Livestream at 2 PM EDT on 10/18/2013

[Eliard]

Livestreams have switched places with the weekly updates, so they are now on Friday.

forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/120457-livestreams-moved-to-fridays-stream-16-coming-soon/

Posted Today, 10:09 AM

Now that Game Updates have moved to Wednesdays, we need to move our bi-monthly Livestreams to a new day. What better way to kick off the weekend than a Livestream on Fridays? So, please join us this Friday for Livestream #16.

What: Livestream #16! A Dev Q&A session! Join us as we take questions from the forums and chat and discuss what we’re working on!

We will also be giving away three 1000 Platinum Prizes!

When: October 18th @ 2 PM EDT (6 PM GMT)! Find your timezone here: www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Where: www.twitch.tv/warframe

Who: Steve, Scott, Geoff and Sheldon will join Rebecca on the couch to field community questions and talk about their current tasks on Warframe!

Thread closes at 10:00 AM EDT on October 18th, get your questions in!

[Eliard]

Drop tables? Where are they? We'd like to know something.

A codex is coming - UI rearrangements will be coming - which will show what things drop what, as well as provide info on enemies. Multiple scans to fill an entry. This makes it official. Master list of mods to be added, updated in realtime as you play.

(To be honest, I dunno why you crybabies wanted the tables public anyway, it's not like other games do that. Man up.)

Armor 2.0?

People don't want to use Rainbow builds. Instead of revamping armor, change the effects of the elemental mods so that you have to consider what you're fighting, utility diversity via damage types and element combinations rather than simple damage. This will be a violent rewrite.
It is not damage Rock-Paper-Scissors - it is a gradient of application and mods will push/pull within the gradient.

New Warframe

Concept art posted. Berserker type, very in-your-face and physical type frame, design includes whip-like attachments for abilities.

Upcoming mission reworks - how to make people motivated to play them over time?

More involvement, higher enemy spawn presentation, faster pacing (the reasons people play Survival and Mobile Defense so much). Adding benefits to carrying datamasses/carryables.

Hosting issues for key-based missions

Until hosting issues are resolved: Someone hosts, but someone else uses their key instead.

Events?

Upcoming AladV event! Other events have been created and are coming up.

Polishing old stuff?

More work is going into the melee system - Expanding on charged attacks, filling the gaps between charged attacks, adding combo systems.

WHOA IT'S ME
Blacklisting/ways to avoid griefers?

Reputation system first (carrot before the stick), blacklisting is not out of the question, but they would like to avoid punitive measures if possible. Players with reputation synergy will be more likely to put in the same missions.

Trading/Buying in general

10-pack Blueprints!
Trading will be tied to the Dojo - a trade kiosk. Anyone can be invited to the dojo for trading, and trading will probably be mastery locked. Like-for-like (e.g. rare for rare) and small transaction fee.

Login rewards

Going to be adjusted, they know it really does suck most of the time.

Dojo additions/changes

Moving mastery tests to Dojo, can be replayed. (FFFFFUCK YES)
Shooting range for Dojo.

User-generated content?

Dojo vs dojo raids, clans being able to generate alerts ("sponsoring" alerts) and custom missions with custom risks/rewards.

Halloween event? Halloween anything?

Candy. :V. Pumpkin heads for 'neer? Keep-forever prizes like weapon skins! ..Pumpkin "assets"

Power Creep

They acknowledge that the weapons lately are quite powerful - Soma mastery level requirement needs to be increased. It's a viable weapon but not OP. There hasn't been THAT much power creep.

Mod system - will we see expansions of it?

Adding more mod slots is in the cards, but they don't want to try it until Armor 2.0 - they want the players to experiment with the new element system first. They've kept the frame abilities as mods because there may be additional abilities per frame.

The tutorial

Rewriting/fixing for clarity and to address advanced maneuvers and other game mechanics.

Strict NAT

Network bandwidth optimization is always an issue, but they're looking at all the options, including completely rewriting it.

Stealth

It's coming along in phases - working on patrol routes. The main problem with it is the lack of rewards; might see increased rewards for stealth.

Event next Wednesday

Tenno have to keep the balance of power in the galaxy. Video featured alliance with Corpus. See-saw of power balance for a node; select which faction to fight for. If it tilts too far in one way, it becomes locked, affects global scoring. Ship invasions - crossing from a Corpus ship into a Grineer ship.

Why retiring weapons?

Too many weapons in the game, becoming overwhelming. Remove weapons that are unpopular or too similar to others. Weapon doesn't fit in the game, or lacks certain qualities. Retiring, however, does NOT mean permanently removed - may be made available for credits-only in reappearances.

Grappling hook

Don't want to render wallrunning defunct, so they're being careful about its design/function.

Heavy Caliber rage

It's not that there is no upside to the mod, so it's not the same as a stun mod on weapons with no innate stun - there NEEDS to be a tradeoff for the substantial damage boost regardless of what weapon it is applied to.

(Also, nobody said you HAD to max the mod. Nubs. e_e)

Lotus voice differences?

In the process of rerecording all the Lotus lines to use in-game engine to apply effects, effect slider to be in UI.

Corpus Gas Planet towers screenshot


Forest/jungle tile


Grineer shipyard on an acidic ocean - ship manufacturing, with underclass workers


Shirts!


New Skins?

Moving away from the Manticore-type skins (which are model replacements) to cosmetic skins now. Next stream will have more info and a look at some of the new ones!

Stalker

He's a pushover at the moment but he's gearing up further. Lore and other information revealed when you codex him.

Reactor alert this time!
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