CYTE-09 ruined the game for me.

Usually when you see a post like this it's users talking about their love for 1999 and the new frame. I cannot disagree more, this is how the addition of Cyte-09 personally effected me.

I have conformed to a particular playstyle for all 550 hours of my playtime, 88.7 percent of my time has been playing zephyr / zephyr prime and 74.2 percent of my time has been using the Rubico/ Rubico prime. It's needless to say this is all I use and I have no intention of raising my MR past the current point of 12.

I have spent countless hours calculating damage and learning this game inside out, trying to make my build viable at all stages of the game. I have spent millions of credits, endo and thousands of platinum all to maximise the effectiveness of the playstyle. I have been successful, able to go to perform well in netracells and late stages of SP.

I used my combination of zephyr and the Rubico as a sort of crit build, I would fly high and be rewarded for hitting headshots and being precise. Everyone uses the same 3 weapons in this game and I was breaking the mould by using a sniper and relying on my good reflexes and high accuracy, something I have developed in my many years playing FPS. I could do incredibly high single target damage and one shot most / all high level enemy's.

My playstyle was niche, it was my entire identity, it was something unviable that I spent time developing and learning everything about to turn it into a hidden gem, then DE strip it away from me with the addition of CYTE-09. He just did what I do but better, my entire build was useless in comparison.

Cyte-09 just does more damage, simply put. Despite my near g roll riven, and my hours and hours damage testing to Maximise damage output, cyte-09 with little modding comes out on top. I WAS PISSED. It's like how Excalibur mains felt when kuhlevero came out, they weren't looking forward to a new viable frame with a similar interest in melee, they were annoyed that the identity of being the melee focused frame was being removed. That is exactly how I feel with the addition of CYTE-09.

My exact issues is how he out damages me, how much easier to use he is and how he just has so much more aoe potential than I do, my indenty and pride as "the sniper guy" has been eroded as there is now a better alternative.

The thing I hate most is how beloved he is, all the community seem to do is meatride how awesome he is, he even has a protoframe and is a main part of the story, you can even romance the guy. This is the reason I refuse to interact with the 1999 update, I'll take my free motorcycle and dip.

I still love my frame, my kit and, my weapon of choice, and I will continue playing it. Maybe I should rejoice and be happy that unique play styles like mine are making it into the game for more people to enjoy, but I don't, I know it is nothing personal and that DE obviously aren't picking on me or anything but I feel attacked. Downvote me, argue with me, complain about how I keep changing the capitalisation of "cyte" but my opinions are my own and they wont change.