Warframe is getting weird 

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Wake up Tenno. The first 70 hours are only a lucid, second dream.

the second dream isn't a mission, it's an experience.

70 hours can turn to 700 hours in Warframe reaaaaally quick especially when you start theory-crafting builds of frames and weapons and get addicted to red crits. Red number pop up unga bunga

"the Void is Staring Back" Oh you have no idea...

"I'm staring into the void, and it's staring back at me." Premonitions of the things to come.

What was said: "I'm staring into the Void, and it's staring back at me." What I heard: *What I can only describe as eldritch Mongolian throat singing.*

*IMPORTANT EDIT:* Turn Twitch chat to Emote-only while you play the quest, and type /dnd (do not disturb) in the in-game chat. The backseating will be HELL otherwise. Us tenno love this game, and we love watching people play this quest, but we're too eager for our own good. We'll spoil things accidentally, or on purpose. Save yourself from the mob. Edit: Wow, yall really like to argue, huh? Just chill and not complain to each other, alright? We're here to have fun, after all. I think it's extremely important HOW you've criticized warframe. Everyone who plays sorta knows that there's a major problem with the new player experience. But no one can really point to what's actually wrong, and I think that's because we've lost that new-player mindset. Criticisms like yours really shine a light on WHAT is wrong rather than just crying wolf. A fun fact: a few years ago (2-3 years from memory), the new player experience was DRASTICALLY worse. That said, I am extremely excited for your next video. Remember, when all is said and done, even after all this time... you've still only scratched the surface.

2:20 "staring into the void and its staring back at me" RAP TAP TAP

19:14 The fact that he's never met Teshin until this moment lmao. Truly, the Conclave is in shambles.

I am now staring into the void, and the void says: hey, kiddo.

"I'm staring into the void, and it's staring back at me!" Aha... hahaha.... HAHAHAHAHA.

One thing I feel like I need to say is DO NOT SELL THE XORIS

Not only to everything you said, but the community is truly unreal. There was One time I was coming out of a mission and I mentioned I needed a part. Some guy I was in the missionwith, that we never spoke once in the mission came out and said I’ll give it to you for free. That one part turned into five frames given for free. At the time I was just getting back into the game honestly, if the guy never did that I don’t know if I would’ve kept playing. He got my Foundry engine going.

watching a new player discover the joy of playing warframe is infectious as hell and almost feels like im reliving those same moments of discovery. Looking forward to your next vid describing in great detail how your journey advanced.

Lil bro thinks the tutorial ended 💀

Attention people that are going to buy/gift him anything... Send him-> 1.Formas 2.Weapon/Warframe/Companion Slots 3.Boosters Getting Warframes/Weapons from completing tasks is a rewarding feeling! Let him grow!

6:39 THIS. If you did the deadlock protocol quest and acquired the XORIS, pls DO NOT SELL IT. It happen to me before when I played warframe as a noob (MR8 at that time) and regretted selling it since its actually one of the better weapons you can use from early game till end game since its heavy attack explosions deal nice damage. (You can get the bp and build it again, it just cost 100k standing at simaris at a relay.) Its best to either save your building of weapons or frames to manage inventory slots until you can comfortably buy those warframe/weapon slots because you are gonna horde a lot of stuff and save a ton of work in the long run, plus earning/trading items for platinum is easy and can build up over time.

Oh my.... He's so close.... I can't wait to see his next video 😊

As an old player, I had no real conception of how much newer stuff is accessible before Second Dream. It's throwing me for a loop honestly.

"Dream, not of what you are, but of what you want to be" was the sentence that made me come out. It's one of the most empowering things ever uttered to me. In a silly little vidya game.

My bf is an old returning player. A "there was no story when I was playing" old return. After a few days (and a few hundred platinum spent on a fun new frame) grinding, farming, and unlocking, I got him through Second Dream. I'm only *starting* New War, so I'm not even super far in but I'm also a returning old-er (but not old) player and witnessing Second Dream again was beautiful. Especially now, knowing what I know. The story is, for me, what makes the grind worth it. And the grind is lowkey fun as a Khora with Pilfering Strangledome 😅

I just reached 275 hours yesterday. Only now do I have my first Prime warframe, Prime weapons, AND I created my first Kuva Lich. The game is *still* giving me new tutorials. I am STILL in the tutorial. I love it. The game is so great.

As a long time warframe player, subverting expectations is the real name of the game, every time i think i know where they're going, i end up being entirely wrong.

Legend has it the data mass is still lying at spawn to this day...

Wait till he finds out what a railjack is...

I completely agree on the new player crafting experience stuff. I VERY clearly remember how I struggled with gulping down the fact that i needed to wait almost 4 whole DAYS to even get my frame that i worked so hard for. No one told me that i can craft these and have them on a conveyor belt being procured and steadily reaching my needy new player hands. Now, having a grasp on how it works, i always look for new things to craft, and always make sure there is something cooking in the foundry. I firmly believe that teaching how the foundry works and how you have no limit on the things you can craft, plus how many things you can easily get the parts for and outright buy- would go a LONG way with helping raise the hopes of new players and even preventing so many quitting so early.

Buy a Clem eat fish, he day, teach fish Clem, to a lifetime.

Dude, Warframe got weird something like 8 years ago.

The Second Dream really is something else. I look forward to your video debrief! On Warframes monetization, one of the stories that made me love DE is that when they first introduced the pets they had a random system for their skins. You could put platinum into it to re-roll as much as you want. It wasn't a lot, like

i will always remember the magic feeling of playing warframe for the first time; reaching important main story quests for the first time and all my reactions too those moments. now that I am 1400hrs in myself I can say that youre out of the "early game" only AFTER the Natah quest IMO. The best is only yet to come. I wish you lots of fun, enjoyable moments, moments of awe and "wtf just happened" situations. Trust me when I say that, starting with the second dream, you are in for one hell of a ride.

One thing I think you should look into, is how and why DE have made the changes they have. In the early days, there was an exploit with a weapon people used to get around the map more. DE OVERHAULED the movement so that getting around the way we did was just now the normal movement system.

When I saw that you are about to start "The Second Dream" I had literal chills down my spine. That quest changes everything.

As a longtime player, this series of videos is so much fun

i play this game nearly 9 years now. and i never stop learning in all these years... i finish all i want in all these years. but i still found new stuff i can do or level / build old weapons new. with a much more stronger build. the story is amazing... and in some moments in this years while i do quests sometimes i get tears in my eyes cause it was so fucking emotional... i have hundreds of hours. and i only can say... it was one of the best online games i`ve ever played.

The new player experience is one thing that for a long time now people have had gripes about and it's gotten way better overtime. But as someone with just over 1000 hours (400 hrs on xbox THEN started over from scratch and am at another 600+ hours in) I adopted one rule that I hold too religiously: I will never let someone play this game for the first time alone. Even if it's just to keep them from some of the new player traps, I always walk with my friends through the introductory hours and I have turned out some dedicated Warframe players with this approach! Love the videos and glad to see more and more people coming into this incredible, deep and very thoughtfully made and loved game!

As an older player that has guided several players through starting the game, and is still trying to pay forward the help that I got when I started playing 10 years ago It's really good to see the honest and clear critique that you have been giving at different stages of the game. There are somethings that older players can't get a clear idea about the feel for, like pacing, and where those problems specifically are, even if we know they exist. On a separate but related note, it is really interesting seeing your reactions to playing the quests in the order that you have been playing them, since they aren't the order that they were released in. It gives me a different perspective as an older player as to how the world is unveiled. For perspective, when I started playing there weren't any of the quests you've played through, in fact the one that you are about to do was the first one to be added into the game, before even the new player quest, but even back then we had things that pointed to the fact that there was more lurking around the corner for us to discover. Here is a fun piece of information: every piece of alien text and script in the game is readable, and somethings that you might have thought were art, especially in the void, are actually writing.

The feeling of getting new frames and realizing the potential of the concept of a Warframe was what locked me into this game years ago. Seeing everything opening up in front of you with all the colorful and wildly unique characters flowing through each mission you do is a very singular moment and I look back very fondly on the time I realized I was *in*.

It almost feels like Warframe needs two options for the tutorial...one for solo players and another for someone who is being guided by friends. Because that's one of the reasons why they haven't implemented a more in-depth, hand-holding, isolated tutorial, because many people want to play with their friends right away in the higher-level content. I remember (like 8 years ago now) I joined a clan at MR 8, where lots of the members helped guide me through those early issues of where to get things and how mechanics worked. Also shoutout to Q&A chat if you're have specific questions, people are really happy to help!

Really glad you decided to give Warframe a chance!

It is amazing how Warframe progressed throughout the years, mostly for the better... I still remember when we had a stamina system and when the Gorgon was the best weapon in the game, those were more simple times...

Bro, people need to stop giving away Dante to new player streamers. Hes a late game frame and his playstyle is not indicitave of a new player experiance. New players that arent just given all kinds of things wont experiance the game this way.

I got over several 100 hours into the game and I haven’t played in a year, your video has me playing again today

Like you said at the end, THE BEST WAY to play Warframe is have a friend or two, who play along with you. They sit back, let you do stuff, figure it out, but be there to answer questions, give tips, explain the less explained items, and help you work your way through. That is whatmy buddy did, and I have enjoyed the ge since I first picled it up. Having someone close who is somewhat versed in the game gives a lot of help and enjoyability to the game

Bud, here on out from the second dream. You will be entering the deep end, the cold below the surface, the unfathomable deep, indifferent. But we will all be there to meet you at the bottom, as one of us. See you soon Tenno.

The problem with early game quests, they are very old, and mostly just missions with characters sometimes talking over them, way less cinematic setpieces like the newer quests (deadlock protocol, vox solaris, heart of deimos), also, theres a big chunk of the story missing at the beginning since it was played through limited time events way back in the day, for example Alad V appears in the story out of nowhere, you don't know who that guy is and the first and last time interacting with him before the quests he's featured in is on jupiter. Hope is at some point DE might go back and add more quests towards the beginning of the game, but right now they are focused on pushing the story forward. Also i quite like the fact that the tutorial quests don't really tell you much in the way of lore, so you're only hit with the realization of what's actually going on in the natah quest, and the story actually picks up from there with a much stronger sense of direction. From that point each quest basically flows into the next, so the later part of the game is much more well-paced than the beginning.

as a baby tenno myself, i can emphatize with the feeling of surprise when i saw just how well this game plays, how non-predatory it is once you learn the systems, and how much content there is for a new player to explore. what usually drives me away from games is the lack of goals, or reaching those goals too quickly and then feeling like there is nothing else to do. in warframe, you always have something new to try, something to grind for, no matter if its a new frame or a weapon, or just a cool cosmetic that you want to obtain for (the actual endgame) fashionframe. its an amazing game with amazing systems and even more amazing devs who actually care about their players for a change, and i really wish other companies would start taking some notes from them and creating more games such as this one. love your videos, definitely subscribed and looking forward to the rest of your journey!

9:12 That's why the main progression in the game for the new players are doing the mission nodes on the planets and progress within it. The junction quest tu unlock a new planet serve as a tutorial and to tell the player what he hass to do and what functions the game has. Those junction quests tell you what to do, the junctions unlock new quests, the junctions tell you to do certain quest to unlock more places and things to do, etc

"Duviri Complex" is a funny slip of the tongue but when you onow the lore it's also... Not wrong. What a .... Paradox.

It's funy how this series of videos shows how Warframe need to explains things better as well as streamline/condensing the game. Having a popup tab in the market with MK1 weapons so you KNOW those don't need materials to be crafted and you can try them instantly (as soon as you have the credits ofc). Having videos to show how some systems work. Like having a video showing how to mod, upgrade those mods etc....

I started Warframe with a friend that streams and the community loved seeing two baby tennos exploring and looking around, once we got done with the second dream we were told we are no longer baby tennos we are now teenage tennos welcome to the game

I've played Warframe on and off through the years but the one thing that always makes me come back is how much it respects my investment. No login streak, no content that gets removed after a year, and almost no fomo. When I come back, my inbox is stuffed full of goodies and I get to pick up right where I left off with my login rewards. I played Destiny for a decade but Warframe remembers our anniversary and sends me a gift every year, even when I'm not actively playing. Warframe respects my time, money, and investment.

Of all the things I can agree with, I think one of my most cherished things about Warframe is that I never feel like I HAVE to play it, like with so many other live service or F2P games. There's so many games that try to force themselves into becoming a job, making sure you log in every day to grind out your daily missions, to get the bare minimum amount of currency or progression needed to keep playing the game. But in Warframe, I never feel like I HAVE to keep logging in to do anything. I log in, and I do whichever part of the game I feel like doing that day. There still ARE daily and weekly things to do, for those that crave them, but it's never something you NEED to do. I don't miss out on anything if I don't bother with the daily sortie. I don't miss out on anything mandatory if I ignore the (completely free) battlepass (which I tend to end up completing on accident anyway). I can just go wherever I want, and do whatever I want, which is so much sweeter than the forced burnout that comes with games that force you into a cycle of forced daily and weekly missions just to play the game. Love Warframe. Still my most played PC game to date. It IS a game that takes a long time to fully grasp. I remember for a very long time after I started, I didn't really grasp many of the mechanics, or what progression I was aiming for. I had a friend who helped me along the way with suggestions and guidance, and it's definetly the kind of game where you'll often be heading to the Wiki to check for information. However, I think I still loved that period, despite having next to no clue what I was doing. I was constantly learning new things, discovering new places, making a clan and building the dojo, trying out the different elemental types, obtaining new mods that did wacky things I had no need of, etc. It was this beautiful period of total wonder as the game just expanded seemingly infinitely in every direction around me. Perhaps it's just a personal thing, but I really loved that about the game. It seems a lot of people today are very progression focused in video games, which is to say, if they're not making obvious progress on SOMETHING, be it the story, levelling up, etc, then they lose interest in the game without the constant stimulation of progression. But I was just finding fun thing after fun thing to explore and learn, and at the end of the day I realise that's what ACTUALLY keeps me going in a game; not if I'm making progression into a system, but if I'm just having fun with the moment to moment gameplay, and Warframe is perfect for that.

I think the tonal change here is probably directly attributable to how much the new player experience still needs polish. They've done a lot of passes on it over the years, some of them were HUGE milestones, but 11 years of layered systems that have been explained on devstreams to the hardcore fanbase and then never really explained ingame leaves a LOT of technical debt to catch up on. They should probably have someone just working on it full time at this point. I was so excited to see your reaction to archwing. The aforementioned hardcore fanbase is off archwings and off railjack, and they are two of my favorite game modes I would LOVE to see get more investment, but the community is so against them or ignoring them that it would be hard to justify DE dumping more resources into them. Hopefully this wave of influencers onboarding with fresh eyes will be enough to creep the community opinion back from full-on hate for them. Looking forward to the second dream video. There's more huge cinematic quests after it, but it's where the story really picks up on cashing in on those breadcrumbs (~100 hours in).

It's been fascinating watching a new player journey as a, just very recently established, MR30 vet. You haven't missed yet with your analysis of the state of the game and seeing your enjoyment and encouragement to get others to play just makes me feel like my own journey to mastery 30 was well worth every second. I really wish I could start the whole trip again with no memory. It's THAT DAMN GOOD.

I'm 800 hours into warframe without counting my console days investment back in the day, and I still think time gating item crafting is stupid, and I know most of the community mostly disagrees but spending hours farming for an item just to have to wait for all the pieces to be crafted to then wait again to craft the actual item is actually infuriating

I'm definitely psyched to see how your journey continues, these videos are great to see as a veteran. Warframe is such an experience and its always wonderful to have more people join in on it and see what it really has to offer, past that rocky start.

It's so nice to see someone so enthusiastic about something you love. Your work as a youtuber is algo great. Script, camera, ambience and video editing. You really are up to some high quality content here

I am SO HYPED to see the next one covering The Second Dream and the story further after that

Void: Welcome Tenno to death Farming Nidus: Hold my forma

Warframe is so amazing. I loved playing as Titania the most. She is a warframe dedicated to supports, laying down plants that can boost damage, decrease damage taken, etc. The ultimate for her is the ability to shrink down allowing you to zip through hordes of enemies seamlessly while shooting at them with her signature weapon. Overall fun character.

:) Thanks for this. I'm glad to hear you're still having fun and yes, the next quest is a big one. The second Dream was originally teased by a rare occurrence in the loading screen, with translatable text. As for STALKER, you may want to check his codex entry ... .

I just wanna say you did an increadible summary on the Natah quest, most people have no idea about anything till they crash into the Second dream, because they JUST DO NOT listen to anything or read anything that is said in the game. I think that is a huge miss on any new player, playing any game. Seeing youtubers talk over and ignoring mission directives on what to do, and then they go "the fck i´m supposed to do?" Increadibly triggering for the vet´s knowing, the Writers who wrote it, and the Actors. I think there is a definite Players fault when designing a game. Anyways, Great video with solid criticism!

18:56 The Stalker, after killing a boss he'll mark you for death. He'll appear randomly as a mini boss when in a mission and he'll drop unique things, usually weapons

I played Warframe for 7+ yrs. Loved every minute of it, but since I was there at the beginning, my experience is quite a bit different. While I agree that the beginning still needs fine tuning, it is in fact magnitudes above what it used to be. As you've pointed out, the community is what really holds this game together. Being able to find those people that want offer any help to anyone with questions is what can solidify your participation in progressing further with the game. For me being someone that played for a long time and needing to wait between updates of the game with new systems, gameplay, weapons, frames etc. What kept me coming back ultimately was helping new people with the game and playing with them for a time. The energy of people experiencing this game for the first time is downright infectious. Always the community. So welcome to warframe and I hope you enjoy your stay ^_^. Cheerio Tenno!

This is the first time i have seen a content creator posted an update after Natah, and hadn't started Second Dream. The next 3 major story quests are quite the ride, very much looking forward to the reaction of each.

Been playing warframe for the past 3 years and I struggled hard in the beginning, had to rely on the wiki and RU-vid to help me understand the game.

You're 100% correct, I definitely remember my new player experience, while platinum didn't seem as pay to win for me, as I was happy to wait in between school days (I started many years ago), I had my brother to guide me through the game, and if I didn't have him to really sell me on the many aspects of the game that you only come to understand later on, I probably would've played it off and on for a good while until I came to that realisation myself. Modding, to this day I think is the really big thing that needs to be worked on. A new player sees literally hundreds, maybe even low thousands of mods, and it's hard to piece together how they work together at all or which ones are useful and which ones are not, and a better explanation that didn't have me go to external sources would've been greatly appreciated. Now I say this in anticipation, you have come upon the quest that hooked me to Warframe for years, that's what Warframe does, it subverts expectations, and you're in for one hell of a ride. I hope you continue to have fun, and I think your commentary and approach on the new player experience is a discussion that is important for the Warframe community to have.

One thing I always recommend to new players is to disable 'Hold to Sprint' in the Accessibility tab. Once disabled, you can briefly hold Shift at the start of any mission to toggle sprint on. As there is no advantage to walking, this objectively improves and simplifies your parkour.

The order that you're running into things seems so wild to me, and while mostly I'm happy that you're not stuck going through things in release order (this quest that you're coming up to predates all of the open worlds, not to mention other quests that you've praised), it does seem like DE might have dropped the ball a bit on the side quests. I found Warframe back in 2017 (just before Chains of Harrow released), and The Limbo Theorem and The New Strange were both quests that I ran into pretty quickly. The star chart was the only progression at the time, and there were no open worlds to serve as a distraction, so I was guaranteed to run into them early-ish, which was probably a good thing.

Just found your videos and all of this is excellent commentary. As an MR 32 Warframe player, I find myself nodding in agreement with more or less everything you say. One thing I'd like to highlight is that Warframe suffers from a lot of old, unupdated content sitting alongside new content. You mentioned that you wished stuff like the Deadlock Protocol, with actual cutscenes and switched up gameplay encounters, would have been thrown at you earlier in the experience. The Deadlock Protocol is a much more recent addition in comparison to most of the early game quests. Awakening, the rain-slick first mission on Earth, was an updated version of that mission, but everything afterward with Vor's Prize and the Ascaris, Once Awake, Stolen Dreams, are very old quests, and you can really see the contrast in design and the lessons learned over the years. The early game also had a lot of time-limited events, and plot developments tended to happen in those rather than in quests, so sometimes the game will drop a character like Tyl Regor and his tubemen or Alad V and seem to just expect you to know who they are, because their dialogue was written in the wake of those timed events that are gone now and never got rewritten. Good luck waking from the dream, Tenno. Who are you, and what are you doing in this universe? Answering that question means fighting not just the war without, but the War Within.

having a volt, gauss and wisp on your team, and being so fast you actually lose control i think is probably helpful in the long run. part of the reason im so good at jumping through levels these days is because ive had those experiences. i think "im pretty fast right now, but i remember a time when i was way faster. i can do this. im not gonna crash."

Have you seen a yt animatic called '100 days of warframe' by MASHED? Also you mentioned how you didn't know much about the stalker, he'll be getting his own whole story quest soon! So glad you're enjoying warframe

It's crazy you feel this way, and I actually can't wait for your next episode when you do the Second Dream, and the War Within. I'm almost certain that those 2 quests singlehandedly stole a spot in 99% of the warframe playerbase's hearts as one of their favorite games of all time. Like, it's one of those "I wish I could lose my memories to experience it all for the first time again" things.

"The void is staring back" Oh love, you have no idea. Wait till you get to the Chains of Harrow. You're gonna love it.

One of the saddest aspects of the new player experience is that, from my perspective, they DID fix it... and then the community cried so hard they reverted it. When the Duviri Paradox first released, DE reworked the first login of the game to play a special cinematic with the Lotus talking to you, explaining that you can either start the game in a Warframe (and play the Vor's Prize quest) or start the game as the Drifter (and begin the game with the Duviri Paradox). This was a FANTASTIC decision by the developers, because not only does it front-load some of Warframe's best content with Duviri Paradox, it also establishes some important narrative aspects right from the get-go and offers a far superior tutorial for the games movement and shooting mechanics. Unfortunately, the playerbase revolted. The players all cried about how Duviri is not representative of Warframe as a whole, and that it ruined new player's view of the story. I fully believe those voices in the community were wrong, but DE caved. They removed that new intro cinematic, and put the Duviri Paradox unceremoniously hidden inside the codex, available upon completion of Vor's Prize. And it HURTS. Duviri Paradox is such an incredible tool for new players to have access to *every* item in the game outside of its regular reward structure. You can get warframes and weapons immediately that you'd need to wait over a hundred hours to be able to acquire. And the story is not spoiled in the slightest - your very questions in this video prove that, as did many other content creators at the time. I will never not be salty that the community whined their way out of Warframe having a legitimately better new player experience. It genuinely breaks my heart to this day that that new intro cinematic was just thrown away, never to be used again. At least you can still find it on youtube...

you know, the main campaign quest forcing me to grind out the necramech turned out to be more of an eye opener than a burden due to just that mere fact that the components require mining and fishing on free roam missions, as well as ranking up reputation with a syndicate or a few, finding out more lore about the entrati family, going on those sidequests to earn the requirements you need to increase standing and not just running bounties over and over and over and over again, learning the ways of trading with other players. the game has shown me more beautiful sides of it than just storming through the main quests without putting much thought into anything

Now this might sound weird But I actually really like how Warframe throws you into the deep end and let's you figure out on your own how to engage with its systems. It is so thematically fitting with being this ancient warrior without any memory of the past, put in a new and unfamiliar world. And it also gives you the feeling of exploration without soon-feeding you tutorials on tutorials on how to do every little thing, as is popular in modern game design. When I started out, I've spent tens of hours just sneaking around solo in the Orokin Towers within the Void, using my Shade sentinel to get bursts of invisibility and utilising a suppressed Lex as my main weapon. Poking around the Market to find what weapons I could build that'd suit my playstyle. At that point I actually believed that you could play this ninja assassin that is never even seen throughout the mission - and even though the game has shown me by now that, in the vast majority of situations, this will not be the case, I am happy that I've had that period of exploration.

problem for me is still the very real lack of a clearly defined progressive direction - other than finish all the story content, which is often easier said than done. here's the thing, between pc and ps5 I have over 1k hours into the game and still haven't taken on the new war yet... I have this becasue it's fun to play and I just like building new frames. the game easily accodates players like me who take their time with the story, but it's also super easy to get lost in your own progression along the way. I'll spend several play sessions just trying to track down rare mods or opening relics, doing quick sortie runs, etc... None of that progresses my story or gets me any closer to steel path which is where the really good stuff is - effectively the start of the game with a much more challenging difficulty. But if you want challenge in the early game it's also easy to find. try to optomize your build while actually in high level content, the only barrier to entry being that you either have to have bring a lv 30 frame with you, which is super easy to get just by running a few rounds of onslaught, or you're willing to stick around a level longer then 15-20 minutes. Getting a frame to 30 doesn't mean you're actually ready for high end play, and the game will properly smack you down, even if you're a good mechanical player but are not properly built for the content. I think the game hides this difficulty curve very well and can be quite deceptive with newer players. But when you're chasing a build and the part you need only has the potential to drop on round c or after a certain higher time limit is reached... you'll start to understand how crazy this game gets, and thats honestly where the game really starts to separate itself out from the competition. Because, and this is key, the power creep is real and DE basically let's us evolve and break the game to keep things going. and that thrill of leveling rooms of enemies but only being two hits from constant death is a hard high to beat :)

You're absolutely right on monetization and i still don't understand why DE keeps the in-game market this way. The most generous game developers seemingly hellbent on making themselves appear the greediest. The in game-market is a relic of a bygone era that needs to change.

Start with Meg, best tip for beginner, her "pull" ability leaves enemies vulnerable to finishers and piles them together so you can get multiple enemies down in a second. Where you point is where the enemy goes. It keeps enemies away so shields can recharge. increase range and efficiency, to get the best out of it.

You want an experience... Wait for the Second Dream... Close to 5k hours, played the quest when in was originally released, and still get shivers when I recall it.

I agree with ya. When I first started playing I was highly frustrated because there were no instructions at all. If it weren't for RU-vid channels I would've most likely quit. But, it really is so addictive that I want to see where else it takes me. In my quest I figured out that one of the main things to do is get a badass weapon that'll carry me up and up and up. I found it. Get the Torid Incarnon and wipe out gods! That weapon is insane! The hours eventually melt away. I turn it on now just out of habit. It's a no thinking type of game that still finds ways to stimulate. It's an incredible game!!!

A fun thing to consider: the players leaving the game due crafting timegate and not knowing where to find crafting blueprints is an excellent observation, but was not a problem we had in the beginning. In the beginning, we didn't have all that many avenues of explorations to distract us (we didn't even have the orbiter to walk around in - it was just a 2d UI where you can access missions and store), so our attention, even though it was undirected, would very quickly find its way to the store, and the blueprints. We'd usually find this within the first hour of gameplay, so we didn't get lost. I definitely empathize with new players - it's so out of the way that it really should be a tutorial-guided experience.

Warframe is the one game I would describe using the word 'astonishing'! It's vast and varied but most importantly, fun to play. I've got a mere 3700 hours in WF but have since moved onto HD2, I personally think HD2 could learn a thing or 2 from WF!

ship and dojo decorating has its own very dedicated community to it to the point where they find ways to decorate the skybox

4:10 press F to switch to gun mode so you can just shoot more rapidly, roll and "supercharge" your pistol for charge shots when reloading. it's better than spamming quickshot which is primarily for staggering special moves and chip damage. just make sure you hit F again to switch back so you can block and heavy or power attack again. 7:30 when you're doing your glaive, you can hold a "rethrow" when the glaive is on the way back. Charge, throw, middle click to detonate if you want to, or hold charge to recall/hold charge immediately after the glaive explodes and starts to return. When you rethrow you get a more fluid animation, and this is actually a technique to spin up a mod known as "power throw" which allows you to stack up to triple damage off successive timed glaive tosses. You can also throw in midair and you sorta suspend yourself slightly, so mix it in with your acrobatics to get really fancy with it. 25:00 *[epic smile intensifies]* please have a stream replay or semi-long play/mildly edited video of your entire reaction to the quests and most of the main quests that come after this one. Trust me. it'll do your views good. we love a good second dream reaction video.

We are sooo close! The way the Natah quest hit you, I can't imagine what the game will do to you soon. You are on the tipping point where Warframe turns from great to incredible!

I am grateful to have experienced Warframe in this last decade. Watching how it’s grown and improved overtime through the positive reception of the communities feedback by the Devs and their willingness to listen. I hope they can lead by example for this next generation of gaming so we can see more amazing dedicated projects like Warframe in the near future.

Playing as Titania completely changes the shape of the game, a stylish glowing fairy with 2 machine guns

As someone who just hit 2k hours in the game i can try and answer a couple of questions. The reason the early missions aren't as high quality as others is because DE didn't form their storytelling personality yet. They simply didn't know what they wanted to do with the game. This also is the reason as to why there is no coherent tutorial for modding. They reworked it from a skill-tree, from equipable abilities, and ever since then, they just focused on making more cool things for everyone to enjoy. Good thing is, they are looking into ways of improving the new player experience. The duviri start, removal of MK-1 weapons and damaged mods are some things they quite recently did to remove some pain points. Bottomline, they're working on it and it used to be even messier.

"A people so advancend, that even while infectied by a hive mind virus, could hold back The Whispers" That is a very spot on observation that you have no idea how spot on is yet, just you wait. There is still more, the latest story quest might be far away. But it hints to more still

Amazing video. As someone who has thousands of hours in the game it is one of my favorites and best games of all time. I agree the most of the new player experience is not done well and definitely needs a revamp. But also everything added after the early stages of the game when it first came out are incredible and have only been getting better with time. It is always very hard to sell warframe to new players cause it really is a game that gets good after 100 hours which is rough and a HARD sell, but when it does get good man is it amazing. Im glad you stuck with it and are getting to the good parts. I cant wait to see more I bet your gonna love the game more and more. Keep up the amazing videos.

Grats on your first 70 hours! I just passed 70 days, and I agree with you on the silly crafting times, its still annoying, even as a legendary 2.

Bro honestly the Warframe community is amazing I remember starting the game a while back had like 30hr had no idea what I was doing and just enjoying myself in a defensive mission. Had a guy join he had a mic and then we talked for 2years and took me to my 300 hundredth hour

"I stared into the void and it stared back" and im sure it gave you a big toothy smile

There is a moment in the latest expanse that has a section that just flat out tells you brief summary of what happens in the story. Though it will take you a while to reach it, but don't worry you will reach it eventually

Player: oh well it good day to test new greeer Stalker: Suprisse!

Honestly I appreciate the forge times because it gives you a thing to just take a break, especially after a long time of grinding, and do something else in your life

On lack of room (slots) Run the annual alerts. Each weapon awarded come with a slot, I run them every year just for the free slots.