[Steam, free] Warframe: mission based fps that is unique and damn fun.

[Lantyssa]

Probably.  He liked collecting them to give out to new members.

[Engels]

I'm not dead yet! But ya, I may have vendored latron parts for ducats.

[01101010]

Luck of the Irish or some shit last night... Jumped into a PuG for Vay Hek - first run, no one knew wtf we were doing, didn't know any of the mechanics... got stomped. Fought him for about 10 minutes, noticed he kept regenning his health. Gave up.

Went back after a little research and destroyed him in half a minute. Next three runs, Hydroid systems, helmet, chassis. Can't say I ever got a 3 out of 3 before. Now I have to farm a few argon crystals and can start building him. 

[Trippy]

U16 for PC is out now (patching as I type).

Edit: Login server down

[Trippy]

Sanctuary Patch Notes

Weapon Changes:
Synoid Gammacor now consumes 7.5x more ammunition.
Synoid Gammacor magazine capacity has been reduced.

[Engels]

Ya, the gammacor is now relegated to being a side arm. I had mine rigged for max fire rate and the thing goes through its ammo just way too fast. It didn't last through ONE 20 second fire fight.

[Rasix]

Guess I'll go ahead and potato that marelok now. 

[01101010]

I have yet to find a secondary that I actually like at all. I need to try to get a bronco because all the handguns I really can't stand. I have a vanilla gammacor and hate the streamed laser thing.

[Trippy]

Guess I'll go ahead and potato that marelok now. 

Yeah and the demand on those things is going to skyrocket. Good thing I bought one on Wednesday.

[Rasix]

Ohh, I'm not fortunate enough to have that one.  Regular marelok is still pretty nice.  Despair is too if people are looking for viable sidearms.

[Engels]

I'd say Despair is nearly on par with the 'original' Synoid Gammacore, except of course it doesn't get the fun proc.

[Ard]

I dunno if I'd call despair viable given how much luck it takes to get.  It's almost as bad as the vauban.

[Rasix]

I really would like vauban systems alert to pop up sometime when I'm actually on.

Heh, I think I got Despair, Hate, and Dread in order.  Might have been 2 Despairs at some point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ard]

I'm just happy that stalker is more reliably showing up again at all.

[01101010]

I'm just happy that stalker is more reliably showing up again at all.

I'm not. Fucker always pops up when I am solo and I get my ass handed to me every single time. Can't out run, can't out gun, can't use abilities... basically it's just a used revive at the point I see the lights flicker.

[Lantyssa]

The Vaylock is an amazing gun.  Working on the syndicate Akbolto which is also a nice gun.

The Stalker has given me despair, but not Despair.

[Trippy]

PSA: Excalibur Radial Javelin
 
We understand there is some confusion regarding Radial Javelin’s recent adjustment.  Our original version of the power had built in Line of Sight, and was never intended to push through terrain.  As such, Radial Javelin as it currently stands is functioning as it was always intended to.  We apologize for the confusion this has caused and will do better to communicate these refinements in the future.

Working As Intended

[KallDrexx]

Day 3 attempt at this game:

Did an elimination/extermination mission solo.  Went fine except I went down a dead end corridor to get loot and a heavy weapons flame thrower + 3 regular guys pinned me down.  Killed him by using door opening/closing for cover but still lost 2 revives in the process. 

Did a low level alert.  Before people joined I got mauled down by charging dogs, one literally took away all my shield in one charge and the other my health.  Was frustrating, but I revived and batoned them to death (for whatever reason melee seems easier against them than my rifle).

Got a bunch of loot, upgraded my Baton's damage mod to 60% damage (rank 3 I think?).  Now I feel like I can kill people melee pretty well.  I do a low level capture mission solo and mostly went well but I did die to something.  Captured both targets and 20 minutes in (and a good amount of mods I think) I'm heading towards the excavation point.  Run into a cave corridor, back out and snipe people with my rifle.  Suddenly a heavy gunner comes out and destroys me causing me to fail the mission and get nothing.

This game doesn't seem very consistent.  At some points I can not care people are firing at me, run in and melee people to death.  The next minute I'm getting sniped from 5 directions and taking damage like there's no tomorrow.

[Shrike]

That's how the game is in the early progression.

Movement is key. The AI doesn't aim particularly well at moving targets. Stand still, though, and they'll home in on you and burn you down in seconds. Keep moving and use cover. You can reload and move, just can't run. Also, set up your hotkeys and learn how to roll. Warframes can roll, front and backflip. All of these maneuvers both confound enemy aim and grant 80% damage reduction.

Of course, enemies with AoE attacks like bombards and napalms are a bit more challenging to deal with, but, again, rolling can evade the missiles. Also, use crowd control abilities. Warframes like Mag and Banshee can keep heavy units on the ground with knockdowns and ragdoll physics. They're not shooting if they're on their ass. Many heavy weapons also have knockdowns with ragdoll physics. The Jat Kittag (jet kitty) springs to mind.

One of the very cool features of the game is the ability to select weapons and 'frames to leverage this sort of thing, depending on your playstyle and preferences.

[Ard]

There's a 3 day credit+affinity booster promo code out today, VoidCrystal, enter it in on the buy platinum page under promo codes.  Code is supposedly good until the 31st, not sure if it's PC only or not.

[Kageru]

I've been doing low level earth missions levelling alts and weapons. The "feral kubrow" have a lot of health and armor, appear in a group and have a charge attack (fairly visible if you look at them setting it up) which hits hard and knocks you over. As you observed keep moving and spam melee. The heavy gunners have a very distinctive "spin up" which also gives you some time to seek cover, and given they have spin up they are terrible at dealing with you popping out. Can even Lato them to death pretty easily.

Also getting a couple of ranks in your health and shield mods make a big difference in your early survivability.

I got owned a couple of times by the Grineer Manic, it's a very cheesy fight. Perhaps as a encouragement for people in groups to stick together it makes sense. Still, at least he can only kill you once per mission now.

[Lantyssa]

The Left 4 Borderlands Psycho-Hunter as I like to call him.  Thankfully they've only shown up when I've had my good gun equipped.

[Shrike]

The manic is kinda like stalker-lite, but a lot more mobile.

The biggest threat is losing your nerve when facing him down or getting hit with a bleed proc. He's not terribly tough, but he is very fast and does have an invis and (supposedly) an invulnerability phase.

I've only fought him few times, but I was using Trinity (been doing the Simeris scan missions--WoL makes this a lot simpler) so the bleeds are easily cancelled. If I didn't have proc removal abilities, I'd just drop a large health restore and plan on a lot of tumbling when he closes in. Shoot him in the face on approach, avoid getting hit too much, and it'll just be a matter of time before he bites it. I believe he's easily controlled if not in the red phase, so CC abilities should work just fine.

[Trippy]

He's even easier with Trinity if you have Link on cause you can see where he is (approximately) even when he is invis -- just shoot where the link ends and you'll likely take him out easy peasy.

[Shrike]

Yeah, I noticed that since I keep link up continuously.

In one fight he retreated to lick his wounds in a corner and the link was pointing to the exact spot he holed up--which was then violated with about half a magazine of "to whom it may concern" from a 4-forma Soma Prime. Sucks to be him.

There's a lot of angst over this guy on the O-fficial forums, but he's really pretty easy to deal with...IF...you keep your nerve and just play him out. I can see some issues with newer players running into this guy, but he doesn't really show up until around the lvl20ish stuff and you should have all your shit in one bag by then. Of course, it's gaming and that isn't a given, but if you've got half decent stuff and have been paying attention to how the game works, he's not really too much of an issue.

Edit: for Freudian slip! There's a lot of angst over the gun, too, but that's another topic.

[Rasix]

Seems like today is Vauban systems alert day.  It's up for another 40 mins on PC (it was up at 7am also).

[01101010]

Seems like today is Vauban systems alert day.  It's up for another 40 mins on PC.

Speaking of which...

he is ridiculous on infested defense maps. Seriously, ridiculous. He was well worth the getting alerts at 3am to grab his pieces.

[Trippy]

I missed that alert cause I overslept

Ember is my go to frame for Infested non-solo missions currently. All of her abilities are good against them, though really I just like burning things

[KallDrexx]

This game plays surprisingly well streamed via Steam in home streaming.  Except for some quick times with the slow network warning I was able to shoot quite well (horray for 802.11ac, can't wait to hardwire my house and get full gigabit).

Plaed the earth defense mission, and man that's great for loot.  It appears though you can only get 3 mods per map max?

I'm getting into the groove with this game.  I've got a good handle on the melee while running thing and using it a lot to get in and out of battle quickly. 

[Rasix]

One benefit of a combination of a cold, reflux, and insomnia is that you catch the orokin catalyst invasion that pops up at 2am.   

[Kageru]

The anniversary event is on. Log into warframe in the next couple of days to get the Dex Furis (quite good dual pistols) and Dex Dakra (dual swords).

[Ard]

Should also note that those are both potatoed, and if you already have the dex furis from last year, it's effectively a free weapon slot.

[Rasix]

13 Sedna boss runs:

9 Saryn Helmets
4 Saryn Chassis

[01101010]

13 Sedna boss runs:

9 Saryn Helmets
4 Saryn Chassis

Shall we chat about Ruk? 


No really, fuck him and his never dropping ember's helmet for me until like run 40. Seriously, I have 46 nav things from this bastard. I ran Vay Hek 3 times and got all of Hydroid.... So yeah. I am with ya man.

[Shrike]

That's pretty typical. 

Usually, there's one warframe part that has a very low droprate. It's usually the systems with basic warframes.

When I was farming up Saryn, it took me 14 runs to get her systems to drop. I was farming Nyx at the same time (when Phorid was a system boss) and it took me over 40 runs to get her systems to drop.

In contrast, it only took me three runs to finish Valkyr after AladV was introduced.

It's just the RNG thing.