How About More Skillshot Based Warframes? Instead Of The Ol' Radial Abilities.

[AlphaPsyCongaroo]

because dont we have enough warframes already that just kill or disable everything in a radius around them? our newest addition, hydriod, there's really not much that is unique about him. yet another radial kill all and disable all button in the flavor of water. how about some more ultimates and abilities that take some skill to aim for any new upcomming warframes in the works?

[Auxeus]

Like Slash Dash, Soul Punch and Shuriken?

[dadaddadada]

ehm... banshee?

[Cleesus]

Like Slash Dash, Soul Punch and Shuriken?

None of those are skill shots you point at the enemy and the game does the rest. You might have a case for Slash Dash

[IrisDragoon]

gunslinger frame...

[SirAuron]

[(PSN)Bobtm0]

Granted I basically always love skill shot type skills, there's a bit of a reason they are more of an outlier in this type of a game.  Specifically speaking we fight enemies in veritable hordes, at which point radial abilities just tend to work out better at the end of the day.  Part of the reason I enjoy Vauban as much as I do is exactly because his skills are deployed via a thrown orb, and aiming that throw well or poorly can make a noticeable difference in the overall effectiveness of the individual cast.  However his skills still generate an ability radially upon actual activation.

 

On the flip side, our guns in and of themselves require direct aiming (in most cases) but most guns are highly accurate and hitscan so it's not a great feat to strike a foe from fairly long range with guns as it is.  With our damage being what it is on guns it would render practically any damage based skill shot irreparably pointless.

 

Short version;  I dig the idea, but am not sure how it could be implemented in a worthwhile manner.

[Auxeus]

Feels like a gunslinger frame that do buffs his/hers guns for effected damage output.

[AlphaPsyCongaroo]

Granted I basically always love skill shot type skills, there's a bit of a reason they are more of an outlier in this type of a game. Specifically speaking we fight enemies in veritable hordes, at which point radial abilities just tend to work out better at the end of the day. Part of the reason I enjoy Vauban as much as I do is exactly because his skills are deployed via a thrown orb, and aiming that throw well or poorly can make a noticeable difference in the overall effectiveness of the individual cast. However his skills still generate an ability radially upon actual activation.

On the flip side, our guns in and of themselves require direct aiming (in most cases) but most guns are highly accurate and hitscan so it's not a great feat to strike a foe from fairly long range with guns as it is. With our damage being what it is on guns it would render practically any damage based skill shot irreparably pointless.

Short version; I dig the idea, but am not sure how it could be implemented in a worthwhile manner.

yeah you said it. i also like vaub for that reason as wel, as a poorly aimed toss can punish you. id like more frames like this that have vaubs gernade like abilities. even that new imfamous game has some neat cc abilities which require aiming that could work on warframe as well. like that neon gernade spam, smoke gernade, neon lazer beam with maybe a larger explosive radius, and those concrete disks for example, i see no reason why any of those wouldnt be effective. Edited June 7, 2014 by AlphaPsyCongaroo

[calabi]

Yeah I dont like the AOE kill everything in the area type abilities that much.  Why do we have guns if we have those?  I'd like frames with more utility like abilities.  Ways of escaping or mitigating harm things like that.