Devstream 51

Warframe Devstream 51

Devstream #51 started on April 24, 2015, @ 2 PM EST

And of course the awesome Livestream crew (Tom, Dean, Warren, Conner, Danielle, Arthur, Jake), Megan, and everyone at DE!

Questions

Proto-Excalibur and Nemesis Nyx are out now... what's next?

• Not sure... but we're not done with these yet

Any chance of cutting Nemesis Nyx's tail?

• Nope, it's part of her design

PS4 Update

• Sorry it's so huge (11GB) it won't happen again!
• Testing the Vay Hek Trial on PS4 to make sure it's running ok

False Profit event

• We've had a few problems/oversights on launching the event, fixed some, working on fixing others
• Scoring is going to change; there will be a score multiplier for higher level Bursa to reduce grind
• The different levels of Offering have no effect on the event score, only the time it takes to transmit, and the amount of credits received from hacking
• Going to tweak the spawning of random mobs as well
• The Riot MOA will be tweaked further based on feedback; blinding attack already will have greatly reduced range, and telegraphed more

Nef Anyo

• Nef Anyo won't arrive as a boss for a while (beyond U17), but expect more appearances from him until then
• Nef Anyo and Derf Anyo are still going to be a duo, in the final boss encounter with him
• The sound team is working on boss battle music
• Click HERE to see the sound team getting underwater sound samples

Underwater Tileset

• Designed to be very "vertical"
• Will feature many parkour areas
• Will debut Sabotage 2.0; initially exclusive to Underwater tileset, will expand later
• Click HERE to see a pre-view of the tileset

Underwater Enemies?

• Grineer Frogman is the basic "Lancer" enemy
• Frogman is a Sharkwing enemy with a speargun

Tyl Regor

• Release within 2 months
• Click HERE to see Tyl animations!

Kela de Thaym

• Release date is beyond U17
• Grineer women are the most intelligent and scary enemies; expect her to be a real threat
• Although her graphic design is done, still working on her actual boss fight mechanics

What goes into making a boss fight (invulnerability phases, knockdown, etc.)

• The damage in Warframe, dealt to bosses and to players, is "too spiky"
• Nobody (Devs included) enjoy anything that denies damage, but it's currently one of the few ways to combat the inflating damage economy in Warframe
• Always discussing possible changes to address this, but the scope is too large for a Devstream
• The newly implemented "diminishing returns" is a possible way to not render players helpless while extending the boss battle
• In the future, it would be nice to implement resistances, such as "boss is resistant to CC"

Parkour 2.0

• Was hoping to show it off, but it's not quite ready
• Expect to see some more next stream (Reb demo'ing)

J-3 Golem

• J-3 Golem is the next Trial (Raid)
• Archwing/normal gameplay transition
• Like Law of Retribution, there will be multiple stages, as you travel inside it
• Click HERE to see lots of J-3 animations!

Orbiter Compartment

• Click HERE to see a short clip of the orbiter compartment

Warframe Nexus (Mobile App)

• Will be able to check foundry and craft things
• Minigames that will allow you to earn things in the main game
• Access clanchat
• Deploy Extractors (might be something else you can do in U17 with them)
• Will not be able to alter Warframe colour schemes

New Syandana

• Working on in still, got distracted by Trial optimization

From Design Council: Hints and Tips are coming!

• Might include things like elemental combinations and other useful tips
• These tips are from players, so will be of actual value

Dark Sectors PVP

• Will get a big overhaul
• Probably not coming back until the next major update
• Expect more on this next Devstream

Syndicates

• Not worried about Syndicate bosses until the current bosses get re-worked
• Syndicate assassins drop Specter blueprints (I guess this is live on PC now? News to me)

Kubrows

• Armour coming
• Tweaks with Stabilizers, Stasis, and Genetic Foundry coming
• Looking at balance versus Sentinels in general
• There's a new breed of Kubrow coming

More Archwing content?

• Yes, there's stuff coming
• Also, J-3 is coming

What will make Sentients unique?

• When they land in the trailer, you can see they are linked together, they share experiences
• When one dies, it transfers that experience to the rest
• That's all for now

Media

• Grineer Frogman Concept for Sharkwing
• J-3 Animations
• Nef Anyo Concept
• Warframe Nexus App
• Warframe Nexus App Content
• Tyl Regor Revamp Animations
• Kela de Thaym Revamp Model

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