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(I assume the rest of the joke is just that he's surprised to have been detected even though he's wearing a very gaudy getup.)
Edit: To be clear, I had already read the newspost and so knew it was Warframe.
It's a reference to Warframe. A FtP hack and slash RPG where you play as an alien robot ninja. I think you can get familiars in that game (it's been a long time since I've played) so that's probably what the hog is.
And the game is Warframe.
The beast is a Kubrow, which is actually a marsupial monotreme (they hatch from eggs) the Orokin Empire that existed had a... thing... when it came to genetics and breeding. Best non-spoilery description of them I can give is Crystal Spires and Togas meets Brave New World with a dash of Imperium of Man.
And the true endgame of Warframe is Fashionframe; not just murdering hordes of enemies but looking fabulous while doing so. Add in some missions where you are technically suppose to stealth and you get the comic.
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Marsupials have live births like placentals. Monotremes are the mammals that hatch from eggs.
Warframe predates Destiny by a year. And considering the backlash a couple of the Destiny 2 updates have gotten vs. Warframe consistently being one of the most played games on Steam, is probably going to outlast it too.
While we're tropin' it up, I will note that from what has been revealed so far, most of the Orokin (there were a handful of sympathetic exceptions) were as close to decadent quasi-immortal utter bastards as you can get without actually being Elves. Most of their creations ended up turning on them, and the general opinion among the fandom/playerbase is that they totally had it coming.
You can play solo or up to teams of four.
Yes, but that's not why I was going to guess Destiny. I was going to guess Destiny because Mike is completely preoccupied with that game and that series, and they have done way more Destiny comics than anything else. I think their Destiny comics outnumber their WoW comics.
Being on the Sensors isn't the same as setting off an alarm in a spy mission, you're still good. But watch out for those sneaky cameras and Eximus enemies.
Thanks for this connection. I haven't dipped into Warframe yet, so I was missing the punchline of the comic.
I was always thinking of them as like "Gladiator's Rome", they even seem to be somewhat styled after Greek statues.
The Grineer remind me a bit of the Imperium from Warhammer 40k, but come out wrong, Corpus of a combination of Jews in Space but also TV Evangelicals, especially with the Nef Anyo's "Church of Profit" (The Prophet of Profit) and the Infested are....well, sealed evil in a can.
And yet people still complain about how building a frame takes 3 days, and what, how dare they sell Mod Packs which....honestly you'll have a dozen of most of those mods each after some time playing regularly.
I wish they'd axe the Warframe slot/Weapon inventory limit, though. Kind of annoying to grind for a weapon or frame only to realize you're out of slots. I guess there's some kind of platinum trading economy among the players, but if it's that easy to bypass, maybe just get rid of the slot limit/microtransaction completely?
To be clear, I love Warframe, and think it's a great example of F2P done right. That limit just bugs me, though, because I like to collect stuff.
Nope, that's an important part of the economy in most games. You can pay in time, effort, and/or money; as long as the company gets the last of those from someone, it's good and healthy for the game as a whole to let those with more time than money do the grinding to produce virtual goods for who can't or don't want to put in the same amount of time and just want to plunk down cash for stuff. That's not bypassing the economy, that's participating in it.
IMO, it's not an accident that the only thing that can't be (directly) acquired by grinding - only by paying plat - is more slots. That's there precisely to get people like you (and everyone else too) to "pay" for the game, either by giving DE cash or grinding for stuff to trade to someone who did. And even if you don't like it, but do it anyway, that means it's working.