Ruri really is getting all the "crappy" dragon traits and none of the cool ones! Breathing fire, crackling with lightning and spewing hallucinogenic venom are not exactly traits very useful in modern society. Getting flight or shapeshifting instead would be awesome! I like how she stared to wrap her horns up for safety after they covered them up in the nurse's office.
Keegen
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Yeah, I was very dissapointed by that as well. As far as I'm aware, the only time it matters is when
Big shame that's all that remains of this system.Act 3 spoiler
The Emperor offers you the Astral tadpole, if you used any worms you have to pass a check that grows harder the more worms you consumed to resist using it, if you abstained you can just say no.
Yeah, stuffing more worms into your brain being purely a beneficial mechanic with no drawbacks is a very weird choice. This whole system was honestly better in early access than it ended up being, having the tadpoles be just a dialogue option with a very easy check but consequences the more you used them. The ring that Omeluum gives you was even supposed to help, only to get changes into a boring Charm resistance ring on release.
Oh Caliban! A frame so bad, so forgotten DE literally has to give him away to everyone upon his rework just so people actually get to experience the thing. I hope Pablo is cooking cause this guy needs a full course meal! With a single redeemable ability rendered obsolete by the armor/damage type rework Caliban has nothing going on for him. Add to that the abysmal acquisition with timegated droptables and high-end Railjack resources required to build him and it's no wonder the poor guy is completely forgotten. This guy is in a state as dire as old Hydroid was. Here's hoping his rework turns out as good as that one did!
Merulina works the same way Rhino's Iron Skin and Nezha's Warding Halo work, during the 4sec invincibility period after casting all damage you take adds to it's HP pool. Even with no HP absorbed, getting an extra 10-15k effective HP (depending on power strength) for 25 energy with a guaranteed 4sec of invulnerability is nothing to sneeze at! As always, the best defense is not getting hit, and not being bound to clunky K-drive controls thanks to Royal Merulina helps a lot with that.
Yareli really went from rags to riches since her release! Changes to her 4 and her new augment, Loyal Merulina, contributed the most to making her into a really good generalist frame. That augment alone just does so much for her. No longer are you bound to the clunky K-drive movement, but on top of that you also get 5 sec of invincibility whenever you cast this ability. And you can recast it as often as you want! It also lets you use subsumes on her 3, before it was very clunky to do so as you couldn't use them while riding Merulina. On top of all that, it even shoots out Sea Snares for you! She's up there now with the likes of Nezha, Rhino, Revenant, etc. as a solid good-at-everything kind of frame. She's got the damage buffs, grouping abilities that act as a low level nuke and a very solid survivability ability. Give this frame a go again if you only remember her release state!
This looks much better than the last trailer, I appreciate how so many of the animations are clearly inspired by the janky but charming original ones. My biggest complaint from the Teaser was the overly talkative player character. Don't turn the Nameless Hero into your bog standard "must comment on literally everything that happens" character so many modern games have.
The newest upcoming Prime is here (sorry Lavos and Xaku)! A Warframe know more for his amazing subsume ability than the frame itself. I gave this guy an honest shot when he came out, I even managed to farm 2 of him rather painlessly, he just never felt good to play to me. Not only is he a massive forma hog, being 2 whole frames in one with an exalted weapon on top, his killing potential always felt...lackluster. His shadow is also rather disappointing, normal melee or just any good gun will be far more deadly (Exalted weapons in general are long overdue a rework). Gloom is an absolutely amazing ability to give to other frames, though. Any frame that struggles with surviving can benefit from the massive slow and lifesteal Gloom provides, it makes Saryn literally immortal (baring one-shots) with the constant damage ticks from Spores.
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I feel very whelmed by that ending. I've read enough manga to adopt the "the journey matters, not the destination" mindset when it comes to it, as so many times the endings just leave me feeling mixed. I had a good time for most of those 154 chapters and that's what matters the most in the end.
I really like Lavos in concept. A frame utilizing cooldowns in place of the traditional resource like energy or shields other frames use is really interesting. But his CD numbers are just too high for what you get out of them. That and the requirement to prime enemies with status before being able to nuke just makes him really clunky to actually play. His 4 also has a very awkward hitbox, being a circular AoE but not really as only the probes actually hit enemies, leaving a ton of gaps between themselves as they expand.
I remember this frame being insane on release to the point her rapid damage ticks crashed the game for some people. Then she got "fixed" which also nerfed her to the point of irrelevancy. I never seen much of her since then. I never played her much myself, especially post her changes, did this frame ever get her teeth back or is she still just a worse Volt?