Being a Grand Master, I never thought I would say this. This game has consistently disapointed me ever since...I'm not sure if I can pinpoint a specific time, but, I'm 415 hours into this game, 400+ US poorer and I think I can safely say, I WILL NEVER PLAY THIS MONEY/SOUL SUCKING GAME AGAIN.
I have every warframe in the game, I have all the weapons, everything is potatoed, most of my frames and weapons are forma'ed, in some cases, 3+ times. I have many, many mods, almost all at max level. I've sunk a lot of money and time into this game, almost from day 1 of the open beta. I've put in tickets, tried to improve the game for everyone and the consistent response I get is either downright insulting or no response at all. It makes me wonder how the non-paying customers are being treated?I've noticed they continue to make there EE.log(the only way a player could tell what actually happened) more and more usless. Three or four updates ago, it would tell you a lot of information about how you died.
1551.198 AI [Info]: AI Agent Initialize /Npc/EliteRifleLancer57 at NpcAiDirector /Layer6/Layer8/NpcSpawnPoint7 1551.198 Game [Info]: Created agent: EliteRifleLancer 1551.198 AI [Info]: OnAgentCreated /Npc/EliteRifleLancer57 numLive 12 numSpawned 57 AutoSpawn: 1 1551.314 Sys [Info]: Registering new LotusAvatar with ID 70 1551.314 AI [Info]: AI Agent Initialize /Npc/PistonSawman58 at NpcAiDirector /Layer6/Layer8/NpcSpawnPoint8 1551.314 Game [Info]: Created agent: PistonSawman 1551.314 AI [Info]: OnAgentCreated /Npc/PistonSawman58 numLive 13 numSpawned 58 AutoSpawn: 1 1551.414 Sys [Info]: Registering new LotusAvatar with ID 71 1551.415 AI [Info]: AI Agent Initialize /Npc/ShotgunLancer59 at NpcAiDirector /Layer6/Layer8/NpcSpawnPoint4 1551.415 Game [Info]: Created agent: ShotgunLancer 1551.415 AI [Info]: OnAgentCreated /Npc/ShotgunLancer59 numLive 14 numSpawned 59 AutoSpawn: 1
This is an excert from an EE.log from August 2013 on an Alert Mission that was set to Online. I started the mission without any other players in the loby, as the mission stated it was a level 3-4 mission, figured I'd solo it or someone would drop in and it would be a nice oppurtonuity to level my new pistol, I had only gotten it to level 5. Once the mission started(Grineer Galleon, Sabotage Navigation System), I was overjoyed! I would have to use my new pistol or continously drop the hacking device. Then I saw the level of the enemies. 48-52. Huh, that wasn't in the discription. Ah well, I figured the spawn rate would be approiate, as I was the only one playing(which is the way it stayed, I had no one drop in, even though my ping is in the low 60's,excluding overhead). As you can see from the above, this was not the case, everything was set to autospawn and I had as many as 15 enemies on screen at a time, spawning in rooms I had cleared and usually, right behind me, i.e. turning my back in the room would cause a spawn.
I've played this Solo, Online, Invite Only - they all have the same problem, unlimited spawns all around you that are much more powerfull then they should be. I have maxed fast deflection, iron skin, focus. Level 8 Vitality and Level 9 Redirection. My shields are at 900+ and my life at 500+(don't feel like doing the math) plus my Iron Skin should be absorbing around 1500(not sure on the exact number). I walk into a room after refreshing Iron Skin and am killed by around 7 grineer in less then 3 seconds. I understand this, but they have perfect accuracy at any range, can not miss, and do stupid amounts of damage. I've had one of the grineer lancers(just one) shoot me 3 times and had Iron Skin gone, another 3 to death.
This would be all good, but I'm all alone and the game is going all out like their are 3 other people with me. And this doesn't change if you switch it to any other mode(especially solo), the numbers spawned actually go up! I've had 17 of the missle shooting grineer (3 of them in the same hallway) up and running at the same time.
This is all pointing (at least to me) to one conclusion. The developer or publisher is so greedy and desperate for money (i.e. platinum spending), that they've changed the game into an old style quarter arcade games. A lot like the old street fighter when you were winning too much and, all of a sudden, the computer would counter every move you made, usually as you were inputing the move.
I run solo almost exsclusivly as it seems that all that anyone else wants to do is run the entire time, usually not even reviving you because they are so far ahead of you, they can't reach you, or because they think it's funny and taunt you the rest of the game about how 'l33t' they are and how you are such a 'n00b'. I've had people come back to corpse hump me, like we are playing Halo or something.
Am I the only one seeing this? Please, serious discussion here, no trolling. Also, sorry for all the grammer and spelling mistakes :)
Edit:
Thank you all for all the helpful(and not so helpful) comments. I think a lot of what has been said is correct. I think I'm going to wait and see, play another game for a while, maybe come back to it after the beta or the next major content patch, something like that. Thanks for listening to me whine :)