MarsInAres Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 (edited) The actual gun has some physical traits that heavily remind me of the Lotus and her floaty pod, https://imgur.com/a/QOeRlGg and the actual VFX is a literal lotus shape. Apart from the sound effect of crystals when reloading, it literally has no relation to Citrine. Anyone agree or have any ideas about if this gun does have ties or references to the Lotus? Edit: Maybe it was a gun that would have been gifted to the Tenno by the Lotus after the happenings of Spoiler The New War and her emancipation Edited November 17, 2023 by MarsInAres 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsInAres Posted November 17, 2023 Author Share Posted November 17, 2023 Also, the peculiar looking tip/barrel of the gun looks like a lotus root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariberry-hearn Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 The artist behind the Steflos straight up refers to it as a "Lotus Pod Shotgun". Seemingly made all the way back in 2019, which kinda explains why it doesn't fully align with Citrine's design https://twitter.com/yu_malaya/status/1619145101741289474/photo/1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexerin Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 I really hope Steflos Prime fixes the problems Steflos has (it's straight up MR fodder, sadly). The gun looks, sounds, and feels amazing... it just doesn't actually do anything due to its horrid stats across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)robotwars7 Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Steflos needs a buff more than anything: it's like if the Arca Plasmor was injected with Stug DNA. Tenno: "space-mom, can we have Arca Plasmor? Lotus: "no we have Arca Plasmor at home" Arca Plasmor at home: *tacky-colored Steflos with a crap build* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsiWarp Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 It reminds of the Orbiter, the gun handle is the front with the Liset and cockpit. The back/front of the barrel is the thrusters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Player244024418 Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 It'd be nice if they doubled or tripled synapse damage from 20 to 40 or 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiltskillet Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 47 minutes ago, (XBOX)Player244024418 said: It'd be nice if they doubled or tripled synapse damage from 20 to 40 or 60. I'd rather they multiplied Sicarus status by six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 20 hours ago, MarsInAres said: The actual gun has some physical traits that heavily remind me of the Lotus and her floaty pod Ah, good eye. Glad to see the art team is getting back to their roots Early Warframes has the Lotus symbol hidden on their bodies (to my knowledge they dropped this after a while) to say nothing of the Dex items which have the Lotus shape front and center 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexerin Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 15 hours ago, (PSN)robotwars7 said: Steflos needs a buff more than anything: it's like if the Arca Plasmor was injected with Stug DNA. Tenno: "space-mom, can we have Arca Plasmor? Lotus: "no we have Arca Plasmor at home" Arca Plasmor at home: *tacky-colored Steflos with a crap build* I fully expect Steflos Prime to increase the crit chance and status chance, but that doesn't matter much if it still has the low damage and immediate falloff to zero damage. Like seriously, compare the Steflos to the Arca Plasmor, a gun that is doing the same thing and thus should be nearly identical: Arca Plasmor vs Steflos 600 vs 320 damage 22% vs 14% crit chance 1.60x vs 2.20x crit multiplier 28% vs 22% status chance 10m-20m vs 8m-16m falloff range 100%-33% vs 100%-3% damage falloff It does half the damage, with half the chance to crit, lower chance to status, lower range, faster falloff, and falloff basically zeroes the damage. The literal only thing it does better is crit multiplier, but that doesn't matter because the crit chance is nothing. Like sure, it has 3x the fire rate (1.10 vs 3.00), but that doesn't matter when you have to shoot 2-3 times more for the same output... and have significantly less ammo pool. Its projectile also moves at a third of the rate (60m/s vs 20m/s), so the range extension gimmick is inconsistent at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 On 2023-11-17 at 6:26 PM, Hexerin said: Arca Plasmor vs Steflos Do remember: the devs don't even bother to make every gun equally viable. I'm not just talking Primes vs Not Prime here, they literally made the Steflos worse than the Plasmor on purpose. Why? Because its mastery rank is lower. Granted I think the Steflos's MR should be even lower, but it still makes it pretty clear, its lower stats were not an oversight or an accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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