Nightmare missions are versions of standard missions with improved difficulty and modifiers. Players can complete them to earn special Nightmare mods, which are dual stat mods that can be quite powerful in the correct versions. Nightmare missions will rotate between nodes and will only be available on planets where each node has been completed.
How to play Nightmare mode missions
When all nodes on a planet have been unlocked, a randomly selected node will offer a Nightmare Mission. The Nightmare mission symbol will appear as a white swirl on a red background, as shown in the image above. If you hover over the node, you'll get a description of the Mission Type, Nightmare Modifiers, and Mission Level.
By clicking on the node, you will have the option to play the Nightmare mission, the standard mission, or any other active mission variant on the node, such as invasions.
Enemies in Nightmare missions will have increased health, damage, and levels. You won't be able to use Ciphers to hack, although Parazon hack mods can still work.
Nightmare modifiers
- Lethal Detonation - Enemies explode on death, dealing damage.
- Energy Drain - Players will lose 15 energy points every second.
- Health Vampire - Players lose 1,5% of their health per second, but gain 2,5% of their health on each kill
- Low Gravity - Gravity is reduced.
- No Shield - Players do not have a shield. Warframes like Nidus and Inaros are ideal for these missions.
- Timer - Mission time is limited to five minutes, but five seconds are added to the timer for each enemy killed.
Nightmare rewards
The following mods can be obtained are rewards from the Nightmare missions.
- Accelerated explosion
- Animal instinct
- Armored agility
- blaze
- Icy Recharge
- Constitution
- Drift contact
- Focus Energy
- Courage
- Hammer blow
- Ice storm
- Deadly torrent
- Heartbreaking Strike
- In search of fury
- Shred
- Simplified form
- Breathtaking speed
- Vigor
- Fire
