I have never played Warframe, nor do I really intend to. I clicked on this video because I was bemused by the length and the self-aware title. I'm about 2 hours and 20 minutes in, and I've gotta say your cadence and humour have kept me entertained, despite me having no interest in the game. I also deeply respect the well thought out rantings of a veteran player, as being a decade and a half RuneScape player, I've amassed many opinions about my own game and community. I couldn't imagine the work organising those into one coherent, entertaining and directed video like you have, but I imagine it would've been deeply cathartic. Hats off.

I actually like the trading system specifically because it's more involved and requires actual interaction with other people. The trades aren't done with faceless entities, you're dealing with actual people. Makes it feel more like an MMO and that you're not completely isolated, which is a feature not many have these days due to forgoing social interaction in the name of convenience.

*Its my sleepover, I get to choose the movie*

Mad props for this vid, man. You're super *to-the-point.* You don't stay on a single topic for too long. And you somehow managed to cover it all. I mean, it all. And most importantly, you are an objective thinker. Someone who can look at the good and the bad; the outro of the video bringing the viewer to make their own conclusion on whether or not it's worth their time or patience. I hope this video does well. Because I'd love to see more stuff like this in the future.

Ok this is actually so so well done, super well paced. Have you ever thought about making more videos like this? I think you could really do well

OMG! I started watching this at the beginning of my work. Couldn't do anything because I had to wait for parts, after 5½hrs later, my parts arrived and am almost done with the video 😁. The effort you put into making this is colossal!... you have my utmost respect. Hats off to you. 🙏👌👍👏

You should really write more of these long form reviews. I love them and your form of humor is perfect. I'd love to see more of it from you

just came back to this gem... this is officially the most underrated video on youtube. You deserve millions my friend

As someone who just started a few months ago, this is all still basically spot-on. The humor is also really good. I think this was the longest KZfaq video I've ever watched in one sitting.

Great video! The voiceover is actually really well done and spoken naturally, and Warframe's systems are interesting enough that the video never got dull. I appreciate the insight from such a veteran player. It's funny, but due to your spin-to-win tactics shown throughout the video, my ultimate impression of Warframe combat ultimately consists of spinning like a maniac and not much more.

Thank you for this magnificent video. As a year old player I definitely learned a few things that I desperately needed as well as what to avoid if I don't want to waste my time. However you said they deleted DNA decay and loyalty in companions but as a console player I still have to do this. What gives? As for the quality of the video: its charming, witty and overall very informative. Joseph Anderson would be proud.

26:49 I might be mistaken, but I believe the amount of mod points gone unused in your given Warframe’s build also contributes +5 starting energy per point, or something to that effect.

The most underrated video on KZfaq. How is this not in millions of views. Massive props man, great review. And you should deffinetly continue doing this, please I am really excited for the next video similar to this that you are going to make.

zaws WERE godlike, before the melee changes a year ago when all melees received numerous of buffs and changes, now every melee is godlike (I think this was a good change, before melee had a "meta" of sorts in itself) On the video, you are a legend, 6 hours! whooof btw never had that mr test bug(mr25 here, but I don't mr grind, I have all my gear XD) survival is my favourite game mode... I pick it before anything else if it's available for the thing I want XD

Started watching and couldn't stop! This video answered every question I could have ever asked and even questions I didn't know I would have. What more could you even ask for in a review/breakdown? You're humor had me rolling! I don't even play this game. OG

I clicked this simply because of the 6 hour long runtime. I watched through it all, only skipping through the bug showcase (I've seen all the same stuff, as a veteran player myself). It was thoroughly enjoying. You have an eye for this type of stuff. If you did make anything else in future, I'd be happy to watch. Lord knows I've dumped 6 or so hours on your content already.

only 1 hour in but i absolutely love it! Now this is one hell of a banger entry video, hope it blows up and you get the views and subs you deserve, this is prime content!!! especially in a day and age where stupid 10 sec tik toc clips reign supreme haha

This was my last vid during my YT Premium Trial and I'm so glad it was. Really well done, you make it seem as though you took a major in video composition or something.

As a switch player who was PC until my computer died, biggest issue is much smaller player base for both missions and trading

Ok, um i need more Warframe videos from you. I cannot believe i watched this and enjoyed the entire darn thing.

(Just some thoughts I felt like putting out there) 18:55 If you *_hold_* the *jump key* instead of spamming it, you can vertically climb those walls without much issue. 21:55 I find it weird we have health types like cloned flesh when they never come into play at all since they require you to strip all armor using corrosive/heat. (corrosive can't even strip all of the armor by itself anymore, and it's not even worth doing since it's so counterintuitive) 51:24 Interestingly enough, some prime frames can be obtained earlier than their standard counterparts, as they usually don't have MR requirements. 58:00 Also, some of the crafting requirements make no sense at all. To build the Twin Basolk (Grineer axes) you need to first build the Dual Zoren, a pair of _Tenno_ axes, which breaks lore. Where do the Kunai knives go when you build the Tipedo staff? Why do you need a shotgun to build a cannon? Why on earth would you need a _rifle_ to build a melee?? The first real problem I had with the video was in the new player experience section where you spammed melee in front of the specter that was blocking your attacks. Isn't that the Phobos Junction? Even if progress is especially difficult in the game, one shouldn't be using a Braton at that point. (Also, junctions are just poorly implemented. The Rhino and Valkyr specters are much more difficult than the rest. For example, the first specter, Rhino, is _clearly_ superior to the Volt specter, despite being lower level) I feel like the credits system would be bearable early on if you didn't have to fork over a ridiculous amount before starting a build. It can cost 30K to buy a blueprint, but it also costs 100K to actually build it, without any explanation given. The foundry is an old system, and I hope they change this. 1:05:42 Auras add capacity because the game wants the encourage their use since they provide beneficial effects for the rest of the squad. I don't know about stances though. 1:49:52 The third option (magnetizing) isn't bad, as it only requires you to wait sixty seconds (shorter than Freezing which makes you wait a minute+). The result is that it causes a complete blackout, preventing enemies from being able to hit you. 2:12:00 Fortuna is marked by a rising cloud of dark smoke. So look for that while up in the air. Great review. Also, some of these clips are really old lol.

I'm only into my second week, MR7. I'm finding I currently like the game a lot, but after watching this (a lot of which I have already noticed in my time playing, in terms of problems and such), I can tell I probably won't like the "end-game" a ton. I'll still try it out, but we will see. Greatly enjoyed the video, good work.

Info for console players on 0:25. The console Wersion of Warframe from my experience on the PS4 is essentialy the same, you can even play it with a mouse and keyboard, and you have the same graphics settings options as on PC (resolution settings, gpu particle settings...) The only real difference that you should expect is that most updates will come after their release on PC (1 to 4 weeks later) and they will generally come as one big content update instead of many smaller updates. Xbox Warframe is also the same game as on PC and PS4. On Nintendo however it is not graphicaly the same as on the other 3 platforms, but it is still one of the best looking Switch games you can find.

"You need a riven for Eidolons". Incorrect, you can do 5x3 runs without it. With the introduction of the helminth system rivens became even more unnecessary. Infuse Smite using the augment and you can say goodbye to rivens.

I love the Monster Hunter 3U Music at 2:44 keep up the good work man!!

I'd like it mentioned that there used to be a Void Key system in place of Void Relics. What they did was give you access to a specific tiered mission in The Void that you had to complete and the reward was a prime part, like with the Relics. It was all basic mission types. However, IMO, what made the Void Key system more compelling than Void Relics was that endless mission types did NOT have a cap. You could theoretically go for 2 hours and get rewards every 5 minutes in Survival, which was very common at the time, on a single key. This gave Warframe an actual challenge since this, aside from sortie, in the old day was the only way to fight high level enemies and it was about being as efficient as possible with your resources. Unfortunately people didn't like it because of RNG and they replaced it with Void Relics, which IMO just added more RNG since there's many times more relics than there were keys.

Dude this is spot on, granted it's your perspective but I can always tell who really plays Warframe vs someone who just started to make content. That aside you pretty much sum up what I love about the game and ultimately what causes me not to touch it. I have no problems with getting Plat but it definitely took me a while before I was able.go consistently get it. All that aside it's nice to hear a honest and objective perspective on this. It was actually easy to listen/watch this video. BTW this information is still more or less relevant

Most people complain about tutorials being long explaining literally everything, Warframe turns that around and kicks the baby into the forest. What I'm saying is that all veterans are monkays and the newbies are the babies, we monkays like to guide the baby.

"I like spin to win" Ah, you're one of them.

sat through all 6 hours, watching 1 or 2 hours at a time a day and I must say, I very much enjoyed my experience. Thank you for making this, I enjoyed the humor and the voiceover was really good as well. Cheers!

I watch from start to finish gj 👍

Good vid. I started back during early access when they were offering grandmaster packs and I got bored of the game after they added dojos. Your video was a good look at what I've missed all these years.

I was considering starting Warframe but I already have lots of poverty and confusion IRL. Thanks 4 the vid dude. And was that Custom Robo music? I thought that was the coolest shit as a kid.

Take a nap dude. 5:08:12 Also, you can actually fast travel to simaris directly from orbiter instead of having to go to NAV. You enter the syndicate menu (left to the NAV). Go to "Misc" and then select simaris and then fast travel to him. Much more faster than manually going to NAV and selecting a relay.

Gesus bro this review is super lengthy,,,, AND KICKS ASS Mad respect for the time commitment!

The big reason I like the game is the unique movement system that has no comparison in any game, even titanfall looks like dumbed down warframe movement, and the huge weapon variety. DE has a unique problem of making their own engine, and that comes with a lot of problematic traditions, such as every UI screen having its own copy of code which leads to a lot of effort to fix or change anything and can easily create inconsistencies for different vendors as happened on release of Deimos. And they keep occasionally forgetting to check a bugfix was put into the permanent codebase and fix gets broken in the next patch. There is no overall vision what warframe and its progression should be, this shows up in everything from how to find something, how rare it is and why would you want it. They repeatt he same bugs in new content they fixed in old one, and UI stagnates for years even among partial updates. The most requested feature to let us goddamn rotate the weapon and skin previews manually like the rest of the market stuff was never acted on. I suspect because the coding is insane enough to have copy pasted the animation code for each preview. The biggest problem with lack of vision is with so many scaling damage multipliers you get insane power but theres nothing worth using it all for, even hard mode is barely hard for a well geared veteran, with stupid rewards that you only get once or worthless overpriced junk once per week(and one exclusive reward worth getting every 8 weeks). Its a game complex to master and takes literally years to get all the content if thats what you wanna do, all it does is makes the game easier. Taking breaks is the only way for most people.

a 6 hour video, you sir are breathtaking

Yo, just a tip, you can open the entire open world map by holding M, and right click to put down a waypoint, which you can use to mark the animal spots.

Very good and complete review.

Love this so entertaining!!

Alright, let me grab some food and give this a listen.

the footage of the head bonk on the terrain embellishment gave me anxiety and triggered some ugly flashbacks

Best long Video i ever watched

To be honest as someone that's played warframe and destiny, I find it fairly easy to comprehend what's happening and what I should be doing in warframe in comparison to destiny, I think my new player experience was the funnest part of my experience, I've been playing for 3 years and I've mainly done everything by myself and taken some big breaks hear and there, I find the universe so interesting and how while playing you learn more and more and it's so cool how it all unravels, I see it getting compared to destiny a lot (also other MMOs but mainly destiny) but though I don't hate destiny I can't understand shit in that game, nothing is conveyed very good and the universe is just so vague, like vague is good sometimes but it's just too vague and to the point where I feel like a can't bother caring about anything that's happening, plus out of game lore I don't really consider viable since it's not really attached to the game, but yeah just your comment at the start made me think its a bit funny cause coming from destiny and other MMOs I found Warframe way more comprehensive and so compelling making warframe one of the better new player experiences in "MMOs"

6 HOURS?!

@4:15:20 The part about your operator randomly triggering "Void Out" is because sometimes your warframe is falling or moving into a "void out" region when you've switched. If you look at some of the clips you uploaded describing this it's clear your warframe is about to fall off the map and when it does it will trigger it even though you are on your operator form.

You can access Simaris via the syndicate console. Granted, it's still not direct simulacrum access, but it plops you right next to it, so it's at least something.

Just to provide an alternative perspective as someone who was new to Warframe not very long ago (I still only have 200 hours): the Operator spoilers mentioned in this video would have been a *major* spoiler to me. That plot twist was a huge amount of surprise and satisfaction when I got to that part in the game's lore. Heck, just realizing this game even has deep lore after the early game's presentation led me to believe it didn't was a real joy. Anyone who is sensitive to spoilers, the one at 9:50 that he considers "a light spoiler" is what I'm talking about. To disagree with the reviewer here, that piece of the game's fiction is a major plot twist -- the most major one in the game. It would be like knowing the plot twist in 6th Sense before watching it. If that kind of thing would bother you, and you care about plot, you may want to avoid reviews like this one (not to bash on this one specifically). Just to add a fact to my opinion, the Warframe wiki goes to great lengths to prevent viewers from reading any pages that spoil that plot twist. To be fair, I realize this part of the plot is now several years old, and many veterans expect that it's going to be spoiled for new players anyway. But I wanted to mention this because calling that "a light spoiler" is misleading and I don't think the majority of Warframe players would use that term for it. Caveat: I only play Warframe solo or with friends (who also did not want to spoil the main questline's plot for me), so this is one reason why that aspect of the game was not spoiled for me during many hours of play.

"I'm sure as Warframe continues it will change and this video will be less relevant in due time" As someone whom has played since beta 1; no, no it will not. DE is one of the most insulated developers on planet earth and are chronically incapable of taking constructive feedback unless it involves "player population has dropped 50 percent in one month and did not return the proceeding month" aka railjack. On the note Railjack will receive it's first content update exactly a year and three months after it was launched. Warframe is not a game, it's a vanity project. And it shows.

I can't even behind to fathom why that spin to win is fun. It's hard to look at and from what you've said on how to do it, I can't see the fun in it. That said, I liked some points you've said so far, especially the little points in tilesets that ruin the mobility flow

FYI: To workaround the sprint/blink issue mentioned at 1:57:30, you can set separate keys for "Sprint" and "Roll" instead of the default combined "Sprint/Roll". That was one of the first things I did in Warframe because I always ended up doing something different than I wanted (like you). ;-)

5:11

Damn

NGL you got a good voice for this kind of video.

I think that I would have abandoned this game a long time ago because I'm not a very big fan of this type of grindy games with hours of farming. But it's atmosphere, lore, story and artstyle made me fall in love with this game. And now I have almost 2K hours in it.

I always thought Gilding existed because most weapon have a 12-24 hour build time, whereas Modular Weapons have effectively a 1 hour build time, since the components take 1 hour to build.

Archwing flight system got gutted because apperantly community hated it and asked for it to be changed .

Man, I'm so glad to see more people calling out DE for their monetary bs. Namely for crucial things in the game such as inventory slots and crafting times(due to being unable to queue up multiples of the same thing at a time or even setup a number of a requested item to be crafted). I've mentioned this in a comment on a Trib video not long ago but, stuff like that really feel outdated based on the games current amount of items that are pinned with a price tag be it QoL or cosmetic. Mainly I'd want the Warframe and weapon slots to just go away entirely. It's so hard to recommend to someone to try the game out because of all the options available to them while also explaining how they'll have to play to a fluctuating market just to be able to claim the items they grinded and waited out the craft times for. That or they can just throw money at the game. Which sorta feels like the game almost guides you into doing that over the former, what with them having you install the market before all else in the game on your orbiter as well as the lack of a properly fleshed out player market as you went over in the video. But I don't expect any change in regards to that happening anytime soon sadly. Anyways awesome video, I know you talked about probably not doing more but I'm still subbing on the chance you throw something else out there be it 6hrs again or not.

Now that's a piece of solid work! I'm playing this game for 2 years now and I basically agree with everything you said here.

1 hour for each year it's been alive. Frick.

You’ve earned a sub

DE needs to watch these review

The version of City Escape that plays during the movement section has me dying lmao

Player: Sneezes Warframe code: -Aight, Ima head out

If no one told you yet: You can shoot nullifier bubbles with one hit by killing the drone on the outside.

This video is truly amazing. Absolutely worth watching

Thank you for posting this. I quite liked most of the time I played WF this year, but at the same time I truly can't stand large swaths of it and especially dislike much of the dev's reasoning. That's fine though, it's their game and plenty of other people enjoy it.

The part at 2:00 where he jumps into the ceiling? Used to be me every time when I played this game.

I did with Kuva Bramma a 14h arbitration survival to hit enemies level 9999. Was the only weapon i could imagine doing that. One day after that i got banned from trade chat because they said i "was playing" to long LOOOOL.

I don't agree with everything here but this would be pretty informative for a dev to watch for a lot of QOL changes. Also I watched it all; albeit over several days.

I'm that type of vet that stays online helping newbies as my pastime. I dont own a lot, I'm just strong enough not to care to get more stuff, and would rather help others.

Got 30k endo not even farming it. Drops quite frequently and some missions give a lot along the way. Also about credits early on I can remember it was a bit of an issue but I began the game with friends and they told me very early to sell duplicate mods. We tend to forgot about this including duplicate blueprints and such but it wields quite a good chunk of credits. Otherwise pretty good stuff overall.

I'll preface this by saying I didn't watch the entire video: The way voidouts work is that the game is meant to put you in the last place your Warframe was standing on solid ground. This is why if you jump out over a big pit and switch to operator, you will get teleported back to another place - your operator leaves the body of your Warframe behind, and it drops into the pit causing voidout, you need to leave it standing on a platform. Sometimes the voidout is buggy, like if the last thing you were doing was rolling with forward momentum, it might put you back into that state, and you will roll forward again when you re-appear. In my experience this happens 3-4 times at most. I can't explain why you were getting voidouts when walking around random corridors though, because that has never happened to me. But it's possible that some of the footage you've shown has been fixed. There is a section on the official forums where they have a built in system for the game that allows you to take screenshots which contain metadata about holes and gaps that cause these issues, which helps to reduce the frequency in future builds: forums.warframe.com/topic/395894-map-holes-environment-bugs-screenshot-tickets/ Some of your info is out of date, you mentioned that Loki might switch teleport players out of elevators, but it hasn't been possible to switch teleport with allies for years. Based on these comments it hasn't been possible since around 2014, and DE removed it specifically because people would use it for trolling steamcommunity.com/app/230410/discussions/0/619568192706545258/ Your comments about 'friendship doors' and elevators are pretty accurate. They don't really help anyone, and can be buggy or laggy, which ends up taking up more time than they would have saved by gathering the group members together.

meanwhile I'm sitting here loving the fishing and use it as my main method of progressing through open world syndicates but I fucking hate excavation and the fact it's the only viable way to get cryotic.

I came from poverty way back 2014, and crawl out for 5 yrs. Current status: hiatus MR: 26

Thanks for making this. Now I can comfortably say Phantasy Star Online 2 is just way better.

bruh i found this on the wf forums

Full disclosure: I did not watch all of this. 6 hours is just too long for me. But here's a big one: P2P mission hosting... I mean, really!? It's 2021 (9 years after Warframe was released) and we're still using P2P mission hosting for the vast majority of missions? Nothing like having Xfinity Extreme tier internet speed only to be paired with a host that apparently lives in bfe, streaming Netflix & 4K porn and has what seems to be dial-up internet. Yep, I just love having 1-6k lag and unable to kill anything or walk through any door, then getting host migrated only to realize the escort target died during the lagfest causing a mission failure. Fun...

watching bug section only. re: caches no spawn: sure they weren't in a cave with entrance outside of the yellow circle? it's the only one I haven't seen. or did you only hear the beeping but no caches? Velocipod captures aren't team-wide, they just massively buffed open world affinity range, and deimos open world is smol. re: enemy stuck in wall - always bring punch-through mod.

void out: i want to elaborate more on this. so yes the game has some shit barriers but what game hasnt pissed us off with a barrier. and specifically over gaps, when u pop out warframe over gap and try to dash its basically a race against time because you can call back your frame before they touch the barrier. ive done it a few times sucsessfully

60fps hurts your eyes? Anything moving fast enough to look blurry does, because your eyes will try to focus the picture. So framerate even above 120 can strain your eyes with a fast movement game like warframe.

1:39 *gasp* blasphemy! lol Edit: 1:17:15 I trade a lot and have met several of those, both sellers and buyers, they tell you to wait a bit and never ever respond again despite being online. So I learned my lesson, don't wait more than 5-10 mins at most, better yet just keep going about your farming business, don't even bother messaging them again either, if they're serious they'll message you. I have met all kind of personalities through that trade website, and trade chat is way waaay worse and I have used it only a handful of times to know this lol

Holy And I thought Mauler is Massive

Just got up to the bug showcase. You gotta change the song every once in a while.

Man this game sounds like a wreck waiting to happen. I tried the game and couldn't get into because it was too complex and hard to follow.

I'm pretty sure blocking increases your combo counter.

I'm 3 hours in. I feel your pain, man! I'm 5k hours in.

I went though all of it. This was very well done and is mostly on point , though i dislike the fact that you are one of the meta chaser leech type of players in the game, its not inherently a bad thing but your "this sucks cause others couldn't get up to my level and expectation , and my preference is more important than theirs when getting stuff done" does make you an asshole in my books. Other than the way you handle interacting with others i do agree with the points you made for doing so. I hope the Devs go though this as well , but knowing this they are more likely to listen to a 15 second review asking for more cosmetics.

The ability to wallrun used to be in game a few years ago. Sometime around/before the release of Equinox. DE claims they removed it due to jank, and they also said they tried reimplementing it, but DE says a lot of things so I don't buy it.

34:10 I have you know that after playing warframe for over 2500 hours on default controls, your deformend left hand operates at far higher levels of precision and speed than macros.

ah i hear KH music, i leave a like

Damn I saw all these bugs I never experience them in my hundred hours of into the game.

About air damaging defectors: It`s explained in game "story\lore" don`t want to fully spoil it, but it makes sence in terms of game universe... Overall, i agree with everything you said about game (excluding story).

TLDR: Magic space ninjas fighting mega-capitalists, autistic clone troopers, and mutant alien zombies

HOLY ABSOLUTE SHIT THAT VIDEO LENGTH LOL

It’s free so why not give it a shot?

eidolon elitist are so annoying. like you said justified, but basically new players will never get to do eidolon, and people who are MR 15 and up either have to meet the 500 CAP req or plead to the host that they can handle it.

Eh, if you Limbo AFK instead of helping in ESO you'll get less affinity. Enemies are killed more slowly, leading to less spawns. Also, you risk being reported as an AFK player.

4:15:25 - Complains about incrase of voidouts with operator use, proceeds to show multiple footage examples of warframe being dropped right into the pit.

Facking Lord of the ring move xD