Railjack Endless Missions Are Boring

When it comes to Railjack Endless Missions, the whole idea is actually pretty new. Corpus Proxima missions were only added this year. However, with new nodes being added, like Corpus Survival, the Corpus Proxima areas just aren’t that fun. And, somehow, they also manage to make endless missions like Survival boring too.

Your ship is just a taxi.

In Railjack endless missions like Defense and Survival, your ship doesn’t matter at all. Sure, there’s probably some sort of side objective that needs doing, like blowing up a ship or something. But afterwards, you just park your ship near the Corpus ship, jump inside and then, well, do the normal mission.

And what happens to the ship? Nothing. We just leave it parked outside a massive Corpus ship that moments ago was trying to destroy us. Meanwhile. we are doing what is essentially a normal mission.

It’s even more confusing in Void Storms because, well, there are massive void storms raging outside. Grineer void storm missions aren’t that bad but none of them are endless. Corpus void storms though almost always require leaving your ship outside while you do the mission inside. So is your ship being battered by Corpus? Nope, it’s just randomly invulnerable

The maps are the worst

Let’s not forget that these maps all use the new Corpus tile sets. Now, normally, new tilesets are an improvement, but enemies struggle getting around them. Many of the new Corpus tilesets are a lot more vertical than other maps, meaning that enemies move around much more slowly. There’s very little actually flat terrain, and the maps themselves are not at all helped by buggy waypoints.

Corpus Defense though really annoys me. The map is HUGE! It also has a ton of elevation as well. But on top of that, the Corpus you see in these missions are so damn slow. Sure, it’s not as big as the massive Corpus Outpost tiles on Venus and Pluto. However, the massive Corpus ship defense tileset is way more common, and is guaranteed in Railjack missions.

The rewards are annoying too

There are number of different rewards in Railjack. But they are located all over the place and constantly get in the way of each other. Off the top of my head, scattered across all Proximas, there are FIVE Warframes you can obtain. Ash and Oberon drop in various missions, Sevagoth parts drop in void storms and Nyx and Valkyr Prime relics can also be obtained from Railjack.

With so much random loot, it becomes increasingly hard to focus on what you are trying to farm for. For example, you need Holokeys for melee Tenet weapons. But in the same drop pool as those holokeys, we have random ship parts, random resource rewards AND our rewards from opening relics. And it’s even more stuff if you do the optional side-paths.

Doesn’t help matters that it takes forever to scroll through the rewards at the end of a mission, endless or otherwise.

Where is my actual endless Railjack mission?

I really don’t see why we can’t have an actual endless Railjack mission. Okay, sure, a Survival mission in space would be weird, but there are other options. Perhaps you could have a never-ending exterminate, or maybe do something like the Murex missions from Scarlet Spear. Either way, we really need a place where Railjacks can shine, and what we have currently doesn’t… well, need any of it.

As for why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s because Railjack stuff isn’t actually that difficult. If you work hard enough, get a good crew and upgrade your ship, most missions, Corpus or Grineer, become too easy. But honestly, I see nothing wrong with that. I just want to play Survival in my Railjack, rather than in some asshole’s Corpus ship.

I get it, Railjack is hard to update. We can’t reliably have things both inside and outside the Railjack happening at the same time. But at the very least, let us use our Railjacks more!