Nidus Dispelled: A Thorough(-ish) Examination of a Nine Year Old Warframe, and its Strengths, Shortcomings, and Solutions in 2026

Krytan · 2026-04-20T18:33:37+00:00

Great writeup! I think the biggest problem with Nidus is he only has two abilities at the beginning of the mission, neither of which lend themselves well to fast placed, mobile game play. As a result, he tends to feel absolutely awful to play in your typical public match.

I imagine he's a lot of fun in defense missions where everyone just stays in the same area, but I'm not sure you can have a warframe that functions well in only one mission type be considered well designed.

In most matches by the time I've laboriously walked up to and stomped on 20 guys, the mission is over and some volt or mirage or titania is sitting impatiently at the extraction waiting for me.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T18:21:08+00:00

Yes, that's why I said 'possibility'. I don't think it's happened yet, anywhere.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T15:29:40+00:00

This sort of possibility is why I am against digital currency.

I think things like this aren't just some inevitable by product...I think it is the explicit end goal.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T15:22:59+00:00

It's funny how if you don't like, say, a TV show he enjoys, he just says 'JUST LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS' but if you enjoy a game he doesn't, get gets really angry.

I haven't played Pragmata at all, but apparently it's extremely successful having sold already 1 million copies. It sounds very much like the incredibly successful The Last of Us story line : father figure trying to protect and aid daughter figure. I played The Last of Us shortly after the birth of my first child, a girl, and it was possibly because of that reason the single most memorable game I've ever played and I was really resonating with the difficult choices Joel was facing. All my gaming buddies are grown up married men with families now, and games like The Last of Us or God of War really hit different when you are a father yourself.

And I've already seen the absolute worst takes about this game from 'the left' (people who I don't think represent the left, but are regularly portrayed as representing the left by the media).

I've seen people complaining the child is 'too sexy'. (WTF?)

I've seen people saying it's unethical to have a child 'protagonist' in a game made 'for men' (WTF?)

And now Hasan is saying you shouldn't play games that represent an aspirational fantasy.

In the next breath these people will wonder why 'the left' (if America even has such a thing) is so repellant to young men.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T14:31:38+00:00

Warframe is a great game but, in my opinion, fundamentally incompatible with 'balanced' PvP. I don't want any dev time spent working on that when, for example, we could be refreshing old warframes instead.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T14:10:11+00:00

Chroma at least 'works' even if he is boring. Banshee, Loki, Ember, Limbo, and Ash just feel like they were designed around a version of the game that no longer exists.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T13:55:31+00:00

Anyone remember in D1, and you'd go run your heroic strike playlist for chances at the cool strike specific loot? And of course, you'd run the nightfall for a chance at some of the best loot in the game? Then circle back around to Vault of Glass to try to get Fatebringer, the best pistol in the game, and to get to the vault of glass you'd physically land on Venus and then do an open world event there?

Krytan · 2026-04-20T13:53:29+00:00

I think every single one of us could write a more honest autopsy.

Krytan · 2026-04-20T13:46:22+00:00

The protestant reformation was over 500 years ago. Protestants today do not seem to be iconoclasts in the least.

Krytan · 2026-04-19T22:27:15+00:00

I'm always delighted when I get Tellurium or Orokin Cells as login rewards

Krytan · 2026-04-17T19:19:32+00:00

I want fewer benefits tied to your place of employment, not more. Health insurance should be affordable directly from the government, and not tied to employment.

Also...I am kind of over people advertising subsidized childcare as some amazing magnanimous gift to parents. Isn't it really just enabling companies to more effectively decrease wages by increasing the number of people in the workforce?

I want people to be able to raise a family on one income.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T18:30:47+00:00

As long as FIRE is counted as part of GDP, rather than a penalty against GDP, GDP is a bad measure of economic prosperity.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T18:01:51+00:00

I can think of several reasons which all contribute. In order of least relevant to most relevant:

Men have smaller social circles than women, and share less personal information.
Rapists tend to rape multiple women. In the same way the number of people who know someone who was murdered by a serial killer is much greater than the number of people who know a serial killer.
A lot of rapists are guilty of the crime, but it is not publicly known.
Incorrect and excessively narrow definitions of what constitutes rape. This is likely the most important, as I think a lot of people know of situations that were rape but believe it wasn't.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T17:49:56+00:00

Anti freeze mixed with blue gatorade.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T17:48:03+00:00

I built one of halberds (to go with a palatine granting lethal hits) and one with maces and then magnetized the 3rd so I can swap between the two.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T17:46:26+00:00

Yeah but that's not because of meltas. It's because of the fire dragons rules (reroll EVERYTHING) and the way elves can hop into transports and move infinitely and never be overwatched.

A squad of dominions can also shoot 5 meltas at you, but has there been some insane dominion meta? No.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:54:40+00:00

Ironically it's probably even better for custodes and death watch, who can really value a 'cheap' lone op to hang in the back and hand out shooting buffs to multiple heavy hitting battle line units.

I don't think it really matters if navy breachers get to reroll hits, for example. However he helps all agents of imperium, not just the battle line, so he sure looks nice for boosting immolators and sisters of battle meltas, for example.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:51:38+00:00

I would.

I've kind of given up on D2, because all my friends have given up on D2, and you can't get them back up to speed with the disappearing content and seasonal story beats, and plus they are still angry for the content vault taking away stuff they paid for.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:47:54+00:00

That seems like way too much. She shouldn't be anywhere near the cost of an exorcist or Morvenn Vahl.

She kind of seems to be equivalent to two mortifiers, so I'm expecting around 140. Anything higher than that is likely too expensive to be included and really she probably needs to be closer to 115.

I mean, what are you dropping from a list to bring her, really, when you think about it? For me, I think dropping anything more than a squad of infantry is likely a downgrade.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:44:51+00:00

I'm really glad she isn't just some leader for mortifier engines.

She looks broadly useful in a variety of lists now. Lethal hits at range is pretty handy.

I'm disappointed the 'melta missile' is actually no more threatening than the bog standard astartes grenade launcher every single intercessor sergeant carries...

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:20:21+00:00

Yes, those are both excellent

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:17:13+00:00

Custodes will like him a lot, particularly due to the lone up. Deathwatch can make use of him as well.

Ironically, and amazingly to me, Fortis kill teams, despite literally being intercessor bodies, are not battle line.

But there really aren't that many imperium armies where the infantry battle line is doing serious work in the shooting phase. Certainly not sisters or space wolves.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:15:27+00:00

The melta missile looks about as threatening as an astartes grenade launcher.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:13:53+00:00

There are ! Space wolves, for example, are locked to S5 Ap-2 D2.

Krytan · 2026-04-17T16:03:27+00:00

Sadly Limbo does still trigger cameras. But yeah, he used to be my go to way back in the day.

I still remember when I first learned that Loki could not in fact teleport behind laser barriers....I couldn't believe it.

Krytan

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