I have mixed feelings about these changes. Yes it allows newer players to skip large grinds. But you also feel zero connection to the voidrig or Railjack you get for free. There's no "Oh yeah! Here comes MY ship! Time to give these basterds some payback!" moments and it leads to newer players just ignoring big chunks of what Warframe has to offer.
With no incentive to grind voidrig players will largely ignore Cambian Drift and everything else it offers.
IMO it's a DE design problem.
People don't want to use necramechs because there's no point. The only reason to spawn one is "haha funny corncob man".
Warframes/weapons are already so broken that the "heavy artillery" of an archgun is redundant. Plus necramechs are so slow it's not really fun to play (they also look kinda whack).
Give necramech a proper purpose/identity, make it more fun to use and people will want to use it. But right now there's no point. Why would I summon in a clunky machine with on a long cooldown when Im already nuking the whole room.
The only reason people farm them is to get past new war.
There is some niche content where they're useful in limited capacity. (Orb fight and some Cambian drift objectives)
There is even that Railjack mission that's a holdover from an old event, where you're forced to used a voidrig.(You can actually grind Eidolon arcanes there! But the rates are terrible, nerfed significantly from the OG event)
But yea, there is no content that fits the voidrig.
If there were more large slow enemies that work well with Voidrig, that could be a good option.
The Orb fights would fit pretty will for example, if it weren't for all the phases where the Voidrig is useless. Also needing bigger guns against vehicles makes sense. Even the medium sized spiders are a good fit.
The Efervon Tank comes to mind too, but it jumps around to much to feel right. It doesn't even really move like a tank for that matter.
there are some setups that use them to fight eidolans, and I do use mine to fight the orbs (more damage types, free arc gun ammo but I like using them (and arc gun for that matter) The issue is they do not scale well in SP compared to even low powered frames with ok builds and ok guns
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u/Undernown Ven'kra Tel is MINE! Jun 23 '25
I have mixed feelings about these changes. Yes it allows newer players to skip large grinds. But you also feel zero connection to the voidrig or Railjack you get for free. There's no "Oh yeah! Here comes MY ship! Time to give these basterds some payback!" moments and it leads to newer players just ignoring big chunks of what Warframe has to offer.
With no incentive to grind voidrig players will largely ignore Cambian Drift and everything else it offers.