For what it's worth, this week's Prime Time stream on Thursday drops 15 of one random Tauron Strike resource every 30 minutes. It's still not much, but at least it could be some help.
I myself only managed to get one of them so far, and I kept getting advised to grab the staff for Vazarin first even though I've been maining with Zenurik active. At the very least, I do enjoy playing the Perita Rebellion mode and it's decent fun to blaze through; in my experience Sevagoth really shines there as a frame, considering how often enemies clump up basically by default for his shadow(s) to whip and nae-nae on. Even the comandeered Prime frames will get absolutely shredded with a quick (3-)2-1.
For what it's worth, this week's Prime Time stream on Thursday drops 15 of one random Tauron Strike resource every 30 minutes. It's still not much, but at least it could be some help.
I myself only managed to get one of them so far, and I kept getting advised to grab the staff for Vazarin first even though I've been maining with Zenurik active. At the very least, I do enjoy playing the Perita Rebellion mode and it's decent fun to blaze through; in my experience Sevagoth really shines there as a frame, considering how often enemies clump up basically by default for his shadow(s) to whip and nae-nae on. Even the comandeered Prime frames will get absolutely shredded with a quick (3-)2-1.
I only got Madurai due to the fact it's my main school, and Vazarin because that utility sounds useful if I run into a shitty team or I am the shit player.
I just turn my brain off to using Thermal Sunder Titania or Wukong. It makes me feel like what the Drifter had to put up with in Duviri.
I'm in too deep to pull out however but is it just me or does it feel like Nokko, and Perita Rebellion are much grindier than the previous content during Rebecca's tenure have released? I feel like there's some kind of Tencent fuckery behind this but also I don't give a flying fuck about the BBW Expedition 33 reference frame.
Ended up rolling a Riven with +Toxin Damage, +Critical Damage, -Reload which is basically as good as it'll get. Reload only tacks on an extra 0.6 seconds which is basically nothing when Crux massively increases your magazine size, not that you can even feel it. Would have probably preferred Electric over Toxin, but it still lets me make Corrosive, is more than an Infected Clip, and lets me hit over 9x critical damage.
They really should give the AX-52 an incarnon. Make it fire bouncy rounds like the Tetra with augment. I just think giving the legally distinct AK-47 an incarnon is something that should definitely happen.
The more I force myself through these story missions the more I'm realizing that the real story is about whatever fat white woman they have writing & her quest to do the impossible and suck the cool out of being a space man what explodes things good.
The more I force myself through these story missions the more I'm realizing that the real story is about whatever fat white woman they have writing & her quest to do the impossible and suck the cool out of being a space man what explodes things good.
The last cool story thing in many years was when you finally get the demon frame and it chimps out resulting in a doom-like segment. Though fujos must have been super happy about the gay love story quest with the off brand jojo character and his butler. That was peak modern writing.
I don't even mind that much of the modern writing in this game even if it has devolved more and more into "DUDE ETERNALISM LMAO" the longer it's gone on.
The one character I despise with every fibre of my being in this game is the fucking Nova protoframe. Kaya could not be a more insufferable Jimmy Neutron knock-off if you tried to write her explicitly as such, and so many of the voice lines I hear from her—either while jumping into ETA or when some faggot pubbie uses her playable skin—drive me up the wall with how blatantly she was written by a retard who looks at anything "smart" or academic like it's fucking magic.
I'd genuinely rather have old man yaoi story arcs three times over again if it also means Kaya either gets removed or the rest of the cast actually bothers to knock some sense into humble her. Even the "non-binary" Bowie impersonator still ended up being kinda cool and not too badly written in comparison.
DE can't get past the fact that their only charismatic characters are the villains. Ballas and even smaller bit players like Salad and Tyl steal every scene where the characters that are supposed to be on our side are mostly dull wet blankets or outright obnoxious. It remains to be seen where they'll go with Albrecht, who gets grand proclamations and fun pettiness on one hand and true love with the catamite slave boy locked in his basement for the fujos on the other, but that's about the greatest height to which anyone even slightly on Team Tenno rises.
DE can't get past the fact that their only charismatic characters are the villains. Ballas and even smaller bit players like Salad and Tyl steal every scene where the characters that are supposed to be on our side are mostly dull wet blankets or outright obnoxious. It remains to be seen where they'll go with Albrecht, who gets grand proclamations and fun pettiness on one hand and true love with the catamite slave boy locked in his basement for the fujos on the other, but that's about the greatest height to which anyone even slightly on Team Tenno rises.
Counterpoint: Ballas is a faggot with cuck-rage and Salad 5's only real charisma comes from how all of his Dr. Doofenshmirtz-tier schemes blow up in his face and he has to worm his way out of them after the fact with help from the Tenno. Tyl Regor I can agree with since he does make for a well-spoken and cunning villain, but then you also have absolute semen-slurpers on the Grineer side like Sargas Ruk's bootleg 40k Mechanicus gimmick or Captain Vor going on about his Anus Key for the six-millionth time.
There are still plenty of decent characters on the Tenno side. I'd have a pint with Arthur from the Hex or Chipper from Kahl's Garrison any day of the week, to name a few.
I suppose I should have acknowledged that the absolute mess that was the New War did a lot to assassinate his character, but he's still got an absolute presence far in excess of anyone else outside of that quest and that was carried through in the latest flashback.
In general, I'd say that DE are at their best when writing Orokin - I'd mentioned Ballas and Albrecht above, but Roathe is also the closest any of the Protoframes has come to being tolerable. I like Salad 5, but they're an evolution on his archetype of megalomaniacal grandiosity that is constantly doomed to fail - Ballas has even betrayed and been betrayed by more absurd groups.
