The Three Factions, Sorted By Fun...

[Xylia]

So I had a conversation with a friend of mine this morning, where I mentioned that anymore, Infested are really my favorite things to fight nowadays.

 

I used to HATE infested; I feared infested levels.

 

Now, I live in them. The last few Warframes that I need to level to 30? Imma do it in Infested levels. Reaper Prime, Hate, Dual Ether... its all good. I need Mutagen from Jupiter anyways and the occasional Neural Sensors never hurt anybody.

 

They are actually fun to fight -- Ancients are no longer quite as BS as they used to be; Disruptors give you a chance to get away from them before they disrupt you (their knockdown attack does not disrupt anymore), and they make very distinctive sounds that tells you one is nearby if you're listening (listening/awareness skills!). Most of the units are not armored that well (except the ancients themselves), which means you can use pretty much any weapon that isn't slow-fire. Or you can just melee the stuff to death, without being required to use charged attacks.

 

Now, after Infested... next up is Corpus.

 

I don't mind Corpus so much, though sometimes their endless streams of pew pew get annoying. As long as you have a decent gun, though, Corpus are squishy on their bodies (they're wearing cloth!) and the robots are nowhere near as armored as I'd expect a robot to be. The only thing annoying about Corpus are Fusion Moas and Techs; if I see a red suit, it dies first.

 

Corpus is more about skill in choosing which targets to kill first and actually moving (they don't have hitscan weaponry).

 

And then.....

 

We have Grineer.

 

My God I hate Grineer. Infested are fun, Corpus can be fun until the spawns get ridiculous.....

 

Grineer suck on all levels. They have THE most ridiculously annoying units. I'd rather fight a disruptor than a Napalm. Every time I get Switch Teleported by a Commander on a forced Rescue mission (Alert or 2nd Objective when I don't want to abandon the mission), my fists clench in rage, more at the game and its developers for putting such a BS combination as an enemy with Switch Teleport + Rescue Mission. Scorpions suck, and come at you with numbers, Sawmen do way too much damage, did I mention Napalms and their BS ability to hit you THROUGH WALLS!?

 

And you MUST have armor ignoring weaponry or you're going to have a very bad time at it.

 

And of course, most grineer weapons are hitscan; you can't avoid them and they have ridiculous accuracy, especially those damn Burstons that all Lv21+ grineer use. Burstons, Burstons everywhere! Where is that tweak we were promised in an earlier Hot Topic thread, where you guys were going to reduce this crap in earlier planets?

 

So there you have it.

 

tl:dr;

 

Infested are fun and engaging, Corpus are kinda fun, Grineer absolutely suck because they have too much BS that makes the game unfun. I'd rather fight toxics and disruptors than half of the Grineer units.

[Dasmir]

Corpus are cool guys not like the infested or grienners with all those perma-stun.

[Zhoyzu]

melee all day, love infested

[Drakofangs]

I actually enjoy killing grineer the most because of how annoying they are. It makes it more enjoyable when they die. Infested are meh, I hate the ancients(like everyone else, I assume) but I like how chargers' scream when they die. Corpus are the most boring, they die too fast even at high levels with rather weak guns, I don't find them challenging at all but I do enjoy shooting the crewmen in their big ugly helmets.

 

No matter what DE will do to the grineer they'll always be my favorite faction to kill. I hate everything about them: their armor, their stupid voices,their ugly faces. They're all just stupid clones which is why I like killing them so much.

Edited August 8, 2013 by Drakofangs

[Xylia]

melee all day, love infested

 

Yeah I feel more like a Ninja while fighting Infested.

 

I can take my trusty samurai sword (skana prime) and become a veritable meat grinder and its fun.

 

More fun than getting knocked down, dragged, teleported, and hit from behind a wall all day.

[TheHeraldXII]

Funny, I always found it to be the opposite, besides the assertion that Napalms, Rollers and Commanders are incredibly obnoxious. I agree I'd rather gouge out my eyes with a rusty spoon than fight another room of Napalms.

I can't stand the way that Infested have no moves beyond stunlocking unprepared players and being made into complete chumps by anyone who figured out to circle-strafe. Corpus I'm mostly cool with although, yeah, the huge waves of moas gets old fast. Grineer though, barring the BS units above, actually use squad tactics and a combination of suppressive fire and close range assault units to flush you out of cover and into killzones. I like the way that using the full range of movement puts Grineer on the back foot and tends to mess up their unit cohesion. Dashing about, not letting yourself become pinned down and prioritising specialist units makes me feel like a real ninja. Not because I get to use a samurai sword but because I get to see some tangible benefit from using my mobility, wits and reflexes to bring down my enemies. Infested just don't offer that.

 

Also, Grineer missions don't spawn secondary objectives and disruptors can disrupt you without attacking if they get stunned, so that makes the Grineer tilesets generally less infuriating to play on. No more "suddenly, RESCUE!" for me, no sir.

[jonathan8883]

You left out the Roller Balls.  The evil, stupid, roller balls.

I've been trying to get Saryn.  Once I get the Systems to drop I will never, ever, ever visit Merrow again.  In fact, I rather like the idea of staying away from Grineer levels.

[yatin_117]

commander scorpions and rollers my most feared and annoying enemies and don't forget that  disrupter that stops your hek spree

[BadAimbot]

Infested are fine to fight in normal missions but add anything you need to protect and they fall apart. Stun locking also sucks. Corpus have the widest variety of unit tactics and I really like fighting them, but the Corpus Tech is just a pain and every Osprey feels more like an annoyance than a threat. Grineer I like the most but I hate their tilesets and the Rollers.

[Xylia]

Infested are fine to fight in normal missions but add anything you need to protect and they fall apart. Stun locking also sucks. Corpus have the widest variety of unit tactics and I really like fighting them, but the Corpus Tech is just a pain and every Osprey feels more like an annoyance than a threat. Grineer I like the most but I hate their tilesets and the Rollers.

 

Grineer Galleons tend to be a little annoying with some of the more recent rooms they added. Nothing like a wonked out minimap that can't seem to make up its mind on where you should go next when you get to the recently fixed "wall run room", eh? Oh and Hostages simply LOOOOOOOOOVE all the stairwells.............not.

 

Getting a Hostage out of a Galleon is ridiculous, even if there were no enemies there. The last time I did a forced Rescue there, a hostage got stuck underneath a stairwell. I was standing right beside one flight of stairs, the hostage started running around in circles at the bottom of the stairwell. A short, 10ft stairwell.

 

I went down the stairs, the hostage proceeded to go up ANOTHER ramp/stairwell on the other side of the room to try to path around to me when I was standing 5 feet away from her. Once she caught up with me, I tried going up that stairwell again (the one that led to the room exit).

 

She proceeded to run IN BEHIND THE STAIRS and get stuck underneath the stairwell.

 

Nice.

 

Time to RUN RUN RUN RUN for the exit and pray nothing kills the poor hostage before I get to the extraction door.

 

God I hate Rescue.

 

And they want to get rid of Raid and KEEP Rescue?

 

ARRRRRRGH.

[Paradoxbomb]

In all honestly, I think it really depends on what weapon/warframe your using. Wanna snipe some faces? Grineer are the way to go. Just want to causally mow down a few hundred robots with an automatic weapon? Want to hit things with a sharp piece of metal? Infested missions.

 

Even so, I do agree that Grineer get really annoying late game, when you're pretty much forced to use AI weapons just to do passable damage to standard units. I'm kinda meh about infested, I hated them at first, but their okay now (still hate chargers though). I guess the best faction has to be Corpus, even if they just spam you to death with lasers, at least each unit does serve some sort of tatical purpose (plus less armor scaling).

Edited August 8, 2013 by Paradoxbomb

[blackraver]

i hated infested at first, and i only fight them now, when i have some weak gear to level because they are the easiet faction for the most part to fight. they kinda just line up for the slaughter, you know? Grineer are the most fun to fight for me. If they got rid of hitscan weapons then they would be off the hook. as it is you cant dodge bullets, the AI can only intentionally miss. Corpus are alright until they spawn infested style and overun you with shield RAPING lasers.

Corpus provide the "smartest" AI to fight. their unit composition provides the most synergy and they use it to great effect. MOAs charge in, and crewmen hang back, and ospreys just shield everyone. mines and leeaches provide annoyance to us and minor support by distracting players. Fix their spawn rates and and make them a tad more durable and you have easily the best developed faction to fight currently.

Dont have a problem with any of their grineer units. Their annyoying units is what makes them enjoyable to kill. they need more unit cohesion, and synergy. I personally belive that as the galaxy's dominant force that they shoulf be the strongest faction over all

[DoomFruit]

My favourite? Corpus. Most exchanges go like this:

 

Corpus Tech: PEW

Me (with Supra): PEW PEW

Corpus Tech: PEW PEW

Me: PEW PEW PEW PEW

Corpus Tech: *dead*

Environment: covered in pretty laser bolts.

[PaperAlien]

Are you kidding me? Infested is by far the laziest, most stupidly frustrating and least fun faction. It's actually the epitome of bad game design. Stunlock everywhere, obnoxious armour scaling, low variety in gameplay, and complete lack of legitimate challenge. Playing against infested is basically: Boltor/charge attack, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat (maybe add in a Bastille here and there), slip and get staggered by a charger, get staggered by 5 runners while staggered, get knocked over by a leaper followed by an ancient or two. Bonus points if one of them is a disruptor. And yet if you have to patience to exploit their poor AI, they're by far the easiest faction to fight.

 

Corpus and Grineer are much better, although Grineer loses points for Rollers, Commanders, Scorpions and heavy Grineer Radial Blast that magically gives them stagger/knockdown immunity.

Corpus pretty much always plays fair, with the sole exception of Railgun Moas, and still have an interesting range of units to boot (Shield Ospreys, Shockwave Moas, etc)

[Enguzrad]

Well I like the Grineer the most. Mainly because I'm using sniper rifle but also because they have many different units.
Corpus are like infested with guns, there are lots and lots of them and almost everything shoots.
Infested... I'm just trying to shoot some ancients until some Ember creates more fire which covers my vision.

[StartledKitten]

You left out the Roller Balls.  The evil, stupid, roller balls.

I've been trying to get Saryn.  Once I get the Systems to drop I will never, ever, ever visit Merrow again.  In fact, I rather like the idea of staying away from Grineer levels.

It does suck trying to get systems, and the fight would ttake me 30 seconds ( enough time to puke out all my boltor ammo) if it werent for those stupid rollers.