I feel like that for the kind of game Warframe is, the nemesis system is the best it can be, honestly. It gives you the option to speedrun it, but theres no massive penalty for not doing it, which caters to both sides of the playerbase. The choice at the end also provides a multitude of endings and options depending on what you want from your nemesis without having you feel like you're missing out on content, and the progenitor system I feel like gives the player agency while also not guaranteeing they can just grind out 60% elemental damage weapons within a day. Sure, it took a long time to get here, but i feel like now the system itself is actually damn good.
However, thats all surface stuff. The real reason the nemesis system in Warframe is awesome boils down to two words: OC Generator (i know its technically 3, shut up)
You need an antagonist for your Tenno oc? Get a Lich or Sop then translate their personalities to fandom. Need a protagonist that feels a little bit more unique? Nemesis. Wanna explore how a Warframe character would act without the tenno present? Nemesis. Hell, need a *name* for an oc? Kuva liches got your back!
Hell, if i could stop procrastinating, I would write about a SoP I adopted from a mutual bullying/seducing Alad V into giving her control of Jupiter.
The nemesis system is the best thing DE has made for the oc community, second only to the sheer bonkers amount of customization this game has. End post.
Kuva Liches are better than Sisters of Parvos. That’s a fact. There’s no way you can convince me otherwise. Although I’ve mostly finished with Kuva Liches, I’d much rather farm them again over going against Sisters of Parvos. Here’s why.
Easier to farm
Firstly, Kuva Liches are far easier to get. If I want a Kuva Lich, then all I have to do is kill a bunch of Grineer to get one to spawn. Once it’s…
Warframe is clutching me by the heart and draining my soul into their machine by giving me the tenet flux rifle, tenet arca plasmore, and the corpus skirt ephemera on my first two Sisters. This is.. Whoof, so, so good.
Ok, time to chronicle the Great Nemesis Oc-ification. Since its quite a ride, ill put a cutoff point so you dont have to scroll down for twenty years
Ok, so it all started with the bad maternal figure @alteredsilicone who decided she would deny her main oc (who is a widow) a second chance at love, who in this case is the SoP Madia (picture credit of course goes to her creator and worst-mom-of-the-year award winner)
And thus, being the proper blorbo enthusiast I am, I decided to take her for myself as a nemesis for one of my ocs (for those in the know, its Lance, aka the brother of one of my favorite ocs, Samuel)
HOWEVER, just as I was about to trade artie some deimos fish for her sop (see why I called her worst mom of the year? Trading her child for some infested sushi, smh), I realized there was pesky little lich in the way, who i was planning to kill for his kuva hek. However, upon some further reflection (aka seeing that the weapon had 28% impact, xd), i realized little old Hokk Fastanu would be a perfect candidate for Samuels own lich and nemesis (not to mention the progenitor is samuels frame, aka wukong).
(I mean look at him. A goofier lich ive never seen)
So we went on a hunt and discovered some stuff:
-After playing warframe on a ps4 for 6 years, my hand cannot take the sheer acrobatics i gotta do to navigate the Kuva fortress on PC
-Apparently, Hokk here is cannonically friends with the Grustrag Three (who showed up literally a few seconds after we sent him away to the Saturn Proxima)
-Apparently, Hokk was so happy I spared him and made him an oc that he GAVE ME HIS EPHEMERA (Impact, of course, which is promptly going to Samuel's fashionframe if i can make it look good)
-oh yea, and apparently Wally wanted it to happen, cause he gave us the requiem i was missing on the FIRST kuva fissure, lmao
And then, once i wiped the floor with his face with the cannon accurate Samuel build (Wukong Prime with his favorite staff), the time had come.
And now, dear reader, I invite you to see what miss Artie deems is worth her beautiful oc, Madia:
Aaaa I can post again, quick-! Behold my Six companions!
The Kuva Liches
We’ve got Obb and Demon, but the new guy I haven’t talked about yet is named Cobb- He had a voice that reminds me of an insane leprechaun!
Now for the Sisters-!
There’s Hilba and Pasia, and the recently new sister named Varanni, and I’m really loving that name as well as the Ephemera! She’s got the folksy voice!
I like to believe Hilba is the oldest, then Varanni, and then Pasia is the youngest-
All of my companions will be in my story, and I get to make up encounters for Cobb and Varanni now-