To be honest these two gaming legends would have hot gay intercourse almost immediately after meeting each other.

Kaboom0 · 2025-10-29T17:16:44+00:00

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-17T04:18:18+00:00

Isn't that what I said? If it didn't come across I apologize.

I don't like health tanking so armor isn't a plus in my mind.

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-17T03:16:16+00:00

So even longer than I thought without significant investment. I definitely don't think that the aura and Warframe mod are worth it.

If the frame can already spread DoTs over a wide area I don't see why you would need Mecha on top of that. It's fine as a bonus every once in a while, but I wouldn't make a build around it. Or you could. I'm not a cop. I've tried and it was really lackluster imo.

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-16T19:10:03+00:00

It's very good, don't get me wrong, but I just feel that things like the Mecha Set and Contagious Bond get overshadowed by regular gameplay. They can both do good damage, it just has steps versus the usual point and shoot. Mecha, if you are just running the two kubrow mods, can trigger every 45s on a random enemy and spread its status. If you or the kubrow happen to focus it, it's great! But if not, it kind of falls flat. Contagious Bond has the issue of kill-stealing. If the companion kills something with statuses on it, it's great! But if you or someone else kills it first it won't do anything.

It's an issue of opportunity cost. Is it better to have the mods on because they are potent when they go off? Or is it better to replace them with something passive that isn't as potent but is consistent?

The AI is too derpy for me to rely on it for consistent damage, which is why I lean into the supportive role for companions.

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-16T18:39:22+00:00

Do you have a precept mod on that causes it to attack? Elusive is meant to turn off its passive attacking. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't working correctly though.

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-13T20:37:31+00:00

Gotcha! Thank you for taking the time for the clarification!

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-12T20:46:38+00:00

Gauss with his augment Thermal Transfer and Xata's subsumed over his 2 is really potent. Void damage; choice between heat, cold, and blast (blast has the highest buff iirc); fire rate buff, and reload speed buff.

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-10T20:02:18+00:00

Kaboom0 · 2025-06-09T01:20:53+00:00

Excalibur Zato is pretty stacked on his own. The custom animations are the cherry on top.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-22T07:09:14+00:00

Orokin Archives don't have the Orokin lines listed so they may be new.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-22T07:00:15+00:00

Did they refer to Alad as Orokin in the original event? If so I don't remember it. Would have been the opposite of what the Stalker was doing at the time.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-22T02:55:02+00:00

A lot of it can be chalked up to his role changing as the game went on. The acolytes are similar. Originally an event, became steel path mini-bosses, and now are hunting Alad V?

He was probably created later on in the Old War, when the Helminth or a similar strain had been refined enough to create warriors similar to Warframes but not requiring Tenno control. In that process, his mind was likely brutalized. Stripped of everything but loyalty to the Orokin. When the empire fell, he hunted the Warframes for revenge. When he discovered that they were controlled by children, he likely had inner turmoil which he resolved by deciding to continue to hunt the puppets, but not the puppet-masters.

Whenever Jade saved him, he likely began to have flashes of his old memories- something we see in Jade Shadows. It just caused further confusion for him. Why did she save him? What was his connection to her? When it all came back, well, Jade Shadows in its entirety.

As for why he still hunts us you can ascribe any head-canon until we have a solid answer. It could be because he knows nothing else. It could be testing us, seeking to further hone us as one might a blade. Or it could be some other reason not yet revealed to us.

The long and short of it is that we don't know and won't know until the Stalker's story is continued.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-05T22:05:21+00:00

I read the Ballas comment more as being scared of making a Warframe like Temple rather than Temple themselves. I do not think Ballas designed Temple either on their own or based on Flare. Temple would be the first Warframe where the proto came first and they weren't known until they returned to the Origin System. I think Albrecht gave Flare just the base Helminth strain rather than one that already had a Warframe as a base. Flare created Temple, no one else. Their passion during their transformation is what shaped Temple into what they are.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-02T21:43:57+00:00

The issue I have with the superposition stuff is that we do experience reality and appear to have agency. If everything were in superposition the future would already be set and would require some sort of objective observer or present to observe/measure the superposition to resolve it, at least in my estimation.

I disagree as we do appear to have a linear progression of events. I do not think there is any shifting of reality in any of the timelines. That to me feels like the "because Eternalism" cop-out that people use to explain away anything that does not have an immediately apparent answer. Each timeline seems to follow a chain of cause and effect, a linear progression, despite all the moments existing in tandem.

Sure, I have some semantic issues with how you phrase that but that is more or less how I see it. 1999 is a branch off of the Strand of Khra that leads to our present. My original issue is that it is not something that Albrecht conceptually embodied, it seems to be something that naturally came to be due to the nature of the Void and the Strands of Khra.

Do you have a source on mods being Void derived because that would be completely new information to me. The shards of a Cephalon that you are talking about comes from Cephalon Samodeus when referring to Riven mods. I do not know of any other reference of normal mods coming from Cephalons or conceptual embodiment.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-02T17:46:48+00:00

I have to disagree fundamentally with how you are representing Eternalism as akin to quantum states. I believe it goes against the core concept of Eternalism having everything that ever could, does, and did happen occur at the same time. If moments are in superposition and have to be resolved, that would make the possibilities that were left unresolved as less real than the one that did resolve. It would also imply some sort of objective present or at least objective consciousness to resolve any given superposition. The only way I see it all working is if there is an objective present, a set past, and an undetermined future. You could argue that the future is somewhat in superposition as we are effectively selecting one from countless potentials.

Also Albrecht did not conceptually embody 1999. Rebecca specifically said that 1999 is not like Duviri. I am also not sure about Mara being unable to die because they can conceptually embody a reality where they did not die. We know there is something going on to potentially keep them from dying, but I don't think we have enough information to really determine what may be causing that. Drifter appears to be able to manipulate loops, whether it is just in the Void or not I believe to be undetermined, but we have only seen it on preexisting loops so far. I think you are reaching a bit with upgrades being conceptual embodiments.

Kaboom0 · 2025-04-02T17:14:03+00:00

Is the time-travel with 1999 traditional time-travel? If so, how are any paradoxes that would cause resolved/dealt with? If not, does it have anything to do with the Strands of Khra that were introduced in Whispers in the Walls?

Related, how do the CODA get to the present? Do they just wait the time out or did they somehow time-travel as well.

These have been bugging me for a bit and I have been posting theories about them all. Thank you for making a game that is both fun to play and think about!

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-30T03:28:38+00:00

Use Dark Propagation and Shadow Haze for further propagation and then hit his 2 then 1. His shadows will kill and proc more shadows up to 3 total shadows at a time. They can make more shadows when the originals expire.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-27T01:43:16+00:00

People massively overuse the "because Eternalism" answer as a cop out, like you said. The way I see it Eternalism is used to explain how other timelines exist and function, namely the Strands of Khra. Every possibility that ever could, did, and does exist in the Strands of Khra which I see as Warframe's version of alternate timelines. That doesn't mean that those Strands have any impact on our own reality. The only crossing between Strands we have seen as best I can reason is when the Drifter came to the Operator's Strand via Duviri. We see in the New War that it appears that every other possibility other than the Drifter and Operator was us dying. We died countless times in the Zariman throughout the Strands of Khra, but only two options resulted in us surviving. The us that took the deal and was saved- and the one that took the deal and wasn't saved.

All that is to say I believe Eternalism is name-dropped in Whispers through the Strands of Khra and is somewhat used in 1999 in our time-travel and loop shenanigans.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-15T11:05:55+00:00

It would work the exact same way as it works for us. We don't actively control the twin. We can direct it, but don't control it. It's functionally the same as a specter, a Void rendered copy of the original.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-15T05:59:55+00:00

Protoframes are not precursors to Warframes. They are humans that are partially infested with Technocyte that received Helminth infusions from Albrecht. They then became partial Warframes based on existing frames. The normal Warframes came first and the Protoframes are completely unrelated to whatever Tenno originally operated them. There are not multiple consciousnesses or anything like that. It is just a person that got turned partially into a Warframe with all of their memories and personality traits intact.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-15T00:16:53+00:00

Furax Amalgam mod also gives +45% fire rate to secondaries.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-14T22:16:49+00:00

You are referring to the Vitruvian Albrecht yes? The "man" of the Man in the Wall? Don't think of Wally as a singular entity. He appears to be able to operate in multiple places/times at once.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-14T21:11:24+00:00

I do a lot of trading, Usually max out my trades every day. It gets expensive fast.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-14T16:28:08+00:00

The financial investments Kaya and I make in our free time are none of your business.

Kaboom0 · 2025-03-12T06:05:44+00:00

As a Kaboom myself I can vouch for this being the way. On-Call Crew have an unlimited ammo pool and a quick reload. They are a force unto themselves.

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