PUG member knew my mod loadout. How?

[Klazik]

It has been bothering me since yesterday.

Just for the record, he made fun of my loadout, which told me he had no clue about weaknesses, but that's another story.

How did he know which mods I equipped? Is there some sort of website that or?

 

Edit:

To answer all questions.

 

His Words were in a pm after the mission "WHO brings corrosive in an infested mission lol noob"

I have practically 0 status chance on my weapon, and he was busy doing valkyr stuff, so he couldn't possibly have seen the 1 or 2 times it would have done corrosive proc during a 30 minute mission.

 

And my only reaction to him was a fast ticket to ignore list ^^

 

Edit2: Turns out my warframe loadout hadn't saved, so was running corrosive projection. Thanks everyone.

Edited July 1, 2016 by Klazik

[Gelkor]

Are you sure he wasn't talking about corrosive projection? You can see people's aura's by mousing over their icons in the esc/status screen. 

Idunno, I comment on people's aura's sometimes, like Steel Charge for Jordas Golem, wtf.

Edited June 30, 2016 by Gelkor

[NekroArts]

Just how precise was he on your mod loadout? Like did he named all of it or those that are most commonly used?

[Klazik]

Just now, NekroArts said:

Just how precise was he on your mod loadout? Like did he named all of it or those that are most commonly used?

He knew my elemental combo for that specific mission.

[SurrealEdge]

Weapon effects are visible to other players mid mission and the elemental effects are wholly visible on enemies.

[MichelPostma]

There is no sort of website where you can see people's mods. Maybe you should elaborate a bit on what specific comments he made. Maybe this person was just lucky with some guesses...

[Naftal]

3 minutes ago, Klazik said:

He knew my elemental combo for that specific mission.

That's pretty easy to see though from procs and how much damage you do to different things.

[Numbsky1]

WF is not rocket science if you follow standard procedures people can guesstimate your load out pretty accurately. 

For example vs Grineer people will mod for corrosive/rad, if people make fun of you for modding for the individual enemy race that just proves they are morons and have not understood a thing. 

Like people telling you to mod for blast damage vs Grineer because of blast status effect, disregarding the negative modifier.....

Edited June 30, 2016 by Numbsky1

[jmthebigman]

Might wanna tell us more about the entire situation without naming that person.

[NekroArts]

My only guess is either:

1. He paid careful attention to the status procs you were doing to the enemies or
2. He guessed and your reaction mostly likely told him he was right.

I never heard of a website that reveals your mod loadout.

[Klazik]

To answer all questions.

 

His Words were in a pm after the mission "WHO brings corrosive in an infested mission lol noob"

I have practically 0 status chance on my weapon, and he was busy doing valkyr stuff, so he couldn't possibly have seen the 1 or 2 times it would have done corrosive proc during a 30 minute mission.

 

And my only reaction to him was a fast ticket to ignore list ^^

Edited June 30, 2016 by Klazik

[TARINunit9]

Was it your melee weapon? Corrosive melee weapons radiate green electricity

Firearms are a bit harder to tell, but I know for a fact some elements change the muzzle flash of their weapon. The most noticeable is Viral

[NekroArts]

2 minutes ago, Klazik said:

His Words were in a pm after the mission "WHO brings corrosive in an infested mission lol noob"

You think he may be referring to your aura mod?

But if it is your mod loadout, just forget him; he's the noob. Corrosive is ideal against Ancients, Boilers, Brood Mothers, and Mutalist Moas. They're the most threatening enemies to be left alive especially eximus variants, every other infested are pretty easy to get rid of.

[SurrealEdge]

Sounds a lot like you've brought CP into the mission.

[Klazik]

1 minute ago, NekroArts said:

You think he may be referring to your aura mod?

But if it is your mod loadout, just forget him; he's the noob. Corrosive is ideal against Ancients, Boilers, Brood Mothers, and Mutalist Moas. They're the most threatening enemies to be left alive especially eximus variants, every other infested are pretty easy to get rid of.

 

Just now, SurrealEdge said:

Sounds a lot like you've brought CP into the mission.

 

4 minutes ago, Gelkor said:

Are you sure he wasn't talking about corrosive projection? You can see people's aura's by mousing over their icons in the esc/status screen. 

Idunno, I comment on people's aura's sometimes, like Steel Charge for Jordas Golem, wtf.

You guys may be right. I'm gonna have to check when I get home.

[TARINunit9]

3 minutes ago, Gelkor said:

Idunno, I comment on people's aura's sometimes, like Steel Charge for Jordas Golem, wtf.

People don't use SC for the actual aura effect, they use it because it gives more drain than Rifle Amp

[derp215]

Maybe it's the visual effects on your weapon, corrosive gives out a green electric-like effect.

[Gelkor]

4 minutes ago, TARINunit9 said:

People don't use SC for the actual aura effect, they use it because it gives more drain than Rifle Amp

Forma exists.

Idunno, I see people complain about Jordas being too tough, but give me weird reactions when I suggest, they bring CP or RA instead of SC, cause, when they suck at Archwing, every little bit helps.

Like I said, I only comment sometimes on auras, usually in situations where people's aura's conflict with their stated intents. 

[LunarEdge7]

It's either he meant your aura (Corrosive Projection), or he saw your gun shooting out green electricity.

.. I prefer to mod for Gas for my primary weapon, the lighter mobs are the real problem in the end, and a secondary with Corr/Blast to kill Healers/Disruptors fast.

[SenorClipClop]

35 minutes ago, Klazik said:

His Words were in a pm after the mission "WHO brings corrosive in an infested mission lol noob"

I have practically 0 status chance on my weapon, and he was busy doing valkyr stuff, so he couldn't possibly have seen the 1 or 2 times it would have done corrosive proc during a 30 minute mission.

Some status procs are easy to identify in-mission. When dealing damage, a small symbol matching the damage type will pop up to indicate a proc of that kind of status on the enemy. (You probably already know this.) Your weapon will also have a particle effect resembling green electricity.

Since the effects of a Corrosive proc is permanent, what likely happened was that this Tenno spotted an enemy you procced with the status but didn't slay; this Infested unit would have possessed less armor than normal (or none at all), leading the Tenno to realize someone was dealing Corrosive damage.

[Serafim_94]

It's probably CP aura, which is indeed very nooby thing to do. As for corrosive damage, last time I checked it was effective against Ancients.

[rawr1254]

9 minutes ago, Serafim_94 said:

It's probably CP aura, which is indeed very nooby thing to do. As for corrosive damage, last time I checked it was effective against Ancients.

How is bringing CP to an infested mission a nooby thing to do? Those swarm moas give enemies a good amount of armour so why wouldnt you not wanna shoot through tons of health on top of a good amount of armor? And eventually you have like 5+ parasitics spawning constantly making Energy Siphon almost nonexistant.

Edited June 30, 2016 by rawr1254

[Klazik]

13 minutes ago, Serafim_94 said:

It's probably CP aura, which is indeed very nooby thing to do. As for corrosive damage, last time I checked it was effective against Ancients.

It's not nooby at all since they implemented Swarm-Mutalist MOAs.

 

Edit: Got ninja'd

Edited June 30, 2016 by Klazik

[Sloan441]

He--and anyone else who bothers to look--can see what aura you've equipped during the phase where the matchmaker is doing its thing.

And, yes, CP isn't the best thing you could bring, but it's not bad since there are armored infested units. I frequently forget to switch auras myself, but there isn't much better to bring with that aura slot polarity so who cares? Energy siphon would be the obvious best choice, but if you're running Zenurik, then.../shrug. Hardly matters.

If it's weapon loadout, anyone can see the procs. Also, the corrosive element is the best overall elemental combo for dealing with infested. There are some specific warframe/weapon combinations that can work better, but as a rule of thumb, if it's infested, you roll with corrosive.

[TARINunit9]

8 hours ago, Gelkor said:

Forma exists.

People are also lazy

[(XBOX)S13nd3rT3l3tub]

16 hours ago, Klazik said:

His Words were in a pm after the mission "WHO brings corrosive in an infested mission lol noob"

I call him scrub instead. I've seen my weapon often doing 100k plus damage using corrosive damage in ODD (Without CP). Stupid to think not running corrosive because after a certain level infested enemies do spawn with yellow health bars (For Chargers and Runners) Plus running Valkyr? Are you seriously that scared to take damage that you would need a invincibility channeling ability to surive?