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Warframe Will Let You Romance Like It's 1999 with a Memorable New Year's Kiss | Tennocon 2024 | MMOR
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Warframe Will Let You Romance Like It's 1999 with a Memorable New Year's Kiss | Tennocon 2024 | MMORPG.com
Looking for love Tenno? If so you're in luck as love is in the air in Warframe 1999 and it's the first time that Digital Extremes has added the courting of, not just one, but 5 potential love interests.
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Truly, DE are now completely lost and directionless. The last major update where they seemed to have an idea where they wanted to take Warframe was the Plains of Eidolon update. Sinclair's creativity fizzled out around 2018; I doubt that Ford has ever had any creativity or vision to begin with - and now for the past 7+ years the game simply lives on its foundational work done back in 2013 - 2016, with the technical and art teams keeping the ship afloat.
The game has no direction and it looks like it is forever doomed to be the same jumbled mess of disjointed game modes, game systems and locations - introduced, buggy, played for a month to get one warframe, then ignored, and pretty much forgotten. The abysmal Jade update this June shows very well how far this game has fallen and in terms of game systems and universe and their interaction is little more than a fancier looking Happy Zephyr or Frame Fighter.
The introduction of operators got the game rolling downhill very fast, both in terms of gameplay and narrative; Sinclair and his buddies started believing community hype of the Second Dream and in their naivete and hubris began to think of themselves as auteurs instead of simple game designers - and have failed pretty much consistently ever since - Railjack, which started as a promising concept, but was botched so hard, I doubt that DE will ever look back at it; the whole Kahl garbage (we should consider ourselves lucky DE seem to have forgotten about Veso-R), Drifter and Duviri - the list goes on...
Where many of us back in 2013 saw the promise the Warframe's foundations showed and hoped for the game to gradually move towards a more coherent, unified game world, I think at this point I would be truly shocked if DE actually started to design the game that way. But yeah, let's all cheer for the new Flingframe, because that's what the players want, according to the former community manager and voice of the 'mother to the Tenno'.
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They announced two major content updates, including a new traditional tileset, a new Prime Warframe, a new warframe, QoL, and a rework and you call this the defining feature?
Calling "flingframe" the defining feature of Warframe 1999 is like calling shrinking horse testicles the defining feature of Red Dead Redemption 2, or bear sex the defining feature of Baldur's Gate 3. Laughably stupid.
Man, you went full Joe Blobbers. Never go full Joe Blobbers.
I don't call it the defining feature - they do. This is what they chose to highlight. This is what their marketing is focusing on. This is what their game director is focusing on. Soap opera instead of space ninjas. What a difference 11 years make, eh?
Yeah, prime warframe and new warframe, forgive me if I don't applaud what they do every 3 months as part of the normal game updates. QoL and rework happen quite often, as a matter of fact, the last such big update was what, 2 months ago? Don't even get me started on exalted weapons, which they have been ignoring for the past 8 years and are now not just behind, they are entire generations behind. So much for reworks and QoL updates...
But still, those are just minor quibbles in the grand scheme of things. The point is, as the Warframe leadership has shown over the past 7-8 years, they are now pretty much lost as far as the game's direction goes. The core gameplay is still fun, thanks to the ground work they did more than 10 years ago, but as the major updates over the past years have shown, the game lingers in its utter lack of coherence and vision.
I must have missed something significant along the way. Either that or I need to check myself for early onset Alzheimer's.
Can someone confirm/deny the above was once a thing? Thanks.
Warframe 1999 takes place in year 1999 from an alternative timeline to ours, in other words, in the far away past of the current year in Warframe. The people appearing there aren't warframes, but enhanced people. The player character is supposedly seeing said past through their eyes. Otherwise, in the present timeline it's as you described: an individual transfers their conscience to the warframes from the ship (at least after a certain point of the story).
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
(And 3 years is me being generous).
While for now, The First Descendant is the Looter Shooter to beat, 1999 will certainly get me high on Warframe again in Q4.
And we have PoE 2 and a wonky Soulframe to look forward, too. What a year to be alive.
Apologies for the confusion, since I think that I didn't explain myself properly there. It's not a new game. It's just a content update to the already existing game ("Warframe 1999" is the name of the update, like "Plains of Eidolon", "The New War", etc.). It will just add that story that I explained plus other related gameplay features.