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A Second Look - TheHiveLeader - Warframe
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A Second Look - TheHiveLeader - Warframe
It's been three years since TheHiveLeader last jumped into Warframe. It's time for a second look at the game that popularized Giant Albino Rhinos with machine guns!
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Warframe:
Yepp, a ton of changes over the years ( thnx@aslan132 )
It is no MMO, and it is more of a shooter than a rpg.
But it is really fun to dive in and be a ninja in space. It reminds me often on Quake.
AND a lot more...spacewars, the missions, the campaign(s ), raids, bosses, factions, trade/cardgames, chatwars, collecting, easycrafting and and and...the graphics are on top.
It is relativ easy to learn, but hard to... you know it (farm it ). Also you can pay to be on top
Otherwise you can get nearly everything ingame ( takes a lot of time, though ).
I like it and it is fun ( remember: Clans! )
Trying hard to become human as it should be.
Think of miniatures and figurines or really any hobby where you build an item, you collect them and paint them to get them just the way you want them, then put them on a shelf. That's almost how I view warframe. I collect weapons/frames/sentinals/mods ect. forma and optimize weapons I like until they're just right, then move on to the next. For me at least, its very cathartic.
For a first person shooter, its VERY well done. I think the game is incredible for being free. The graphics, lighting, sounds, etc...very well done. The dev holds bi-weekly streams/updates.
But the game is not without its faults and they are large ones in my opinion...
-The development of the game seems to be in the form of "more guns, more warframes, more prime guns and warframes" instead of balance what is there so that you can use any gun and be viable into late game...making build diversity a priority, etc.
-Lack of build diversity.
-Yes, free to play. But very difficult to acquire what you need from playing the game. You can level a char to max level, 30, and guns to max lvl 30...great. But they are weak as sh-t as is. If you want to run in a T3/T4 survival for an hour (which is endgame but is a very common form of endgame, literally everyone does it so you feel compelled to do so)...you'll need to power up your guns and warframes more. So you Forma them...forma = reset all levels and gives you the ability to add more mods etc to your warframes and guns. Sometimes you Forma your guns 4 or 5 times(level them up 4 or 5 times). So the game becomes "grind out forma/etc to make your character more powerful, or buy the forma on the cash shop to make it much quicker".
-After you level up the flavor of the week guns (3-5x), what else is there to do to progress or challenge yourself? T3/T4 survivals and defenses? fun, but after doing it a few dozen times you get bored. Leaderboard chasing? Sure, but its mega hard to even get on a leaderboard. My best in a solo-T4 survival was about 45 minutes? There are people that run it for 1.5-2 hrs. How on earth...??
Overall, I would give the game solid 7.5-8/10. Huge potential, they just need to stop pumping out new weapons and frames (so that we spend money) and actually balance the game and improve its quality.
Fyuu-jon (blam, fat Gotenks) Sh.t I'll be right back
Or the: Man, 12 hours? I can get to max level 6 wow-clones in that amount of time...
I usually play Warframe for a month and then take a 3-4 month break. I'm pretty decked out (have room for improvement ofc.) and have enough gear and exp for raiding (yes, there is raiding and it's oh so different from mmorpg raiding), so i usually just find a guild to join for that month. A fun game, but pretty repetitive to be a full-time game (although I did encounter some people that have this game as their main).
Cheers.
mmorpg junkie since 1999
Been playing it on and off for a few years, mostly off since I'm caught up with the content but it's great. No need to spend platinum or any real money at all. Everything except a few cosmetics is obtainable in-game through crafting or trading with other players. You will literally never need to spend a dime if you don't want to. Only reason you would ever need to spend any platinum or money is if you don't want to trade items to other players for platinum and if you can't be bothered farming something, or want cosmetics.