The eighth hotfix for the current Operation Scarlet Spear event in Warframe has been released and above all improves its rewards.
However, while the developer Digital Extremes is still busy patching the event, the players found a new problem with a cat.
More time for Operation Scarlet Spear
Operation Scarlet Spear will be extended by an entire week due to the previous problems and ends only on April 28, 2020.
Along with this announcement, the developer announced a number of changes to the calculation of the score. These go live with the upcoming hotfix 27.3.9.
In a nutshell: you get your rewards faster in the future. The team is responding to the criticism that the grind of the event is too violent.
The changes in detail
- Ground assault: You get eight instead of five points per kill code. Anyone who plays up to round 17 will achieve 4,131 points instead of 2,295 as before.
- Murex Raids: You get twelve instead of ten points per kill code. Whoever reaches Murex number five will receive 3,960 points instead of 1,875 as before.
- More rewards: During the week, you can earn rare and legendary Arcanes in Operation.
- Limbo's stasis: The team explains that Limbo's ability to trivialize Operation Scarlet Spear. That's why you will soon change how Stasis interacts with the enemy Sentient faction. There are no details yet.
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What about the cat?
In Warframe you not only fight together with other people, but you can also take animal companions into battle. There are dog-like kubros and kavats based on cats. The Warframe Khora also has an ability a very special kitty: Venari.
The problems with the furry four-legged friends started with Operation Scarlet Spear. Because here only Venari is able, thanks to a special aura, to to heal the mission critical oplink. Hotfix 27.3.6 changed this to the players' dismay.
Even more: with this patch Venari lost the ability to heal defense targets. This confused users, as the tips on the loading screen explicitly explain that the cat's aura should be able to do this.
Fast reaction
Meanwhile, the developer officially apologized for this error in the forum:
"We made a rash change in Hotfix 27.3.6 that made Venaris Healing Aura no longer affect Oplinks AND Defense Targets. It was also a mistake to call Venari Healing a Defense Target a fix. I apologize for that. It's correct to say that this is a feature. After all, there is a loading screen tip for it! The change arose from our desire to fix exploits in the operation as soon as possible. We did not communicate this properly. "
The However, problems have not yet been resolved. Because Venari can now heal the defense targets again, but not the oplink. And the players lack this possibility. The result: you will inevitably lose the mission at some point if you don't extract.
The fact that the team called this option an "exploit" in the apology is something that annoys some users. harishiamback writes on Reddit:
"Using skills is now an exploit! Venari Healing, Limbo Stasis XD. What's next? DPS frames trivialize Elite Sanctuary Onslaught and get tweaked?"
The fact that the skills of the title warframes do not work or can not be used in many battles or game modes has been a major criticism of many players for a long time. The change to Venari is fueling this issue again.
Apparently, another rework is pending in the near future. Megan from Warframe's community team said that there will be talk in the coming days about any changes in skills that can heal defense targets.
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