Necramechs

Necramech

The Necramechs are Entrati war machines encountered on the ruins of Cambion Drift, Deimos. They are heavily armored bipedal war machines built during The Old War as a predecessor to Warframes, though they were far less intelligent. The Tenno are capable of accessing these Old War relics using their Transference, and can deploy them in Landscapes.

Acquisition

Necramechs can be operated by an Operator (which requires completion of The War Within) via Transference, whether they are found inactive in the fields of the Cambion Drift during Fass or owned by the player. An Operator only needs to initiate Transference (default 5 ) when near an operational inactive Necramech in order to board them. Necramech wreckage eligible for Transference can be identified by a blue aura emanating from them. These Necramechs will only have Rank 0 base stats with no mods, though they will have all of their abilities at max rank, and use an unmodded  Mausolon as their default weapon.

Players can craft their own Necramechs through the Necraloid Syndicate. A built Necramech takes up one Necramech slot. Players start out with four Necramech slots by default and more can be purchased from the Market for ‍20 each. Alternatively, pre-built Necramechs can be bought from the Market for ‍375, which comes with a free pre-installed Orokin Reactor and a Necramech slot.

Player-owned Necramechs have customizable livery and can be equipped with various Necramech-exclusive Mods to enhance their abilities. A Necramech Summon Gear is automatically given to the player upon acquiring their first Necramech, which allows players to summon the Necramech for use on any open-world Landscape (Cambion Drift, Plains of Eidolon, and Orb Vallis). The Necramech Summon Gear has a 3 minute cooldown before it can be used again if the Necramech is destroyed, and a 10-second cooldown if the Necramech is still active.

Models

Mechanics

Mobility and Control

Necramechs are capable of walking, jumping (default Space ), and slide dashing (default tap Shift  + any directional key). For more advanced maneuvers, the Necramechs have an Engine gauge denoting fuel, which is consumed when performing its unique movement techniques, and naturally replenishes if the Necramech is standing still or using standard movement (it will not replenish however during falling from heights). Sprinting (default holding Shift ) also consumes the Engine gauge.

The Necramech has two advanced maneuvers unique to it:

• Slide: Necramechs can perform a slide (default tapping and hold Shift ) which propels it at high speed towards its current heading.
  • It can be steered by the directional keys (default A  to turn left and D  to turn right), though turning radius while sliding is significantly widened.
  • Sliding ragdolls and damages enemies in its path, and also breaks any destructible environmental objects like loot crates.
  • Sliding can be maintained for as long as the Necramech has Engine fuel, and will only stop if the gauge is depleted, the sprint key is pressed, or the Necramech performs another maneuver like jumping. At the end of the slide (either through intentional stop or running out of fuel) while on the ground a forced recovery stomping animation will play out, resulting in an unavoidable moment of unresponsiveness of about 2 seconds. Despite the forceful appearance this animation does not deal any additional damage.
  • While the animation for the slide results in the Necramech lowering its height significantly, its actual collision model does not change and thus still unable to pass through “standard size” doorways.

• Hover: While in mid-air either from jumping or falling from heights, Necramechs can activate their flight thrusters while aiming (default hold Mouse 2  while airborne), making it hover which drastically slows down their rate of descent.
  • While hovering, the Necramech can move in any direction using the directional keys allowing it to fly across short distances. Necramechs also retain any forward momentum from ground movement when hovering, thus additional speed can be attained by sprinting then jumping into a hover. The flight thrusters only slows the Necramech’s rate of descent, so it gradually loses altitude even if the thrusters are still active.
  • Also crouching and sprinting can be used while hovering to speed up/slow down the directional movement.
  • Hovering can be performed as long as the Necramech has Engine fuel, and the thrusters will shut off if the gauge is depleted, the jump key is released, or the mech’s feet makes contact with a passable surface.

Once the Fuel gauge has been depleted down to the last 5% remaining, a soft warning beeping sound will play until the Fuel recovery has kicked in.

Necramechs can crouch (default holding Ctrl ), but only while stationary and cannot crawl; combining crouch with movement will result in a slower walk with the Necramech maintaining its standing height. Likewise shooting and/or aiming while crouched will cancel out and force them to stand up for the action.

Despite their tall height, Necramechs are capable of walking through small passageways and doors that would seemingly not support their size, causing their helmets to scrape against the ceiling.

Necramechs have an innate 6 meter  Vacuum-like effect that draws in pickups.

Necramechs are unable to interact with objects that require the Use key (default X ), thus they are unable to hack consoles, carry objective items, grab pickups like Ayatan Stars, and revive allies.

Controlling the Necramech requires the Operator to Transference out of the Warframe. If Transference is used while the Warframe and Necramech are right next to each other or are aimed at from a distance, the player can swap between them without going into the Operator. If the Necramech is unpiloted, it becomes invulnerable to damage from all sources.

Combat

Necramechs come with 4 abilities unique to each chassis, and like Warframes require Energy to use. For their primary weapons, Necramechs can be armed with any Arch-gun even if it doesn’t have a Gravimag installed, with regenerating ammo. They do not have an equippable melee weapon, instead using arm swipes and aerial ground slams, both of which can powerfully ragdoll enemies. Necramechs are able to fire their weapons and perform abilities that can be used in mid-air while hovering.

Necramechs are immune to knockdowns, staggers, and Status Effects and they cannot be affected by special enemy incapacitation abilities such as the Deimos Tendril Drone‘s latching attack. However, they are affected by the energy residue left by Vome and Fass as well as Leech Eximus’ energy drain and they are being slowed by Arctic Eximus and Nox‘s sludges.

Warframe abilities cannot directly affect a Necramech, however they can still make use of abilities such as  Electric Shield and shoot through it for additional damage, or utilize cover abilities such as  Snow Globe to avoid enemy fire. They are affected by allied unit effects however, such as gaining bonus shields from Shield Ospreys and damage resistance from Ancient Healers, either in Specter form or spawned/turned friendly through Warframe abilities.

Necramechs can replenish energy from Energy Orbs dropped from enemies, the environment, or from Warframe abilities (such as  Ember‘s  Exothermic augment,  Gara‘s  Spectrosiphon augment,  Hildryn‘s  Aegis Storm,  Protea‘s  Dispensary, or  Trinity‘s  Pool of Life augment), but cannot be energized directly by Warframe abilities (such as  Trinity‘s  Energy Vampire) or consumables like Energy Restores. Necramechs have no self-repair capability (with the exception of  Necramech Repair and Bonewidow‘s Meathook), and cannot pick up Health Orbs or use Health Restores to restore damage.

They can be repaired using:

•  Combat Discipline
• Vizier Predasite‘s  Iatric Mycelium
• Vome blue energy (during Fass cycle)
• Ancient Healer Specter (~30 health pulses)
• Unairu’s Void Shadow and Void Chrysalis

They do not benefit from:

• Vazarin‘s Protective Dash,  Trinity‘s  Blessing,  Equinox‘s  Mend & Maim,  Arcane Pulse,  Venari‘s heal stance or  Hunter Recovery (however Venari and other companions will stay by the Necramech’s side to fight)
• Any of  Wisp‘s  Reservoirs,  Oberon‘s  Renewal,  Volt‘s  Speed or  Harrow‘s  Covenant
•  Rejuvenation,  Physique,  Energy Siphon,  Brief Respite or  Enemy Radar
•  Medi-Ray fitted on a Moa.
•  Vacuum/ Fetch or  Animal Instinct
•  Arcane Energize, even if triggered by an ally nearby.

Ranking and Moddingedit | edit source

The Necramech features 12 mod slots unlike other vehicles (e.g. Archwings or K-Drives). To compensate, each polarization increases its rank by 2 up to a max of 40 after 5 Forma, increasing mod capacity to a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Reactor installed. Additional polarizations can be added when the Necramech reaches its new max rank at that polarization level. Each additional rank also gives Mastery Rank Experience, giving 8,000 points in total.

Player-built Necramechs can be equipped with the Necramech exclusive mods – See the list below:

Customization

Necramechs can have their appearance customized with various skins and helmets. Notably, if a player owns more than one model of Necramech, the helmets from those models can be used on other Necramech models as well (e.g. owning a Bonewidow will allow players to use the Bonewidow helmet on a Voidrig).