The Circuit vs Duviri Exp vs Lone Story

[SweetStarfieldFan]

So from a player perspective, anyone tested all three of them and whats actually "time"-wise the difference?
Is the Lone Story just faster to finish? But how much faster? Can I not just ignore fishing even if I go with Duviri Experience?

It seems like they didnt really explain those 3 options that good and all you get ingame is a oneliner.
That does endless chain of missions even mean!? So no story at all? Just brutal survival or defense missions?

Do I see other players in all of those 3 or do I have to do this solo as well!?

[Inner Sight]

The Circuit mode is where you play back-to-back missions in the Undercroft with your RNG spread of warframes and weapons.
The missions that I remember were excavation, exterminate, defense, survival, and void flood.
I think the only mission type you can actually fail in the Circuit is defense. The rest have no "fail" setting of any sort so it's just a battle of attrition until you finally complete the task or run out of lives trying (edit: Wait you can probably fail survival too if you run out of life support).
you get 1 decree at the end of each mission and also 1 more for every 3 glowing diamonds you find (there are 3 in each mission)

The Duviri Experience is the regular story mode. much like a bounty; the windowed person chatting at you will tell you to go do stuff and you go do it. You can also run into random things in the world and do those things. This is the most "open world" version of duviri.
You can collect decrees for each completed section of the bounty as well as 1 more for each side hustle you find on the way (a chest here, a puzzle there, a fishing game over yonder, so on).

Lone Story is the exact same thing as the Duviri Experience, but without the ability to interact with anything in the world that isn't specifically about your bounty. In the end you have less decrees. I'm not sure if there's an upside for it.

[Pakaku]

Originally posted by Inner Sight:

Lone Story is the exact same thing as the Duviri Experience, but without the ability to interact with anything in the world that isn't specifically about your bounty. In the end you have less decrees. I'm not sure if there's an upside for it.

Maybe for public matchmaking when you just want to move on, no distractions?

[Western Hell]

Originally posted by Inner Sight:

The Circuit mode is where you play back-to-back missions in the Undercroft with your RNG spread of warframes and weapons.
The missions that I remember were excavation, exterminate, defense, survival, and void flood.
I think the only mission type you can actually fail in the Circuit is defense. The rest have no "fail" setting of any sort so it's just a battle of attrition until you finally complete the task or run out of lives trying (edit: Wait you can probably fail survival too if you run out of life support).
you get 1 decree at the end of each mission and also 1 more for every 3 glowing diamonds you find (there are 3 in each mission)

The Duviri Experience is the regular story mode. much like a bounty; the windowed person chatting at you will tell you to go do stuff and you go do it. You can also run into random things in the world and do those things. This is the most "open world" version of duviri.
You can collect decrees for each completed section of the bounty as well as 1 more for each side hustle you find on the way (a chest here, a puzzle there, a fishing game over yonder, so on).

Lone Story is the exact same thing as the Duviri Experience, but without the ability to interact with anything in the world that isn't specifically about your bounty. In the end you have less decrees. I'm not sure if there's an upside for it.

Lone story is really only good for Pathos Clamp farming if that's your focus. But thats kinda it

[Tomoko]

the duvri experience is great to farm instrinct and test out how insanely op you can get with decrees. The lone experience doesn't offer you additional and optionnal objectives spawning here and there on the map

[SweetStarfieldFan]

after playing dozens of Circuit and Lone Story I think I start getting it.
But I find it a bit awkward when the Devs happily highlighted how you can chose between those 3 options and decide on your own how YOU want to ENJOY the new content but then you actually have to play all 3 or at least 2 of them anyway to unlock things and make progress.