Why Warframe is Worth Playing 

The audio was a little jank in this video. Apologies! This is meant to be a BROAD OVERVIEW of the game, Warframe. I personally love the game for my own reasons defined in the video, and if you have your own opinions I would love to hear about it!

1300 hours in and I still feel like my time with Warframe is just getting started. This game is the real deal, guys.

I think it's vital to mention that every warframe and weapon can work. As a guy with nearly 3k hours on Nintendo (he second worst way to experience the game) the most fun I've had was bunkering down and picking up a terrible weapon and making it work in steel path. Edit: BTW I love the choice of music bro.

No Ads, No pay-to-win mechanics, Great Lore and Friendly community. We all lift together/

For any new players, don't listen to meta until you're ready. Pick a weapon or warframe you think looks cool and see if they fit how you play.

Warframe is such a gem hindered by a messy "post tutorial" / midgame. I sincerely believe it to be the single best F2P game available at the moment, especially with the new life that was brought in by stuff like The Circuit. Its community is also one of the nicest if not the single nicest one out there (let's not talk about the Riven Mafia) It's just fun and there's so much variety with everything, especially customization

Getting content-locked by the first junction/main quest: Denial Grinding for your first meta frame: Anger Getting your first platinum discount voucher: Bargaining Grinding for railjack: Sorrow Reaching steel path: Acceptance

Yeah, one of its main strengths is its playerbase. One of the main things that made me stick to the game is that a veteran player found me, gave me tons of advice, carried me on farming so much rare stuff, put me in his dojo and basically taught me how to play my starter Mag. I genuinely love just giving new players prime parts and carrying them just because I want to also help new players to love it as much as I did.

Ive only played warframe like one time on xbox one, i had no idea it had so much content! I'll definitely play more sometime!

Great breakdown! As someone who has close to 4000 hours in Warframe, my recommendation to new players is to get through what you described as the early game, then set goals for yourself. With the addition of Duviri and the Circuit, it can be really easy to acquire frames that would otherwise be a massive grind.

I have almost 10k hours in steam and 5k hours in-game mission, and still not getting bored. I have to say that in the time I started playing (9 month after the game was realesed), if it not was for a clan that helped me, explaining how the game works, I would not still playing this game. Everything was so confusing on that time.

One thing I want to add for players who want plat for free. Do your daily sorties and weekly archon hunts (once you're done with new war). Those can reward you with Riven mods, when veiled, can get sold for like 10 plat each. Or if you're daring, you can unveil them and hope for a decent weapon roll. If you got a meta weapon roll, it can already get sold for like 100 plat and above unrolled, if you got a god roll though, can get sold for like 300 or even sometimes, 1000 plat.

NOO I DONT WANA GO BACK NOOOO

The council will not stand for your Excalibur slander

I'm glad to see so many new people genuinely enjoying warframe! And it made me realize that I might need a break from it as I've returned to a state of not finding it entirely fun. I hope you enjoy your time here, and remember to take breaks!

I know this man did not just call excal boring...

Also something to mention is the devs are amazing. They do play their own game, hang out with the community on their streams and genuinely seem to have a good time developing the game. Also they listen to the community (of course in a sensible way, they can't go out and implement everything everybody wants at the same time), especially with the new team after Steve stepped down as creative lead and went to work on Soulframe. We've been getting so many qol and accessibility changes in the last few years, the game looks and feels infinitely more polished than it did in say 2017. Sure, DE can get a little bit greedy sometimes like with the recent Heirloom supporter pack or regal aya packs before that, but they do still listen to feedback on this monetization and try to make it more fair, and of course they never lock anyone out of actual content with a paywall - every single bit of the game can be enjoyed for free if you so choose, and it won't even be a bad experience like with some other games you can "technically" play entirely for free. TL:DR Devs are cool people, very ambitious and love working on their game, interacting with the community and listen to player feedback.

I just got back into it last week after leaving around when Railjack came out, but I've been playing this game off and on since the beta. It's very easy to let your need to progress suck the fun out of it, so take time to remind yourself that it's a game, and a fun one at that. Play an early missing slowly while keeping your stealth bonus up and see how far you can make it. Equip that goofy weapon you know isn't meta but is just fun to shoot. Go hunting or fishing (not on Cetus though, someone is always trying to ruin my fishing trips there :P ). Don't put off your happiness until you've achieved something, enjoy the act of playing and that will be much more fulfilling.

I think the last time I played warframe was back when the ships were added to the game. It was actually REALLY exciting to be playing something this big while working towards building the ship. Sadly, my old steam account was hacked along with the attached email (giga RIP on my part) but I had long stopped playing warframe by then because tbh: it burned me out that the game forced me to grind like a chore with the developers putting effort to make the grind more tedious while not directing their attention to the core issues of the game (I can't even name any of the top of my head it's been so long) But, alas, I'm going to give the game another chance in a "old habits die hard" kinda fashion

Glad to hear people are still getting into this game and giving it the love it deserves

The 'tutorial' phase is just nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be. You settle into an understanding of the game and from there it's just a matter of surprising you.

This game's movement system will forever jade you, Just try to not bullet jump in other games after playing Warframe even semi seriously and get disappointed that you cant.

i remember the beggining of warframe where excalibur was one of the most best and fun frames to play

I can say a LOT about Warframe, but “janky” isn’t one of them. This is probably the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in my 34 years

JOKES ON YOU HYDROID IS VIABLE NOW

DE has done quite a bit to make warframe more new user friendly, not to say it can’t still get confusing, but I’d say right now is the best time to start playing warframe.

Personally for me warfrmae is all about taking your time and get prepared. Theres no rush the games a marathon.

One of the best f2p game ever made, I love the way DE listen to the community and keep improving the game to make it better.

After farming 200 forma I can tell you one thing - don't play this game bro...

I really hope this blows up, i also just started playing it again after quitting it 4 years ago and im hoping this is a phenomenon with more people and not just me

It’s fascinating hearing this- for a good four years of my playing of warframe, there were a grand total of two missions beyond what you describe as the early game, and they were hot garbage for me because you needed an 8 man squad working in coordination- something random schmucks over the internet are not really known for. The amazing thing for me with Warframe’s updates is that they are not only extending the game along, they are also filling in old content as they go. Archwing was at one point a gated off area of the game that had no interaction with anything else. Then came the Jordas Golem. Then came Plaiins of Eidolon and Empyrean. Plains was an annoying self fulfilling content island, then Plague Star and Ghoul Purge went live. The new war was an incredible tying together of every aspect of the game that came before. I’ve been there on launch day for nearly every update. I got through Empyrean at its buggiest (and my god was it buggy), finished call of the tempestarii with newly acquired crew mates on launch day (then took five more years to get Sevagoth), and I still haven’t completed the steel path (though this is because I’m an obtuse pedant who is determined to get through it one alert at a time). I even still have an extractor in Duviri- they patched it out within days, but I was there with it and now I don’t want to collect it, as otherwise I know I’ll never get it again…

you know it's really a good video when it literally has 0 dislikes

I got into Warframe about 6 years ago when it was MUCH different and I fell into the overwhelmed category. I definitely felt like things were going to get too difficult, and there was a paralysis of analysis where I couldn't decide what to try next because I always felt I wasn't ready for it. Fast forward to maybe 3 months ago whenever that last Prime Resurgence happened where you could get like 12 frame during that particular resurgence, and I decided to get back in on my PS5 account (a brand new PSN) because I could grab my previous two favorite frames - Mesa Prime and Saryn Prime. I will say as a player who made it to the mid game (I had an operator when I played before but that's roughly where I stopped) the beginner experience is MUCH better. I started with Duviri which definitely made the game more interesting lore wise and then got back to the star chart. Now I'm going into the New War and I have a Necramech and a Railjack and I feel VERY accomplished. My advice to new players and a two time new player and now a long time veteran. Attack things one at a time. If you take an interest in something in Warframe just focus on that for a little bit. You're like hmm what's this archwing stuff? Build some archwing parts and try those missions (most people don't like em). If you like one of the open worlds, spend some time there, figure out how the open world progression works. Basically you want to learn things in digestible chunks or you will get overwhelmed.

I love the love for the Help Chat. It's really good.

Doing umbra dirty not showcasing his ability but showcasing mesa 💀 I'm a lover of both tho.

Always remember: Meta isnt measured in DPS (Damage per second), its measured in KPS (Kills per second)

The music selection on this video is nuts, absolute vibe but... You did my boi excal dirty, he is one of the strongest frames in the entire game ;(

2K hours here. Warframe has become my confort game. Yes, it sucks that it doesn't comunicate a lot of the main mechanics of the game, like the rotations, drops, and it's a long way to understand specific things like Orphix missions on Railjack and Eidolon hunting (like the equipment you need, gather the lures, shooting the parts of the eidolon, etc.) But overall, there's good things on it like good people glad to help you, even to gift things like weapons or arcanes. And don't forget the memes, there's a lot of people that like to do dumb sh1t with their frames/weapons and have fun with it, its a game that allows to do a lot of things. Just have patience, don't burnt out on farming specific things, try to get help with another tennos and be respectful.

Still have no cluee why the devs can't take the hint that 68% of the playerbase stops playing before hitting the ten hours mark and less than 10% of their fanbase clears the starchart, yet they keep gating all their new updates behind more and more requirements than less than 7% of the fanbase can even reach... Every time I try to get a new player into warframe, it ends up being me essentially pressuring them to keep going and clear so much solo content before they can play with me.

I think the midgame is the most fun though personally, unlocking stuff like multishot and realizing tiers of crits and status was mind blowing

I adore Warframe and there's a good chance I'll never play it again. It's one of those rare live service games where I walked away from it totally satisfied and perfectly happy with the money and time spent.

Best review of the game currently. DE has made a number of small updates to improve the new player experience, but if they wanted make changes that will REALLY help, junctions either gotta go or change entirely to the point where all you have to do is maybe an assassination and an important quest (Not ones like Once Awake, The New Strange or Stolen Dreams all of which are main quests for some reason.) Also, requiring to craft stuff necessary for progression should be instant so people can speedrun through the game without having to spend Plat, so they can spend on stuff they really want once at the mid-to-end game. Also, I strongly recommend putting Chromatic Blade on Excalibur Umbra, you will change your mind about him. Also when you learn how to literally fly using Slash Dash.

I only play games that I enjoy, I don’t waste my time with games that I don’t. So considering I’m at 3,000 hours into Warframe, it must be doing something right. Or maybe I’m just addicted.

WHY ISNT THIS POPULAR YET, BRROO THIS IS SOO DAMN FUNNI (as a person who has 400h in the game, yes whoever reads it, play the fucking game)

Hotline Miami music goes hard Edit: HOW do you have 197 subscribers? This is some quality content.

Really amazing video, ive been playing for a while and i think you got all the main points!

I don't know why but for some reason the use of Quad Machine when you were showing off Mesa's gameplay for a moment actually cracked me up. Something about using a song from Quake 2 to exhibit how fun a character is in a game made by Digital Extremes, the company that helped create Quake's biggest competitor back in the day - Unreal and Unreal Tournament - just hits different lmao

I don’t get how people say they’re overwhelmed by modding. 10 year old me fully understood it immediately and I wasn’t particularly bright. The only points of confusion may be specific mods with odd phrasing or multiplicative vs additive multipliers which aren’t something you worry about until steel path anyway.

Just gonna say Umbra can be so much fun. It just depends on the mission and type of gameplay you prefer. If you like area damage then Mesa is much more convenient

One of the best “should you play warframe?” video. I mean it for real, that’s rare to see such dude that would truly introduced warframe. I like the way he introduced, beginning, mid-game and endgame(I wouldn’t clearly call it like that after new war, but nvrm) It’s still one of the most true video about warframe. Still, I would say, there’s no 100% endgame, because we have updates, for example echos in the wall and 1999 that are coming. I think that he might be a nice warframe youtuber.

When you showed off Excalibur Umbra you didn't even show his Exalted Blade or Radial Blind, which means you didn't even show what makes him a powerhouse

Yes, Misa’s gameplay is amazing, you are standing still and click one mouse button, but you know whose gameplay is even better than Nekros, press 3 and forgot.

Being a F2P player in Warframe doesn't mean you don't have plat, you just get it from the P2P players XD

This game will eat your life, this is the game that I enjoy farming.

While the early game can certainly be overwhelming, I have to disagree that the midgame "grind" is boring. The sheer fun factor of Warframe's moment-to-moment game play was enough to keep me going all the way to Neptune and beyond.

5:04 "Plez give her buff :(" Sad thing is, she was Nerfed instead. She used to be AMAZING...

Nice. love to see warframe support and recognition. (been playing for a few years)

Don’t worry I’ll show you how to make mesa viable for endgame

great video! Good breakdown of all the points in the game. Still... I wouldn't call Excalibur's gameplay boring while Mesa's is mostly becoming an auto aim turret holding down the click haha😂

Endgame is even better with Deep Archidea, game just gets better

i have personally "quit" and "returned", each with long intervals for over 8 times already, i just grind, get burnt out, quit for like a few months, come back, have fun, get burnt out again, cycle repeats

Like the developers said at this year's Tennocon: "If something isn't broken, we're not doing our job right"

10 year vet here and i'm going to have to disagree with you on one big point "that there's are alot of new players " there's not when WF Vets see a new players , most /salute them. then tell them to use the wiki , get a clan , and find a weapon that they love using . Some vets will just give them prime stuff , cause new players are rare out side of the big updates , so rare that the WF community cherishes them when we get them

Don't get sucked into warframe. There is no payoff.

Saw your vid and sent it to my Mom g. She's going to try it out and luckily I've no lifed this shit to oblivion. Hopefully she likes it

I've been playing Warframe for 7 years. I have 3,600+ hours I love endgame, having access to all the content and all the builds and all that is fun. I would never do the grind again, I have no regrets.

Love hearing Carpenter Brut used as background music.

Excellent vid my dude

it's so funny how umbra's gameplay in actually so much more interesting, you just put "boring music" under it and "cool music" under mesa

This man personally introduced me to Warframe and I played it nonstop for months. I have just barely made my way into the endgame and easily have over 100 hours. There's entire parts of the game that i've dabbled in but never gave any serious effort to (railjack, eidolon hunts, archon hunts, syndicates, zariman, ect.) and there's more stuff I haven't even unlocked (steel path is the only one I know for sure) 0/10 do not play

Bro actually dissed umbra cmon. If you don’t use exalte blade then yeah it’s boring but dude. I’m not even an Excal player, I’m a limbo main.

I continually leave Warframe then return after every few major updates. Genuinely one of the most fascinating and enjoyable experiences I’ve had. Been playing off and on since the beta. Put around 300 hours on the pc originally. Then moved to the PlayStation where after all these years of playing here and there I’m setting at a little under 3000 hours. It’s worth sticking with, the problem is they keep adding new stuff for vets instead of fixing the onboarding. As of paradox I think they even just made onboarding worse. Also side note. How dare you with the Umbra/Mesa comparison. I’d quite frankly swap those takes entirely. Seeing as any frame can wipe out a planet. I prefer the more fun to play ones. Aka the ones you actually do more than push one button on. And yes I made an entire comment just to complain about your enjoyment of the game being different from mine. Lmao For a white flag though I love the use of Carpenter Brut. Hella great music for anyone who needs something to listen to that differs from the sound of slaughtering hordes of defective clones.

A good example to warframes early game is like if in a MMO you had every quest for everything that unlocks a mechanic all the moment you boot up the game

the thing i like of warframe is it filters the non dedicated player in the early game and tests your commitment at mid game and you grind dedication at end game( steel path endurance)

so, im about 300ish hours in, and have just got back to it after like 6 months.. for my welcome back, i got a 3 day xp booster, have forged and leveled my archweapons, got primed mods from baro, almost finished the star chart and got khora prime from literally one void relic defense run..... so so grindy! lmao. what im trying to say is that this is the least grindy mmo/online/looter shooter/tf-ever game i have played in my whole life. its also one of the few games where the endgame is the fun, not grindy part. generally, it was the other way around, like, say, neverwinter. ugh. im trying to get rl friends to play it with me, but theres noone thats interested, so it makes me happy that the story progression isnt tied to co-op and can be reached solo. all in all, high marks all around. also, nice vid, and i loved the music too xD

It'd be worth playing if the foundry build times were removed.

As a guy who plays Warframe on switch and with like 30hours with only 3 warframes Loki chroma prime and Excalibur I can say this game is a grind

This video is great to send to people

Is this like the time you asked me to give Atari 2600 ET another chance?

you remind me of mortismal gaming. i can't believe this game is on hades level

Didn't expect this video to go viral.

Im just started for a few months now with like 400 hours into it, though one thing i noticed is the content creators are severely smaller when comparing to destiny. However i think this is good due to the lack of fomo in warframe when comparing to destiny

Great video! I've played Warframe since 2016, and like many others have probably never thought about how much the beginning of the game has changed since then, especially with so much new content and mechanics over the years. I've had a few friends and even my siblings who tried Warframe and quit within a week or month even with my support and knowledge.I should make a new account just to see how I progress and to see it from their perspective. A few interesting things about "regular" Warframes and Primes is that Prime Warframes only have cosmetic, energy, and armor stat increases. Meaning you could go all the way to endgame with the arsenal you've built up, all you need is the proper mods (unless you're going for absolute max armor for some reason). Prime weapons are a different story though. One improvement I could see for the star chart (if it isn't a thing already) is to completely grey out/de-saturate any planets that aren't accessible yet to reduce the noise and prevent having to zoom in and see if you have access to it.

trying to make excalibur umbra look boring is crazy

Love the carpenter burt piece you used, also nice video essay I guess.

Spoilers…the thing that clicked for me today was realizing the confusion and helplessness at the start may be a bit intentional. You’re a child soldier woke from hyper sleep without proper training. Lotus is just trying to keep you from getting killed so she isn’t super helpful, ordis is brain damaged for years of neglect, disclaimer I have not reached the new war yet and just started looking for umbra Excalibur, as you start to unravel what the hell is going on the story gets more dense and packed together to make it easier to chase and follow. That first part though wow is it rough DE could give it some love

turns out i was in the tutorial the whole time. i played before and right after the second dream came out so it’s weird to see that i wasn’t even at mid game despite all the grinding i did.

As a 2 year player, I will say the missing ingredient for me was not understanding the story. Read the Lore and everything will make more sense as you complete all the quests. After TennoCon this year, I went down a rabbit hole about Deimos, Entrati and the Void. Wow, suddenly everything connected. The fun part is upgrading your weapons, experimenting with mods and abilities, and finding that sweet spot. Oh and can't forget about the community. Some of the nicest people I've played with.

I have few thousand hours and love few things about the game. 1. The combat: killing hords of enemies with different weapons and abilities feels satisfying 2. The customization: all weapon and warframe stats can be customized through mods. This creates deep system that makes you search for the best builds. 3. The warframe tierlist: as each warframe has its own abilities and over 50 warframes there is a wide variety of warframes where each has its powers and weakeneses. Some allow you to croud control the enemies, some focus on dealing damage and some focus on defence. There are even warframes that are better early game or lategame or are highly situational. As there is a wide variery of game mods, each warframe has its use, but some warframes are being overshadowed by others. Finding the perfect use for warframe that is considered weak or creating overpowered build for allready powerfull warframe feels very satisfying. 4. The fashionframe: You can customize your warframe abilities and weapons to the point, where it feels like different video game or movie character. For example paint rhino green, give him shotgun and you have the doom guy. Or pick garuk, give him plasma rifle and paint him white and you got starwars soldier. Or vauban for its simple looks could be cosplayed for some scifi engineer. Or limbo with its aoe time stop could be cosplayed for dmc vergil ultimate slash. Alas as one punch man. Valkyr as female version of nero with its ripline, finishers and devil trigger. Gaus as flash... Most of theese cosplays are not perfect though, that makes finding the perfect cosplay even more satisfying.

I have to point out the dishonest depiction of umbra without his kit insdead with something every frame dose against the crowning jewl of messas kit

The problem is that you mainly are watching more RU-vid videos to learn than playing. Or asking all the time what this is, how i get it? On the clan or the Q&A chat...

Started playing a little under three years ago. For me the game was... uh... let's call it fullyhelming. I got so immersed that I played it to the exclusion of everything else, only coming up for other games after hitting my head into the concrete wall of SP.

how do you make your damage numbers look like that? its surrounded by like a black color also great video

Honestly getting prime frames is easier than some of the normal versions.

Started this Friday and its sunday now. Already got 24 hours of playtime. Where did my time even go? And i still have no idea what im doing 😂 but i guess ill play on and progress through the planets

bro did excalibur umbra so bad... you don't know the frame until you 1 dash into a crowded room and 3 to decimate everyone within range.

Better way to make plat free is grind for the newest prime that releases, sell it. Do that over and over until you have plat to waste of cosmetics.

warframe gets good after you realize you have psent 600 hours

I will say this, I cleared all the nodes before most of the story updates came out so I didn’t have to play to unlock anything for a while so I dodged a lot of the mid game grind

there is no actual endgame can we please stop coping and saying that there is. Steel path in not endgame. Eidolons are not endgame. Fashionframe is not an endgame. If you change your definition of what an endgame is to fit warframe my friend lay off the copium. Endgame by definition is harder content than the rest of the game with better rewards than the rest of the game. Steel essance is not that. Everything i need from essance i can get from aribitration except the exilus adapters. If you want to call exilis adapters endgame loot you are lost tenno. Getting further in progression in not endgame. The game starts when you complete the star chart. That's not endgame.