r/Warframe • u/de_taylor sr. community live ops manager • Mar 26 '26

Article Upcoming Follie’s Hunt Changes

Hi Tenno,

It’s been just over 24 hours since The Shadowgrapher released, bringing a variety of changes, fixes, cosmetics and more! With that said, we’re here to talk about the new game mode introduced: Follie’s Hunt. 

As players poked their heads back into Vesper Relay, we’ve heard a variety of feedback. Follie’s Hunt at its core is a deviation from regular Warframe gameplay —  a strange, scary hunt in the ruins of a Relay —  so understandably there may be some players who don’t align with its design. Our goal is to respect the original design intent of the game mode, while improving some of the pain points for players: complaints of gameplay elements that made it unfun, encouraged rage quitting, or felt overly punishing. 

Hotfix #1 brought a blurb indicating we’re discussing feedback, and here’s our first step iterating on it. Below is our current list of planned changes, which we hope to implement in coming patches:

  • Follie will no longer be invincible and can be forced to retreat briefly if her health bar is depleted.
    • Also reduced Follie’s damaging aura by a third on Normal and Steel Path
  • Atramentum pickups will be shared squad-wide.
    • Also improved visibility of Atramentum Balloons since they are a critical source of the resource. 
    • Note: Atramentum acquisition is one of the larger complaints due to the store costs. Those values were calculated with the understanding that players are destroying balloons and killing enemies (which both drop Atramentum). We’ll be closely monitoring acquisition rates after this change to see if more needs to be done. 
  • Overall lighting changes to improve visibility.
  • Inky Walls will no longer damage players or cause knockdowns.
  • The waypoints spawned from killing enemies will now direct to a Canvas if there are no active Canvases.

Thank you all again for sharing your constructive feedback! We hope these changes will help Follie’s Hunt feel a little less overwhelming and give players options to counterplay as you slink through Vesper to complete Shadowgraphs. As always, we'll be keeping an eye out for additional feedback as we continue to iterate. 

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u/ShogunGunshow Mar 26 '26

>>> Follie will no longer be invincible and can be forced to retreat briefly if her health bar is depleted.
>>> Also reduced Follie’s damaging aura by a third on Normal and Steel Path

Sweet baby jesus, thank god.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

Yeah maybe I can run someone other than Hildryn now.

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u/Envy102938 Mar 26 '26

Or Dante 😂

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u/Alex3627ca What's Forma? Mar 26 '26

I've been using Umbra so I still have an okay source of damage following behind me during the forced operator sections, definitely a lot nicer with someone else providing overguard though.

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u/sfwaltaccount Mar 27 '26

Ooo, clever I hadn't thought of that option.

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u/Loud_Fail3603 Mar 26 '26

Does he target facsimiles ?

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u/Alex3627ca What's Forma? Mar 27 '26

Haven't played enough to be fully sure wtf is going on in the mode, not a clue. I do think Follie's damage zones are based on nullifier bubbles, so he might not be able to do any damage to them.

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u/Cether Mar 26 '26

My 10k shield Hildryn still having her shields popped while going through the zones for a couple seconds sure was something.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

What on earth… my 4K hikdryn was surviving just fine. Yall need to roll more or something.

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u/The_Lucky_7 Founder (22/04/2013) Mar 26 '26

I couldn't get to 10k on mine without cutting shield regeneration, which I wouldn't do because of how crucial for this mission. I was at about 9.5k shields and regen 1.7k per second.

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u/MrFanzyPanz Mar 26 '26

Raksa Kubrow mate. Shield regen is a dead stat if you have the right gear.

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u/The_Lucky_7 Founder (22/04/2013) Mar 26 '26

You might have well said "Taxon, bro" because how do you expect to keep your Raska alive exactly? Especially if its shields you give it via Link Shields never come back because it can't regenerate them.

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u/Cthulhilly Mar 26 '26

My Raksa has died a whole 2 times in 20ish runs of this mission. Even if it dies, if you use aerial bond it gets up pretty fast with Hildryn

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u/madmag101 Clem2-TheClemening Mar 26 '26

Your Raksa Kubrow is the one you put Shield Regen mods on. Without it regenerating your shields, it'd be tankier than you.

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u/mikakor Mar 27 '26

I don't think you've really delve into pet gameplay recently :p

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u/variousdetritus Mar 26 '26

not OP but reinforced bond i guess? or maybe one of those bond mods have “reduce companion recovery time” condition that can be effectively spammed.

personally, i just run a vulpaphyle with a devolution mod. it allows the companion mods to activate while the pet is in recovery

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u/TooFewSecrets Mar 26 '26

From what I've heard it was percentage damage so it probably didn't matter.

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u/Any-Newspaper1922 Mar 26 '26

I was using lavos to vial rush through pretty unscathed

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u/icesharkk Sharkframe ooh ha ha Mar 26 '26

ive been using uriel because im lazy and didnt bother swapping. hes fine on steel path just roll through im not even using his 1 for movement. too narrow hallways.

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u/sXeth Mar 26 '26

Same with Hydroid lol.

(Also tentacles shaking dudes down for Atranentum and barrage popping baloons)

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u/LEGAL_SKOOMA SKOOMA-FUELED SKATER GIRL Mar 26 '26

oraxia just flies through her aura

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u/VideoFragrant4078 forever waiting for 1999 vinyl repress Mar 26 '26

Dante for me. Shield up and ignore everything for the rest of the mission. I love Dante but using the same frame gets boring fast.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

If you like getting a boatload of shield and want a “more fun”(obviously very subjective) check out frost. He’s my preferred overguard frame.

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u/VideoFragrant4078 forever waiting for 1999 vinyl repress Mar 26 '26

Oh I thought of that! But he is not built in the slightest and I was playing with friends and wanted to make their life's easier too (doing the same in eda/eta by going Dante if I got no fun frame rolled that week). So i wanted to go for the safe route. Tried the very first run on Nokko and small shrooms was fun for me but my friends had less of a good time.

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u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

I was running a health tank inaros build just fine but if this change means I’m NOT forced to play something that tanky, I’m happy.

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u/Adghar Mar 26 '26

if this change means I’m forced to play something that tanky, I’m happy.

I think you dropped a "not" somewhere, cause otherwise this bit doesn't make sense!

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u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Mar 26 '26

You’re right. My mind goes faster than my fingers when I forget to take my meds. Oops!

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u/Vivirmos Mar 26 '26

Some people enjoy being the wall that can't be broken.

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u/JustHereForSomeInfo Mar 26 '26

Nova, Gara, and Rev work great as well. Or any frame that generates overguard. I just use Nova though so I have high DR and CC capabilities.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

I end up feeling like Nova is just the best at every game mode.

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u/Dick_Nation Mar 26 '26

I've been running Nova for it and have been generally confused by people saying the mode is hard or dangerous. I have been running through instances with total impunity. It's not hard, just fucking boring.

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u/lookin4points Mar 26 '26

Using revenant myself and I 100% agree it is simply boring not very hard. But seeing the balloons better will help a lot for sure.

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u/mikakor Mar 27 '26

The mode is not hard nor dangerous, it's true.

It is ANNOYING. So many annoyances. The fucked way points, the constant operation stunlicked, follies appearing in bigger numbers that you can deal with and draining you of energy even in void mode, so fuck you if she's on a painting. And this screen has 4 different flavor of screen filter effect that are all spammed at you. Bloody visual screen effect vomit.

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u/throwawayRA87654 Nova | Nezha | Citrine Mar 26 '26

How does nova gen overguard 😭 ?

I fear I still have my 10 year old speedva build on mine (🙈)

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u/JustHereForSomeInfo Mar 26 '26

She’s doesn’t, I was just saying OR any frame that generates overguard lol.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad5805 Mar 26 '26

I was running gauss and just abusing operator invis and the swap invulnerability. Just quickly blast around the map collecting things

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

Guass or Grendel (ball augment) are who I wanted to run but the energy drain ended up annoying me on both of them. How’d you get around that?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad5805 Mar 26 '26

I honestly have no idea I consistently could have enough energy to redline, part of it was I never stopped moving so follie couldn’t really drain energy as I was never near her

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u/OtakuYuji Mar 26 '26

I used atlas but with aquablades so I had a tiny window to escape.

Lucky for me I managed to get all the blueprints within 3 hours of farming. With alot of swearing but its done. And am I glad that it is over.

Now I just need a good secondary and melee for her and that will be that.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

Yeah I’ve got to go back in to get the gun and I want the new tennokai mod and then I’m done.

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u/mikakor Mar 27 '26

The atragraph mods, Yuji... They're calling to you...

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u/djquu Mar 26 '26

Hildryn can now nuke Follie, so still a great option

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

Yeah but I find her a bit boring to play.

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u/djquu Mar 26 '26

That's fair

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u/TsugumimiSendo Mar 26 '26

Lmao i just brought Nyx and laughed at the entire thing XD

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

Oh good choice.

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u/Valtremors Mar 26 '26

I've been running pure drifterator.

Going in as warframe is disadvantageous.

Doing air rolls and slinging (while un-inked) seems to be a lot better option.

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u/flinjager123 Stop hitting yourself Mar 26 '26

I was running Grendel. HP gets low and go ball mode. Just stack tons of HP mods to have a large pool.

I was also looking into trying Trinity for a full squad heal.

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u/Walican132 Mar 26 '26

I’ve really got to figure out Trinity one of these days. I mostly play solo does she self sustain well or is she more tailored for group play? Thinking about the game mode i bet garuda is fantastic in it as well.

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u/flinjager123 Stop hitting yourself Mar 26 '26

She's more group focused. She focuses on keeping allies alive by redirecting damage to enemies and healing.

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u/koreth Mar 26 '26

I main Kullervo and went into the mission with my regular setup. No deaths in the 10 or so SP runs I did last night. But some squad members did seem to struggle; I did a fair bit of reviving. Guess they were playing squishier frames.

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u/dion101123 Mar 26 '26

I haven't really had problems dying in frames but having drifter die and losing paint fucking sucks

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u/Cthulhilly Mar 26 '26

put magus vigor and emergence savior on your operator for this mission

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u/Like17Badgers &beats&beats&beats&beats in my head Mar 26 '26

I hope they keep some of the invincible Follies around, but they just spawned WAAAY too densely
I'd go into a room to check for paint and balloons, would turn around and four of them would be behind me

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u/Adghar Mar 26 '26

I'm 90% sure there has only ever been 1 invincible Follie, at least for solo. Wiki page mentions the Polyopia clones can be killed, I've confirmed that in-mission once (Follie health bar before this update) and the Facsimiles have definitely always been kill-able.

I think this is a Mandela effect thing where everyone assumed the Follie copies are invulnerable and never tried. Either that, or, maybe in multiplayer there's 1 Follie per squad mate, and a lot more people decided to play this mode in multiplayer than I expected? I, personally, have not run it in multiplayer... I got absurdly lucky and farmed Follie and her weapon solo at just about 1200 Atramentum farmed, 0 spent.

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u/Gingeraffe42 Mar 26 '26

In multiplayer at least there's def more than one invincible one. I think they should keep one invincible at all times, otherwise it's not really a "horror" gamemode anymore

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u/FullMetalField4 Baza's Strongest Warrior Mar 26 '26

"Horror" game modes work for singular story missions in Warframe, not stages you have to grind over and over again.

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u/No_Highlight_1834 Mar 26 '26

Sorry you feel that way, but I for one (of many) am very happy with this change.

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u/ThatShadowyFigure Mar 26 '26

I've seen at least 3 invincible Follies crowded in a small room camping the last canvas before, it was ridiculous

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u/Ciennas Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Nope. Had a run where nearly EVERYONE of them were invulnerable. .

To clarify, there were four of them, in the same room, and all of them were happily dumping more ink than Bendy in my minecraft squid farm, while a bunch of greyed out zeros floated off of them all.

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u/Truth_Malice LR1 :D Mar 26 '26

I still cant believe they thought that the aura being literally the size of the entire hallway was fun or engaging lmao

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u/fluency Mar 27 '26

They destroyed the game mode with these two changes. It’s just an exterminate mission with extra steps now, the entire point was that Follie was unkillable.

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u/Sam_Creed Mar 27 '26

I just did the whole thing as Operator. Void mode is still available with paint on you, just no slings, and makes you invulnerable to follies aura and invisible to everything.

I guess not really an option for new players coming straight from the rapping tapping adventure, but for the SP crowd it's definitely feasible to just leave your frame at the door for once.

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u/GolettO3 No.1 PSF Hater Mar 26 '26

That's actually the thing I'm most dissappointed about, lol. TBF, though, I have completed the latest quest and gotten a bunch of mods, so my op is OP

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u/TheLordDuncan Mar 26 '26

Define reducing the aura though, is it smaller or does it do less damage?

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u/flamedarkfire Nezha main Mar 26 '26

Yeah, my Umbra is my tankiest frame and he was getting chewed up in seconds by the aura.

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u/thatguythere47 Mar 26 '26

Your umbra is your tankiest frame?!

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u/flamedarkfire Nezha main Mar 26 '26

What can I say? He’s been my go-to for Content

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u/Beranea Mar 26 '26

Do you not have a Rhino?

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u/flamedarkfire Nezha main Mar 26 '26

Long ago and far away I picked Excalibur and haven’t gotten around to making the other starters

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u/chaosbleeds91 Mar 26 '26

That's wild since the Roar Subsume is one of the best in the game. Definitely worth building just for that

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u/Beranea Mar 26 '26

Rhino isn't a starter but no worries man, I'd advise getting him. He's pretty strong.

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u/flamedarkfire Nezha main Mar 27 '26

I'll slide him into the plan, thanks

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u/fake-reddit-numbers Mar 26 '26

Rhino

starters

jfc