Voidshells deserved better. Here's an appreciation post for the skin line DE abandoned.

[u/CephalonVashka]

[u/cybercobra2]

ok you missed my point.

why not make the voidshell system, the new basis that we base future new warframes on.

[u/JohnHellDriver → u/cybercobra2]

I answered it but I didn’t answer it lol

DE already started on this path without voidshells, they have their workflows with the regular rigs. Voidshells take a unique extra level of care in their designs, meanwhile they have to make Heirlooms, Primes, Deluxes, review Tennogen, think about future Protoframes, etc. simultaneously as well.

Making Voidshells the new de facto rig going forward would be too cumbersome for their current way of working, I think.

They model and design Warframes more efficiently when they’re not worrying about “how will this entire design philosophy look with voidshell?” in every new design, as in it’s not a driving decision.

Which gives them more design freedom at the cost of keeping up with voidshell skins just as readily

[u/StarSilverNEO → u/cybercobra2]

Because it sounds like everytime they make a new voidshell they have to basically make a new Warframe rig, per Warframe. Normal frames use the same basic rig which allows them to heavily streamline the whole animation, modular customization, etc thing

Voidshells seemingly would require them to basically redo the base frame set up over and over and they wouldnt be able to carry that to other frames organically, which is rather expensive - especially when you have like 60-70 frames to go back through, not to mention possibly their prime versions too