Hubris
04-06-2013, 01:43 PM
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Warframe is a free to play third person FPS that plays like a loot dungeon from the year 2 gazillion (yes, exactly 2 gazillion). Currently, you can only play co-operatively with 4 players. You are a Tenno soldier who wears any number of warframe battlesuits that give you access to specific abilities and play styles (and there are quite a few of them). If you group up, you can build a dojo for research and enjoy random "void key" drops to get a great endgame fight and heaps of loot.
The story line is set around mankind's split between the oppressive Greneer and the technocratic Corpus. Incursions by the Infected (a race that arises from infection by the Technocyte plague) spice up the Sol system. These factions run wild and the Tenno are awoken from cryo-sleep to basically make everyone wind their necks in. We don't really know who the Tenno are, except that they are badass space ninjas who tend to oversleep and have Hell's military budget.
There are various mission types but they are always on spacestations. The higher (harder) levels have higher chances of rare and uncommon mods. Mods are essentially the primary way of increasing your skills and stats. You can fuse them together to make stronger and more interesting combinations, beware though, once fused they cannot be unfused so only fuse common duplicates early on. Fused mods also require more mod slots, which you unlock with xp. Most mods can be used by all classes.
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Although it's free to play, the online shop is extremely expensive and really is not worth the money unless you literally will tattoo Warframe on your first born's forhead. You can unlock everything in the game except for a few select character customisations via in game credit or through crafting via blueprints and resources that drop. If you really need to spend money, I would suggest limiting yourself upfront and spending it wisely on weapons, warframes or slots (i.e. not gear consumables).
^^ Buying currency should be done incrementally; I suggest doing $10 in two transactions so you don't blow it all at once but still get some decent value for money. ^^
486
If you feel like jewing it keep farming, forging items, upgrading your mods and ranking up your weapons and warframe until you get enough currency to move onto bigger and better things. Specifically: more warframes. As you go up in level and further into the solar system the enemies and bosses become harder. MUCH HARDER. So "default" dps builds lose value over time whereas support builds really shine in end game. For example healing, distraction, tank god mode and various tasty CC abilities.
Loot drops are commonly instanced for players, so you compete over performance/stats. You can find loot on bodies and in crates of various descriptions. Generally speaking you can speed run an area and get say 10 arb measures of loot and 1 mod, but if you search around a bit you might come away with as much as 80 measures and 3 mods. Pretty standard repetitive boss/elite farm model, could become very repetitive in beta after a couple months but its free so beggers can't really be choosers for now.
More players in your party does not increase the loot drop % but it does make raids faster, more effective and a lot safer. You can farm blueprints, resources, mods and currency on any level but certain factions and bosses have a higher chance to drop certain varieties. End game wise, you just max out your character and every 30 levels optionally reset with prestige benefits or start working on alternate traits or frames. Endgame dev plans include inter-dojo trade and more skills/gear/maps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLnBiBmo48
^^ Force only shows the basic of the basic character skills and maneuvers and the above is one of the first levels! ^^
There is only one "difficulty" level for the game (unlike Diablo's normal, cruel and inferno model) and difficulty is managed by level in terms of level mob types, randomish mob numbers, randomish design and randomish elites/boss count. I can't stress enough that the outer systems are very challenging as they are intended to suit endgame players. The only other more difficult zone is the "Void" which is a random rare map generator that you pick up keys for and you would fail and waste as a fresh toon.
I'm only about 10 hours in and the gameplay is awesome. You can parkour, slide, leap, wall run and dive all while shooting or charging up a melee attack or ability. It seriously gets the adrenaline pumping and the art is awesome. It is still in beta and there are a few silly bugs, but at least lag is a non-issue. It is a grind for grind sakes game but with exciting gameplay and a few friends (or online randoms) progression and farming is a joy. No full PvP yet, but some training PVP is in now.
If you have the time and 2GB cap to froth (excluding regular updates) give it a go! You will not regret it and you have nothing to lose. Find it on Steam, it gives you drop in and play 8/10 fun 8/10 cool 6/10 longevity 6/10 innovation 5/10 teamplay and +1 internets for playing a game this far in the future. Remember, it's called CHOP EVERYTHING! SO CHOP EVERYTHING OR YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! :P
^^ Warframe is in open beta - it will change before full release and it is currently evolving with regular updates ^^
Warframe is a free to play third person FPS that plays like a loot dungeon from the year 2 gazillion (yes, exactly 2 gazillion). Currently, you can only play co-operatively with 4 players. You are a Tenno soldier who wears any number of warframe battlesuits that give you access to specific abilities and play styles (and there are quite a few of them). If you group up, you can build a dojo for research and enjoy random "void key" drops to get a great endgame fight and heaps of loot.
The story line is set around mankind's split between the oppressive Greneer and the technocratic Corpus. Incursions by the Infected (a race that arises from infection by the Technocyte plague) spice up the Sol system. These factions run wild and the Tenno are awoken from cryo-sleep to basically make everyone wind their necks in. We don't really know who the Tenno are, except that they are badass space ninjas who tend to oversleep and have Hell's military budget.
There are various mission types but they are always on spacestations. The higher (harder) levels have higher chances of rare and uncommon mods. Mods are essentially the primary way of increasing your skills and stats. You can fuse them together to make stronger and more interesting combinations, beware though, once fused they cannot be unfused so only fuse common duplicates early on. Fused mods also require more mod slots, which you unlock with xp. Most mods can be used by all classes.
487
Although it's free to play, the online shop is extremely expensive and really is not worth the money unless you literally will tattoo Warframe on your first born's forhead. You can unlock everything in the game except for a few select character customisations via in game credit or through crafting via blueprints and resources that drop. If you really need to spend money, I would suggest limiting yourself upfront and spending it wisely on weapons, warframes or slots (i.e. not gear consumables).
^^ Buying currency should be done incrementally; I suggest doing $10 in two transactions so you don't blow it all at once but still get some decent value for money. ^^
486
If you feel like jewing it keep farming, forging items, upgrading your mods and ranking up your weapons and warframe until you get enough currency to move onto bigger and better things. Specifically: more warframes. As you go up in level and further into the solar system the enemies and bosses become harder. MUCH HARDER. So "default" dps builds lose value over time whereas support builds really shine in end game. For example healing, distraction, tank god mode and various tasty CC abilities.
Loot drops are commonly instanced for players, so you compete over performance/stats. You can find loot on bodies and in crates of various descriptions. Generally speaking you can speed run an area and get say 10 arb measures of loot and 1 mod, but if you search around a bit you might come away with as much as 80 measures and 3 mods. Pretty standard repetitive boss/elite farm model, could become very repetitive in beta after a couple months but its free so beggers can't really be choosers for now.
More players in your party does not increase the loot drop % but it does make raids faster, more effective and a lot safer. You can farm blueprints, resources, mods and currency on any level but certain factions and bosses have a higher chance to drop certain varieties. End game wise, you just max out your character and every 30 levels optionally reset with prestige benefits or start working on alternate traits or frames. Endgame dev plans include inter-dojo trade and more skills/gear/maps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLnBiBmo48
^^ Force only shows the basic of the basic character skills and maneuvers and the above is one of the first levels! ^^
There is only one "difficulty" level for the game (unlike Diablo's normal, cruel and inferno model) and difficulty is managed by level in terms of level mob types, randomish mob numbers, randomish design and randomish elites/boss count. I can't stress enough that the outer systems are very challenging as they are intended to suit endgame players. The only other more difficult zone is the "Void" which is a random rare map generator that you pick up keys for and you would fail and waste as a fresh toon.
I'm only about 10 hours in and the gameplay is awesome. You can parkour, slide, leap, wall run and dive all while shooting or charging up a melee attack or ability. It seriously gets the adrenaline pumping and the art is awesome. It is still in beta and there are a few silly bugs, but at least lag is a non-issue. It is a grind for grind sakes game but with exciting gameplay and a few friends (or online randoms) progression and farming is a joy. No full PvP yet, but some training PVP is in now.
If you have the time and 2GB cap to froth (excluding regular updates) give it a go! You will not regret it and you have nothing to lose. Find it on Steam, it gives you drop in and play 8/10 fun 8/10 cool 6/10 longevity 6/10 innovation 5/10 teamplay and +1 internets for playing a game this far in the future. Remember, it's called CHOP EVERYTHING! SO CHOP EVERYTHING OR YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! :P
^^ Warframe is in open beta - it will change before full release and it is currently evolving with regular updates ^^