(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 9 minutes ago, keikogi said: The Tiranids called and they want their weapon back.ย Jokes aside seems like a really nice weaponย Tell them that is LIES AND SLANDER I stole most of this from the Brethren moons. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 (edited) 15 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Infested โVertebratorโ Rifle โBirthed in the death-wombs of the long-dead Celian Continuity of Eris, this Infested weapon deals Corrosiveย and spreads any status effect afflicting an enemy to those within a small radius.โ โCodex Special Traits:Pandemic Rounds:ย Shooting an enemy afflicted with a status effect has a chance to spread that status effect to another enemy within a 3.6m radius.Lore Testing, testingโฆ. This is doctor Loos Kanageyan, anthropologist and archeotechnologist, and Iโd just like to put it on the record that I asked: โwhat theย hellย did you just put on my desk?!โ Except, well, thatโs not my desk - Iโm taking notes on aย dataslate outside an Infestation containment unit in the Chirurge-Class Dreadnought.ย Back in the Academy on Io, they had a replica of something like this. Itโs a relic of the Celian Continuity, โbirthed from their death-wombsโ or so I heard. Since Tennoย loveย guns like most people love their mother, Iโll explain how it functions. Sort of. All the science behind this was lost a long time ago.ย This was one of their weapons. I donโtโฆ. I donโt know how it works. We killed everyone who did. All I know is that if you shoot someone with this, any effect theyโre hit with will transfer to an enemy nearby. And somehow, this energy weapon deals biological damage. It shoots six-round bursts. But, if you hold the trigger down, like thisโฆ itโsย divided.ย First three rounds punch through enemies, second three-round burst fires when you take your finger off. Not unlike a Tigris or Balaenis or Zylok. Except holding the trigger down? It charges those three shots for maximum damage, making them explode on impact. I donโt pretend I know how this works. Last time anyone saw these fire was back during the First Corpus Expansion, in those early days when the Thaw Cultures filled a vast gulf between Grineer and Corpus Space. Back then, Grineer wereโฆ sort of a boogeyman for those out on the new frontier. Believe it or not, back then, the stories were of inhumanly beautiful, broad, tall hairless creatures that would abduct and disassemble your children. But thatโs not important now. See, Pluto is a piss-poor planet. The only reason itโs such a fixture is that itโs the seat of Granumโs power, and itโs got auto-factories and machines nobody knows how to make anymore. Weโฆย theyย needed to grow. It was the most comfortable weโd been since before the Collapse. But there was one obstacle: the Celian Continuity. What my ancestors did? That was colonialism, pure and simple. But the Celian Continuity, they were bastards through and through. Hereโs some perspective. After the Orokin fell, the scattered peoples of the Origin System found many different tech bases. The Oeizu dusted off their old knowledge of atomics, the Dziewanans use a combination of nanomachines and printing that predates the Orokin, the Cursed Moon had the best grasp of Orokin metamaterials and Void science and managed to create things from nothing, and the Celiansโฆ They used pure, raw, Infestation. They saw the Infestation as a way to become the New Orokin, and strategically bred strains to augment their strength, give them a kind of telepathy, augment themselves for specialized roles, and from that came a belief that we were all barely sapient tumors that walked. Course, when you consider what they looked like, this was probably projection. The historian Mโkimuro said theyโd โforce their communion on people as they disassembled their own skulls into a nest of screaming mouths and tentacles, forcing this grotesque appendage into every orifice of the fearful unfortunateโs face in a grotesque parody of a kissโฆโ (Eeeugh) So we killed them all. We sterilized the moon, scouring any trace of them from it. We thought it worked, but, well, you know how that song and dance goes. ย AND TARJA LEM JUST GAVE YOU ONE, YASSIN?! Yassin:ย HEY! IT WAS PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED! Kanageyan: โWHAT SERVICE?! Yassin: โI murdered an asteroid!โ Kanageyan: โ...you murdered theย entire population of an asteroid?โ Yassin: โ...no.โ Kanageyan: โIโm just not gonna touch on that.โ ย I really do hope, though, that seeing something this unspeakably dangerous isnโt a sign of worse things to come. Infestation cultsโฆ theyโve always been something of a nuisance. My buddies back in archeotech studies, the Tenno mightโve come and abducted them, weโd tell horror stories about the kinds of nightmares that Infestation cultists create. The Cult of Arlo?ย ...Hate to say it, but I saw it coming. Infestation cults do this every time they rear their ugly heads, promising miracles that can put you back on the level of the Orokin. Maybe even higher. Why do you think Doctor Tengusโ decrepit, tumorous spier van plesier tugs against his smock whenever he thinks of the Infestation? Why do you think Black Seed thinks they can make bioweaponry work? Simple. The Infestation breathed spores into them and used them as an antenna to broadcast them a simple idea: they could become gods.ย And so, theyโll come up with strains or breed-models of Infestation that find some new way to turn everything around you into a potential time bomb. There was an Infestation cult back on Europa, once. The Solaris miners found some beating heart or tumor under the ice, andโฆ ...I was examining the ruins of New Zagreb there, once. I sawโฆ I saw a Solaris miner in a parka get bisected at the stomach by a plasma shotgun, watched their legs pick themselves up, and run towards us. Its spineโฆ no, itsย spinesย had regrown, and it was swinging bony protrusions that had become flails and axes towards us. Like a buzzsaw with legs. And then his midsection picks itself up. The head-grate swings open, sinew and gristle between the slats, and starts opening and closing like a mouth, and I swear to the Void I can see it becoming teeth. And the head, thereโs veins connecting it to something behind the mouth, itโs like the head has become just another appendage. It shoots out, both heads screaming something that sounded almost but not quite like language. A tentacle shot out from its back, it hooked itself to a wall, and started shooting at us with a mining laser. It was justโฆ. Mouths and tentacles. And a laser. A laser that Iโm pretty sure had grown out of its arm.ย So, anyway. You see Infestation? Burn it. Then rip out its rootsย and burn it again.ย Rinse and repeat till you feel safe. ย Stats Trigger: Duplex-Burst-chargeBurst Count: 3(6)Fire Rate:ย Magazine: 66 On Impact: Damage: 40ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 8ย Slash16 Corrosive6ย Puncture10 ImpactCritical Chance: 16%Critical Multiplier: 2.4xStatus Chance: 42%Punch-Through: 0.8mStatus Radius: 3.6m ย Charged: ย Charge Time: 0.4sย On Impact:Damage:: 40ย ย ย 8ย Slashย ย ย 16 Corrosiveย ย ย 6ย Punctureย ย ย 10 ImpactCritical Chance: 16%Critical Multiplier: 2.6xStatus Chance: 48% ย Radial: Damage: 2918 Electric11 PunctureCritical Chance: 28%Critical Multiplier: 2.6xStatus Chance: 48%Blast Radius: 3.6m ย Artist Notes:I was going to post a LORE UPDATE on my thread, but then I was all like โscrew it, why not, itโs been like a month.โ ย There were a few main ideas here: creating something with the Proliferation effect from Outriders, (which spreads status to nearby enemies) creating a weapon that was essentially the Marker as a firearm, adding some unique lore, and creating a weapon with a frighteningly bizarre trigger. I meanโฆ Duplex-burst-charge? What?! And one more thing. This weapon was spawned solely because I was trying for a piss-take of the way 40k writes lore of stuff like the Xenos deathlock used by blackshields. Which is officially described asย โThere existed many terrifyingly powerfulย xenosย technology weapons encountered during the Great Crusade, which, through incredibly effective, had been declared prohibited by Mechanicum and Emperor alike for their detrimental effects on the body and mind of a human wielder. The desperation of certain Blackshield forces, however, had overcome such concerns. Those weapons sought out by certain groups of Blackshields were prized for the trauma they inflicted upon the foe -- enemies not torn apart by their horrifying effect were assailed by a storm of soul-wrenching alien horror. Such weapons had been encountered in a range of classes, such as the Extinction Carbines of theย Khraveย or the psycho-mobius claw-guns of theย Kala Sistrumย being the most commonly sought-after amongst Blackshield forces.โ If youโre wondering what literally any of that meansโฆ good question. So the phrase โSpawned in the death-wombs of the Celian Continuityโ arose. ย Also, @Teoarrkthis is the Infested thing I said you inspired. The lore section is godly. Always admired your penwork but this was quite a treat to wake up to.ย Hell yes it's going into the Technocyte Schism.ย Edited November 1, 2021 by Teoarrk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 COMING AT SOME POINT: MORE CURSED MOON STUFF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Just now, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: COMING AT SOME POINT: MORE CURSED MOON STUFF can't wait. Looks very Tyranid in the best of ways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: can't wait. Looks very Tyranid in the best of ways. This is from THE CURSED MOON, a setting I came up with awhile back to expand WF's lore. TL;Doctor of their lore: 1. They were the most advanced civilization after the Orokin fell because (unlike The Corpus) they had access to Orokin technology that, for some reason, had broken permissions.ย 2. For a time, they surpassed The Orokin, and might have cost the Corpus dearly... 3. Then their moon telefragged itself with an instance of itself from several picoseconds in the future due to a Void experiment Gone Horribly Wrong. Edited November 2, 2021 by (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 I love the premise of a highly advanced civilization that is on the precipice of destruction with only a slight miscalculation (that being said temporary calculations being off is a big oopsie!). I'm about 4 pages into the story for @keikogiand just wanted to see if there was overlap with Ganymede since I love the Cowboy Bebop episodeย Ganymede Elegy.ย Chtorrh Tower is beautiful. really like what you've done for the moon. It's so utterly Orokin an engineering project.ย 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: I love the premise of a highly advanced civilization that is on the precipice of destruction with only a slight miscalculation (that being said temporary calculations being off is a big oopsie!). I'm about 4 pages into the story for @keikogiand just wanted to see if there was overlap with Ganymede since I love the Cowboy Bebop episodeย Ganymede Elegy.ย Chtorrh Tower is beautiful. really like what you've done for the moon. It's so utterly Orokin an engineering project.ย Sorry I kinda forgot about this one midway through. It was... back when we were feeling hyped for PoE and Orb Vallis, but I've soured a little bit on open world content because of how.... I just feel like I only go there for riven unlocks, and after i've gotten all the loot I just don't feel it as much anymore. Though I do admittedly like the boss fights on PoE and Vallis. That's siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. If there's any more lore you need on it, I can help. Here's some stuff I never got around to saying: 1. There's a lot of ocean, which fills all the horizontal striations you see on Ganymede. And the craters. 2. Thereย wasย another tower at one point, but it was wrecked during the Old War or something and was never fixed. Edited November 2, 2021 by (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Sorry I kinda forgot about this one midway through No need to apologise, what you already had there is very good and left a good first impression. 13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: I just feel like I only go there for riven unlock Open worlds are a lot of work to populate. I made 2 20 page quests and a trial and that expeditions system for my one and I still feel like it is only surface level. If you don't like a content model, it's good to not create more of what you don't like interacting with. I'll be honest though, if it weren't for ย 13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: I do admittedly like the boss fights on PoE and Vallis. That's siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. I would not touch open worlds at all. They're fun to do once in a while. Admittedly it makes it sound like I don't like open worlds at all saying that, but in a vain hope kind of way I try to hold onto the times when they were fun until they finally add something more to them. 13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: There's a lot of ocean, which fills all the horizontal striations you see on Ganymede. And the craters. Ah I see. I wondered if there was a sort of gas zone, since you're going for a habitable but alien landscape. 13 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Thereย wasย another tower at one point, but it was wrecked during the Old War or something and was never fixed. That sounds like a great raid area (the old, old gamemode) Edited November 2, 2021 by Teoarrk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keikogi Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 59 minutes ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: They were the most advanced civilization after the Orokin fell because (unlike The Corpus) they had access to Orokin technology that, for some reason, had broken permissions Here a good silly reason , sentient hacked it but could not be bothered to put a new password because he was in direct control. He died an the technology was left there. This kind off #*!% up is surprisingly common on war. For example the usa lost nightwank in 1999 because of bunch off small #*!% ups and haste. 42 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: I'm about 4 pages into the story for @keikogiand just wanted to see if there was overlap with Ganymede That's a lotย Edited November 2, 2021 by keikogi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, keikogi said: That's a lotย Sorry.ย I thought it would be much shorter but writing it all out proved to be a similar exercise to Loka.โข๏ธ Edited November 2, 2021 by Teoarrk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keikogi Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: Sorry.ย I thought it would be much shorter but writing it all out proved to be a similar exercise to Loka.โข๏ธ No need to be sorry just impressedย 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo3602 Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 On 2021-10-31 at 4:16 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Infested โVertebratorโ Rifle โBirthed in the death-wombs of the long-dead Celian Continuity of Eris, this Infested weapon deals Corrosiveย and spreads any status effect afflicting an enemy to those within a small radius.โ โCodex Special Traits:Pandemic Rounds:ย Shooting an enemy afflicted with a status effect has a chance to spread that status effect to another enemy within a 3.6m radius.Lore Testing, testingโฆ. This is doctor Loos Kanageyan, anthropologist and archeotechnologist, and Iโd just like to put it on the record that I asked: โwhat theย hellย did you just put on my desk?!โ Except, well, thatโs not my desk - Iโm taking notes on aย dataslate outside an Infestation containment unit in the Chirurge-Class Dreadnought.ย Back in the Academy on Io, they had a replica of something like this. Itโs a relic of the Celian Continuity, โbirthed from their death-wombsโ or so I heard. Since Tennoย loveย guns like most people love their mother, Iโll explain how it functions. Sort of. All the science behind this was lost a long time ago.ย This was one of their weapons. I donโtโฆ. I donโt know how it works. We killed everyone who did. All I know is that if you shoot someone with this, any effect theyโre hit with will transfer to an enemy nearby. And somehow, this energy weapon deals biological damage. It shoots six-round bursts. But, if you hold the trigger down, like thisโฆ itโsย divided.ย First three rounds punch through enemies, second three-round burst fires when you take your finger off. Not unlike a Tigris or Balaenis or Zylok. Except holding the trigger down? It charges those three shots for maximum damage, making them explode on impact. I donโt pretend I know how this works. Last time anyone saw these fire was back during the First Corpus Expansion, in those early days when the Thaw Cultures filled a vast gulf between Grineer and Corpus Space. Back then, Grineer wereโฆ sort of a boogeyman for those out on the new frontier. Believe it or not, back then, the stories were of inhumanly beautiful, broad, tall hairless creatures that would abduct and disassemble your children. But thatโs not important now. See, Pluto is a piss-poor planet. The only reason itโs such a fixture is that itโs the seat of Granumโs power, and itโs got auto-factories and machines nobody knows how to make anymore. Weโฆย theyย needed to grow. It was the most comfortable weโd been since before the Collapse. But there was one obstacle: the Celian Continuity. What my ancestors did? That was colonialism, pure and simple. But the Celian Continuity, they were bastards through and through. Hereโs some perspective. After the Orokin fell, the scattered peoples of the Origin System found many different tech bases. The Oeizu dusted off their old knowledge of atomics, the Dziewanans use a combination of nanomachines and printing that predates the Orokin, the Cursed Moon had the best grasp of Orokin metamaterials and Void science and managed to create things from nothing, and the Celiansโฆ They used pure, raw, Infestation. They saw the Infestation as a way to become the New Orokin, and strategically bred strains to augment their strength, give them a kind of telepathy, augment themselves for specialized roles, and from that came a belief that we were all barely sapient tumors that walked. Course, when you consider what they looked like, this was probably projection. The historian Mโkimuro said theyโd โforce their communion on people as they disassembled their own skulls into a nest of screaming mouths and tentacles, forcing this grotesque appendage into every orifice of the fearful unfortunateโs face in a grotesque parody of a kissโฆโ (Eeeugh) So we killed them all. We sterilized the moon, scouring any trace of them from it. We thought it worked, but, well, you know how that song and dance goes. ย AND TARJA LEM JUST GAVE YOU ONE, YASSIN?! Yassin:ย HEY! IT WAS PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED! Kanageyan: โWHAT SERVICE?! Yassin: โI murdered an asteroid!โ Kanageyan: โ...you murdered theย entire population of an asteroid?โ Yassin: โ...no.โ Kanageyan: โIโm just not gonna touch on that.โ ย I really do hope, though, that seeing something this unspeakably dangerous isnโt a sign of worse things to come. Infestation cultsโฆ theyโve always been something of a nuisance. My buddies back in archeotech studies, the Tenno mightโve come and abducted them, weโd tell horror stories about the kinds of nightmares that Infestation cultists create. The Cult of Arlo?ย ...Hate to say it, but I saw it coming. Infestation cults do this every time they rear their ugly heads, promising miracles that can put you back on the level of the Orokin. Maybe even higher. Why do you think Doctor Tengusโ decrepit, tumorous spier van plesier tugs against his smock whenever he thinks of the Infestation? Why do you think Black Seed thinks they can make bioweaponry work? Simple. The Infestation breathed spores into them and used them as an antenna to broadcast them a simple idea: they could become gods.ย And so, theyโll come up with strains or breed-models of Infestation that find some new way to turn everything around you into a potential time bomb. There was an Infestation cult back on Europa, once. The Solaris miners found some beating heart or tumor under the ice, andโฆ ...I was examining the ruins of New Zagreb there, once. I sawโฆ I saw a Solaris miner in a parka get bisected at the stomach by a plasma shotgun, watched their legs pick themselves up, and run towards us. Its spineโฆ no, itsย spinesย had regrown, and it was swinging bony protrusions that had become flails and axes towards us. Like a buzzsaw with legs. And then his midsection picks itself up. The head-grate swings open, sinew and gristle between the slats, and starts opening and closing like a mouth, and I swear to the Void I can see it becoming teeth. And the head, thereโs veins connecting it to something behind the mouth, itโs like the head has become just another appendage. It shoots out, both heads screaming something that sounded almost but not quite like language. A tentacle shot out from its back, it hooked itself to a wall, and started shooting at us with a mining laser. It was justโฆ. Mouths and tentacles. And a laser. A laser that Iโm pretty sure had grown out of its arm.ย So, anyway. You see Infestation? Burn it. Then rip out its rootsย and burn it again.ย Rinse and repeat till you feel safe. ย Stats Trigger: Duplex-Burst-chargeBurst Count: 3(6)Fire Rate:ย Magazine: 66 On Impact: Damage: 40ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 8ย Slash16 Corrosive6ย Puncture10 ImpactCritical Chance: 16%Critical Multiplier: 2.4xStatus Chance: 42%Punch-Through: 0.8mStatus Radius: 3.6m ย Charged: ย Charge Time: 0.4sย On Impact:Damage:: 40ย ย ย 8ย Slashย ย ย 16 Corrosiveย ย ย 6ย Punctureย ย ย 10 ImpactCritical Chance: 16%Critical Multiplier: 2.6xStatus Chance: 48% ย Radial: Damage: 2918 Electric11 PunctureCritical Chance: 28%Critical Multiplier: 2.6xStatus Chance: 48%Blast Radius: 3.6m ย Artist Notes:I was going to post a LORE UPDATE on my thread, but then I was all like โscrew it, why not, itโs been like a month.โ ย There were a few main ideas here: creating something with the Proliferation effect from Outriders, (which spreads status to nearby enemies) creating a weapon that was essentially the Marker as a firearm, adding some unique lore, and creating a weapon with a frighteningly bizarre trigger. I meanโฆ Duplex-burst-charge? What?! And one more thing. This weapon was spawned solely because I was trying for a piss-take of the way 40k writes lore of stuff like the Xenos deathlock used by blackshields. Which is officially described asย โThere existed many terrifyingly powerfulย xenosย technology weapons encountered during the Great Crusade, which, through incredibly effective, had been declared prohibited by Mechanicum and Emperor alike for their detrimental effects on the body and mind of a human wielder. The desperation of certain Blackshield forces, however, had overcome such concerns. Those weapons sought out by certain groups of Blackshields were prized for the trauma they inflicted upon the foe -- enemies not torn apart by their horrifying effect were assailed by a storm of soul-wrenching alien horror. Such weapons had been encountered in a range of classes, such as the Extinction Carbines of theย Khraveย or the psycho-mobius claw-guns of theย Kala Sistrumย being the most commonly sought-after amongst Blackshield forces.โ If youโre wondering what literally any of that meansโฆ good question. So the phrase โSpawned in the death-wombs of the Celian Continuityโ arose. ย Also, @Teoarrkthis is the Infested thing I said you inspired. Nice work, really like the lore for it as well. Mechanics are interesting and as I've probably mentioned before I think we could really use some more infested weapons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Neo3602 said: Nice work, really like the lore for it as well. ย Thank you! The lore was a lot of fun to write. ย 1 hour ago, Neo3602 said: Mechanics are interesting and as I've probably mentioned before I think we could really use some more infested weapons Honestly, this time I just wanted to make the most ridiculous trigger I could. I figured "hey, we spend a lot of time holding the trigger on duplex-auto guns, why not?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 (edited) Tenno โVeuglaireโ pistol โThere are many pistols in the Origin System that improbably recover ammo or energy through unknown means. The Veuglaireโs is simple, refunding ammo on headshots and kills.ย The one drawback to this is its surprisingly heavy recoil - a noted design flaw. It was commissioned by a high-ranking Orokin official from Neptune towards the end of the Orokin Era who insisted on the toggle-lock design and magazine feed. She then complained to Haruka Lorne about the recoil, questionable reliability, and expense.โ Codex Special Traits:ย +10% bonus damage on headshots Headshots donโt consume ammo, kills add one round into the mag. Itโs possible to โoverstuffโ the mag to 11 or even twelve. ย Lore The younger but more heavyset brother of the Bellatrix Prime. The Veuglaire, on the surface, seems like a straight upgrade to the Bellatrix.ย Same magazine, higher damage, even more crit, just as exceptionally accurateโฆ But this is at the expense of a longer reload, a lower fire rate, and worse recoil. Irritating, when you consider just how the Veuglaire rewards precision. One headshot doesnโt consume ammo, while kills add one rounds into the magazine. Meaning that technically, a headshot kill can reward two rounds. If you get a kill in the first 2 rounds of the mag, itโs even possible to overfill the magazine up to 12. It doesnโt have the sheer sustained fire of something like the Magnus Prime, Athodai, or dual Toxocyst, but it IS controllable. And predictable. And liable to hit enemies with meaty impact procs, which can be channeled with hemorrhage into even more slash procs.ย A single Lex Prime is more controllable due to solid construction that lessens recoil, and in part due to a low fire rate. According to Haruka Lorne, the Orokin that commissioned it claimed they wanted it for โhunting.โ The following conversation was captured between Father Entrati, the engraver Aulay, Thane, and Haruka Lorne: Aulay: โHunting. Mark my words, Lorne, theyโre predators, every single one of them. And anything that catches their eye is prey. Not just the auramochs they have galloping across the Cupbearer Plains." Father: โHeโs right, Haru. You need to understand this.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...arenโtย youย Orokin, [REDACTED]?โ Father: โYes. Which means I know intimately what theyโre like.โ Haruka Lorne: โI couldnโt refuse them. Theyโdโฆ theyโdย doย things to me, subject me to the green fire, orโฆโ Aulay: โTake it from a Bidanian - I know. My family asks me how I can do this, how I can look myself in the eye and tell myself itโs a good thing that I make their art. And I tell them that some days are harder than others.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โSo if I had no choice, why are you telling me this?โ Father:ย โSimple. Because you need to understand one thing about the Orokin. Every cent of that wealth is blood money.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...Whatโs a cent?โ Aulay:ย โOld term for currency. As in, a cent is one percent of the wealth, soโฆโ Haruka Lorne:ย โOh.โ *pauses* โThen what do we do about it?โ Father: โWe donโt do anything. We keep going, survive the Old War, andโฆ *deep sigh* Aulay: โWe just hope weโre not put to death because the catgut we supply isnโt thick enough, or that we donโt come to A Bao A Qu and find something walking around, wearing what looks like the body of your sister twisted through a carnival mirror, but theyโveโฆย *sighs* Aulay: โShe was getting gene therapies. Sheโd been born in the wrong body, was changing it to fit herself. But an Orokin liked what she had beforehand, andโฆ it was a male body by the time the Orokin put it on.โ Father: โValdor, are you-โ Aulay: โNo. No, I am not.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โThenโฆ then Iโll do something. Then the Tenno will do something. Do all those words of honor and duty mean nothing to-โ Father: โYes.โย Haruka Lorne:ย โThen byโฆ not the Void, by Aulayโs God, we must make them mean something.โ Exactly what kind of โpreyโ the Orokin official hunted is unknown. Whatย isย known, however, is that the Bidanian Theist practice of Makabi, the Great Hunt, is uncommonly vicious on Aulayโs home moon of Ganymede. The reasons should be obvious. ย Stats Fire Rate: 2.6 Magazine: 10 Trigger: Semi Reload: 3.2s Accuracy: 90.9 Damage: 145 Slash: 40.6 Impactย 81.2 Puncture 23.2 Status: 20% Crit Chance: 32% Crit Multiplier: 2.6x Headshot Multiplier: 3.3xย ย Artist Notes The Veuglaire is - while taking inspiration from the Fourpounder from Deathloop - essentially my Kramer .50 build from Aliens Fireteam. With some minor influence from the Malorian Arms 3516. But that's beside the point. Anyway, my Kramer pistol has bonus headshot damage and refills ammo on kills.ย Except in Warframeโฆ. Refunding just one round on kill doesnโt seem that useful. Even from really powerful pistols, and on higher difficulties, it doesnโt always take one shot. So the ammo reward mechanic makes this a little more useful the higher the numbers get. I also didn't want this outstripping the Lex Prime too much - this is meant to be a weirdly esoteric sidegrade that's good if you're using it properly, compared to the Lex, which pretty much anyone can use. I considered adding an explosion-like perk to this dealing gas damage on headshots, but thatโs being done on a later pistol that will look like a Thompson Center Contender combined with the Veldt. Plus, likeโฆ nigh-infinite ammo (assuming the stars have aligned to let you get consistent oneshots) and explosions? Not only does that make this too dependent on headshots, but thatโs just too much. Part of me wants to come up with a precision handcannon that's not too dependent on headshots, but honestly, I think i nailed that with the Depezador Prime. That can be bumped up to a 9x crit multiplier if you're a good shot and have primed mods, and 6.84 crit after one headshot, so that should be helpful against the Infested, which often have easily missed heads and charge you in great numbers. The next two precision pistols I have planned (yes, I haveย two) will be more of the same in that regard - some gimmick involving headshots. Also, I was going to post that one Cursed Moon rifle, but then I was all like โEh.โ Edited October 24, 2023 by (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo3602 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 22 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Tenno โVeuglaireโ pistol โThere are many pistols in the Origin System that improbably recover ammo or energy through unknown means. The Veuglaireโs is simple, refunding ammo on headshots and kills.ย The one drawback to this is its surprisingly heavy recoil - a noted design flaw. It was commissioned by a high-ranking Orokin official from Neptune towards the end of theย who insisted on the toggle-lock design and magazine feed. She then complained to Haruka Lorne about the recoil, questionable reliability, and expense.โCodex Special Traits:ย +10% bonus damage on headshots Headshots donโt consume ammo, kills add 2 rounds into the mag. Itโs possible to โoverstuffโ the mag to 11 or even twelve. ย Lore The younger but more heavyset brother of the Bellatrix Prime. The Veuglaire, on the surface, seems like a straight upgrade to the Bellatrix.ย Same magazine, higher damage, even more crit, just as exceptionally accurateโฆ But this is at the expense of a longer reload, a lower fire rate, and worse recoil. Irritating, when you consider just how the Veuglaire rewards precision. One headshot doesnโt consume ammo, while kills add 2 rounds into the magazine. Meaning that technically, a headshot kill can reward 3 rounds. If you get a kill in the first 2 rounds of the mag, itโs even possible to overfill the magazine up to 12. It doesnโt have the sheer sustained fire of something like the Magnus Prime, Athodai, or dual Toxocyst, but it IS controllable. And predictable. And liable to hit enemies with meaty impact procs, which can be channeled with hemorrhage into even more slash procs.ย A single Lex Prime is more controllable due to solid construction that lessens recoil, and in part due to a low fire rate. According to Haruka Lorne, the Orokin that commissioned it claimed they wanted it for โhunting.โ The following conversation was captured between Father Entrati, the engraver Aulay, Thane, and Haruka Lorne: Aulay: โHunting. Mark my words, Lorne, theyโre predators, every single one of them. And anything that catches their eye is prey. Not just the auramochs they have galloping across the Cupbearer Plains." Father: โHeโs right, Haru. You need to understand this.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...arenโtย youย Orokin, [REDACTED]?โ Father: โYes. Which means I know intimately what theyโre like.โ Haruka Lorne: โI couldnโt refuse them. Theyโdโฆ theyโdย doย things to me, subject me to the green fire, orโฆโ Aulay: โTake it from a Bidanian - I know. My family asks me how I can do this, how I can look myself in the eye and tell myself itโs a good thing that I make their art. And I tell them that some days are harder than others.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โSo if I had no choice, why are you telling me this?โ Father:ย โSimple. Because you need to understand one thing about the Orokin. Every cent of that wealth is blood money.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...Whatโs a cent?โ Aulay:ย โOld term for currency. As in, a cent is one percent of the wealth, soโฆโ Haruka Lorne:ย โOh.โ *pauses* โThen what do we do about it?โ Father: โWe donโt do anything. We keep going, survive the Old War, andโฆ *deep sigh* Aulay: โWe just hope weโre not put to death because the catgut we supply isnโt thick enough, or that we donโt come to A Bao A Qu and find something walking around, wearing what looks like the body of your sister twisted through a carnival mirror, but theyโveโฆย *sighs* Aulay: โShe was getting gene therapies. Sheโd been born in the wrong body, was changing it to fit herself. But an Orokin liked what she had beforehand, andโฆ it was a male body by the time the Orokin put it on.โ Father: โValdor, are you-โ Aulay: โNo. No, I am not.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โThenโฆ then Iโll do something. Then the Tenno will do something. Do all those words of honor and duty mean nothing to-โ Father: โYes.โย Haruka Lorne:ย โThen byโฆ not the Void, by Aulayโs God, we must make them mean something.โ Exactly what kind of โpreyโ the Orokin official hunted is unknown. Whatย isย known, however, is that the Bidanian Theist practice of Makabi, the Great Hunt, is uncommonly vicious on Aulayโs home moon of Ganymede. The reasons should be obvious. ย Stats Fire Rate: 2.6Magazine: 10Trigger: SemiReload: 3.2sAccuracy: 90.9Damage: 125Slash: 35Impactย 70Puncture 20Status: 20%Crit Chance: 32%Crit Multiplier: 2.5xHeadshot Multiplier: 2.1xย ย Artist Notes The Veuglaire is - while taking inspiration from the Fourpounder from Deathloop - essentially my Kramer .50 build from Aliens Fireteam. With some minor influence from the Malorian Arms 3516. But that's beside the point. Anyway, my Kramer pistol has bonus headshot damage and refills ammo on kills.ย Except in Warframeโฆ. Refunding just one round on kill doesnโt seem that useful. Even from really powerful pistols, and on higher difficulties, it doesnโt always take one shot. So the ammo reward mechanic makes this a little more useful the higher the numbers get. I also didn't want this outstripping the Lex Prime too much - this is meant to be a weirdly esoteric sidegrade that's good if you're using it properly, compared to the Lex, which pretty much anyone can use. I considered adding an explosion-like perk to this dealing gas damage on headshots, but thatโs being done on a later pistol that will look like a Thompson Center Contender combined with the Veldt. Plus, likeโฆ nigh-infinite ammo (assuming the stars have aligned to let you get consistent oneshots) and explosions? Not only does that make this too dependent on headshots, but thatโs just too much. Part of me wants to come up with a precision handcannon that's not too dependent on headshots, but honestly, I think i nailed that with the Depezador Prime. That can be bumped up to a 9x crit multiplier if you're a good shot and have primed mods, and 6.84 crit after one headshot, so that should be helpful against the Infested, which often have easily missed heads and charge you in great numbers. The next two precision pistols I have planned (yes, I haveย two) will be more of the same in that regard - some gimmick involving headshots. Also, I was going to post that one Cursed Moon rifle, but then I was all like โEh.โ Like this one as well, refilling ammo on headshots and headshot kills sounds nice. Also the lore checks out, it's hard to understate how awful the Orokin were. Though it would be interesting to see how unique the Entrati are since despite their dysfunction they don't seem too bad considering the other stuff known abut the Orokin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Neo3602 said: Like this one as well, refilling ammo on headshots and headshot kills sounds nice. ย Thanks so much! Though it's not just headshot kills, it'sย anyย kill. It's just that since headshots don't consume ammo (which is technically adding one into the mag) and kills add two, technically... headshot kills add three. Seriously, I can't overstate how fun it is doing this with the Kramer against a horde of runners in Aliens Fireteam, just landing headshot after headshot and realizing you're going to get aย lotย more than eight rounds out of this mag after you've killed four enemies in just as many shots and have five rounds left. Or if you killed three, two-shotting one and one-shotting the other two and the pistol made it so ammo-efficient that for what's in the mag, you might as well have one-shotted them all. The Athodai and Toxocyst are... fun enough, same for the Knell, but there's something so refreshing about using the Kramer, knowing you're being rewarded for a single precise shot,ย andย having a margin of error cause... well, eight rounds.ย (edit: also, the Cursed Moon thing I posted probably would've had a blast radius, which... honestly? Wanted to shake things up a little. Do a different kind of gimmick by importing a favorite build into this.) 37 minutes ago, Neo3602 said: Also the lore checks out, it's hard to understate how awful the Orokin were. Though it would be interesting to see how unique the Entrati are since despite their dysfunction they don't seem too bad considering the other stuff known abut the Orokin. I didn't have it in me to make Vilcor into someone that was Just As Bad tbh, and Kermerros apparently doesn't have many hard feelings about you destroying the Orokin Empire. You're right that it sounds interesting.ย Since theย Entrati have a unique language, a unique sub-aesthetic, access to unique and "archaic" (According to some flavor text. I have no idea what that means in this context) technology such as Necraloids, Necramechs and their associated weapons, and the Sepulcrum and Trumna,ย and the way Parvos refers to them as "keeping secrets," I get a sense the Entrati were a separate caste. Or that they were sidelined a little from the caste system. Which I think makes sense - they had The Heart, they had their fingers in some of the most advanced industries of the Orokin Empire,ย andย their patriarch was foundational to everything the Orokin ran on (except for Kuva). Who was gonna tell them no? Edited November 5, 2021 by (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 hour ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Or that they were sidelined a little from the caste system. Which I think makes sense - they had The Heart, they had their fingers in some of the most advanced industries of the Orokin Empire,ย andย their patriarch was foundational to everything the Orokin ran on (except for Kuva). Who was gonna tell them no? I'd wager that they have their own special caste since Deimos was hidden. Then again, if the Orokin caste system is anything like the Indian one, that would place them right at the top alongside the Executors in terms of rank. On 2021-11-04 at 6:17 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Gun is beautiful. Stats and mechanic fit the bill for a handcannon. ย 1 hour ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: archaic The way the weapons are fashioned make them seem more like they were designed for combat, whereas the 'modern' Orokin weapons have a tendency for looking more like art sculptures than weapons of war. On 2021-11-04 at 6:17 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: According to Haruka Lorne, the Orokin that commissioned it claimed they wanted it for โhunting.โ The following conversation was captured between Father Entrati, the engraver Aulay, Thane, and Haruka Lorne: Aulay: โHunting. Mark my words, Lorne, theyโre predators, every single one of them. And anything that catches their eye is prey. Not just the auramochs they have galloping across the Cupbearer Plains." Father: โHeโs right, Haru. You need to understand this.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...arenโtย youย Orokin, [REDACTED]?โ Father: โYes. Which means I know intimately what theyโre like.โ Haruka Lorne: โI couldnโt refuse them. Theyโdโฆ theyโdย doย things to me, subject me to the green fire, orโฆโ Aulay: โTake it from a Bidanian - I know. My family asks me how I can do this, how I can look myself in the eye and tell myself itโs a good thing that I make their art. And I tell them that some days are harder than others.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โSo if I had no choice, why are you telling me this?โ Father:ย โSimple. Because you need to understand one thing about the Orokin. Every cent of that wealth is blood money.โ Haruka Lorne: โ...Whatโs a cent?โ Aulay:ย โOld term for currency. As in, a cent is one percent of the wealth, soโฆโ Haruka Lorne:ย โOh.โ *pauses* โThen what do we do about it?โ Father: โWe donโt do anything. We keep going, survive the Old War, andโฆ *deep sigh* Aulay: โWe just hope weโre not put to death because the catgut we supply isnโt thick enough, or that we donโt come to A Bao A Qu and find something walking around, wearing what looks like the body of your sister twisted through a carnival mirror, but theyโveโฆย *sighs* Aulay: โShe was getting gene therapies. Sheโd been born in the wrong body, was changing it to fit herself. But an Orokin liked what she had beforehand, andโฆ it was a male body by the time the Orokin put it on.โ Father: โValdor, are you-โ Aulay: โNo. No, I am not.โ Haruka Lorne:ย โThenโฆ then Iโll do something. Then the Tenno will do something. Do all those words of honor and duty mean nothing to-โ Father: โYes.โย Haruka Lorne:ย โThen byโฆ not the Void, by Aulayโs God, we must make them mean something.โ Exactly what kind of โpreyโ the Orokin official hunted is unknown. Whatย isย known, however, is that the Bidanian Theist practice of Makabi, the Great Hunt, is uncommonly vicious on Aulayโs home moon of Ganymede. The reasons should be obvious. Sounds grim, love it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: I'd wager that they have their own special caste since Deimos was hidden. Then again, if the Orokin caste system is anything like the Indian one, that would place them right at the top alongside the Executors in terms of rank. On 2021-11-04 at 1:17 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Huh. I more had the impression Deimos hid itself after the Tenno started killing everything, not that it was an ongoing thing. Interesting... And you're probably right about them being close in rank to executors.ย 8 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: Gun is beautiful. Stats and mechanic fit the bill for a handcannon. ย Thanks so much! I'm glad you like the ammo recovery part. The stats were kind of hard to nail down, because I wanted it to feelย closeย to the Lex Prime in power but notย tooย much further. I accidentally replicated some of the Lex Prime's numbers while doing it once. As for aesthetic... it's basically just the Fourpounder from Deathloop with the barrel at 12 o'clock and a veryย large revolver-style compensator cut into the barrel. 12 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: The way the weapons are fashioned make them seem more like they were designed for combat, whereas the 'modern' Orokin weapons have a tendency for looking more like art sculptures than weapons of war. On 2021-11-04 at 1:17 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Ah, I see what you mean. Entrati weapons feel kind of like... Lex Prime in that way. No fiddly parts, no "horns" that remind me of the spur beneath the trigger guard on the LeMat revolver, but with some pretty traditional prime colors... and mostly brown, which means they don't actually stick outย thatย much. They also feel, in a way, more...ย baroqueย than Orokin stuff. Like it's all larger, older, and clunkier, from a bygone era of different artistic tastes. Kind of like this blunderbuss pistol 18 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: Sounds grim, love it :) Thanks =D I... do aย lotย of stuff talking about Orokin cruelty, like how they inflicted cultural genocide on the Vaulter people (this was awhile back on the thread) or the Bidanian Theists, and probably some other stuff, but I wanted to go for something a little more subtle this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: closeย to the Lex Prime in power but notย tooย much further. I accidentally replicated some of the Lex Prime's numbers while doing it once. It makes sense to move it over to Impact in any case, so that it has better stats against shields instead of armor and not take on entirely the same role as the Lex.ย As for looks, have to say Deathloop looks like something I will have to try at some point for style alone. 2 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: They also feel, in a way, more...ย baroqueย than Orokin stuff. Very much so.ย Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Teoarrk said: It makes sense to move it over to Impact in any case, so that it has better stats against shields instead of armor and not take on entirely the same role as the Lex.ย As for looks, have to say Deathloop looks like something I will have to try at some point for style alone. 3 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Plus, you can add Creeping Bullseye and Hemorrhage to it because of the high impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 21 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: inflicted cultural genocide on the Vaulter people (this was awhile back on the thread) or the Bidanian Theists I must find the deepest lore >:) ย 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Teoarrk said: I must find the deepest lore >:) ย ย Here. Let me save you some time: ย ย Here's the stuff about the Vaulters... On 2021-07-21 at 12:33 AM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Infested 'Emesis' Bioplasma Launcher โThis Infested launcher weapon was imperfectly reconstructed by the Entrati, using debris and computer data found in the Vaulter ruins. It launches three bioplasma spheres that explode on impact, releasing deadly gas damage radially. The more enemies caught in the blast radius, the more damage it does!โLore ย Special Traits:ย Concentratorย - aiming down sights for one second will increase the damage and blast radius of the next burst fired.Codex:Precious few relics survive from the days before the Orokin, and even less knowledge survives from that era. The Emesis is one such relicโฆ in a sense. It is a three-round burst bioplasma launcher that explodes on impact, releasing deadly superheated gas upon impact. Due to peculiarities with how gas damage works, this weapon can do more damage for each enemy caught in the blast radius. With heatย andย gas, itโs capable of slowly disintegratingย andย burning crowds of Infested all at once. Its high crit gives it massive damage potential. Itโs worth mentioning that itโs probably best if itโs not built with three elemental mods - the best option here is a standard crit/viral build. Possibly with Firestorm for blast radius, or Hammer Shot for extra crit and status. Zooming in for a short period of time will increase damage and blast radius by a small amount. Those unfamiliar with the Emesis assume itโs a relic warped by the Infestation on Deimos like the Enferon shotgun. Thatโs notโฆ entirely true. Father Entrati acquired this weapon from ruins belonging to a people that the Orokin referred to asย the Vaulters.ย It had been dumped, soon to be consumed and reconstituted by the technocyte Maws for raw materials. It was against Orokin law to work with Vaulter science or knowledge, but thenโฆ. It was Father. Few would go against his authority. The sheer level of naked contempt the Orokin had for the Vaulters remains one of the most puzzling facets of the Orokin Empire. While they hated the Bidanians, the unyielding hatred they had for the Vaulters goes above and beyond their aggression towards any other group. They lived a primitive existence in ancient catacombs beneath the surfaces of moons and asteroids, maintaining ancient banks of computers and books, clone wombs, and stockpiling ancient weapons of their own design. Not unlike the Esha, Oeizu, and Bidanian Theists, they claimed knowledge of the world before the Orokin. But where these three ethnic groups had a heavily mythologized understanding, with the Bidanians filtering this knowledge through millennia of religious tradition that held their God (or Gods) as being above the Orokin, the Vaulters had actual records and histories. And so as bad as the Bidanians had it, the Vaulters had it worse. Their culture was so thoroughly murdered by the Orokin that even their name even goes unremembered. Their technologies, their culture, their art and literature, all was destroyed by the Orokin with extreme prejudice. Vaulter children were forcibly inducted into residential schools where their culture was physically and mentally beaten out of them, and then they were presented back to their parents seemingly to rub salt in the wound. Vaulters were often impaled or tied to sculpture theyโd built and then liquefied, or used in dread experiments forgotten by history. Some fringe scientists among the Corpus say that various animals, such as the Desert Skates or perhaps Kubrow, were created from Vaulter bodies. Some of them even say the Vaulters were alive and conscious as it happened. (Authorโs note: This is easily one of the most horrible things Iโve written in my fanlore. Good Lord. I may need to pray.) Then, one day, Father Entrati managed to get his hands on some ancient Vaulter computers, acquired... extremely legally and without any bribery or shotgun-measuring. In his words: โWhat we did was plug a Vaulter computer and an Orokin one into a Grimnebulin flesh adapter - gross little thing, just a ball of red, with weeping green sores with a little outlet poking out. You have to keep it in a refrigerator. So what we did with this monstrosity was feed designs from Vaulters into a modified Helminth unit we'd attached to a forge. This thing came out. It's some kind of bioplasma launcher. I don't know everything about how it works. Not yet anyway. But my guess is, it's some kind of anti-synthetic weapon that the Infestation attempted to reconstruct. Since it doesn't have the plasma cells the Vaulters did, it created an organ that synthesizes bioplasma and mimics the functionality of the original one. If I could rebuild the original version, if I had some intact versions that werenโt eaten by the Infested, I'd have a near-perfect anti-Sentient weapon. Almost makes you wonder why the Orokin Empire is so keen on burying its past. The more you learn, the more lessons you wish they'd take from it." --Father Entrati STATS Trigger: BurstBurst Count: 3Burst Rate: 5.6Burst Delay: 0.2sMagazine: 18 ย On Impact: Damage: 8816 Puncture24 Gas48 HeatCritical Chance: 48%Critical Multiplier: 2.4xStatus Chance: 24% Radial: Damage: 23240 Impact200 GasCritical Chance: 48%Critical Multiplier: 2.4xStatus Chance: 24%Blast Radius: 6.9mย (nice) ย On 2021-04-03 at 4:38 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: for those of you wondering who the "Vaulters" mentioned in that last post were: Vaulter Ruins: These ancient, rusting catacombs are found underground between Ceres and Uranus. Especially Ganymede. I donโt have an aesthetic in mind, but stepping into one should feel jarring. Like youโve stepped into another game entirely. For any non-spaceship or Gas City tileset, you should be able to find one of these. Bode (from Ganymede) will have these quotes once you find one: ย ย Bode quotes: โAccording to legend, it used to be just Earth that was habitable. Weird to think about. So back then, people would live under the planetโs surface. It was safe from asteroid impacts, so why not?โ โThe Orokin were finding these even towards the end of the Meso era. When they werenโt bombarding the Vaulters with terraforming Seeds, choking them under fertile soil, nano substrate, and roots, they were dragging the people out kicking and screaming. If they were conscious.โ โWe donโt know NEARLY enough about the people who built these. We donโt even know what they called themselves, all we know is that the Orokin refused to call them anything but Vaulters.โ โThereโs a poem from Anonymous Ion about what the Orokin did to their Vaulter ancestors. The Orokin hadโฆ. Hate is too kind a word." "The Orokinย dragged them all off to residential academies, and set to beating their culture out, welt by welt. Theyโd present the children with machines recovered from Vaults and beat them for explaining how it worked, and ask the children why they made the Orokin beat them. Theyโd beat them for speaking their own languages. Theyโd beat them for recounting their histories in front of audiences which theyโd requested. Sometimes theyโd beat them for no reason at all.ย Then they refused to call the Vaulters by their real names and banned it from records. Imagine it, Tenno. They killed a culture. One of the only ones that could tell us how once upon a time, the Orokin were only human.โ ย aaaand here's some stuff about the bidanian theists. Their grudge against the Orokin is so profound that they have a religious festival dedicated to slaughtering Corrupted with hammers and lever-action rifles. Quote Tenno: โWhat does this have to do with summer?โ Akira: โDo you know what our Long Winter was? Nothing so prosaic as the cold that grips the Orb Vallis - it was a spiritual winter. A winter is a time where life rests, to bloom once more. But the Orokinโฆ they locked the system in an eternal stillness. A time where no beauty, no life, nothing beyond their control could flourish.โ Tenno: โAnd you end the Long Winter byโฆ killing Orokin.โ Akira: โNow you get it.โ ย ย On 2021-02-08 at 12:57 AM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Tenno 'Vernal' Lever-Action Rifle โOne of the highest points of Haruka Lorneโs craftsmanship, this lever-action rifle was created using parts from theย Makinaย andย Nagaย revolvers. The resulting creation fires silently if you pace your shots, and causes explosions on headshots. Two inscriptions scratched into the barrel read โFor The Great Huntโ and โEnd The Long Winter.โ Few records of these terms exist,ย and check your Leverian Entry for Gagarin, Tenno, Iโm sure youโll find it enlightening.โ --Codex SPECIAL TRAITSIntegral Suppressorย - Waiting 0.8 seconds between shots will silence the next shot fired. This is represented by a charge-like icon visible in the reticle. Even when zoomed in.Brainstormer:ย On headshots, release radiation damage equal to 40% of headshot damage in a 3.2m radial explosion.ย Hunterโs grip:ย headshot kills and stealth kills turn you invisible.Holosights: Tap altfire for increased zoom, which takes the form of an orange holographically projected sight that works similarly to ironsights in a first-person shooter. This also shows a graphic of the weapon silencing itself. Lore The last weaponย Haruka Lorneย created before the Tenno went into cryosleep. This Tenno rifle was built from spare parts for Naga and Makina revolvers, and as such it combines their most unusual traits into one high-powered package. Pacing your shots will silence it, and headshots release massive explosions of radiation damage. Like the Naga, it also comes with increased zoom - though in the form of tiny orange holographic sights that act much like traditional, non-technological iron sights.ย Everything about it compared to the Tenno arsenal is strange.ย It was a rather unexpected creation for Lorne, who was well-known for preferring fast-firing longarms and slow, powerful sidearms. On paper, it doesnโt even seem to have a solid or necessary role in the Tenno arsenal - itโs not a DMR like the Latron Wraith, Veldt, or Ostium, because itโs not semiauto and has tiny magazine capacity. But itโs not a sniper. In fact,ย it uses rifle ammo andย it doesnโt have a scope. Instead, it hasย ย an orange holographically projected sight that works similarly to ironsights in a first-person shooter. Similar to the lever-action rifle from Apex, there's a "charge" graphic that shows something increasing - in this case, the integrity of the weapon's sielncer. Where this rifle truly shines, however, is in assassination. The lever can be manipulated slowly, to silently chamber a round*, and combined with its silencer and its ability to turn its users invisible, it allows a Tenno to silently slaughter the population of an entire outpost without ever being seen. Even its lack of a scope can be an advantage - this provides users ample peripheral vision, allowing them to quickly pick out targets at close to medium range. While itโs slower-firing and has a small magazine, It uses a tube magazine that can be fed through a simple speedloader, similar to the kind used by the Oribi shotgun. Much like the Makina, it takes inspiration from traditional Oeizu aesthetics, with its long, sweeping curves and rounded exterior and rounded, silvery decorations. Itโs lost to history why Haruka Lorne took such interest in this culture, specifically, but itโs far from the only example of her taking an interest in them. Records differ on whether the first Vernal rifles were produced before or after the Red Orbit, when the Tenno and some of their non-Tenno acolytes slaughtered the Orokin en masse. However, the Vernal was not named by Haruka Lorne herself. That honor likely goes to a Bidanian Theist by the name of Yesha Szalm, the first person recorded as calling it a Vernal, and the first non-Tenno recorded as owning one.ย For some reason, most of the first Vernals were given en masse to Bidanian theists - not any of the simpler rifles like the Burston or Braton or Fedorova - and as such the Bidanians see the Vernal as something not unlike a holy object. Alongside the Tenno, the Vernal rifle was used to cut a bloody, slightly radioactive swathe through the ranks of the Orokin elite, with Tenno, Bidanian and even some Tenno acolyte squads silently ripping apart legions of Dax with this weapon. To this day, those few Vernals that survive from the years of the Red Orbit are seen as priceless relics, and Bidanians use them to cull Corrupted enemies during their Festival of Makabi. Still others circulate among black markets in Corpus space, a prized weapon for gangsters and their hitmen.*This is a total non-factor in gameplay. I just wrote this in for flavor reasons. ย Comparisons Prisma Grinlok - the Vernal doesย very slightlyย more damage on body shots, but it has a little bit less slash. Itโs also got a smaller mag. Where the vernal really shines is in headshot damage. Which, in a strange way, gives it far better crowd control. Naga Revolver: Assuming all shots crit, this actually crits better. Especially when scoped. Weird, huh? STATS Ammo pool: RifleFire Rate: 2Magazine: 10+1Reload Time: 2.1s ย ย Normal attacksย Damage: 19280 Puncture64 Slash32 Radiation16 ImpactCritical Chance: 30Critical Multiplier: 3.0xStatus Chance: 30% ย Radial attacks Damage: 330 RadiationRadius: 3mCritical Chance: 30%Critical Multiplier: 3.0xStatus Chance: 48% ย Artist Notes Funnily enough, this thing actually predates the release of the lever-action rifle in Apex Legends. But Iย didย start coloring this thing when I found out it was released, so it's not like the 30-30 had no influence. Speaking of which, this is why it has 30 status and 30 crit - because, while making this weapon, I couldn't resist having the number 30 in it twice in quick succession. For some reason, I was stuck on the idea of a silenced lever-action - and merging the idea behind two of my revolvers, the Makina and the Naga, into one rifle. The Makina creates radioactive explosions on headshots, meanwhile the Naga is a larger-caliber gas-seal scoped hunting revolver thatโs silenced if you wait 0.8 seconds between shots. You can see some similarities in that this is essentially a L O N G Makina with the color scheme of the Naga. Iโm notโฆ Iโm not making this into a pistol. Itโd invalidate them both, itโs just not a good idea.ย The Makinaโs essentially a raygun gothic revolver, and the genesis of this came when I thought โhey, what about a lever-action raygun gothic weapon?โ Which is funny, because anyone who knows my playstyle in Warframe knows that I gravitate towards automatic weapons like the Soma Prime, Sobek, Buzlok, Prisma Gorgon, and Kuva Quartakk, with some outliers in the Corinth Prime and Strun Wraith. I enjoy the Latron Wraith a lot for some reason (probably my ridiculous redcrit riven) but I just donโt use it that often. So a lot of the synopsis for this is just me mocking the fact that this is an archetype Iโm relatively unlikely to use. Though if this was canon, Iโd probably have a lot of fun with it. Probably climb up the ranks of my favorite weapons fast. Raygun gothic, by the way, is the aesthetic of the โoeizuโ people I mentioned awhile back. The idea behind the Oeizu is that theyโre nomadic and mutated by exposure to low-gravity, much like the Belters from The Expanse, and theyโre mostly nomadic, existing in the lowest-gravity habitats and traversing the system on ancient ships.ย Iโve toyed with including them in my Warframe fan thread, but I just havenโt felt it yet. That threadโฆ I already diverge a lot from canon. I already make up my own lore. I already include new factions, characters, events, terms, et cetera. Though who knows, maybe the Oeizu are all dead at this point, because I just said they existed at the same time as the Orokin. Oeizu, by the way, is a corruption of the ancient name โOuter System Union.โ Itโs just that Iโm used to being the kind of person that uses their fandom as a springboard into warping it into something else, and I donโt want the threadโs lore to get so 3deep5me that it crushes my love of Warframe. My love of this game isโฆ already on a precipice compared to MLP, which will always be a treasure to me because of the plushie right next to me now. For some reason her face is the perfect shape to rest against mine. Whoever designed that deserves a raise. Maybe, in time, I will do that. Or maybe Iโll just make something raygun gothic for the hell of it. ...That got heavier than I would have liked. On 2019-05-01 at 12:18 AM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Yep! They believed something was more powerful, more important, and more worthy of worship than the Orokin. Naturally, the Orokin didn't take this well. While they didn't like the Sentients, various extremist Bidanians (those that hadn't sealed themselves in planetside arcology-vaults or other places) wholeheartedly embraced letting the Orokin fall. Come Ganymede's main quest, they're one of the vanishingly few factions that won't judge the Tenno for the Bad Thing they did. They won't even consider it a Bad Thing, they'll be like "False gods! Idolators who worshiped the depths of their own pockets! The Origin System is better without them." The specifics of their religion, though... I haven't figured it out, but I'm going to try and include some Abrahamic influences in it. I don't know which ones, specifically. Also: The "Old Lokites?" They're meant to be ancestors of New Loka who suffered rather similar persecution. Well, in that case, I'm very appreciative! ย ย On 2020-09-22 at 12:19 AM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: Tenno: โWhyโฆ why do you enjoy this so much?โ Akira: โI donโt know how much you know about us. But our faith, our peopleโฆ the Orokin tortured us, Tenno. It was almost a game to them, Tenno. Like we were pobbers and they were Kavats or Hyekkas, playing with their food. Iโd say we were less than human to them, but the Orokin didnโt value human life very much. We were raw materials that happened to be able to scream in pain, and so that was a bonus of sorts to them.โ Tenno: โIโฆ think I understand. I remember the Dax instructors, executorsโฆ I remember them smiling as they beat us, electrocuted us. All toโฆ test our endurance? We were so starved for attention of any kind from them.โ Akira: โIโm aware. I knowโฆ that what Iโm about to show you in the umbral Ayatan may shock you. But I want you to know: Thereโs nothing to apologize for. Not to me. Youโve shaken off that weight. ย And, well, to explain the Oeizu a bit- On 2021-02-08 at 4:47 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: As for the Oeizu, well.... the simplest way to put it is that they're the Belters from The Expanse, a catchall term for people from the moons around Jupiter, Saturn, and Ceres, all of whom have grown up in virtually no gravity. So they're tall, thinly built, and have a laundry list of health issues because of this. Virtually none of them can step foot on a planet without large amounts of drugs and conditioning. ย So they exist in the lowest-gravity habitats and traverse the system on ancient ships - there's a lot of overlap between them and Ostrons in that way. In Corpus space, they're trusted for zero-gravity repairs, mining, and other stuff. Their main defense fromย Grineer is to run away as fast as possible. According to their mythology, they once ruled a swathe of space from the Jovians toย Saturn, and maybe even Uranus, but that time has passed, and many Corpus regard it with scorn because of how many of them can't even set foot onย planetary bodies with sufficiently high gravity.ย They're a deformed underclass subject to no small amount of racism by the Corpus. This is mostly just an effort to try and make the Origin System feel... larger. Add a few more cultures in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teoarrk Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: This is mostly just an effort to try and make the Origin System feel... larger. Add a few more cultures in. I completely sympathize with the effort. Its funny that for how massive the Solar System is, it has a tendency of feeling tiny in Warframe. Content viable for a veteran aside, it's a lack of identifiable people and places that really drive that home.ย ย I really like the factions here. With the Vaulters, you've made it possible to explain what happened to colonies that date to as recently as 200 years from us in the present, plus the parallels you've drawn from real history were uncomfortable to read, which is a good thing. The Bidinians are curious. I hope to learn more of them in the future. Then theres the Oiezu, which are muties, which are always fun to approach.ย Edited November 6, 2021 by Teoarrk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 29 minutes ago, Teoarrk said: Content viable for a veteran aside, it's a lack of identifiable people and places that really drive that home.ย ย I feel ya.ย I've played Warframe for almost half its lifespan. And I remember being...ย superย happy to hear about the mycona. I was also a little bit disappointed that the Infested open world wasn't another culture of the Origin System, but all honesty, Deimos wasย so goodย I don't care about that at all. also AW PISS I LIKE TOTALLY FORGOT SOME OTHER IMPORTANT LORE ย ย On 2020-07-02 at 11:07 PM, (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 said: ?? โObject 45-I-98โ Shotgun โAnti-shield [PLACEHOLDER: SHOTGUN] uses magnetic fields to fire a burst of phasic projectiles that cause explosive subatomic fusion upon breaking a shield. Origin unknown. All attempts at disassembly have failed. Object 45-I-98 was discovered [ERROR]. [ERROR]โ Codex Error. Defaulting to first record of- Reestablishingโฆ Retrieving Record 45-I-98... Tenno Haruka Lorne (Fluffywolf36): โSo, weโll be in close quarters for this one on a new-model Anyo Corp Battleplate. Yassin will be running fire support with his Prisma Gorgon, and I brought my special Sobek. Yassin, what did you pack? Tenno Yassin: โRead โem and weep, boys.โ Tenno Ginebra: โOh damn. What is that?โ Fluffywolf36: โNever seen anything like thatโฆโ Tenno Thane: โโฆOkay. What is that.โ Yassin: โHonestly? I was hoping one of you could tell me. I was out with Vinge and some SIF fighters, clearing ghouls in the Navar Cannon batteries on the Ridge, and I justโฆ. found this in a Grineer storage room. It was a mess. They had Iapetan pottery from the Quorum Era end-to-end with Riddhan furs, and a pile of rust that wouldโve been from some Iapetan resistance movement before the Orokin, and a pile of rust that I think used to be an Elysium. I found this between a Tenebrae and a Tiberon from Martialis Armory. Vinge said I could take what I wanted, soโฆโ Ginebra: โSo thatโs why your Railjack has so much pottery on it.โ Fluffywolf 36: โWas there any information on it?โ Yassin: โNot a word.โ Fluffywolf36: โGrineer archeologists? Huh. Iโve broken into their files on the plains, and they areโฆโ Thane: โMournful. Their records areย mournful.ย You think the treasure hunters from the Plutonian academies are bad, Grineer are worse in every way. Itโs like using a machete to butter your khachapuri. Itย willย go wrong.โ Fluffywolf36: โWeโll ask for Vingeโs help tracing it later. Will it be good against Corpus?โ (Yassin smirks) Yassin: Oh, I think after you see it, itโs really going to blow up. [OPERATION COMPLETED] [COMPILINGโฆ] [RETRIEVING TENNO ALLIANCE RESEARCH DIVISION NOTES STATEMENT: Dr. Loos Kanageyan PHD, Snidge University Kronia Relay Archaeo-Tech Recovery Laboratories] Report 020200602 Object 45-I-98:ย Log begins. As the Saturn system is a site of former Orokin industry and trade, Kronia Relayโs Recovery Labs are in a unique position to recover the Origin Systemโs lost history. Iโm grateful beyond measure to Vinge and other SIF members for taking Iapetus, [DATA CORRUPTED] benevolent kidnappers who are definitely not forcing me to write this at gunpoint- -That was a joke, Atlan! You know I love you and Haruka. She and Thane always bring the best artifacts.ย Seriously, most Corpus donโt live long enough to retire. No, thatโs not aimed at you or any other Tenno. Signing up for a position ofย anyย worth is basically consenting to have some niner attempting a gunpoint promotion, or a suit on a power trip making you choose between short-term profit and the truth. Also at gunpoint. Or being dragged off to the Riddhan ruins to find the Treasure of Karishh, as some Tenno chases you at gunpoint, all while the other two are also holding you at gunpoint. All of which have happened to me. The Relay doctors said I was at risk for a massive, once-in-a-generation coronary because of the sheer stress. But anyway. Iโm grateful beyond measure to my benevolent kidnappers because now I can finally examine archeological sites without being forced at gunpoint to turn a profit. However, sometimes we get mystery items like Object 45-I-98. Itโs not often that we find artifacts that are not just Orokin, butย untraceable. But it does happen.ย Weโve designated it Object 45-Iโ98. This.. shotgunlike? I guess itโs a shotgun, anyway, but it was designed by parties unknown with the express intent of breaking shields. It fires a spread of eight energy spheres similar to plasmoids, which explode on impact with any surface. Each one radiates energy around them - think of them as kind of like tiny Plasmor projectiles. It appears to fire in two-round burst - the first shot fires four spheres, while the second fires the remaining four. Upon breaking a shield, these spheres violently explode, dealing radiation damage. It's damn near useless against "serious" armor like on the Grineer, but whoever built this really didnโt like Corpus. You reload it kind of like a Tigris - you break it open, then place the magazine directly inside. The magazines are meant to be easily built at any foundry. Typically, these are acquired by Tenno in bits and pieces. Upon attaching the barrel to the heat sink, they nanomechanically bond and become inseparable. Examination of these parts has proven fruitless - many of them explode upon attempts at disassembly. These have some commonality with Orokin prime weapon parts and reports exist of a similar anti-shield Sentient weapon,but itโs very clearly not from either faction. The aesthetic - these angles and planes - suggest another faction or group with advanced technology. We canโt find any similar techniques, and only Dziewanan weaponry and Vos Armaments weaponry similarly use magnetic fields. The projectiles, the creation of something that specifically detonates shieldsโฆ My first guess was Dziewana, but thereโs a number of things about that which donโt make sense. Their weapons are usually made to superheat or irradiate. 45-I-98 was meant to disrupt shields and cause an immediate reaction. Safety mechanisms - Dziewanan weapons fundamentally have the bare minimum of safety mechanisms, for the sake of efficiency and effectiveness, while 45-I-98 has a much more robust cooling system. It wonโt overheat or burn you through your lightsuit. Building Techniques - While this does seem like something the Dzies would do, their Foundries - or Fabricators in the local dialect - print them in sheets for easy assembly, resulting in their peculiar slab-sided, brutalist look. Examples of 45-I-98, however, are not. This appears to have been built as a scaffolding around a power core of some kind. Itโs possible this has a common ancestor with their weapons, but so many techniques are different.ย Anti-Tampering Mechanisms - Dziewannan soldiers have a specially-made multitool keyed to Dziewannan genetic markers and [REDACTED] used for disassembly. Upon disassembling a weaponย withoutย this, the weapon overheats and melts its sensitive components into slag. Going off what Gazrov said, equipping their soldiers with weapons that could be exploded any time was too unsafe. But whoever built thisโฆ no, they had no such compunctions. Age - Dziewanan weapons are relatively new, dating back to the tail end of the Second Expansion Era. But we carbon-dated it toย [DATA CORRUPTED] This latter point places it it in just the right window for one of the Thaw Cultures that arose before the Unification Eras. A fascinating period of time, the Thaw Cultures. While many cultures such as the Ostrons and Corpus refer to the loss of the Orokin as a tragedy, there are just as many such asย the Arbiters of Hexis, some Ganymedean cultures, the Grineer, Iapetans, andย especiallyย Bidanian Theists,ย who celebrate their fall.ย In fact, the term comes from the Theists. Bidanian Theists were so persecuted and tormented by the Orokin that they fled past Pluto to the tiny asteroid of Bidan, and they refer to the Orokin Era as the Long Winter. And so they compare the era of settlement, freedom, and rediscovery predating the Grineer and Corpus to spring. Thus, Thaw Cultures. The Thaw Cultures, often isolated from former trading partners, developed their own tech bases. Assuming they survived. Many examples of esoteric weapons such as the baan or yarritusk survive from this era, and itโs a pleasure to find another one because so little information exists. So many of the Thaw cultures are lost to the march of Corpus or Grineer - the early Corpus were extremely bad at recording accounts of the cultures they bought and spent. Even now, the SIF academics forming Iapetus University have discovered a Thaw Culture that predates the Ring Coalition the Grineer destroyed. Iโd be content for this to be a relic of a lost Thaw culture, even if I hadnโt found any other examples of it. Itโd be just another mystery in the Origin System. But thereโs one flaw with this theory: the parts Tenno seem brand new. And their discovery coincides with Tenno Yassin discovering it in the Iapetus Ridge fortifications. ย Where are they coming from? Are the creators somewhere out there?ย Dr. Kanageyan,ย Tenno Alliance. ย ADDENDUM: ย the Codex file weโve written on it keeps getting data corruption events. Fine, weโre using millennia-old technology we donโt know how to reproduce. But the Lotus and Tenno have access to some of the best computational equipment in the systems. But [DATA CORRUPTED] five times as often [DATA CORRUPTED] statistical average. Griza has been [DATA CORRUPTED] (OฬถHฬถ ฬถCฬถOฬถMฬถEฬถ ฬถOฬถNฬถ) ...some kind of anti-informational technology, like a smaller-scale Scrambler. I donโt know if I believe that, as this technology seems far outside the realm of possibility, but Iโve had too many issues archiving this to press my luck. Thankfully, Archivist Yondan Simmis is in the process of transcribing it using pen and paper. Iโm HOPING no technology exists that can be that effective, otherwise - knowing the Orokin - it wouldโve killed all of us, destroyed the written word, and given us all brain damage. ...they couldnโt do that, right? Dr. Kanageyan. STATS Ammo: Shotgun Trigger: Burst Fire Rate: 3 Magazine Size: 10 Reload Time: 2.2sNormal Attacks Total Damage: 260(x2) Magnetic: 124 Impact: 86 Slash: 50 Pellets: 4 Burst Count: 2 Critical Chance: 15% Critical Multiplier: 2.0x Status Chance: 30%Area Attacks Total Damage: 300 Radiation Critical Chance: 16% Critical Multipler: 3.0x Status Chance: 48% Blast Radius: 4.0m Artist Notes Object 45-I-98 is so mysterious that even I have no idea who made it.ย Mardin of Chatzuk was a massive inspiration on this - thereโs quite a few Exotics heโs written up on his blog that make light of how profoundlyย inexplicableย they are, such as the writeup on the Eon Drive. This paragraph sticks out to me: ย โThe hell you mean, โcouldnโt sayโ?โโI mean I couldnโt say where it came from if I wanted toโฆ Oh, here it is.โโWhat the hell does that mean? Thing fell out a Vex portal into your garage?โโMaybe not far from the truthโฆ but no. I found it in storage on Mars.โโUp around those Clovis Bray parts what opened up?โโYep.โโI thought BrayTech stuff was supposed to be real slick.โโThis ainโt BrayTech.โโOh no? Then what the hell is it?โโBuddy, when I have a damn idea what the hell it is, Iโll make sure youโre the first to know.โ I wanted to make a weapon that wasnโt just a mystery, but was inexplicable. Something so bizarre, so divorced from Warframeโs aesthetics, that evenย Iย had no idea who made it. The Thaw Cultures, if youโre wondering, are a reference to the Spring Cultures from Mortal Engines, a catchall term for the cultures that arose after the apocalyptic devastation of the Sixty Minute War. ย We donโt know much about them. Same for Warframeโs non-Grineer and non-Corpus cultures - for a long time, these were onlyย vaguelyย hinted at. Iโm told some of us didnโt evenย knowย that cultures beside those two even existed back during the Gradivus Dilemma. To this day, Warframe has still made missteps at that. We know the Mycona exist, we know the Solaris and Ostrons exist, and we know that thereโs plenty of colonies out there trying to keep out of the way of the main plot, but overall Warframeโs universe has had trouble establishing that other people live in it - or even what life in the Corpus is like. ย ...Though to be fair, the latest Nightwave has been making strides towards that. Iโve had some issues, but overall I still feel like this is the best Nightwave. At least itโs interactive. At least I get to see the journal of some random guy. ย The Thaw Cultures are a way to continue that and further establish that yes,ย other people live in the Origin System. The shield-exploding gimmick came from how lasers apparently cause shields to explode in Dune (Aย majorย influence on Warframe). This would probably be more useful in, say, Borderlands, but itโd be unique, niche, and fun, so why not. ย 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Fluffywolf36 Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) Cursed Moon 'Oscilla Rifle' ย โMilitary-grade Cursed Moon energy rifle that automatically fires oscillating bursts of volatile quasiparticles. According to data archeologists, it was built in great numbers for a population far exceeding the theorized population of the Cursed Moon. Which explains why so many Tenno have one.โ --Codex ย Lore Itโs difficult to classify the Oscilla. The power of a single trigger pull calls to mind a battle rifle, but itโs burstfire and requires you to be on target for maximum damage. But it also cycles these bursts automatically, with a noticeable burst delay. And the final, most damaging percentage of the burst deals moderate area of effect damage. This weaponย alsoย has punch-through, and the explosion will trigger on whatever it hits.ย So what is it? Explosive? Battle rifle? Assault rifle? Who knows?! That aside, the simplest explanation is that it works like the Dziewannan โDzidaโ beam sniper, trading power for reliability. Except you donโt have to take your finger off the trigger between bursts. (ooc: which means that basically, imagine the Charge Rifle from Apex Legends if it had the auto burst trigger. Which, for those of you who donโt know, is the trigger on the Battacor.) It also has some recoil when the final segment of the burst is fired. The discovery of the Oscilla is a strange one. After retrieving a Dhoul from the Cursed Moon, the Tenno Yassin took his fellow squad members - Haruka Lorne, Ginebra, and Thane McCrinn - on an expedition. Yassin had been telling his fellow Tenno how rare it is to find an intact, functioning, perfectly preserved weapon, so they should just expect to find scattered, broken weapons with easily salvaged parts that could be frankengunโed togetherโฆ At which point they found a stasis-sealed room full of Oscilla Rifles. They locked down the room to transfer them up to the waiting railjack, which triggered a vigorous, bloody defense of the room. According to Ginebra, the things that attacked them looked likeโฆ people half-melted into each other, with multiple faces or mouths or eyes melted into each other. Two, three, even four sets of people seemed to be melded together into bloblike โcrawlersโ or even charging too-wide or too-tall things with multiple arms, each clutching firearms. Some of them seemed to have once been Grineer or Corpus. As with most things about the Cursed Moon, the Oscillaโs origins are shrouded in mystery. It has a number of similarities with the Dziewannanย โDzidaโ beam rifle, as both boast a skeletonized design, both fire a volatile particle beam, and both act similar to the Opticor. The difference being that the Dzida is meant to act like an anti-materiel rifle. This suggests early trade with the Dziewannans, that perhaps one of them introduced the technology and both began utilizing it. Or (as is typical for those of Dziewanna) the design was introduced to them and, in a desperate bid for more power, they began brute-force engineering it into an antimateriel rifle. This all underpins one key fact: Thereโs aย lotย of Oscilla rifles, which seem to have been produced in quantities that exceed the proposed population of the Cursed Moon.ย Itโs theorized that it was meant as a Cursed Moon equivalent to weapons such as the Tenno Avakan, Grineer Karak, or Elysium rifle. That is to say, an ultra-reliable weapon that could be given to fighters that had never used anything more advanced than an unpowered knife. Which sure explains why so many Tenno seem to have one. These Oscilla rifles are kept in the armory at the Tenno Relay Alliance Cursed Moon Outpost, which enjoys a non-aggression pact with the Corpus Outpost due to both stations knowing that if the Cursed Moon becomes volatile, theyโll need help from each other. These rifles are available to anyone who earns enough credit or reputation with the Cursed Moon Outpost. Also, instead of reloading, it has a cooldown period where it vents... steam or something and makes a deep thrumming noise. I have no idea how to reload this. Stats: Notes: the final โCharged shotโ has slight vertical recoil.ย Slightlyย more than the Dex Sybaris, but less than the Sybaris Prime. general Trigger: I donโt know how to describe this. Auto-burst-charge? Regular old auto-burst? I wouldnโt know! I used to have DREAMS, guys, but NO, I canโt work on that urban fantasy novel because I have no time management skills and Iโm overloaded with [REDACTED] jobs, whichโฆ actually make money, so itโs not so badMagazine: 60Burst Delay: 0.14sBurst Rate: 3.8 Reload: 2s Uncharged:ย (x4 ticks, consumes 2 ammo) Damage: 14(x4)7 Radiation4 Slash3 PunctureCritical Chance: 22%Critical Multiplier: 2.1xStatus Chance: 36%Punch-Through: 0.8m Charged (consumes 1 ammo) Damage: 5624 Radiation16 Slash12 PunctureCritical Chance: 22%Critical Multiplier: 2.1xStatus Chance: 36%Punch-Through: 1.6m Area Attacks: Damage: 4228 Slash14 RadiationCritical Chance: 22%Critical Multiplier: 2.1xStatus Chance: 36%Radius: 1.2m ย Artist Notes So, you noticed this looksย veryย different from my normal oeuvre. And the reason why is simple: I already had a vision, one that was filled pretty neatly by some extant stuff that I googled while looking for references. Iโd copied parts of the silhouettes wholesale, and Iโd tried to put together a mockup,. And, as usually happens when I make mockups or joking names, it took on a life of its own and it was too much trouble to create something new. I was like โYou know, thisโll take too much time to actually draw when i can just photobash it together, why not?โ If youโre wondering, the two props used are an alien prop weapon fromย Defiance,ย and what I think is a Predator rifle prop. As you'd expect, yes, Giger was an influence. Edited February 21, 2022 by (XBOX)Fluffywolf36 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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