Suggestion: New Hold-Skill for Calibans Lethal Progeny Skill /s

[Skeasy]

Caliban is half Warframe and half Sentient, right? Then why can he only summon three Sentients?
We should obviously be able to hold the 3 button to summon three predefined Warframes!

Concept Art (couldn't find a good picture of Titania so Excal has to cosplay)

[Chewarette]

With that picture I thought the plan was to have Caliban become Eidolon-sized

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Which would be equally as weird !

[johnno23]

33 minutes ago, Skeasy said:

We should obviously be able to hold the 3 button to summon three predefined Warframes!

Erm NO as Frames need operators but sentients are autonomous so unless you have the ability to magically split your operator into four how can you operate 3 extra frames ??

we also have specters so you can clone a frame with weapons also launch an energy osprey add a healing ancient maybe add a crew member a roller ball clem clone etc etc. Basically any warframe can with what's available create a one man army for runs if the player wishes to. 

[Mazifet]

28 minutes ago, johnno23 said:

Erm NO as Frames need operators but sentients are autonomous so unless you have the ability to magically split your operator into four how can you operate 3 extra frames ??

we also have specters so you can clone a frame with weapons also launch an energy osprey add a healing ancient maybe add a crew member a roller ball clem clone etc etc. Basically any warframe can with what's available create a one man army for runs if the player wishes to. 

they can find a way to bullS#&$ it with eternalism. somethin like "you are in the frames" "you are not in the frames" so all the frames can be controlled by "you" at the same time

[Fred_Avant_2019]

All jokes aside, I think Caliban has no real reason to NOT cast all three sentients at once. So you end up spending 75 energy three times instead of once, assuming you're not altering your efficiency, so that's 225. Kind of costly, ngl. If we did have Caliban summon all three sentient units at once, we wouldn't have so much energy issues on the frame.

 

Definitely would help if you could mod your sentients like you can mod a Warframe though.

[Tiltskillet]

1 hour ago, Fred_Avant_2019 said:

All jokes aside, I think Caliban has no real reason to NOT cast all three sentients at once.

There are a few reasons.  The big one for me is they're an important survival resource for him, both through their shield effect and aggro draw.  They also have a tendency to wander off.  Summoning all 3 at once is great but not when it means losing all 3 at once too.

So this change would need more to it.  The simplest addition would be recastability.

There's also a secondary reason people might prefer the option to have 1 or 2 sentients.  Each one takes takes up a lot of screen real estate, they're hard to see through, and they block friendly movement and shots. 

IOW there's more that needs consideration than might be apparent.