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Warframe : Space Ninjas
Xieflow2
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A few of us have been playing Warframe in Ventrilo, it's pretty good so far. It's kind of like Mass Effect's multiplayer in that you take on small missions with a group, and earn upgrades for your dude. Each of your weapons, and your Warframe level up independently. It's free to play, so you can pay money to get stuff done faster. It's a fun 4 player cooperative game, a nice counterpoint to the PvP of Mechwarrior Online so many of us have been sinking time into.
Here's the official site: https://warframe.com/
You can get a beta key here: http://www.mmobomb.com/giveaway/warframe-beta-keys
Or you can pay to get into the founders program. I don't know if the game has legs enough yet to jump in at founders, so grab the free beta key.
If someone else types up a good first post, we'll close this thread and they can open an official one. I just figured a thread to collect our info would be great here.
Here's the official site: https://warframe.com/
You can get a beta key here: http://www.mmobomb.com/giveaway/warframe-beta-keys
Or you can pay to get into the founders program. I don't know if the game has legs enough yet to jump in at founders, so grab the free beta key.
If someone else types up a good first post, we'll close this thread and they can open an official one. I just figured a thread to collect our info would be great here.
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Been excited for this game since I first saw the trailer.
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The procedually generated maps are done pretty well for the continuation of zoidberg adventures.
I'm down for trying that. Will download, anyone got any tips or are we at the 'fuck around to find what works' stage this early on?
So I figure, you know what, I'll drop a fiver on it. Hey they even have a sweet offer on all the female warframes who also happen to contain roles I want to play.
Wait how much is platinum now?
Right game, so you want me to spend nineteen pounds to get 3 shiney suits. This is your idea of a BUNDLE DEAL.
Christ.
Gameplays fine, but really with those prices?
Together both of those skins cost LESS than that bundle.
If you dropped that much just starting up league you can get the champions choice bundle with 20 champions in it.
Same name as in here if people want to team up at some point.
Warframe(s) Platinum Cost, Base Cost, w/ bonus Platinum
Volt, Excalibur and Loki 75P, $5, $4.40
Mag 175P, $12, $10.30
Ember and Trinity 225P, $15, $13.25
Ash 375P, $25, $22
That is pretty crazy to me, even with how much I am enjoying the game I couldn't bring myself to drop $12-15 on a single character. The weapons unsurprisingly are similarly priced starting with the upgrade to the basic assault rifle running $5, some of the sidearms running ~$8 and then shotgun starting at ~$12 topping it off with the long range weapons being ~$15. There are a few things to keep in mind here, one being that there are weapons available that can only be crafted, though how many or how good they are I do not know. Second is that the warframes can be crafted too, it just takes a lot of time and access to the higher level systems.
EDIT:
Haven't watched it yet but might be helpful for people who're waiting for the download.
Edit: Oh, they can be crafted. I wonder what the time investment is for that. A large part of what makes the ME3 multiplayer fun for me is being to play all sorts of different characters on a whim...if I have to spend huge amounts of time or cash just to get a character beyond the first, this will definitely not be the game for me.
Ok found out about crafting from both what I have acquired and the forums. Currently to craft a warframe you need a warframe blueprint which you buy with credits from the shop. Then you need 3 crafted components to complete it, and that requires getting the blueprints for the components and getting the crafting items. The component blueprints are boss drops from certain bosses, generally each boss can drop the components blueprints for 1-2 warframes. From what I have found so far each component blueprint requires a certain amount of common items and 1 rarer item that can only be found in certain planets levels. After the components and their blueprints are found and crafted you can then craft the warframe itself.
Its hard to say how long this would actually take, I am going to be trying to build ember since I have one component blueprint and the warframe blueprint. It definitely is time consuming, but it seems something that you do while working toward leveling up different weapons or saving for new ones.
Maybe start us with 1 at tutorial, then get to unlock a 2nd base Frame after you reach a certain level, then the last one at a higher level still. The rest is still bought through cash/ crafting
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He's on the left.
Are these guys the Dark Sector devs?
Edit: Yeah just checked, they made Dark Sector. Bahahaha, I can't believe that was the very first thing I noticed when looking at this game.
Also, Trinity looks cool, I like playing healer.
Interesting, well, that's better than it could be, perhaps. I'll play s'more and see how it seems. Shame that the 4th ability seems to require cash and has no crafting path to it; that seems like double-dipping to me.
Yeah, that is probably the thing I dislike the most about the f2p part of the game. It feels like the character is incomplete without the pro upgrade and having absolutely no way to get it without paying seems wrong.
The pricing is WTF batshit insane.
Same thing Ben commented on the PAR a while ago.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
So, the pricing. I did five missions with my Loki I picked after the tutorial, decided it was so fun I could consider throwing some money at them, saw that bundle of warframes that looked interesting, checked how much framedollars cost.
Jesus H, 30 dollars to get enough platinum to buy that bundle of three warframes. I can get a decently new AAA game for that.
So congratulations to the devs. Instead of a decent price level that makes me stick around, do some purchases, have fun with my new warframes, I'll just play this until I get tired of the Loki frame I started with and then move on to something else.
edit: Here's the PAR about it.
Remember that's a bundle, that's actually more the cost of 2 warframes.
It makes me sad. I want to play more, but at the same time I don't because there's an obvious paywall in terms of unlocking a warframes full tree and I don't want to pay the price their asking.
See any influences on the new game?
edit: actually, that entire trailer of the original Dark Sector could be the intro for Warframe if you modified it a bit for the current setting. :P
Hell, I've spent more on virtual swim suits in Vindictus then they are asking for the frames,so there is that.
I do wish you started off with your powers, though. Its a bit dull at first to have none of the cool shit that makes your warframe unique.
But yeah the costs are very steep. Apparently they are looking into adjusting them? That is what I've heard, will try to dig into it myself.