Random thoughts on Warframe
Warframe is a sci-fi game. It's a multiplayer game. To me, it's a shooter... and so much more.
Steam tells us this:
Warframe is a cooperative free-to-play third person online action game set in an evolving sci-fi world.
You don't see the word 'shooter' in there, do you? I imagine that's because there is much more to the game than just your gun as a weapon. You have multiple fighting options and your gun is just one of them.
The game is fast-paced though and you have this crosshair and you have a gun... plenty of reasons for me to call it a shooter.
I don't like shooters. I suck at shooters. It's all way too fast for me. I don't like the gun as a weapon. I still found myself playing Warframe a second time though. Then a third time.
Part of that is because once I showed the game to my fiance, he decided to start playing too (and he can now carry me through missions). Another part of it is because of its setting and all of the other aspects of this game.
Alright, I'll admit, I saw the tag 'Multiplayer' and my mind turned this into 'MMO'. That's not correct. It's not really an MMO. You will see other players though. Not on your regular missions (though you can party up), but there are places where you can meet people. So far, I found them in a city on earth. It held both npc vendors and players. Besides this, there's also a chat channel which you can see while you're chilling out in your own ship.
Now I'm far from an expert on the game and there are still a lot of unknowns for me. Maybe there are other places where I could find people, who knows? For now, it was the city.
What attracted me to the game at first were the graphics. The game is free to play and it looks awesome! I saw a video of someone running through an open field of grass and I thought 'I want to go there!'. I saw someone fishing and I thought 'That's an awesome side-activity! I want to see this open world!'.
My missions did not lead me there.
I was disappointed.
I wanted an open world.
My fiance started googling.
Turns out, there is an open world!
I got excited.
And that's what led me to this city. It is the gateway to the open world. I'm still not sure what exactly the deal is with this open world. I haven't yet figured out this whole fishing thing and all we did out there was die. I think we need to do more missions to level up first...
So, more on that later.
Gosh this is a messy post, isn't it? I guess I now know the correct title: 'Random thoughts on Warframe'.
Anyway, Warframe. Sci-fi! Yes, because well... look at your suit. And also, I said 'a city on earth' before, because you can also visit other planets. We haven't yet, because we need to level up more, but yeah.
Also, there's fancy guns, swords and each Warframe suit has its own little special set of abilities. Mine can shoot lightning! How awesome is that? Energy drains quickly though, so I can't shoot lightning that often. It makes me sad. I hope it improves when I level up.
Also, there's a ship!
Your ship!
You can costumize this ship, since it's yours. You can also customize your warframe, since it's yours. I made good use of these options.
I love my re-decorated ship. Not too happy about the warframe though. There a little too much pink going on there. I'll fix that some day.
You can also decorate the outside of your ship! As in, you can color it. Also, you can get other ships. And as mentioned before, other warframes.
Oh yes, and there's also mods to upgrade your warframe and weapons. Oh yes, and you can also change the colors of your weapons. My sword now makes pink arches when I swing it!
So much going on there...
Alright, I will definitely stream this game sometime soon, so you can see the gameplay with the bonus addition of watching me fail at a shooter type of game.
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I'm MR20 or... 21... or 22, I don't remember.
I got so boring, I stopped playing.
Oh no, that's already two people telling me they got bored after a while. Well, we'll see what happens. Atleast it's free to play, so no real harm done, right?
I'm still so new to the game, I had to google what 'MR' meant! It looks to basically be the overall experience from... everything combined.
this game has no satisfing end-game content. And every year they simply add more guns, swords, warframes and new mod systems to make your character stronger. Basically if you are maxed out, all you do is wait for the developers to add a little extra from time to time.
But I'm not maxxed out and I'll never be, because this game is simply a crazy grind/farmfest.
The only joy I had in this game was teaming up with good players and doing long farming runs... but even that gets old really quick.
You're my soul mate :D All the time I was using my sword in Warframe. I didn't shoot at all. If you're playing Excalibur, then its last spell is super OP. I was always angry when somebody killed (my) mobs I wanted to kill with my super power :D
It's pretty cool game but all missions are repeating a lot so after some time we were bored and we somehow didn't find out how its open world works. The game is not new-user-friendly at all.
Excalibur huh! I'm playing Volt and yes, it is very annoying when there's a big group my lightning is perfect for, but then most of them are dead before I manage to hit them!
Hmm, I wonder how long the game will keep us entertained with already two comments of people who got bored. I'm having a hard time figuring everything out to be honest, so you're right, not really new-user-friendly.
Well, then it's time to find some community to help you. Community in Warframe is really kind. Not like in other multiplayer games... but we had a friend who already knew the game a little. He helped us a lot.
Yeah, one of my friends apparently has also played the game a lot, so he offered to give us some help with the game :D
I actually got to play this only for a few hours at a friends place, I did enjoy it from the start, although some time later my friend told me the game gets quite boring with time. I've been doing some "historical" gaming posts lately, highlighting noteworthy titles released in certain years and I can tell that the general atmosphere and the style of the game is something that it would ought to get some recognition for.
A third person mentioning it'll get boring! Well, atleast it's fun for now :D
It's a very fun game. It's cool to play with friends. I didn't really enjoy Warframe until I hit level 30 on my frame and weapons. You can enhance your gear with mods to make you stronger.
About fishing, yes, you should level up. The mobs in the area will land from time to time and annoy you. It's always nice to deal with them quickly and get back to the fun stuff.
What kept me playing was setting goals. It kept me interested. I also like tracking my progress. There's certain modes I hate playing (e.g. Archwing missions). I just don't play those and it works out for me.
Oh yes, setting goals usually helps to keep me interested in a game aswell. For now though, the only goal I can set for Warframe is to level up and learn more about the game :-)
IS there any reward for playing the game?
Well, joy I hope ;-)
Ah, you branched out to the shooting game scene. I play as Mag (magnetism warframe) and currently in Mars. I love the mobility you have in the game, run ,slide, glide, climb, wall run, double jump it's amazing how much freedom of movement you have.
I'm trying to get to the open world myself, I'm getting tired of seeing corridors and tunnel mazes, lol.
Since you're looking into shooters now, I recommend checking out Fortnite. Seems like a lot of fun. :]
Yeah, I still have to get the hang of that! My friend told me about how to move around really fast, so I'm trying the best I can there.
The open world is back on earth, though the city there (I forgot the name).
I'm honestly still not really into shooters, but I got attracted to this because of its looks. Fortnite does seem okay graphics-wise (I mean, it's not a world war thing, so that's good for me), but I think I'll keep that for when there's really nothing else for me to try :-)