It seems a little unfortunate that Slash Dash needs Exalted Blade to be active if you want that ability to benefit from combo multipliers. Exalted blade also can't be subsumed off if you want to use Slash Dash offensively. It also would have been nice if Arcane Crescendo preserved initial combo after deactivating Exalted Blade.
These things aside, with the recent buffs to melee Excalibur is significantly stronger than he used to be, and it's nice to finally be free of stat sticks.
The Coda Sporothirx seems like it is just a very minor buff over the base version stat wise. Kind of wish they changed the weapon a little more like adding a second zoom level to the Coda version. The bonus element may throw off your slash/viral balance compared to the base Sporothrix, if you're using a gas/blast build you probably don't care as much/do benefit from the extra elemental weighting.
Most snipers have visual bugs with their scopes currently, the sporothrix is one of the worse ones where the scope elements will vibrate after taking a shot.
Have you considered more dakka?
Might be worth building him to farming relics and then selling the prime junk/sets you get from those relic runs if you don't already have have a loadout that you like using for those. He is one of the better warframes for this and Thermal Sunder is nice to have on the off chance a capture mission turns into an exterminate.
As for fun, that depends on how you like to play. Thermal Sunder on Gauss works fine for nuking content outside of ESO if you have the requires mods/arcanes, and don't mind spamming 3. He's only really fast in the tilesets that are more open/less complex, otherwise you're going to be slamming into walls a lot.
Hoping Ash doesn't lose the ability to teleport to objects/through glass, there's a few shortcuts that rely on that.
Should finally be able to make use of weapons with combo gimmicks now instead of having them reset to 0 if you cast an ability that makes use of a pseudo-exalted.
The exploit was
activating Last Gasp at 00:00 of your bleed-out timer.
I found Sacrifice along with Bond mods reducing your companions recovery timer to be fairly helpful.
There is an exploit with Last Gasp which essentially makes you unkillable, it has been reported on the forums.
Ignoring exploits though because those really aren't fun and can be patched in a future update. Specters can help a lot for drawing enemy fire in phase 1 because hitscans are unavoidable (aside from some accuracy penalties), and shoot the reinforcements as they're coming down into the arena for an easy kill because the RPGs do a significant amount of damage to the boss.
Invisibility from Ivara's arrows/sentinel can be helpful here too.
There's also a Soulframe Devstream too at 11 AM ET.
Will be interesting to see how pseudo-exalted weapons change, and it will be nice that you won't be punished anymore for using weapons with certain combo gimmicks like the Tenet Grigori.
More of a meme, but you can run the hacking precepts on a moa. They tend to have issues on the new Corpus spy vaults/Gas City due to pathing/collision issues unfortunately. Master's Summons can be used to place it on the opposite side of a wall, and to force the moa to hack a specific terminal.
Unfortunately they were mostly ignored with the companion update and they can get stuck in a previous tile.
A collection of cosmetics/weapons currently in game and some flavor text. Some of this content has spoilers and placeholder content (i.e. abilities and descriptions). Things are currently pre-pre-pre-alpha so here's a peek at what's currently in game but may be changed/reworked or might not make it to the final release.
Tempest Armor Set (Starter)
Tempest Armor Set
*There is a second starter armor set which only recently became available, will have to update this later to show it.
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Underwear for anyone that likes running around in a souls game without armor (NSFW)
Links instead of embedded images, I've had issues where apps weren't working correctly with spoiler tags and don't want to have something slightly nsfw embedded.
Guess the password to unlock get the Dex Color Pallet and a Clem glyph.
Warframe Anniversary Link You will have to scroll down the page a bit to find the puzzle.
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Screenshots showing some of the in-game areas present in https://www.soulframe.com/en/media
*None of the images here are spoilers if you've already seen the gameplay trailer.
Imgur album with everything shown here and some slight variations (same scenes which may have slightly better/worse lighting/camera placement). Mostly here as a fallback for any mobile apps that have issues viewing embeds/links behind spoiler tags.
Some random extras
So it seems that people participating in the Soulframe preludes testing is able to share screenshots. I'll try to keep anything posted as generic and non-spoilery as possible, and provide clear descriptions of what the screenshot will contain. (generic landscapes, no UI, npcs or anything shown beyond the demo shown at Tennocon.)
For anyone that does want to see more, there is a preludes-screenshot channel on the official Soulframe Discord.
*Does contain some mild spoilers (Equipment/NPCs/Areas not shown off in the demo)
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Imgur Link incase mobile apps have any issues loading embedded images
This is a bit of a test post to make sure embedded images are hidden correctly, and I'll change to links only if anyone notices spoilers not hiding images correctly.
Also, just a warning that some future posts may contain mild spoilers (i.e. weapons/armor not shown in the Tennocon demo but have been posted in the public discord). Posts will have a clear description highlighting the possible spoiler so that you can choose to view an image or avoid it.
Currently only screenshots and discussions can be shared.
It's a Team Arena game mode so going into accessibility and enabling enemy and ally highlighting is very helpful for telling people apart.
The rewards seem to rotate every 24h and the even runs until the 31st.
For anyone that wants to conclave standing on top of this, Affinity boosters do work, but I'm unsure about the ones that come from relay blessings.
Pretty unfortunate that it seems the best way to survive is just nuking everything. It seems like buffed elements (Shock Trooper/Thermal Transfer) don't buff Exalted Blade, I was hoping that I could use Melee Influence to force cold procs onto everything.
The current best non-subsume I can think of is making use of Arcane Trickery and opening enemies up to finishers with Radial Blind/Zakti/Dizzying rounds.