Devstream #114 Overview!

[Shadowy The Insane Bovinemancer]

https://imgur.com/KvTRDZN
This week’s Devstream had a lot of gameplay footage of our new Melee 3.0 system, our Gas City remastered tileset and more, so we really recommend watching the full livestream to get the full effect. If you don’t have time (or headphones) to do so – worry not! We’ve compiled our TL;DW version for you below.

https://youtu.be/RozkCKtNInI

Housekeeping:
-Don’t miss the two Gift of the Lotus Alerts that are live for 24 hours after this stream!
-You can expect the re-run of the Sacrifice Twitch Drops campaign for consoles next week! Full details can be found in this forum thread: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/992379-the-sacrifice-twitch-drops-return-for-a-limited-time-begins-august-7th-for-all-platforms/
-The Acolytes are returning next week (August 7) on all platforms!

Melee 3.0
We’ve spoken about our plans for a Melee rework in past Devstreams, but we’ve come prepared for the show portion of ‘show and tell’ this round! The melee system is incredibly complex, so we’ll break down different components for you.

To help set expectations, we showcased this new system despite it being only half-way polished. There’s still much to do, but we are confident that we have the core elements down-pat.

BASIC OVERVIEW AND GOALS
-Like with the Secondary and Primary weapons earlier this year, all Melee weapons will be given a balance pass. The delay is a result of our plans to rework the melee system, which needs to be done first!
-Stance combos have been unified to require less memorization across all mods. Once you get a feel for the system, you should be able to apply it consistently across all weapons.
-Channelling button has been replaced with a heavy attack button now, which is charged using the combo counter. Energy will no longer be consumed by channeling!
-The changes will change up the melee Meta, but it also comes with a radical buff to range and damage.
-Your expected ground and spin attacks are still executable – worry not!

STANCES AND COMBOS
Your attacks will vary depending on your movement state:

-Standing still
-Movement input
-Starting from block

Here is it in action using the Tempo Royale stance:
https://clips.twitch.tv/BloodyGiantSpiderThisIsSparta

There are new additional modifiers to your melee attacks depending on additional inputs:

-You can use heavy attacks as a static blow, or include it into your combo: https://clips.twitch.tv/PlacidProudAniseAMPTropPunch
-Ground attacks can be made “heavy”, allowing for directional movement in the air: https://clips.twitch.tv/SilkyStrangeFloofPogChamp
-Movement input combos can now be performed in-air: https://clips.twitch.tv/EnergeticAverageOwlFreakinStinkin
All blocking goes towards combo counter as well!

OTHER CHANGES OF NOTE
All mods and game mechanics that deal with channelling will be repurposed. Except a Dev Workshop with more info as we get closer to release.
We are looking into changes in certain mobility actions when melee is equipped (not just quick melee). Ex: Bullet jumping will now cause damage; rolling will be tighter to help keep you in close-combat (instead of rolling you away from your enemy).
A ton of cleanup is done to the stances themselves – swings that look like they don’t hit, etc.

DUAL WIELD
This functionality already exists at some level in the current build of Warframe, but in the future you’ll be able to dual-wield any single-handed secondary weapon and melee weapon for some added flair: https://clips.twitch.tv/SlipperyCourteousWatercressNinjaGrumpy

“NEW CHANNELLING” (still very WIP)
We’re toying with the idea of building up your channelling energy for an ultimate melee mode. All we have is animations, we’re looking to play with this system more before we can offer more details:

Equip animations:https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/aridcompetentapatosaur
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/capitalenviouskillifish

Un-equip animations: https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/coordinatedelasticamericancicada
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/jointdevoteddunnart

Gas City Remaster
We’re looking to remaster the Gas City tileset to help bring it to the same standard of newer tilesets. Part of this is a visual update, with some lore sprinkled in match the current progression of Warframe’s story.

Since this tile predates Parkour 2.0, it didn’t make use of the cool movement systems that make Warframe so fun. So, we’ve changed quite a few aspects of this tile to encourage more mobility play. Here’s some clips showing various tiles of this remaster (still very much a work in progress): https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadThankfulParrotLitty
https://clips.twitch.tv/BetterCreativePoxPastaThat
https://clips.twitch.tv/OptimisticSweetWasabiResidentSleeper

In this, we’ve also repurposed the “Use [button] to use zipline” function for similar environment elements to make them easier to land on.

https://imgur.com/KvTRDZN
Revenant
We’ve shown the Revenant Warframe in quite a few Devstreams now, but here’s an update on his abilities following more playtesting and community feedback:

Third Ability: Moves much more quickly, and can be cancelled – feels much more like an escape move! Health and shields are stolen from enemies you pass through, with a bonus from your enthralled foes.

Fourth Ability: Killing enthralled enemies with this abilities will cause them to drop pickups that give overshields. Can be combined with his third ability for the ultimate spin to win.

Dojos
The talent and creativity that our community has shown with their Dojos deserves so much praise – as a result, we’re looking into a Featured Dojos mode to help shine a spotlight on the truly stellar work done by our Tenno. One Clan of each tier will be featured in the Star Chart for others to marvel at. The contest critiera and rotation (weekly/monthly/etc.) of these Dojos is still being decided, but it’s something our Ikea-frame community can look forward to in the future!

Additionally, we are looking to add a new Decoration set to the Dojos, with a nature theme! Items include:

Icicles
Grass
Rocks (from a variety of tilesets)
Trees and foliage
And more!

https://clips.twitch.tv/ColdbloodedGleamingPieTwitchRaid

Vauban Changes
There has been a lot of feedback and suggestions given to us about Vauban’s kit, and we are looking to make some tweaks. Here are our current plans:

Now you can charge your Tesla to increase your damage and proc chance.
We’re looking at the rest of his kit but have nothing else to share at this time.
If you have a lead on the Repelling Bastille bugs, please send them to us! We’re having issues reproducing it.

[b[Nyx Changes[/b]
We are looking at making some requests to Nyx following community feedback:

-Potentially will be getting rid of Psychic Bolts and replacing it with Chaos.
-Looking at making a new debuff ability for her 3.
-Keeping her 4 as-is but with new math!
-If you have suggestions, post them on the forums!

Orb Vallis – Kubrodons!
Here’s a look at more wildlife to expect with the coming Venus Landscape. These little (and big) guys will be part of the conservation system introduced with the Solaris United. No word on scale, currently

The cub!
https://imgur.com/mhWW1Db

All grown up!
https://imgur.com/Gl8SOva

Restoratives Refresh
Your Energy/Ammo/Health/Shield restores will be getting a refresh to visually indicate what they restore! Now you will no longer have to guess what flavour of pizza your fellow Tenno dropped.
https://imgur.com/GLJ3kbG

Other Tidbits
-Looking to replace wall-hopping with wall-running, still working on the animations. It was originally changed to wall-hopping to help remedy issues with wall-running over small bumps. We’re hoping to iron that out and bring back the coolness of
-Titania’s Razorwing will no longer take collision damage.
-We’re reworking our anti-aliasing system for a crisper Warframe experience!
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THE REMOTE OBSERVER – VOL 35.5
We’re back again with a look at what came to Warframe this week!

Since our console team is working on submitting the next build to Cert next week, we will not include a Console section for this volume. Keep an eye out on our official channels for next week news of when to expect the next Warframe update on PS4 and XB1!

PC – WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
In Mission:

-Fixed shared Affinity not properly spreading between all equipment, specifically when an Exalted weapon is active.
-Fixed Fishing breaking when switching Spears if you have no Bait or Dye.
-Fixed Nyx Mind Controlled Shield Ospreys spawned from Corpus Tech and Attack Drones spawned from Fusion Moas not being friendly.

UI and UX:
-Primed Quickdraw is now Tradeable.
-Updated the ‘High Contrast UI Theme’ based on feedback in an effort to better aid colourblind Tenno.
-Pressing ‘Enter’ when typing in the Chat window with a game invite open will now prioritize the Chat window over the game invite. This also applies when viewing the Market while typing in Chat.
-Weapons displayed on Hok’s Entitlement screen now show more information (Mastery Rank, Forma count, etc) to better reflect which weapon in your Inventory you’re Entitling.
-Personal Platinum and Credit values now appear in the Arsenal UI when in Cetus or a Relay.
-Fixed Old Man Suumbaat Decorations appearing too close in the Market diorama.
-Fixed the Jordas Golem Assassinate Star Chart node continuing to glow blue even after a successful completion.
-Fixed ‘Solar Map Progress’ stat displaying that there are 229 Nodes needing completion when there are in fact only 228. This stat was including the “invisible” Sanctuary Onslaught node, which resulted in the unbearable 228/229.

https://forums.warframe.com/topic/992478-devstream-114-overview/?tab=comments#comment-10034313

[Watermelons]

Not gonna lie, the Gas City remaster made me hard.

[Archwraith]

A bit skeptical with how this goes. This is pretty likely to shift the meta a lot.

[No_Quarter]

I like new twists in melee, how it links to movement as right now nailing right combos so you move forward is bit clunky. Makes more sense to implement such combat movement and allow it to be more intuitive to the player, as well as unlocking more options like full on air combos.

Obviously we cannot talk about balancing of it, Scott said that scaling melee will be there, that was one of our concerns if they were to remove it and after him saying that I am at ease - rest is balancing which means if scaling does not turn out as good they can buff it or nerf it if it is op. Which is not a biggie, tho whiners will whine strng when it get released....

Overall think idea of new melee is just to make it more intuitive - not to buff it or nerf it compared to the output we have now.
I like that damage per hit will be buffed so once you lose combo in lvl 100 envoirment your melee does not turn into toothpick. That is a bad thing.

I am very curious to hear their ideas on how will they make melee scale as if they implement what they've shown, and thing they talked about like kinda range mode from God of War, power attacks will already deal like 150-500% damage (likely depending on combo), that rage mode is likely to have it's own buffs similar ot Valkyr's Warcry - with rough calculations that is about the damage as we do now, especially if you take into account that melee will deal more damage per hit which should be something around values of 2.5-3x combo(?).
So only scaling that can be done is Crit-wise with Blood Rush, I have no right idea that could apply to it cause you spend your combo points.
Maybe link Blood Rush crit boost to how many combo points you spend over time, that time being in combo mods and drastically increased, like how many you spent in last minute.

that way if you kill a lot you will be able to maintain those red crits, once you slow down Blood Rush will go down a bit.
Makes sense to me but bet they have better ideas for it.

So yeah, very optimistic about it and can't wait to have it in the game.

[GunsForBucks]

But I had 229/229 !?!

even took a screenshot!... oh damn the text must be part of the UI and was removed... as well as the 3 rivens I unlocked at the same time... Oh well...

[Sceles]

Originally posted by Shadowy The Insane Inquisitor:

Gas City Remaster
We’re looking to remaster the Gas City tileset to help bring it to the same standard of newer tilesets. Part of this is a visual update, with some lore sprinkled in match the current progression of Warframe’s story.

Since this tile predates Parkour 2.0, it didn’t make use of the cool movement systems that make Warframe so fun. So, we’ve changed quite a few aspects of this tile to encourage more mobility play. Here’s some clips showing various tiles of this remaster (still very much a work in progress): https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadThankfulParrotLitty
https://clips.twitch.tv/BetterCreativePoxPastaThat
https://clips.twitch.tv/OptimisticSweetWasabiResidentSleeper

I can already see people dashing through these tiles with their operators and skipping every intended movement route.

[vid23]

Originally posted by Sceles:

Originally posted by Shadowy The Insane Inquisitor:

Gas City Remaster
We’re looking to remaster the Gas City tileset to help bring it to the same standard of newer tilesets. Part of this is a visual update, with some lore sprinkled in match the current progression of Warframe’s story.

Since this tile predates Parkour 2.0, it didn’t make use of the cool movement systems that make Warframe so fun. So, we’ve changed quite a few aspects of this tile to encourage more mobility play. Here’s some clips showing various tiles of this remaster (still very much a work in progress): https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadThankfulParrotLitty
https://clips.twitch.tv/BetterCreativePoxPastaThat
https://clips.twitch.tv/OptimisticSweetWasabiResidentSleeper

I can already see people dashing through these tiles with their operators and skipping every intended movement route.

there are people who wouldnt play operator even if their lives depends on it