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ITS NOT JUST A WORK SONG. its a chaingang song. like the songs sung by convicts in the us justice system working jobs digging ditches or mining gravel. Thats why the cadence seems so good and progresses to demand greater and greater. cause its INDENTURED SERVANTS of the corpus singing as they work off there debt desperate to be free but also knowing EVERYONE is in the same boat. So they unify in there singular purpose and SING for what they work towards. TO LIFT THEM SELVES UP TOGETHER!

yes you are correct on this video being what plays when you first land on Fortuna. And what I personally love in the structure of the video, is the visual imagery of it. You start with this camera angle on the ground, literally at foot level, as the first image you see is the worker's boots walking towards their chair. The camera angle slowly begins to rise and fall with the music, and as it pans over the various workers, establishing the imagery of ALL of them being in harmony, but also enslaved to the same task. They have found a strength in their shared misery, but it's still misery. And then, as the final chorus begins to sing together, and their voices rise to the heavens, the camera angle also rises into the heavens, like their song is a prayer for salvation, and liberation, ending on the shot of actual God Rays of blinding white light, filling the frame....and then what's next? what answers that call? that prayer for liberation?....YOU, literally falling in, like an avenging angel (and depending on what frame you are in, you might actually look pretty angelic), dropping to the earth among the people, ready to take on all the factions that are keeping these people enslaved. It's a FANTASTIC way of setting up the tone of the expansion, and establishing the overall emotional motivation for the player. You literally fall from on high, to answer their prayers for help, and then spend the whole content smashing in the faces of the faction keeping them imprisoned. Just so damn good blending of visuals and audio, to indirectly convey to the player, what the devs are hoping you take from the story. You aren't just grinding for loot, this is a revolution, and YOU are the spark to set it off.

I wouldn’t say they’re indentured because that implies they have a choice the reason they’re all at fortuna is because they don’t have anymore of their bodies left to sell off so they’re forced to work off their debts or become a complete robot rather than a head in a box

and the solari faction of corpus slaves takes loans to train and replace bio parts with mechanical ones, which creates loops, but they have no choice because everyone in the corpus is born with debt and must pay it off or pass it on to the family after death.

​@@dontassociateThis is an entirely fair point, I just forgot that they were called "debt-slaves" ingame when I wrote the comment (it's been a bit since I last logged in) and used the closest term I could think of in its stead.

its funny, because this song was covered by a pretty major sea shanty band called the longest johns (and honestly, i kinda prefer that version)

honestly just the fact that they are able to render their cutscenes in the games own engine for smooth transitions like that is pure witchcraft considering how old this game is and an mmo at that.

I just started playing Warframe. It's honestly amazing. The development quality is 👌

@@delnite5825 Not to downplay how well Warframe does it, but in-engine cutscenes with seamless transitions aren't exactly a new thing.

@@thegrouchization yeah, but in game cutscenes usually arent implemented due to looking like absolute ass without substantial effort (especially not with older games like warframe). its only more recent games with their insane graphics that can do it safely without it feeling more jarring than an advertisement. but thanks to the fact that warframe is one of the only games that regularly gets graphics updates without them being sold as some cheap remake/remaster with no other changes, this mmo looter shooter thats more than a decade old can have in game cutscenes that actually look good and even comparable to something you would expect to see in a modern sony spiderman game. and that at the very least is not something that happens often (if at all).

@@delnite5825 Er... *most* games primarily use in-engine cutscenes, and this has been the case since long before I got into the hobby (circa 2007). Outside of CG intros (which Warframe also has), games typically stay in-engine from start to finish. It's actually more rare for a game to use CG for the majority of its cutscenes. RTS is pretty much the only genre that uses them consistently.

Good catch, I hadn't even noticed that but man that's genius.

@@femboy_twink It is! the composer is just a madlad!

For Narmer hits different.

This. They are musically and thematically written to be opposites. Two songs sung by the same "choir" for very different reasons.

I'm just mad about the color change in Fortuna after the new war, I miss the old blue and purple colors of the place, gave it so much atmosphere.

Otherwise "For Narmer" is also amazing

As I said under another comment, We All Lift and For Narmer are also opposites in how they're presented - namely, how the player is introduced to their respective scenarios. We All Lift Together ends with the player dropping from a light-filled hole in the ceiling, like some sort of angel, and immediately after this you can freely walk around the hub and talk to the locals (admittedly, if you're loading in for the first time you won't be able to buy anything) without fear of being attacked. Meanwhile, For Narmer opens with the player descending into Fortuna via a lift - this sort of serves a double purpose, because it both shows how you're effectively powerless without your Warframe (by forcing you to take an elevator instead of just jumping down) AND it forces you to witness what's happened to Fortuna in your absence following previous events in the New War, how a choir once full of humanity has been reduced to a single, harmonious voice singing a false king's praises. Then, when the lift stops at the bottom, it turns into a stealth section - Fortuna is now enemy territory, and without your Warframe or a weapon better than your dinky little Void pistol you have no hope of winning in a firefight. I really like it.

And then the contrast with for narmer

@@MortalMerc For Narmer was such a good touch to the arc

One of the bits I loved about For Narmer is indeed the stark contrast between it and the original Fortuna reveal - when you first enter Fortuna you drop down from the ceiling in your Warframe, like some sort of angel with no concept of fall damage, and from then on you have mostly free reign of the place (I'm still not sure if this is just because you're a Tenno and the Corpus are scared of what would happen if they tried to apprehend you, or because they legitimately don't keep armed guards in the part of Fortuna that serves as a player hub). Meanwhile, when For Narmer comes in, you kind of have to watch it play out (likely in a state of abject horror) as you slowly descend down to ground level on an elevator, no longer able to fall from the sky for fear of breaking your legs on the landing and no longer able to walk around freely because the enemy is everywhere and, plainly speaking, you're *not* equipped to fight them head-on at that point in the quest.

the entire tennolive segment around this reveal is so unreal it still feel better than actually playing the game sometimes

I started around when Fortuna came out so this song really brings me back. What a banger.

would you mind if i asked what the other two songs are ? i don't play warframe but i know of it since my little brother does and i enjoy the music i've heard from it so far ^_^ we all lift together, march of the moa and corpus greed are my current top 3 c:

@@crime_frog Listen to sleeping in the cold below

Shhh, don't spoil it ~

Oooo nice timing

I can imagine

Really. That is awesome 🤟

oh my gosh!? no way that’s amazing!!!

Pretty sure they have. One of them is an actor I was surprised to see - Kevin Durand. He was in Strain show more recently (ish), and a bunch of movies, it's an easily recognizable face.

Full list of singers: Kevin Durand Murray Foster Jason Lewis Damhnait Doyle Basically, not true

That is false but it would've been cool

Edit (for some reason KZfaq doesn't like it when I actually edit a comment) : for those who don't know, the liquid shown in the video isn't actually liquid but instead similar to a coolant of some sort.

Haha

Thank you!

@DrumRollTonyReacts np man! Sorry for the double comment meant to just include the other here.