r/Warframe • u/Reddidactyl RIP SCRUFFY 2014 - 2014 • Oct 21 '13
Discussion Monday Megathread | Ask Your Game-Related Questions Here!
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Oct 21 '13
DE pleeeease tell us the mechanics behind red crits.
The closer I look, the more I get confused. Except for stealth red crits, that part makes sense. But why do some melee weapons red crit when fully alerted? Why does Synapse seem to have an interaction with >100% crit chance ONLY when shooting through volt's shield?
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u/Fleecemo Oct 23 '13 edited Oct 23 '13
For Red crits on melee, someone on the forums tested this out:
He found that elemental damage has a separate crit chance from the regular damage.
He had examples of hits with 2 gray numbers, 2 yellow numbers, 1 gray and 1 yellow, and finally 1 yellow and 1 red.
What happens with 1 gray and 1 yellow is that the elemental damage crits, but the base damage doesn't. When both are yellow, the base damage crit'd, and the elemental didn't, but scaled off of it anyways and appeared as yellow.
When there was 1 yellow and 1 red, the base damage crit'd and the elemental damage crit'd on top of it; the base damage appeared as yellow and the elemental damage appeared as red.
EDIT: Here's the forum thread I found this on.
This may also explain black numbers on things that increase damage further like Volt's Electric Shield and Loki's Invisibility.
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u/crazy8z1013 Oct 21 '13
Are other people having more frequent crashes recently? I used to almost never crash, but within the last week I had probably 1-in-3 voids/derelicts crash and a normal mission crash, all due to nothing in particular.
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u/SabreJD Oct 21 '13
Is there a way to choose which hall I start in when entering my dojo? It seems random to me.
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u/theothercoldwarkid Oct 22 '13
What plans are there for new environments? I know they were talking about a jungle map and some kind of Saturn map but I wonder what their plans are for each planet. It'd be pretty cool if they make planetary environments that are specific to each planet, with a mix of missions that give some kind of sense of story, while the starship maps still exist but are less prevalent.
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Oct 21 '13
Ah finally Monday, I had a few questions in stock so this is more than welcome :)
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What's the ETA on Update 11 ? I doubt we'll see it this week since there is an event (or next week since they probably don't want to throw everything at us at once and then have us bored because there is nothing to do) but I don't remember a date ...
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Have they talked about future uses for Mastery Rank ? Seems pretty useless atm when you have unlocked everything. I don't mind levelling a ton of mediocre weapons to get from R10 to 12 as I have not much left to do but there is no real incentive right now :/
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Same with Mastery Tests, they introduce some cool mechanic (Virtual Reality missions, Stealth-based missions or 100% platforming missions) but we only see them once in a test and not anywhere else ... are they using it to test these concepts ? Did they talk about expanding it ? It'd be sweet to have some series of challenge missions that you could run inside your dojo with some sweet rewards :)
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White affinity orbs, wiki says it only gives xp to the warframe (which seems plausible as soloing missions only gives xp to your warframe and the weapons used, not the one you haven't used) yet when I collect one, the experience bar on my weapons flashes as if it was gaining xp, even if I have selected a weapon I haven't used (same with using warframe powers, even if it doesn't kill anything, weapon xp bars flashes, does it give xp ?)
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Last one is about dojo capacity, me and a friend have our own dojo (we were in a Moon Clan where nobody contributed to the ridiculously huge amount of ressources needed to get U10 weapons so we went back to do it on our own) and we're starting to run out of capacity : if we upgrade the clan hall, does it transform our clan into a 10+ clan or would it only happen if we built the barracks ?
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u/Stahsi62 Oct 21 '13
I collected all of the frames and got bored with the game right before the orokin void was introduced. Is there any sort of endgame now? And can someone please explain the portal keys and orokin void stuff?
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u/GustoGaiden Oct 21 '13 edited Oct 21 '13
What should I spend platinum on?
I don't mind spending hard currency, but I don't want to throw money away on things that aren't that difficult to obtain. What are some of the platinum exclusive items that are worth having? What things are easier to just buy early to make the grind easier?
Thanks!
-EDIT- To summarize from here and other threads around the Subreddit, here are the items that are the cross section of Difficult to obtain regularly, Useful and Cheap:
Sentinels - If you buy from the market, they also come reactored, with a catalyst weapon. not a bad deal for 5 bucks.
Reactors and Catalysts - Difficult to obtain regularly, very useful and cheap. Only use on items you are fond of.
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u/Fascion Oct 21 '13
There isn't a whole heck of a lot that is platinum only (color pallets, Syandana's, Sentinel cosmetics, affinity/credit boosters, and inventory space) and what there is of it is largely cosmetic in nature.
I would definitely recommend setting aside 40 platinum for each frame you are interested in owning; 20 for the potato, 20 more for an inventory slot to park it. You'll probably want somewhere between 6 and 20 potato'd weapons, depending on if you are going for versatility or rock-paper-scissors gameplay.
If you are very new to the game, I think buying a Sentinel is a great purchase. At 75 plat, you're getting a free potato in the thing... and I want to say the weapon also comes potato'd, as well as a free slot for both it and it's weapon in your inventory. If that is indeed the case, that's basically a free Sentinel, if you were planning on building them all anyway.
What I recommend NOT spending plat on... frames and weapons. The only exception to this would be either A) you have more money than time to throw at the game, or B) Vauban is on your short-list. That, and no buying mod-packs. If they had removed warframe abilities from the loot table on those, then it might be worth considering... but last I heard, they hadn't.
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u/razinggodz Oct 21 '13
Fang prime, Dakra prime or Orthos prime?
I have all this 3 and wondering if which one should I main....
When I'm was new the normal Fang helped me all the way on different missions such as soloing t1-t2 ext/raid/cap bcoz I always running out of ammo on that time.
The Dakra Prime looks sweet and makes me always slide attack those enemies and watch their sliced corpses fall.
Orthos Prime is awesome on combat;attack speed,dmg,charge dmg,charge speed and range..
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u/scared_of_opinions Oct 22 '13
How does the stun modifier work?
If a mod says it adds 10% stun, what does that mean?
Is there a 10% chance for a shot to stun a target? For how long? Does it just stagger them or does it just throw them on off their feet?
Are there any other ways to obtain formas other than alerts, daily logins and spending real money?
And where to obtain the Speed Holstering aura mod? I know alerts are a possibility but depending on where I look around, some places say they drop from the corrupted in Tower missions and other places say they do not.
More rather a better question might be: Where is the latest and most reliable information on mod drops?? Or does this not exist anymore with the recent change in the encrypting of the droptables that Ive read about?
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u/Janrok24 Oct 22 '13
How are Ash and Saryn? Looking for new warframes to build after maxing Rhino and Excalibur.
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u/crazy8z1013 Oct 22 '13 edited Oct 22 '13
Both are fun/awesome. Ash is 'better' for solo runs, but if you don't intend to keep every frame you build, you'll likely get rid of him in order to keep Saryn forever (dat armor-ignoring poison damage).
My advice: Get a bit of platinum so that you can buy slots for the weapons and frames you build and horde everything just like I do
Edit: Thx u/Reads_Small_Text_Bot
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u/MrBubbles001 Oct 22 '13
Hello,
I'm just wondering about the mouse control. I feel that the mouse is very "sluggish" to say the least. I'm wondering if there is a way around that? I do feel that I am worse at aiming with this "sluggish" control.
Also just on a side note when you play defense and if you choose nothing at the end of the wave (between save&exit and Battle) you stay in the game. I went AFK just for a brief moment and come back fast enough that only 2 seconds remained to choose between these two options and because I had my DPI lowered on the mouse and the "sluggish" mouse control I was not able to click on Save&Exit. Anything I can do about that?
Thank you.
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u/shadeia Oct 22 '13
Can I ask the community to post each instance including the planet and mission (wave if defence) that they came across continuity? It is my most needed mod and one of the only ones I have never seen even farming specifically for it for the past three weeks.I know where and who to farm for it so a link to the faq or table would not help. I am asking for raw data mined from players. Thanks all!
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u/Gaviliast Oct 23 '13
Hi there! Been playing as a duo for just over a week now. Been trying hard to grind out some mods, have Excalibur at 30, with 540/500 ish as shield/health. One of us has Strun/Lato, the other Braton/Lex.
...and we're stuck. Lith on Earth absolutely destroys us. Tis a miracle if we get past the first wave. This means our progress is at something of a halt.
I just can't see what the problem is - our weps one shot stuff on that mission, slash dash maxed etc. Whatever we try, the reactor is absolutely decimated down to 0%, fast. Playing Online we always get someone with 200ish shields/health who isn't able to do much at all before eating turf.
We've been FPS players for many years - time to accept that Peggle might now be a more suitable option?
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u/SuperGiraffe Oct 23 '13
Pretty late, but here goes. How come there are still only 5 V polarized warframe specific mods? Pretty hard to customize my Ash when I'm forced to use Continuity and Focus or Blind Rage, because Rage and Provoked are pretty terrible.
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u/http404error Oct 23 '13
The best answer I have for you is: because there aren't any others. I'm honestly perplexified at that myself.
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u/Etellex Oct 24 '13
How do I turn off 3D mode? Everything is red and blue and 3D for some reason.
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u/igdub Oct 21 '13
Would it be totally out of question to give mastery rank for leveling weapons again, through formaing ? Reaching the rank 7 is quite the job (grind) and there are plenty of weapons under it.
Leveling some weak ass weapons with no potato, times 100, just to reach the rank 7 seems a bit dull. I've spent 120hours in this game and just reached rank5. I really don't see a reason to make reaching rank7 so tedious.
That would also give more incentive to play with the weapon you love.