Stalker Supplements: Assassination Teams

[MJ12]

The Stalker is cool, but I'd like more than just the Stalker to come along and murder everything. You kill thousands of Grineer and Corpus and Infested, rescue hundreds of hostages from them, capture and brutally interrogate hundreds of important VIPs, murder their bosses dozens of times...

 

I think that should make them just a little bit mad, don't you?

 

And if they're mad, they should try to get even.

 

Instead of solely having the Stalker show up, I suggest that every faction have its own hit teams (as well as the Stalker), who can spawn to take vengeance on you for killing a boss. Also, all of these teams would drop unique weapons blueprints for weapons variants.

 

So, for example, you might have a Grineer Commando Team, who's made up of a super-heavy gunner, a Bombard, a pair of special Lancers who have special Grakatas and smaller shields they can one-hand, a shotgunner with a modified Hek, and maybe a melee attacker.

 

The Corpus might deploy special robotic hunter-killer proxies, like a Osprey gunship, a heavy Moa, a couple of power-armored Corpus paladins with modified Flux Rifles, and so on.

 

I don't know what the Infested would throw at you. But all of these enemies would be minibosses, with their own (unique?) abilities and a fair bit of toughness as well as special AI. They should be a challenge, but a rewarding one. They'd also drop their weapons BPs upon death some of the time. Some of these weapons would possibly be variants of Clan weapons (as to allow solo players to enjoy weapons that behave similarly), others variants of normal weapons.

 

For example, variant Grakatas, variant Gorgons, variant Mires, so on and so forth.

 

And for maximum hilarity, multiple hit teams can spawn along with the Stalker in the same mission, for an absolutely hilarious multi-way fight.

[KyleOne]

Great idea +1

[Ithiriel2]

That would be really nice. Things like, female Corpus lurking around the corner with the Paris, just waiting to put an arrow in your face, could prove interesting. Ospreyzilla might be nice, where Osprey-shaped power armour drops from the sky and tries to stomp on you.

 

Hyena and jackal deployments may also be interesting.

[Mythrex]

So, for example, you might have a Grineer Commando Team, who's made up of a super-heavy gunner, a Bombard, a pair of special Lancers who have special Grakatas and smaller shields they can one-hand, a shotgunner with a modified Hek, and maybe a melee attacker.

Thats a cool idea but maybe for the melee attacker make him have some kind of laser katana and a rocket pack on his back so he can move fast and jump really far but can't fly this way he can close the gap get some hits in then run and come back and so on and so forth

[stivoknis]

Awesome ideas.  Minibosses is just what this game needs. +1

[Cpl_Facehugger]

You had me at Grakata SOPMOD. :p

[ValhaHazred]

I've had a few ideas like this in the past.

Stalker should get his own Cell. 3 more rogue Tenno that show up both alone and together.

Nemesis - a huge female warframe. A Dark Sector reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWqYKFspmE

- she would have her giant glaive thing, a bolt shotgun and throwing axes.

Scourge - a small lithe male warframe that moves like an ape.

- he uses dual sawn-off assault rifles, a bolt revolver and a fast two handed sword.

Hunter - a stealthy sniper female frame.

- she has a Latron style carbine that runs off sniper ammo, a smg and dual daggers.

Mercenaries

A random encounter that wouldn't have any specific trigger. Usually working with the enemy you are fighting, but can show up to attack them too. They would spawn in packs of 5-10 and would each have a random weapon pulled from the market, and a few unique to them.

Mercenary teleport beacons to summon a friendly Merc could be purchased in the shop as a disposable.

Edited June 30, 2013 by ValhaHazred

[Lukap99]

We need more multi-way battles in this game. Watching stalker fighting the corpus is fun. Maybe even maps where 2 factions are fighting for dominance.

[theammostore]

I've had a few ideas like this in the past.

Stalker should get his own Cell. 3 more rogue Tenno that show up both alone and together.

Nemesis - a huge female warframe. A Dark Sector reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWqYKFspmE

- she would have her giant glaive thing, a bolt shotgun and throwing axes.

Scourge - a small lithe male warframe that moves like an ape.

- he uses dual sawn-off assault rifles, a bolt revolver and a fast two handed sword.

Hunter - a stealthy sniper female frame.

- she has a Latron style carbine that runs off sniper ammo, a smg and dual daggers.

Mercenaries

A random encounter that wouldn't have any specific trigger. Usually working with the enemy you are fighting, but can show up to attack them too. They would spawn in packs of 5-10 and would each have a random weapon pulled from the market, and a few unique to them.

Mercenary teleport beacons to summon a friendly Merc could be purchased in the shop as a disposable.

 

Not sure if we should be able to purchase a Merc. We are supposedly warriors of honor.

[Kasamoto]

Agreed, we need more random elements to freshen up the otherwise longwinding grindmission.

[ValhaHazred]

Not sure if we should be able to purchase a Merc. We are supposedly warriors of honor.

We are Space!ninja! The guys who do anything to win and steal everything not bolted to the bulkheads.

Edited July 1, 2013 by ValhaHazred

[MJ12]

We are Space!ninja! The guys who do anything to win and steal everything not bolted to the bulkheads.

 

New research item: Cutting torches, so you can steal the bulkheads too.

[LazerusKI]

more killer squads aka minibosses...yes, that would be interesting.

i miss the fear "omg, my screen is flickering, what is that? omg omg stalker *scream*"

[Protocalz]

It's a good idea. But for the love of god, take it easy on the Ospreys. If there IS to be a special offensive Osprey then the hitbox needs to be bigger (preferably a lot bigger). Otherwise, love it.

[BikiliTheGreat]

I've had a few ideas like this in the past.

Stalker should get his own Cell. 3 more rogue Tenno that show up both alone and together.

Nemesis - a huge female warframe. A Dark Sector reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWqYKFspmE

- she would have her giant glaive thing, a bolt shotgun and throwing axes.

Scourge - a small lithe male warframe that moves like an ape.

- he uses dual sawn-off assault rifles, a bolt revolver and a fast two handed sword.

Hunter - a stealthy sniper female frame.

- she has a Latron style carbine that runs off sniper ammo, a smg and dual daggers.

that was my idea https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/68436-more-rogue-tenno/#entry726102

[ValhaHazred]

that was my idea https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/68436-more-rogue-tenno/#entry726102

Great minds think alike :D