First Impressions (Dear Devs)

[LaoTzu]

First of all, thank you for making such a great looking game, with lots of potential (Space Ninjas! sweeeeeeeeeet!)

Anyway, I've played a little bit of the Warframe open beta (advertised by Steam). I just wanted to point out a few things that I thought were important:

- Lack of a comprehensive tutorial (so many mechanics unexplained);

- AI spawns too randomly (many moments where AI spawn in behind me, or flanks too effectively);

- AI awareness seems too high (maybe I'm just a sook);

- Melee system needs work (plenty of instances where a single knockdown means death, lack of meaningful melee play i.e. too much "spam 'e' to kill", see how Chivalry Medieval Warfare handles its melee, even a simple parry/counter button would improve the fun factor);

- Stealth is a cool idea but doesn't seem to be implemented effectively (possibly due to lack of a tutorial, map design barely supports it, not enough game mechanics to support it i.e. can't turn off alarms or lights, no stealth kills);

- Laser doors, I think theres enough threads on that;

- Remove pay to revive (I know you want to make money, but really? Instead of paying I'm far more likely to spend less time playing your cool game);

- In game UI needs to display more team based information;

- In game HUD is under utilised (why not have an on screen waypoint showing the target, rather than a tiny blip on the minimap, why is it so difficult to read player names in game?);

- Teaming up with friends, so far, has been difficult and vague (Can't easily tell if they are in my party or not);

- Maps are too repetitive early on;

- Map objectives seem frivolous (All missions seem to be "Kill moving targets");

- Perhaps introduce a friendly fire option (Combat is too easy without it, see how Left 4 Dead handles its FF);

- In game Inventory seems hard to use (perhaps introduce hotkeys, if not already there).

- Stage selection is confusing (Am I waiting for more players? Am I waiting for someone to vote? Why should I play this map instead of the other i.e. why am I given a choice between maps?)

I understand that this is still just an open beta, so I'm sure a lot of this will have already been worked on and will be fleshed out.

I think that if you were to address even some of these issues, the end product will be better for it.

Cheers for the cool F2P in the meantime!

[CY13ERPUNK]

honestly, even though you just bulletpointed

you pretty much hit most of the high notes

I expect that much of this is on a whiteboard somewhere in the DE offices

but I hope they see your post, i'm sure most of the Tenno ranks would agree that they would like to see all these issues addressed before the end of beta

[HellGrind]

All good points. Being pedantic, there are actually stealth kills in the game, there's just not much point to them as stealth is just not really a great option at the moment as you've said. But aside from that, great job OP!

[LaoTzu]

honestly, even though you just bulletpointed

you pretty much hit most of the high notes

Bullet points for easier reading :p