the penalty scales with the strength of the bonus. The idea here is to make it easier to pursue a certain build with a given warframe.

you know corrupted mods exist, right ? this could lead to so much abuse with then 

[Brinstar7777]

Just now, LupoDWolf said:

you know corrupted mods exist, right ? this could lead to so much abuse with then 

Yeah, this is different, because it's an equal trade-off with mutations.

Take Blind Rage, for example. If it was a Mutation, it would grant +55% ability strength at the cost of -55% ability efficiency. It's an equal trade-off: a mutation buffs you exactly as much as it debuffs you; no more, no less.

The goal here is to add a system that makes your warframes more flexible without sacrificing balance.