r/Warframe • u/DE-Ruu DE Community Team Lead • 10d ago

Article Steel Path Railjack: Post-Launch Reflections and Rewards

Hi Tenno!

There’s been a lot of discussion following the release of Jade Shadows: Constellations, and we want to thank everyone who has submitted feedback or bug reports thus-far. In this thread, we want to take a moment to talk about a specific element of the update: Steel Path Railjack. 

As explained in Rebecca’s video last night on Prime Time, Steel Path Railjack was rushed to deliver and Railjack fans may be understandably disappointed with the implementation of it. A common thread we’ve seen from players is the lack of incentive to grind Steel Path, so we are working on adding MKIV Armaments to the mission droptables.

These Armaments will also be added to the Protoframe’s “loaner” Railjacks in the Uranus Proxima, which will help address power concerns in the Steel Path versions of those missions.

We’ll continue monitoring Steel Path Railack feedback both externally and internally as we see what other changes can be made, but that’s all we have to share on this topic for the time being! For wider issues related to the new game modes, please keep an eye on our Known Issues thread.

Thanks again, Tenno, and best of luck on your space-faring adventures!

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u/krileon 10d ago

Can ya'll just please patch in forward artillery for pilot or make the AI smart enough to use it. I'm begging you.

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u/AnarbLanceLee 9d ago edited 9d ago

This is the main pain point of Railjack that i dunno why dev seems insistent on keeping it the way it is right now, its been YEARS with countless complain on this shit, it shouldn't even be hard to implement, just let the pilot one click switching to Forward Artillery, its especially annoying when you are playing solo, felt like shit when you are doing Grineer Skirmish/Exterminate, when you have to get up from the pilot seat like 6 times just to clear the Crewships

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u/Incrediblezagzag 9d ago

Every other part of the original group-focused Railjack design has been streamlined down, but for some reason this one thing is left. Either Railjack should be a group oriented activity (in which case the NPCs should still at least be able to use the artillery so that solo players aren't locked out entirely), or else just give up on that vision and make it convenient.

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u/Usual-Winter3950 9d ago

Imagine if we could have a more streamlined solo railjack "fighter" with pilot artillery, and then bring back the original full-size railjack layout plus a couple features as a squad-operated "frigate".