[(PS4) Newish console player feedback.]

 

Let me start off by saying that I like Warframe. After getting over my disdain for anything labeled Free to Play. I've actually found that Warframe has a pretty good balance of those aspects. I even spent some cash on the game because I liked it that much. I'm still playing and probably will for a while yet. I want to provide a mix of the positives and negatives of my experience so far. And it's been a mixed bag. Had more good experiences than bad at this point, but I feel that there are some things that need to be said about both. 

Lets start with one thing that sticks out to me right away. I came in expecting space ninjas and ninja-ey type stuff. Sneaky sneaky, stabby stabby, etc. And there certainly is that. I think that kind of gameplay could be expanded at no detriment to the rest of the experience. Warframe is not so much Ninjas in Space, but Biomechanical ESPers in Space, with nitrous boosters in the trunk. The shear SPEED of this game is staggering. I have not experienced this level of twitch factor since my days playing Quake 2 hook and rail insta-gib. Even though I play on a stock PS4 the game is remarkably smooth, and is able to keep up with most, but not all, of the speek freakery. However, it is Ninjas in Space in name only because most of the stealth and skill gameplay that could occur is simply trumped by turbomurder at the speed of an SR71 Blackbird over Soviet Russia.

After I peeled my retinas back into place, and settled my hands from the adrenaline infused dopamine kata. Some things started becoming more noticable about the game. The ingame Codex and knowledge pool does not go nearly in depth enough explaining the nuances of how the game works. When Youtube and Wiki are doing a better job of cataloging how your game plays, it may be time to look at how your players are using, or not using, in game tools to access features of the game.

The movement of enemies, the size of the hitboxes, and the breakneck speed of the game screams "designed for PC". Mouse and Keyboard gives a player an order of magnitude greater control and precision when it comes to gaming. And this becomes even more obvious when I go to play anything involving the Archwing or the new Railjack gameplay. Enemies are hyperactive, hitboxes are the size of pencil erasers, and the weaponry... Well one would expect a mounted space machinegun tied to a faster than light capable spacecraft to FEEL more powerful than the sidearm you carry on your hip. 

[New player. Lost over 900k on Glast Gambit "quest".]

10 minutes ago, (PS4)AbBaNdOn_ said:

Index isnt really for someone only a few weeks into the game. 

No kidding. Everything up to this point has been straight forward. There's been some challenging segments, for sure, it's what's kept me playing. 

But this particular questline is coded to literally cheat. I can't blame my frames, or lack of fancy mods because it just seems like a weak excuse because I routinely take on level 40 missions solo with a stock Oberon. 

I guess I wouldn't even be bothered to carp about other than the fact that the learning curve went from rolling hills to granite cliff face, and set me back two weeks of play. 

[New player. Lost over 900k on Glast Gambit "quest".]

 

Started playing this game a few weeks ago. And up until this point, I've been pleasantly surprised as how good the game is.

Until tonight. Lost 90% of all the credits I made in the last couple weeks. Didn't realise the quest is rigged so you will literally lose all of your money because the NPC adversaries spawn with 40 or 50 points on them already. Sure you get you two or three points in just under the artificial scoring 10 point scoring cap, but then the NPCs just show up with 70 points, one shot you from literally nowhere, with no means of recovering. Oh yeah and the constant energy drain makes it so much more "fair". 

I've heard of some pretty heinous stuff in FTP games. But this takes the cake. I honestly can't believe that this passes for game design.

For all the vets that may have millions laying around losing close to a million may not seem very punishing, but to a new player that literally knows nothing to suddenly have all of your accumulated wealth robbed by this travesty of a questline. Infuriating.

I hope whoever thought this quest line up steps on a Lego. In the dark.