How Nidus Revolutionized Warframe
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
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Nidus is a fan favourite ever since his release back in the Glast Gambit update. He is a tank and DPS that scales very nicely and has a kit that synergizes really well and flows in an organic way into the gameplay. Nidus had redefined what synergy means in Warframe and as a result, he has impacted the game on a fundamental level. Today let's take a deep dive into Nidus and see what this ravenous plague is all about!
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EDIT: at 3:28 meant to say AT THE TIME* First warframe with innate health regeneration (Citrine had went right under my radar lately, haven't had much time to play as her so I didn't realize until a viewer pointed it out.)
EDIT 2: Larva burst and Archon Continuity the damage is still toxin not corrosive, but the corrosive status effect is there.
Also when I am discussing Nidus' passive in the present timestamp, I talk about Abundant Mutation, it gives 200 MORE stacks with a max cap of 300, NOT 200, I didn't notice this error until the video was already rendered, I've decided to just cut that snippet out as it's not worth the hassle to re-upload again.
Hey everyone! Decided to push this one out early instead, I wanna make sure I got enough time for Harrow's video as his will release end of week (Friday most likely but no guarantees)
I'll have a mid week update video out to discuss some things as well as channel updates and stuff for end of February (Was supposed to release last week but I was busy with other projects)
Anyways thank you all for your continued support, much appreciated as always
Exacly what i was coment xD citrine
Think if we had another frame with a stack order, like Octavia but every time a mob gets music hit she gets range? or Varuna getting health and armor for every kill in her Ult.
Maybe a Video about Hydroid, about how for most peoples he became a Memeframe, even wost than Inaros? Buyed and Builded Hydroid Prime recently and i tried to with him on Arbitration with 300% Strg and HP and jesus, i quited that mission with about 2 min
Ahem! Nova💫Nova💫Nova 💫😉🍀
Nidus was what made warframes turn into something special, going from frames who just have kits with a general theme to frames who have a theme and build around that idea, Nidus is based on infestation, so no shields and regeneration fit well, no tech and also kinda like a cancer, always growing and hard to destroy, his abilities were based on becoming stronger and stronger and basically creating a infested area that would be basically unapproachable, becoming this tumor on the map basically, which is what the infested actually do. Its a super cool idea and they did it super well
I think his fourth ability could be better. As a nidus main it doesn't really synergize well bc for one thing its hard to keep track of the maggots due to their size.
Second of all it's other than the massive field it creates it's not very practical without the proper mods.
A better version would be to create enemy seeking projectiles instead of maggots that do high damage.
Yes the abilities are meant to increase stacks and survival rate. But you need that high damage.
That's why I got the shield ability from Styanax and gave it to nidus. Get that nice knock back. High damage and health Regen.
@@furionmax7824 I'm pretty sure if hold your first ability it highlights maggots, letting you get a better grasp of where they are and also how far and wide your ability reaches
@@THERATSANDTHERATS eh but still I never really liked it all that much. It's not very good to look at compared to the other Ults. I'd rather have spore bombs that float around like mines and then deal toxic damage when they explode.
100% agree but he actually does have tech, on certain geometry his 1 (virulence) can be rapid fire cast if you hold w a s or d while spamming it.
@@BigCheechin tech as in technology. As in Nidus is pure writhing flesh, no circuitry in sight.
Nidus and Gara: two frames that prople almost universally agree are really good but you somehow still don't see many people playing them
as a gara main, it makes me relieved because it means theyll likely not be nerfed
@@paranira6466 everyone knows how good volt is and he never gets nerfed
See my biggest issue with Gara is that for some reason you can no longer hold aim to aim glide while casting her 4th, which threw me off a lot as I was used to casting her ultimate like that. (Not sure when this was changed)
@@NovaUmbral I always called that ability gliding, and it's been removed for basically all frames with the Citrine update. I used to use it with all frames that had ability that made you stand still to keep some momentum, like Volt's 4 or using an Eclipse subsume.
@@NovaUmbral I've heard that this was unintended and DE is investigating the issue. Bugframe be bugframe XD
Other content creators: "Wow citrine is so good! New coruefell melee is OP!"
NovaUmbra: "Let me tell you how incredible Nidus is for 30 minutes."
@라크알라 dumb comment
@라크알라 and you havent parents.
@@StiffyLongJohn 👎
@Kajita you cant even see which comment I replied to lol are you also on the dumb side?
@@atan8086 Good English
God, I remember when Nidus was launched, and I remember doing the infested salvo mission with randoms for eight hours straight. I remember literally sitting down and grinding that. I remember sitting there and running I think nearly 2+ hour runs, with my longest being 4 hours straight with randoms.
I remember pulling his parts out from the forge, getting more and more excited to play as him, the three days I had to wait to pull his fully formed frame as I was a broke prost-grad high school student.
And the first few missions I had with him? Instantly clicked with me. He's been my main ever since.
Aren't we all my friend.
Nidus our beloved ♥️
The passive augment actually gives 200 extra stacks, so 300 in total. Not 100 extra.
Wow ok I'm a complete idiot, not sure how that flew over my head, late night editing for ya :p
@NovaUmbral great channel get some sleep bro lol
@@NovaUmbral also virulance does viral damage.
@@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT REALLY???!!! I thought it was the IPS physical damage only.
@@Dante999000 sorry my bad, I looked at it again and it’s physical now. I remembered it being viral for some reason, my bad.
"My festering demigod, my Nidus!"
Nidus is my main, not only cause I love the infested theme but also cause he is very noob friendlly with his unkilable nature. Just press 3 and you wont die, and if you forget about it you still dont die cause you had stacks.
Eventualy will try to lvl cap with him , and you guessed it, on an infested mission.
Ah my boy. DE really got me with this guy cause i bought him with plat on pc and on ps4. The unkillable nature, getting to go back into the spooky infested section of the ship, and the dope skin where he gets armored up with stacks made him my forever main. Havent seen the skin showcased here tho, glad that he still gets support. Maybe one day I'll pick the game back up and check him out. Great vid as always
I will and always refer to him as "Lord Nidus" My first and only Warframe I bought with Plat. He also help me survive my newbie state
Same lol
Same, named his load out “Lord Nidus” 👍🏻👍🏻 feed him!! Baby got to eat.
I called him papa nidus
I bought him on discount
Same here, looks like a cool design so I clicked
After Nidus was first released, I used him for every single mission fo three years straight. After that i played other frames. This video has brought tears to my eyes out of joy. To think anyone would make such a beautiful vidoe dedicated to Nidus. My favourite frame.
Thank you.
The first prime i built on my own, love that infected frame.
Same
Hey man! Really wanted to tell you how much I appreciate this documentaries on each warframe! They probably take a while with a lot of effort, but it’s been really fun as a new player learning about all the frames. Actually the reason why I got Mesa Prime was cause of the video, you just made the warframe so interesting but also explaining how she works. I really like the balance of history/how the frame can be used. ❤
The real history of warframe updates and stuff is interesting as shit i love seeing people discover shit i was there for or seeing the stuff i wasn't there for
Quick note to virolence. Since it doesn’t go through walls and actually stops at them you can spam virolence a lot quicker if you group up the enemies close to a wall and cast virolence directly in the wall through the enemies (having an efficient travel range of only a few meters)…
More virolence spam =more stacks more quickly
Ooooo, I appreciate this tip.
Nidus taught me a lot about Warframe, he has a lot of obvious synergy with his kit. But he even synergizes with several helminth options. He was my first endurance frame, and helped me get a lot of rare mods.
Now I'm more of a Harrow player, so I'm super excited for your next video.
It should be mentioned that his three is fantastic for incarnon weapons. You don't do much damage to them, but you can still hit them, so easy headshots, which means easy incarnon form.
One thing that bothers me is that they've changed Undying from 10 to 15 stacks but have neglected to change his visual transformation tiers accordingly, which always trips me up when I least expect it.
Very under appreciated channel in my opinion
I thinking he’s gonna be big in the Warframe UA-cam community if he keeps up
You are slowly but surely becoming my fav warframe channel . Everytime I see a new vid drop from you gotta check it out . Keep it up !
Thanks Nidius. You were the Prototype 3 I always wanted.
Nidus design is just flawless. It just makes me sad that shieldgate exists and shieldless warframes were left behind on that. IMO all Warframes should have a "health gate" when they reach 1 hp instead of the actual shieldgate.
Edit: fun fact, they added a "health gate" on duviri for endurance intrinsics, but it has a stupid long cooldown, and all other shield warframes have 0 issues with rolling guard + augur mod sets + brief respite that basically allow them to be immune 100% of the time with shield gate. Not even Vazarin helps Nidus survive a lvl 999 shot.
Nidus is a frame that needs to be played solo, he needs to be greedy for those stacks, he cant partner up with frame that nukes the entire room. Hes a god solo.
Felt this, when I first god nidus it felt like I couldn't even get a kill playing with other players who just spam 1 and 2 he's definitely the best solo warframe
would love to see you make a video about the classic Tigris Prime, I remember grinding for the relics right before it got vaulted and got lucky with the unveiling. Carried me in higher end activities while I was ranking up in MR
can't forget when Nidus has Adaptation paired with standing in ravenous and parasitic link to an enemy at 50ish mutation you basically don't take any damage even better when you link an enemy like a Ancient Healer or a Eximus enemy that lost their shields
Ah man I played a ton of Nidus on release, and I got him in the circuit recently, reminded me how good he feels to play. Looking forward to the Oberon video!
"I am Nidus and Gluttony is my Sin!"
Nidus is the only frame i spent platinum on (when i started playin). When i started playing, something about his look just captured me.
I think why some of the previous frames does not really synergize with their 4 abilities is because back then abilities are moded and at a time (this was the time when there is stamina bar and excal has super jump ability), some of us use only one of those abilities because they are useful at a time. but after the update (idk what patch it was) that made the abilities not a mod open new opportunities to experiment new frames. this also led to revisiting older frames.
I'll always be kind of sad about the missed opportunity for alternative ability sets that the old ability mod system had. The current system is way better, make no mistake, but still.
Ah, Nidus. The frame that got me through the Star Chart.
Recently, I’ve slapped gloom on his 4, and it’s working pretty good so far.
Yea but gloom is just op that nerf is coming
@@jordanvslife3533 really? could you let me know when it comes, lmao
I need to refarm nidus again as this was an awesome video, which was also kinda my first regret because nidus and nezha prime were my first primes I work for in farming, got them both fully. But at the time I didn't know you can trade platinum so I had a storage cap and unfortunately sold nidus prime (which I feel like was a dumb idea and hearing the screaming voices of nidus mains coming for me). I need to redeem his use once again
Lol I understand.
I as soon as I learned about trading for platinum I made a rule to only sell none prime warframes if I didn't have the plat to buy extra slots.
I started 2 days ago and every frame you make a video about makes me want to play them lmao
Nidus is what made me start playing warframe I use to play him a lot now I want to go back and play him thank you for this video.
Nidus is still one of my top 5 favorite frames. His new augments are awesome and feels so forgiving when it comes to modding him 😊
yet another top tier video
don't think i didn't see you using the sevagoth stance on him though ;3
limbo video when?
i've turned on notifications and shall ask untill one is done. thank you.
i just watched a few of your videos and i really liked the mesa one and the others were nice too but the mention on Nova has me more interested on her past in this format
Just got Nidus last night and I’m already simping over his ability synergy and design
Nidus was my first frame. I had joined like a week before he dropped and I was just in love from the start. And now I have the Phryke skin, meaning I look great, run great, and I feel amazing doing it.
The video is good but I really appreciate that people are using the Hi-Fi Rush OST for background music now. Just sounds so good.
Nice, this helped me endure 1 more c rotation on the citrine farm
hey dude! love the video, as well as all your newer ones! could you do one on either garuda or chroma? thanks!
I have a build for the infested monster that absolutely trivializes corpus hijack as well. It's funny to do it on steel path and play the shawzin the whole time on top of the target. I ask people if they're stuck on that mission in steel path all the time to give them a hand and grab that achievement for not letting the target stop.
Nidus is so good that this video just made me install warframe again. Thanks bro
I may be late, but do you have a link to your nidus build in the vid? That would be very nice guide in building nidus
Can you do Mirage next? I want to see the frame that can go beyond billion dmg next
I remember when nidus came out, based on looks alone I bought him right away, and he's still my main to this day
As a Nidus main that's dumped 1.3k hours into playing our infested lad, I'll say there's only really 3 things I'd change about him and 2 of them are about his larva.
1: Improve Larva's pull functionality; Larva has a bad habit of pulling enemies behind objects which they will then get stuck on, which can be an annoyance having to wait out the timer to recast due to some guy stuck on a railing you can't really draw a bead on. So perhaps something along the lines of "if an enemy isn't pulled directly into the mass after a certain number seconds, the link is broken and the timer can reset normally as if the mass had no enemies in it." The wiki says it has a "3 s (unaffected targets release delay)", but i can't say I've ever actually seen it function like that. But also along those lines, Larva has no effect on certain taget enemies, such as Demolysts and Acolytes, while other abilities with similar functionality can. I'll usually find myself subsuming out Parasitic Link for Khora's Ensnare to deal with the such enemies, so perhaps just giving Larva functionality similar to it where it might not pull them into the mass, but will still stop them in place if the tendril connects.
2: Just make Larva innately cancellable. That's it. It just seems kinda dumb that you have to burn a mod slot to be able to cancel once it's cast.
3: Perhaps some small work around for the building of stacks in fast missions being an issue. Give Nidus synergy with Infested Weapons, where similar to kills of enemies trapped in Larva, a kill with an infested weapon has a chance of giving Nidus a single Mutation pip. It wouldn't allow for the building of large amounts of stacks in a fast mission, but perhaps enough to still be able to cast Ravenous should the need arise.
Other than those little nitpicks, he's a very well rounded frame and I doubt I'll be moving on from maining him any time soon. I hope when all this Duviri hype dies down, the Infested can get some attention and love.
I never thought about that third point. Since I am building the dual toxocyst for the incarnon adapter. So I think that would be a great addition.
Nidus is that frame that you rly don’t know which ability to replace with the Helminth or at least you don’t have a real incentive to because his abilities play into each other rly well.
I rly don’t mind that he isn’t effective at fast missions cause the thing is… Larva is always effective no matter how many stacks you have and Parasitic Linking to a Volt makes both of you move through the mission faster. And tbh I like that he is specialised. Makes it feel powerful and refreshing to pull him out when I wanna do endless missions.
I replaced his 4 with Terrify just so I could use his Virulence into higher levels and lean into his core gameplay. He’s just that frame that I don’t play often but my god he is so fun to play when he shines, esp since I don’t play with friends much 😢
Got to play nidus on steel path circuit and I was surprised that nidus can face tank. I fell inlove with this frame and now farming his prime.
I remember when he came out. Hopefully we get cross save asap. Hate having to play all over again
Built him today as my first prime frame
While I don't believe that _all_ warframes need synergetic abilities, I think we definitely need even more perfectly synergetic kits. Nidus and Saryn are amazing examples. I also think it would be amazing if we started reaching the territory of frames purposely designed to synergize with each other, where a frame will be released, then another not too long after who's abilities are designed around being paired with the other. Granted, you'd have to have another person to play with to reach full potential, but that's not super hard in an online community, and the subsume system could be used to account for part of it. That's a cool concept to me at least, maybe not everyone.
Great content keep it up !
and theres me watching this video 10 months later that got Nidus cause I really liked the general theme he had cause plague-y glow worms are really cool and outright brought him with platinum instead of doing the quest. I didnt care if he turned out terrible (which he didn't,) I just really loved him for the theme. No regrets on getting him via platinum.
24:41 I need to know whether or not if that "Carry on" is a wordplay on "carrion," as in carcass. I need to know if it was intentional!!
As I diehard nidus main I appreciate this video
Love your channel guy
Nidus is one of my guilty pleasures when farming out endless missions because of how much fun he is, so I can definitely appreciate how relevant he’s been throughout the years.
However, the constant mispronunciation of Virulence and Insatiable actually made it hard for me to watch without pausing to calm down (I know it’s not a big thing to most, but it’s just how my brain works). A nitpick on my end of course, but I would suggest utilizing text to speech options to make sure the pronunciation is correct for a word. I have to do it for myself too, because, not only am I self conscious about that sort of thing, it’s nice to have that kind of information handy and I like learning new things. Anyways, great video my dude, will definitely be giving it a like.
Im still new to nidus cause i just got him so how you make the stack just symbol and no numbers?
is there augment mods or something?
Wow now I want him even more I've got the plans and the chassis so now I got to farm a little more and I should get him by the end of the month
Idk, Ravenous was always the kind of so-so ability in his kit, and its the one most heavily pushed by some newer frames (Wisp and Citrine particularly). Prettymuch the spot where I'd put Nourish or one of the armor strips in (probably Styanaxs, so Larva+Tharros+Virulence).
fun fact to nidus look changes if he goes into the healmith room
I started during the octavia's anthem update, had just hit MR 3 and was thinking about buying a frame with plat because I was enjoying the game so much, meant to buy nekros and accidentally mis clicked and ended up getting nidus, best mistake I've ever made, still my favourite frame in concept, abilities and design. When his deluxe and prime came out I bought them both immediately and that was also the point I realised that no prime past this point will have been a frame from before I started playing which felt weird to think I'd been playing for that long.
Back when i was a noob, Nidus was the first thing i bought with platinum.
a few days later, he became my main, and he still is today. I play other frames, but he will always be my Number One. His deluxe look is badass, and he has a lot of very original syandana and armor to wear. Perfect frame.
Im a nidus main n i like ur vids👍🏻
Damn 2016? Wow time flies
As a guy who’s getting Nidus Prime as my first Prime, I think I’m getting good one after this video
My fav Warframe Vids :)
Would you do a video on Limbo one day? His reputation is still pretty tainted as a player that first got him all the way back in 2014.
Nidus, conceptually and thematically, is my favorite warframe. Has always been. I actually started warframe a week after nidus came out so he was the first one I saw. To this day he still remains my most played non-prime frame.
He would still be my favorite frame overall if only there was just some way to.. speed him up. Because whilst I love the whole "building up" aspect of him, it means he NEEDS to stick around for a while. And in the current scope of warframe, that's not really feasible :[
Also his prime design is immaculate and I couldn't have asked for anything else. When he has enough mutation stacks, he looks like a typhon from prey. Love that so much. I always imagine him having the voice of Morgan Yu's suit.
I'm pretty sure virulence is puncture, because of the animation, in wich spikes rise from the mass to impail those in it's range
Great video, but you've forgot to mention one VERY important thing about Virulance.
The wave can be cut by walls and cliffs so that you can recast it without waiting it to reach it's full range. This also works for the second wave from linked target. So when using Nidus, it's better gatherig up enemies near walls or cliffs to build up stacks faster and deal more damage.
You should've also mentioned Gauss, his kit also has pretty good synergy.
I wonder what your thoughts on Grendel are?
Oh my Christ 2016 I feel so old. Started playing in 2014 and remember nidus’s initial release 😂
i love using the fist/kick weapon Hirudo with Nidus. The weapon has lifesteal on crit :)
I kinda had the same problem with my excallibur self sustain build, I needed to apply status but I would just 1 tap the low level enemies
Nidus is the first and so far the only Warframe I bought the prime acces pack for.
There currently are two warframes I MIGHT get the prime acces pack for. Gauss and Protea. But I am not sure about that yet. I was sure about Nidus prime acces for years before it actually released.
I like to imagine that certain frames that share themes are related in a parent/child setup.
So I would like to congratulate Saryn for having such an amazing son. And, once again, apologize to Hydroid for...well his family is just cursed. He's a hentai dealer and his daughter is a magical girl.
Favorite frame, first prime - the guy that got me into Frame
here's for the lord of infestation!
Here’s an idea for a video that you could work on : The evolution of melee in Warframe.
The first frame I built was Saryn, because I loved the infested faction and weapons. Nidus was a frame I bought with plat because I ABSOLUTELY had to have the infested boy ASAP. Nidus Prime I just ground out and built.
I love him but playing him in a group is a practice in masochism.
nidus is amazing... so long you dont have to play with a party. nidus has a very "harrow" mindset in that you need all the enemies you can get, and anyone or anything that stops you from stomping enemies is a detriment to your gameplay.
I've been trying to build him but I can't seem to find the n16 😢
I just loved the infested theme and lore. for me, lore determines who I play more than anything else. to clarify I mainly play limbo and am currently grinding so I can get Nidus.
With sevagoth being my new main I sill retain that ligers deluxe skin for nidus is the best look in the entire game
Fucking love the intro music. Never misses
Hi-Fi Rush is becoming one of my favourite video game OSTs of all time
It's been so long I forgot Virulence has a hold option
Please do oberon next, if not well its okay, love these vids man
The only note you missed is another interaction between Virulence and his Maggots.
Striking a Maggot with Virulence counts as striking a target normally, so even if the explosion doesn't kill an enemy, it still gives you 1 segment of extra Mutation.
If u want to synergies even further be on then helminth charger and pathocyst or any melee u feel comfortable with strain set on only companion and weapon not on warframe u won’t regret it so so so much crowd control that ur not too ez to kill
love this video.
I liked this video. It was very informative. Nearly every word was pronounced incorrectly, haha.
Nidus was and still is my second favorite warframe. I don't play the game anymore but I still miss nidus'ing all over the place
I have my nidus built specifically to give other warframes a boost to their ability strength. With a decently built wisp can buff your HP from 2k to 6-7k, not to mention the haste buffs.
I guess I need to give Nidus another try
nice hifi rush start up music
As a nidus main I appreciate this video
what do I do if I accidently sold the main blueprint?
I have an Inaros with Larva subsum'd to him with a Sandstorm build.
Larva is the only thing that keeps targets in place as your Sandstorm rips into them, it's...pretty Ok, I guess.
something about some clean warm guitar tone over an infested mass killing hordes at the start of the video is so funny to me
Nidus was the reason I got into warframe, when the meta started being less favorable for him I stopped playing as much, came back for nidus prime but faced the same issue. Now I only play once every couple of months or when a major release is going on.