people who main "off meta" warframes. what drew you to them and why do you stick with them?

[Herozen]

curious to know peoples reasons for going off meta since they're probably different from mine.

[Ghøstly]

I find meta items boring and lackluster, making the game far too easy. I play Baruuk due to his peaceful tendencies and Restraint. I rarely use his 4th. as I cannot stand playing melee. Stradavar Prime and Zakti Prime being my go to, thanks in part to preferring a rifle and handgun irl. Stradavar is just a solid and rewarding rifle in the game with little issue, while Zakti has a nice cloud aoe and reaches x5 multishot. Zakti looks and sounds good while not being overly strong or weak. The game is meant to be played your way, so have fun.

[C486]

They were suited for what I wanted to do.
With the subsume system, I tend to use Loki. Prefer stealth characters, due to the stealth tanks from C&C.

[casdarius]

harrow has fun mechanics and is pretty strong if he can get kills... limbo however is just stupidly over powered and fun to troll with hydroid fit every classification that i wanted to play with. all three are increadibly fun to play with and challenging in their own ways.

[Herrscher of Hen_tie]

Is Baruuk considered off meta? I enjoy Baruuk and Xaku more than any but lean towards Xaku a lot more. He is great for casual 1hr SP solo survival and the moment i added gloom to his kit he became my favorite. Excited for his deluxe!

[Weaselly]

Banshee, though I threw Gloom on there.

I just find it really funny animation-locking every enemy within a sizable range for up to fifteen seconds when I pop Silence during Gloom.

[greenraven22]

引用自 Herozen：

curious to know peoples reasons for going off meta since they're probably different from mine.

A) I don't care about meta, regardless what game I'm playing.

B) I don't have the time to grind or money to burn on p2w mechanics.

Loki was one of the 3 starting frames when the game launched, it's what I picked, I'm perfectly fine with it.

[Spirit]

playing protea with her cannons is kinda fun , she also have a "medical station" that provide ammo , energy and health orbs , combined with my tenet plasmor she is a beast (but not on steel path , thats a region i cannot reach because of ... reasons)

[CapturedFire]

引用自 Emaulligu：

引用自 Albob：

is gara meta?

This.
We are at a point of power creep so insane it's possible to shred through the whole game with pretty much any weapon and/or frame provided you spend a little bit of time on a solid build.

I don't even know what's supposed to be "meta" nowadays. Chroma died with the removal of self-damage, Wukong finally got nerfed so people can't AFK frame anymore, so what's the meta today ? Volt for Eidolons (do people still do Eidolons ?) and Saryn for everything else ?

for zariman ten zeros void flood titania is meta, but that's a dead mode once you've got the 3 weapon bits... then for almost everything else saryn or mirage or volt or equinox or nidus or oberon or limbo or mesa or literally anything else with at least some kind of local area nuke ability is meta when you invest a bunch of forma into it and pair it with a weapon with a big enough blast radius and a paracesis.

[Zesc]

I somehow got used to Zephyr's passive and now parcours with all other frames feels weird.

For all other off-meta frames, it's mostly my sick mind going "wait, I can combo this" and then running with it, no matter how convoluted the build is.

[Midas]

引用自 greenraven22：

B) I don't have the time to grind or money to burn on p2w mechanics.

Well, good thing you aren't playing a game with any p2w mechanics then.

[HADES]

引用自 Herozen：

curious to know peoples reasons for going off meta since they're probably different from mine.

The fact that they're the ones who don't get looked at. Here with Ash Prime right now, and his cloaking smoke screen is so broken, that you take random ass status damage when inside, invisible form. I'd really love DE to stop nerfing random ♥♥♥♥ they find OP just for the sake of the game, they ought to focus on squishy ass frames that get one tapped. Now that self damage is COMING back to the game... just please dear lord lmfao... Tired of being one tapped while inside smoke screen.

[greenraven22]

引用自 Midas：

Well, good thing you aren't playing a game with any p2w mechanics then.

I dunno, $50 boosters would suggest otherwise...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2163750/Warframe_Revenant_Prime_Access__Accessories_Pack/

[Herozen]

引用自 greenraven22：

引用自 Midas：

Well, good thing you aren't playing a game with any p2w mechanics then.

I dunno, $50 boosters would suggest otherwise... :really:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2163750/Warframe_Revenant_Prime_Access__Accessories_Pack/

or you could sell some relic drops and buy them for free ingame

[Fake]

引用自 greenraven22：

引用自 Midas：

Well, good thing you aren't playing a game with any p2w mechanics then.

I dunno, $50 boosters would suggest otherwise... :really:

You aren't paying $50 for boosters, you are paying $50 for cosmetics.

[Midas]

引用自 greenraven22：

引用自 Midas：

Well, good thing you aren't playing a game with any p2w mechanics then.

I dunno, $50 boosters would suggest otherwise... :really:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2163750/Warframe_Revenant_Prime_Access__Accessories_Pack/

No they wouldn't. Boosters aren't pay to win. They're not giving the player some kind of unfair advantage. You can hang out in a relay and get blessings if you want, but at the end of the day it's just shortening the grind, not giving the player who buys it some unachievable bonus. P2W means the players paying have unfair advantages that non-paying players can't have. It's not just a catch-all for literally anything you can spend money on in a game.