0:15 "Schizoid Ranting" Schizoids dont generally rant. that's, like, the whole point of the disorder. they don't seek relationships, they dont appear interested in talking with people, they answer questions directly without elaborating, etc. If youre thinking of schizophrenic, that's very different
Make overguard enemies immune or very resistant to damage abilities, like nullifiers but it's a personal shield and not a bubble. Leave them vulnerable, or maybe only slightly resistant to CC abilities. Have operator damage act as a temporary damage boost versus overguard. Require players to use their damn guns and melee to deal with overguard. The whole "all you need is your abilities to succeed" philosophy is boring. I'd rather have game mechanics that promote or require using your weapons and abilities in combination.
I really enjoyed the newer eximus. I think that the problem at large is the paradox among wf players that want more difficulty, but to deliver our power needs to be capped somehow, and Overguard isn't that bad, compared to other methods DE had used like the weird scaling they used for Kuva liches and sisters, archons. I enjoyed the eximus rework, because it made their abilities clear, and readable. IF they manage to sand the little incosistensies I think they would be great imho
I late here, but i wanted to give an example of a crowd control that is nothing but pros. Zephyr's Tornado. grabs enemies and holds them in the air. is a quick summary of it. but is that it? HELL NO. shoot the tornado, and ALL YOUR DMG is inflicted on ALL enemies tornado holds. turning single target guns into AoE. crits, do 2x dmg AFTER MODS. which is a MAJOR bonus status? inflicts on all enemies the tornado holds. while bunching them up. so electric, gas, and blast are MASSIVE. not enough? eximus units cant be picked up while their overguard is up. BUT IF THEY IN RANGE OF THE TORNADO, ANY DMG TO THE TORNADO IS INFLICTED ON THEM AS IF THEY WERE PICKED UP LIKE NORMAL MOBS. this Crowd Control is both CC AND a MAJOR damage support. that benefits not just Zephyr (who is already getting +50% crit chance from being in the air) but all allies who shoot the tornado and isn't shut down by Overguard.
why do games always need to implement another stupid mecanic to make up for balance issues. If special unites where killed to fast, just give them more HP and armor make them rarer, compareable to mini bosses in other games. Easy as that.
Many sensible points brought across in an easy to understand way. Good video. e: though, what would you do about abilities like Volts 4 that can cc the entire room while also clearing the entire room?
I'm really late but I want to add something. How I interpreted Xakus void status is its intended counter over guard, so I feel that the operator change kinda goes away from that. That being said honestly Xakus void should probably get some changes as its niche isn't interesting, at least in my opinion. I do agree though with everything else you said.
here's another one: in captura, you can use an ability with particle effects then go into camera mode. Certian particles will contingue to move, stretch and rotate.
We were starving a bit with this one, now go get a meal, get full and... Do whatever you go do after stream, probably something related to restrains and basements with a honse I guess. Anyways, update so far is nice, personally like it besides having to be afraid of a new Voidrig Eximus, the quest though a 9/10, spoilers next month let's go
Love your critique of these issues in Warframe. Do hope at least some are implemented at some point. Have loved playing Warframe for about 6.5k hrs on PC. It was the best game ever. I still want to play it but I've lost some respect for DE. Couple of key points for what happened that changed how i feel about Warframe: Some years back in Devstream about the time of the birth of the Kuva Bramma, DE Steve, the CEO of Digital Extremes, said they were no longer going to nerf the good stuff, but bring the less than best up to a better standard. I thought that was a WOOHOO moment, but the Nerfening has continued. And now we arrive at Dante, the 56th Warframe. DE Rebecca on Devstream at Dante's launch said, 'Dante is well-balanced'. He's WOT?! after 55 warframes DE finally did it?! And... 7 days into it Dante is hit with a sledgehammer.... um, but he was well-balanced...so... wtf?! Why did DE Rebecca say Dante was well-balanced at his launch when he obviously wasn't... or is giving a well-balanced warframe a tiny, tiny tweak equivalent to using a sledgehammer considered normal practice. I would hate to see what an actual nerf is like. (Yes, Dante was tweaked hard but then he cost some of his magus back.) I had players tell me well DE Steve and DE Rebecca don't know what they are talking about. Um, then wtf are they doing as frontmen for Warframe. They SHOULD know what they are talking about. Is a pity can't really ask them about what they said and why they said it. Things aren't looking that good for the upcoming Jade warframe. She looks amazing from what we can see of her abilities so far, and it looks like she has more to offer maybe than Dante... maybe things will go ok though, maybe... (shrug) Its obviously not easy to balance a game such as Warframe but DE have had 11 years practice at it. Can we get some 11yo bug fixes please. I do love the Warframe story and the quests.
you have an extremely well written breakdown but seeing the fucking cuddle party of hollow vein eximus shitting out magnetic waves at 19:44 made me laugh for almost five minutes straight EDA is pants on head stupid sometimes and that's amazing
I support the operator idea. This would also probably cause players to use the operator abilities a bit more, while they're at it, instead of what we see now, which is nobody goes into operator for anything, other than crazies like me, on unairu, to strip armor.
Regarding Kullervo's boss fight: you can straight up just blast him with any damage during the cutscenes as well. Only tricky part is figuring out where your character is lol. You're still fully operational though. Also, not sure if you missed some projectile melees like Tenet Grigori or if you did test them all but only listed the ones that work for Hall of Mirrors?
I don't think it's weird or obscure, but I don't see it mentioned by anyone. If you have a weapon that innately does a composite damage type (explosive, magnetic, viral, ect.) You can give it the ability to deal 3 composite damage types at once. I currently have my Zarr kitted out to deal explosive, radiation, and I think viral.
I have two of my own ideas for CC interactions with overguard too: 1) Instead of CC immunity, Overguard represents a % chance of CC failing, with full overguard representing 100% fail chance (ie immunity) while 50% remaining overguard = 50% chance of a CC effect working, and so on. Kinda like how you can do parazon finishers before they get killed. This at least offers something to combat situations with mass amounts of Eximus, where you pop an AoE damage effect, then a CC effect, and ideally SOME of them will get CC'd, making your life easier. 2) Inspired by Slay the Spire: Instead of it providing CC immunity, Eximus provide a set amount of times where CC will be blocked, kinda like Artifact status in Slay the Spire. Ideally this means you'd have to use a CC effect repeatedly, but if the situation was desperate enough, you could brute-force the CC once you exhaust those charges.
Post rant Note: Little disclaimer before you read my rant, if you are a crazy person. I generally agree with all of this video, as this video is not trying to argue making cc great again will somehow make the game harder. Just that more valid gameplay options makes more fun game, W Video, this rant is me yapping about how stupid I think that difficulty argument people have yapped at me about before is. Any argument of difficulty is kinda super silly. CC is significantly easier than damage, especially since you always have damage regardless of the frame you are using. The only difference between me ccing them before shooting them with my gun is that i now don't even have to bother trying to meaningfully interact with the enemies at all. Such as knowing what they even do, or dodging them. It would go, press map wide cc, shoot them. Now the difficulty has gone from easy as shit, as warframe always has been. To even easier. Like 'story' mode in an rpg where you auto win all the fights and are essentially watching a movie now. Don't gotta dodge or do anything, you just stand there and do the same thing we are doing now, but now you have to try even less. I know this is the case with some damage frames too, just press the button, everything dies. But I don't understand the difficulty argument for making cc compete with damage, since cc just makes the game even easier than it already is. Totally agree though that we should be allowed to trivialize the game however we want to, whether with cc, or damage vomit, or the forgotten support builds, where you just buff allies and prime enemies. I just think the arguments i hear about cc coming back will somehow make the difficulty feel more challenging because you have to press more buttons or something? is very silly. We should be saying 'let us have fun however we want' instead of 'the game is too easy, thisll somehow fix it' when regarding to the make cc great again war we've been having with DE, People have yapped that argument at me before and it really just sounded like nonsense. Maybe I'm just oversimplifying cc though and don't understand the ways of the vauban or something. But I've never seen warframe as a game that is more than a amazing story, a great community, and thoughtless vibing to brighten my day. Don't really think about my playstyle very much, i just follow the vibe and press the funny button that blows the screen up, or cc the chaf before blowing the screen up. Hehe funny power fantasy game is funny. Maybe one day we'll get raids back, and they'll be actually challenging, requiring innovative strategies and teamwork. And the head will unempty when playing warframe. Enriching the experience of all. I can see it now, a very simple raid mechanic off the top of my head, x cc warframe has to cc enemies t onto x spot, for them to die, or open a door or something. While the damage doers have to stop things from killing the enemies we need to stand on the square. That'd be cool. Also I am a Nyx main. Not your average CC hater, but a delusional Nyx main that thinks chaos is the best ability for defense missions. This has been my yapping. Thank you.
