The audio was a little jank in this video. Apologies! This is meant to be a BROAD OVERVIEW of the game, Warframe. I personally love the game for my own reasons defined in the video, and if you have your own opinions I would love to hear about it!
I personally enjoy the game because something about it makes my creativity sky rocket and I start making up stories about my specific frames that are just my own head-cannon lore, and then I base my fashion and build on that lore
What i like about warframe is that i can play it at my own pace. I can decide "you know what, I don't want to do this right now" and come back later to find the rewards. The devs are very active within the community, they have style that many other companies are scared of implementing
I think it's vital to mention that every warframe and weapon can work. As a guy with nearly 3k hours on Nintendo (he second worst way to experience the game) the most fun I've had was bunkering down and picking up a terrible weapon and making it work in steel path. Edit: BTW I love the choice of music bro.
Getting content-locked by the first junction/main quest: Denial Grinding for your first meta frame: Anger Getting your first platinum discount voucher: Bargaining Grinding for railjack: Sorrow Reaching steel path: Acceptance
Warframe is such a gem hindered by a messy "post tutorial" / midgame. I sincerely believe it to be the single best F2P game available at the moment, especially with the new life that was brought in by stuff like The Circuit. Its community is also one of the nicest if not the single nicest one out there (let's not talk about the Riven Mafia) It's just fun and there's so much variety with everything, especially customization
I would argue that midgame is the best part. The start is where most players quit. I mean i have like 10 friends that got to mr3 at most and quit. I am in the midgame rn and god dam its fun bc there are so many things i could do and nothing is rly forcing me in a single direction. Its fun to have so much freedom to do anything you want and still gain from that in the long run
Yeah, one of its main strengths is its playerbase. One of the main things that made me stick to the game is that a veteran player found me, gave me tons of advice, carried me on farming so much rare stuff, put me in his dojo and basically taught me how to play my starter Mag. I genuinely love just giving new players prime parts and carrying them just because I want to also help new players to love it as much as I did.
Great breakdown! As someone who has close to 4000 hours in Warframe, my recommendation to new players is to get through what you described as the early game, then set goals for yourself. With the addition of Duviri and the Circuit, it can be really easy to acquire frames that would otherwise be a massive grind.
I have almost 10k hours in steam and 5k hours in-game mission, and still not getting bored. I have to say that in the time I started playing (9 month after the game was realesed), if it not was for a clan that helped me, explaining how the game works, I would not still playing this game. Everything was so confusing on that time.
One thing I want to add for players who want plat for free. Do your daily sorties and weekly archon hunts (once you're done with new war). Those can reward you with Riven mods, when veiled, can get sold for like 10 plat each. Or if you're daring, you can unveil them and hope for a decent weapon roll. If you got a meta weapon roll, it can already get sold for like 100 plat and above unrolled, if you got a god roll though, can get sold for like 300 or even sometimes, 1000 plat.
I'm glad to see so many new people genuinely enjoying warframe! And it made me realize that I might need a break from it as I've returned to a state of not finding it entirely fun. I hope you enjoy your time here, and remember to take breaks!
I just got back into it last week after leaving around when Railjack came out, but I've been playing this game off and on since the beta. It's very easy to let your need to progress suck the fun out of it, so take time to remind yourself that it's a game, and a fun one at that. Play an early missing slowly while keeping your stealth bonus up and see how far you can make it. Equip that goofy weapon you know isn't meta but is just fun to shoot. Go hunting or fishing (not on Cetus though, someone is always trying to ruin my fishing trips there :P ). Don't put off your happiness until you've achieved something, enjoy the act of playing and that will be much more fulfilling.
Also something to mention is the devs are amazing. They do play their own game, hang out with the community on their streams and genuinely seem to have a good time developing the game. Also they listen to the community (of course in a sensible way, they can't go out and implement everything everybody wants at the same time), especially with the new team after Steve stepped down as creative lead and went to work on Soulframe. We've been getting so many qol and accessibility changes in the last few years, the game looks and feels infinitely more polished than it did in say 2017. Sure, DE can get a little bit greedy sometimes like with the recent Heirloom supporter pack or regal aya packs before that, but they do still listen to feedback on this monetization and try to make it more fair, and of course they never lock anyone out of actual content with a paywall - every single bit of the game can be enjoyed for free if you so choose, and it won't even be a bad experience like with some other games you can "technically" play entirely for free. TL:DR Devs are cool people, very ambitious and love working on their game, interacting with the community and listen to player feedback.
This game's movement system will forever jade you, Just try to not bullet jump in other games after playing Warframe even semi seriously and get disappointed that you cant.
The 'tutorial' phase is just nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be. You settle into an understanding of the game and from there it's just a matter of surprising you.
Just gonna say Umbra can be so much fun. It just depends on the mission and type of gameplay you prefer. If you like area damage then Mesa is much more convenient
When you showed off Excalibur Umbra you didn't even show his Exalted Blade or Radial Blind, which means you didn't even show what makes him a powerhouse
I really hope this blows up, i also just started playing it again after quitting it 4 years ago and im hoping this is a phenomenon with more people and not just me
I think the last time I played warframe was back when the ships were added to the game. It was actually REALLY exciting to be playing something this big while working towards building the ship. Sadly, my old steam account was hacked along with the attached email (giga RIP on my part) but I had long stopped playing warframe by then because tbh: it burned me out that the game forced me to grind like a chore with the developers putting effort to make the grind more tedious while not directing their attention to the core issues of the game (I can't even name any of the top of my head it's been so long) But, alas, I'm going to give the game another chance in a "old habits die hard" kinda fashion
DE has done quite a bit to make warframe more new user friendly, not to say it can’t still get confusing, but I’d say right now is the best time to start playing warframe.
One of the best “should you play warframe?” video. I mean it for real, that’s rare to see such dude that would truly introduced warframe. I like the way he introduced, beginning, mid-game and endgame(I wouldn’t clearly call it like that after new war, but nvrm) It’s still one of the most true video about warframe. Still, I would say, there’s no 100% endgame, because we have updates, for example echos in the wall and 1999 that are coming. I think that he might be a nice warframe youtuber.
Mah the whole modding system once you start to get a grasp on how tp do it is quite fun but ngl tryna farm for certqin mods be a pain in the butt tho for some are hella rare/hard to get
Best review of the game currently. DE has made a number of small updates to improve the new player experience, but if they wanted make changes that will REALLY help, junctions either gotta go or change entirely to the point where all you have to do is maybe an assassination and an important quest (Not ones like Once Awake, The New Strange or Stolen Dreams all of which are main quests for some reason.) Also, requiring to craft stuff necessary for progression should be instant so people can speedrun through the game without having to spend Plat, so they can spend on stuff they really want once at the mid-to-end game. Also, I strongly recommend putting Chromatic Blade on Excalibur Umbra, you will change your mind about him. Also when you learn how to literally fly using Slash Dash.
I love how you describe the endgame as finding something new to accomplish and working towards it. I see it the same way! This game just has so much content, that you can always just find a new goal to work towards. Said goal often giving you hours of work to do and usually leading you to a new goal after it. I personally have an ever expanding list of task I want to complete in WF. So I always have SOMETHING to keep me busy!
While the early game can certainly be overwhelming, I have to disagree that the midgame "grind" is boring. The sheer fun factor of Warframe's moment-to-moment game play was enough to keep me going all the way to Neptune and beyond.
It’s fascinating hearing this- for a good four years of my playing of warframe, there were a grand total of two missions beyond what you describe as the early game, and they were hot garbage for me because you needed an 8 man squad working in coordination- something random schmucks over the internet are not really known for. The amazing thing for me with Warframe’s updates is that they are not only extending the game along, they are also filling in old content as they go. Archwing was at one point a gated off area of the game that had no interaction with anything else. Then came the Jordas Golem. Then came Plaiins of Eidolon and Empyrean. Plains was an annoying self fulfilling content island, then Plague Star and Ghoul Purge went live. The new war was an incredible tying together of every aspect of the game that came before. I’ve been there on launch day for nearly every update. I got through Empyrean at its buggiest (and my god was it buggy), finished call of the tempestarii with newly acquired crew mates on launch day (then took five more years to get Sevagoth), and I still haven’t completed the steel path (though this is because I’m an obtuse pedant who is determined to get through it one alert at a time). I even still have an extractor in Duviri- they patched it out within days, but I was there with it and now I don’t want to collect it, as otherwise I know I’ll never get it again…
great video! Good breakdown of all the points in the game. Still... I wouldn't call Excalibur's gameplay boring while Mesa's is mostly becoming an auto aim turret holding down the click haha😂
I got into Warframe about 6 years ago when it was MUCH different and I fell into the overwhelmed category. I definitely felt like things were going to get too difficult, and there was a paralysis of analysis where I couldn't decide what to try next because I always felt I wasn't ready for it. Fast forward to maybe 3 months ago whenever that last Prime Resurgence happened where you could get like 12 frame during that particular resurgence, and I decided to get back in on my PS5 account (a brand new PSN) because I could grab my previous two favorite frames - Mesa Prime and Saryn Prime. I will say as a player who made it to the mid game (I had an operator when I played before but that's roughly where I stopped) the beginner experience is MUCH better. I started with Duviri which definitely made the game more interesting lore wise and then got back to the star chart. Now I'm going into the New War and I have a Necramech and a Railjack and I feel VERY accomplished. My advice to new players and a two time new player and now a long time veteran. Attack things one at a time. If you take an interest in something in Warframe just focus on that for a little bit. You're like hmm what's this archwing stuff? Build some archwing parts and try those missions (most people don't like em). If you like one of the open worlds, spend some time there, figure out how the open world progression works. Basically you want to learn things in digestible chunks or you will get overwhelmed.
2K hours here. Warframe has become my confort game. Yes, it sucks that it doesn't comunicate a lot of the main mechanics of the game, like the rotations, drops, and it's a long way to understand specific things like Orphix missions on Railjack and Eidolon hunting (like the equipment you need, gather the lures, shooting the parts of the eidolon, etc.) But overall, there's good things on it like good people glad to help you, even to gift things like weapons or arcanes. And don't forget the memes, there's a lot of people that like to do dumb sh1t with their frames/weapons and have fun with it, its a game that allows to do a lot of things. Just have patience, don't burnt out on farming specific things, try to get help with another tennos and be respectful.
I don't know why but for some reason the use of Quad Machine when you were showing off Mesa's gameplay for a moment actually cracked me up. Something about using a song from Quake 2 to exhibit how fun a character is in a game made by Digital Extremes, the company that helped create Quake's biggest competitor back in the day - Unreal and Unreal Tournament - just hits different lmao
Great video! I've played Warframe since 2016, and like many others have probably never thought about how much the beginning of the game has changed since then, especially with so much new content and mechanics over the years. I've had a few friends and even my siblings who tried Warframe and quit within a week or month even with my support and knowledge.I should make a new account just to see how I progress and to see it from their perspective. A few interesting things about "regular" Warframes and Primes is that Prime Warframes only have cosmetic, energy, and armor stat increases. Meaning you could go all the way to endgame with the arsenal you've built up, all you need is the proper mods (unless you're going for absolute max armor for some reason). Prime weapons are a different story though. One improvement I could see for the star chart (if it isn't a thing already) is to completely grey out/de-saturate any planets that aren't accessible yet to reduce the noise and prevent having to zoom in and see if you have access to it.
A good example to warframes early game is like if in a MMO you had every quest for everything that unlocks a mechanic all the moment you boot up the game
I only play games that I enjoy, I don’t waste my time with games that I don’t. So considering I’m at 3,000 hours into Warframe, it must be doing something right. Or maybe I’m just addicted.
Great time to find this video, I spent the past ~2 months binging nothing but Warframe after only briefly trying it 4 years ago. Just finished the New War quest and having a blast with Baruuk Prime lol
Been playing off and on since release. I usually come back for every expansion, play through, have some mindless fun, then move on to something else for a bit then come back when new stuff is out. Plus the gameplay and movement is top notch. The core gameplay makes the grind nit a slog because I get so caught up in zipping and zooming around causing mayhem. I’ve spent upwards of 4 hours on survivals because I got so caught up in the power fantasy lol Once Nidus came out, that was it for me, he’s been my main since. Also, I like that you snuck some Q2 music in there.
4:30 I would argue that you don't know how to play Excal if that's what you think the peak of excal gameplay is. I use a double augment build that gets enough bonus melee damage multiplier and strong enough heat procs to kill anything that isn't status-immune. It's all about knowing how to build the frame.
i don't understand genuinely. "the grind is boring, the grind is long" but then progression is the good part? and it seems quite heavily meta as well. also still don't know what the "combat" is. 95% of warframe footage is parkouring and enemies getting 1-shot. nobody ever talks about combat either is it just the numbers game that people enjoy maybe?? is it like a clicker or gacha game?
combat is action based, basically spam clicking and thats it. every warframe has different set of abilities and stats to make some variation between players, and there is bunch of different weapons to choose from. oher than that there is not much strategy to it. you are space ninja... game gets progressively harder enemies as you progress so if you dont keep up with upgrading your items you wont be able to one shot enemies any longer and will need to grind. grind part can be tedious because its free to play game. so they make the grind long and boring so that they entice people to buy ingame currency. you can basically either trade your time to grind in game items you dont need to to sell them to other players so you can buy stuff you need. or trade real money to buy what you need directly. 95% of the game is basically parkouring and shooting/ slice and dice. basically the game is great for free to play game. there pay to win aspect of it but its not pvp based game so nobody cares and you can grind your way to buy everything in game that you could buy for real money. it just takes lots of time
I continually leave Warframe then return after every few major updates. Genuinely one of the most fascinating and enjoyable experiences I’ve had. Been playing off and on since the beta. Put around 300 hours on the pc originally. Then moved to the PlayStation where after all these years of playing here and there I’m setting at a little under 3000 hours. It’s worth sticking with, the problem is they keep adding new stuff for vets instead of fixing the onboarding. As of paradox I think they even just made onboarding worse. Also side note. How dare you with the Umbra/Mesa comparison. I’d quite frankly swap those takes entirely. Seeing as any frame can wipe out a planet. I prefer the more fun to play ones. Aka the ones you actually do more than push one button on. And yes I made an entire comment just to complain about your enjoyment of the game being different from mine. Lmao For a white flag though I love the use of Carpenter Brut. Hella great music for anyone who needs something to listen to that differs from the sound of slaughtering hordes of defective clones.
the thing i like of warframe is it filters the non dedicated player in the early game and tests your commitment at mid game and you grind dedication at end game( steel path endurance)
I adore Warframe and there's a good chance I'll never play it again. It's one of those rare live service games where I walked away from it totally satisfied and perfectly happy with the money and time spent.
I remember getting mesa prime for the first time and was really satisfied using her guns, but then i felt empty. I then discovered Gauss and GOD Gauss is one of, if not the most fun frame of all time.
This man personally introduced me to Warframe and I played it nonstop for months. I have just barely made my way into the endgame and easily have over 100 hours. There's entire parts of the game that i've dabbled in but never gave any serious effort to (railjack, eidolon hunts, archon hunts, syndicates, zariman, ect.) and there's more stuff I haven't even unlocked (steel path is the only one I know for sure) 0/10 do not play
After 100 hours you are no where near endgame my friend. It takes more like 400 and longer without plat. you need to dive into all that content you've listed for endgame
I don’t get how people say they’re overwhelmed by modding. 10 year old me fully understood it immediately and I wasn’t particularly bright. The only points of confusion may be specific mods with odd phrasing or multiplicative vs additive multipliers which aren’t something you worry about until steel path anyway.
I have few thousand hours and love few things about the game. 1. The combat: killing hords of enemies with different weapons and abilities feels satisfying 2. The customization: all weapon and warframe stats can be customized through mods. This creates deep system that makes you search for the best builds. 3. The warframe tierlist: as each warframe has its own abilities and over 50 warframes there is a wide variety of warframes where each has its powers and weakeneses. Some allow you to croud control the enemies, some focus on dealing damage and some focus on defence. There are even warframes that are better early game or lategame or are highly situational. As there is a wide variery of game mods, each warframe has its use, but some warframes are being overshadowed by others. Finding the perfect use for warframe that is considered weak or creating overpowered build for allready powerfull warframe feels very satisfying. 4. The fashionframe: You can customize your warframe abilities and weapons to the point, where it feels like different video game or movie character. For example paint rhino green, give him shotgun and you have the doom guy. Or pick garuk, give him plasma rifle and paint him white and you got starwars soldier. Or vauban for its simple looks could be cosplayed for some scifi engineer. Or limbo with its aoe time stop could be cosplayed for dmc vergil ultimate slash. Alas as one punch man. Valkyr as female version of nero with its ripline, finishers and devil trigger. Gaus as flash... Most of theese cosplays are not perfect though, that makes finding the perfect cosplay even more satisfying.
I've been playing Warframe for 7 years. I have 3,600+ hours I love endgame, having access to all the content and all the builds and all that is fun. I would never do the grind again, I have no regrets.
@@Qikx No there's just one steel path. But by the time you finish it, you really understand enough of the game to optimise your builds to farm stuff with maximum efficiency. (And solo) There's a difference between being able to clear a mission once, and being able to farm it consistently.
Im just started for a few months now with like 400 hours into it, though one thing i noticed is the content creators are severely smaller when comparing to destiny. However i think this is good due to the lack of fomo in warframe when comparing to destiny
so, im about 300ish hours in, and have just got back to it after like 6 months.. for my welcome back, i got a 3 day xp booster, have forged and leveled my archweapons, got primed mods from baro, almost finished the star chart and got khora prime from literally one void relic defense run..... so so grindy! lmao. what im trying to say is that this is the least grindy mmo/online/looter shooter/tf-ever game i have played in my whole life. its also one of the few games where the endgame is the fun, not grindy part. generally, it was the other way around, like, say, neverwinter. ugh. im trying to get rl friends to play it with me, but theres noone thats interested, so it makes me happy that the story progression isnt tied to co-op and can be reached solo. all in all, high marks all around. also, nice vid, and i loved the music too xD
Yeah it's why snipers are rarely meta for anything aside from eidolon farming. While than can in theory have absurd dps they require alot of aim and are typically single target so they don't hold up against the hords of enemies in late game.
I'd argue that the Endgame actually starts at the Sacrifice or whenever you unlock the Helmynth system, but excellent video regardless. I give this review a 10/10 review.
I remember when i first play Warfame it was really confusing to me as well. Waframe is the only game i can take a long break and go back to that id enjoy all over again. The grind is real, but then the best thing i love about the game is matchmaking since i solo majority of the time. As well as earning platinum for people who doesnt want to spend real money. You can just grind for it.
Start was a pain, and things u need to learn, and im still learning about railjack, even after all this hours this game is hard to understand, but now when i have everything to build strong build on everything i just have fun melting everything i see, and mechanic of this game is sooo good
10 year vet here and i'm going to have to disagree with you on one big point "that there's are alot of new players " there's not when WF Vets see a new players , most /salute them. then tell them to use the wiki , get a clan , and find a weapon that they love using . Some vets will just give them prime stuff , cause new players are rare out side of the big updates , so rare that the WF community cherishes them when we get them
there is no actual endgame can we please stop coping and saying that there is. Steel path in not endgame. Eidolons are not endgame. Fashionframe is not an endgame. If you change your definition of what an endgame is to fit warframe my friend lay off the copium. Endgame by definition is harder content than the rest of the game with better rewards than the rest of the game. Steel essance is not that. Everything i need from essance i can get from aribitration except the exilus adapters. If you want to call exilis adapters endgame loot you are lost tenno. Getting further in progression in not endgame. The game starts when you complete the star chart. That's not endgame.
As a 2 year player, I will say the missing ingredient for me was not understanding the story. Read the Lore and everything will make more sense as you complete all the quests. After TennoCon this year, I went down a rabbit hole about Deimos, Entrati and the Void. Wow, suddenly everything connected. The fun part is upgrading your weapons, experimenting with mods and abilities, and finding that sweet spot. Oh and can't forget about the community. Some of the nicest people I've played with.
The audio was a little jank in this video. Apologies!
This is meant to be a BROAD OVERVIEW of the game, Warframe. I personally love the game for my own reasons defined in the video, and if you have your own opinions I would love to hear about it!
I personally enjoy the game because something about it makes my creativity sky rocket and I start making up stories about my specific frames that are just my own head-cannon lore, and then I base my fashion and build on that lore
That's super cool and unique!
What i like about warframe is that i can play it at my own pace. I can decide "you know what, I don't want to do this right now" and come back later to find the rewards. The devs are very active within the community, they have style that many other companies are scared of implementing
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BRODIE
I think it's vital to mention that every warframe and weapon can work. As a guy with nearly 3k hours on Nintendo (he second worst way to experience the game) the most fun I've had was bunkering down and picking up a terrible weapon and making it work in steel path. Edit: BTW I love the choice of music bro.
if nintendo is the second worst way to play the game then what's the first?
@@kenwasused The upcoming mobile port
U clearly ain’t tried the stug lmao
yeah I can't wait for cross save, so I can move to PS, the game is so much faster there
@@Frame_Junky well tiburos stug-only'd steel path
1300 hours in and I still feel like my time with Warframe is just getting started. This game is the real deal, guys.
6,000 hours in at L3 - Still many a relic to grind, and eagerly awaiting Gauss Prime :)
@@Reelix I'm not gonna understand anything in the upcoming update with the new missions but ik it's going to be great regardless
Almost 1k hours in and feel the same it's probably because I'm completely free to play tho i don't trade for plat or buy ANYTHING with money.
2k hours still mr 18
Just when over 2k hours and just started doing steel path
No Ads, No pay-to-win mechanics, Great Lore and Friendly community. We all lift together/
There was a discussion in chat about drake being a pedo .
Getting content-locked by the first junction/main quest: Denial
Grinding for your first meta frame: Anger
Getting your first platinum discount voucher: Bargaining
Grinding for railjack: Sorrow
Reaching steel path: Acceptance
Grinding for necramech is death
@@PIKIBURGERNah, unless you mean during release
@@Shepard_Vas_Normandy is it easier now?
@@Shepard_Vas_Normandy yeah during release was hell never again.
These newbies never gonna know the struggle of trying to get scintilla by to spawn😂
Warframe is such a gem hindered by a messy "post tutorial" / midgame. I sincerely believe it to be the single best F2P game available at the moment, especially with the new life that was brought in by stuff like The Circuit. Its community is also one of the nicest if not the single nicest one out there (let's not talk about the Riven Mafia)
It's just fun and there's so much variety with everything, especially customization
I would argue that midgame is the best part. The start is where most players quit. I mean i have like 10 friends that got to mr3 at most and quit.
I am in the midgame rn and god dam its fun bc there are so many things i could do and nothing is rly forcing me in a single direction. Its fun to have so much freedom to do anything you want and still gain from that in the long run
@@vukplanojevic2451 That I must agree with, mid game means SO MUCH STUFF to do, see, try and fall in love with, you're right
Wtf is a riven mafia
For any new players, don't listen to meta until you're ready. Pick a weapon or warframe you think looks cool and see if they fit how you play.
Yeah. I am not comfortable with some meta weapons. I think it also needs to match your playstyle which only you would know.
Yeah, one of its main strengths is its playerbase. One of the main things that made me stick to the game is that a veteran player found me, gave me tons of advice, carried me on farming so much rare stuff, put me in his dojo and basically taught me how to play my starter Mag. I genuinely love just giving new players prime parts and carrying them just because I want to also help new players to love it as much as I did.
Doing umbra dirty not showcasing his ability but showcasing mesa 💀 I'm a lover of both tho.
Right? Not my boy Umbra.
Great breakdown! As someone who has close to 4000 hours in Warframe, my recommendation to new players is to get through what you described as the early game, then set goals for yourself. With the addition of Duviri and the Circuit, it can be really easy to acquire frames that would otherwise be a massive grind.
I have almost 10k hours in steam and 5k hours in-game mission, and still not getting bored. I have to say that in the time I started playing (9 month after the game was realesed), if it not was for a clan that helped me, explaining how the game works, I would not still playing this game. Everything was so confusing on that time.
One thing I want to add for players who want plat for free. Do your daily sorties and weekly archon hunts (once you're done with new war). Those can reward you with Riven mods, when veiled, can get sold for like 10 plat each. Or if you're daring, you can unveil them and hope for a decent weapon roll. If you got a meta weapon roll, it can already get sold for like 100 plat and above unrolled, if you got a god roll though, can get sold for like 300 or even sometimes, 1000 plat.
or just sell trash prime bits you don't want. typical prices are like 1/5/10p per piece based on rarity from what i've seen.
I dont think new players should touch the rivens market
God if a new player get a ceramic dagger riven its a huge W if they research a little
Stay away from the riven mafia unless you pull a crazy mod otherwise just sell veileds well that's what i do
I'm glad to see so many new people genuinely enjoying warframe! And it made me realize that I might need a break from it as I've returned to a state of not finding it entirely fun. I hope you enjoy your time here, and remember to take breaks!
At no point was this game bad, just left for other games. Im coming back as well
The council will not stand for your Excalibur slander
NOO I DONT WANA GO BACK NOOOO
Ok update kinda want to go back to
I just got back into it last week after leaving around when Railjack came out, but I've been playing this game off and on since the beta. It's very easy to let your need to progress suck the fun out of it, so take time to remind yourself that it's a game, and a fun one at that. Play an early missing slowly while keeping your stealth bonus up and see how far you can make it. Equip that goofy weapon you know isn't meta but is just fun to shoot. Go hunting or fishing (not on Cetus though, someone is always trying to ruin my fishing trips there :P ).
Don't put off your happiness until you've achieved something, enjoy the act of playing and that will be much more fulfilling.
I loved my RJ once DE fixed the problems. Still not what was promised but it's close enough
Also something to mention is the devs are amazing. They do play their own game, hang out with the community on their streams and genuinely seem to have a good time developing the game. Also they listen to the community (of course in a sensible way, they can't go out and implement everything everybody wants at the same time), especially with the new team after Steve stepped down as creative lead and went to work on Soulframe. We've been getting so many qol and accessibility changes in the last few years, the game looks and feels infinitely more polished than it did in say 2017.
Sure, DE can get a little bit greedy sometimes like with the recent Heirloom supporter pack or regal aya packs before that, but they do still listen to feedback on this monetization and try to make it more fair, and of course they never lock anyone out of actual content with a paywall - every single bit of the game can be enjoyed for free if you so choose, and it won't even be a bad experience like with some other games you can "technically" play entirely for free.
TL:DR Devs are cool people, very ambitious and love working on their game, interacting with the community and listen to player feedback.
Devs that play their own game seems to be a very rare thing these days.
This game's movement system will forever jade you, Just try to not bullet jump in other games after playing Warframe even semi seriously and get disappointed that you cant.
The 'tutorial' phase is just nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be. You settle into an understanding of the game and from there it's just a matter of surprising you.
Glad to hear people are still getting into this game and giving it the love it deserves
One of the best f2p game ever made, I love the way DE listen to the community and keep improving the game to make it better.
Just gonna say Umbra can be so much fun. It just depends on the mission and type of gameplay you prefer. If you like area damage then Mesa is much more convenient
I love the love for the Help Chat. It's really good.
When you showed off Excalibur Umbra you didn't even show his Exalted Blade or Radial Blind, which means you didn't even show what makes him a powerhouse
I really hope this blows up, i also just started playing it again after quitting it 4 years ago and im hoping this is a phenomenon with more people and not just me
I think the last time I played warframe was back when the ships were added to the game. It was actually REALLY exciting to be playing something this big while working towards building the ship. Sadly, my old steam account was hacked along with the attached email (giga RIP on my part) but I had long stopped playing warframe by then because tbh: it burned me out that the game forced me to grind like a chore with the developers putting effort to make the grind more tedious while not directing their attention to the core issues of the game (I can't even name any of the top of my head it's been so long)
But, alas, I'm going to give the game another chance in a "old habits die hard" kinda fashion
DE has done quite a bit to make warframe more new user friendly, not to say it can’t still get confusing, but I’d say right now is the best time to start playing warframe.
JOKES ON YOU HYDROID IS VIABLE NOW
i remember the beggining of warframe where excalibur was one of the most best and fun frames to play
Really amazing video, ive been playing for a while and i think you got all the main points!
How many hours do you have? Just curious since it seems like it takes a while to reach where Qix has 😅
im at 360 hours right now but most of those have been in the endgame, id say it is def worth sticking around with it@@LuckyDefenestration
One of the best “should you play warframe?” video. I mean it for real, that’s rare to see such dude that would truly introduced warframe. I like the way he introduced, beginning, mid-game and endgame(I wouldn’t clearly call it like that after new war, but nvrm)
It’s still one of the most true video about warframe. Still, I would say, there’s no 100% endgame, because we have updates, for example echos in the wall and 1999 that are coming. I think that he might be a nice warframe youtuber.
This game will eat your life, this is the game that I enjoy farming.
I think the midgame is the most fun though personally, unlocking stuff like multishot and realizing tiers of crits and status was mind blowing
Mah the whole modding system once you start to get a grasp on how tp do it is quite fun but ngl tryna farm for certqin mods be a pain in the butt tho for some are hella rare/hard to get
Best review of the game currently. DE has made a number of small updates to improve the new player experience, but if they wanted make changes that will REALLY help, junctions either gotta go or change entirely to the point where all you have to do is maybe an assassination and an important quest (Not ones like Once Awake, The New Strange or Stolen Dreams all of which are main quests for some reason.)
Also, requiring to craft stuff necessary for progression should be instant so people can speedrun through the game without having to spend Plat, so they can spend on stuff they really want once at the mid-to-end game.
Also, I strongly recommend putting Chromatic Blade on Excalibur Umbra, you will change your mind about him. Also when you learn how to literally fly using Slash Dash.
I love how you describe the endgame as finding something new to accomplish and working towards it. I see it the same way! This game just has so much content, that you can always just find a new goal to work towards. Said goal often giving you hours of work to do and usually leading you to a new goal after it.
I personally have an ever expanding list of task I want to complete in WF. So I always have SOMETHING to keep me busy!
The music selection on this video is nuts, absolute vibe but...
You did my boi excal dirty, he is one of the strongest frames in the entire game ;(
I'm making a follow-up video, where he'll be done justice :)
@@Qikx dope, this update is bonkers and I'm really hyped for the saryn prime + ak 47 next month.
Hotline Miami music goes hard
Edit: HOW do you have 197 subscribers? This is some quality content.
While the early game can certainly be overwhelming, I have to disagree that the midgame "grind" is boring. The sheer fun factor of Warframe's moment-to-moment game play was enough to keep me going all the way to Neptune and beyond.
WHY ISNT THIS POPULAR YET, BRROO THIS IS SOO DAMN FUNNI (as a person who has 400h in the game, yes whoever reads it, play the fucking game)
you know it's really a good video when it literally has 0 dislikes
Every other UA-camr has at least one dislike, this guy must be so much better!
Nice. love to see warframe support and recognition.
(been playing for a few years)
Love hearing Carpenter Brut used as background music.
It’s fascinating hearing this- for a good four years of my playing of warframe, there were a grand total of two missions beyond what you describe as the early game, and they were hot garbage for me because you needed an 8 man squad working in coordination- something random schmucks over the internet are not really known for. The amazing thing for me with Warframe’s updates is that they are not only extending the game along, they are also filling in old content as they go. Archwing was at one point a gated off area of the game that had no interaction with anything else. Then came the Jordas Golem. Then came Plaiins of Eidolon and Empyrean. Plains was an annoying self fulfilling content island, then Plague Star and Ghoul Purge went live. The new war was an incredible tying together of every aspect of the game that came before.
I’ve been there on launch day for nearly every update. I got through Empyrean at its buggiest (and my god was it buggy), finished call of the tempestarii with newly acquired crew mates on launch day (then took five more years to get Sevagoth), and I still haven’t completed the steel path (though this is because I’m an obtuse pedant who is determined to get through it one alert at a time).
I even still have an extractor in Duviri- they patched it out within days, but I was there with it and now I don’t want to collect it, as otherwise I know I’ll never get it again…
great video! Good breakdown of all the points in the game. Still... I wouldn't call Excalibur's gameplay boring while Mesa's is mostly becoming an auto aim turret holding down the click haha😂
it's so funny how umbra's gameplay in actually so much more interesting, you just put "boring music" under it and "cool music" under mesa
trying to make excalibur umbra look boring is crazy
I got into Warframe about 6 years ago when it was MUCH different and I fell into the overwhelmed category. I definitely felt like things were going to get too difficult, and there was a paralysis of analysis where I couldn't decide what to try next because I always felt I wasn't ready for it.
Fast forward to maybe 3 months ago whenever that last Prime Resurgence happened where you could get like 12 frame during that particular resurgence, and I decided to get back in on my PS5 account (a brand new PSN) because I could grab my previous two favorite frames - Mesa Prime and Saryn Prime. I will say as a player who made it to the mid game (I had an operator when I played before but that's roughly where I stopped) the beginner experience is MUCH better.
I started with Duviri which definitely made the game more interesting lore wise and then got back to the star chart. Now I'm going into the New War and I have a Necramech and a Railjack and I feel VERY accomplished.
My advice to new players and a two time new player and now a long time veteran. Attack things one at a time. If you take an interest in something in Warframe just focus on that for a little bit. You're like hmm what's this archwing stuff? Build some archwing parts and try those missions (most people don't like em). If you like one of the open worlds, spend some time there, figure out how the open world progression works. Basically you want to learn things in digestible chunks or you will get overwhelmed.
Personally for me warfrmae is all about taking your time and get prepared. Theres no rush the games a marathon.
2K hours here. Warframe has become my confort game. Yes, it sucks that it doesn't comunicate a lot of the main mechanics of the game, like the rotations, drops, and it's a long way to understand specific things like Orphix missions on Railjack and Eidolon hunting (like the equipment you need, gather the lures, shooting the parts of the eidolon, etc.) But overall, there's good things on it like good people glad to help you, even to gift things like weapons or arcanes. And don't forget the memes, there's a lot of people that like to do dumb sh1t with their frames/weapons and have fun with it, its a game that allows to do a lot of things. Just have patience, don't burnt out on farming specific things, try to get help with another tennos and be respectful.
Excellent vid my dude
Love the carpenter burt piece you used, also nice video essay I guess.
I have to point out the dishonest depiction of umbra without his kit insdead with something every frame dose against the crowning jewl of messas kit
I don't know why but for some reason the use of Quad Machine when you were showing off Mesa's gameplay for a moment actually cracked me up. Something about using a song from Quake 2 to exhibit how fun a character is in a game made by Digital Extremes, the company that helped create Quake's biggest competitor back in the day - Unreal and Unreal Tournament - just hits different lmao
Great video! I've played Warframe since 2016, and like many others have probably never thought about how much the beginning of the game has changed since then, especially with so much new content and mechanics over the years. I've had a few friends and even my siblings who tried Warframe and quit within a week or month even with my support and knowledge.I should make a new account just to see how I progress and to see it from their perspective.
A few interesting things about "regular" Warframes and Primes is that Prime Warframes only have cosmetic, energy, and armor stat increases. Meaning you could go all the way to endgame with the arsenal you've built up, all you need is the proper mods (unless you're going for absolute max armor for some reason). Prime weapons are a different story though.
One improvement I could see for the star chart (if it isn't a thing already) is to completely grey out/de-saturate any planets that aren't accessible yet to reduce the noise and prevent having to zoom in and see if you have access to it.
After farming 200 forma I can tell you one thing - don't play this game bro...
The truth and skill issue,never where before so hand to hand
Plague star vibes
How do people do so many I was fed up after like 30
@@josequiles7430 get a good squad. Run for a few hours then dip. Then do it again as often as you can
Nah I'm still playing it's worth the grind
A good example to warframes early game is like if in a MMO you had every quest for everything that unlocks a mechanic all the moment you boot up the game
I only play games that I enjoy, I don’t waste my time with games that I don’t. So considering I’m at 3,000 hours into Warframe, it must be doing something right.
Or maybe I’m just addicted.
I felt that
Great time to find this video, I spent the past ~2 months binging nothing but Warframe after only briefly trying it 4 years ago. Just finished the New War quest and having a blast with Baruuk Prime lol
Its a interesting game and i would like to play but ... unfortunately i already have a full time job....😂😂
Been playing off and on since release. I usually come back for every expansion, play through, have some mindless fun, then move on to something else for a bit then come back when new stuff is out. Plus the gameplay and movement is top notch. The core gameplay makes the grind nit a slog because I get so caught up in zipping and zooming around causing mayhem. I’ve spent upwards of 4 hours on survivals because I got so caught up in the power fantasy lol Once Nidus came out, that was it for me, he’s been my main since. Also, I like that you snuck some Q2 music in there.
Don’t worry I’ll show you how to make mesa viable for endgame
HOLY HECK IT'S HIM!
4:30 I would argue that you don't know how to play Excal if that's what you think the peak of excal gameplay is. I use a double augment build that gets enough bonus melee damage multiplier and strong enough heat procs to kill anything that isn't status-immune. It's all about knowing how to build the frame.
i don't understand genuinely. "the grind is boring, the grind is long" but then progression is the good part? and it seems quite heavily meta as well.
also still don't know what the "combat" is. 95% of warframe footage is parkouring and enemies getting 1-shot. nobody ever talks about combat either
is it just the numbers game that people enjoy maybe?? is it like a clicker or gacha game?
combat is action based, basically spam clicking and thats it. every warframe has different set of abilities and stats to make some variation between players, and there is bunch of different weapons to choose from. oher than that there is not much strategy to it. you are space ninja... game gets progressively harder enemies as you progress so if you dont keep up with upgrading your items you wont be able to one shot enemies any longer and will need to grind.
grind part can be tedious because its free to play game.
so they make the grind long and boring so that they entice people to buy ingame currency.
you can basically either trade your time to grind in game items you dont need to to sell them to other players so you can buy stuff you need.
or trade real money to buy what you need directly.
95% of the game is basically parkouring and shooting/ slice and dice.
basically the game is great for free to play game. there pay to win aspect of it but its not pvp based game so nobody cares and you can grind your way to buy everything in game that you could buy for real money.
it just takes lots of time
I continually leave Warframe then return after every few major updates.
Genuinely one of the most fascinating and enjoyable experiences I’ve had. Been playing off and on since the beta. Put around 300 hours on the pc originally. Then moved to the PlayStation where after all these years of playing here and there I’m setting at a little under 3000 hours.
It’s worth sticking with, the problem is they keep adding new stuff for vets instead of fixing the onboarding. As of paradox I think they even just made onboarding worse.
Also side note. How dare you with the Umbra/Mesa comparison. I’d quite frankly swap those takes entirely. Seeing as any frame can wipe out a planet. I prefer the more fun to play ones. Aka the ones you actually do more than push one button on. And yes I made an entire comment just to complain about your enjoyment of the game being different from mine. Lmao
For a white flag though I love the use of Carpenter Brut. Hella great music for anyone who needs something to listen to that differs from the sound of slaughtering hordes of defective clones.
the thing i like of warframe is it filters the non dedicated player in the early game and tests your commitment at mid game and you grind dedication at end game( steel path endurance)
I adore Warframe and there's a good chance I'll never play it again. It's one of those rare live service games where I walked away from it totally satisfied and perfectly happy with the money and time spent.
I remember getting mesa prime for the first time and was really satisfied using her guns, but then i felt empty. I then discovered Gauss and GOD Gauss is one of, if not the most fun frame of all time.
Yooooo is that Quad machine?!
This man personally introduced me to Warframe and I played it nonstop for months. I have just barely made my way into the endgame and easily have over 100 hours. There's entire parts of the game that i've dabbled in but never gave any serious effort to (railjack, eidolon hunts, archon hunts, syndicates, zariman, ect.) and there's more stuff I haven't even unlocked (steel path is the only one I know for sure) 0/10 do not play
After 100 hours you are no where near endgame my friend. It takes more like 400 and longer without plat. you need to dive into all that content you've listed for endgame
@@SimonLister-e1nI'm sitting at over 2k hours and I feel like I'm just finishing up mid game, there's a lot to farm
using katana zero music in this video is so good
Saw your vid and sent it to my Mom g. She's going to try it out and luckily I've no lifed this shit to oblivion. Hopefully she likes it
you remind me of mortismal gaming. i can't believe this game is on hades level
Probably just because I'm a weirdo...
This video is great to send to people
0:50 Haha! Ah, good one, as if Warframe has endgame. XD
I don’t get how people say they’re overwhelmed by modding. 10 year old me fully understood it immediately and I wasn’t particularly bright. The only points of confusion may be specific mods with odd phrasing or multiplicative vs additive multipliers which aren’t something you worry about until steel path anyway.
I have few thousand hours and love few things about the game.
1. The combat: killing hords of enemies with different weapons and abilities feels satisfying
2. The customization: all weapon and warframe stats can be customized through mods. This creates deep system that makes you search for the best builds.
3. The warframe tierlist: as each warframe has its own abilities and over 50 warframes there is a wide variety of warframes where each has its powers and weakeneses. Some allow you to croud control the enemies, some focus on dealing damage and some focus on defence. There are even warframes that are better early game or lategame or are highly situational. As there is a wide variery of game mods, each warframe has its use, but some warframes are being overshadowed by others. Finding the perfect use for warframe that is considered weak or creating overpowered build for allready powerfull warframe feels very satisfying.
4. The fashionframe: You can customize your warframe abilities and weapons to the point, where it feels like different video game or movie character. For example paint rhino green, give him shotgun and you have the doom guy. Or pick garuk, give him plasma rifle and paint him white and you got starwars soldier. Or vauban for its simple looks could be cosplayed for some scifi engineer. Or limbo with its aoe time stop could be cosplayed for dmc vergil ultimate slash. Alas as one punch man. Valkyr as female version of nero with its ripline, finishers and devil trigger. Gaus as flash... Most of theese cosplays are not perfect though, that makes finding the perfect cosplay even more satisfying.
I've been playing Warframe for 7 years. I have 3,600+ hours I love endgame, having access to all the content and all the builds and all that is fun. I would never do the grind again, I have no regrets.
I'd argue midgame starts after you finish the War Within and endgame is when you managed to clear steel path. But good video overall!
On the logic that spoiler mode isn't complete until you unlock focus schools. And Steel Path really requires you to understand builds.
Wait...you're telling me there's another steel path? I'm struggling with those capture point missions enough as is kekw
@@Qikx No there's just one steel path. But by the time you finish it, you really understand enough of the game to optimise your builds to farm stuff with maximum efficiency. (And solo) There's a difference between being able to clear a mission once, and being able to farm it consistently.
Endgame is even better with Deep Archidea, game just gets better
Im just started for a few months now with like 400 hours into it, though one thing i noticed is the content creators are severely smaller when comparing to destiny. However i think this is good due to the lack of fomo in warframe when comparing to destiny
Respect from a warframe Founder and a Carpenter brut fan too.
so, im about 300ish hours in, and have just got back to it after like 6 months.. for my welcome back, i got a 3 day xp booster, have forged and leveled my archweapons, got primed mods from baro, almost finished the star chart and got khora prime from literally one void relic defense run..... so so grindy! lmao.
what im trying to say is that this is the least grindy mmo/online/looter shooter/tf-ever game i have played in my whole life. its also one of the few games where the endgame is the fun, not grindy part. generally, it was the other way around, like, say, neverwinter. ugh.
im trying to get rl friends to play it with me, but theres noone thats interested, so it makes me happy that the story progression isnt tied to co-op and can be reached solo.
all in all, high marks all around.
also, nice vid, and i loved the music too xD
Always remember: Meta isnt measured in DPS (Damage per second), its measured in KPS (Kills per second)
Yeah it's why snipers are rarely meta for anything aside from eidolon farming. While than can in theory have absurd dps they require alot of aim and are typically single target so they don't hold up against the hords of enemies in late game.
5:04 "Plez give her buff :("
Sad thing is, she was Nerfed instead. She used to be AMAZING...
I can say a LOT about Warframe, but “janky” isn’t one of them. This is probably the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in my 34 years
I'd argue that the Endgame actually starts at the Sacrifice or whenever you unlock the Helmynth system, but excellent video regardless. I give this review a 10/10 review.
I remember when i first play Warfame it was really confusing to me as well.
Waframe is the only game i can take a long break and go back to that id enjoy all over again. The grind is real, but then the best thing i love about the game is matchmaking since i solo majority of the time.
As well as earning platinum for people who doesnt want to spend real money. You can just grind for it.
MY UMBRA felt a little insulting as u show urs my friend but hay nice vid tho :D
He really didn't know how to use him and thought default Excal is bad maybe one day he'll grow wise to the truth that every warframe is a war machine.
Start was a pain, and things u need to learn, and im still learning about railjack, even after all this hours this game is hard to understand, but now when i have everything to build strong build on everything i just have fun melting everything i see, and mechanic of this game is sooo good
Like the developers said at this year's Tennocon:
"If something isn't broken, we're not doing our job right"
Warframe is a very hard game to get into, it took me 3 or 4 tries but then I’ve been hooked for the past 8 years.
10 year vet here and i'm going to have to disagree with you on one big point "that there's are alot of new players " there's not when WF Vets see a new players , most /salute them. then tell them to use the wiki , get a clan , and find a weapon that they love using . Some vets will just give them prime stuff , cause new players are rare out side of the big updates , so rare that the WF community cherishes them when we get them
Why does bro have 550 subs and the video its so good
Ahh the early days of warframe, where mele is your crutch before you actually get powerful guns.
there is no actual endgame can we please stop coping and saying that there is. Steel path in not endgame. Eidolons are not endgame. Fashionframe is not an endgame. If you change your definition of what an endgame is to fit warframe my friend lay off the copium. Endgame by definition is harder content than the rest of the game with better rewards than the rest of the game. Steel essance is not that. Everything i need from essance i can get from aribitration except the exilus adapters. If you want to call exilis adapters endgame loot you are lost tenno. Getting further in progression in not endgame. The game starts when you complete the star chart. That's not endgame.
Iv done both of those and still continued to play for 8 years
As a 2 year player, I will say the missing ingredient for me was not understanding the story. Read the Lore and everything will make more sense as you complete all the quests. After TennoCon this year, I went down a rabbit hole about Deimos, Entrati and the Void. Wow, suddenly everything connected. The fun part is upgrading your weapons, experimenting with mods and abilities, and finding that sweet spot. Oh and can't forget about the community. Some of the nicest people I've played with.
Didn't expect this video to go viral.
Me neither tbh
wow bro is doing excal umbra mad dirty
Also YAY I see Omnicompetence in 6:32 man's awesome
how do you make your damage numbers look like that? its surrounded by like a black color
also great video