I gotta say, I was very surprised by how much better Nyx feels to play after the rework. Getting a new passive, having her bolts spread on kill, removing the extra energy drain from Absorb and making her Mind Control less derpy really did wonders for making this frame less clunky to play! She has a really strong and versatile kit now that can be build in multiple ways, including going all in Mind Control and it actually not being terrible! My ancient Nyx Prime has some incredibly cursed polarities on her from the ancient (and terrible) builds I used on her back in 2017 and now I actually have a reason to go fix those!

Sorry for missing the thread last week, here is my Drifter hugging Kalymos as an apology:

Reject relationships, embrace cat

I can vouch for Fedora, I used plenty of distros from Arch to Ubuntu (and many of it’s forks) and even weird outliers like Solus and Fedora is the most boring distro out of all of them, and I mean that in the best way. To quote a certain Todd: “It just works!” Do note you will probably want to enable RPM fusion (basically mandatory if you use nVidia) to get access to useful non open source and license encumbered packages Fedora can’t ship by default (like media codecs). Other than that, install Steam and whatever other launchers you want and enjoy a boring, reliable distro.

Roll your tongue into a tube and suck the drink through it, obviously!

I don’t think I ever dreamt of Warframe (or if I did I forgot, I’m terrible at remembering dreams) but during my peak playtime days I definitely had moments where I tried to bullet jump in other games and wondered why I’m not going fast. This game’s parkour system really is something else!

That addendum is there purely so Bethesda doesn’t sue their asses to oblivion (heh). I am certain it will be very possible to play the mod on a pirated copy but it’s not like they can just write that on their website.

According to their website:

In order to play Skyblivion you will need to own a legitimate copy of Oblivion GOTY Deluxe (ALL DLC) and Skyrim: Special Edition. Our installer will not install the mod unless it can find a non-cracked copy of the original games.

and

Skyblivion will work the same as most other complete overhaul mods. Simply install the mod via the installer and press play.

So you’ll probably need a pure unmodded version of Skyrim for it to install onto, but we won’t know for sure until the actual release date.

That’s pretty much exactly the same as my build, just with Augur Message instead of Rolling Guard and a different aura. You even got the same Arcanes as me! I also got 2 Tau duration shards (which is where the extra duration comes from), 2 normal casting speed ones and a Tau parkour velocity one to make bulletjumps go fast (sometimes 1 is just TOO FAST!)

You’re right, I thought it scaled with range because of how absurdly far it goes but that’s just cause my Zephyr also has a ton of duration.

The only stat that you need on her is range, it makes her 1 dash go further and 2 and 3 bigger which helps you suck things into her 4 and protect a larger area with her 3. Going all in on it is a good bet as unless you plan to use her 1,2 or 3 augments (which do scale with strength) you can safely dump it without any downsides. Duration is the second best stat, it’s mostly a QoL to have to refresh her abilities less often. Other than that, do whatever you want! Rolling Guard is great for dealing with anything Turbulence doesn’t protect you from, you can double down and also run Catalyzing Shields with Brief Respite for the absolute safety. I like Energy Nexus for it’s constant energy regen, you have so much free mod space on her there is no reason not to use utility mods like these. Funnel Clouds is an option if you prefer to have a wider area Tornadoes over ones that group up enemies for you, I personally prefer the default skill. I don’t run any of her augments myself as I don’t consider having to actually build strength to make them worth slotting in worth it.

I didn’t have a specific idea for a Revisited thread this week so I though I would bring Zephyr back to once again tell you HOW ABSURDLY POWERFUL THIS FRAME IS! Please, play Zephyr! We don’t have the 2024 playrate stats yet but I am certain Zephyr will once again be in the bottom half of frames. More people play LOKI PRIME than Zephyr! Chroma has more playrate then her! This frame is amongst the strongest warframes in the game and it’s like it’s some hidden secret nobody knows about. If you don’t know what Zephyr is capable yet, let me enlighten you! Would you like a frame capable of doing any Steel Path mission with no mods equipped and just a moderately powerful crit weapon? Pick Zephyr! Would you like immortality from all projectiles for you and anything close to you (including defense objectives)? Pick Zephyr! Does moving around sound like a hassle and you wish enemies just came right to you and grouped themselves into a nice little ball for you to blow away with a warcrime inflicter of your choosing? Pick Zephyr! This Warframe has an insane kit that requires barely any modding to work at it’s maximum effectiveness and can turn any crit weapon into a monster with the passive crit buff and doubling of your total crit modifier on any enemy affected by Tornadoes, all while floating around impervious to anything but some Eximus abilities. Zephyr makes so many mission types a complete breeze yet for some reason absolutely NOBODY is playing this frame and I have no idea why. So if you haven’t touched Zephyr is some years, pick up the bird frame again and give her a go, you won’t be disappointed!

FYI I used a Vasto Prime Incarnon when I cleared the Steel Path node and it absolutely shredded the weak points, even when I was firing it from quite far away. Laetum works wonders too, at least the status/raw damage version with the no crit evolution did. Incarnon guns are generally great because the weak points in both phases count for granting them charge, makes keeping them transformed during the fight trivial (it helps that they are generally incredibly powerful guns too). Just avoid anything that relies on status, the weak points are immune.

I really haven’t found it all that bad, the key was staying mobile. I beat the Steel Path version while using Mesa with no stagger immunity mods at all by bullet jumping around and aim gliding, most of it’s attacks can’t do anything to you when you’re in the air. It also goes down pretty fast when you shoot it’s weak points, and doesn’t appear to have attenuation when doing so (or at least it’s not noticeable). I’ll take more bosses like this guy and Exploiter Orb any day over more attenuation/damage sponge bosses like the Archons or the Murmur boss.

That’s just miniature spears with a fancy propelling mechanism! More proof long stick with pointy end is the superior weapon!

I don’t think his 4 is bugged, it works exactly the same way Ivara’s Artemis Bow, Hildryn’s Balefire or Dante’s Noctua does, static cost to equip + additional energy per shot. Some Exalted weapons just don’t have that extra constant drain on them.

They do, including getting the power strength bonus from Hardened Wellspring. It’s the easiest way to maintain their energy other than Protea’s Dispensary.

I admit, I haven’t gotten Cyte-09 myself as all my rep is going straight into rank-ups right now but I’ve seen others play him and the guy looks like a powerhouse. His Exalted sniper rifle addresses the biggest issue that weapon type has - multi target viability. Shoot one guy, kill 4 others! Ressuply is just plain insane, even without using his 4 this ability is just crazy. Guaranteed status procs of whatever type you want on every shot! Heat is the obvious choice but Blast and Gas can be extremely effective at clearing crowds as well. Need to srtipo some armor? Corrosive is right there! Could use some CC to make landing those precision shots easier? Cold! This frame could have this one ability alone and he would still be one of the best gun frames available! Evade gives you near permanent invisibility as long as you play the frame the way he’s supposed to be played. The CD looks bad but it starts ticking when you activate the ability, get enough precision kills and build enough duration and you can stay invisible all the time. Seek synergies with the rest of his kit perfectly, wall hacks and weak spot highlights make getting those precision kills a breeze without even needing to move from your sniping spot of choice. All in all, an amazing if maybe a bit solo-focused frame. I imagine making his whole kit work in a team might prove difficult, unless you forgo the 4 entirely and just run-and-gun with Ressuply and any accurate crit focused gun.

I started playing GW2 at the end of 2023 an been having a blast with it! I played WoW for a decade until the combo of Shadowlands and the Acti-Blizz allegations soured me on that company forever. I tried FFXIV with everyone going over to that game and the story was good but the button bloat pushed me away from really getting into it. I then had that MMO itch at the end of 2023 again and decided to try GW2 and it’s been great. Fun story, good gameplay and most importantly no subscription. It’s so nice to be able to play with breaks and come back whenever you want to with no need to open up your wallet every time, just buy the expansions and Living Worlds once and you are done!

It’s a small rectangle that’s some sort of tech with blue blobs of techrot on it. It does show up on the loot radar, which helps a little, but the dark blue glow stands out way less than the bright green one of the other cache collectible. Apparently it also can spawn up to 100m away from the cache which means it can be multiple tilesets away if you get unlucky.

Pretty much same, I will do a cursory look in the area around it but won’t waste a lot of time on them anymore. I don’t know why DE made the Exterminate special caches be way more obvious with a giant bright green glow and a waypoint when you get close but made the Biocode so damn hard to spot. At least give them the same glowing outline as the rep collectables (an amazing addition BTW, makes them so much easier to spot than the Zariman or Sanctum Anatomica ones).