Hey everyone! This was actually supposed to be uploaded like 8 hours ago but I fell asleep when uploading haha! Be sure to check out UnKnownEX and their epic guitar covers! ua-cam.com/video/kGbjNa63rHU/v-deo.html Excalibur Build can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/WvOMOvmtoj8/v-deo.html Mag is next and after her the next frame will be Saryn, thank you all for the continued support
Had a lot of fun with that dark sector game and unreal tourny when I was growing up, had no idea that DE was a big part of my life, they were great devs all along
Hey start telling/reminding ur viewers to like a sub, Your videos can easy be watch alll the way through and we’ll forget to like cuz we were so immersed 👍
The original darkSector, if you can get your hands on it somehow, is pretty alright. It's a cover shooter from the 360 era for sure, but in the bigger picture it's interesting to have the gameplay context. I don't know how to explain it, but you can tell that they just, feel similar somehow. You'll boot it up and think: You have played this game before. You have never played this game before. Hayden feels really fragile going up against what are kinda like proto-grineer. You can feel some vestige of that in Warframe whenever you're not playing as a flying metal ninja with space magic. I'm wondering if duviri will end up tapping into that, even by accident.
Okay for one, holy balls that is a well written comment. i know I still own a ps3 so if I happen to do some digging I may be able to get my hands on a copy of dark sector, it is neat to see both the differences and similarities it has from warframe. Overall it’s cool to see what feels like an old Excalibur, just no crazy powers or crazy weapons.
@@nickrl113 I still have a copy of the game on 360. I got it for 4 bucks back when Blockbuster was closing and they were having a blowout sale. Got that and Darkness for under 8 dollars all together. Both games just felt different fr. Dark Sector was a great game imo but the ratings for it were so low
Ah, Excalibur. My second most used frame, beaten only by... Excalibur Umbra. I've always loved Excalibur. He doesn't need crazy builds, special gauges, tap/hold mechanics, or even Helminth stuff. He just works. And the raw power of Exalted Blade is something that will never get old.
Even after over 800 hours, Excal is still my most used frame. I don't play him, like ever, Mesa has taken over that role, but he is the frame that brought be through everything and to this day I play story missions with him.
What I love about the Founders thing is that it gives folks who have kept up with the game over time with a little thing to show off that's enviable but not disheartening for folks that missed the boat. It's fun strutting out my Excal Prime and getting comments on it, but I have hated games before which gave old players huge numeric advantages that new players cannot access. It saddles rookies with a permanent feeling of inferiority. In Warframe you just get a little piece of gear that shows you were here when it started and you believed in it.
I kind of love visual signs, that one is playing the game very early. One of my friend did play a different game as it came out and got one of the first skins. many of the skins in the game a only avaible for a short time so there where many people reacting to him as he used the skin XD (and he did not really notice that because he did not play for a long time and just was like "did i play in the beginning? this is unic? ok?" XD)
Umbra's my main. Before that, it was regular Excal, with the Avalon Helm and this really shitty blue and yellow scheme from the default colour palette. Since then, Umbra has taught me a bunch of things since I started playing in 2021. - The enemies cannot sound an alarm in an Exterminate mission if there are no enemies to sound an alarm in an Exterminate mission. - I am emotionally attached to him. - Sword go *FWOZZH*. - He can go toe to toe with the Sun when both of you are listening to Bury the Light. - He could probably outshine the Sun. Then again, that's why we have Vauban. (Turns Bloom to 100%) - I have spent more Formas on his Exalted than Umbra himself. - If him, Baruuk, Ivara, Banshee and Equinox got into a bar fight with an enemy faction, no would be able to see, hear or sense anything happening. Except for the bartender Mesa. She's blindfolded and wants to kick them out. - His Radial Javelin helps me apply a slash proc onto enemies, then prime with a Nukor and press 'E'. Then my computer decides to render frames at the speed of molasses. - Hearing his Radial Howl is both saddening and awesome. - He has influenced my playstyle of "Go dick first into enemies and break everything else. Including them." - Finally, he's so simple, so fun and with enough build crafting, so good. I've only used his Chromatic Blade, but once my exams are done, I will make a full positive Excal with Furious Jav and Chromatic. Yes. I like funny numbers on my 15-inch screen. I'll never see them, but I know they're there. TL;DR: I love him to bits. If I ever get Baruuk, they'll be my two mains. Do I like yeeting things to the moon with my second melee? Yes. Do like turning my brain off and on again to use these two frames? Absolutely. Will they keep me playing as the completely rash and moronic blasphemer of safety? You can bet your house on it. P.S., Sorry if this is too long. It's late and I had very little to eat and a lot to drink, LMAO. Be well, all. : D
Don't you dare apologise, this was a fucking joy to read! "Go dick first into enemies and break everything else, including them" I shall record this legendary quote and take it with me to my grave.
Some notes: The Proto(-Armor) skins for Excaliber and the Glaive (which have in-game lore that contains another reference to the time of Digital Extreme's previous successful game) are not the only remnants of Warframe's spiritual predecessor; there is a special skin for Nyx called "Nemesis", which makes her look like the recurring boss of the same name from Dark Sector, who had a lot of the same abilities as Nyx. The fact that Nyx is female is a nod to the big reveal of Nemesis's true identity. There is also the in-game lore that Earth had to be abandoned at some point due to a virus that horribly mutated most of the organic life there, which is similar to (but not exactly the same as) the virus that Hayden was trying to stop the spread of in Dark Sector. Finally, standing special missions that are harder, but offer higher rewards, are called "Dark Sector missions".
The thing I love about warframe is that it just let's you get stronger. No limits no barriers. Just you at your own pace. Excalibur, I'd say, is a product of that style
@@curlypeltedcreature i mean, me as a mastery rank 8, i can do consant 40k+ dmg with exalted blade, i could just enter any stage, press 4 and hold E for the rest of the mission
As an Excal main since before Umbra, and a pioneer of the “Excal CAN do end-game/Steel Path/long Kuva Survival” build, it was really nice to have this kind of vid to explain him to my brother who just started the game. Thanks for this vid!
As some of the rare few that enjoyed Dark Sector, I wish we could have an Eternalism centric quest related to Dark Sector. But apparently DE can't do it due to them losing the rights to it or something. Still, it would be great to have a narrative connection to Warframe. It'd drive us lore junkies nuts if that ever happens.
There are small nods to Dark Sector. Hell, there's still Dark Sectors still in the game! There's the Excalibur and Nyx skins that point back. The "Protokol" gun skins from Nightwave. Glaive...technocite...I'm sure I'm missing a bunch. If it's a rights issue then this is probably as close as they're legally allowed to get. But you're right, having an actual callback to neatly tie the two together with some creative lore would be cool!
I still remember when Exalted Blade was just reworked and they added in the Chroma blade augment for it. Excalibur became truly one of the most powerful warframes scaling well into the level 150+ enemies
Just want to say that I got into Warframe about a month ago and I'm MR11 at the moment. Having content like this is really awesome to help catch me up on what's happened and it's very entertaining to watch! The only thing I'd add is maybe timestamps on the video so if people lose their place, it's easy to find? Otherwise I love these videos, keep them coming!
I main Umbra and Gauss. This video absolutely pleases me. This old boy was what made me stay in this game since 2015. The only thing I miss is the original Etherial Exalted Blade skin. It looked way better than current day skins like Tree Branch(normal Ex) or mishaped Persian Blade(Umbra). Once more, thank you for telling people more about this amazing Warframe. The Warframe that flied before Zephir even grew her Feathers, and the Warframe that had no real Prime(Founders crap doesn't count) for 5 years since his(and the game's) release.
Grandmaster founder here , i believed in de from the begining. I bought grandmaster because it was worth it (to me and some others ) and i was VERY hopeful for warframes future. It was one of the few games of its kind that wasnt alike all others in almodt every way. Yes it wad limited and yes the bugs were a MASSIVE headache but it was a new game and they had limited funds and ability so we went in it knowimg our risk vs reward with being founders may not have paid off but because we were all so hopeful we just kind of said screw it and threw caution to the wind haha . Great vid man i subbed
Even though I don't really play Excal anymore, if I had to pick one favorite WarFrame, JUST ONE, it would still have to be Excal, my old main. He will always hold a very special, exclusive place in my heart, never to be replaced.
Umbra's story kind of tells you the horror that is Warframe. It basically hints that the Warframes aren't just biomechanical suits but actual people. Adults, in fact. If Tennos were the children of the Void, Warframes are the adults of the non-Void, so to speak. I'm not quite sure if that is by design but I find it poetic that the lore ended up like that. How the kids pilot the adults in a world that they are no longer a part of (since they've adapted to the void).
Man, I don't know many other people making more "history of" type videos. With your skill, it shouldn't be long before you absolutely blow up in the warframe community, and I can't wait.
When you said dark sector i almost cried cause i have been looking for the game for 6 years fucking thanks you and that explains why i like the game so much it had this similarity
Seeing the old UI as a beta player unlocked core memories of me and my friend spending ungodly amount of hours grinding and getting stuck in the terrain. But I don’t regret a single penny or minute spent. But man.. this was great going down the nostalgia path. Excellent work here, def earned a sub from me. I don’t play Warframe anymore but it’s lovely to see that the community remains just as passionate as when I left.
When plains of eidolon first came out i used excalibur alot, archwing deployers were a limited resource back than i didn't feel like wasting it so i used max range excalibur to slash dash around the map which was honestly really fun.
Just finding your videos, Grand Master here. I had enough faith in what this game could become when i was a teenager i made a deal with my father, replace the deck, clear out the yard and forfeit pretty much anything else for Christmas and you can get the Grand Master pack as soon as everything is done. I took the deal. Haven't regretted it.
Really loved these vids bro, really interesting take on Warframe introductions and abilities. Keep up the good work and looking forward to more of these vids. (Also interested to see what you make vids on some worse Warframes too)
Nice to see these pseudo-video essay type videos on the game, always been a fan of those. Really in depth explanation of the context and history as well as the warframe abilities. Can't believe how few have subscribed I know I sure did cuz i don't wanna miss a single vid. Hope you continue your growth.
If Excalibur has 5,000 fans I am one of them. If Excalibur has 10 fans I am one of them, if Excalibur has 1 fan I am that one, if Excalibur has zero fans then I am no longer on earth.
Excellent video, I'm one of the few founders still around and I'm glad Excalibur is in a good place right now. On nitpick is that slash dash also has a forced slash proc like radial javelin which makes it even better.
Back in my day you paid to be good at the game, and Excalibur only had three abilities and super jump! Lmao…. In all seriousness this whole video put a smile on my face and warmed my cold dead heart, it’s a blast from the past to see everything from the first moment I played as a founder to now…. Keep up the fantastic work, I’m adoring your work and the nostalgia along the way. There are a few things I wish had been mentioned like the brief period where Excal became god with shadowstep, Excal umbra prime and the weird debate of whether umbra prime or prime was better, and the fact that helicoptering and later bullet jumping made super jump fully obsolete.
I remember starting Warframe because I thought the exalted blade looked like a cool melee weapon. So my husband tells me the name of the game, I download it and start looking for the weapon only to find out that it was built in to the frame I started as. I remember the lag bugs you could do to have infinite exalted blade so long as you kept swinging, I remember have unlimited enemy and wall puncture with that sword. Excal was my favorite Warframe, and it still is today. He was the reason I started, and my only regret was not knowing about this game sooner so I could support it as a founder.
Great video for my main Warframe after 11 years! Excal will always be my #1 & my build for him is unique id like to believe & god tier for any endless SP content. Also I have to object, super jump was not bad we didn’t have the parkour system before & before we had to press CTRL to reset our wall run because we couldn’t wall run forever & then DE decided to patch that lol & the worst offender of that was the void extraction we didn’t have the stairs it was just like a mini wall & a balcony before you jumped to go into extraction (& there was others but this one I always saw struggle & another). & reviving friends was clutch with super jump because if you timed it you could super jump + revive & you would be avoiding enemy fire (super good for endless or even tough content) & it only got better with its buff that you went invisible. But yeah Super Jump was clutch for the old parkour system either way I want my Super Jump back please
This is my favorite genre of UA-cam videos. This channel and falseswipegaming are such great UA-cam channels. Just going over the significance of gameplay aspects and going in depth on the timeline of those gameplay things
Most modern live service free to play games are such, modeled after Warframe. I remember seeing a video where a corporate exec saw Warframe and said that's how he wants his game to be. To this day, Warframe is almost the only game where the model works well. DE have had their stinginess too though, at times.
excalibur is my favorite frame in the game, hes just so cool and not overly complicated. you put on a good fashion frame, you put on the doom ost, you press 4, and you have fun. and thats why hes my favorite frame and i dont see that changing after they added umbra making him even more viable.
Such a good video as a new player. So much info about the game as a whole and its history. Plus the comprehensive listing of all of his abilities helped me understand some of the parts of his kit I need to focus more on in gameplay loops. Biiiiiiiig appreciate.
Damm, I appreciate that this video helped but it is severely dated in BOTH the history information and present info, at a later point I will revisit this Excalibur video and update it to my current standards.
I remember when I left WF years ago I wanted this kind of video to be a thing. Not just this, but lore videos. Radial Javelin was insane back in the day, especially when abilities stopped being mods. Someone talked me into using it and BOOM
And that one clip sounded like Tactical potato talking in it. Edit: 12:50 I seen his name in the credit bar, so it prolly is lol. Tactical I watch all the time, Mr Warframe, Grindhard and you are my main Warframe channels.
I didn't realize this video was 44 minutes long untill I was done. Him getting to the point and not repeating the same thing using diffrent words made it real easy to just kinda loose track of time. Amd he was not joking about his entire history of Excalibur
As an early closed beta player the old UI takes me back :D Yeah the EARLY game didn't have a lot of content and was a bit stiff, but its aesthetics were odd and fresh. It wasn't a Halo or Warhammer clone and you could feel the potential. Also that old upgrade tree sssUCKED. The mod system was a stroke of genius, it introduced customization, upgrading, creativity and the collector itch all at once.
An interesting and well presented look at the poster boy. I am quite biased but this was very enjoyable. Been playing off and on since the closed beta. I wasn't much of an excal fan until the exalted blade rework but this year my excal prime might finally replace the rhino (non-prime) as most used.
16:33 it's always such an honor to see a founder. Honestly, I don't know if they will do a Founder program for Soulframe, but if they do I so wanna be on that list cause even just with Warframe they've put so much hard work into it.
my experience playing excalibur is the sweetest i've had in warframe. and i've had a lot of good moments there. i came back to the game one time after a break and had an itch to try out excalibur. little did in know that a new quest had already dropped and would give me a free fully upgraded excalibur. the Umbra. a warframe so powerfull he even surpass his prime counter part in terms of stats and performance. since then i've been using him non stop. and despite all the powerfull warframes that i have collected in my arsenal the umbra remains my most trusty and fun one to play.
I loved Excalibur ever since playing DarkSector as a teenager, his proto skin was the first purchase I made in the game and now I love Umbra too. Thank you DE
One thing that is a huge misconception is regarding the "technocyte". DE mostly scrubbed that term from the game (i think there may be some floating mention of it still) but the infestation and what makes warframes, warframes, is NOT the same thing from dark sector, since the universes are only related by source material, not lore. In Warframe the Orokin are the ones who cultured biological/nanite infestation where in dark sector its a virus. LIke, warframe isn't thousands of years into the future of dark sector, they are separate game universes. 22:36 yeah and i wish DE would make exalted blade's blind cost 0 energy again as its horrible for new players as they don't know they are pissing away energy for no reason with half range blinds lol.
Story Umbra in Chinese server in short: Umbra was set to be the Excalibur Prime of CN server sold in the Founder pack with Nikana Prime and Spira Prime. Then DE put Excalibur Umbra back to global server with "The Sacrifice" making Umbra no longer exclusive of CN server. Also because of the claim of no return of Founder pack, Nikana Prime and Spira Prime are exclusive for Founders in CN server the Prime Resurgence of Saryn in CN server was skipped.
I started playing Warframe in 2017. I thought the game had changed drastically between then and now, but DAMN, the gap is so much wider from release to my entry. I had no idea It was so old, and I say this as a longtime fan of Dark Sector!
Interesting that you mentioned how Excalibur set the precedent for Warframes getting ability reworks. Just a few months after you posted, a rework of Hydroid was announced that replaced Undertow with a new skill called Plunder, which makes him steal enemy armor. He also got his abilities' main damage type changed to Corrosive instead of Magnetic, hence the armor-stealing.
Man I have followed this game since that initial trailer (still go back just to listen to the music from time to time) I even played Warframe in it's earlier states. The only reason why I haven't played for years is because of how vast it has gotten, and how many systems and subsystems I'd have to catch up on. Still, a very fun game and I'm glad it's succeeded the way it has
*Grand Master Founder here* and I miss the days when it was just 8 Warframes* The first Warframe I ever 'bought' was Ash (there were no Warframe parts at the time believe it or not) and I still use Ash to this day.
Oh how it feels so refreshing to see the old UI. I remember I almost never picked up this game again once I saw the cards (mods). I thought this game was part hack and slash, part card game. I eventually reinstalled this to my PS4 because I was a high school kid with a mom who didn't pay for PS+ often. Then, I feel in love. I just failed my MR23 test, and I've been on MR22 since like 2020.
I still wear the Arcane Pendragon helmet given to me by a clan mate back in 2014, and Excalibur is still my most used Warframe, followed by Umbra. There’s just something about Excalibur that I vibe with super hard. Slash dash is one of the best movement abilities in the game, radial blind is never not useful, radial javelin destroys up until mid game, and what more needs to be said about Exalted Blade? I love this Warframe and playing him feels like a second skin, so thank you for making this video about the boy. The First The Exalted The Shadow Excalibur
I'm new and I just hit MR9 yesterday. Hardest part for me is trying to beat a Kuva Lich and obtaining parts for Voidrig which I still haven't build yet as a F2P player. Already sold my Excalibur but he really did brought me up to MR7. Warframe is indeed fun.
Excalibur Umbra is my most favorite frame. He's my story mission frame and he's my go-to for public bounties because he's my lil sidekick when I'm in my Voidrig.
I just noticed that in the new Excal introduction cinematic (at 1:34) , there is a black duck on his back. (Actually it's part of the bow, but looks like a duck, well probably more like a swan )
'Oh dear god!' Pretty much sums up Excal..😁. This is the most definitive and comprehensive take of our beloved poster boy. Great video. Very interesting.👌👍❤
Last comment I swear, this is by far my favorite game of all time. I'm an old head, grew up on NES 1, original, even Attari for that matter. This is only game I'll turn on almost everyday. Can always find something to do.
I remember the ol' days. The infested used to be mysterious and dark. I also remember when Derelicts came out and where actually interesting and spooky. On topic, sorta, I wouldnt mind being able to trade my Excal Prime away to someone that mains Excal and would enjoy it.
no need for me to rekindle the love for excal... hes always had a place in my hearth as MR.Slashy and every time i need a dopamine boost i load up a mission as this boi
16:29 i take brake's every so often but i always come back at some point (not that it matters but im a Master supporter so i spent too much money but not the top amount and since then the little ive spent is dwarfed but most players) the thing that i was most surprised about was when i get the Tee and headband in the post as ied forgotten about it and the headband wasn't even on the list of rewards so they didnt have to send them out but it was a cool thing that i still have in a drew somewhere (i don't really like wearing clothes with logos on them, if i had more wall space ied get around to framing the tees ive gotten over the years).
I'm starting playing Warframe just few years back, maybe from the update of "Protea" to this day. And I thought that Excalibur becomes the first Warframe because from the explanation in "The Sacrifice" quest where Ballas begins the experiment of Warframe (as the tool of war) from the dying soldier of his own kin, injected him with some viruses and super serum (perhaps). However, although the experiment shows the great result physically, the mind of Umbra cannot be conquered no matter how. Hence, in the future, the next experiments of the Warframes are just completely empty vessels but controlled by the Tenno aka Operator (which based on the story, the survivor children of Zariman). I know in the story, it's called "Excalibur Umbra", not just regular Excalibur, but in my opinion, because Umbra is possibly the first "guinea pig", he is evolving through time to a certain level. But again, this is just from my point of view....
One of the things that made excals EB op was the energy waves went through walls, having stalker problems? No problem kill him Through a wall etc. Exacals super jump wasn't that bad an ability when I started the game ver. 0.3 because the game didn't have finishers or wall running at that time, so you had some use out of it. I'm looking forward to your vid on Loki, he got a lot of changes to his skills due to people clipping his decoy into walls on def maps, him teleporting enemies off cliffs (including bosses and their loot,) and him clipping out of the map and running past locked doors etc. It was a good time, but that's why you get the message saying something about the target being obstructed when your trying to decoy. The game was exciting to see what they would add every time you logged back in.
Hey everyone! This was actually supposed to be uploaded like 8 hours ago but I fell asleep when uploading haha!
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Mag is next and after her the next frame will be Saryn, thank you all for the continued support
Had a lot of fun with that dark sector game and unreal tourny when I was growing up, had no idea that DE was a big part of my life, they were great devs all along
Hey start telling/reminding ur viewers to like a sub, Your videos can easy be watch alll the way through and we’ll forget to like cuz we were so immersed 👍
I didn't expect that... 😂
Thank you for linking my video.
@@KebradesBoisThe build was great!
@@NovaUmbral thanks again...
It’s good to see that this video included the FULL history of excal, including dark sector’s role in birthing warframe was a great call, good stuff
The original darkSector, if you can get your hands on it somehow, is pretty alright. It's a cover shooter from the 360 era for sure, but in the bigger picture it's interesting to have the gameplay context. I don't know how to explain it, but you can tell that they just, feel similar somehow. You'll boot it up and think: You have played this game before. You have never played this game before. Hayden feels really fragile going up against what are kinda like proto-grineer. You can feel some vestige of that in Warframe whenever you're not playing as a flying metal ninja with space magic. I'm wondering if duviri will end up tapping into that, even by accident.
Okay for one, holy balls that is a well written comment. i know I still own a ps3 so if I happen to do some digging I may be able to get my hands on a copy of dark sector, it is neat to see both the differences and similarities it has from warframe. Overall it’s cool to see what feels like an old Excalibur, just no crazy powers or crazy weapons.
you can't explain excalibur's origin without dark sector what do you even mean
@@NewsofPE oh it's on steam? I was thinking in terms of ps3/xbox360 so I forgot about that- my bad!
@@nickrl113 I still have a copy of the game on 360. I got it for 4 bucks back when Blockbuster was closing and they were having a blowout sale. Got that and Darkness for under 8 dollars all together. Both games just felt different fr. Dark Sector was a great game imo but the ratings for it were so low
Ah, Excalibur. My second most used frame, beaten only by... Excalibur Umbra.
I've always loved Excalibur. He doesn't need crazy builds, special gauges, tap/hold mechanics, or even Helminth stuff. He just works. And the raw power of Exalted Blade is something that will never get old.
Same, he's just the ideal Warframe for me, and Excalibur umbra was just a stats blessing, and his design just looks awesome in general
My Baruuk would whoop his ass!
@@bigbobrossa8524 baruuk ain't gonna do jack 😂
Even after over 800 hours, Excal is still my most used frame. I don't play him, like ever, Mesa has taken over that role, but he is the frame that brought be through everything and to this day I play story missions with him.
@@cat0990 the f2p prime if you will
What I love about the Founders thing is that it gives folks who have kept up with the game over time with a little thing to show off that's enviable but not disheartening for folks that missed the boat.
It's fun strutting out my Excal Prime and getting comments on it, but I have hated games before which gave old players huge numeric advantages that new players cannot access. It saddles rookies with a permanent feeling of inferiority.
In Warframe you just get a little piece of gear that shows you were here when it started and you believed in it.
founders is bullshit
I RARELY use him in public anymore as my account security has been threatened 4 times over the years :/
I kind of love visual signs, that one is playing the game very early. One of my friend did play a different game as it came out and got one of the first skins. many of the skins in the game a only avaible for a short time so there where many people reacting to him as he used the skin XD (and he did not really notice that because he did not play for a long time and just was like "did i play in the beginning? this is unic? ok?" XD)
OW2 rn
Wish I had his prime...it bothers me that I don't lolol
Umbra's my main.
Before that, it was regular Excal, with the Avalon Helm and this really shitty blue and yellow scheme from the default colour palette.
Since then, Umbra has taught me a bunch of things since I started playing in 2021.
- The enemies cannot sound an alarm in an Exterminate mission if there are no enemies to sound an alarm in an Exterminate mission.
- I am emotionally attached to him.
- Sword go *FWOZZH*.
- He can go toe to toe with the Sun when both of you are listening to Bury the Light.
- He could probably outshine the Sun. Then again, that's why we have Vauban. (Turns Bloom to 100%)
- I have spent more Formas on his Exalted than Umbra himself.
- If him, Baruuk, Ivara, Banshee and Equinox got into a bar fight with an enemy faction, no would be able to see, hear or sense anything happening. Except for the bartender Mesa. She's blindfolded and wants to kick them out.
- His Radial Javelin helps me apply a slash proc onto enemies, then prime with a Nukor and press 'E'. Then my computer decides to render frames at the speed of molasses.
- Hearing his Radial Howl is both saddening and awesome.
- He has influenced my playstyle of "Go dick first into enemies and break everything else. Including them."
- Finally, he's so simple, so fun and with enough build crafting, so good. I've only used his Chromatic Blade, but once my exams are done, I will make a full positive Excal with Furious Jav and Chromatic. Yes. I like funny numbers on my 15-inch screen. I'll never see them, but I know they're there.
TL;DR: I love him to bits. If I ever get Baruuk, they'll be my two mains.
Do I like yeeting things to the moon with my second melee? Yes.
Do like turning my brain off and on again to use these two frames? Absolutely.
Will they keep me playing as the completely rash and moronic blasphemer of safety? You can bet your house on it.
P.S., Sorry if this is too long. It's late and I had very little to eat and a lot to drink, LMAO. Be well, all.
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I aint reading allat
Don't you dare apologise, this was a fucking joy to read!
"Go dick first into enemies and break everything else, including them"
I shall record this legendary quote and take it with me to my grave.
@@squirrel_slapper, thank you.
@@amari2509, fair enough. Basically, Umbra cool.
"I had very little to eat and a lot to drink" that's the best way to play warframe. Also it was one of the most fun warframe related things I've read
I love the starter frames in the opening cinematic. Volt got Lightning Powers. Mag got Gravity Power.
And Excalibur out there with a bow and a sword.
excal got THESE HANDS
mag is magnetism
Loki is sad now.
Mag does magnetic damage and has magnetic abilities
My first frame was loki.. I built another one to subsume because I can't get rid of the old guy.
Some notes: The Proto(-Armor) skins for Excaliber and the Glaive (which have in-game lore that contains another reference to the time of Digital Extreme's previous successful game) are not the only remnants of Warframe's spiritual predecessor; there is a special skin for Nyx called "Nemesis", which makes her look like the recurring boss of the same name from Dark Sector, who had a lot of the same abilities as Nyx. The fact that Nyx is female is a nod to the big reveal of Nemesis's true identity. There is also the in-game lore that Earth had to be abandoned at some point due to a virus that horribly mutated most of the organic life there, which is similar to (but not exactly the same as) the virus that Hayden was trying to stop the spread of in Dark Sector. Finally, standing special missions that are harder, but offer higher rewards, are called "Dark Sector missions".
The thing I love about warframe is that it just let's you get stronger. No limits no barriers. Just you at your own pace. Excalibur, I'd say, is a product of that style
"no limits no barries"
except for mastery rank
@@curlypeltedcreatureexcept you can actually cross said "barrier"
more like you are limited by mod slots, mod upgrades, formas @@curlypeltedcreature
@@curlypeltedcreature i mean, me as a mastery rank 8, i can do consant 40k+ dmg with exalted blade, i could just enter any stage, press 4 and hold E for the rest of the mission
@@curlypeltedcreature well besides the prime weopens that are mastery locked you could
No joke get any mods and prime frames fairly easy
As an Excal main since before Umbra, and a pioneer of the “Excal CAN do end-game/Steel Path/long Kuva Survival” build, it was really nice to have this kind of vid to explain him to my brother who just started the game. Thanks for this vid!
As some of the rare few that enjoyed Dark Sector, I wish we could have an Eternalism centric quest related to Dark Sector. But apparently DE can't do it due to them losing the rights to it or something.
Still, it would be great to have a narrative connection to Warframe. It'd drive us lore junkies nuts if that ever happens.
There are small nods to Dark Sector. Hell, there's still Dark Sectors still in the game! There's the Excalibur and Nyx skins that point back. The "Protokol" gun skins from Nightwave. Glaive...technocite...I'm sure I'm missing a bunch. If it's a rights issue then this is probably as close as they're legally allowed to get. But you're right, having an actual callback to neatly tie the two together with some creative lore would be cool!
Oh you probably loved this years tennocon, I can just tell.
@@technobabb4233he predicted it ong
1999 be lookin real 🔥 rn
This didnt, or did age well depending on your mindset haha.
I still remember when Exalted Blade was just reworked and they added in the Chroma blade augment for it. Excalibur became truly one of the most powerful warframes scaling well into the level 150+ enemies
Slicing through them like aerogel
Sadly exalted weapons like excals are just carpel tunnel incarnate ^^
Just want to say that I got into Warframe about a month ago and I'm MR11 at the moment. Having content like this is really awesome to help catch me up on what's happened and it's very entertaining to watch!
The only thing I'd add is maybe timestamps on the video so if people lose their place, it's easy to find? Otherwise I love these videos, keep them coming!
Good timing to place its cross-platform to all consoles and soon mobile(working process from the devs).
I main Umbra and Gauss. This video absolutely pleases me. This old boy was what made me stay in this game since 2015. The only thing I miss is the original Etherial Exalted Blade skin. It looked way better than current day skins like Tree Branch(normal Ex) or mishaped Persian Blade(Umbra).
Once more, thank you for telling people more about this amazing Warframe. The Warframe that flied before Zephir even grew her Feathers, and the Warframe that had no real Prime(Founders crap doesn't count) for 5 years since his(and the game's) release.
I watched all of your Warframe videos and all I can say is that you're definitely one of the best Warframe creators out there.
You're the only Warframe UA-camr I enjoy long videos from. I respect your discipline. Your Volt and Gauss videos convinced me to buy them today 😂
He's just thee man!
Gauss is a great frame I've only got his prime version rn never used the normal version but im gonna get his default max it then subsume it
Grandmaster founder here , i believed in de from the begining. I bought grandmaster because it was worth it (to me and some others ) and i was VERY hopeful for warframes future. It was one of the few games of its kind that wasnt alike all others in almodt every way. Yes it wad limited and yes the bugs were a MASSIVE headache but it was a new game and they had limited funds and ability so we went in it knowimg our risk vs reward with being founders may not have paid off but because we were all so hopeful we just kind of said screw it and threw caution to the wind haha . Great vid man i subbed
Glad you had faith in the game!
@@NovaUmbral same here ! It became so much more then i thought it would
Thanks to you and handful others we got to enjoy a game otherwise we wouldn't have
Even though I don't really play Excal anymore, if I had to pick one favorite WarFrame, JUST ONE, it would still have to be Excal, my old main. He will always hold a very special, exclusive place in my heart, never to be replaced.
Umbra's story kind of tells you the horror that is Warframe. It basically hints that the Warframes aren't just biomechanical suits but actual people. Adults, in fact. If Tennos were the children of the Void, Warframes are the adults of the non-Void, so to speak. I'm not quite sure if that is by design but I find it poetic that the lore ended up like that. How the kids pilot the adults in a world that they are no longer a part of (since they've adapted to the void).
Man, I don't know many other people making more "history of" type videos. With your skill, it shouldn't be long before you absolutely blow up in the warframe community, and I can't wait.
When you said dark sector i almost cried cause i have been looking for the game for 6 years fucking thanks you and that explains why i like the game so much it had this similarity
Seeing the old UI as a beta player unlocked core memories of me and my friend spending ungodly amount of hours grinding and getting stuck in the terrain. But I don’t regret a single penny or minute spent.
But man.. this was great going down the nostalgia path. Excellent work here, def earned a sub from me. I don’t play Warframe anymore but it’s lovely to see that the community remains just as passionate as when I left.
When plains of eidolon first came out i used excalibur alot, archwing deployers were a limited resource back than i didn't feel like wasting it so i used max range excalibur to slash dash around the map which was honestly really fun.
Oh my god
Single use archwing deployers???
Just finding your videos, Grand Master here. I had enough faith in what this game could become when i was a teenager i made a deal with my father, replace the deck, clear out the yard and forfeit pretty much anything else for Christmas and you can get the Grand Master pack as soon as everything is done. I took the deal. Haven't regretted it.
Really loved these vids bro, really interesting take on Warframe introductions and abilities. Keep up the good work and looking forward to more of these vids. (Also interested to see what you make vids on some worse Warframes too)
Thank you for the kind words!
@@NovaUmbral haha ikr. Plus it would be cool to see what improvements you recommend and can revisit old frame vids if they are being buffed.
Nice to see these pseudo-video essay type videos on the game, always been a fan of those. Really in depth explanation of the context and history as well as the warframe abilities. Can't believe how few have subscribed I know I sure did cuz i don't wanna miss a single vid. Hope you continue your growth.
Excalibur is the literal Pikachu of warframe
Excalibur IS warframe, he is the warframe most people play first so if Excalibur is bad the whole game is bad.
If Excalibur has 5,000 fans I am one of them. If Excalibur has 10 fans I am one of them, if Excalibur has 1 fan I am that one, if Excalibur has zero fans then I am no longer on earth.
Excellent video, I'm one of the few founders still around and I'm glad Excalibur is in a good place right now. On nitpick is that slash dash also has a forced slash proc like radial javelin which makes it even better.
1:37 the handsome grineer
Back in my day you paid to be good at the game, and Excalibur only had three abilities and super jump! Lmao…. In all seriousness this whole video put a smile on my face and warmed my cold dead heart, it’s a blast from the past to see everything from the first moment I played as a founder to now…. Keep up the fantastic work, I’m adoring your work and the nostalgia along the way.
There are a few things I wish had been mentioned like the brief period where Excal became god with shadowstep, Excal umbra prime and the weird debate of whether umbra prime or prime was better, and the fact that helicoptering and later bullet jumping made super jump fully obsolete.
I remember starting Warframe because I thought the exalted blade looked like a cool melee weapon.
So my husband tells me the name of the game, I download it and start looking for the weapon only to find out that it was built in to the frame I started as.
I remember the lag bugs you could do to have infinite exalted blade so long as you kept swinging, I remember have unlimited enemy and wall puncture with that sword.
Excal was my favorite Warframe, and it still is today.
He was the reason I started, and my only regret was not knowing about this game sooner so I could support it as a founder.
It's amazing and incredible that you can find all this old footage. I can't recognize old Warframe without a second glance.
Man i love your videos, always happy when they appear as soon as i open youtube
Great video for my main Warframe after 11 years! Excal will always be my #1 & my build for him is unique id like to believe & god tier for any endless SP content.
Also I have to object, super jump was not bad we didn’t have the parkour system before & before we had to press CTRL to reset our wall run because we couldn’t wall run forever & then DE decided to patch that lol & the worst offender of that was the void extraction we didn’t have the stairs it was just like a mini wall & a balcony before you jumped to go into extraction (& there was others but this one I always saw struggle & another). & reviving friends was clutch with super jump because if you timed it you could super jump + revive & you would be avoiding enemy fire (super good for endless or even tough content) & it only got better with its buff that you went invisible. But yeah Super Jump was clutch for the old parkour system either way I want my Super Jump back please
This is my favorite genre of UA-cam videos. This channel and falseswipegaming are such great UA-cam channels. Just going over the significance of gameplay aspects and going in depth on the timeline of those gameplay things
Most modern live service free to play games are such, modeled after Warframe. I remember seeing a video where a corporate exec saw Warframe and said that's how he wants his game to be. To this day, Warframe is almost the only game where the model works well. DE have had their stinginess too though, at times.
Honestly Wisp is starting to look like the new face for warframe lol
excalibur is my favorite frame in the game, hes just so cool and not overly complicated.
you put on a good fashion frame, you put on the doom ost, you press 4, and you have fun. and thats why hes my favorite frame and i dont see that changing after they added umbra making him even more viable.
Such a good video as a new player. So much info about the game as a whole and its history. Plus the comprehensive listing of all of his abilities helped me understand some of the parts of his kit I need to focus more on in gameplay loops. Biiiiiiiig appreciate.
Damm, I appreciate that this video helped but it is severely dated in BOTH the history information and present info, at a later point I will revisit this Excalibur video and update it to my current standards.
@@NovaUmbral Nice, looking forward to it. But i do like some aspects of your older videos, especially the open world one.
Your vids and how you edit them are so appealing to sit back and listen/watch
I remember when I left WF years ago I wanted this kind of video to be a thing. Not just this, but lore videos.
Radial Javelin was insane back in the day, especially when abilities stopped being mods. Someone talked me into using it and BOOM
And that one clip sounded like Tactical potato talking in it.
Edit: 12:50
I seen his name in the credit bar, so it prolly is lol. Tactical I watch all the time, Mr Warframe, Grindhard and you are my main Warframe channels.
Some of this might be thrown out the window after what we just saw with the 1999 reveal
I didn't realize this video was 44 minutes long untill I was done. Him getting to the point and not repeating the same thing using diffrent words made it real easy to just kinda loose track of time. Amd he was not joking about his entire history of Excalibur
As an early closed beta player the old UI takes me back :D
Yeah the EARLY game didn't have a lot of content and was a bit stiff, but its aesthetics were odd and fresh. It wasn't a Halo or Warhammer clone and you could feel the potential.
Also that old upgrade tree sssUCKED. The mod system was a stroke of genius, it introduced customization, upgrading, creativity and the collector itch all at once.
An interesting and well presented look at the poster boy. I am quite biased but this was very enjoyable.
Been playing off and on since the closed beta. I wasn't much of an excal fan until the exalted blade rework but this year my excal prime might finally replace the rhino (non-prime) as most used.
Bro made a movie about a single warframe.
16:33 it's always such an honor to see a founder. Honestly, I don't know if they will do a Founder program for Soulframe, but if they do I so wanna be on that list cause even just with Warframe they've put so much hard work into it.
2:13 that's because the proto skin _is_ an homage to Dark Sector lol
my experience playing excalibur is the sweetest i've had in warframe. and i've had a lot of good moments there.
i came back to the game one time after a break and had an itch to try out excalibur. little did in know that a new quest had already dropped and would give me a free fully upgraded excalibur. the Umbra. a warframe so powerfull he even surpass his prime counter part in terms of stats and performance. since then i've been using him non stop. and despite all the powerfull warframes that i have collected in my arsenal the umbra remains my most trusty and fun one to play.
I loved Excalibur ever since playing DarkSector as a teenager, his proto skin was the first purchase I made in the game and now I love Umbra too. Thank you DE
One thing that is a huge misconception is regarding the "technocyte". DE mostly scrubbed that term from the game (i think there may be some floating mention of it still) but the infestation and what makes warframes, warframes, is NOT the same thing from dark sector, since the universes are only related by source material, not lore. In Warframe the Orokin are the ones who cultured biological/nanite infestation where in dark sector its a virus. LIke, warframe isn't thousands of years into the future of dark sector, they are separate game universes.
22:36 yeah and i wish DE would make exalted blade's blind cost 0 energy again as its horrible for new players as they don't know they are pissing away energy for no reason with half range blinds lol.
Story Umbra in Chinese server in short:
Umbra was set to be the Excalibur Prime of CN server sold in the Founder pack with Nikana Prime and Spira Prime. Then DE put Excalibur Umbra back to global server with "The Sacrifice" making Umbra no longer exclusive of CN server. Also because of the claim of no return of Founder pack, Nikana Prime and Spira Prime are exclusive for Founders in CN server the Prime Resurgence of Saryn in CN server was skipped.
Thank you for this. I am a returning player after a two year absence. This was very helpful. Thank you.
Got here so early that the bell ringers still couldn't have finished the video by time I clicked lol
I started playing Warframe in 2017. I thought the game had changed drastically between then and now, but DAMN, the gap is so much wider from release to my entry. I had no idea It was so old, and I say this as a longtime fan of Dark Sector!
imagine what the publishers who did not like warframe because it was sci-fi must feel now seeing its success
Been waiting for this😮💨
Hope you enjoy!!
Interesting that you mentioned how Excalibur set the precedent for Warframes getting ability reworks. Just a few months after you posted, a rework of Hydroid was announced that replaced Undertow with a new skill called Plunder, which makes him steal enemy armor. He also got his abilities' main damage type changed to Corrosive instead of Magnetic, hence the armor-stealing.
Lovely stuff to see upon opening youtube
25:12 I love how Umbra was also completely free to get for everyone and even comes with his own free slot.
This game came so dang far. Our boy Excal has been a staple beast forever.
Excalibur is LITERALLY everywhere when you're in a public area, Cetus for example, every frame that hasn't fully loaded in yet is Excalibur
I love the other starters but excaliber is definitely the best early game warframe especially for new people
yea i steamrolled through lots of the nodes just using exalted blade and spamming.
As someone who's been playing since the beta first came out.. this was nostalgic!!
Man I have followed this game since that initial trailer (still go back just to listen to the music from time to time) I even played Warframe in it's earlier states. The only reason why I haven't played for years is because of how vast it has gotten, and how many systems and subsystems I'd have to catch up on. Still, a very fun game and I'm glad it's succeeded the way it has
*Grand Master Founder here* and I miss the days when it was just 8 Warframes*
The first Warframe I ever 'bought' was Ash (there were no Warframe parts at the time believe it or not) and I still use Ash to this day.
Oh how it feels so refreshing to see the old UI. I remember I almost never picked up this game again once I saw the cards (mods). I thought this game was part hack and slash, part card game. I eventually reinstalled this to my PS4 because I was a high school kid with a mom who didn't pay for PS+ often. Then, I feel in love. I just failed my MR23 test, and I've been on MR22 since like 2020.
I still wear the Arcane Pendragon helmet given to me by a clan mate back in 2014, and Excalibur is still my most used Warframe, followed by Umbra.
There’s just something about Excalibur that I vibe with super hard. Slash dash is one of the best movement abilities in the game, radial blind is never not useful, radial javelin destroys up until mid game, and what more needs to be said about Exalted Blade?
I love this Warframe and playing him feels like a second skin, so thank you for making this video about the boy.
The First
The Exalted
The Shadow
Excalibur
And STILL all these years later..My man is Zooming around wiping floors.
I'm new and I just hit MR9 yesterday. Hardest part for me is trying to beat a Kuva Lich and obtaining parts for Voidrig which I still haven't build yet as a F2P player. Already sold my Excalibur but he really did brought me up to MR7. Warframe is indeed fun.
I just started playing this year and it’s kinda cool to see the where the DNA of the game I love, came from.
Excalibur Umbra is my most favorite frame. He's my story mission frame and he's my go-to for public bounties because he's my lil sidekick when I'm in my Voidrig.
Please keep doing these videos, I love them too much
I just noticed that in the new Excal introduction cinematic (at 1:34) , there is a black duck on his back.
(Actually it's part of the bow, but looks like a duck, well probably more like a swan )
Feels good to be an Excalibur main in the current meta. . .
Seeing some of the og creators' names from way back then was nice. Some are still going to this day.
'Oh dear god!' Pretty much sums up Excal..😁. This is the most definitive and comprehensive take of our beloved poster boy. Great video. Very interesting.👌👍❤
Your documentaries are awesome dude.
Damn Brozime, look different then he is now, 20:23 didn’t even know he was making vids of warframe during this time
I LOVED PLAYING WARFRAME WHEN IT CAME OUT AS A KID
this is awesome, i got to see some early game footage plus the whole evolution of a frame, looking further for more 👍
Last comment I swear, this is by far my favorite game of all time. I'm an old head, grew up on NES 1, original, even Attari for that matter. This is only game I'll turn on almost everyday. Can always find something to do.
This kind of reminds me when melee weapons used the block to consume energy to increase damage
I remember the ol' days. The infested used to be mysterious and dark. I also remember when Derelicts came out and where actually interesting and spooky.
On topic, sorta, I wouldnt mind being able to trade my Excal Prime away to someone that mains Excal and would enjoy it.
I loved warframe and Excalibur! I truly envy that have Excalibur Prime in your possessio.
"and finally excaliburs ultimate..." 29 minutes of machine gun sword skills with no words.
Big fan.
I always just call it bankai like in bleach.
Dude im tearing through Duviri circuits with Umbra, total blast.
no need for me to rekindle the love for excal... hes always had a place in my hearth as MR.Slashy and every time i need a dopamine boost i load up a mission as this boi
Founder, played since 2013. Still love it. There are a few brakes here and there, but I always return to my favorite game.
16:29 i take brake's every so often but i always come back at some point (not that it matters but im a Master supporter so i spent too much money but not the top amount and since then the little ive spent is dwarfed but most players) the thing that i was most surprised about was when i get the Tee and headband in the post as ied forgotten about it and the headband wasn't even on the list of rewards so they didnt have to send them out but it was a cool thing that i still have in a drew somewhere (i don't really like wearing clothes with logos on them, if i had more wall space ied get around to framing the tees ive gotten over the years).
You did NOT Need to go this hard wtf...
How are you pumping out these full on essays back to back each week???
Discipline i guess haha
W weapon
whats truly insane is that Excalibur is the only frame with 2 upgraded forms
can't hate a game fully before you love it at some points, i enjoy the historical recovery videos.
Excalibur Prime main here. I'm happy to see this video.
I'm starting playing Warframe just few years back, maybe from the update of "Protea" to this day. And I thought that Excalibur becomes the first Warframe because from the explanation in "The Sacrifice" quest where Ballas begins the experiment of Warframe (as the tool of war) from the dying soldier of his own kin, injected him with some viruses and super serum (perhaps). However, although the experiment shows the great result physically, the mind of Umbra cannot be conquered no matter how. Hence, in the future, the next experiments of the Warframes are just completely empty vessels but controlled by the Tenno aka Operator (which based on the story, the survivor children of Zariman). I know in the story, it's called "Excalibur Umbra", not just regular Excalibur, but in my opinion, because Umbra is possibly the first "guinea pig", he is evolving through time to a certain level. But again, this is just from my point of view....
Man, seeing clips of old Warframe brings back memories.
I Loved Dark Sector, and cried when found out I missed the proto gun skins I'd do almost anything for them come back into rotation
One of the things that made excals EB op was the energy waves went through walls, having stalker problems? No problem kill him Through a wall etc. Exacals super jump wasn't that bad an ability when I started the game ver. 0.3 because the game didn't have finishers or wall running at that time, so you had some use out of it.
I'm looking forward to your vid on Loki, he got a lot of changes to his skills due to people clipping his decoy into walls on def maps, him teleporting enemies off cliffs (including bosses and their loot,) and him clipping out of the map and running past locked doors etc. It was a good time, but that's why you get the message saying something about the target being obstructed when your trying to decoy.
The game was exciting to see what they would add every time you logged back in.
Did see someone with excal prime last week
What a Rare occurrence
My first frame was volt. No regerts.