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ofstormsandfire · 4 years

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For the ask game: Yang Xiao Long, Rudy Zuud, and Executor Ballas

Yang Xiao Long

How I feel about this character

Very cool. I project onto her a lot, and honestly I’d like to cosplay as her someday? I probably could pull it off, I’d just need contacts. And to lose an arm. Y’know, simple stuff.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Usually just Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee (at the same time.) I’ll ship Yang with almost any female character in RWBY if it’s well-written though.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

The sibling dynamic between her and Ruby is great and I love them.

My unpopular opinion about this character

She shouldn’t have gotten kicked out of the Vytal Festival. I’m still bitter at Mercury about that, not to mention Ironwood.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Give her a girlfriend pl ease RT. Ideally multiple, but I’ll settle for one.

Rude Zuud

(gonna go with the Warframe version instead of our crossover version for simplicity’s sake)

How I feel about this character

I’m a bit less invested in her than I am in some other characters from Fortuna? But she’s cool and she deserves all the nice things.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I mean, I don’t really? I’ve seen Zuud/Eudico going around and that’s all well and good, I ship Eudico/Ticker a lot more but Eudico has two hands!

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Zuud and Legs. I will admit this is partially from our crossover (it’s called Vox Faunus and it’s great y’all should read it) but also, they’re both super cool and Make Things y’know?

My unpopular opinion about this character

I suspect this is one you’ll share but I would like more elaboration on her being plural! We got some through the Exploiter fight but all that stuff from Operation: Buried Debts is lost to the sands of time and I never got any of it as a PS4 player at the time :C

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Let her fight Exploiter personally it’s what she deserves.

Executor Ballas

How I feel about this character

*cracks knuckles* I hate him SO MUCH. I could rant for hours about how much I hate him but I’ll leave it at that. if he’s a representation of most Orokin then the Tenno were clearly right to rebel and I want to side with the Sentients. (not that I didn’t already but shh.)

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Death. I ship him with slow, painful, agonizing death. It’s fun to joke about Adam Taurus and him though simply because both of them are A) super similar and B) would HATE being shipped.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Again, death.

My unpopular opinion about this character

He’s a bitch ass motherfucker who should choke on a fish bone and perish.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Frankly, I wish he didn’t exist! How is he even alive in the present of Warframe he shouldn’t be and if he’d died when he was supposed to, we’d still have Space Mom. He’s nearly single-handedly responsible for everything I hate about Warframe canon soooo.............. take that as you will.

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heartslogos · 5 years

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seas who could sing so deep and strong [134]

“Hey, boyo,” Chic waves at Hades. He’s sitting on the edge of a platform, legs dangling off the side and head in his hands as he stares down onto the glittering coolant pools and flickering neon lights of Solaris. She takes a seat next to him. “Haven’t seen you around in a while. It’s been busy, huh? What’s up?”

Hades shrugs. “Nothing much. Tinkering with MOA’s, I guess. You?”

“Mostly working on sabotaging Nef’s operation. Also I’m funneling Index funds into Solars debt bonds, and that’s pissing people off. I’m working on it though, I swear.”

“On pissing people off?”

“Among other things. Punk really likes it here. The dumbass started talking like one of them about one day cycle in. I can’t believe how well he fits in here. If all of us weren’t like…thousands of years older than this place I would think that Punk was born here. A true Vent Kid. Didn’t stop him from almost taking his head off hitting a billboard while trying to do a trick on his K-drive.”

Hades rolls his warframe’s shoulders like he’s kind of laughing, but not really.

“You seen the others?”

“Alpha’s still doing conservation,” Hades says. “I see him with the Biz a lot. I think the Biz is getting a little overwhelmed, Alpha brings them in faster than they can make the stuffed animals.”

“Alpha would do it without the stuffed toys as reward.”

“I think the Biz doesn’t want it to seem unfair,” Hades shrugs again. “And the Empress is somewhere out there.”

He gestures his arm out and up towards the elevators that lead to the surface of Solaris.

“She got mad when Eudico said she shouldn’t try fighting the Profit Taker,” Hades says.

“I remember.”

It took Chic, Alpha, Punk, and Persephone holding onto one of Empress’ limbs and Hades using Inaros’ sandstorm ability to get her into the elevator and hold her there. The entire time the Empress was promising destruction.

Eudico really shouldn’t have said that the Empress couldn’t fight something. The suggestion of the Empress losing anything, and needing to be protected from something, is…not a good one.

“I think mad is an understatement, honestly,” Chic says. “Furious. Outraged. Infuriated. She’s going to rip that giant metal ball in half and impale those halves on its own stupid metal crab legs. Did you notice it has those weird looking eye thingies that make it look like an actual crab?”

“The eye stalk shaped things? Yeah.”

Hades seems kind of sullen about something.

“You okay?”

“Sure, why wouldn’t I be?” He sounds bitter. Chic would think that Hades would be enjoying himself on Fortuna, what with all of the tech and gear to experiment with, and all the people he can talk techie with.

She looks around for his other half — his usually more taciturn half, but in this situation maybe Persephone would be the one to talk to.

“Where’s Persephone?”

Chic leans back fast enough to avoid being zapped by a flare of magenta electricity that sparks over the Inaros warframe next to her.

“Ticker,” Hades grumbles, pointing a sullen finger up towards Ticker’s level. “She’s with Ticker.”

“O…kay,” Chic says, not quite understanding the animosity there. “I’ll be back.”

“Whatever.”

Is this what they mean by teenage phase?

Chic climbs her way up to Ticker’s platform, and as usual she’s surrounded in Tenno and other Solaris inhabitants checking out the debt prices and Ticker’s collection of household items.

She doesn’t see Percephone — wait. Yes, she does. Persephone’s just not in her Nidus, which is…weird. She’s in her Titania, hovering around the edge of the platform. Chic supposes it makes sense. Titania would have a lot of good mobility options for going around Venus and Solaris is vertical stacked settlement.

It’s weird, Chic thought Persephone would’ve been out with Alpha collecting Kubrowdons and Vermink. Maybe she needs the fast standing?

After the crowd dies down a bit, Persephone’s Titania flutters over to Ticker. Chic moves closer and it’s only because she moves closer that she hears what can only be an auditory hallucination.

Because Ticker does her usual, calling Perspehone star shine and then Persephone giggles. It’s through Titania’s synthesizer, but it’s still a giggle and Chic stops dead. She would bet her entire fortune in credits and belongings that Persephone is blushing. Chic would bet Punk’s fortune on top of it.

Chic doesn’t hear whatever it is they’re talking about after that because she’s still focused on the fact that she just heard Persephone giggle.

She turns right around and goes straight back to Hade’s platform, sitting down heavily next to him.

“Oof,” Chic says.

“Yeah,” Hades returns. “Oof.”

“Does she — is she —“

“All the time. She’s always with Ticker now. I almost never get to see her unless we’re doing something for Ticker.” Hades makes a small curl of sand around his fist and unhappily tosses it down. It scatters in the vent streams and Chic doesn’t doubt that it’s going to piss someone several floors down off.

“Wow,” Chic says for lack of anything else to say. “You know. I call her stuff like darling and cutie all the dang time and she’s never giggled for me.”

Chic would bet her fortune and Punk’s, again, on Judge glaring daggers at her.

“I’m her…partner and she’s never giggled for me. And now she’s always with Ticker so I can’t even say I’m her partner. It’s more like Persephone and Ticker.”

“Chill, Hades. Punk’s always hanging out with those Vent Kids, doesn’t mean he’s ditched me forever. I’m sure Persephone still loves you just as much as she always has. I mean…she met her literal heroes the Empress and the Alpha and she still chooses you.”

“They don’t call her star dust. I could call her star dust.” Hades pauses and wilts. “No, I can’t. I’d be too embarrassed.”

“Have you considered telling Persephone you’re feeling lonely?”

“In front of Ticker?”

“When she’s not around Ticker? Or like…in private com?”

Hades kick his legs mutinously before abruptly flinging himself off the platform and disappearing.

This is definitely a teenage phase.

#heartsfic #warframe #punk and chic #otp: space kids

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benjaminreevesart · 5 years

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WHY DOES FORTUNA DISAPPOINT ME SO?

In November of 2018 DE released its latest OpenWorldTM Fortuna, an update I had been waiting for with bated breath from the edge of my seat since its announcement last year. At the time of launch I was logging in every day just for the chance to be one of the first to experience it.

Now over a month later, I sit here struggling to convince myself to go back. Yes, even after the heist update. A sentiment seemingly shared among many others in the community. So as with all things in life we must ask ourselves… why?

-Aesthetic: they decided to drop this thing in November, so I guess instead of going outside to play in the snow users could stay inside log on to warframe and play… in the snow. Yay.

I find myself missing the familiar exotica of not-africa and its kind-of-alive-but-not-really-except-its-made of-flesh-and-you-can-eat-it-wtf-DE? tower. (that bothers me). Just standing in these updates’ respective hub-areas and listening to the ambiance of the environment speaks volumes. The plains has haggling traders, merchants announcing their wares, wind rustling through the many canopies and tent flaps of hand hade fabric, it feels alive where fortuna feels like a cold mechanical day job. If you say that’s intentional… well, I hardly think boredom is anything to aspire to.

I get that they’re going for a sci-fi-punk feel, but it just comes off as monotonous, hopeless, and impersonal.

-Personal connection: Sure Saya’s Vigil was stupid romantic melodrama, sure onko’s decision is lame, sure it was kinda dumb to give newby players a warframe blueprint they couldn’t build until after reaching the mid-game, but ya know what? It worked.

I know who saya and konzu are, i have been with them on their story, every time I see konzu standing there with his girl I know that is because of me. My journey, my struggle, my effort brought these people together. Its simple its small, its human.

I mean who the hell is eudico anyway, why does she fight? Why caste shade on biz’s origins, and are we just going to gloss over an innocent person getting their head chopped off and their organs harvested in the open fucking street???????? There are constant references to people being “brain-shelved” which I can only assume means they get their brain put in a jar and thrown in someone’s freezer, and we get ZERO resolution for that! I mean sure there are fragments to find and scan, but they don’t really tell us anything that couldn’t already have been inferred. With exception to the relationship between biz and little-duck, not that it seems to play into any of their interactions at all. The business does have his conservation thing, which is a part of his character, an old war veteran understand the fragility of life and working to preserve it through peaceful means. But the spirit of it is robbed when they give the same shtick to the random bird guy from cetus. Why? while I could buy Nef Anyo hunting whole species to extinction for profit, nothing about the setting of the plains suggests the animals are in any kind of danger from the grineer. Its just pointless. I mean you could’ve just used the business for both, maybe he’s building a zoo for critters from all over the system, I wouldn’t have questioned it. Heck, it could even have been a nice little unlock to see the place once you catch one of every animal.

Weirdly enough the one character I think is kind of done right here is ticker. Yeah, the kiosk guy above biz’s shop whose only purpose is to sell you debt bonds so you can increase your standing. Maybe its just a dumb stereotype but I like tickers flair for the theatrical, I find it charming. Plus, his first fragment is so terribly depressingly human it just makes me want to give the poor dude a hug.

But at least there’s plenty of snow in the sandbox… er…

-The sandbox is full: I may not be in the console market these days but there have been a lot of sandbox games as of late, like… ALOT! Its basically the only game Ubisoft makes anymore. A wide-open area filled to burst with pointless shallow time wasting minigames of no real importance. OpenWorldTM. The announcement said Orb Vallis would be twice the size of Eidolon and good god does it feel like it! The very construction of the map itself restricts you from moving around it. With its massive board blocking Tim Burton mountains, and how those same mountains prevent you from utilizing the full freedom of the hoverboard, a new vehicle introduced with the update. Sure, there’s a new pet and new guns, but we already had fishing, we had mining, we had a new faction of peaceful traders and merchants to interact with. Outside of new shooty-tubes and endo dumps I don’t really see what’s so special here, especially when the terrain itself renders the races more chore than a challenge without delivering on any significant or memorable locations. Which is weird since there are interesting set pieces in the Vallis that are just never used. Of all the bounties I did getting to “old mate” rank the only location used was a data vault spy mission. You know, the building with the profit taker on it, yeah, you know the one the worst part of the map. Its built like a maze, is too easy to get lost in, has too many BIG rooms going into tiny vents you need an eagle eye to find, and its just an unenjoyable mess. This is especially infuriating as there are numerous more interesting locals around the map, they could use for practically any of the bounties. But no, its never the big Nef Anyo statue we’re fighting under it’s that damn farm thing again. Its never that cool cavernous road through the mountains, its that same damn bridge right in front of Fortuna. Its never a big base filled with enemies and tons of vertical platforms, its always that one generic outpost just down the road.

-Environmental Story: what’s even worse for the environment is its total lack of connection to the rest of the universe. The Plains weren’t just some vaguely African safari area, it was a battlefield. Haunted with the remains of shattered sentient contained within a massive forcefield that also happened to protect it from the deadly radiation and poisons of the outside world. The strange rocks which dot the landscape are the remains of alien spacecraft and its soils are stuffed with all manner of deadly armaments and tools. So, it makes perfect sense that the grineer or other factions would covet this area for its agricultural and military resources. The vallis just looks like a giant sink of effort and resources that could be put to more productive use elsewhere, doubly so considering it’s the corpus funding the whole operation. Which is even more sad given that environmental stories are the one story telling mechanic exclusive to video games. There is no other medium which allows a reader or a viewer to experience its world at their own pace to seek information in their own ways. Making this literary opportunity not only a waste of warframes universe but of the medium itself.

This is naturally only compounded upon with how the resources of the vallis seem even more restricted to fortuna than the plains did to cetus. The toroids are the worst offence in this, but I think I’ll save my thoughts on this growing problem in warframe for when I get around to covering the jovian concord as the issue of resource gating is more blatant there.

-The warframes: so garuda and baruuk, while I find it strange that DE released two frames around the same time that where functionally immortal, I just find their acquisition boring. Garuda’s main blueprint is just handed to you after finishing the introduction mission, and baruuk is straight up just another item you buy. The only difference between buying baruuk for real money and buying him for in game currency is time, and a lot of it given how rare the resource to get him is. Now I know garas main was given at the end of sayas vigil too but there it was built up as an ancient relic of mystical origin. A man left his wife and home to keep this powerful artifact out of enemy hands, sacrificing his whole life and happiness to keep them safe. You weren’t building just another tank with tits; you were reviving a warrior of legend who slew giants and protected the innocent. Revenant as well, had a deific entity granting visions to a child guiding you to the grave of an ancient warrior who fought and eventually fell to the control of his hated enemy. This might sound like a re-tred of inaros for most of you but at least gara and revenent look their parts, rather than just a mish mash of infested gunk slapped onto a skeleton. Point is worldbuilding matters, especially for the warframes. Being the name-sake of the game they deserve some kind of gravitas behind them. Treating a new warframe like another commodity to be bought off a shelf or passed out like a gold star from kindergarden is just… condescending. At least hyldryn got a boss fight out of her release, which is more of a backhanded compliment when you realize almost every other warframe gets a boss fight by default. Soooo… yeah.

Conclusion:

Maybe I’m jaded, just sick of snow, or maybe I’m projecting my exhaustion with the OpenWorldTM genre, I don’t know. There are a lot of reasons I find fortuna unfulfilling, but ultimately, I think its this; fortuna and the vallis were supposed to be an extension to the warframe universe, a playground to explore new perspectives and build on its mythos. It didn’t do that. We went from space travelling assassins trying to fight a war on many fronts to make the galaxy a better place, to a plucky resistance force against an evil conglomerate. It just doesn’t fit with the world we’ve already seen. everything “new” that was introduced here may be new to warframe but has been done much better within any title from the cyberpunk genre.

Its really a shame too as just looking a around can be breathtaking at times, some caves and structures are genuinely beautiful to look at. A lot of work was clearly put into this update, just not in the right places. Gameplay has a few upgrades, the environments are pretty if frustrating to traverse, but the story just comes up short. Sure, we can tolerate illogical grinds and only semi-complete mythologies for our new areas, but without a good story to keep us coming back, to tie everything together, its just disappointing.

-END OF LINE.

#warframe #game #fortuna #gaming #review #benjamineye #narrative #story #sci fi #cyberpunk #space ninja

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