There is a boss, the first boss you really see in the game, and more than once out of the times I’ve tried to grind him for components, he just… forgets to take damage. Or maybe he doesn’t feel like taking it, it’s not clear. Maybe he is tired of being ground for components. In any event, reasonable people would stop playing a game where bosses don’t take damage. I left that match, and then tried to play it again. It threw me back in the game I just left, with that chortling immortal still holding court.
Anyone want to tell Tycho that the first boss is invincible when he has that gold shield up?
He's probably more likely referring to the actual invincibility bug, where Vor gets "locked" into a squatting animation after emerging from his last "yellow shield" period and can't take damage from anyone but one person (most likely the host of the game?). It's an awful desync bug, and I've had it happen a lot of times. Good thing you only have to fight that boss once (unless you desperately want a Seer pistol). It also is more likely to happen when you hop into a game and the other players are already fighting Vor. Ugh.
The card game style inventory system looked really interesting to me. Third person shooter + collectible card game was an interesting mashup to me.
The cards are nice but ... There was no system for easily equipping them. Once attached to 1 Frame, they have to be removed before being used on another.
In general, the UI for managing them is a pain. At least when I played (on the PC 6 months ago), maybe they have fixed those issues. Also, they don't have a lot of "cardness". Besides being card shaped in appearance, you don't play them, shuffle them, tap them, or group them into combos. They are just a way to use a pack buying metaphor. By the time I'd collected a few hundred of them, I really would have preferred a text list to pages of non-stacking cards.
Don't get me wrong, I played a lot of Warframe, I just didn't base my attraction to the game on liking CCGs.
This part has changed. You can now equip a single card among all of your Frames (same thing with weapons, too). If you have one copy of Hornet Strike, you can equip it on all of your pistols. The only problem now is that a card equipped on a Sentinel's weapon (the little floating pets) will conflict with a card equipped on your equipped guns, but most people don't really use pets for massive DPS anyway.
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We'll just call it the Firecrotch then.