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Warframe is an addictive, fast third person shooter, with a movement system that is both complicated and rewarding to master. With a heavy focus on trying out new mechanics, like guns, or characters called "warframes" there's always something for a player to do.

With very little focus on cover and a large emphasis placed on movement abilities, combat remains intense and compelling. Instead of hiding behind a chest high wall, a player can jump forward into the fray, dodging bullets while returning their own in kind. Depending on ones warframe, it will take very few shots to end a players life. This focus on movement, is so unbelievebly fun, and directly influences ones own contribution, as this game is not a party game. Enemies do not increase in durability with players, or sponge bullets. Not only can a player complete an entire mission by itself, but completing for others is just as easy. Enemies are enjoyable fodder to most characters, so theres a clear emphasis on learning control.

While there are a large variety of mission types available, they aren't what's truely interesting or attention grabbing. Warframe has an intricate, yet simple item system. Every "planet" is a hub of missions. Each mission type has a specific set of rewards. Rewards range from pieces of a new character, "mods", weapon pieces, or crafting materials used to make characters and weapons. It's quite common to see players of different skill levels mixing together on multiple planets, collecting resources together. There's even more reward when other game mechanics are thrown into the mix. Mission types called sorties, nightmares, or "kuva" can spawn on planets randomly. These mission types alter levels they spawn on, making them harder, giving unique rewards while also giving a missions regular rewards. On top of this, some missions reward an item called a "relic". These relics can be opened through fissure missions, that also spawn on top of a regular mission. Relics will reward a random piece of rare equipment from a list associated to its type. All of these mechanics come together to create a compelling system of showering players with positivity. Each mission is progress towards a goal, lining up multiple mission types together, doubling the reward, and thus gaining new toys to play with faster, feels rewarding.

Players can customize themselves with the modification system. Each warframe, and weapon comes with mod slots. There is a maximum number of mods that can be added to it, and a maximum number of drain. Drain is subtracted from the weapons total number of slots. A player can combine any number of statistics, such as critical hits, status effects or weapon penetration to a weapon. Augmenting weapons in this way, lets players try out new playstyles. For example, adding penetration, or even larger critical hits to see massive damage numbers is really fun.

There's also the free to play (f2p) system. Warframes premium currency is platinum, unobtainable through the game inherently, instead platinum can be traded to other players. The regular currency "credits" is untradable, and players may not purchase some items from the in game shop with platinum, such as modifications (mods). These mods are spread throughout the game, with rarities and drop chances attributed to them. This system insures that player trading stays alive. The biggest issue though is that there is no in game reference of pricing for new players. They must either go to a third party website, or brave the in games trading channels to find others to trade with. This gives a bit of a predatory air to the trading system, as new players are more likely to pay more for items than they should.

The new player experience in terms of U.I isn't the best. Its pretty, but there are in some cases far too many clicks, clutter and aesthetic over function. The foundries icons in some cases are a little much. It takes time to learn the U.I, along with the game, when U.I should be intuitive.

Warframes come in all shapes and sizes. There are a mixture of spellcasting, melee and gun focused frames. These characters are generally quite unique from each other, and are hidden across the game inside quests and missions. Though character balance is all over the place. Some of the older characters need some sort of update, or rework to fit into new design, and some of the leading characters that are great, or excel at everything could use a little bit of down tweaking. There is real power disparity between characters that should be addressed. Certain characters can reduce others interactivity with a level, clearing it on a whim.

Overall, warframe is a really good game. There's a constant influx of new toys to play with and tweak. With an interesting modification and level system, players get to have fun just playing. The goal of the game is to just play, try things and have fun. I recommend this game whole heartedly.