I've been playing Warframe since 2018 and thought I'd finally make a forum post since the developers have such a good record of responding to feedback. I don't engage with gaming communities very much but I really love this game. Here are my thoughts on the current state and history of the game. I hope my opinions are useful and help Warfame in continuing to be awesome.
GOOD
Parkour based missions. Void Flood and Mirror Defense having collectibles is great. The movement is awesome in Warframe and I love missions that incentivize it.
Focus points increase. Gaining 5,000 focus points from a convergence orb is amazing. 2,500 focus points from thrax enemies is great too. I hardly farmed eidolons so many of my focus schools were neglected. With these changes I now have all but one Way-Bound skill maxed out!
Pity system when farming for frames. I love that when I farmed for Dante and Citrine I got currency as well as drops to get all their parts. Protecting from bad luck and feeling like you're always making progress is great!
Arcane dissolution. A late game alternative farm for arcances is wonderful!
Pablo's frame reworks. My favorite frame before his rework was Nezha and after his rework I loved him much more. Hydroid and Inaros are great too. Keep up the good work! Maybe Chroma or Atlas could use some touching up?
Kuva Sobek. I really love the Sobek and I'm so excited it's getting a kuva version! That's all.
Power Creep. This might be controversial but I love the power creep. I love feeling like I'm "breaking" the game. I love when a crazy combo can surprise me with how effective it can be. When there are nerfs I feel like they have mostly been done with a light touch. I appreciate this.
Duviri. An incentive to engage with a random selection of such a huge arsenal has been a blast for me. Apparently some people don't like Duviri? I still love it.
Companions cannot die. Thank you for this! Not having to revive a kubrow or kavat and never losing vacuum/fetch is amazing.
Warframe is weird. I've been playing games for decades and there is no game quite like Warframe. I love all the craziness this game holds.
Players are helpful. So many players are so patient and willing to explain the game to others. The player base is very generous. I almost never have a bad experience with text chat.
BAD
Platinum coupons. Why are these random? Why do you get better discounts after you stop playing for a while? If I love your game and want to support it financially I don't want to be incentivized to stop playing for weeks. I don't know a good solution to this as taking away the coupons would feel even worse.
Daily standing locked to MR. Being MR 30 gives me a high enough standing cap that I can play with whatever faction I want for a day and enjoy that content. Earlier on I did not like capping out after a few missions. Items you can trade for standing and not locking mastery tests to one a day are steps in the right direction. I appreciate those.
Enemy faction mods and specific elemental counters to factions. I'm a lazy player who uses serration/point blank/hornet strike on every weapon. I know the faction mods are better but I don't like switching every mission. I also don't the idea that there is a specific element for specific factions. I like the idea of elements being used in specific scenarios. For example if I'm fighting a fast moving target I'd like to take cold or if there are swarms I should take electric. Having Corpus=use magnetic or Infested=use fire is boring solution that feels like busy work more than making an interesting build.
Frames that can't recast abilities until the duration runs out. I'm mostly thinking of Chroma here but I think there are other frames with this issue.
Fishing. Fishing in the open worlds is worse than mining and animal captures in my opinion. I like the act of aiming the spear and timing the pull. What I don't like is fish being time, location, and bait specific. I prefer mining where there are just two colors of nodes and they are found all over. I also like the Duviri "fishing" more.
Cannot automatically leave squad. While I enjoy playing in public lobbies I do not enjoy having to select Leave Squad after every mission. It is incredibly rare that the next mission I want to play is with the same group of random people. Please make a toggle to automatically leave a squad after mission results.
Smeeta Kavat. It's really boring that this one companion is so optimal.
Really important mods stuck to one source. Some mods like corrupted mods are essential to certain builds but are locked to some really old content. Some recent amazing QoL mods like Energy Nexus are locked really late into the game. Having more drop sources for highly used mods would be nice. The quick solution to this for a lot of players is buying these mods from players with platinum which feels like a weird work around. Changing this is lower on my list of what I'd like to see change as I know free players farm these to sell for platinum. I like that there are good sources for free players to get platinum.
Cryotic and Oxium. Farming for these materials sucks. I don't buy many base weapons with platinum but I bought the Sibear with platinum because it was too much of a pain.
OTHER
So many resources and currencies. Seriously this game has so much more than any other game I play. I've had to read the wiki a lot to figure out where things drop. Not sure if this should be changed but it can be overwhelming.
Mastery Rank achievements. I really enjoyed hunting all the achievements and adding Warframe to my 100% complete games on Steam. With that said please don't add move achievements for the legendary mastery ranks. The grind was already really intense for that and I don't mind that it will get easier as more content is added. I wouldn't mind if Steam doesn't get more achievements and there are only challenges added within the game.
Damage calculations. Even watching Warframe content creators (Brozime is my favorite) I don't think I fully understand how damage works. When I should prioritize damage, multishot, crit, elemental mods, or status chance is still a bit of a mystery to me. I'm lazy here too because I follow builds and don't hard crunch the math. Not sure if a change is needed here or I should watch more videos with explanations.
Thank you if you read this super long post. Thank you to all the developers who work on this unique game. I hope all the Tenno out there have good farms and blessed RNG.
Oh that one is really bad. I used an exploit where you could fall through the map on Deimos to get that done. Not sure if that has been patched yet. Doing that the "intended" way takes way way too long.
