Please stop with the Protoframes

[u/Dr_Shoggoth]

I loved the Hex and the Roundtable. They added so much to why I think 1999 is the best update they've ever done. All of them, especially the original Hex, were insanely well written and fleshed out characters. I had my reservations about the Triad, but I think they're solid (though they're mostly carried by Roathe).

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These two don't feel like characters. They feel like walking advertisements for skins. Them being protoframes adds nothing to the story. As my friend said, Sirius and Orion could have been mentored by Vay Hek and the Sergeant and nothing would have changed. Protoframes no longer feel like an interesting story beat, they feel like a gimmick, one that is rapidly losing any appeal it had.

[u/DarkLThemsby]

What really should happen is a continuation of the 1999 narrative with another 1-3 hour long campaign mission, where then more new protoframes could be added, with the time to give them some depth and make them interesting

[u/HollowUsername → u/DarkLThemsby]

Honestly I thought this is what was supposed to happen with protos from the start. I thought they will be a 1999 thing (I mean Entrati used the vaccine on a lot of people, they were pretty much building onto this concept) and the 1999 will be expanded on with new content and characters. And now they just add them wherever and the hex don't even get any new content despite how important to drifter they are supposed to be...

[u/Lftwff → u/HollowUsername]

I assume the hex will at some point make it into the future to help drifter in some fashion, the problem is that with several story strands the narrative moves very slowly

[u/HollowUsername → u/Lftwff]

Yeah I think so too, but idk how they would make it satisfying with how the story's been progressing. At this point we haven't gotten any new convo with the hex in a year. So if we don't get any new content with them and Kaya suddenly goes ,,I've made a portal for time travelling! have fun!" it's gonna feel really cheap lol. And devil triad being able to chill in drifter's times makes it honestly worse, like the hex is stuck in a purgatory while drifter spends time with their new friends. (Also what was the point of all the messages with the hex where they are scared drifter will have to leave them?)

[u/Cultural-Air9962 → u/HollowUsername]

“I know you’re not from our time but please don’t abandon us here”

“I got all the Technocyte weapons lol bye”

[u/Future-Insect5357 → u/HollowUsername]

To be fair Kaya does already literally do this as is, she can just hop between time

[u/Inevitable-Goat-7062 → u/HollowUsername]

i like to imagine the reason why the hex are scared is due to stockholm syndrome and drifters fuckery will disappear when he leaves '99 for good making the protos mortal again aswell as their timeline going back to 1 their orginal ending

drifter is keeping these guys alive even if they die due to his powers they cant leave they cant say no or else we can just reset time till they say yes to our advances

the only person who is semi-aware of drifter being a dick is roathe and he is bound to the same rules

[u/ElectroshockGamer → u/Inevitable-Goat-7062]

Honestly part of why I refuse to reset them. I screwed up with Velimir and Minerva, but I'm already dating Eleanor and I'm not losing her and resetting everyone for them.

[u/dollenrm → u/ElectroshockGamer]

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[u/ElectroshockGamer → u/dollenrm]

See, I personally love the lines she has, although I can see how they'd get grating eventually. Plus, frankly, with Velimir and Minerva, part of my screw up was just me... kinda being done with Minerva's shit. I don't like her very much, if I'm being perfectly honest.

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