Need to Know:
The stalker has made some new friends, the new operation is based on the favor that we owe Alad V for his aid in the second dream. The stalker wants his head and instead of going himself he's decided to instead play Football Manager 2016 and recruit some hopeless babies and train them up to be the best linkin park fetish groupies you've ever seen.
They can be found throughout the star map at random, their location is hidden as they move around and as soon as they appear in someones match the event ui will change to show the planet and then the node of the planet. Simple stuff.
They are about as strong as pre-shadow stalker, with different skills and weapon sets. They can be tricky if they get enough time to use their skills but so far I haven't had a match that they didn't quickly die.
In addition to this event there are some welcome fixes and some minor conclave changes, seems to be very much focused on the new faction with this patch which is fine enough, good luck hunting down the new mods that the mini-stalkers drop.
18.4.1 Patch Notes
Conclave Changes:
- Increased the damage of the MK1-Bo in Conclave.
- Decreased the damage of the Tonbo in Conclave.
- Increased the damage of staff stances in Conclave.
Warframe Changes:
- Kills earned by Nekros' summoned Shadows of the Dead allies will now contribute to future casts of the ability.
Fixes:
- Fixed environmental fire affecting Limbo while he (or Banished allies) are in the Rift.
- Fixed clipping issues with Trinity's Strega Skin as per: this thread.
- Fixed an error with Excalibur's Radial Blind ability where its effectiveness against eligible bosses was not diminished with each consecutive use.
- Fixed the Karak Wraith Barrel improperly being named as the Strun Wraith Barrel.
- Fixed improper visual FX occuring on enemy deaths as per: this thread.
- Fixed Ivara's Cloak Arrow not attaching properly to its targets as per: this thread.
- Fixed several areas in the J-3 Jordas Golem Trial's third phase where players could exit the tileset through holes in the terrain.
- Fixed a door frame that was missing in Orokin Survival tilesets.
- Fixed the positioning of Landing Craft in extraction to help reduce the clipping of various Landing Crafts.
- Fixed Chroma's Vex Armor not properly functioning against high level Infested Nanite clouds.
- Fixed Nezha's Blazing Chakram Ability not properly healing the player in Conclave's Annihilation.
- Fixed an additional '00' appearing in Ivara's custom arrow HUD in Conclave.
- Fixed an issue where enemies were able to spawn inside the Defense Cryopod.
18.4.2 Patch Notes
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where pixelated surfaces were invading people's games.
- Fixed issues with Deluxe Skins preserving underlying collision from the default Warframe aesthetic.
- Fixed a rare crash.
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[–] Ulluses [S] ago
I liked the simple UI as well, you can turn off some of the weird moving elements in the options, like the camera wandering as you move through menus.
The story has been filled out a fair bit in this year, it's still far from a complete narrative and while some of the timeline of events have been confirmed much of the reasons have not so proper context for the past is yet to become clear. Some more "current events" have been moving along nicely so bosses have a place in the universe now, Alad V is infested and trying to cure himself while staying out of trouble and experiments with new infested strains in his research, Sargus Ruk has failed in his job of not letting the tenno gain a foothold in the system and is now demoted in favor of Tyle Regor who is doing his own work like creating the Maniac clone breed of grineer and their variations. Other characters like Maroo and the few cephaladons have moved into the picture as power players out for their own desires, different factions jockey for influence with the tenno and other forces.
The Second Dream quest was the first "cinematic" quest and it contained possibly the most concrete and highest amount of information of any event or quest so far, it really was a turning point for the game as it was a personal and very movie-like moment and the success and love it garnered from the fans has pretty much secured it as the main style of quest going forward for the developers.