Honestly I'm very salty that DE just gave up on any kind of balance. I do appreciate that they significantly nerfed AOE damage, which will help a lot to keep other weapon types from being completely irrelevant.
This is going to sound silly, because it's just a game and all that, but I lost some emotional attachment to Warframe, the setting, and the characters when the new cool metagame thing was
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to take the Warframes that bond at an emotional and even a spiritual level with their Operators, those Operators that "somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing -- and take away its pain," and feed those Warframes to the Helminth to spit out new power combination options.
I know, I could just not do that, and I didn't, but the pressure to minmax by complying with the cool new grind-meta sort of snapped me out of what attachment I had with the game. :shinji-screm:
I actually think the game's been feeling great and fresh lately, the eximus buffs in particular fucking rock. There's still a lot of forgotten individual weapons and I really wish they'd dedicate an update to fleshing out each faction with some heavy units that reward precision damage, but broadly speaking things are headed in a good direction.
Honestly I'm very salty that DE just gave up on any kind of balance. I do appreciate that they significantly nerfed AOE damage, which will help a lot to keep other weapon types from being completely irrelevant.
This is going to sound silly, because it's just a game and all that, but I lost some emotional attachment to Warframe, the setting, and the characters when the new cool metagame thing was
spoiler
to take the Warframes that bond at an emotional and even a spiritual level with their Operators, those Operators that "somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing -- and take away its pain," and feed those Warframes to the Helminth to spit out new power combination options.
I know, I could just not do that, and I didn't, but the pressure to minmax by complying with the cool new grind-meta sort of snapped me out of what attachment I had with the game. :shinji-screm:
I actually think the game's been feeling great and fresh lately, the eximus buffs in particular fucking rock. There's still a lot of forgotten individual weapons and I really wish they'd dedicate an update to fleshing out each faction with some heavy units that reward precision damage, but broadly speaking things are headed in a good direction.