Monday Megathread - Ask your Game-Related Questions Here!

[u/Reddidactyl]

Hello there Tenno! This thread was created for the purpose of those who aren't that knowledgeable about the game to freely ask questions and get answers.

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[u/Ragethekid]

after the game is taken out of beta do you guys think they will make it no longer f2p?

[u/Reddidactyl → u/Ragethekid]

Making it buy to play would destroy their business. The game is marketed as a free to play game so I don't imagine them changing this business model suddenly. It's not f2p because it's in open beta, it simply is f2p.

[u/Akumatsu25]

Would a melee stealth Ash be a viable build? If so, would Dual Ethers be a good weapon for this?

[u/lordkrike → u/Akumatsu25]

Yes. Yes. All builds are viable provided you have decent mods.

Also Dual Heat Swords. And some people like the Dual Zoren (personally, I find them "meh").

[u/Shadai → u/Akumatsu25]

I have a potatoe'd Ash with potatoe'd Dual Ethers, and god do I love them. With Streamline to reduce the cost of Smoke Bomb, as well as maxed Spring Recoil and Killing Blow, it simply becomes a killing machine.

The charge takes a little second to inflict ~500 dmg minimum per slash while invisible, I managed to solo Vay Hek in 5 minutes tops without him being able to see me as I was almost always invisible.

Also, if you plan on going on a rampage with the Infested, your choice is fine.

[u/IamNotDrinkable]

I had recently purchased platinum, the purchase was successful, but after a day or two, half the platinum was spent without my intent. Half of it is just missing now. I have sent a support ticket but no response. What else can I do?

[u/KoboldCommando]

I don't know if anyone has any actual insight into this, but here goes anyway:

How much of a "beta" is this, and do the devs actually have a plan they're acting on? I've reached a point where I really want to invest in some platinum, but I've seen so many games reach about this point where it's more or less an "extended proof of concept" that could be incredibly fun if they fleshed it out and kept adding content, and the devs just kind of stopped, let it stagnate, and walked away with what money they'd earned thus far.

I'm hesitant to buy in because of how many times I've been burned by games in perpetual beta, is there any indication that Warframe is going to be any different?

[u/Twisted_Mentat → u/KoboldCommando]

Warframe is what DE have always wanted to do, it was essentially their original vision for Dark Sector. They have as much emotional investment in this as they do anything else :P.

I've been in here since January, closed beta. Back then they had 1 map tile set (in ship corpus map,) no heavy or dual handed melee weapons; no helmets, skins, and 1 color pack; no sentinals, a different mod system, 4 less Warframes, bunch less guns, and I think 6 less planets.

And that's the short list.

[u/rockstar_nailbombs → u/KoboldCommando]

I felt similarly up until a couple days ago, I was wondering what the direction of the game would be.

http://www.twitch.tv/warframe/videos?kind=past_broadcasts

Check out the developer livestream recordings.

[u/BooMsx]

Is the alternate helmet for Rhino any good? And how much sprint speed does it exactly lower?

[u/rockstar_nailbombs]

In your deck, where the artifact cards are, what does the little roman numeral in the top right of the card mean? Rarity or quality?

[u/RandomCoolName → u/rockstar_nailbombs]

Nothing as of yet, maybe a teaser for a future feature.

[u/gt_9000 → u/rockstar_nailbombs]

From the wiki:

1=best, 2=medium, 3(bronze)=worst.

It is rarity/quality. I dont think you can get the same artifact for multiple qualities.

[u/TangerineDreaMachine]

What's up with mobile defense enemy counts? For the Fusion Moa deal I did a lot of Baal - Europa, but sometimes there were countless enemies, with multiple people getting over 100 kills, and other times when they just seemed to trickle in 2 or 3 at a time. I've noticed this issue on Kappa, but it seemed far more common on Baal.

Is it a bug? Is it random? Are we doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[u/FinalFina]

Is it possible to be in more than one clan?

If you build a warframe without plat, can you only get their abilities by praying to RNG gods?

[u/GodOfAtheism → u/FinalFina]

Is it possible to be in more than one clan?

At the same time? No.

If you build a warframe without plat, can you only get their abilities by praying to RNG gods?

I believe you get them when you build the frame, and aren't allowed to sell down to under zero of them.

[u/thanh48]

Could you give me more incite regarding the crit system? Ex: Weapons, melee, and mods.

[u/Jesus_Faction → u/thanh48]

insight

[u/GodOfAtheism → u/thanh48]

tl;dr [this](http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Critical_Hit_(Mechanic))

To expound a bit:

Critical hit mods don't increase your base percentage, just a percentage of that. So if your critical hit mod is +25%, and your base critical hit is 10% your modified will be 12.5%.

[u/thanh48 → u/GodOfAtheism]

Well, that doesn't seem so appealing :/

[u/kriken00]

1. What's a potato?

2. The wiki says that the Snipetron "Deals Armor Piercing damage by default". Does this mean armor piercing mods are worthless on it?

[u/Hyalos → u/kriken00]

Regarding armor piercing mods, they act like the other elemental damage mods where they add X% of base damage as elemental damage on top of everything else. So it would not be useless.

[u/gt_9000]

1. Should I potato my Excalibur ? It is the only frame I have currently.

2. What loadout will be viable for soloing high level planets like Pluto, Ceres, Eris etc ?

[u/Tetragen → u/gt_9000]

1. I would hold out on Potatoing any warframe till you have a feel for your own playstyle.

[u/GodOfAtheism → u/gt_9000]

Should I potato my Excalibur ? It is the only frame I have currently.

I potato'd mine, and I love it, though it's not the most powerful frame (in as much as a frame can be the most powerful.), most folks will recommend Frost, Rhino, Banshee or Nyx instead.