Warframe | The Critical Legacy Of Soma Prime

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The Soma & Soma Prime are classic staples of Old Warframe. Having influenced the early metagames to such an insane degree and being one of the first contenders of power creep. The Soma has been in the game for now 10 years and despite the changes to the sandbox, it holds a special place in the hearts of many old veterans. So today lets dive into the backstory of Soma & Soma Prime in Warframe.
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@NovaUmbral Ай бұрын

I may have missed/left out some small details but working on weapon videos are quite different compared to Frame essays, will continue to structure them as I go forward. EDIT: I meant to say HIGH critical damage, not decent. Sorry for slight oversight in script.

@Ariamaki Ай бұрын

Could you please go back and manually subtitle the Tactical Potato section of the video (covering Boltor Prime)? Ancient mic quality + thick accent = indecipherable noises.

@proximityclockworkx1572 Ай бұрын

Ah yes, I remember the old joke: Tigris Prime, the best sniper in the game

@XcrazymanIII Ай бұрын

dont forget the old hek

@0mniknightz Ай бұрын

if u got a problem, tigris it

@dankmemes8254 Ай бұрын

Look how they massacred my boy

@proximityclockworkx1572 Ай бұрын

@@dankmemes8254 Yeah sadly the Exergis, a non prime weapon can do what the Tigris does but better and with 1 shot instead of 2. :// Sadly nowadays, if it can't prime or nuke an 11 meter area to ashes, it's quickly forgotten.

@madsvigan2898 29 күн бұрын

Tigris still is My most used primary even after 4 years or so I havent been using it.

@mueezyusuf7181 Ай бұрын

When I started Warframe, I bought the blueprint for the soma as soon as I could obtain it after watching a video from MHBlacky. I still use it to this day

@sennsa510 Ай бұрын

Soma Prime my beloved

@Koronus_ Ай бұрын

Soma Prime my beloved.

@nofilterneito 26 күн бұрын

Soma Prime my beloved

@addmen96 Ай бұрын

Small fun fact: soma's mastery requiment was raised from 1 to 3 just week after its release. And I just happened to join the game during these days and grab the gun for myself at mastery rank 2. Sigh, there were the times...

@snakeman830 Ай бұрын

The thing that disappointed me most about Soma Incarnon was that it reduced the crit chance by such a large amount. Soma Prime normally has a 30% base crit chance, but when incarnon mode drops to 10%, even with Hata-Satya fully stacked and Critical Delay, it doesn't even reach 90% crit chance, which is a tragedy considering under those same conditions, normal Soma Prime hits 240% crit chance. Soma Incarnon wants totally different builds for incarnon mode versus normal.

@h4ven01de4 Ай бұрын

every time i see a history vid form this guy i instantly age another 12 years realizing this is how long i've been playing warframe for

@nobody4y Ай бұрын

To this day Fang Primes are my most used melee Rip coptering

@cdgonepotatoes4219 Ай бұрын

"Decent critical damage" Wasn't the Soma the one weapon with the highest critical damage in the game back then? I still remember the conversations. Maybe one of the bows beat it but mind's drawing a blank on other ideas.

@NovaUmbral Ай бұрын

I meant to say high Crit damage, oversight when I was recording, apologies

@KNGDDDE Ай бұрын

Back in the early days, yea the soma was goated.

@trd7639 Ай бұрын

Dread is the bow that beat soma for ability to achieve red crit and high crit damage multipliers. I got over 6x crit damage multiplier on my dread.

@cdgonepotatoes4219 Ай бұрын

@@trd7639 there it was. Yeah, I remember building it for AoE

@klondikelegitski675 Ай бұрын

One of my oldest WF memories was asking for help fighting Lephantis back in the day(started right before Cetus came out). The Dude that helped me came in with a Volt Prime and shredded each Lephantis head with Soma Prime in seconds. Needless to say it became my dream weapon afterwards

@Master_Of_The_Universe 22 күн бұрын

I'm having a Warframe based crisis, "back in the day" for me has a different meaning. I still remember grinding Rhino Prime back when we had keys and I think I still have Gamma in my inventory.

@youraveragechroma2139 Ай бұрын

I feel as though the release of Hunter Munitions (even though it affected almost all weapons) was a massive change for the Soma. That pre-HM world where we relied on status for armor bypass or removal was ultra reliant on weapons status leaning. Soma really was a rare case of high fire rate crit boosted slash.

@IplayTeemoasaWard Ай бұрын

If someone pointed a gun at your head and asked you, what weapons formed "The Big 3" over warframes history, what would you say?

@alt4f1 Ай бұрын

Soma, phenmore, kuva zarr

@starstreakalex7372 Ай бұрын

for primaries, Bramma, Tigris Prime, Soma Prime

@abso9639 Ай бұрын

phenmor, felarx and xata whisper

@nobody4y Ай бұрын

Acrid, Flux Rifle, Soma

@KNGDDDE Ай бұрын

Eh... i honestly couldn't tell you. Too many weapons, too many events. No weapon reigned long except back when warframe was kinda bad and just didn't get updates like that.

@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Ай бұрын

Tiberon Prime and Soma Prime got me through so much shit back when I still played Warframe.

@JustPixelNoIDontWantAnyNumbers Ай бұрын

So I started playing Warframe when Plains of Eidolon had just released, and we had the Twitch Prime loot of a Frost Prime, Soma Prime and Scindo Prime. I used those 3 for so long that they are still in my top 5 most used respectively. The Soma carried my ass, and I structured my entire loadout around it, getting Carrier for the explicit purpose of making sure I never run out of ammo, as well as dropping a wopping 4 forma on it, which took me ages back then to grind out. I still sometimes use it, especially with its unique mod because if there is one thing I love more than a bullet hose its a bullet hose that gets better with each shot fired.

@peddypeoples941 Ай бұрын

I loved the supra vandal, 300 ammo bullethose, with ash it did respectable work:) today i very much enjoy the braton p incarnon, not the most powerful, but very comfy.

@kielmun566 Ай бұрын

It's crazy how the UI/graphics looks back then to now. DE did a great job of making the game feel close to current AAA game graphics. That's why after coming back from a 4+ year hiatus, the game feels so different now but in a good way.

@Mastrmyrtr9 Ай бұрын

Ah, yes. The old days of soma, Tigris, and vectis being the GOATs. What a beautiful trio of guns, still to this day they just feel so good.

@mikedunlock Ай бұрын

I've only been playing for a year and a half, so I appreciate these history videos. Thanks!

@VioletSteel13 Ай бұрын

All these looks into the past makes me think about 'coptering. Would probably still have my dual zoren if mastery fodder didnt include on in a crafting recipe

@haze8346 20 күн бұрын

Great video, brings back a lot of memories ! The first ratchet song too :')

@AstrumPrimus Ай бұрын

I remember having Soma Prime and Rubico Prime as my ranger class main weapons in Terraria Calamity Mod. One of many reason why i love this rifle a lot

@TheFlyingslug Ай бұрын

I still think it's a crime that the Soma's Incarnon form is basically just an automatic shotgun. The thing struggles to kill single armored units on Steel Path starchart while weapons like the Dual Toxocyst incarnon are capable of evapoating entire hallways of Grineer in under a second when built right. Funny infected status pistol gets crazy crit buffs and ricocheting shots while the Soma gets to be a worse version of the Boltor.

@WillLittle123 Ай бұрын

You don't go to the zoo to see the tiggers, you see the tigers

@mugoloo Ай бұрын

Soma Prime still remains my #3 most used weapon, just because I used it so much back then. Great docu.

@0uttaS1TE Ай бұрын

One of my earliest Warframe memories was getting this gun, along with the Vasto Prime and Nova Prime. I grinded for days for them all, and when I got them, it was all I used for months. To this day, the Soma Prime is still my most used weapon, and for good reason

@Temmoie 22 сағат бұрын

You know, seeing Soma Prime, my stats page shows I used the OG Soma by about 19% to this day and its Prime is at 25% usage , and it's still my top used weapon even if I had been using other guns and left both Soma in locker for years. From time to time, I still take it out for a spin, and sometimes using its stronger cousin called Tenora Prime. And different from Soma Prime, is that Tenora can shoot a sniper-round at cost of 10 bullets. It makes me wonder if DE could've made Soma P better by also giving it a sub-fire function similar to Tenora.

@owl448 Ай бұрын

A video all aboot armor/enemy armor would be awesome

@melanclock Ай бұрын

I used soma so much back in the day that it is still one of my most used weapons

@TheInfidel23 28 күн бұрын

I was one of those 2015 players and this gun carried my star chart progress. Years and many breaks from the game later, and I finally got around to getting the prime and the incarnon together. Still a daily driver for me, especially with harrow and citrine, just a really fun gun to use even if it's not meta

@Embryage Ай бұрын

The most used gun in my old account. I miss you, Soma Prime.

@josephsoh908 28 күн бұрын

I do remember those boltor and soma prime days!

@cinderpsycho1985 24 күн бұрын

I remember boltor having armor pen in damage 1.0 and it often felt easier to go through armor with then other guns vs grinner

@Zefar77 26 күн бұрын

I remember Acrid being a contender to most OP weapon in the game. If you used it at peak, you could buff it's damage over time it did and you could stack these as fast as you could fire. But it this also bypassed shields and even bosses shields. Before it was nerfed to oblivion. Now it's real useless. Also Boltor Prime main here. I used it far more than Soma Prime. So much in fact that it's still my most used weapon after 4000 hours and I haven't touched it in a few years.

@eglewether5523 Ай бұрын

I am not watching this video, it just randomly poped up on my feed. I didnt play warframe in few years, but soma prime was one of my most favourite weapons, just awesome firepower, looks, feel everything. And red crits were awesome, I remember people trashtalking me for my crit build xD. Fantastic lovely weapon, space AK.

@Male_Parent Ай бұрын

15:40 Vectis prime!! The GOAT. That sniper rifle carried me through the star chart. Also 100% status chance tigris was nuts back then.

@SenaFoxGirl Ай бұрын

I miss these days. Specifically Tonkor rocket jumping days, I pretty much quit using Soma P when that came out, made me obsessed with getting places I normally couldn't.

@RIPJimmyA7X 10 күн бұрын

Soma was and is still my main, with the correct build it can still shred Steel Path. The Gotva Prime is pretty dang close now though, still the Soma remains the king of my arsenal

@filanfyretracker Ай бұрын

I still use it as my goto incarnon, with Primed Shred its a bullet firehose. other things might be meta, but brrrrrt brings me a smile.

@MageSkeleton Ай бұрын

even as recently as the introduction of the Zaramon update, Soma Prime would be my "control" for comparing DPS capabilities among other weapons. The Tenora Prime ended up being a "better" version because of it's gimmick, though i wish it's alt fire did more damage. i ended up falling in love with the Bubonico as my "go to" weapon. And i couldn't believe the number of times i had used other weapons like the Phantasma [Prime] and run out of ammo versus the times i was able to just "shoot" what i needed to with the Bubonico.

@kasumi2173 Ай бұрын

2015 soma prime was the comfiest rifle you could have had . Still my most used rifle to this day due to how long it's been meta relevant .

@Wooskii1 Ай бұрын

I have all the adapters (circuit is really fun) but the Soma has been on my "I'll get to it later list" since its second week (Duviri is really painful)... Maybe I'll give it a shot next time I find someone willing to farm Duviri with me.

@lordrefrigeratorintercoole288 Ай бұрын

i still mostly use my soma prime. its just the best.

@Darthmufin Ай бұрын

What's funny is once the grakata came out, that essentially replaced the soma, and the prisma replaced the soma prime easily. I did videos comparing the two and the grakata even beat the soma prime at one point. Grakata wasn't as popular though.

@luhcsgrimm8857 Ай бұрын

Forget to mention Hunter Munitions coming out and being a small resurgance

@flamingo4450 Ай бұрын

As soon as i got the Soma i made sure to mod it for maximum firerate, it was fun having basically a laserbeam of bullets

@_tot. 4 күн бұрын

Thank u

@E4ys Ай бұрын

I love this weapon so much I used it in half of my total playtime which is over 500 hours. I ADORE everything about this weapon, the looks, the function, the sound effect, the recoil, the criticals, and I'm just kinda dissapointed that the incarnon turned the Soma into less of a Soma and more an auto shotgun.

@elainyaa Ай бұрын

my baby soma prime ❤ will love it forever

@1Thyrus1 27 күн бұрын

As someone who played during that time, using argon scope unironically made you do less damage because it was a wasted mod slot.

@1Thyrus1 27 күн бұрын

It was just "funny red number" meme

@LuminousOriens Ай бұрын

My atterax still has the maiming strike build that does like 2 damage now

@Wolfnrun Ай бұрын

It's a good weapon if your new and it's good for long term end game as well

@ZuckFukerberg Ай бұрын

You explained the old metas pretty well, made me remember all the crap we have done over the years pretty vividly. Well done Mr. Umbral, see you on the next T4D, I'll bring my terribly expensive Ember Prime.

@bu3areesh674 Ай бұрын

I just got the most amazing soma riven 134.4% Toxin, 171.6% Critical Damage, and -34.5% Zoom. Toxin can be multishot or crit chance, but holy red crit damage territory with sevagoth's augment or anyone that gives flat crit chance. The gun hits 1-2mil a shot shredding anything that is infront of it. With wisp buffs or anyone else and it just becomes even more of an unholy monster. I use it everywhere now depending on the frame and the mission and i love it. I dont use hata satya because i dont have it and im not sure what it would change but when i get my hands on it ill be testing it out. I think my most amount of damage was once with a 10mil bullet though im not sure how to recreate that im still testing it out more and trying things to see if i can push it further.

@SkyReaperOne 24 күн бұрын

1:50 To be perfectly clear here... Nobody... And I mean NOBODY cared about status chance back when Soma was added. There was no support for status back then. People only used elements as extra raw damage that could deal with enemies that were weak to those elements better. The only outlier being the Acrid. Though I can't remember if they had fixed the Acrid's damage by the time Soma came out. (Acrid being the very first weapon to deal "toxic" damage in the game. So early on in-fact, that nothing had any resistance to its damage type. It was effectively a true damage weapon for a good while.)

@evanpjpeg Ай бұрын

i think it’d be completely fine if they buff the slash damage of tigris prime back up unless there’s a future incarnation coming for it

@Negruzzu Ай бұрын

Started playing in 2014, i cant even describe the level of power i felt using this weapon. It became the top weapon on my account for a long time before getting the soma prime. Btw i just reached MR30 a week ago (i never cared too much about it, until i made it to 25 and thought it might be the time to do it after so long) and it might be silly but i love giving the affinity/cred blessing into Relays, i was felt that is such a nice thing to give…and it’s free so… my pleasure brothers

@olivierdols5556 Ай бұрын

what is that middle gun at 1:46 i see it on devstreams as a placeholder icon but i dont know where it came from

@NovaUmbral Ай бұрын

Its the OG Ogris model

@olivierdols5556 Ай бұрын

@@NovaUmbral omg that goes waaaay back

@Xeo_1999 Ай бұрын

The incarnon is of course above most weapons, but it just doesnt feel satisfying to use, I kinda wish they just went the burston incarnon route and leaned into the whole bullet hose theme, and it doesnt even have to be as strong tbh. Seeing that its some weird shotgun with meh crit chance without the weapon augment was...disappointing to say the least. The stat buffs were nice ofc but thats kinda expected. Still in my top 3 most used weapons tho (before incarnon!), design of the wep is so peak, and using it in earlier stages of the game was so damn nice. I think it was the first prime wep i bought.

@snakeman830 Ай бұрын

Since without rivens or warframe buffs, Incarnon mode caps out at 80% crit chance...

@themoabrigade Ай бұрын

Soma was my first prime.... then I got the Tiberon Prime and went with that lol I sorta wanna get back into Warframe now.... havnt played since 2021 -.-"

@FelpHiro Ай бұрын

It feels like D.E. tried to be funny and swapped burston incarnon and soma incarnon. Just like them giving us a tenet glaxion, which is just amprex but cold damage.

@ItsSerranoHD Ай бұрын

I was the Soma Prime's strongest soldier back in the day, heck it still appears as my most used Primary on my account. While I knew power creep was inevitable, before the Incarnons I was still happy with it. Once the Incarnon did come out though, it was honestly pretty sad, considering the hype surrounding it, and it got outshined in its role by the freaking **Burston** of all weapons. It's still plenty usable, don't get me wrong, but its Incarnon was definitely a disappointment, and fixing Hata-Satya honestly wasn't enough since you lost the crit upon switching forms anyway.

@noahedenborg4221 Ай бұрын

now i want a vid all about aoe weapons and their history at least boltor incarnon doesnt lose 20 base crit

@joshuathomasverghese1341 Ай бұрын

Legendary Weapon.

@ezkhel Ай бұрын

Despite being sold years ago, the soma is still my most used primary lol. I guess partly because we have so many good weapons to play with now and I don't just stick to one weapon that my use time on them still hasn't matched the soma.

@SkyEcho751 Ай бұрын

There is a way to make Soma Prime Incarnon 'good' and that's by using Harrow. Harrow grants a 200% final CC on headshots, taking advantage of the 4x critical multiplier, giving easily 8x if not critical 12x damage multiplier, add in headshot bonus damage and it SHREDS. I actually like the Soma Incarnon a bit more then the Boltor Incarnon.

@r3ktfox146 Ай бұрын

Ah yes Tigris prime the god sniper and room clearer, gotta thank tactical potatoe for intruding me to that , god beautyi miss that meta

@Metruzanca Ай бұрын

The Warframe History strikes again.

@moarfunxd Ай бұрын

I still use the Soma Prime

@lordrefrigeratorintercoole288 Ай бұрын

same

@MrFirsito Ай бұрын

i actually revisited my soma prime incarnon... it is a good weapons ,destroyed by so many other incarnons, being IMO torid and angstrum prime miles better :( and am not even gonna talk about phenmor and laetum, the absolute mandatory have at finishing zariman

@coleshovel8432 26 күн бұрын

I started playing in 2015 I don’t think I got soma prime until MR 14ish though, sometime in early 2016.

@giraoshaw Ай бұрын

I really wish Soma's incarnon was what the Furis got😔

@Vi74LiTy Ай бұрын

If you want "soma incarnon", just use the burston. Its incarnon form is much closer to an upgrade of the soma than what the soma got. Burston incarnon is insane.

@Shrooby-te4vf 15 күн бұрын

Zephyr still remains my most used frame % wise because of rocket boosting.

@vladd415 Ай бұрын

The problem with the Soma incarnon is that the incarnon form has lower critical chance than the non-incarnon form. Everyone knew that the Soma was a crit based weapon. DE then went "LOL NO" and tanked the critical chance on the incarnon form. Why? For what reason? Did they want to "do something different"? To make the incarnon form be "something else"?

@Spambot27374 2 күн бұрын

Its really good with sevagoth

@judgement7279 Ай бұрын

As someone wise said "if you killing single targets fast enough it can be called AoE"

@janablom823 18 күн бұрын

The fire rate nerf in incarnon form was completely unnecessary. I exclusively use it on 600 strength Wisp to stop if from feeling sluggish

@Ace4573 Ай бұрын

It might see a rise with the new status rework.

@ReallyNotAGoose Ай бұрын

I started playing for rhe first time around the end of update 10 (the first update I remember being present for was 11). Getting MR6 for the soma seemed like a massive obstacle at first, but it felt incredible when I got it. I remember soloing t3 keys with it to get my first primes.

@SamuSeen Ай бұрын

Oh god, do I miss self-damage.

@majdyalsaeed2798 17 күн бұрын

It is really ironic I like the soma it was the first weapon I got recommended to from MHBlacky and he was right I actually felt like I am really strong like I am real player after getting it how sad

@Inkster8 26 күн бұрын

Do a ivara vid

@Guagaboodle Ай бұрын

It might just be my skill issue but when i mod soma for steel path i cant get it to do good dmg so can anyone tell me some tips

@Lemon_Sage9999 Ай бұрын

Aim for headshots, viral hunter munitions

@Guagaboodle Ай бұрын

@@Lemon_Sage9999 i use viral and hunter munitions and i headshot

@BaeBunni Ай бұрын

"bad incarnon" while yea all incarnons are generally buffs and lets them outclass most other weapons we can only equip 1 primary secondary and melee at a time so there is a reason to suggest some are bad especially if means giving up a potentially good incarnon and waiting 8 weeks to get it later though really the only week that has a tough decision is week 5 with torid dual toxyst dual ichor and atomos all in 1.

@slof69 Ай бұрын

gaming

@grug7793 Ай бұрын

Soma prime is my raifu flight me

@Liam-jn6zu Ай бұрын

YEAH! I was right!

@the1990boy Ай бұрын

Ngl, what lil bit I've used it I always thought it sucked ass.

@nedalalmofleh5860 Ай бұрын

My fav weapon ever, maxed tf out of it that ppl called me a lunatic

@Ak4set Ай бұрын

Sadly the Tenora outclasses this weapon when i looked closer at the stats

@darkmugetsu6572 Ай бұрын

Who her started warframe and got soma prime with frost prime for free via twitch

@v3igazord Ай бұрын

telos boltor does aoe gas dmg. so it's a fart then

@rhetorikunleashed5114 Ай бұрын

Hello

@atomgoat5722 21 күн бұрын

Soma non incarnon form, does better damage and more fun.

@theleoshowm3010 Ай бұрын

ASTRONOMICAL 75%.... lol

@ProfessorDysto Ай бұрын

Soma prime gang rise up! You still suck Boltor! ❤

@khaozcat Ай бұрын

Soma incarnon is actually a much better balanced incarnon weapon than other ones, because there is arguments for using both its normal fire mode and incarnon mode. I wish we got more of that and not weapons that feel absolutely terrible in normal mode until you charge the meter.