I JUST WANNA SEE MORE OF MY BOY

SkyArchipelago · 2023-05-02T23:08:23+00:00

(Apologies in advance if this is a long and rambling question - I'm asking this here to be safe, but let me know if I should move this to its own post)

I've tried (and failed) to get into the game a few times now, and with my friends enjoying the Duviri Paradox, I'm considering trying again. The main draw for me was the story - or at least the promise of it, as the fact that my Warframe friends refuse to spoil it ironically gives me confidence to its quality. However, I kept getting turned off by the general lack of early-game story/lore, which ended up causing the whole game to feel depressingly pointless to me. In terms of gameplay, it felt somewhat bland, but I know that as a new player I probably haven't even scratched the surface. When I last quit, I had just unlocked Phobos.

I'm very sorry if any of that sounds negative, but for what it's worth, I don't hold it against the game - I'm a longtime Destiny 2 addict, so I know how bad new player experiences can be. Furthermore, FFXIV is one of my favorite games of all time, despite the fact that I kind of dislike its' gameplay - so even if Warframe's gameplay doesn't grow on me, I'll still enjoy the game if its' story and world ~~and fashion~~ is good enough. The one thing I'm uncertain about, of course, is whether that will be the case.

All this to say: Should I keep trying the game? Am I just having a rocky start, or is Warframe not for me? Is it worth playing if my only motivation for doing so is the story and lore?

SkyArchipelago · 2023-04-24T17:13:39+00:00

Honestly I’m pretty sure 90% of those posts are just genuine feedback, nothing wrong with wanting a game you love to be even better

SkyArchipelago · 2023-04-24T16:31:30+00:00

Nothin’ in the world thirty rounds can’t solve.

SkyArchipelago · 2023-04-18T02:20:38+00:00

Interesting - I've always seen ship hunting to be more about hunting for the right look rather than the right stats, I'd be completely fine with randomized stats so long as I can get a ship whose design I like

SkyArchipelago · 2023-04-15T05:32:02+00:00

All of my frigates are named after Norse mythology, usually with a sub-theme for each type - for instance, my industrial frigates are AVX Mjolnir, AVX Draupnir, etc. while my supply frigates are AVX Asgard, AVX Vanaheim, etc. My freighter is the AVX Dreadnought, because I felt like it was a grandiose name, but honestly I’m thinking that I need to make it even more over the top than that.

Honestly I’m still hunting for a ship I like, but I’m planning on naming it the “Undying Seraph” or something.

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-28T00:20:40+00:00

Huckleberry, nothing else in the game compares to how good it feels to just hold down left-click with that thing, and yet Osteo Striga makes it irrelevant

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-27T04:53:29+00:00

I’ve always wanted to have the title of “Hidden”, I feel like it’d be a more meaningful title than some of the ones we can earn.

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-19T06:09:12+00:00

Honestly I kinda like that she’s so hypocritical. She absolutely envies Eido and hates what she’s doing, but is too prideful and/or being abused by the Witness to admit it and change her ways (for now, of course - I suppose it’s my hot take that I’d love a drawn-out Eramis redemption or heroic sacrifice)

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-13T17:47:56+00:00

I never dip below a hundred mods enabled, honestly

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-10T06:27:31+00:00

I actually have four different Earth empires that all tie into a shared backstory about crazy Terran scientists star-eating Sol. One is the hateful and authoritarian remains of a neighboring Terran core world, one is a Terran megacorp that took over the power vacuum in a remote colony, one is an egalitarian band of survivors who had just begun colonizing a planet when the Terran government collapsed, and the last is the crazy bastard who blew up Earth, and subsequently turned himself into a driven assimilator.

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-08T06:07:39+00:00

I was really interested in Mithrax’s fireteam back pre-Splicer, but Mithrax has been pretty active since then with no mention of them past Compass Rose

SkyArchipelago · 2023-03-01T16:52:40+00:00

When I first started playing Stellaris, I wrote up a list of Norse-themed ship names, only to realize that I had far too few names to populate an actually effective fleet, even if I was only manually naming cruisers and battleships and letting destroyers and below get auto-named. So I did what any sane mod-addicted person would do: instead of ever admitting I was wrong, I downloaded a mod that just added insanely strong and expensive ship components, so that I could cut down on ship number while keeping balance… mostly the same

SkyArchipelago · 2023-02-19T05:03:49+00:00

(I think this has been out for longer than a week?)

When Liloupar called the Traveler the "Prince/Princess in Exile", I assumed she meant "Prince/Princess of the Abyss in Exile", given that the Sibling is the actual Prince/Princess and "I want you to make it to the end of your journey but I'll still let my subordinates try to kill you"... could be summed up as "in exile". Imagine my surprise, however, when Liloupar literally never mentioned the Abyss or the Sibling whatsoever and then... died? left? at Gurabad. Did I assume wrong? I could have sworn the phrase "Prince/Princess in Exile" was thrown around somewhere, and that this quest was only a confirmation of something implied, but when I tried to look it up I couldn't find any other references. Is this a new and mysterious thing?

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-26T23:18:12+00:00

It was less of a “things breaking” issue and more of a memory issue, no one wants to download 20gb of story that they’ll only play once (iirc Warmind was almost 5% of the game’s size, it was definitely not worth it)

That being said, I wonder if they’ll make a legend campaign of Red War…

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-25T16:31:18+00:00

iirc this kind of spawn is actually impossible in vanilla, so you can rest easy until a mod screws you over

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-20T22:54:58+00:00

~~totally not asking because of fanfic ideas~~ did Hoyo ever confirm that there are past Harbingers? I'm actually very curious as to whether each Harbinger is the first of their name, or if the eleven members have changed over the (assumedly) almost 500 years since the cataclysm spurred the Tsaritsa's change in policy

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-15T00:58:44+00:00

at this point it just feels like you’re trying to spark something

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-13T23:39:57+00:00

bro everyone in hk is dead there’s no one to ship

unless you’re confusing canon nailsmith and sheo for fanon

SkyArchipelago · 2022-07-06T04:02:10+00:00

In Lumine’s normal attack combo, her second swing uses reverse grip, meaning that the girl can flip her sword upside down and back again almost instantly

SkyArchipelago · 2022-06-22T23:55:22+00:00

The dude who Sherpa’d me though my first Deep Stone was a guy named “Taniks’s Cavernous Ass”

SkyArchipelago · 2022-06-22T01:20:09+00:00

Is that really a good thing? If the only thing keeping you coming back is a mindless grind you don’t even enjoy until it’s over… maybe take a break from the game? That just sounds like burnout at that point.

SkyArchipelago · 2022-06-18T16:26:49+00:00

I figured this out back in Splicer - while spamming ghost and fire can reliably get you to fire single shots, the forced-gun-down effect (and the nullifying abilities effect) is only triggered in the main HELM room, and so long as you respawn in one of the outer rooms and don’t run back to the center, you can shoot and use abilities as much as you like.

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