As a 10 year veteran, I can honestly say that the grind really isn't that bad as long as you don't grind for the same thing in one sitting. It's much better to grind for multiple things but bit by bit. Like do this mission max 3 times, than that mission max 3 timee, do a little bit of that too. And if you can passively grind for something, than do it. There is no rush in getting what you want, all it does is making you tired of the game, which you don't want to happen. I myself used to grind very hard and all which got me burned out for a long time. It's also much better if you pkay around with different load outs each time
Also what I love about this game is that I can generally drop this game for like five months and get back and not feel like I am... Well, five months behind.
I'm only MR 3 and it took me a 3 hour session max to craft multiple MUST HAVE characters. The only gripe I have is being locked off to 96% of the weapons but being able to fully craft any character I want (primes included). It's just kinda odd and a lot of the weapons that have high MR requirements aren't even that good. Like I can run around with wisp prime at MR 3 but can't have the Acceltra until MR 8 lol.
@@sosa8549 good luck getting acceltra blueprint in the first place lol, it's expected at 80 demolyst kills (let's say you do 4 each 5min you're here for at least 1h40 min) stats says it's guaranteed at 549 kills -+ 183 kills, the grind is hard for a nerfed weapon x')
In my opinion the game really begins when you hit the Second Dream quest. The story from there onwards is one of the most interesting and emotional stories I have ever played through byt there's just so much filler content you have to work through before you get that
same imo.im finished the quest today and it starts to get way better.started trading,farming primes for plats and almost at sedna already.i have 230 hrs on destiny,and 60 on warframe,but i already feel warframe is way better
Second dream only was so good because suddenly several missing puzzle pieces revealed integral parts of the story. The Lotus who was believed to be a mere screen image until then appears in flesh and blood for the first time. Then the character creation after some of us already spent hundreds of hours in the game! The superb musical score. Yeah, it was a mindblowing experience then back in the days. But now for new people rushing the game? I doubt it. The Rell quest is good. The rest of the storytelling in Warframe is lackluster and relies heavily on unreliable narration, information hiding and worst of all multiverse shenanigans.
My advice to new tennos is: 1. Focus on clearing the star chart. 95% of new player questions is answered by that. 2. Plat is for slots. 3. Join a dojo. 4. Google the wiki. The Help channel can give answers, but learning how to look up your questions will be faster. Welcome to the grind.
I'd like to add one to this list: keep the foundry busy, it helps with having to wait three days for a frame to craft if you have different warframe and a bunch of weapons ready to play with.
@@Arxgxmi honestly i never really needed that many slots once you really get into the game you start just cycling the same few weapons over and over and the rest are just mr fodder slots hell i just use my grimoire for every build i do since its so versatile (i love having max fire rate and multishot on the thing)
As a new player you don't need to feel rushed to catch up to the vets. This game is old and still has everything that it started with minus a few redundant features. Getting help from the community is easy as there are alot of people willing to help out new players, just dont let someone carry you as it will leave you bored. I would also recommend joining a clan as there are alot of items only available in clan dojos. Its easy to get overwhelmed by everything available to do so I recommend focusing only on one or two aspects at a time, dont worry everything will still be there later. Dont invest too much in normal frames that have a prime version, and you can look in the codex on your ship to see which ones have prime versions. Getting through the second dream questline is probably the biggest milestone of the game and has the largest impact on the game. I'm a near 10 year vet and I can tell you there is no wrong way to play... unless you use the randomizer option in the customization screen.
You gotta admit it's a bit of a rush to have some higher mastery players taxi you to a place you are NOT ready for and helping you stay alive against opponents you are NOT qualified for. XD, good times.
your last line made me laugh🤣its true tho only mental people do that. But with the normal frames that have prime i do agree thats what i always did and still do but with the mannoth or what ever its called where you feed your ship, it helps to have normal frames but there i wpuld say go through all the abilities that you can get and only feed those that are worth feeding.
Rolling Random in customization gets you some beautiful combinations you would never have thought of yourself. Roll once twice a thousand times for the Warframe God of Fashion.
"take your time" is probably the advice i would have given myself lol it is one of the best games at pacing all the different concepts and mechanics out for new players but imo there are some things you can miss if you just rush through the starchart/story without trying out new things/checking out the side content
@jayshieh4414 pull up your menu go to equipment then you will see at the bottom where it says orbiter you'll find all you options there from lighting to placing objects and even changing the type of ship you use
First at all, welcome to the Warframe community, I hope you enjoy the journey (and strongly recommend do not watch any of the story spoilers). Also, the Warframe starter's experience has been revamped many times over the years. Although it's still not perfect, I'm glad that at least some of DE's effort has been paid off. I would be interested in how you feel after you play a litter longer. See you in the Origin System :)
Hey @@ashortginger I'm glad you've woken up. Building your Warframe is pretty intimidating but i looks like you've got a good handle on it. My advice is this when modding weapons you'll want a damage up and an elemental mod. Mods are better when upgraded despite eating more capacity. And finally every frame and weapon is different, so they'll need subtlety different mods. Also when you get your hands on an Orixan catalyst or reactor. Pop that on something you intend on keeping. They're not super precious but they're rare enough. Good luck out there Tenno
@@ashortgingeranother tip that is not obvious, is everything minus a handful of event and prime cosmetics can be farmed for free, either by grinding or by trading the stuff you grinded for, for platinum and then getting it in the market
If you want to spend money on plat. Get one of the seasonal bundles like Tennocon packs . Best bang for your buck. And you get to support the devs. $40 a year is more than fair for any level of player I'd say. And very cheap by any MMOs standard.
Dude , dude. This game , is NUTS. It’s basically like free energy, the more you play , the more you get to see , the more you understand and the more little goals you will start to set up for yourself. There is so much content and little things to find that even I , after playing for 7 years , i still get surprised. Once you get a good taste of the game , this game will grab you by the balls and it won’t let go. It’s too good.
There are many who are turned off by crafting time. My advice, don't be. Don't rush craft times. At the point where you now have begun the .5-3 day craft process for an item is the break period wherein you can re-situate and determine what your next goals are and get some pre-work done. This game is only ever as hard as you make it and it rewards setting yourself up by putting extra time in things not immediately related to your goals. Everything builds up your toolbox, regardless of if it's currently related or not. You mentioned you believe grind gets worse in late game. From a person with it since closed beta, I'd argue the opposite. Late game, you have all the tools and all the access. The tool-set and the access determines the difficulty, not the goalpost. Lacking variety in your tools or full access to all avenues to get a job done is what can drive people to hate their lives because they lack the knowledge of the easier paths. Don't feel rushed to get to the end, there is way too much game to this game. It is generally joked that the first 200 hours is a tutorial phase, wherein then you get a proper handle on things. And the majority of us old players will help any task or answer any question, knowing a good portion of the game's systems can be obtuse to people with a less deep background in gaming. IGN: NoLife
There is also an app for the game that lets you access your foundry and claim and craft stuff. There's not anything more Warframe than building Forma at work lmao.
Oh I was thinking if crafting time was still a thing because this is what originally made me quit the game. Thx for mentioning that, I definitely won’t be playing it then lol The game overall looks really cool and generally I enjoyed the gameplay but when trying to get anything it’s either grind your ass off (which I’m actually fine with) AND then wait a billion years for crafting to finish (which I’m not fine with) or just pay to skip the process. If I’m playing the game I wanna play the game and not have some artificial craft time when I already put in that much time grinding for the stuff. Ye so in conclusion, I’m definitely not gonna play this game again in that case, what a bummer
What the mess, thank you all for the kind words and support! I’ll have an update video once I’m further in the game, but if you want to stick around, I make a lot video essays about my favorite games
Modding is a very tough system to learn at first, but once you do it's so very rewarding. I would highly recommend looking up some video tutorials for that and how the damage system works. Since without knowing how the damage works in the game, you can't mod properly.
Most of the fun in the game comes from experimenting with builds, both the meta ones and non-meta. The further you get, the more Warframe, weapon, and mod selections you have, the more fun it'll be to just start trying on wacky and meme builds.
Not going to lie, I sometimes spend more time testing out mod combinations than I do actually playing the game. It can be incredibly simple, or incredibly complex and can completely change how you play with your frame or weapons. The main thing is the same as with a lot of Warframe, which is just don't let it intimidate you.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this to you yet but something I highly recommend as a beginner in Warframe is to join a Dojo! you can just type out new player and looking to join one it really helps out because in a dojo it unlocks so much weapons and stuff to the game as well as a mini community of active players!
My recommendation is to focus on your mastery rank at least till 7 that is wear you unlock most weapons and features(or atleast a good chunk) and also trust me on this it’ll suck really bad but get it done sooner rather than later complete every node on the star chart as you go along it’ll save you a lot of agony later
equipping things you dont have maxed mastery on. build every weapon and warframe you possibly can and max them. when clearing the star chart, its something you can do passively. @@ashortginger
build frames and weapons like there's no tomorrow and get them to level 30. Levelling equipment completing the star chart gives mastery xp which you need to increase your mastery rank (MR). As was said there's certain milestones to hit where a bunch of things open up, not just weapons. They're generally considered to be around MR 5, 7, and 14. It's not something to focus on, just to keep an eye on in the background.@@ashortginger
@@ashortgingerYou level things up that you haven’t leveled before so (warframes and weapons)and as a beginner that’s pretty much every thing so don’t focus on one gun or warframe just yet. Reach higher mastery ranks and get a lot better weapons
@@ashortginger your mastery rank exp goes up when you master/level weapons and warframe so I would max rank/level all your weapons and warframe there are some weapons you can buy with credits instead of with platinum buying those will Also help other than that look up some early level mastery grind locations until you get to Hydron on Sedna to help quicken the grind
This game's progression system is damn near perfect to me. It's why I keep coming back to it and still love playing it even after all these years. There's always something to work towards.
This is one of the few games i wish i could forget and have the new game experience again. Im about 4k hours deep and the game has run its course for me but anyone that can find even close to the amount of joy I've gotten from Warframe, I'm really happy for you.
One thing you should learn is what mods are your priority in a build because some mods are REALLY bad and a huge waste of time (an example is elemental resistance mods like warm coat for example). It is definitely worth looking up a cheap build for a very basic weapon and seeing what stuff people choose to use in the build since it provides a rough idea of what mods you should upgrade early on. Also if a mod looks really fancy, it is likely from a specific place/mission in the game not just from a random mission/planet so it might require a check on the wiki.
With modding, you mainly focus on one or two things at a time. If there is any room left after, QOL stuff. The list of things to prioritise at the start: - Weapons: Critical chance, critical damage and Status chance (Can be used to tell if a weapon is worth your time atm. Good stats are >=20% and >=2x for a critical weapon with 20% status for a status weapon BEFORE MODDING. If a weapon meets all 3 then you can make it however you want) - Warframes: One or two main abilities then survivability. (I say abilities before survivability because they are what makes the individual warframes unique. Otherwise we would all use inaros, grendal or hildryn as they have the highest EHP in the game, despite inaros requiring a rework) Anything can be good depending on how much you invest into it. As long as you focus on the outline above then you can't go too wrong. More details are only necessary later in the game once you start getting into steel path (hard star chart). Couple bonuses are: - The status effects are more important than their damage bonuses - Primes aren't generally that much better than the base model. They come with more polarities (symbols in the top right of some slots) and some higher base stats (only survivability in warframes) - Using sites like overframe and looking at youtube videos can be great, they can sometimes get ahead of themselves. - The most important thing is that you have fun!
I'm MR 26, could be max MR but my philosophy with this game has always been take your time with it. Once you get to the "end" you'll find that you will miss the times when things felt obtuse and confusing cause you're geared up for all content and rewards start to feel less exciting. Also it's OK to take breaks and come back cause by the time you do there will be plenty to do and get, there's certainly things that need improving, grinds that need to be phased out or lessened but I think Rebecca has a better understanding about that than Steve, which is exciting for what they can for the game going forward.
AS a player that has picked up the game back when it released and playing on since then your perspective on the gmae is very bare and yet full of insights. I wish DE would capitalize more off of perspectives like yours. The game is in a massive need of some sort of streamlining process. Making things more available and WAY faster. The mid-game is where this game really shines. When you are about the 15-25 Frame range I'd say. You got the hang of the game, you can move fairly quickly and finished some of the major grinds in the game already. But not yet hit steelpath or quite understood how amps work and how you get them. Thats when I had the most fun. I was hooked and very interested in all of the different things but also had a significant backlog of stuff I could be "proud" of already. And I feel like that players should reach this point more quickly... like instead of multiple weeks if not months to reach that it should be comfortable reachable within 2-3 weeks max. There is no reason at all that weapons for example still take 12h to finish or frame to take about 4 days~ with the parts included. Those are the major pain points for beginners. About your concerns with platinum and the market you ve expressed in the end of your video. Do not over emphasize this part. Later on in the game there is plenty to do to grind out platinum. Those farms reach from slow but steady to fast but volatile. I myself sit on about 40000 Platinum right now just from rolling some Riven Mods every week. The game is very good at rewarding your long term. But nowadays I feel like Generation "tiktok" does not have the mental capacity anymore to be "excited" for something and grind towards bigger goals. They need constant dopamine input and flickering lights.... I just wrote down what my thoughts immediately after watching your video were. I apologize for the lack of structure :D Good sht, keep it up, Tenno! :clem:
Welcome aboard and swazdo-lah, Tenno! It's always great to see folks coming into the Origin System for the first time, especially coming off the back of Destiny in specific. I personally went Warframe > Both > Just Warframe so I know the exact feeling, and it's such a world of difference.
just a tip as a beta player veteran , the first 20 hours ish of the game will be mostly farming and unlocking new nodes, keep up with doing that caue at around that time the quest start to open up for you and the systems unlock + story quests are amazing, u think u know warframe from the first few horus played, but i encourige you to atleast try to unlock half of the map before giving up, once u hit first cinematic quest ur journey will begin
also ignore openworlds untill u finish the star chart, come back to them once uve done everything else, beacue each openworld will take a long time to complete, and new players make a mistake and invest into those worlds early on, and they get no progress done, also openworlds scale enemy level from the entrance point further, so further u go the harder enemy will be, and as a new player ur not ready, so the exploring of the map becomes annoying and sometimes imposssible with no upgrades
@@niblothecactus1735I wouldn't say outright ignore open world's. Getting to lvl3 on them doesn't take that long and with that you have access to a decent amount of parts for Zaws and kitguns both of which can be pretty powerful for early on as well as late
@@tylerprime6741 i get that, but a lot of new players get stuck in there some for even more then tens of hours beacuse they dont know its like a mini game in itself... and then they get tired of the game without even reaching first cinematic cause they think thats it
@@niblothecactus1735 loool when i started warframe, cetus just came out and i was lost in that sauce for 40 hours :D no regrets honestly. grinded low level bounties, slowly leveled the standing.
There are 3 main things that Warframe does strictly better than Destiny 2 1) Player ekspression In warframe you can, as you show, customize your warframe in a multitude of ways. But that is not all. You have your personal area, your ship, that you can recolor and decorate. These areas grow as you progress and you even get a few more different areas to decorate if you are into that. Your pets can also be customized with skins, color and dodads. Even your UI can be customized with various themes. And then we have Dojo. Clan hangouts that you can build in unison and they can get crazy elaborate. The big drawback to all this is that most of the cosmetics and decorations come from the platinum (real money) market. I personally think this is fair in a F2P game but I am sure there are good reasons why I might be wrong. Another part of player ekspression is that you get to make dialogue choices at certain points in the story. They are few and far between and they are largely without consequence but they give you a feeling of agency even if the agency is entirely fake. 2) Personal Story The story in D2 is about other people doing their thing. Your character is a piece of card-board unconcerned with what happens around them. The moral dilemmas that informs the actions of other people are non-existent for the player character. You may have your head-canon about your character but the game is not interested. In Warframe the story (when it gets started) is about you. You may not be the center of every story but you are directly involved. You don't feel like a bistander that could or should be replaced with anyone else. Your character makes important decisions and mistakes. You are the one learning about your history and the history that molded you. It does this even to a fault, where the only time we see signs of a community of Tenno is when we interact with an outcast off said community. 3) Power Fantasy In D2 you are essentially a dude with a gun with powers. You powers are not central, your gun is. It even snakes itself into the story and lore. Some of the most celebrated stories in the lore are the backstory to weapons you have. The connection between you and a major character that allows you to save him is a shotgun. Bosses are made into weapons that become legend. But it is not you who is powerful. It is your gun. Over the past few years it has gotten better but more often than not they will reign in abilities if they become more powerful than your gun. Warframe on the other hand relishes the opportunity to let you be overpowered. Be faster, be stronger, be tougher. Only in the most extreme cases do they reign it in and then often reluctantly. Not only that but you can choose how you want to be powerful. The wide array of warframes and weapons that themselves can be modified lends itself to plethora of playstyles; stealth, gunner, swordsman, berzerker, spellcaster, defender, healer, sniper and more. Pick a theme and chances are you can build it. Some of them even come ready made.
It’s also so refreshing seeing a gaming community that isn’t crazy toxic. Ask a noob question in any other game, people will say “fuck you” or some crazy stuff. Ask a question in Warframe or do something on accident, people will say DW!! It’s ok!! Have a wonderful day!! Etc. 😭
Great introspective as a new player. I think the biggest obstacle for new players is just the quantity of stuff in the game. Theres so much to get done just to interact with the full story of what makes warframe worth playing. For example (without spoilers) you gotta grind out things on an open world, or a syndicate, or just clearing the star map for essentially new game+ where most of the players are. The journey IS fun but for some people but for a lot of people its like a 50 hour long demo. Once you have like 50 hours into the game you can take it slow but but its nonetheless an inescapable barrier. Anyway you mentioned that you were just using auto install for mods, dunno if you stopped doing that but for a new player you mainly just want to increase your warframes survivability - health (vitality) and shields (redirection). For weapons just slap on damage (serration/point blank/hornet strike/pressure point for rifle/shotgun/pistol/melee respectively) You'll be pretty limited on modding space so just focus on these for now. When you get Orokin catalysts and reactors it doubles your modding capacity for whatever you install it on. These are not exactly easy to come by for a new player so id suggest some discretion on how you use them at the start. If you want to make the grinds more efficient Nekros is a frame you'll want to farm. He can essentially reroll enemy loot tables allowing for faster material collections. And if you dont want to get nekros thats fine too. Later on there are specific nodes that have increased drop rates and people quite often go there to farm, so the likelihood of seeing a nekros (or other frames that can manipulate drop tables) is pretty high. -Do the duviri paradox stuff as you see fit. It takes maybe like 2-3 hours a week to get through all of it. -Warframes does have a battlepass, but its free for everyone without a premium version. Its just all free, with rather good rewards. Battlepasses usually last for quite a while and iirc you dont need to do EVERY challenge that comes your way. Lets say one week you only did half of the challenges and the following week you do all of them. Once you do all of the challenges you start recovering ones you skipped, so it really is just super chill. This is off the top of my head but usually if you do complete a weeks worth of challenges you get 3-4 levels of the battlepass, which is only 30 levels. After 30 you get a reoccurring reward of currency every level which you might think is worthless but you can directly purchase orokin catalysts AND orokin reactors (as well as other stuff) with the currency. -We're bound to get an event called Operation Plague Star on the 7th. You want to pick up 10 Exodia Contagions (these are useful for later content). After that grab some cetus wisps's. These things are honestly so annoying to farm. Most of the time when you're grinding out bounties you'll get quite a bit of them, but just grab like 10-15 for now. The real reward here though is Forma. So you know how I said you'll be limited on mod space? Forma is how we fix that. Mods have polarities and a capacity. Serration, unranked, has a 4V (the proper name for this is madurai but most people call this the V polarity) on the upper right of the mod. Something like Hellfire has a 6- (this is called naramon but most people call it dash). When you rank mods up they get stronger but also cost more capacity. Logically you must already be thinking "Okay so a weapons max rank is 30, so thats 30 capacity. And an orokin catalyst doubles that to 60 but If i have a couple mods that cost 11-15 capacity how am I filling all 8 slots of the weapon?" and the answer is forma. Once you install a forma (done through the action button on the lower part of the modding screen) you'll be prompted to add a polarity into a slot, and by clicking repeatedly you can cycle through the polarities. If you added a V polarity and then placed serration into that slot you will notice the capacity serration takes up is now cut in half. If you looked at your volt it should have a Dash and V already with another V in the aura slot. Auras are a whole other thing that would take another paragraph to explain. Anyway, some weapons and frames already come with polarities so modding them is relatively simple. Other times you might be wanting to change the polarities completely to better fit your build. This is all to say that forma is pretty important. While this event is nice to get forma there are other ways as well so theres no real FOMO here. Its just nice to get a couple for now while also participating in an event. Honestly my mind is kinda fried as its pretty early. IF you, or any other new player reading this, wants help send me a friend request in game. My ign is Spellbinding. I completely understand if you dont want to play with veterans because lets be honest we're all at the point where we can press two buttons and nuke the map. But yknow if you want to just get those defense/excavation missons done for your starchart, or want to go farm some argon (I HATE ARGON RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) let me know.
As a Warfarme vet for about 7 years now, I gotta say you hit the nail on the head with what I felt when first getting into this game. There’s 10 years of content to engage with so I can understand if it’s overwhelming at first but the community is so accepting and open to new players that you can ask anything in chat and someone will answer. Glad to see another Tenno who joined from Destiny
returned a few months ago after about an 8 year hiatus from the game. I swear I fell in love all over again, the community has gotten a lot more negative though, especially trading chat, I'm receiving no hospitality and just straight up rude people who brag that they are better then me every second they can (which i find more funny then hurtful bc its j warframe lol) but the game has taken an extreme leap from what it used to be, i am mesmerized.
Modding is probably the biggest barrier to entry (besides gear slots). But I think it has a satisfying learning curve from: "not having any clue wtf you're doing" to "being able to tune all of your gear to exactly the way you like while still being able to vaporize practically anything" You're constantly learning the modding system and get better and better at it over time. I'm still learning new stuff after 6+ years of playing near constantly. *But* watching modding guides is basically mandatory. The mid game is the best. When you're strong enough to do whatever you want and haven't fully completed anything so you can kindof just do pretty much anything you feel like doing and be making progress. Late game is basically when you've done everything you enjoy and the only stuff left is what you don't. and early game is kindof a slog because you're locked out of most of the game and don't know what you should be doing.
Welcome to the Warframe community! Great video you put out here! Just remember that it's ok to give the game 2 weeks to 2 months breaks in between grinds if you ever feel like you're getting burned out by it. Doesn't make it a bad game. I've been playing since 2013 on and off, and I've never once not had it installed on my PC. I always enjoy going back and catching up on new content.
As a 5 year veteran I would like to welcome you and any other Tenno joining this wonderful game there is so much to do and different experiences for different PlayStyles and yes it can be very confusing, but we have a huge and nice community theirs sure to be a video for anything you need on yt and if there’s not there’s a dedicated help channel where experienced tennos will be More than glad to help you no need to be embarrassed or scared to ask for help I’ve been playing for 5 years and still get confused just have fun and play how you like. Good luck :).
The game really has a certain kind of charm to it. Idk how to put it into words Also, lots of players r really kind. Some of them will actually go out of their way to help new players
It is true. Warframe community has the nicest and kindest people. Rarely any toxicity as strangers willing to help one another to make the game even more enjoyable.
All hail the wall of bone, tenno. May your travels be filled with love and joy between the grind...you have no idea what youve gotten yourself into and i'd love to see you make content on some of the more important content as you get to it. Cheers!
I think your video essay was great and displays a lot of what Warframe excels and hinders in. I personally think new player experiences are awesome and I love hearing the thoughts about the game. One message that I always leave with my clan is to not make the game a chore and do for them what is fun.
Yup, you can drive it with 3 other players (everyone has different role, like pilot, gunner etc.) or if you prefer going solo, you can hire crewmates npcs on Fortuna. Also you can use your archwing (jetpack) to fly out of it if you want, the maps are much bigger too. Also developers made sure to make it much easier to obtain (I'm pointing that 'cause before it was a nightmare to grind for it xD), so all you have to do is to complete quest and you're pretty good to go✌️
I'm in te game since 2020 and I love it, my only recommendation is to have fun and don't rush trough the progression to get to the end game stuff, a lot of cool stuff in warframe is the history you will find after you get to chain of harrow quest and neptune nodes, so take your time and enjoy
Been playing Warframe since 2016 after ditching Destiny 1. One of the best decisions I ever made. Specially seeing how Destiny has progressed over the years. My playstyle usually consists of Exerpimentation for Maximum Fun. I look up builds to see what is necessary. Then have fun seeing what sort of ways I can interpret my own weird builds. Welcome to the community! Devstreams and Gift Alerts are about every Friday, press interact when you stand next to your dog, and don't forget to show some love to our boy Ordis. Its good to have you 😊
Hit the nail on the head as a new player...been playing for years solo, and the key of this game in my point of view is makeing your own fun, just live in the universe and play for fun and (as you said) advancements...if youre looking for linear gameplay, it can be abit difficult cause of the many systems at play wanting you to experiment
As a Warframe veteran with nearly 4k hours over the course of the last few years (shocked myself just now), the most glaring fault I could see is thus: Level up your mods! Low level mods have barely noticeable effects compared to their fully upgraded contemporaries which can provide massive boosts such as +200% damage I recommend focusing on the essentials like Damage, Multishot, Critical Chance/Status Chance (*usually* depending on which is higher), HP, Shields and Energy It is almost always better to use one fully upgraded mod dedicated to a single stat than to use several low level mods just to fill out the slots - that's where reactors/catalysts and Forma come into play later on Bonus tip: Warframes have a special mod slot for so called "Aura Mods" which instead of taking up capacity actually *increase* it; these can be earned by trading in Nightwave Credits earned from Nora Night Hope that helps!
I think the gameplay loop is not just about leveling up to be more efficient but also to increase your power overall things do get pretty tough if your gear isn’t up to par
Hi, I'm a closed beta player with almost 2500 hours. Welcome to Warframe! I hope more D2 players like you see that there's a great alternative to that game. I feel like Warframe doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It's the game that every live service game wishes it could be. You're doing good so far. Keep unlocking nodes and doing the quests. The wiki is a good resource to use but be careful not to spoil yourself. Looking forward to your next update with the game.
As someone who joined during the pandemic, A lot of quality improvements have been shown up over the years. And the developers have dev streams on a consistent basis. Even on Twitch, they have a drop system in place that for a certain amount of time that you watch, you get free goodies, some are decorations, but others are fully built frames, and slots to have them in your inventory. Also, some of the more powerful weapons and frames, the prime variants specifically, they can be rotated or "Vaulted" Ingame and you can't access them anymore. HOWEVER, they had introduced the "Prime Resurgence" back in 2021, and it has been a mainstay since 2022 and every month, you can get Vaulted relics for two frames and their weapon sets.
First off, welcome new tenno. Always cool to see newbies running around. If you like the game then you have so much to look forward to as you progress through the star chart and get new quests and frames and weapons. When you get to the second dream and the war within quests is where it gets really spicy. Wont spoil anything for you but i am a 6 year veteran of warframe and i still love it to this day. Some things to go ahead and learn as you begin to progress. First is basic modding. You will eventually hit a gate where not knowing how to make basic builds will begin making the game harder. Not saying you learn every single detail as the modding system is quite deep and you will get lost if you go to deep to fast , but a basic understanding of mods will really help. The other thing i would say to learn as a new player is really drive home learning movement. In warframe speed is life and its fun, so really learn that movement. Another piece of advice i would give is stay away from the open worlds until you are a midgame player. The open worlds are new player friendly but they are built for mid and late game players. There is stuff you simply cant do until you are mid game because you dont have the tools necessary. Again welcome to the tenno family, and if you got questions or need help literally just reach out in game chats or forums or whatever and most people will help you. Warframes community is great.
As a warframe veteran im really glad seeing you enjoy the game, it can get overwhelming but just play at you peace. It is a game with a really cool power fantasy.
You seem to be doing a lot better, than most newbies. I am responsible for taking care of our clan newbies. One thing you should do, is to find an actually active clan.
Welcome baby tenno! We are happy to have you, and hope you stick with it long enough to get to the good parts, and the meat of the game. I was shocked you said the new player experience was good. Usually the new player experience is widely agreed to be the weakest part of warframe. I guess if you are coming from destiny its better in comparison, but regardless im glad you are enjoying it!
One thing I appreciate Warframe for is being able to trully solo stuff. Like, do missions and no random can join or only friends could. Even better that you can _pause_ the actual game if you set yourself as Solo; something that's really appreciated especially if things come up while in the middle of a mission/quest.
always great to fee a new tenno enjoying the game. to me the best thing about this game is its community. if you ever need help just ask either here in the comments or in the help chat.
And as you can tell by now, the Warframe community is always online to support Warframe video reviews and welcome everyone to the game. One big plus for new players is the fact that you will never be forced into random stat allocation in order to play the game. Every Warframe and arsenal (weapons+), will always have the same base stat, so you will never need to craft the same item several times in hopes to get the optimized version of it.
If you can go down the rabbit hole of all of the lore, then the story really comes together and the game is even more amazing. I started playing about 2 years ago and haven't stopped. The community is great and I've made so many friends. I can't wait to see what they do next.
Welcome to Warframe! Its definitely a grind game and it does get repetitive sometimes. I tend to go in and out of it every few months. I would definitely recommend turning on Global play so you can run missions with groups, makes the grind go by alot quicker! I also enjoy putting on Octavia and playing Baby Shark the entire mission 😈
Even though I stoped playing wf for now, I'd love to follow your wf journey, hope you complete most of later quests. Looking forward to see how it goes for you 😊
What a coincidence seeing this video just now. I've played Warframe on its debut, when it was pre-installed on the PS4. It was fun, but extremely simple. I baraly played it. Then I got a ROG Ally a couple of days ago. It had Steam on it, and Warframe as a free-to-play online game. I got it back. And DAMN, talk about a MASSIVE upgrade over the years. I literally jawdropped at how damn much this game has evolved with content. It looks and feels like a current gen game, and it's free!
Yeah good decision, this game is awesome and the Story really hitted me after Second Dream. The only downside is that you need a wiki to play this game, but the overall vibe of the game is just phenomenal and definitely the best Sci Fi MMO out there. My tips are to switch Weapons to get the mastery rank ups way faster and go the main path, that the game is telling you. Do not grind on things you don't need and only grind if you want it. Also take yourself challenges and explore the game mechanics to make your experience more flashed out. I have almost 200 Hours in this game and it still feels fresh in some cases. I never played an MMO before between, but I guess it is the best Free To Play MMO out there. Keep it up!
as someone who played the Destiny 1 free beta up to now with final shape and Warframe sense the the tralier for the arkwing I appreciate this a lot more than I can say with words.
I played warframe years ago for the first time and had a decent enough time with it then but I eventually gravitated towards destiny. Played Destiny for the next like 6 years after that and I got to a point where I was so sick of the gameplay loop of destiny and how LITTLE it respected your time, that I made the decision to uninstall it once and for all after over 6000 hours in the game. Recently got back into warframe due to a friends recommendation and I'm honestly amazed at the sheer amount of content, the fact that next to nothing has really been removed since release (looking at you sunsetting) and at just how much fun the game is. The grind can be tough and even annoying at times, but its so rewarding when you finally craft that frame you've been working towards, or when you finally get all the parts for that prime weapon you've been hunting. I'm sitting at around 1000 hours in warframe right now and I can easily see that number increasing pretty quickly over the next few years. At this point its the only live service game I play other than the occasional game of league with my friends, or CoD when I want a more typical shooter experience, and I have 0 complaints. Maybe I'll go back to Destiny when the new expansion drops, and if they end up fixing some of its glaring issues, but this is definitely my preferred looter shooter these days.
It is always fun to listen a new Warframe players expirience. Welcome to the game. I am genuinely surprised that you liked "tutorial" part. I mean I know from patchnotes that devs almost every update try to improve new player expirience but considering that I started playing when there was literally zero tutorial apart from first basic controls mission and the "new player expirience" meme in Warframe community it is pretty weird to hear. It means that devs did a pretty good job.
I have been playing Warframe for 6 years now. When I first started playing Warframe you can get Syndicates standing by the emblem they provided and because I didn’t know at the beginning I had every single syndicate against me. My recommendation is to get started leveling up at least two syndicates you like. Now days whenever you unlock syndicate you can simply go to the front part of your ship, at the left of the navigation area you'll see the syndicate thing, choose one you like and level it up! Try as well getting the standing for the open world syndicates (The ones on Cetus, Fortuna, and the Cambion Drift) because they unlocked a lot of cool things. Other recommendation that I will say to be great is try watching a guide on how modding works, I know that with time you'll definitely learn how to mod, but there is weapons and warframes that benefit a lot from other stats. One last recommendation I can provide is to use your Endo for upgrading mode wisely, because at the beginning of the game is very limited and try using it in essential mods such as Serration for rifle, Hornet Strike for secondaries, Continuity and Intensify for Warframes, etc. Those kind of mods that will part of almost every single build you will make.
another thing you didn't mention was the trading system and the community. you can easly grind some items and sell them for platinum(the buyable currency) so all the IAPs are also obtainable for free. i have spent tons of platinum on fashion or just grind skips and i never spent a dollar in the game. and the community is also really helpful and nice towards everyone which is also a good point
It constantly amazes me the level and frequency of output, polish, attention to detail, innovation, constantly updating and changing up the meta, that Digital Extremes brings to the FREE game, and how it dwarfs and puts to shame the vast majority of “triple A” full price games being released these days. It’s just crazy.
honestly this game is my comfort one its a brilliant one to get on and chill whilst listening to music or watching a show and grinding stuff that slowly progresses you
other than certain cosmetics you can get EVERYTHING in the game for free and do any type of end game content without ever spending a dime, i’ve played Destiny since 2013 and Warframe since 2015, quit destiny as of lightfall, i’ve got the platinum trophy on playstation and have done everything possible but as the years have passed the game just felt lacking and didn’t keep me enticed, Warframe however has always kept me on my toes, the mystery of the universe has always been there and still keeps me there to this day, I’m max MR21, probably MR24 but i haven’t done my mastery rank challenges in a long long time haha just grinding frames and weapons and it’s beautiful, welcome to the fight tenno
As a former D2 player myself, I feel you, I quit when CRAPFALL was released and just like many other players, I needed a different game to cure my interplanetary looter shooter itch, so I decided to try Warframe, and boy oh boy, I got hooked, I do not miss anything from Destiny at all. The one thing I love the most about Warframe is that it respects your time as a player, you see, I started playing during the spring of last year and played till early fall, I paused the game to focus on Lies of P and some other games, I resumed about a month ago and the builds that I made last year were strong as they were back then, meanwhile in D2 you need to grind your ass week after week to keep up with the rest, or you'd be left behind, that is such a BS tactic from Bungie just trying to keep the player engaged with their game. Every time there's a new season your builds become irrelevant and you need to start from scratch, I say F that, I have a life, Bungie can stick their stupid game up their dark sector... Digital Extreme is such an efficient studio, they've done everything Bungie could not even though they are just a 3rd of the size of Bungie: 1- A single game with 12 years worth of content 2-A gazillion different classes 3-Infinite MODS that won't go irrelevant 4-Instead of vaulting content they remastered it 5-An extremely good new user experience 6-So many gameplay mechanics 7-ABSOLUTELY FREE I can go on but you get the picture.
I've started playing Warframe this year (around end of July) and recently finished The War Within quest. Some people commented me with "gratz for completing the tutorial" xD Content is absolutely massive, amazes me every day and it's actually completely free. Will stick with Warframe for a looong time, because I also cannot stop playing :v
PS. For those who don't know - quest "The War Within" unlocks around 120 hours into game if you don't buy anything and grind your way in. Therefore I've got comments about finishing tutorial after 120 hours. Nothing weird, that some have 4000 h then :D
Warframe also has what is probably the most lenient "battle pass" system of any game. It's 100% free, no premium version of it. You gain experience for it through daily and weekly challenges, but if you can't play for a week or joined the game late in a pass season, if you complete enough of the weekly challenges it will start to give you access to the previous week's challenges so you still have the opportunity to earn everything in the pass. Some of the rewards for the pass are credits that you can use for the passes merchant and you can continue to gain these credits even after you hit the final rank of the pass, letting you buy loads of resources and items that you'd otherwise need to buy with the premium currency.
I'm a 4yr player myself. It can seem very overwhelming at times with the grind. BUT, there's so many things that you can build with each mastery rank that you can stagger building and just constantly play without realistic burnout. Just pacing yourself and play to your personal likes and styles. . .you won't burnout like many say. I'm level capped and still not burnt out in any way. The game is so fluid with its movement mechanics, fun with customizing not just appearances but the functionality of your gear, and gives so many options across 53 frames and tons of weapons to truly synergize your preferential play style. It's a great game to really just dive in and have fun with!
as someone who started around the same time as you, ngl i did pay to skip the grind but doing the grind is fun as well. unless something that im not willing to or not have access yet. i do feel jealous of the vets but realizing i would reach their stage in couple of weeks is honestly mental.
theres a little pay to skip, but most of what i've personally spent money on is weapon/warframe slots. you mostly hit this problem once your collection of weapons you like surpasses the free slots you get from ranking up. its not *too* expensive, and platinum, the in game premium currency, can be traded for from other players (even a new player can farm things that have value, void relics are a good place to start). 2000+ hours in game, feel free to ask anything about game mechanics, weapons, or general game knowledge. vast majority of WF community will be helpful, the game is massive and every one of its players has needed help at one point or another.
I came back to Warframe on a brand new account about a month ago because of the Prime Resurgence Event where I knew I could grab two of the frames I knew I would want from my time playing it 6 years ago. I played off and on for about a year back then but there were things I think perhaps I thought were too daunting or obtuse at the time to do so I moved on. I'm SO GLAD I came back because I have been having so much fun again, and in just a few weeks time I've accomplished more than I did for the duration of my previous time playing. I think my advice to you (if you're still playing, I'm writing this 4 months later) is don't worry about if something seems daunting just try it and see, or look up one video on the subject you want to tackle and then maybe try doing it shortly after. You mentioned the mods for instance - mods are SUPER important. I think you've discovered by now that you're not gonna get very far without them.
Started playing about 8 months after launch. It’s a great game, good fun play, great movement, fun abilities. A recommendation for new players is to make quests your primary objective. Quests introduce you to most of what the game has to offer and is a good way to avoid burnout when grinding for frames or weapons you want to try out. Learn how to properly mod your weapons and frames. It’s very important and will make your pea shooter rifle shred the normal star chart. The Warframe community is really nice and very helpful, ask in chat or look up guides if you are stuck or confused (the wiki will be your friend as well). I love this game and am always happy to see new players enjoying it as well!
I found this game 2 weeks ago and its incredible. Its so good that i almost cant believe it. Its like if your imagination was in control of your childhood action figures combined with every fantasy movie you’ve ever seen
Been reading some of the comments here. Lots of really good info. One thing that nobody mentioned is to join a clan. I recommend you join a clan to get access to trading post and clan tech weaponry, gears and accessories. This will go towards leveling your mastery rank.
When i started thr game for the 1st time today, i actually fellt something I haven't in ages while watching the intro of the game. I WAS EXCITED TO PLAY!! The combat and door hacking is a bit janky, but i think I'll be able to figure it all out.
7:25 As someone at max mastery rank with thousands of hours in-game, the farm gets easier as you go actually. Around midgame you end up needing to go out of your way to farm a lot of resources because you're more or less constantly crafting weapons, but it's really not that bad from what I can remember (especially if you trade a couple prime parts to get the platinum for a resource booster). Having a Smeeta Kavat (one of the available animal companion types) also helps since it will periodically double the resources you earn from pickups.
I have over 3000 hours in, and it's really fun to watch new people get in and experience it for themselves. Yes, new player experience is basically the exact same questline as it was since it was introduced in the first place, with the only difference being that incredible intro cutscene, and starting mission being modified with new environment and tying it in with the cutscene. Events and plot in this mission are the exact same as they were. Something that's also unique to warframe, is that nearly all maps are proceduraly generated. Every time you replay a node you did previously, the rooms and environments will be shuffled in a different way. They connect to each other like lego pieces, so that every time game generates something different. During missions layout and type of enemies is also different, and various events can happen mid-mission. Sometimes there are even hunter kind of enemies that will stalk you in regular missions, interrupting your objective and trying to kill or kidnap you. After a while it does get repetetive, but due to sheer amount of events that can happen in one mission it's not as bad as in other similar games. It's deffinitely a perfect game to listen to podcasts while playing or turning your brain off in some power fantasy :)
I've been playing for many years now on and off. Honestly for the early game, I'd definitely say focus on getting a few things unlocked, and then doing some of the story stuff, since it'll ease you into the setting, unlock features, and give you goals. For the later game once you've played a lot, the main thing is to set your own personal goals. Don't be afraid to look up videos, check out forums, and become very acquainted with the wiki, to find things that interest you and give you something you want to work towards. There is a lot of content in the game, particularly for newer players, so just setting small goals here and there helps keep you from getting overwhelmed. I will say that there are downsides to the game for sure. it is definitely grindy, particularly for getting some of the rarer weapons and frames, as well as some of the resources you need in bulk. It's managable because the gameplay itself is so good, but it can be taxing. If the grind gets to be too much, take a break to do something else. Go spear fishing on one of the open worlds or even just hang out and talk to people in chats. My personal favorite for killing time is playing around with the shawzins, which are fully playable guitar like instruments you can buy in the store. On that note, it's worth mentioning that the premium currency for the game, platinum, can be traded between players. As such, it's entirely possible to get pretty much anything in the game aside from a small selection of exclusive items while retaining free to play status. There is a market tab in the chat menus that is entirely for talking with other players to broker deals for items, and most of the time those deals use platinum as the currency unless you have something you're offering up in trade. Prime parts, (obtained from opening relics), and particularly rare mods are the main things you'll see people buying and selling, so it's always an option to open up a few relics and see if anyone is willing to buy the parts you get out of them for a few platinum. You won't make a ton per sale, but it can add up to be enough to let you buy stuff from the shop. Speaking of which, it's worth noting that there are some shop exclusive items, but they are all purely either cosmetic, decorative, or just to goof off with such as the shawzins I mentioned. Everything you can buy in the shop that has a practical use can be obtained through playing the game in some way or form. Some of them are particularly rare or limited, but you can get them. There's also a fair few items that can only be obtained by playing the game and can't be bought in the shop. Above all else though with the game, don't be afraid to take a break every now and then. Don't let the fear of missing out keep you from taking a break if you're getting burned out. With only a couple of exceptions, everything that is missable comes back eventually. For me personally, I'll usually come back to the game two or three times a year, play for a good while, then take a break to play other stuff and not come back for a couple of months. It's very much a game to take at your own pace.
Thank you for such a loving video on Warframe. I dropped off Deatiny 2 right after Shadowkeep when they split up the DLC content for more koney, etc, and really played Warframe after that. The Dev team is super loving to their community, and it has a ton of variable content with many warframes to alter the way you play.
I've got a good bit of Warframe content to catch up on, which I'm very excited to get to at some point down the road. Recently I've remembered how great the game customisation is when I found another use for my warframe clan logo.Once you design a clan logo, you can spend a small amount of platinum (the premium currency) to have it added into the game. When we designed our clan logo, we tried to make it recognisable from the outline and easily distinguishable in game. This has made it a really good design to use in other ways, and I've adopted it as a kind of personal seal.
As someone with 3,000 hours in Destiny I needed a new similar thing that I could always dip into so I started giving Warframe a try on and off. 50+ hours at this point I don't see it ever capturing my interest the same as Destiny because the gameplay is a little too monotonous for me (I have borderline fallen asleep multiple times playing it, struggled to keep my eyes open when trying to immerse myself) but I still plan on keeping it in rotation as a multitask game. Warframe's the literal perfect game to use as a multitasking game when you want to watch a youtube video or podcast on the side when you don't really feel like fully immersing in a game and just want to chill out. There are too many instances where you unlock a new planet and the areas and mechanics all look the exact same as another planet so it's hard to stay too engaged. Maybe eventually after a couple thousand hours of grind i'll start getting to the good stuff that will make me want to immerse and turn the audio on, but so far i'm fine with it just being a multitasking game.
The gameplay loops is both the best and worst thing to Warframe. It's easy to get caught up in the quest for power, but then you reach a point where you can 1 shot everything, and you're still doing the exact same missions over and over. However, if you just hop on and goof around* when you're in the mood for it, it can be a lot of fun. The roguelite mode was a great addition, because it's something you can just hop into and play with anyone when you're in the mood for some Warframe, without needing to get caught up in the grind.
I also love the clans. Specifically, the dojo, I can go full bananas on decorating the rooms and building it out exactly how I want it.. Gosh I love this game.
Not a long time vet, only a a few years or so. The first tip that I read somewhere has paid dividends for me and that is to loot EVERYTHING when you're playing the missions and just starting out. There are definitely chokepoint materials that require special effort, but the bulk will just be passively stacked up if you make sure to hit every box you find. The other thing I cannot recommend more would be to make sure you're doing as much of the nightfall daily/weeklies that you can (It's the sort of battlepass type thing you can access from bottom right corner on pause menu or from the terminal on your ship). There are usually one or two weapon/warframe slots as rewards as well cosmetics, blueprints, etc that are pretty sweet. I quit D2 for Warframe years ago and the biggest thing for me is that this game respects your time so much more than other live service type games. Yes it can be super grindy for sure, but when you need a break you can take on without feeling like you'll be completely lost if/when you come back. Prime warframes cycle through constantly, many of the nightfall rewards cycle back through and there isn't really any FOMO to speak of. Glad to see you're having fun, welcome to the game!
You're doing fine. I think WF is best experienced at your own pace. I play it on and off for years now. There's really a lot you'll find out later in the game. But for now, just keep trying out frames and weapons, and going through different planets. Frames will completely play different and some are so unique it's almost game-changing. But again, do it at your own pace. Every now and then you'll stumble upon side quests and at some point the biggest story quests happen and WF reveals a new sides to it. Like if you were surprised by the Archwing missions, you're probably gonna like Railjack missions (basically space ships you build, customize, and even hire crew members to help you man the ship). I believe you've already gained access to those missions since you have your own Archwing already but it's unnecessary for you right now. But if you do wanna just kinda check out how bigger space missions look like, jump into some other player's Railjack and see for yourself. I honestly love it and wish DE incorporates more of it into the game. Me and my clan mates used to play it as a squad.
I've unlocked over 9 color pallets and around 30-something attachments, all of them for free via gameplay events and modes like Dog Days, Baro Ki'Teer, Nightwave, and even Seasonal Shop Events where a whole special color pallet only costs 1 Credit. NGL, Pride is one of my favorite starter color pallets simply because of the range of colors it has and the really dark Black.
Imo, The most fun element outside of fashionframe is theory crafting/modding. Picking up a new frame and messing with mods/looking at different builds is super fun. I have a few clan members that wrote off this one Warframe, so i built it and started testing different mods with it. Then i found a combination that absolutely shreds. They thought i was joking til i started getting all the kills in missions, then they all started using that frame. Getting people to play with also makes the game extremely enjoyable because everyone has different things they are working on. For example, you might be focused on getting prime Warframes, while your clan mate is focused on Kubrow farming. You'll be able to teach each other different things you've learned and vise versa.
So I was introduced to warframe 3 years ago. Then the guy that got me into it stopped playing, so that was cool. I feel you are correct in that the game does a good job giving you a solid tutorial of the mechanics of the game, though they could go a little more in depth regarding mods. What they game is terrible at, is guiding new players in a direction of any kind. I found out a lot by watching youtube guides, which if I am being honest, without that I might not have stuck around. The story is so rich, and the cinematics are works of art. The energy that goes into this completely free game is way more than you see in most games these days. And the best part for a player like me is that I can burn myself out, not play it for several months, and just come back right where I left off. There is no "you have to be current on this or you will suffer". It may not be my most played game, but it is definitely one of my favorites. My advice to you is to make sure you find a clan that has a lot if not all the blueprints researched. There are 5 warframes you can get from the clan dojo and hundreds of weapons. Welcome to Warframe Tenno!
Been playing for 500 + hrs … still learning new things I never came across while finishing the game. This game is HUGE and you can grind for whatever you what whenever you want . Warframe loses the overwhelming feeling very fast
With how destiny 2 is going i also started playing warframe to find what was missing. And i did. A game that is actually free to play and not free to try, like destiny. Ive had a wonderful experience so far and I've been having just a blast at how free you really are in this game, you can play however you want and still have fun. That was one of the problems i had with destiny 2. There was always a build that just made everything else feel not as viable or certain weapons that you "NEEDED" to have in order to be optimal, otherwise the game became almost impossible/boring. Good thing im not the only one migrating to other games and honestly, im looking forward to more grinding! Have a good one fellow Tenno of the light.
I started playing a around two years ago, was def not a gamer before this game. 429 log in days later I’m sitting at MR22 and can’t stop grinding… welcome Tenno 🤘🏻
Everyone thinks the story is going one way... ..until the back door on the Orbiter opens.... Then you think you know where it's going but you forget that there are two more doors
As someone who's been with this games for 8 years this is honestly the best time for new players to jump in, they've reworked so much and there's so many amazing story missions now that it's easier for everyone to follow with.
Welcome to the community! I only pay for platinum to get better mods since I’ve been playing for so long lol, join a clan to improve some of your experience, I can say, the game just keeps me coming back over and over again. I’m glad it’s bringing new players in!
ahh i remeber that feeling at the beggining when i WANTED to farm, run missions, try all the missions. legen 3 i have just one gun left to get and will ve maxed put. i still enjoy it and still play it. also yea fashion frame is the end game, i legit dont enjoy a frame as much if i cant make it look nice. as a vet it would be curious to see you progress and join the ranks. have fun tenno
glad you’re enjoying warframe! the main draw for the game for me was that my friends were playing it, but i’ve found myself playing alone recently just listening to youtube videos in the background
As a Veteran, it's easy to see that all your points are really from a beginner, nothing wrong, it's just that Warframe is ridiculously huge, there's nothing like this game, and even the premium currency, platinum, can be "earned" in the game, the game market is extremely active and you can make plat trading with other players, if you want a tip, don't use the auto fill to mod your weapons and Frames, try to learn it from the beginning, it's not hard and very fun!
As a 10 year veteran, I can honestly say that the grind really isn't that bad as long as you don't grind for the same thing in one sitting. It's much better to grind for multiple things but bit by bit. Like do this mission max 3 times, than that mission max 3 timee, do a little bit of that too. And if you can passively grind for something, than do it. There is no rush in getting what you want, all it does is making you tired of the game, which you don't want to happen. I myself used to grind very hard and all which got me burned out for a long time. It's also much better if you pkay around with different load outs each time
Also what I love about this game is that I can generally drop this game for like five months and get back and not feel like I am... Well, five months behind.
i have to say, i really hate the grind for Citrine and her update :c
but yes, i agree whith everything you've said !
I'm only MR 3 and it took me a 3 hour session max to craft multiple MUST HAVE characters. The only gripe I have is being locked off to 96% of the weapons but being able to fully craft any character I want (primes included). It's just kinda odd and a lot of the weapons that have high MR requirements aren't even that good. Like I can run around with wisp prime at MR 3 but can't have the Acceltra until MR 8 lol.
New warframe grinds have sucked, Voruna, Citrine, and Kullervo. It shouldn't be faster to farm plat to buy something than farm it...
@@sosa8549 good luck getting acceltra blueprint in the first place lol, it's expected at 80 demolyst kills (let's say you do 4 each 5min you're here for at least 1h40 min) stats says it's guaranteed at 549 kills -+ 183 kills, the grind is hard for a nerfed weapon x')
The mid-game treats you so well, and all the bells ring at the right moments.
Oh shit hi umbral
nice seeing you here Umbral
that's true
In my opinion the game really begins when you hit the Second Dream quest. The story from there onwards is one of the most interesting and emotional stories I have ever played through byt there's just so much filler content you have to work through before you get that
same imo.im finished the quest today and it starts to get way better.started trading,farming primes for plats and almost at sedna already.i have 230 hrs on destiny,and 60 on warframe,but i already feel warframe is way better
yea the game 's plot stars after 100+ plus
Agreed
Yeah, Warframe has a 20h tutorial, then you create your character
Second dream only was so good because suddenly several missing puzzle pieces revealed integral parts of the story. The Lotus who was believed to be a mere screen image until then appears in flesh and blood for the first time. Then the character creation after some of us already spent hundreds of hours in the game! The superb musical score. Yeah, it was a mindblowing experience then back in the days. But now for new people rushing the game? I doubt it.
The Rell quest is good. The rest of the storytelling in Warframe is lackluster and relies heavily on unreliable narration, information hiding and worst of all multiverse shenanigans.
My advice to new tennos is:
1. Focus on clearing the star chart. 95% of new player questions is answered by that.
2. Plat is for slots.
3. Join a dojo.
4. Google the wiki. The Help channel can give answers, but learning how to look up your questions will be faster.
Welcome to the grind.
I'd like to add one to this list: keep the foundry busy, it helps with having to wait three days for a frame to craft if you have different warframe and a bunch of weapons ready to play with.
plat is for looking FABULOUS AND FASHIONABLE
necroing a yt comment but plat is for slots only until you understand the simple mechanic of getting it.
@@Arxgxmi honestly i never really needed that many slots once you really get into the game you start just cycling the same few weapons over and over and the rest are just mr fodder slots hell i just use my grimoire for every build i do since its so versatile (i love having max fire rate and multishot on the thing)
As a new player you don't need to feel rushed to catch up to the vets. This game is old and still has everything that it started with minus a few redundant features. Getting help from the community is easy as there are alot of people willing to help out new players, just dont let someone carry you as it will leave you bored. I would also recommend joining a clan as there are alot of items only available in clan dojos. Its easy to get overwhelmed by everything available to do so I recommend focusing only on one or two aspects at a time, dont worry everything will still be there later. Dont invest too much in normal frames that have a prime version, and you can look in the codex on your ship to see which ones have prime versions. Getting through the second dream questline is probably the biggest milestone of the game and has the largest impact on the game. I'm a near 10 year vet and I can tell you there is no wrong way to play... unless you use the randomizer option in the customization screen.
that only 1 button😂
You gotta admit it's a bit of a rush to have some higher mastery players taxi you to a place you are NOT ready for and helping you stay alive against opponents you are NOT qualified for. XD, good times.
@@yvaincallipso84I LOVE taxi-ing baby tenno to Hydron, having them sit in a corner, and then nuking everything with my Deathball Gara.
your last line made me laugh🤣its true tho only mental people do that. But with the normal frames that have prime i do agree
thats what i always did and still do but with the mannoth or what ever its called where you feed your ship, it helps to have normal frames but there i wpuld say go through all the abilities that you can get and only feed those that are worth feeding.
Rolling Random in customization gets you some beautiful combinations you would never have thought of yourself. Roll once twice a thousand times for the Warframe God of Fashion.
"take your time" is probably the advice i would have given myself lol
it is one of the best games at pacing all the different concepts and mechanics out for new players but imo there are some things you can miss if you just rush through the starchart/story without trying out new things/checking out the side content
Just an FYI you can customize your HUD colors as well and the interior design of your ship and place decoration through out it
@michaelbenecke1842 how do you changed the colors inside your ship?
@@Dolphinball4414 menu, equipment, orbiter, change what you want
@jayshieh4414 pull up your menu go to equipment then you will see at the bottom where it says orbiter you'll find all you options there from lighting to placing objects and even changing the type of ship you use
@@michaelbenecke1842 thank you.
First at all, welcome to the Warframe community, I hope you enjoy the journey (and strongly recommend do not watch any of the story spoilers). Also, the Warframe starter's experience has been revamped many times over the years. Although it's still not perfect, I'm glad that at least some of DE's effort has been paid off. I would be interested in how you feel after you play a litter longer.
See you in the Origin System :)
Thank you!
Hey @@ashortginger I'm glad you've woken up. Building your Warframe is pretty intimidating but i looks like you've got a good handle on it. My advice is this when modding weapons you'll want a damage up and an elemental mod. Mods are better when upgraded despite eating more capacity. And finally every frame and weapon is different, so they'll need subtlety different mods.
Also when you get your hands on an Orixan catalyst or reactor. Pop that on something you intend on keeping. They're not super precious but they're rare enough.
Good luck out there Tenno
@@ashortgingeranother tip that is not obvious, is everything minus a handful of event and prime cosmetics can be farmed for free, either by grinding or by trading the stuff you grinded for, for platinum and then getting it in the market
If you want to spend money on plat. Get one of the seasonal bundles like Tennocon packs .
Best bang for your buck. And you get to support the devs.
$40 a year is more than fair for any level of player I'd say. And very cheap by any MMOs standard.
THE OROGIN SYSTEM!!
Dude , dude. This game , is NUTS. It’s basically like free energy, the more you play , the more you get to see , the more you understand and the more little goals you will start to set up for yourself. There is so much content and little things to find that even I , after playing for 7 years , i still get surprised. Once you get a good taste of the game , this game will grab you by the balls and it won’t let go. It’s too good.
There are many who are turned off by crafting time. My advice, don't be. Don't rush craft times. At the point where you now have begun the .5-3 day craft process for an item is the break period wherein you can re-situate and determine what your next goals are and get some pre-work done. This game is only ever as hard as you make it and it rewards setting yourself up by putting extra time in things not immediately related to your goals. Everything builds up your toolbox, regardless of if it's currently related or not.
You mentioned you believe grind gets worse in late game. From a person with it since closed beta, I'd argue the opposite. Late game, you have all the tools and all the access. The tool-set and the access determines the difficulty, not the goalpost. Lacking variety in your tools or full access to all avenues to get a job done is what can drive people to hate their lives because they lack the knowledge of the easier paths.
Don't feel rushed to get to the end, there is way too much game to this game. It is generally joked that the first 200 hours is a tutorial phase, wherein then you get a proper handle on things. And the majority of us old players will help any task or answer any question, knowing a good portion of the game's systems can be obtuse to people with a less deep background in gaming.
IGN: NoLife
There is also an app for the game that lets you access your foundry and claim and craft stuff. There's not anything more Warframe than building Forma at work lmao.
Your life philosophy was completely unnecessary
@@ten7554 So was your response, but we all still exist and do it anyways don't we?
seriously, the best part about crafting is that when you finish your grind, you can start cooking an item, then just go do something else
Oh I was thinking if crafting time was still a thing because this is what originally made me quit the game. Thx for mentioning that, I definitely won’t be playing it then lol
The game overall looks really cool and generally I enjoyed the gameplay but when trying to get anything it’s either grind your ass off (which I’m actually fine with) AND then wait a billion years for crafting to finish (which I’m not fine with) or just pay to skip the process. If I’m playing the game I wanna play the game and not have some artificial craft time when I already put in that much time grinding for the stuff. Ye so in conclusion, I’m definitely not gonna play this game again in that case, what a bummer
What the mess, thank you all for the kind words and support! I’ll have an update video once I’m further in the game, but if you want to stick around, I make a lot video essays about my favorite games
Modding is a very tough system to learn at first, but once you do it's so very rewarding. I would highly recommend looking up some video tutorials for that and how the damage system works. Since without knowing how the damage works in the game, you can't mod properly.
Most of the fun in the game comes from experimenting with builds, both the meta ones and non-meta. The further you get, the more Warframe, weapon, and mod selections you have, the more fun it'll be to just start trying on wacky and meme builds.
Not going to lie, I sometimes spend more time testing out mod combinations than I do actually playing the game. It can be incredibly simple, or incredibly complex and can completely change how you play with your frame or weapons. The main thing is the same as with a lot of Warframe, which is just don't let it intimidate you.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this to you yet but something I highly recommend as a beginner in Warframe is to join a Dojo! you can just type out new player and looking to join one it really helps out because in a dojo it unlocks so much weapons and stuff to the game as well as a mini community of active players!
4:03 Please do not hit "Auto-Install" EVER !
My recommendation is to focus on your mastery rank at least till 7 that is wear you unlock most weapons and features(or atleast a good chunk) and also trust me on this it’ll suck really bad but get it done sooner rather than later complete every node on the star chart as you go along it’ll save you a lot of agony later
Any specific way to focus on that?
equipping things you dont have maxed mastery on. build every weapon and warframe you possibly can and max them. when clearing the star chart, its something you can do passively. @@ashortginger
build frames and weapons like there's no tomorrow and get them to level 30. Levelling equipment completing the star chart gives mastery xp which you need to increase your mastery rank (MR). As was said there's certain milestones to hit where a bunch of things open up, not just weapons. They're generally considered to be around MR 5, 7, and 14. It's not something to focus on, just to keep an eye on in the background.@@ashortginger
@@ashortgingerYou level things up that you haven’t leveled before so (warframes and weapons)and as a beginner that’s pretty much every thing so don’t focus on one gun or warframe just yet.
Reach higher mastery ranks and get a lot better weapons
@@ashortginger your mastery rank exp goes up when you master/level weapons and warframe so I would max rank/level all your weapons and warframe there are some weapons you can buy with credits instead of with platinum buying those will
Also help other than that look up some early level mastery grind locations until you get to Hydron on Sedna to help quicken the grind
This game's progression system is damn near perfect to me. It's why I keep coming back to it and still love playing it even after all these years. There's always something to work towards.
This is one of the few games i wish i could forget and have the new game experience again. Im about 4k hours deep and the game has run its course for me but anyone that can find even close to the amount of joy I've gotten from Warframe, I'm really happy for you.
One thing you should learn is what mods are your priority in a build because some mods are REALLY bad and a huge waste of time (an example is elemental resistance mods like warm coat for example). It is definitely worth looking up a cheap build for a very basic weapon and seeing what stuff people choose to use in the build since it provides a rough idea of what mods you should upgrade early on. Also if a mod looks really fancy, it is likely from a specific place/mission in the game not just from a random mission/planet so it might require a check on the wiki.
With modding, you mainly focus on one or two things at a time. If there is any room left after, QOL stuff. The list of things to prioritise at the start:
- Weapons: Critical chance, critical damage and Status chance (Can be used to tell if a weapon is worth your time atm. Good stats are >=20% and >=2x for a critical weapon with 20% status for a status weapon BEFORE MODDING. If a weapon meets all 3 then you can make it however you want)
- Warframes: One or two main abilities then survivability. (I say abilities before survivability because they are what makes the individual warframes unique. Otherwise we would all use inaros, grendal or hildryn as they have the highest EHP in the game, despite inaros requiring a rework)
Anything can be good depending on how much you invest into it.
As long as you focus on the outline above then you can't go too wrong. More details are only necessary later in the game once you start getting into steel path (hard star chart).
Couple bonuses are:
- The status effects are more important than their damage bonuses
- Primes aren't generally that much better than the base model. They come with more polarities (symbols in the top right of some slots) and some higher base stats (only survivability in warframes)
- Using sites like overframe and looking at youtube videos can be great, they can sometimes get ahead of themselves.
- The most important thing is that you have fun!
Its crazy how i still have mods from launch like seration
I'm MR 26, could be max MR but my philosophy with this game has always been take your time with it. Once you get to the "end" you'll find that you will miss the times when things felt obtuse and confusing cause you're geared up for all content and rewards start to feel less exciting. Also it's OK to take breaks and come back cause by the time you do there will be plenty to do and get, there's certainly things that need improving, grinds that need to be phased out or lessened but I think Rebecca has a better understanding about that than Steve, which is exciting for what they can for the game going forward.
I've been around since founders and max MR17 on 2 accounts.
I stuck around since the second dream update and been just sitting at max MR24
AS a player that has picked up the game back when it released and playing on since then your perspective on the gmae is very bare and yet full of insights.
I wish DE would capitalize more off of perspectives like yours.
The game is in a massive need of some sort of streamlining process. Making things more available and WAY faster. The mid-game is where this game really shines. When you are about the 15-25 Frame range I'd say. You got the hang of the game, you can move fairly quickly and finished some of the major grinds in the game already. But not yet hit steelpath or quite understood how amps work and how you get them. Thats when I had the most fun. I was hooked and very interested in all of the different things but also had a significant backlog of stuff I could be "proud" of already.
And I feel like that players should reach this point more quickly... like instead of multiple weeks if not months to reach that it should be comfortable reachable within 2-3 weeks max. There is no reason at all that weapons for example still take 12h to finish or frame to take about 4 days~ with the parts included. Those are the major pain points for beginners.
About your concerns with platinum and the market you ve expressed in the end of your video. Do not over emphasize this part. Later on in the game there is plenty to do to grind out platinum. Those farms reach from slow but steady to fast but volatile. I myself sit on about 40000 Platinum right now just from rolling some Riven Mods every week. The game is very good at rewarding your long term. But nowadays I feel like Generation "tiktok" does not have the mental capacity anymore to be "excited" for something and grind towards bigger goals. They need constant dopamine input and flickering lights....
I just wrote down what my thoughts immediately after watching your video were. I apologize for the lack of structure :D
Good sht, keep it up, Tenno! :clem:
Welcome aboard and swazdo-lah, Tenno! It's always great to see folks coming into the Origin System for the first time, especially coming off the back of Destiny in specific. I personally went Warframe > Both > Just Warframe so I know the exact feeling, and it's such a world of difference.
just a tip as a beta player veteran , the first 20 hours ish of the game will be mostly farming and unlocking new nodes, keep up with doing that caue at around that time the quest start to open up for you and the systems unlock + story quests are amazing, u think u know warframe from the first few horus played, but i encourige you to atleast try to unlock half of the map before giving up, once u hit first cinematic quest ur journey will begin
also ignore openworlds untill u finish the star chart, come back to them once uve done everything else, beacue each openworld will take a long time to complete, and new players make a mistake and invest into those worlds early on, and they get no progress done, also openworlds scale enemy level from the entrance point further, so further u go the harder enemy will be, and as a new player ur not ready, so the exploring of the map becomes annoying and sometimes imposssible with no upgrades
@@niblothecactus1735I wouldn't say outright ignore open world's. Getting to lvl3 on them doesn't take that long and with that you have access to a decent amount of parts for Zaws and kitguns both of which can be pretty powerful for early on as well as late
@@tylerprime6741 i get that, but a lot of new players get stuck in there some for even more then tens of hours beacuse they dont know its like a mini game in itself... and then they get tired of the game without even reaching first cinematic cause they think thats it
@@niblothecactus1735 loool when i started warframe, cetus just came out and i was lost in that sauce for 40 hours :D no regrets honestly. grinded low level bounties, slowly leveled the standing.
There are 3 main things that Warframe does strictly better than Destiny 2
1) Player ekspression
In warframe you can, as you show, customize your warframe in a multitude of ways. But that is not all. You have your personal area, your ship, that you can recolor and decorate. These areas grow as you progress and you even get a few more different areas to decorate if you are into that. Your pets can also be customized with skins, color and dodads. Even your UI can be customized with various themes. And then we have Dojo. Clan hangouts that you can build in unison and they can get crazy elaborate. The big drawback to all this is that most of the cosmetics and decorations come from the platinum (real money) market. I personally think this is fair in a F2P game but I am sure there are good reasons why I might be wrong.
Another part of player ekspression is that you get to make dialogue choices at certain points in the story. They are few and far between and they are largely without consequence but they give you a feeling of agency even if the agency is entirely fake.
2) Personal Story
The story in D2 is about other people doing their thing. Your character is a piece of card-board unconcerned with what happens around them. The moral dilemmas that informs the actions of other people are non-existent for the player character. You may have your head-canon about your character but the game is not interested.
In Warframe the story (when it gets started) is about you. You may not be the center of every story but you are directly involved. You don't feel like a bistander that could or should be replaced with anyone else. Your character makes important decisions and mistakes. You are the one learning about your history and the history that molded you. It does this even to a fault, where the only time we see signs of a community of Tenno is when we interact with an outcast off said community.
3) Power Fantasy
In D2 you are essentially a dude with a gun with powers. You powers are not central, your gun is. It even snakes itself into the story and lore. Some of the most celebrated stories in the lore are the backstory to weapons you have. The connection between you and a major character that allows you to save him is a shotgun. Bosses are made into weapons that become legend. But it is not you who is powerful. It is your gun. Over the past few years it has gotten better but more often than not they will reign in abilities if they become more powerful than your gun.
Warframe on the other hand relishes the opportunity to let you be overpowered. Be faster, be stronger, be tougher. Only in the most extreme cases do they reign it in and then often reluctantly. Not only that but you can choose how you want to be powerful. The wide array of warframes and weapons that themselves can be modified lends itself to plethora of playstyles; stealth, gunner, swordsman, berzerker, spellcaster, defender, healer, sniper and more. Pick a theme and chances are you can build it. Some of them even come ready made.
It’s also so refreshing seeing a gaming community that isn’t crazy toxic. Ask a noob question in any other game, people will say “fuck you” or some crazy stuff. Ask a question in Warframe or do something on accident, people will say DW!! It’s ok!! Have a wonderful day!! Etc. 😭
I’m honestly in the same boat as you, absolutely obsessed with this game and I hate the state of D2 right now
yeahh d2 isnt so hot rn, what warframe have you been maining?
fr
Same
@@ashortginger minor spoiler but volt is god tier warframe
no matter what content you played he is viable on every mission
@@AmieWnot sure how that's a spoiler lol
Great introspective as a new player. I think the biggest obstacle for new players is just the quantity of stuff in the game. Theres so much to get done just to interact with the full story of what makes warframe worth playing. For example (without spoilers) you gotta grind out things on an open world, or a syndicate, or just clearing the star map for essentially new game+ where most of the players are. The journey IS fun but for some people but for a lot of people its like a 50 hour long demo. Once you have like 50 hours into the game you can take it slow but but its nonetheless an inescapable barrier.
Anyway you mentioned that you were just using auto install for mods, dunno if you stopped doing that but for a new player you mainly just want to increase your warframes survivability - health (vitality) and shields (redirection). For weapons just slap on damage (serration/point blank/hornet strike/pressure point for rifle/shotgun/pistol/melee respectively) You'll be pretty limited on modding space so just focus on these for now. When you get Orokin catalysts and reactors it doubles your modding capacity for whatever you install it on. These are not exactly easy to come by for a new player so id suggest some discretion on how you use them at the start.
If you want to make the grinds more efficient Nekros is a frame you'll want to farm. He can essentially reroll enemy loot tables allowing for faster material collections. And if you dont want to get nekros thats fine too. Later on there are specific nodes that have increased drop rates and people quite often go there to farm, so the likelihood of seeing a nekros (or other frames that can manipulate drop tables) is pretty high.
-Do the duviri paradox stuff as you see fit. It takes maybe like 2-3 hours a week to get through all of it.
-Warframes does have a battlepass, but its free for everyone without a premium version. Its just all free, with rather good rewards. Battlepasses usually last for quite a while and iirc you dont need to do EVERY challenge that comes your way. Lets say one week you only did half of the challenges and the following week you do all of them. Once you do all of the challenges you start recovering ones you skipped, so it really is just super chill. This is off the top of my head but usually if you do complete a weeks worth of challenges you get 3-4 levels of the battlepass, which is only 30 levels. After 30 you get a reoccurring reward of currency every level which you might think is worthless but you can directly purchase orokin catalysts AND orokin reactors (as well as other stuff) with the currency.
-We're bound to get an event called Operation Plague Star on the 7th. You want to pick up 10 Exodia Contagions (these are useful for later content). After that grab some cetus wisps's. These things are honestly so annoying to farm. Most of the time when you're grinding out bounties you'll get quite a bit of them, but just grab like 10-15 for now. The real reward here though is Forma. So you know how I said you'll be limited on mod space? Forma is how we fix that.
Mods have polarities and a capacity. Serration, unranked, has a 4V (the proper name for this is madurai but most people call this the V polarity) on the upper right of the mod. Something like Hellfire has a 6- (this is called naramon but most people call it dash). When you rank mods up they get stronger but also cost more capacity. Logically you must already be thinking "Okay so a weapons max rank is 30, so thats 30 capacity. And an orokin catalyst doubles that to 60 but If i have a couple mods that cost 11-15 capacity how am I filling all 8 slots of the weapon?" and the answer is forma. Once you install a forma (done through the action button on the lower part of the modding screen) you'll be prompted to add a polarity into a slot, and by clicking repeatedly you can cycle through the polarities. If you added a V polarity and then placed serration into that slot you will notice the capacity serration takes up is now cut in half. If you looked at your volt it should have a Dash and V already with another V in the aura slot. Auras are a whole other thing that would take another paragraph to explain. Anyway, some weapons and frames already come with polarities so modding them is relatively simple. Other times you might be wanting to change the polarities completely to better fit your build. This is all to say that forma is pretty important.
While this event is nice to get forma there are other ways as well so theres no real FOMO here. Its just nice to get a couple for now while also participating in an event.
Honestly my mind is kinda fried as its pretty early. IF you, or any other new player reading this, wants help send me a friend request in game. My ign is Spellbinding. I completely understand if you dont want to play with veterans because lets be honest we're all at the point where we can press two buttons and nuke the map. But yknow if you want to just get those defense/excavation missons done for your starchart, or want to go farm some argon (I HATE ARGON RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) let me know.
As a Warfarme vet for about 7 years now, I gotta say you hit the nail on the head with what I felt when first getting into this game. There’s 10 years of content to engage with so I can understand if it’s overwhelming at first but the community is so accepting and open to new players that you can ask anything in chat and someone will answer. Glad to see another Tenno who joined from Destiny
returned a few months ago after about an 8 year hiatus from the game. I swear I fell in love all over again, the community has gotten a lot more negative though, especially trading chat, I'm receiving no hospitality and just straight up rude people who brag that they are better then me every second they can (which i find more funny then hurtful bc its j warframe lol) but the game has taken an extreme leap from what it used to be, i am mesmerized.
Modding is probably the biggest barrier to entry (besides gear slots). But I think it has a satisfying learning curve from: "not having any clue wtf you're doing" to "being able to tune all of your gear to exactly the way you like while still being able to vaporize practically anything" You're constantly learning the modding system and get better and better at it over time. I'm still learning new stuff after 6+ years of playing near constantly. *But* watching modding guides is basically mandatory.
The mid game is the best. When you're strong enough to do whatever you want and haven't fully completed anything so you can kindof just do pretty much anything you feel like doing and be making progress. Late game is basically when you've done everything you enjoy and the only stuff left is what you don't. and early game is kindof a slog because you're locked out of most of the game and don't know what you should be doing.
Welcome to the Warframe community! Great video you put out here!
Just remember that it's ok to give the game 2 weeks to 2 months breaks in between grinds if you ever feel like you're getting burned out by it. Doesn't make it a bad game.
I've been playing since 2013 on and off, and I've never once not had it installed on my PC. I always enjoy going back and catching up on new content.
As a 5 year veteran I would like to welcome you and any other Tenno joining this wonderful game there is so much to do and different experiences for different PlayStyles and yes it can be very confusing, but we have a huge and nice community theirs sure to be a video for anything you need on yt and if there’s not there’s a dedicated help channel where experienced tennos will be
More than glad to help you no need to be embarrassed or scared to ask for help I’ve been playing for 5 years and still get confused just have fun and play how you like. Good luck :).
The game really has a certain kind of charm to it. Idk how to put it into words
Also, lots of players r really kind. Some of them will actually go out of their way to help new players
It is true. Warframe community has the nicest and kindest people. Rarely any toxicity as strangers willing to help one another to make the game even more enjoyable.
Can't wait to see your journey here Ten ze- I mean Tenno!
All hail the wall of bone, tenno. May your travels be filled with love and joy between the grind...you have no idea what youve gotten yourself into and i'd love to see you make content on some of the more important content as you get to it. Cheers!
I think your video essay was great and displays a lot of what Warframe excels and hinders in. I personally think new player experiences are awesome and I love hearing the thoughts about the game. One message that I always leave with my clan is to not make the game a chore and do for them what is fun.
Fun fact you can have not only your own jetpack also you can have your own spaceship (railjack) .
Ay YO
Yup, you can drive it with 3 other players (everyone has different role, like pilot, gunner etc.) or if you prefer going solo, you can hire crewmates npcs on Fortuna. Also you can use your archwing (jetpack) to fly out of it if you want, the maps are much bigger too.
Also developers made sure to make it much easier to obtain (I'm pointing that 'cause before it was a nightmare to grind for it xD), so all you have to do is to complete quest and you're pretty good to go✌️
I'm in te game since 2020 and I love it, my only recommendation is to have fun and don't rush trough the progression to get to the end game stuff, a lot of cool stuff in warframe is the history you will find after you get to chain of harrow quest and neptune nodes, so take your time and enjoy
love to see new players in Warframe, I'm glad you are enjoying the game and I honestly believe that Warframe is highly underappreciated.
Been playing Warframe since 2016 after ditching Destiny 1. One of the best decisions I ever made. Specially seeing how Destiny has progressed over the years.
My playstyle usually consists of Exerpimentation for Maximum Fun. I look up builds to see what is necessary. Then have fun seeing what sort of ways I can interpret my own weird builds.
Welcome to the community! Devstreams and Gift Alerts are about every Friday, press interact when you stand next to your dog, and don't forget to show some love to our boy Ordis. Its good to have you 😊
Hit the nail on the head as a new player...been playing for years solo, and the key of this game in my point of view is makeing your own fun, just live in the universe and play for fun and (as you said) advancements...if youre looking for linear gameplay, it can be abit difficult cause of the many systems at play wanting you to experiment
As a Warframe veteran with nearly 4k hours over the course of the last few years (shocked myself just now), the most glaring fault I could see is thus:
Level up your mods!
Low level mods have barely noticeable effects compared to their fully upgraded contemporaries which can provide massive boosts such as +200% damage
I recommend focusing on the essentials like Damage, Multishot, Critical Chance/Status Chance (*usually* depending on which is higher), HP, Shields and Energy
It is almost always better to use one fully upgraded mod dedicated to a single stat than to use several low level mods just to fill out the slots - that's where reactors/catalysts and Forma come into play later on
Bonus tip: Warframes have a special mod slot for so called "Aura Mods" which instead of taking up capacity actually *increase* it; these can be earned by trading in Nightwave Credits earned from Nora Night
Hope that helps!
I think the gameplay loop is not just about leveling up to be more efficient but also to increase your power overall things do get pretty tough if your gear isn’t up to par
Hi, I'm a closed beta player with almost 2500 hours. Welcome to Warframe! I hope more D2 players like you see that there's a great alternative to that game. I feel like Warframe doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It's the game that every live service game wishes it could be. You're doing good so far. Keep unlocking nodes and doing the quests. The wiki is a good resource to use but be careful not to spoil yourself. Looking forward to your next update with the game.
As someone who joined during the pandemic, A lot of quality improvements have been shown up over the years. And the developers have dev streams on a consistent basis. Even on Twitch, they have a drop system in place that for a certain amount of time that you watch, you get free goodies, some are decorations, but others are fully built frames, and slots to have them in your inventory.
Also, some of the more powerful weapons and frames, the prime variants specifically, they can be rotated or "Vaulted" Ingame and you can't access them anymore. HOWEVER, they had introduced the "Prime Resurgence" back in 2021, and it has been a mainstay since 2022 and every month, you can get Vaulted relics for two frames and their weapon sets.
I think every veteran Warframe player's heart dropped at 4:04... Oh you sweet summer child.
First off, welcome new tenno. Always cool to see newbies running around. If you like the game then you have so much to look forward to as you progress through the star chart and get new quests and frames and weapons. When you get to the second dream and the war within quests is where it gets really spicy. Wont spoil anything for you but i am a 6 year veteran of warframe and i still love it to this day. Some things to go ahead and learn as you begin to progress. First is basic modding. You will eventually hit a gate where not knowing how to make basic builds will begin making the game harder. Not saying you learn every single detail as the modding system is quite deep and you will get lost if you go to deep to fast , but a basic understanding of mods will really help. The other thing i would say to learn as a new player is really drive home learning movement. In warframe speed is life and its fun, so really learn that movement. Another piece of advice i would give is stay away from the open worlds until you are a midgame player. The open worlds are new player friendly but they are built for mid and late game players. There is stuff you simply cant do until you are mid game because you dont have the tools necessary. Again welcome to the tenno family, and if you got questions or need help literally just reach out in game chats or forums or whatever and most people will help you. Warframes community is great.
As a warframe veteran im really glad seeing you enjoy the game, it can get overwhelming but just play at you peace. It is a game with a really cool power fantasy.
You seem to be doing a lot better, than most newbies. I am responsible for taking care of our clan newbies. One thing you should do, is to find an actually active clan.
The grind really isn't too bad if one is playing organically. It gets rough if you're hunting for one specific thing and nothing else
nice to see another person playing warframe, been playing it for the last 10 years, and love to see new players.
Welcome baby tenno! We are happy to have you, and hope you stick with it long enough to get to the good parts, and the meat of the game. I was shocked you said the new player experience was good. Usually the new player experience is widely agreed to be the weakest part of warframe. I guess if you are coming from destiny its better in comparison, but regardless im glad you are enjoying it!
One thing I appreciate Warframe for is being able to trully solo stuff. Like, do missions and no random can join or only friends could. Even better that you can _pause_ the actual game if you set yourself as Solo; something that's really appreciated especially if things come up while in the middle of a mission/quest.
always great to fee a new tenno enjoying the game. to me the best thing about this game is its community. if you ever need help just ask either here in the comments or in the help chat.
And as you can tell by now, the Warframe community is always online to support Warframe video reviews and welcome everyone to the game.
One big plus for new players is the fact that you will never be forced into random stat allocation in order to play the game. Every Warframe and arsenal (weapons+), will always have the same base stat, so you will never need to craft the same item several times in hopes to get the optimized version of it.
If you can go down the rabbit hole of all of the lore, then the story really comes together and the game is even more amazing. I started playing about 2 years ago and haven't stopped. The community is great and I've made so many friends. I can't wait to see what they do next.
Welcome to Warframe! Its definitely a grind game and it does get repetitive sometimes. I tend to go in and out of it every few months. I would definitely recommend turning on Global play so you can run missions with groups, makes the grind go by alot quicker! I also enjoy putting on Octavia and playing Baby Shark the entire mission 😈
Even though I stoped playing wf for now, I'd love to follow your wf journey, hope you complete most of later quests. Looking forward to see how it goes for you 😊
What a coincidence seeing this video just now. I've played Warframe on its debut, when it was pre-installed on the PS4. It was fun, but extremely simple. I baraly played it.
Then I got a ROG Ally a couple of days ago. It had Steam on it, and Warframe as a free-to-play online game. I got it back. And DAMN, talk about a MASSIVE upgrade over the years.
I literally jawdropped at how damn much this game has evolved with content. It looks and feels like a current gen game, and it's free!
Yeah good decision, this game is awesome and the Story really hitted me after Second Dream. The only downside is that you need a wiki to play this game, but the overall vibe of the game is just phenomenal and definitely the best Sci Fi MMO out there. My tips are to switch Weapons to get the mastery rank ups way faster and go the main path, that the game is telling you. Do not grind on things you don't need and only grind if you want it. Also take yourself challenges and explore the game mechanics to make your experience more flashed out. I have almost 200 Hours in this game and it still feels fresh in some cases. I never played an MMO before between, but I guess it is the best Free To Play MMO out there. Keep it up!
as someone who played the Destiny 1 free beta up to now with final shape and Warframe sense the the tralier for the arkwing I appreciate this a lot more than I can say with words.
I played warframe years ago for the first time and had a decent enough time with it then but I eventually gravitated towards destiny. Played Destiny for the next like 6 years after that and I got to a point where I was so sick of the gameplay loop of destiny and how LITTLE it respected your time, that I made the decision to uninstall it once and for all after over 6000 hours in the game. Recently got back into warframe due to a friends recommendation and I'm honestly amazed at the sheer amount of content, the fact that next to nothing has really been removed since release (looking at you sunsetting) and at just how much fun the game is. The grind can be tough and even annoying at times, but its so rewarding when you finally craft that frame you've been working towards, or when you finally get all the parts for that prime weapon you've been hunting. I'm sitting at around 1000 hours in warframe right now and I can easily see that number increasing pretty quickly over the next few years. At this point its the only live service game I play other than the occasional game of league with my friends, or CoD when I want a more typical shooter experience, and I have 0 complaints. Maybe I'll go back to Destiny when the new expansion drops, and if they end up fixing some of its glaring issues, but this is definitely my preferred looter shooter these days.
It is always fun to listen a new Warframe players expirience. Welcome to the game. I am genuinely surprised that you liked "tutorial" part. I mean I know from patchnotes that devs almost every update try to improve new player expirience but considering that I started playing when there was literally zero tutorial apart from first basic controls mission and the "new player expirience" meme in Warframe community it is pretty weird to hear. It means that devs did a pretty good job.
I have been playing Warframe for 6 years now. When I first started playing Warframe you can get Syndicates standing by the emblem they provided and because I didn’t know at the beginning I had every single syndicate against me. My recommendation is to get started leveling up at least two syndicates you like. Now days whenever you unlock syndicate you can simply go to the front part of your ship, at the left of the navigation area you'll see the syndicate thing, choose one you like and level it up! Try as well getting the standing for the open world syndicates (The ones on Cetus, Fortuna, and the Cambion Drift) because they unlocked a lot of cool things. Other recommendation that I will say to be great is try watching a guide on how modding works, I know that with time you'll definitely learn how to mod, but there is weapons and warframes that benefit a lot from other stats. One last recommendation I can provide is to use your Endo for upgrading mode wisely, because at the beginning of the game is very limited and try using it in essential mods such as Serration for rifle, Hornet Strike for secondaries, Continuity and Intensify for Warframes, etc. Those kind of mods that will part of almost every single build you will make.
another thing you didn't mention was the trading system and the community. you can easly grind some items and sell them for platinum(the buyable currency) so all the IAPs are also obtainable for free. i have spent tons of platinum on fashion or just grind skips and i never spent a dollar in the game. and the community is also really helpful and nice towards everyone which is also a good point
It constantly amazes me the level and frequency of output, polish, attention to detail, innovation, constantly updating and changing up the meta, that Digital Extremes brings to the FREE game, and how it dwarfs and puts to shame the vast majority of “triple A” full price games being released these days. It’s just crazy.
honestly this game is my comfort one its a brilliant one to get on and chill whilst listening to music or watching a show and grinding stuff that slowly progresses you
other than certain cosmetics you can get EVERYTHING in the game for free and do any type of end game content without ever spending a dime, i’ve played Destiny since 2013 and Warframe since 2015, quit destiny as of lightfall, i’ve got the platinum trophy on playstation and have done everything possible but as the years have passed the game just felt lacking and didn’t keep me enticed, Warframe however has always kept me on my toes, the mystery of the universe has always been there and still keeps me there to this day, I’m max MR21, probably MR24 but i haven’t done my mastery rank challenges in a long long time haha just grinding frames and weapons and it’s beautiful, welcome to the fight tenno
0:07 "freeze time"
lol
As a former D2 player myself, I feel you, I quit when CRAPFALL was released and just like many other players, I needed a different game to cure my interplanetary looter shooter itch, so I decided to try Warframe, and boy oh boy, I got hooked, I do not miss anything from Destiny at all.
The one thing I love the most about Warframe is that it respects your time as a player, you see, I started playing during the spring of last year and played till early fall, I paused the game to focus on Lies of P and some other games, I resumed about a month ago and the builds that I made last year were strong as they were back then, meanwhile in D2 you need to grind your ass week after week to keep up with the rest, or you'd be left behind, that is such a BS tactic from Bungie just trying to keep the player engaged with their game. Every time there's a new season your builds become irrelevant and you need to start from scratch, I say F that, I have a life, Bungie can stick their stupid game up their dark sector...
Digital Extreme is such an efficient studio, they've done everything Bungie could not even though they are just a 3rd of the size of Bungie:
1- A single game with 12 years worth of content
2-A gazillion different classes
3-Infinite MODS that won't go irrelevant
4-Instead of vaulting content they remastered it
5-An extremely good new user experience
6-So many gameplay mechanics
7-ABSOLUTELY FREE
I can go on but you get the picture.
I've started playing Warframe this year (around end of July) and recently finished The War Within quest. Some people commented me with "gratz for completing the tutorial" xD Content is absolutely massive, amazes me every day and it's actually completely free. Will stick with Warframe for a looong time, because I also cannot stop playing :v
PS. For those who don't know - quest "The War Within" unlocks around 120 hours into game if you don't buy anything and grind your way in. Therefore I've got comments about finishing tutorial after 120 hours. Nothing weird, that some have 4000 h then :D
Warframe also has what is probably the most lenient "battle pass" system of any game. It's 100% free, no premium version of it. You gain experience for it through daily and weekly challenges, but if you can't play for a week or joined the game late in a pass season, if you complete enough of the weekly challenges it will start to give you access to the previous week's challenges so you still have the opportunity to earn everything in the pass. Some of the rewards for the pass are credits that you can use for the passes merchant and you can continue to gain these credits even after you hit the final rank of the pass, letting you buy loads of resources and items that you'd otherwise need to buy with the premium currency.
I'm a 4yr player myself. It can seem very overwhelming at times with the grind. BUT, there's so many things that you can build with each mastery rank that you can stagger building and just constantly play without realistic burnout. Just pacing yourself and play to your personal likes and styles. . .you won't burnout like many say. I'm level capped and still not burnt out in any way. The game is so fluid with its movement mechanics, fun with customizing not just appearances but the functionality of your gear, and gives so many options across 53 frames and tons of weapons to truly synergize your preferential play style. It's a great game to really just dive in and have fun with!
you dont get over whelmed, its like what do I want to do today....So many things to go do. You havent even scratched the surface yet. Loving the vibe.
as someone who started around the same time as you, ngl i did pay to skip the grind but doing the grind is fun as well. unless something that im not willing to or not have access yet. i do feel jealous of the vets but realizing i would reach their stage in couple of weeks is honestly mental.
theres a little pay to skip, but most of what i've personally spent money on is weapon/warframe slots. you mostly hit this problem once your collection of weapons you like surpasses the free slots you get from ranking up. its not *too* expensive, and platinum, the in game premium currency, can be traded for from other players (even a new player can farm things that have value, void relics are a good place to start). 2000+ hours in game, feel free to ask anything about game mechanics, weapons, or general game knowledge. vast majority of WF community will be helpful, the game is massive and every one of its players has needed help at one point or another.
I came back to Warframe on a brand new account about a month ago because of the Prime Resurgence Event where I knew I could grab two of the frames I knew I would want from my time playing it 6 years ago. I played off and on for about a year back then but there were things I think perhaps I thought were too daunting or obtuse at the time to do so I moved on. I'm SO GLAD I came back because I have been having so much fun again, and in just a few weeks time I've accomplished more than I did for the duration of my previous time playing.
I think my advice to you (if you're still playing, I'm writing this 4 months later) is don't worry about if something seems daunting just try it and see, or look up one video on the subject you want to tackle and then maybe try doing it shortly after. You mentioned the mods for instance - mods are SUPER important. I think you've discovered by now that you're not gonna get very far without them.
Started playing about 8 months after launch. It’s a great game, good fun play, great movement, fun abilities. A recommendation for new players is to make quests your primary objective. Quests introduce you to most of what the game has to offer and is a good way to avoid burnout when grinding for frames or weapons you want to try out.
Learn how to properly mod your weapons and frames. It’s very important and will make your pea shooter rifle shred the normal star chart. The Warframe community is really nice and very helpful, ask in chat or look up guides if you are stuck or confused (the wiki will be your friend as well).
I love this game and am always happy to see new players enjoying it as well!
I found this game 2 weeks ago and its incredible. Its so good that i almost cant believe it. Its like if your imagination was in control of your childhood action figures combined with every fantasy movie you’ve ever seen
As a person who started playing warframe at 2023 all i can do is to suggest this game to other players it is been 2 weeks and game is already amazing
bro the sound tracks give me shivers game has gave me many fun times and i love the game 1200 hours in the game such a fun game man
Been reading some of the comments here. Lots of really good info. One thing that nobody mentioned is to join a clan. I recommend you join a clan to get access to trading post and clan tech weaponry, gears and accessories. This will go towards leveling your mastery rank.
When i started thr game for the 1st time today, i actually fellt something I haven't in ages while watching the intro of the game.
I WAS EXCITED TO PLAY!!
The combat and door hacking is a bit janky, but i think I'll be able to figure it all out.
7:25 As someone at max mastery rank with thousands of hours in-game, the farm gets easier as you go actually. Around midgame you end up needing to go out of your way to farm a lot of resources because you're more or less constantly crafting weapons, but it's really not that bad from what I can remember (especially if you trade a couple prime parts to get the platinum for a resource booster). Having a Smeeta Kavat (one of the available animal companion types) also helps since it will periodically double the resources you earn from pickups.
I have over 3000 hours in, and it's really fun to watch new people get in and experience it for themselves.
Yes, new player experience is basically the exact same questline as it was since it was introduced in the first place, with the only difference being that incredible intro cutscene, and starting mission being modified with new environment and tying it in with the cutscene. Events and plot in this mission are the exact same as they were.
Something that's also unique to warframe, is that nearly all maps are proceduraly generated. Every time you replay a node you did previously, the rooms and environments will be shuffled in a different way. They connect to each other like lego pieces, so that every time game generates something different. During missions layout and type of enemies is also different, and various events can happen mid-mission. Sometimes there are even hunter kind of enemies that will stalk you in regular missions, interrupting your objective and trying to kill or kidnap you. After a while it does get repetetive, but due to sheer amount of events that can happen in one mission it's not as bad as in other similar games. It's deffinitely a perfect game to listen to podcasts while playing or turning your brain off in some power fantasy :)
I've been playing for many years now on and off. Honestly for the early game, I'd definitely say focus on getting a few things unlocked, and then doing some of the story stuff, since it'll ease you into the setting, unlock features, and give you goals. For the later game once you've played a lot, the main thing is to set your own personal goals. Don't be afraid to look up videos, check out forums, and become very acquainted with the wiki, to find things that interest you and give you something you want to work towards. There is a lot of content in the game, particularly for newer players, so just setting small goals here and there helps keep you from getting overwhelmed.
I will say that there are downsides to the game for sure. it is definitely grindy, particularly for getting some of the rarer weapons and frames, as well as some of the resources you need in bulk. It's managable because the gameplay itself is so good, but it can be taxing. If the grind gets to be too much, take a break to do something else. Go spear fishing on one of the open worlds or even just hang out and talk to people in chats. My personal favorite for killing time is playing around with the shawzins, which are fully playable guitar like instruments you can buy in the store.
On that note, it's worth mentioning that the premium currency for the game, platinum, can be traded between players. As such, it's entirely possible to get pretty much anything in the game aside from a small selection of exclusive items while retaining free to play status. There is a market tab in the chat menus that is entirely for talking with other players to broker deals for items, and most of the time those deals use platinum as the currency unless you have something you're offering up in trade. Prime parts, (obtained from opening relics), and particularly rare mods are the main things you'll see people buying and selling, so it's always an option to open up a few relics and see if anyone is willing to buy the parts you get out of them for a few platinum. You won't make a ton per sale, but it can add up to be enough to let you buy stuff from the shop.
Speaking of which, it's worth noting that there are some shop exclusive items, but they are all purely either cosmetic, decorative, or just to goof off with such as the shawzins I mentioned. Everything you can buy in the shop that has a practical use can be obtained through playing the game in some way or form. Some of them are particularly rare or limited, but you can get them. There's also a fair few items that can only be obtained by playing the game and can't be bought in the shop.
Above all else though with the game, don't be afraid to take a break every now and then. Don't let the fear of missing out keep you from taking a break if you're getting burned out. With only a couple of exceptions, everything that is missable comes back eventually. For me personally, I'll usually come back to the game two or three times a year, play for a good while, then take a break to play other stuff and not come back for a couple of months. It's very much a game to take at your own pace.
Thank you for such a loving video on Warframe. I dropped off Deatiny 2 right after Shadowkeep when they split up the DLC content for more koney, etc, and really played Warframe after that. The Dev team is super loving to their community, and it has a ton of variable content with many warframes to alter the way you play.
I've got a good bit of Warframe content to catch up on, which I'm very excited to get to at some point down the road. Recently I've remembered how great the game customisation is when I found another use for my warframe clan logo.Once you design a clan logo, you can spend a small amount of platinum (the premium currency) to have it added into the game. When we designed our clan logo, we tried to make it recognisable from the outline and easily distinguishable in game. This has made it a really good design to use in other ways, and I've adopted it as a kind of personal seal.
As someone with 3,000 hours in Destiny I needed a new similar thing that I could always dip into so I started giving Warframe a try on and off. 50+ hours at this point I don't see it ever capturing my interest the same as Destiny because the gameplay is a little too monotonous for me (I have borderline fallen asleep multiple times playing it, struggled to keep my eyes open when trying to immerse myself) but I still plan on keeping it in rotation as a multitask game.
Warframe's the literal perfect game to use as a multitasking game when you want to watch a youtube video or podcast on the side when you don't really feel like fully immersing in a game and just want to chill out. There are too many instances where you unlock a new planet and the areas and mechanics all look the exact same as another planet so it's hard to stay too engaged. Maybe eventually after a couple thousand hours of grind i'll start getting to the good stuff that will make me want to immerse and turn the audio on, but so far i'm fine with it just being a multitasking game.
i have been playing warframe for 3 years but i still like watch what new players reaction ~_~
The gameplay loops is both the best and worst thing to Warframe. It's easy to get caught up in the quest for power, but then you reach a point where you can 1 shot everything, and you're still doing the exact same missions over and over. However, if you just hop on and goof around* when you're in the mood for it, it can be a lot of fun.
The roguelite mode was a great addition, because it's something you can just hop into and play with anyone when you're in the mood for some Warframe, without needing to get caught up in the grind.
I also love the clans. Specifically, the dojo, I can go full bananas on decorating the rooms and building it out exactly how I want it.. Gosh I love this game.
Not a long time vet, only a a few years or so. The first tip that I read somewhere has paid dividends for me and that is to loot EVERYTHING when you're playing the missions and just starting out. There are definitely chokepoint materials that require special effort, but the bulk will just be passively stacked up if you make sure to hit every box you find. The other thing I cannot recommend more would be to make sure you're doing as much of the nightfall daily/weeklies that you can (It's the sort of battlepass type thing you can access from bottom right corner on pause menu or from the terminal on your ship). There are usually one or two weapon/warframe slots as rewards as well cosmetics, blueprints, etc that are pretty sweet.
I quit D2 for Warframe years ago and the biggest thing for me is that this game respects your time so much more than other live service type games. Yes it can be super grindy for sure, but when you need a break you can take on without feeling like you'll be completely lost if/when you come back. Prime warframes cycle through constantly, many of the nightfall rewards cycle back through and there isn't really any FOMO to speak of. Glad to see you're having fun, welcome to the game!
You're doing fine. I think WF is best experienced at your own pace. I play it on and off for years now. There's really a lot you'll find out later in the game. But for now, just keep trying out frames and weapons, and going through different planets. Frames will completely play different and some are so unique it's almost game-changing. But again, do it at your own pace. Every now and then you'll stumble upon side quests and at some point the biggest story quests happen and WF reveals a new sides to it.
Like if you were surprised by the Archwing missions, you're probably gonna like Railjack missions (basically space ships you build, customize, and even hire crew members to help you man the ship). I believe you've already gained access to those missions since you have your own Archwing already but it's unnecessary for you right now. But if you do wanna just kinda check out how bigger space missions look like, jump into some other player's Railjack and see for yourself. I honestly love it and wish DE incorporates more of it into the game. Me and my clan mates used to play it as a squad.
I've unlocked over 9 color pallets and around 30-something attachments, all of them for free via gameplay events and modes like Dog Days, Baro Ki'Teer, Nightwave, and even Seasonal Shop Events where a whole special color pallet only costs 1 Credit.
NGL, Pride is one of my favorite starter color pallets simply because of the range of colors it has and the really dark Black.
Imo, The most fun element outside of fashionframe is theory crafting/modding. Picking up a new frame and messing with mods/looking at different builds is super fun.
I have a few clan members that wrote off this one Warframe, so i built it and started testing different mods with it. Then i found a combination that absolutely shreds. They thought i was joking til i started getting all the kills in missions, then they all started using that frame.
Getting people to play with also makes the game extremely enjoyable because everyone has different things they are working on. For example, you might be focused on getting prime Warframes, while your clan mate is focused on Kubrow farming. You'll be able to teach each other different things you've learned and vise versa.
So I was introduced to warframe 3 years ago. Then the guy that got me into it stopped playing, so that was cool. I feel you are correct in that the game does a good job giving you a solid tutorial of the mechanics of the game, though they could go a little more in depth regarding mods. What they game is terrible at, is guiding new players in a direction of any kind. I found out a lot by watching youtube guides, which if I am being honest, without that I might not have stuck around. The story is so rich, and the cinematics are works of art. The energy that goes into this completely free game is way more than you see in most games these days. And the best part for a player like me is that I can burn myself out, not play it for several months, and just come back right where I left off. There is no "you have to be current on this or you will suffer". It may not be my most played game, but it is definitely one of my favorites. My advice to you is to make sure you find a clan that has a lot if not all the blueprints researched. There are 5 warframes you can get from the clan dojo and hundreds of weapons. Welcome to Warframe Tenno!
Been playing for 500 + hrs … still learning new things I never came across while finishing the game. This game is HUGE and you can grind for whatever you what whenever you want . Warframe loses the overwhelming feeling very fast
With how destiny 2 is going i also started playing warframe to find what was missing. And i did. A game that is actually free to play and not free to try, like destiny. Ive had a wonderful experience so far and I've been having just a blast at how free you really are in this game, you can play however you want and still have fun. That was one of the problems i had with destiny 2. There was always a build that just made everything else feel not as viable or certain weapons that you "NEEDED" to have in order to be optimal, otherwise the game became almost impossible/boring. Good thing im not the only one migrating to other games and honestly, im looking forward to more grinding! Have a good one fellow Tenno of the light.
I started playing a around two years ago, was def not a gamer before this game. 429 log in days later I’m sitting at MR22 and can’t stop grinding… welcome Tenno 🤘🏻
Everyone thinks the story is going one way...
..until the back door on the Orbiter opens....
Then you think you know where it's going but you forget that there are two more doors
As someone who's been with this games for 8 years this is honestly the best time for new players to jump in, they've reworked so much and there's so many amazing story missions now that it's easier for everyone to follow with.
Welcome to the community! I only pay for platinum to get better mods since I’ve been playing for so long lol, join a clan to improve some of your experience, I can say, the game just keeps me coming back over and over again. I’m glad it’s bringing new players in!
ahh i remeber that feeling at the beggining when i WANTED to farm, run missions, try all the missions.
legen 3 i have just one gun left to get and will ve maxed put. i still enjoy it and still play it. also yea fashion frame is the end game, i legit dont enjoy a frame as much if i cant make it look nice.
as a vet it would be curious to see you progress and join the ranks. have fun tenno
glad you’re enjoying warframe! the main draw for the game for me was that my friends were playing it, but i’ve found myself playing alone recently just listening to youtube videos in the background
As a Veteran, it's easy to see that all your points are really from a beginner, nothing wrong, it's just that Warframe is ridiculously huge, there's nothing like this game, and even the premium currency, platinum, can be "earned" in the game, the game market is extremely active and you can make plat trading with other players, if you want a tip, don't use the auto fill to mod your weapons and Frames, try to learn it from the beginning, it's not hard and very fun!