The Grineer in warframe are affected by “Cloning Decay Syndrome.” What are the exact effects of this? Do the grineer actively decay while alive, or do they rapidly age? Many of the grineer have gray/black splotches or marks on their faces, is this rotting flesh, or bad circulation? I can’t fully enjoy a game until I know the lore behind it. 🙂
Grineer Cloning Decay Syndrome
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There's an extensive paragraph describing the damage calculation on the wiki.
The short version is: multiplicatively with weights.
The slightly-less-short version is: armor adds its own multipliers on top of health's multiplier (cumulatively) and reduces damage the health takes. However,
- the more armor the enemy has, the more weight armor's multiplier has over health's multiplier,
- damage types strong against armor reduce that protection (dealing more damage), while damage types weak against armor increase that protection (dealing less damage) - on top of the damage multiplier.
(Copied from my answer to a similar, but much broader, question.)
While I have never witnessed drops disappearing, I have had a suspicion that they do, especially considering scenarios where you comb the entire map right before the end, and still end up having received considerably fewer drops than someone else in the squad. This would not happen if drops never decayed.
Also anecdotally, there seems to be a feeling in the community that they do indeed despawn.
I was not able to nail down an official source, but the thinking appears to be that there is a cap on the number of resources on the ground at one time. It would seem that after 50 items are on the ground, the 51st item will cause the 1st to despawn1.
From a programming perspective, this makes sense, as infinite new entities have a tendency to bog things down. This also explains why this phenomenon seems to be so hard to notice, as by the time you've let 50 other drops pile up you've probably completely forgotten about the first one. This also means that if the mission only drops <50 items, they do stick around forever.
1Of note, different categories of loot seem to have different "counters." Meaning health orbs, for example, won't count towards your maximum amount of displayed resources and so on.
2Also of note are these patch notes, which say
Mods and Blueprints will never expire as drops.
which implies quite strongly that other types of drops do expire.
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It's explained on the wiki (spoiler warnings, obviously):
It's the problem you get when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy - minor artifacts compound to become major flaws, and after several generations of what amounts to extreme inbreeding the Grineer are suffering from sterility and severe decay.
Grineer tend to suffer from major organ failure fairly early in life. If they're highly ranked enough to be deemed worth maintaining, they're fitted with cybernetic augmentations to replace the decaying organs' function. If not, well, there's sixty more clones cooking in the next batch, recycle this one into nutrients...
Various high-ranking Grineer are involved in projects that they hope will resolve this:
Further out in the Solar System,
The Twin Queens have their own plan for dealing with the problem, but that is extra double spoilers. Enjoy playing.