Sanctuary Onslaught

"Hunter, you have proven your dedication to the cause. It is time to enlighten you, to show you what we have built together. It is time to enter the Sanctuary.

In the simulated universe of the Sanctuary, my data-immortals have fought each other countless times. Through this violence, I have studied and documented their true character. But my study cannot be complete without the power of the Tenno, the most powerful specimen in the system — you. Your duty in this experiment is to kill as many specimens as efficiently as possible. In this chaos, the true nature of these creatures will be revealed... as will yours."

- Cephalon Simaris

Sanctuary Onslaught is an endless game mode introduced in. It is similar to Survival, but players are limited to one big room from a random tileset and opposing faction is also randomized from round to round.

Players must complete The New Strange to access this game mode. To begin, players must talk to Cephalon Simaris at his Sanctuary in any Relay or select "Sanctuary Onslaught" in the Syndicate World State Window tab.

New Terms

 * Zones: the equivalent of a 'Wave', 'Round', etc.
 * Conduits: Portals connecting one Zone to the next.
 * Efficiency: the means to maintain a Conduit. Once efficiency reaches zero, the run will be over. The deeper you go into the Sanctuary the faster your efficiency drops.
 * Efficiency Stimulus: Pick-ups, which increase your efficiency by 10%. The number of Efficiency Stimuli that appears starts at 4, which gradually decreases the deeper you go into the Sanctuary, up until after Zone 15 after which they will stop appearing.

What to do

 * Enter the Conduit to the Sanctuary and maintain Efficiency against increasingly difficult Specimens for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
 * Each Specimen you kill contributes to your overall Efficiency, with Eximus Specimens contributing more.
 * When a zone is complete, Simaris will open a Data-Conduit to a new and harder zone within his Sanctuary.
 * The conduit closes after 30 seconds. Players who have not entered the conduit before then will be extracted with their rewards.

Rules
Simaris seeks data on the Elite using his own rules. This is his simulation, after all, and his rules are:


 * The Gear wheel, Specters, and Emotes are disabled.
 * Specimens do not drop Mods or Resources in the Sanctuary.
 * Each Conduit entered/Zone advanced removes current buffs, active Warframe abilities, combo multipliers, and resets Energy to the respective base level, as well as restoring ammunition back to 100%.
 * Nidus will lose 3 mutation stack upon entering Data-Conduit.
 * Instead of dropping normally, Convergence Orbs are granted automatically at the beginning of each zone after the first. The Convergence Orb Boost scales in multiplier up to 16x.
 * Leaderboards are available based on overall score for both Sanctuary Onslaught and Elite Sanctuary Onslaught that Simaris will reset weekly.

Elite Sanctuary Onslaught
Each week Simaris simulates a predetermined sequence of tilesets and Elite Specimens. This Onslaught is not for the leisurely and requires a Rank 30 Warframe to enter, as Specimens are stronger and Simaris disallows excessive use of Warframe abilities. Enemy level starts at 60-70 and caps out at 150-180 beyond Zone 15.

This week, first 8 zones feature the following tiles and enemies:

Rewards
Rewards are given per 2 successful zones in an AABC rotation in both Sanctuary Onslaught and Elite Sanctuary Onslaught to player before they jump into the Data-Conduit.


 * 2 Zones = Rotation A
 * 4 Zones = Rotation A
 * 6 Zones = Rotation B
 * 8 Zones = Rotation C


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