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I wish we could call in Operator for KIM conversations. Partly bc the Operator knows stuff Drifter won't, but mainly to respond to Roath getting annoyed when you say that the Orokin were awful by getting Operator to list 'ways I, personally, can remember being wronged by the orokin'
👀 Oh?
Do you think the real reason the Operator isn't on KIM is because they can't get on due to age verification
love the sequence of KIM conversations my drifter's been getting the past few days...
first, we get amir being upset. my poor drifter has a huge crush on the exciteable nerd, and has been accidentally flirting too close to the sun and causing him to panic.
this time, she tries just a BIT too hard to get him to open up. overcorrecting for her accidentally causing him to back out of talking about his problems before. it goes poorly. lots of caps lock dramatics between the two.
smash cut to quincy offering dating advice in the very same day. my drifter, exasperated, bites the bullet. asks about amir. and gets told she must be "into charity" for liking his brother.
that day ends, and she's this close to smashing her computer.
NEXT SET OF CONVERSATIONS ROLL AROUND. amir tells drifter about some bullshit quincy pulled where he took some papers he was working on, used them for target practice, says they "weren't important anyway". ol marty wants to fight quincy even more now...
making matters MORE confusing, is aoi asking her on a date. drifter. has NOT been asked out before. she's just excited to get drinks with her lovely magnetokinetic friend, she's not thinking about the fact that aoi called it a date not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES before the end of the conversation.
she's not going to be ready for this...
Actually kudos for the writing team in DE to come up with these lines for the whole lyon-rell-harrow situation
HEY GUYS!! If your KIM chats are messed up, DO NOT RESET THEM!! DE seems to be dropping the ball a little on consistent locations for communications regarding this WILD bug, BUT THEY HAVE A FIX LINED UP! HANG IN THERE! (This is from reddit)
So about that KIM dumpster fire...
The main thing I'm afraid of are not the actual bugs themselves (although don't you ever dare to take my blueberry man away from me, DE, I'll find you and read you a ten hour lection about how WRONG you are. In three. Different. Languages! Prepare your pee bottles) I'm scared this is going to be yet another Railjack/content island situation. Everyone's frustrated and dissapointed of how broken this stuff is and they'll go "We see you don't like this thing anymore, so we'll just completely abandon it".
While I agree with "no more sex for now", KIM has endless possibilities for lore, extra worldbuilding & simple fun things if you tone it down with the booleans and keep the quality on The Hex level (wth happened with Drifter by the way, did they sniff too much Scaldra juice during the 1999 update? I feel like their IQ, fun and curiosity all fell from a 9-storey building).
It's like Codex, but sooo much better for sparking the interest in general audience.
Or, you know, how about romance without making it sexual? I'm not even ace, on a scale of famously horny Warframe community I'm somewhere in the middle (probably even closer to the top scores on some occasions Styanax deluxe *cough*), but I hate how much every damn romance novel/movie/whatever is about sex now. What happened with writing romantic scenes where LI's never even touch each other, but the tension is so high you have to mop yourself from the floor? Are we too spoiled by AO3 and porn to appreciate something like Malcolm x Inara (Firefly)? Is it simply because sex is easy to sell and takes less effort to write? Or is it both, perhaps?
Aaanyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, overreacting and trere's nothing to fear. And (despite this illiterate rant) I feel optimistic about DE making the right choices, both for them and their players. We may not like those choices, but they will deliver new, creative things for us to love.
Bugfixing debt is not going to grow endlessly, tho. With how many old things are still broken and these new.. situations... the game might collapse like a house of cards one day.
PSA: avoid KIM chats for now!!!
was so excited to play the update but saw new KIM chats and got curious if something was knocked loose and i could see more chats now (especially since a few of my chats delayed several times in the past with Triad) NOPE DO NOT TOUCH THE KIM RIGHT NOW DO NOT DO ITTTTT i am back to Trusted now with Lyon (was Best Friends) and Roathe (removed from Loved status) hopefully they can roll it back to before the update and fix everyone's KIM but it is affecting literally all KIM rn
