Devstream 9

The latest Livestream was #9 and aired July 3, 2013 at 2pm EDT.

Announcements

• New sentinel stats will eventually be added to the heads up display.
• New solar system will come, but later...
• Don't cheat! 80 people caught in 4 hours! Even grand masters will be banned!
• Weapons are added as they come in by content team. Bugs and other fixes are a different team. So if you think there are too many as a result of DE not having good priorities, think again.
• Dojo/clan will get balanced for different sizes. They will be "tiered."
  • "Broframe" is over 7000 members large!
  • 4% of clans are 1 person...
• New shotgun upcoming.
• Warframe buffs upcoming.
• Difficulty mode changer will be coming up!
• New event this weekend with new enemy!
• Update 9 some time in the next few weeks.... maybe.
  • Might include new Antimatter Warframe.
• 24 hour alert going on after LS
• Alert RNG has been remade and will be released on the 4th or 5th.

Text Recap by Volt_Cruelerz

Animation

• Introductions: animators Lucy, Scott J, and Jay introduce themselves
• Hardest thing to animate is agreed to be motion sets
• New Ancient charge animation is terrifying
• Originally the MOA stomp animation was just a normal speed stomp changed for mechanics reasons and the Infested walk animation was sped up for similar reasons
• Animators love The Incredibles and Iron Giant
• Animators think swimming would be cool, but no current plans for it
• No dancing, but other emotes will likely be coming, especially for dojos
• There are plans to break up the animation sets into sub-sets such as male/female or light/medium/heavy
• New Idle animations are coming that will be unique to each frame
• Kogake based on kick-boxing of a police trainer
• Most humanoid animations are based on motion capture, though combat sequences in the trailer are not
• Combat animation draws from no specific martial art, but rather draws from all in general and things done in other games and movies
• Ash is getting wrist-blades for use in Bladestorm
• Captain Vor's redesign is almost done
• A small pass will be made on Jackal
• Sargus Ruk will be getting a redesign after those and his new style will have something to do with the blueprints he drops (Ember BP's)
• Geoff desires to make charged melee attacks not always have the same animation
• Kogake kill winners will be announced tonight/tomorrow
• Animators don't have to spend a whole lot of time talking with modelers because the modelers know what they're doing
• Mynki is awesome at his job
• Machete is getting a new animation that's more hack-and-slash-y
• They get a lot of input from the forums
• Skana animations may be brought up to the current standards of the game
• Dangly-bits may be coming in after U9
• Volt and Trinity may have their tails modified or something (someone walked into the room and wouldn't stop talking to me at this point in the stream, so I couldn't hear very well)
• Sound guys aren't really involved until after animations are done
• New enemy idles are coming which will go along with stealth and enemies will display more variable alertness better
• Custom reloads are going to happen; sounds like the prime weapons that already exist may get this first
• Zero gravity might happen at some point when you break windows
• Possibly crawling and more interactivity with environments
• Saryn, Rhino, and Frost second gen alt helms shown off

Mechanics

• Melee vs Charged Melee is getting looked at; sounds like the solution may be a buff to Pressure Point
• More planets will come
• Antihack stuff keeps getting better and they're amused when hackers complain so don't hack the game or expect to be banned
• They acknowledge there is a surplus of melee weapons; it's done by different people so it's not a priority problem
• 4% of clans are made up of individuals
• New double-barrelled Grineer shotty coming
• New Alert system should start tomorrow or Friday; won't notice anything immediately, but over time you should see things being better so no more potato famines
• Lots of work on Mag, Rhino, and Volt
• Once you unlock a mission, there'll be a random periodic chance for it to be a "nightmare" mode where it'll be incredibly more powerful; not endgame, but it should provide variability from endless defense; will include things like punishment for failing hacks, increased damage, and randomized restrictions like "melee only" or your health slowly drains and you have to kill to regen health; comes with better rewards

User Interface

• Sentinel health/status will eventually be on the HUD
• The current UI is getting overhauled
• New UI prototype shown off (very very pretty)
• You can now look from one planet to the next by click+drag; looks very cool; just watch it at 1:11:00.  It's hard to explain.

Update 9

• Scott is very very very very busy with U9
• The AM frame should be in U9
• In a few weeks probably

Other

• Steam trading cards are a WIP
• Credit valued vanity items may come
• Event this weekend for 5 PM tonight with a new enemy and return of the Snipetron