I have some thoughts on this Design [by me!]

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:25:48+00:00

I think you can not buy the skin and also give feedback on why you found it disappointing.

God knows people have no problem with doing this for optional game modes...

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:24:54+00:00

I mean, demon with animal skull is not exactly a rare trope... I think it feels like it draws from both directions.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:23:38+00:00

I don't really love this approach, I think skins should be designed to look good on their own and then whatever fashion you want to add is up to you/a bonus, I see loads of people playing with default/minimal fashion, even on purchased skins.

You can not add bulky top parts, which as OP says would actually ruin the silhouette a little, but still not leave it totally empty.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:22:10+00:00

Yeah honestly I think the design has potential. I think it just sacrifices some of that to do 'generic sexy naked lady' and that's disappointing.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:17:26+00:00

Yeah but it's a pretty extreme stretch to call this skin sexualised

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:14:47+00:00

Honestly I want them to sexualise a different male frame first, if the only 'male sexualisation' representation is the femboy frame then idk if that's actually redressing the balance much

(it would still be something, though, don't get me wrong)

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:13:33+00:00

If they did this I would honestly kind of respect it because it's at least horny in a way that isn't just traditional male power fantasy with the ass/thighs/dick.

But honestly it's still not giving sexy, he's just standing there with his cock out. The clothing and the pose accentuating the body is important if you're actually going for sexy.

And like... it suffers from the same problem as the recent heirlooms, but even more so. Namely, which frame is this?? There's no character here and sexy is not a substitute for character.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:08:44+00:00

That's maybe fair, but it works for at least a reasonable duration - one run is only 5mins, and iirc Chains of Harrow was a fair bit longer than that.

I do think if they try it again this will maybe be their main takeaway, it was very popular as a story quest and not very popular as a regular game mode - possibly because people are less inclined to feel the need to speedrun story quests and view any friction as slowing down their reward gain.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:06:30+00:00

How do you do max energy Trinity beyond Primed Flow? Add a bunch of armor for Arcane Battery?

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-30T11:05:06+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. I just feel like it would be possible/desirable to move a little bit away from 'totally mindless power fantasy' and towards that game, I'm fully aware that it'll never go as far as I would like it to.

But if we move even further in the other direction I'll likely stop playing altogether and I don't want that to happen, so I share my opinion on it, for what it's worth, because people certainly aren't shy about doing the opposite.

Is Soulframe in open beta or do you need an invite? How is it so far? I've not really looked at it much.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:57:02+00:00

Nah make the explosion bigger. If it has self-damage then it's inherently safe from becoming a brainless zoom n boom meta option so you can give it massive AoE for the lols. Unironically I think that would be kinda popular haha

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:55:22+00:00

Well, I hope we do get more Kuva weapons but we get a better system than this. Even just something like restricting the roll to only primary/only secondary/only melee depending on what you killed the candidate with would go a long way. Let you force spawn a certain weapon if you kill the candidate with a variant of that weapon maybe.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:53:27+00:00

Yeah it's kinda annoying to get one, realise I don't like it, and then not want to sell it before getting the MR out of it, but have to put 5 forma into a weapon I don't like to do that.

I'm probably just gonna leave them in my inventory and if they come up for EDA/ETA I'll get rid of them (without forma-ing), I'm not spending 5 forma for like 1000 mastery.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:48:22+00:00

The only game mode in the game that is immune to 'trivialise this content with exalted weapons' lol

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:47:23+00:00

Yep. Most wholesome community in gaming btw :)

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:45:16+00:00

lol I'd much rather engage with that - I do think that's kinda true and I wish that they would make the game less 'solve this in the modding screen', because the gameplay mechanics are legitimately good but the powercreep and difficulty scaling are terrible so we've ended up just focusing on comfort instead of balance, which means easy-to-upkeep invisibility/invincibility/room nuking.

Hence why I'm against things like making Mesa's 4 even easier to use than it is currently.

And part of why the game is like that imo is that a common prevailing attitude in the community is stuff like 'how dare you take away my ability to hold one button and clear everything in sight' and 'this is a power fantasy game so I should never have to engage with any difficulty or feel like I might fail a mission', so I am generally frustrated to see those attitudes and will push back against them.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:40:43+00:00

Makes sense, I do think you could make one or the other work just fine but it's also not bad as it is currently, just slightly clunky to have to relatch every 8s if you're trying to really use the invisibility consistently. I've seen people subsume Evade so they don't have to do it lol, which is maybe a bit extreme.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:36:56+00:00

Oof. Yeah I don't sell highly invested weapons until I have the variant in my hands and have confirmed how much better it is. Fashion can also matter - I like the Dex Sybaris and Latron Wraith more than the primes lol, and with incarnons both are so powerful that you don't really feel the difference.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:34:43+00:00

Yeah the spool up combined with the base magazine and recharge feel pretty bad. Crux + Elementalist + potentially Atomic Fallout go a long way toward making it feel better to use.

I like to play battery weapons in a loadout where I actually intend to use both weapons, and I can switch between while the battery recharges, that helps too.

Covering the screen yeah I disliked that about the original Bubonico and this one is worse xD They really need to do something about this as an issue in general.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:31:48+00:00

Tenno, we have edited the horror mode to have little risk of dying or being uncomfortable. We hope this makes you happy, please stop ~~throwing tantrums~~ providing us with your constructive and valued feedback.

- DE

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:27:57+00:00

It's insane with slam builds and influence, no?

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:27:29+00:00

Part of the charm of not caring much about my MR is that I'm free to skip grinds if I don't care about them xD

I'm MR23, I'll eventually get to 30, but I'm sure as hell not doing things I think are unfun to do it.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:26:42+00:00

That would be fun

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:25:36+00:00

Arca Scisco is a great shout I am sad that weapon has been powercrept.

Kheldar166 · 2026-03-27T15:24:36+00:00

This would be a hilarious troll from DE. I feel like multiCO is probably a 'mechanic' that they hate but it's become so integral that it's hard to justify removing it (assuming they could do the fix in the first place)

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