My great experience playing Nightmare Interception

[nevac]

Let me introduce myself. I'm a noob (yes this game still has these), and I don't remember when I was that mad at game last time.  I'm still working my way on getting to planets, last one I got to is Phobos. My current gear is lvl 25 Mag, lvl 25 Grakata, lvl 22 Furis and MK-1 Bo I bought for credits. I mostly play solo because every public mission I played was about 3 other players in overgeared frames killing everything by merely looking at it, and me trying to get to green marker ASAP without having chance to shoot anything. So today my phone signaled me via Wardroid that the nightmare Infested interception is available on Mars. I knew interception missions are tricky because I solo them in my crap gear, but with 3 of those cool players, what could possibly go wrong, right? Thus I deployed myself on Ares and popped up my cheap Vapor specter to get which I botched rescue mission on purpose.

The first problem, the mission had no shields condition, which seems to be actually guaranteed for nightmare alerts. Keep in mind I'm playing Mag who has no life, I mean she relies on shields because her HP is really, really low, and without knowing mission will have no shields I didn't even swapped shield mod for Vitality. But I looked at my teammates who started showcasing those cool syndanas and FX effects as usual, and reassured, ran to the nearest point, deciding that I will just capture remote points and use Mag's jedi force push trick to pull out if things get hairy, letting my teammates do the killing thing without bothering about capturing points. But very soon, I realized that none of my teammates actually knew how to play the game! They moved at leisurely pace to next point by group of 3, captured it, then got swarmed by group of Infested and filled my screen with revival marks! It seems that these nightmare mobs wouldn't die from being looked at as usual, and you had to do crazy things to not get killed, like moving backwards from them so they couldn't hit you with melee, and even rolling from ancient's grapple attack!

Nonetheless, we still won the first wave, and I only lost one revive when ancient ambushed me trying (and failing) to revive my teammate. It was almost by the end of the wave, and it was our host who immediately rage quit, because the horrible loss of his life (out of 4) in video game was apparently too much for his poor soul to handle. Then, one by one, my remaining 2 teammates bravely ran away and I was left alone in second wave of nightmare interception with 10-22 score. I decided it was a shame to waste such precious opportunity to test my skills in rather hopeless environment and stayed in the game. Together with my trusty Vapor specter (the number 3 of him more accurately because other 2 died), I jumped like crazy flea from point to point, picking off lone chargers and ancients, and running when the main swarm invaded a point. In the end, I lost the game 99-100, with still one revive left. Lost 99-100, man!

So to guys who abandoned me. If you are reading this, I seriously hope you did something really important with those 5 minutes you spared, because even if one of you remained with me, we would get a very nice chance to win. And seriously, learn how to play the game because single Vapor specter is almost as useful as 3 of you.

[Radagosh]

first rule of warframe: when going in with randoms be prepared to do everything by yourself - sometimes I'm asking myself if randoms can actually count to 3 already

[Extroah]

That's one of the reasons why i avoid Interception Missions like the Plague. I've had people that just left when their captured Point got taken back by the Enemy, people just standing somewhere spamming Skills, people running around killing everything without taking Points, etc.
Even annoying people like some Frosts that spam Snowglobe on the Points so you can't shoot the Enemy when hes taking over the Point...

Best Idea is to look for a Clan, chances are those people are more willing to stay to the end. :D

[nevac]

So far I had nice experience with warframe players, but I mostly interacted with them via trade system. One random guy even waited for 30 minutes to sell me Nova Chassis I bartered down to 45 plat while I had chain of power outages and network disconnections.

[artemisfortune]

I've only had one random seem like he didn't know what he was doing.

I mean it's not like the game is super hard anyway.

[MeltenIngCream]

Random just great for spy. U dont have too hack alone 

[MeltenIngCream]

19 hours ago, nevac said:

So far I had nice experience with warframe players, but I mostly interacted with them via trade system. One random guy even waited for 30 minutes to sell me Nova Chassis I bartered down to 45 plat while I had chain of power outages and network disconnections.

so friendly <3

[(PSN)Iudex_Nemesis]

12 minutes ago, Extroah said:

That's one of the reasons why i avoid Interception Missions like the Plague. I've had people that just left when their captured Point got taken back by the Enemy, people just standing somewhere spamming Skills, people running around killing everything without taking Points, etc.
Even annoying people like some Frosts that spam Snowglobe on the Points so you can't shoot the Enemy when hes taking over the Point...

Best Idea is to look for a Clan, chances are those people are more willing to stay to the end. :D

You may find that tactic to a nuisance but.....

I jumped into a sortie with randoms that were doing quite poorly. Enemy team were winning 60-70% ahead and one guy had a kulstar and kept blowing themself up. With my Frost Prime I turned everything around and we won each round after that.

[Extroah]

2 minutes ago, (PS4)Snakeboy1990 said:

You may find that tactic to a nuisance but.....

I jumped into a sortie with randoms that were doing quite poorly. Enemy team were winning 60-70% ahead and one guy had a kulstar and kept blowing themself up. With my Frost Prime I turned everything around and we won each round after that.

It can be usefull if done properly, but some Frosts just spam the whole Map so you can basically not kill anything with Weapons and have to run around Slashing them dead instead. Not all Frosts do that, but most in Public Games do. :P

[Aurea_Hiigara]

26 minutes ago, Extroah said:

That's one of the reasons why i avoid Interception Missions like the Plague. I've had people that just left when their captured Point got taken back by the Enemy, people just standing somewhere spamming Skills, people running around killing everything without taking Points, etc.
Even annoying people like some Frosts that spam Snowglobe on the Points so you can't shoot the Enemy when hes taking over the Point...

Best Idea is to look for a Clan, chances are those people are more willing to stay to the end. :D

Re: Frost and Snowglobe.

It really is a matter of taste. Yes, the globe can protect the enemies taking over the point, but a wide globe on each point can also serve as a safe haven from which to shoot enemies before they can shoot you. Less useful against Infested, sure, but the cold slowdown alone still has some value.

[xXx_mtv_xXx]

99-100 damn haha gg though and you gotta admit, it really got your blood pumping and you probably enjoyed every moment of it, up until the bitter end :D 

Welcome to Warframe!

[MeltenIngCream]

19 hours ago, xXx_mtv_xXx said:

99-100 damn haha gg though and you gotta admit, it really got your blood pumping and you probably enjoyed every moment of it, up until the bitter end :D 

Welcome to Warframe!

you means tenno 99 and grineer or corpus 100. That hurt 

[Beggining]

1 minute ago, MeltenIngCream said:

you mean tenno 99 and grineer or corpus 100. That hurt 

If you read OP's post, it's Infested.

[nevac]

13 minutes ago, xXx_mtv_xXx said:

99-100 damn haha gg though and you gotta admit, it really got your blood pumping and you probably enjoyed every moment of it, up until the bitter end :D 

Welcome to Warframe!

Yep that's why I play warframe, no shooter gets my blood pumping like this since old Id software games.

[(PSN)ATreidezz]

Well, enemies count depends on how many players in the session, full squad means maximum enemies, while solo means less enemies to deal with.

So of course youre doing great in solo, especially with specters, your scattering the enemies all over the place by jumping around from point to point, so its easier to deal with them, tho you dont really need to kill in interception (except during in between waves)

Edited October 27, 2016 by (PS4)ATreidezz

[Weidro]

please correct me if i got this wrong

• you joined a mission with the intention to do nothing (because you expected some random "op" teammates)
• turns out they had the same idea to do nothing
• you grew a pair off balls and did a really good job carrying the mission
• lost because of maybe half a second bad luck
• and now you're complaining because the randoms had the same idea like you and did nothing

in my humble opinion the mission would have been easier completely solo
just because of the fact that you capture points faster

anyway good job getting this to 99-100
keep going you might become one day one of these random op players with shiny gear ;-)

[nevac]

31 minutes ago, Weidro said:

please correct me if i got this wrong

• you joined a mission with the intention to do nothing (because you expected some random "op" teammates)
• turns out they had the same idea to do nothing
• you grew a pair off balls and did a really good job carrying the mission
• lost because of maybe half a second bad luck
• and now you're complaining because the randoms had the same idea like you and did nothing

in my humble opinion the mission would have been easier completely solo
just because of the fact that you capture points faster

anyway good job getting this to 99-100
keep going you might become one day one of these random op players with shiny gear ;-)

As level 5 MR player, my intentions hardly matter because everyone else seems to outrank me 2 times and use abilities I don't even know about. So any public game I join is unintentionally leeching other players because I have no equals, even in very low level missions. I intended to do what low damage player could do the same as high damage player - capture points and save teammates the worries about map control. Turned out those shiny players had surprisingly low staying power despite having nice gear. I still ended with 10% damage of the team, though I basically ran from everyone.

Maybe the problem is, I registered more than year ago and matchmaker still thinks I'm a veteran returning player and puts me with other veteran players, while I've been actively playing for 10 days only.

[Galuf]

If you don't pub, you don't learn. Even if 90%+ players have nothing to offer, some are worth observing a bit while playing. As a player we are as efficient as the sums of the experiences we have assimilated playing. Having a critical perception of your doing is also important.

Lone wolfs are never the best, even if they have a more relaxing times most of the missions.

[kyori]

You will meet a lot of different players on the journey. I am sad to hear your story of 3 ball-less players abandoning you. Higher MR doesn't mean they are more skillful and vice versa. A lot of players are just flashy and they fall a lot more most of the time.

As a noob which you said of yourself, try to stick with missions that are within your level first, slowly work your way up when you have access to better weapons.

Interception is definitely much easier if solo. You have to keep moving to avoid being hit. 

Infested is the easiest to deal with because most of them are melee based. Get to higher ground which they cannot reach you but beware some can spit at you.

1 bad thing DE didn't include is that an alert is a nightmare mode. Every time I see a pictured avatar of an alert, I will assumed it is nightmare mode but sometimes they aren't. Just be prepared whenever you see a pictured avatar of an alert.

For your gear... Mag isn't very good with infested, just keep moving. Grakata and Furis both are low accuracy and eat up ammo way too fast, you might consider changing one of them. In dealing with infested, try to master the spinning melee attack, it damage more and very useful in crowd control.

[kyori]

Just met a few of the jokers you mentioned. All hungho rush and kill enemies... then fall and I go revive them... but I was reviving their pets instead unknowingly. lol

[LSG501]

yeah welcome to warframe where you have a few types of player types that are just so 'fun' to play with

- you have the ones who used draco to level everything really quickly and get their high MR but have no idea about anything else

- you have the higher MR ones that are elitist and 'don't want to do all the work' yet are spamming their 4 so no one else has anything to do... (luckily not many)

then you have the majority of players who are actually pretty ok...

It's just part of the daily warframe life.

 

Yeah and I agree about nightmare levels needing more info on them, the amount of times I've done them to find players dropping left right and centre due to bringing the wrong frame or even wrong frame AND they're levelling up weapons is far higher than it should be lol

 

[Skaleek]

5 hours ago, nevac said:

As level 5 MR player, my intentions hardly matter because everyone else seems to outrank me 2 times and use abilities I don't even know about. So any public game I join is unintentionally leeching other players because I have no equals, even in very low level missions. I intended to do what low damage player could do the same as high damage player - capture points and save teammates the worries about map control. Turned out those shiny players had surprisingly low staying power despite having nice gear. I still ended with 10% damage of the team, though I basically ran from everyone.

Maybe the problem is, I registered more than year ago and matchmaker still thinks I'm a veteran returning player and puts me with other veteran players, while I've been actively playing for 10 days only.

I'm not actually sure if the game sorts people based on MR in PvE... but it should! I am one of those players who absolutely facerolls through content because I've been around 3 years and to be honest i just can't be bothered to handicap myself when i have a mission goal i actually want to complete. I often feel guilty when playing with new players because I worry they feel exactly like you do, they have no chance to actually play the game.

I'm sorry your experience with vets has been so crappy, It sounds like you did a good job yourself, I'm actually really surprised it was that close with the weapons you're currently using, theyre pretty much the bottom tier weapons in Warframe.

What you might want to try, and i know you didnt ask for advice, is to make some friends in recruiting chat. Find some players of like mind and playstyle, create a friends only/invite only game, and run the starmap/alerts/whatever else with them. I ran through the original starmap just my brother and I, and to this day was still the most fun i had in warframe. The crappy weapons, having to actually put in effort, balance my ammo, mods, and energy. Enjoy it while you can it doesnt last forever.

Edited October 27, 2016 by Skaleek

[(PSN)joshw1400]

6 hours ago, nevac said:

Yep that's why I play warframe, no shooter gets my blood pumping like this since old Id software games.

Nothing gets the blood pumping like the touch of a beautiful ancient.