If you miss it in the free battlepass, it comes back later in a random chance per mission to get a single drop.

No? In WF you can only get them through Nightwave, you are not getting them through regular gameplay. You have to explicitly do Nightwave, whether you want to or not. Otherwise you’ll not get the rewards and they’ll pile up more and more the longer you are not doing it.

You’re arguing in bad faith by praising DRG for using the exact same system Warframe uses.

You’re projecting. But thanks for outing yourself already, that saves us both time.