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[PA Comic] Monday, January 6, 2014 - Magnate
Geth
LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
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PSN:Furlion
In Gabe's defense, you pretty much have to spend real monies if you want anything other than the stuff you start with in Warframe =/
The default head for that frame looks like a Chicken's crest. It also sets things on fire alot.
I like to pretend I'm the angry spirit of a KFC chicken getting revenge.
You really don't, but it will take some time to get the materials you need to get better stuff. If you have the patience, the only thing you have to spend real monies on are inventory slots.
I don't recognise the warframe. But it can't be Ember (Miss KFC), because her warframe looks nothing like that.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Nah, you really don't. The Excalibur is a perfectly serviceable frame and Slash Dash abuse can carry you through the early stages quite easily.
Edit: Don't bother guessing what frame Gabe is using. It does not exist.
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You get something like 50 platinum for free when you start. That's enough for another warframe slot and a few more weapon slots. And really that's all you need.
Especially these days when you can trade away mods and stuff in exchange for the platinum that other (more spendthrift players) bought and use that to get more warframe slots or even a few potatoes (the nickname used for Orokin Reactors and Orokin Catalysts. Items used to supercharge warframe and weaponry. They are available even if you don't spend any money, but you don't get nearly enough of them. At least not nearly enough catalysts).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
This.
You don't have to pay monies to see the crazier frames and weapons, but the game itself really isnt that interesting for the amount of grinding you have to do otherwise.
We've also decided that there's another member of the clan, back at the dojo, whose sole job is to provide percussion over the comms during missions. (His name is Timpani, and his ways are mysterious.)
I was judging more from the colour scheme but you're probably right.
Also Warframe was the most disapointing game for me last year. I wanted so much more out of it than 'and now you play 3rd person shooter and grind'.
I never played a Warframe match that was anything but an unchallenging slog through enemies with three other players, two of which were afk or so far back as to be uninvolved.
plus it seemed like the matchmaker kept giving me groups with high level people who just wanted to farm. Which is fine and all, except that they seemed to want to either run past all the mobs or killed them before I saw them
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
And that's all I have to say about this comic.
It also depends on who you are grouping with. While grouping with friends is always fun, grouping with randoms in the game will sometimes pair you with an overgeared trailblazer or an undergeared leech who sits afk.
That was the amazing thing about ME. You might win Geth/White/Gold 95% of the time, but it always felt like things were at various stages of going wrong until you sprinted to the extraction point (at which point some idiot died and things actually did go wrong).
Warframe is chunk through guys till you don't. Then stop and step back to farm a bit.
I also think the level sizes work against Warframe. Many are too big, with multiple vertical levels to scale as well as moving from point A to point B. Level length makes sense in some of the boss levels, and maybe in the void where you're literally going through the remnants of a dead society, but it feels a bit too much with most everything else. That run back through the level to get to the extraction point is kind of annoying.
Still, it's a fun game for me. Given how sparse the PS4 lineup is at the moment, I don't mind a grindy title, and robotic ninja exosuits are pretty cool no matter how you slice it. Even if the Excalibur looks like he's growing a penis out of his face with the default helmet.
I'd love for you to post in every comic thread, explaining the joke.
I've no idea why but it made me laugh.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Reminds me a little bit of Marmaduke Explained.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Or xkcd explained?
Edit: Wait, that's the one that ACTUALLY explains it. I meant the tumblr that makes fun of the need for explaining it.
Edit edit: Wait, no, that's the tumblr that makes fun of the tumblr that explained xkcd by explaining the need to explain? Apparently the one I wanted to link is dead now, too.
This was way more complicated than I expected.
If you do decide to use some of your starting platinum, or buy some from the shop and use it, there are only even a few things worth buying. Warframe slots, 'potatoes' aka reactors and catalysts, sentinels (specifically Carrier), and the 75-platinum warframes since they come with a slot and a reactor included, which are 40p if bought on their own. Eventually maybe a couple weapon slots, but that's in the distant future when you've already leveled up to 30 and sold the merely acceptable and good weapons, and now have a couple truly special weapons deserving of a permanent place in your inventory.
I am glad my little explanation brought you some joy and was the impetus for a humorous conversation itself. When I typed it up I was just trying to give some context but I suppose on review it does look like I was trying to explain the joke a bit.
PSN:Furlion
Anyone want to tell Tycho that the first boss is invincible when he has that gold shield up?
Cards have levels that are raised by investing other cards for a fee. Duplicate cards raise levels, but some cards are so rare that you generally are dumping in reactor cards.
There was no system for easily equipping them. Once attached to 1 Frame, they have to be removed before being used on another.
In general, the UI for managing them is a pain. At least when I played (on the PC 6 months ago), maybe they have fixed those issues. Also, they don't have a lot of "cardness". Besides being card shaped in appearance, you don't play them, shuffle them, tap them, or group them into combos. They are just a way to use a pack buying metaphor. By the time I'd collected a few hundred of them, I really would have preferred a text list to pages of non-stacking cards.
Don't get me wrong, I played a lot of Warframe, I just didn't base my attraction to the game on liking CCGs.