I played Warframe for about 1y and took a 3y break (before teleporters were added). When I returned it took me about a month to realize I don’t have to stand on them to use them like Railjack Tactical Menu, just hold M and click. And lots of new players in my clan have asked where to get 1200 Oxium for the Archwing Launcher Segment (Io, Jupiter defense).
Apparently Stomp is also one of the best crowd control abilities for lategame because it works on eximus like Thrax (and even Corrupted Jackal).
I agree with the fun part. The problem is recruiting for 64 exo runs. Typically that looks like this for me: the 5 out of 200 clanmates who play it are offline, the recruiting chat has 1 person who doesn’t want to host, the pub player leaves by 30+ exo, and the organized Discord wants experienced levelcappers with voice chat only.
Chat windows that persist through host migrations, crashes, and logouts. Players that have messaged me or vice versa appearing in Recent without having to play a game with them. Messaging players in Clan/Friends/Recent who are “Playing” without inviting them + waiting for them to finish or screenshotting their name and alt-tabbing back and forth to type out /w ‘mYn4mEhAs sPaCeS “4Nd qUoTeS”’. Copying ingame text and following links with an external site warning like what Discord has (disable it in trade chat if that’s really a problem, in fact just disable trade chat on PC by default). Cross-platform friend invites.
Sparring weapons have some really fun and mobile stances but aren’t used much except for Hirudo lifesteal (and that doesn’t scale so well nowadays). They could benefit from an aoe increase (i.e. hitting out waves, phantom punches/kicks to either side), a way to translate their mobility into damage (i.e. parkour speed on kill, damage based on parkour distance) or unique scaling gimmicks that fit their power fantasy (i.e. armor/overguard-shattering punches).
I mostly want to see reworks of existing content. But I’ll set my hopes low to avoid the “never gonna happen” category:
Its 5th evo “Armed Inspiration” grants 5 combo counter when picking up ammo. This makes it a good budget QoL statstick for exalted/pseudo exalted frames that want 12x combo and can’t get it with their abilities (i.e., Melee Guidance Baruuk/Excalibur, Gara). You attack with the dagger to build 12x combo and then (with Body Count installed) fire at least once every 17 seconds instead of deactivating Baruuk/Excalibur 4.
1st evo “Striking Swiftness” is generically useful if you don’t play Ash or use Innodem as a real melee. Praedos and Ceramic Dagger Incarnon also help maintain combo and have more generically useful evos, they’re just harder to acquire.
Light attack (12x combo count) melees need a Reach/Primed Reach buff. Prenerf memeing strike would be too high but what we have now is too low. Melee was once the go-to scaling option before weapon arcanes and galvanized mods. Now primaries and secondaries have similar scaling, more aoe/killrate, and less button spam. Only heavy attack melees that delete hallways in a few keypresses (Glaive Prime, Cerata, Stropha) can compete with all that.
It’s trivialized by Wukong + Zenurik Inner Might. Inner Might lets you cast clone (and Cloud Walker after a 1m cooldown) for free. The clone is not disarmed and will instantly shoot down the boss and other low level enemies with your primary/secondary. Wukong is also a strong choice for the second mission, which has a low energy capacity and regen modifier. The third mission doesn’t mess with your energy so you can just bring a nuke.
I feel like superheroes have a plot constancy that forces them to stay superheroes. Their superpowers may lapse, but they generally get them back and feel justified in using them. Their main villains may fall or seemingly reform in one episode or series, but usually return as bad as ever. In Legends, Luke’s fight with the Empire is almost over before it has begun. Cleaning up the Remnant and warlords falls to regular X-wing pilots and commandos in the New Republic era. Luke is more of a mediator than a fighter and mostly withdraws from heavy use of the Force by the New Jedi Order era. Even the new enemies of that era don’t stay enemies forever. Instead of forcing constancy, Legends allows conflicts in these eras to be “solved” and to permanently change characters.
In that case, direct downloads (in conjunction with ProtonVPN free) would be a superior method. The article makes piracy sound synonymous with and exclusive to torrenting, but DDL and Usenet also exist. Many of the megathread categories have DDL links right at the top.
Cs.rin.ru is mainly gaming focused but has an FAQ that covers general DDL concepts like source trustworthiness/scene names and workarounds for filehoster limits. You could probably paraphase/quote or screenshot with credit (ironically) to save a login. The same people not wanting to sign up for a VPN might also look askance at a .ru domain.
Use ProtonVPN Free with direct downloads only (their P2P servers are paid). Check the megathread categories for links.
Path of Exile. You will watch a cool new budget friendly league starter guide on YouTube and follow it religiously. You will install or update half a dozen 3rd-party tools for essential QoL. You will ignore the new league mechanics until maps while speedrunning the same unskippable story for each character. You will hide most loot and avoid risky item crafting. You will pickup currency to buy your gear wholesale from other players. You will reroll your character or rq if your build has no defense or bossing damage or becomes too expensive due to popularity (Mathil effect). You will repeat this cycle in 3-4 months.
Warframe had a very pay-it-forward culture when I played (Fortuna-Old Blood expansions). I got advice on meta starter weapons (Hek/Atomos) and Warframes (Rhino) and where to farm them. I got taxis to locked (for me) planets and direct help for some of the bosses. Other noobs were also helpful for the mutual revives. I even got some free trash mods from a clan member when they saw I was new.
For spontaneous conversations I’d join clan parties or simple missions with lots of downtime (i.e., escort, wave survival). Endgame farms with specific roles and/or time gating like Eidolon hunts were very sweaty.
Halo CE has some real bangers (Devils…Monsters, On A Pale Horse, Covenant Dance, Under Cover of Night). Blow Me Away from Halo 2 has some amazing guitar riffs. The Starcraft: Mass Recall mod adds a lot of great music from other games/artists to its cutscenes. Starcraft Terran 1 goes METAL is probably my favorite out of those.
Many specific subreddits don’t have equivalents yet; check Communities (top bar on website)/All. On Jerboa the Communities button is the three dots on the bottom bar: https://reddthat.com/post/8623
I loved the mechanics in Company of Heroes 1 and wished it was more accessible and window-friendly.
Infantry: MG suppression, cover system, retreating and reinforcing squads, squad members spreading out and dodging shells, captureable weapons, occupiable/destructible buildings, destructible terrain, artillery leaving massive dirt clouds and craters (aka cover). It made me feel like I was fighting in a real war, but without the “unfair” TTK of real life MGs/tanks.
Macro (vs Starcraft 2): no workers (capture territory to generate resources), no 6 pool (base has starting bunkers) or proxy (can only build production in base), 1 of each building all game instead of 10+ Rax/Gate, 4-6 squads instead of 100+ Marines, cutoff harass (disconnect enemy territory from their base). I felt like I was fighting my opponent instead of the game.
I hate RNG-heavy progression that discourages playing the actual game.
Path of Exile had terrible loot droprates and gamble crafting when I last played in Ritual League. Starting a league = poring YouTube for safe league starter builds to follow step by step. Gearing up = only picking up currency and buying items from other players on a website. Making $$$ = flipping items (buy low sell high) in hideout (personal town).
Path of Champions (PvE gamemode in Legends of Runeterra) drops shards and fragments to unlock new champions and relics that add a passive effect. Drops are random and not duplicate protected. Champions need 2 star upgrades totalling their unlock cost to feel playable. Optimal progression = speedrunning dailies/weeklies, 2-starring meta champs, and logging out.
I started using Thumb-Key after MessagEase began charging a subscription. It had an “english symbols messageease” layout that was basically the same one I’d used for years.