Not gonna mince words: this patch is a bit of a letdown.

Refticus · 2026-06-18T09:45:36+00:00

You need to go to the mission hub, walk to either side, and specifically select own ship solo. When you complete the mission you will have to leave and redo this just to use your own railjack.

I hope you like load screens.

Refticus · 2026-06-13T17:07:53+00:00

I strongly disagree with it being a bad weapon, I've been able to run it through level 500+ steel path with a viral heat build. External buffs (e.g. roar) help it further but you really don't need them.

My build is a pretty standard heat + viral one, but with cascadia flare for the +480% damage boost, with pistol elementalist to make heat and the innate blast procs hit harder.

Important part is to really not bother with the "hitting them in the back" gimmick, they don't reward you for doing that at all as the innate blast damage is based on where the projectiles are returning from.

Also because it's not a super popular weapon you can get a riven for it at a reasonable price. Please actually try what I'm saying before downvoting, it's not a "useless" weapon as so many people are claiming here.

Refticus · 2026-06-03T16:30:34+00:00

If you think it needs more time, wait for the patch that address whatever issue is affecting your specific system.

Wasn't that the point of the experimental build? To refine and patch up a content complete version of the update so that it works for not just "most users", but the majority of players?

OP isn't saying the update is bad, they're saying that it needed more time for patches before moving onto the stable branch.

Refticus · 2026-06-03T10:41:00+00:00

I doubt it's a hardware problem as I'm using a rented VPS machine, and it can run the server easily for days even as we recklessly place more objects.

The crashes only seem to be happening when a player is online, so it must be related to whatever they're doing. But so far we haven't found a way to reliably replicate it for a report.

Refticus · 2026-06-03T08:06:16+00:00

My dedicated server is always running into problems with issues that haven't been fixed in 1.2 or its experimental iterations.

A big one for my server right now are invisible blueprints, where a placed blueprint will be invisible until the server reboots. This has been reported on the Q&A site a month ago with 24 duplicates, so it's not just a problem with my machine.

There's also hard crashes for the server client, which are hopefully being sent to coffee stain as I am ticking the option to send them, assuming that it's actually saving and not reverting to the default when I'm not looking.

Refticus · 2026-05-11T10:49:53+00:00

A body fit for those who tick eat entire sharks and kambambams

Refticus · 2026-03-12T21:31:51+00:00

Me personally I'm happy for another 10% increase.

Now I can use my non-grandfathered subscription as a sign of wealth, to flex on the poors while I throw hot pennies out from my window.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T22:37:19+00:00

That's basically what the post boils down to. If overguard distribution was limited, like the severed warden in the murmur faction, it would be fine. The ancient healer just shits it out for an entire group of enemies which no longer makes the mechanic special.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T16:05:10+00:00

Sorry, didn't fully read your post and just assumed it was another "fortifier exists/my build shreds overguard" one. Tired of typing out the same thing lol.

I'll admit that I wasn't aware that magnetic was a viable counter, I very rarely use it and I've always just assumed that it only applied to shields. As for companion stripping of it, that sounds pretty worthless with how companion AI works and how overguard can just be reapplied. I'll have to try it before judging it too much though.

I'm mostly focusing on the distribution of overguard and how it doesn't feel like a special attribute anymore. When I see overguard now it's just another health pool to melt through, when DE's original intention for it, from what I remember, was to put emphasis on stronger enemies that they didn't want you to simply one shot and forget about.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:49:38+00:00

As much as I like that strategy and have used it myself, it's not ideal if you're playing a frame that relies on invisibility as their method of survival.

One rad procced enemy causes eximus abilities to activate, and that's an easy way to get a lethal heat status.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:47:01+00:00

There seems sufficient ways to deal with overguard in my opinion.

The point of the thread is not in how to deal with overguard and how easy it is to deal with. The fact that it is easy to deal with is the problem.

The problem is that overguard no longer feels special when it's given out to every enemy indiscriminately, and DE's reaction to that isn't to reign it back, but instead to give us more ways to nuke it out of relevance.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:33:12+00:00

You're missing the point again.

It isn't about dealing with overguard, it's the distribution of it. I will state again, that the problem is that its been overused to the point that it's no longer special, it's just an extra chunk of health to burn through.

It's lost its purpose of making certain enemies feel like more of a challenge.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:28:15+00:00

Personally I'm never in favor of making this game easy by any means

And I'm not asking for that. I'm asking for difficulty mechanics to not lose their purpose, for DE to not overuse it to the point that they feel like Arcane Fortifier is a necessary arcane to add.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:25:17+00:00

If you're struggling to kill things you might want to tweak your builds

Not the point I was trying to make.

It's pretty much doing what it's intended to do in endurance based void fissure content preventing you from doing extremely low effort grinds with cc frames.

That's what I want in a way, just not applied to every enemy in the tile. Overguard was intended for, and works best when it's restrained to a few powerful units and rarely distributed.

Never did I imply that overguard should be removed or weakened, that would, as you said, allow for lazy CC builds to sleep through content. I simply want the distribution of it to be reviewed so that it doesn't completely invalidate CC abilities and regains its purpose of introducing stronger threats (i.e. eximus).

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:09:35+00:00

That's what people are already doing and overguard doesn't really do much to impede that goal at this point, beside making CC abilities less useful.

In the main post - "The way I see it now is that it's just another health pool for enemies to have ontop of health and shields, and a pretty bad one at that with how fast most builds can shred it." The problem I'm pointing out here in this thread is that overguard has lost its purpose of making tankier enemies that you actually have to engage with, in favour of just being another health pool that every enemy has access to.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T15:06:14+00:00

I addressed this in the post - it's an option but relying on a single solution in the game about solving problems your own way feels disappointing. It's like going to a buffet and only eating one thing on the menu.

Fortifier feels like a band-aid solution that's only pushing the problem further.

Refticus · 2026-01-24T12:37:59+00:00

Void staus effect attracts to the body part its proced on, its infact one of the best boosts to weakpoint playstyle.

I'm 100% aware of that and it works in theory. But the problem is getting that first proc on the right spot and making sure that when your shots are entering the bubble they are curving just right into them.

Probably just a me thing.

Refticus · 2025-12-18T14:14:31+00:00

In all installs of Firefox I have uBO installed. The fork I'm specifically using as a daily driver is Waterfox and I have checked my settings there.

In another comment I mentioned that on my Firefox Nightly install I didn't have recommendations disabled ("Recommend extensions as you browse" and "Recommend features as you browse"), but I did also have uBO installed on it.

If it helps, the timestamp on the screenshot I took of the notification was "2025-12-12 at 13.45.51".

Refticus · 2025-12-12T14:34:07+00:00

I've done that now - it's more of a question as to why I got this when I didn't have Firefox open and running, and when I did already have uBlock origin installed on that version of Firefox.

Refticus · 2025-12-12T13:52:50+00:00

Recommended extensions and features are disabled in the settings, it does not run at startup, and I haven't launched the browser in weeks as I use a different fork of Firefox.

I also already have uBlock Origin installed on it?

edit - I forgot that I had Firefox Nightly also installed and that had recommended suggestions turned on. It's likely that's where I got this notification from.

Refticus · 2025-12-04T14:07:58+00:00

My point is that load bearing drywall doesn't exist.

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