Finisher

Hotfix 37.0.9 (2024-11-13)

• Fixed Finishers and Mercy kills being enabled on Synthesis Targets. Despite how your squad mates treat them, these targets are intended to be Synthesized instead of killed.

Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)

• Ferocity (SAHASA Kubrow):
  • Greatly reduced cooldown, but now can only target enemies open to finishers.
  • If the enemy gets killed by the finisher, they’ll explode. Nearby enemies have a 30% of being knocked down and opened to finishers for 5s.
• Paralytic Spores (MEDJAY Predasite):
  • In addition to staggering enemies, now applies 5 seconds of 50% slow, and enemies are open to melee finishers.
• Fixed enemies ragdolled by Mag’s Pull not properly displaying the context action for Ground Finishers.
• Fixed enemies not being open to Finishers when put to sleep by the first hit from Cobra and Crane when wielded by Baruuk.
• Fixed enemy animation transitions getting wonky after executing a ground finisher from behind and using the finisher context action.
• Fixed Finisher context action on Eximus units alternating between being open to a Mercy or Front Finisher when damage over time Status Effects are active and they are attempting to Shield regen.

Hotfix 36.0.5 (2024-07-20)

• Fixed a crash caused by NPCs attempting to move to player to perform some kind of a context action (ex: Finisher), but no clear path is available to them.
• Fixed a crash caused by Finishers.

Hotfix 36.0.4 (2024-06-26)

• Fixed a crash caused by Finishers.

Hotfix 36.0.2 (2024-06-19)

• Fixed a crash caused by Finishers.

Hotfix 36.0.1 (2024-06-19)

• Fixed a crash caused by NPCs attempting to move to player to perform some kind of a context action (ex: Finisher), but no clear path is available to them.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

FINISHER CHANGES

Unified Finisher Mechanics

Before explaining the changes, let’s define a few terms and basic concepts about Finishers:

Mercy Kills: Available on specialty enemies when they reach certain health thresholds. Finishers: Available when a move “opens enemies to finishers”. Ground Finishers: Available after certain effects which knock enemies down.

All of the above count as Finishers for relevant Mods, Arcanes, Abilities, etc. Mercy Kills differ slightly as they are specific to your Parazon upgrades which do not apply to other Finishers.

In order to make utilizing finishers easier, we have updated how they function to unify their mechanics:

• Increased the Finisher context action distance for Finishers from in front or behind from 2m to 3m.
• Ground finishers are now performed via context action instead of automatically via Melee Attack input. This should allow players to execute *Ground Finishers much more reliably.
  • The “Ground Finisher” context action will appear on enemies in range who are open to Ground Finishers.
• Updated the Mercy Kill context action with unique visuals to clearly distinguish between Mercy Kills and Finishers.
• Updated the overhead icon displayed on enemies open to non-Mercy Finishers.

Enemy Size Scaling

We’ve taken strides in reducing how we scale enemies whenever a Finisher is used against them!

By default, Finishers cause enemies larger than your Warframe (ex: Grineer Bombard and Corrupted Gunners). This had the risk of causing some strange visual issues on the enemies that weren't ideal.

We’ve audited the contact points between the player and the enemy with all Melee Weapon animations to resolve these graphical sizing mishaps!

What this looks like is:

• If a point of contact is present between the player character and an enemy, such as a chokehold or grabbing a limb, enemy scaling will persist.
• If there is no physical point of contact between the player character and an enemy, the enemy scaling doesn’t occur as it isn’t necessary!

Scaling Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where Finishers on Corpus Crewman and Grineer Lancers would stretch their spines. Like an untrained chiropractor.

FIXES

• Fixes towards the finisher icon showing up on boss type enemies that are not eligible for finishers (ex: Deimos Saxum).
• Fixed Ruvox Finisher animation being unintentionally slow when Transforming.

Hotfix 35.5.3 (2024-04-04)

• Enemies put to sleep by Aero Set Mods are now open to Melee Finishers.

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

Inaros Rework

Ability 1: Desiccation
Largely unchanged, but we have fixed issues with certain enemies not being vulnerable to Melee Finishers! Now, this should be more consistent.

Ability 2: Sandstorm (Was Devour)

• Instead of throwing enemies everywhere around the level, it drags enemies beneath your feet so you can use Melee Ground Finishers if you choose.

Melee Finisher Improvements

Melee Finishers have been updated to standardize Finisher eligibility across enemies and weapons. Previously, if an enemy did not have a finisher animation prepared for a certain weapon type, then players would not be able to perform that specific Finisher on them. We have added default animations for all weapon types to prevent this restriction, meaning all enemies* should now be eligible for every type of finisher.

• Also added a new VFX to showcase when an enemy is open to Finishers. You will still need to get into proper position to execute the finisher with this VFX active!
• This includes finisher openings created by Warframe abilities (ex: Inaros Desiccation) and Ground Finishers.
• *Flying enemies (Corpus Ospreys, The Anatomizer, etc.) are still ineligible for Melee Finishers with this change.
• Added new unique Mercy Finishers to the Hollow Vein, Severed Warden, The Anatomizer, Lumbering Fragment, and Shuffling Fragment enemies! Each with their own custom animations to really stick it to the Murmur in style.
  • The context action to perform a Finisher on the airborn Murmur enemies (The Anatomizer and The Severed Warden) are not anchored to their bodies and will instead appear on the HUD when you are within radius of them. This is an experimental approach into finding ways to include Finishers on other airborne enemies in the future.

TOP FIXES

• Fixed context action Finishers not triggering “On Finisher Kill” Arcanes (Arcane Trickery, Arcane Ultimatum, Melee Crescendo).

Hotfix 34.0.7 (2023-11-02)

• Fixed Finisher and quick time event inputs not working with Steam Input.

Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)

• Ground Finishers now ignore the Armor value of enemies as other types of Finishers do. This affects the following:
  • Hunter’s Bonesaw now grants 120% Finisher Damage instead of Status Chance since Ground Finishers now deal Finisher Damage which does not proc Status.
• Fixed several cases where the game was not recognizing a Ground Finisher for the activation of Mods and Arcanes. The intent is that Ground Finishers, Stealth Finishers and Parazon Finishers should be equivalent unless explicitly stated otherwise:
  • Duviri Decrees will now accept Ground Finishers (Tamm's Fortune, Brimon's Nerve, Molten Mettle)
  • Inaros' Desiccation Curse augment will now create sand minions on Ground Finishers
  • Arcane Trickery will now activate from Ground Finishers
  • Arcane Ultimatum will now activate from Ground Finishers
  • Exodia Might will now activate from Ground Finishers

Hotfix 29.1.1 (2020-09-18)

• Fixed enemies not staying focused on the player when doing Finishers. Enemies won’t attack/shoot while a Finisher is happening, but they also won’t storm off as if nothing is happening.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• (Undocumented) Stealth and Front/Back finishers are now bound to interact key (PC default X ).
• (Undocumented) Stance changes also come with buffs to all finisher multipliers. Every weapon class has at least one buff to the finisher moves they can perform (ground, front, back, and stealth).

Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)

• Improved finisher hit detection for multiple weapons. Reticles will now flash red when a finisher can be performed and with each hit for multistrike finisher moves.
• Multistrike finisher moves will have their damage split amongst each hit instead of now being delivered all at the end.

Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)

• Added stealth finishers for Machete, Polearm, Rapier, Staff, Sword, Sword & Shield, Tonfa, and Whip weapons when used against MOAs.

Update 11.1 (2013-11-27)

• Adding kick and punch events to stealth finisher animations.

Update 9.3 (2013-07-26)

• Enable ground hit on enemies who have ragdolled (as opposed to only working on enemies who are "knocked down").

Update 7.9 (2013-04-26)

• Added Dual Dagger stealth attack (was sharing dual sword stealth attack).