Warframe-Free-to-Play, against which, ahh look sorry

In our variable world, the constancy of something is a huge rarity. This also applies to the playing entertainment industry. Technologies do not stand still, the capabilities of gaming machines are growing, the graphics are improved every year, and the budgets for development are swollen. And now – it’s already enthusiasm to work on enthusiasm, trying to make a dream game without thinking about the immediate financial prospects and not trying to squeeze it out of it, as much money as possible – has become financial suicide.

At least this is constantly trying to convince us of large corporations, more and more disappointing players, with their exorbitant greed.
The scandal around Battlefront 2, Destiny 2 Almost weekly disappointing its fans (which continues to this day), the new Call of Duty, in which Batle Royal will replace a solitary company – all this instill fear for the future of our industry.
Is there really no other way, to make a profit, except for the cleaning of players wallets, in all possible ways and saving on quality, to please the number?

However, the history of recent years knows a huge number of examples of the reverse.
About one of these examples, I want to tell you today

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to your attention

How did it all begin

In the already distant, two thousandth year, a small team, with great ambitions and eloquent name – Digital Extreme, conceived her dream game. She was supposed to become an MMO with the spirit of Unreal Tournament, where every player is a hunter for the head (and part-time still cyber-ninja) fighting in space, for awards that were assigned for the heads of the most successful hunters.
The name of this idea was – DarkSector

Alas, infrequently everything goes as we wish. Development was delayed for the years of production hell. The pressure of publishers, forced the game, in every sense, more mundane. And as a result, she changed to such an extent that from the early ideas, only the costume of the protagonist remained.
The final version was not too warm. Distinguished by a couple of interesting and successful ideas, the game was criticized for the mediocre performance of the rest. (You can get acquainted with the review from SG).

As a result, pretty battered company switched to small orders. However, in the end, they could not bear the fate of the artisan, doomed to do what they say and incapable of creating something of their own. As a result, pretty much shaved creators, who gained experience in creating The Darkness 2 and multiplayer for Bioshock 2, left everything and returned to their original idea.

Warframe development

Having created a prototype of their future game, they attributed it to many publishers and heard one thing – a complete refusal, motivated by the unpopular science fiction, in the market. And having heard, from De, that they are going to release the game for free, focusing on, to make it as best and more pleasant for the players, and not to make a profit, all publishers declared one voice “This is doomed to failure“. However, despite anything, Digital Extreme justified their name, risking everything in 2013, with the help of players, releasing the game in the ZBT. What is noteworthy – for the entire time of development, they always remained true to their principles, differing from competitors, an incredible love for the community of their game.
And throughout the entire development process, they put his interests above their own, never allowing their greed, to destroy the fun of the players. And what else, you know the companies that have removed from the game, one of the monetization schemes, due to the fact that Players used it too often? (and since it was a little like gambling)
Briefly about this story. (Unfortunately only in English).

And so, thanks to the just titanic efforts of the developers, the game has completely transformed, becoming ten times better than at the beginning of its path

By the way, at first Warframe, stylistics and many elements, was very similar to Dark Sector (not to mention the obvious references, for the previous game of the team). But over time, the ENT game expanded, really magnificent quests appeared, the Universe of the game overgrown with history and finally separated from the Dark SecTOR universe.

What is this story?

A little Laura

At the peak of its power, humanity created the powerful empire Opokin. Their technologies were incredibly developed, genetic engineering was used everywhere, to improve people’s lives (and simply for beauty), and all the work for them was performed specially grown, clones-slaves. It would seem that what could go wrong?
However, due to the complete destruction of the Earth’s ecosystem, they were forced to crowd on the moon, terraforming other planets. But there was less and less suitable place for life. Because of what, it was decided to send through the abyss (local analogue of Varp), drones, for terraformation of the planets of other systems. For this function, drones had to be tuned with AI (about which Orookin had a terrible paranoic).

And in order to prevent the uprising of cars (or at least minimize the damage from it), Orookin decided to leave a defect in them – the influence of the abyss is destructive to them and will forever deprive them of the possibility of self -reproduction (so that, even in the case of an uprising, the cars would not rebuild themselves and do not attack, an invincible armada).
Ironically, but it was this destructive effect (more precisely by clarification, by artistic intellectual, who set them up and crippled them) and caused the rebellion of cars, which are later dubbed possessing the mind.

And when they returned, too early, no one was waiting for them.
And no one was ready, to attack, that power. Suddenly Orookin discovered that self -learning, constantly adapting AI, capable of hacking all their equipment and weapons – is really as dangerous as they were afraid.

Owners of reason defeated. They turned our weapons, our technologies against us. The more advanced we became, the higher our losses were. The war would be over if we had not found any other way. In our despair, we turned our eyes to the abyss. Blinding night, damned space, where our science and mind did not have the strength.

We took those few that returned from there alive, but changed. We created a shell around them, a channel for their ailment. Gave them an old path weapon. Rifle and blade. A new warrior was born, and with him the new code. These discharges once, these Tenno, became our saviors. Bogo warriors, cast in steel and rage, destroying our enemies in ways behind the facet of their understanding.

As a result of the intense confrontation owning the mind, the empire was won

Because those who own the mind were sent, a special unit, capable of disguise as Orookin, infiltrate their ranks and penetrate to the top.

Entry from the code, about stalker

One of us wandered in the middle of these devastated worlds while you slept. Like me. I remember what you have done. I remember that day.
Tenno came to terminus shining in the rays of victories. Our emperors made of cold gold, holding their breath, drowned you in the silk of heroes. Then the sound was heard. For all worlds, he swept instantly, ceremonial naga. Drum salute in honor of our great metal saviors. Ten strokes, one for each lost billion. I watched from afar, along with the rest of the low rank guardians. With every blow, insurmountable horror came to my throat. Tenno was not noble silent. I tried to warn the rest, but was able to publish only a strangled whisper.

On the ninth blow, streams irrigated the stadium released by Tenno blades. Drums, empire, everything fell silent forever.

Now I am hunting, catching you one at a time. I observe from darkness, leading the archive of your sins. I am a ghost of retaliation. You could forget your crimes, but you are not innocent.

However, instead of completing the plan, destroying the shadow, she decided to take care of them. Having betrayed the mind, she took the name Lotus

The moon was destroyed, and the lotus placed Tenenno in Cryroson in the abyss.

After the fall of the Empire, all the most entrepreneurial merchants and smugglers, chatted into the corps corporation, Whose greed is ten times higher and Activision combined, Whose thirst for profit makes them more like a cult, because for the sake of it, they will not stop, at all.
Due to the search, use (and sale) of old Orookin technologies, are one of the most advanced fractions in the solar system.

Meanwhile, the clones- (already former-) slaves raised the uprising and formed a militarized Empire Grinir, which (as they believe) serves the last queens of Orookin. Unfortunately, due to centuries of genetic degradation (few equipment is a way to work regularly for hundreds of years), they are now literally decomposed during their lifetime, which is why they are forced to buy prostheses at the corps (they are certainly fighting with grinir, but they will not miss the possibilities)

And it was at this time that the Technocyte virus developed by Orookin as a weapon during the war raged. (In fairness, it is worth saying that, while he was sleeping, Greener and the corps were repeatedly suppressed, but after some time, he appeared again, because of their attempts to preserve samples, for use, like weapons, instead of the complete destruction of the infection)
And infected – a nightmare in the flesh, rage, trying to absorb and turn into their own kinds of monsters, all living things in the galaxy

And when the entire solar system was mired in chaos, Lotus, began to withdraw, who lost their memory, from cryosne, because they were again needed, as the keepers of the world

Or as it, jokingly, is called in the English -speaking community – Space Mom

(And yes-it’s just a beautiful fan art, because I did not find good screenshots. And he himself, for certain reasons, could not do)

Gameplay

Perhaps the time has come to talk about gameplay, because https://madcasino-uk.net/mobile-app/ it is exactly what forms the basis of the game.
And the basis of the gameplay is the murder of various opponents from a huge arsenal (let the game a couple of chic quests that are very impressed with a pair of good tweets and stunning soundtrack and instruction, the bloody massacre will still occupy 90% of the game).

List of modes:
Labbation
Defense
Mobile defense
Interception
Excavations
Survival
Sabotage
Hive
Raid
Capture
Salvation
Espionage
Murder (bosses)
+Mission on jetpacks (not very loved by the community)
+PVP (similarly)

Someone may notice that once-Raz to kill opponents is quite repetitive, and someone completely call it a grind. However, I ask you to notice that (as was said in the Monster Hunter review) – Grind Grindo Rest. It is one thing when in the Inquisition, in order to get to the plot mission (for which they play it), you need to fulfill a bunch of the same type of instructions, with pain, from the curvature of the fighting, killing hundreds of boring opponents. And completely different sensations, from the killing of hundreds of thousands of opponents in Warframe (where the magnificent combat system is the heart of the game)

And if you do not believe it, then open the page of the game in Steam and see

By the way, an interesting system has been implemented, development (instead of a story about a modification system that completely change your build and play style, I will tell you about skill ranks). To open access to a truly steep armament, you must first fully master (that is, bring to the maximum-30th rank) weapons more. At first glance, an artificial restriction that makes the game more boring,

Swords
Machete
Daggers
Heavy blades
Hamers
Staffs
Lashes (or whips)
Pair swords
Paired daggers
Swords and shields
Swords and whips
Spears
Rapiers
Braids
Claws
Fists
Sparring
GLEFS
Ganblins
Vera
Nunchaki
Nikana
Tonfs

And this is not to mention the dissimilarity of several guns from one category. For example, I, as a lover of bows, can say that there is a huge difference (both in appearance, and in effects/animation, and in gameplay. In general, how the weapon is felt) between Paris (initial onions), fear (stalker bow), Kernun Prime (onions shooting 3 arrows at once)

And in the end, it all ends with the fact that having received Lanka/Optikor/Tigris Prime and making them a doomsday weapon, wans all living things, the players put them in the arsenal (leaving for something especially complicated) and are armed with less powerful, but much more loved barrel.

However, weapons are only half of your murderous power.
The main thing that determines the style of play is warframes.

The combat shells are fluent in themselves, all their power.

In the game (at the time of writing) 34 Frame. And everyone is unique and very strong in some kind of its own. There will be a frame for every taste-pure sweethearts, tanks, hiller, buffers, controllers, DD-shniks, invizers (for which, surprisingly fun to play in open battle)-there are simply a lot of unique characters, among which everyone will find someone to their liking.

The whole strength of the abilities of which is in music, that the player must compose himself, trying to find a balance between the maximum of effectiveness and a minimum of blood arising from the ears of Timmates. And if there is a musical rumor, getting both goals is easy. If not, you can ask for a couple of tracks, people have a rumor.
In an extreme case, if you met a troll, which deliberately compiled a track turning your ears into a tube, there is a separate volume mixer in the settings for such cases.

In fact, diversity and saturation are one of the main features of the game, which is filled with content to such an extent that the first 100 hours (and for some and all 200-300) can be safely called training

Free

It is for this reason that many people who met the game, seeing the first page of the store and how much content can be purchased for platinum (local donation)

After all, if you liked the gun, standing 300 platinum, you can, in the same place, for a penny (ordinary currency), buy its drawings and just put it in the night

, Boldly attribute the game to the category of free-to-play and abandon it.
However, due to the vastness of the game (and it must be admitted that the practically absent normal learning that would help to figure it out), they do not understand that you should not spend the platinum until you get up completely in the game (and then you will understand that there are only a few things, the cost of up to 20 submarines. Well, palettes for coloring)

And when you understand how the system of obtaining a price of things works and find that in the game there is a very active trading between players, thanks to which you can get a bunch of platinum without investing, you understand that one of the best Free-to-Play systems in the industry.

Can EA or Activision earn the same? Yes.
Can they collect the same faithful community from devoted people who can touch their game in order to simply show their gratitude for the work done? It is unlikely.

And in the end, in spite of any assurances about the fact that “This is doomed to failure”, De achieved such success, namely an immense love for their brainchild and the same, respect for their fans. This is exactly what EA and Activision will never be able to understand more and more influencing for this reason (the same EA, from unhlassed franchises, remained only Battlefield (and that, taking into account the recent scandals) and FIFA, which can greatly lose in profits, due to new and future Lutbox laws)

Finally

What can be said?
If in games, you cannot stand the “grind”, in any of its forms and manifestations (regardless of its quality and variety), then better pass by. Warframe can give you a lot of pleasant hours, but it is really unlikely to hook. At best, evaluate on a grave.
If you are a little more tolerant of this and appreciate the games, for gameplay, fullness, saturation and depth, then getting used to the game, you are unlikely to find another assessment, except

And if you want to start playing, now is the time. Indeed, in the eve of the release of the new large plot quest, the victim (Sacrifice), right now, for the subscription on Twitch Prime (even a trial), you can get a prime version of the best (for beginners) Frame-Sapport

(and several more similar shares are held, with a cool freebie)

Dark Sector

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I have never seen such a dull grind anywhere. The article is good, the game is boring.
All the variety of weapons and warframes is limited to several truly useful options (both frames and weapons), and everything else is swinging just to the rank (t.e. once up to level 30). The fighter in fact does not look far from the same as in rollers, where they shoot and twist and jump off with a sword. Often it “pressed and all died”.
Undoubtedly, the second dream quest is magnificent, especially if the ENT is interesting, the quest on Octavia is good, but such quests are not permissible in comparison with the amount of grind that is necessary in Warframe. How much does the passage of the second sleep occupy? 3-4 hours from power? And this is the largest quest.

The rest of the time it only remains that the farm-farm-farm.
You need to farm for everything-money for recipes, resources for quests, relics for playing the mission of faults, resources for primary-weapons/frames/sensels obtained in these faults, then farm on Dodze, farm for dodze rooms, farm to study the recipes of guns, which will then have to be bought and then blended to create resources of resources for resources. But you know what you can do there? Farm passively. Just crafty a special device, which once every 3-4 hours will collect resources from the planet.
Well, yes, the trading system: the chat in which the text flies with a wall in order to understand prices either to sit with a notebook and write out prices for what you want to sell/buy, or try to trade through third -party sites such as warframmarket, where it is not a fact that they will answer you. T.e. intra -game market – absent in a convenient form. Also restriction of 4-5-6-7 (how much is there in practice?) transactions per day, will not allow you to really terminate. And Platinum (Donate currency) is needed here, if you do not want to regularly dry the warframers, because there are too few slots and unnecessary ones have to be sold. Yes – slots here are sold for everything – under Warframes, for weapons, in custody (read the drone behind the shoulder). And you need a lot of slots if you want to collect a collection of weapons. Platinum, again, is needed for purchases of catalysts and shapes, which are also needed in large quantities if you build a doza, crafty weapons from it or just try to reveal the potential of guns. Yes, catalysts and reactors can occasionally get (good with forms easier), but special missions on them are too rare for them to be experimented with a calm soul.

The visual part of the game is plus
Lorny quests – plus
Grind – over 9000 minus. 6 out of 10.

P.WITH. And for the article plus, clearly

Thanks for the praise)

The fighter in fact does not look far from the same as in rollers, where they shoot and twist and jump off with a sword. Often it “pressed and all died”.

As a result, it all ends with the fact that having received Lanka/Optikor/Tigris Prime and made them with a doomsday weapon, wans all living things, the players put them in the arsenal (leaving for something especially complicated) and are armed with less powerful, but much more loved barrel

Well, or you can go to any modes more complicated (such as an elite massacre), where the enemies will not die with one, even with imbal builds

You need to farm for everything-money for recipes, resources for quests, relics for playing the mission of faults, resources for primary-weapons/frames/sensels obtained in these faults, then farm on Dodze, farm for dodze rooms, farm to study the recipes of guns, which will then have to be bought and then blended to create resources of resources for resources

Well, I was lucky that I picked up a good 10th rank clan, with a rebuilt dojo, completed research and a bunch of responsive people, who prompted prices and explained how best to farm, so that it is best to get loans on an index, where, with proper assembly, you can get a couple of million and for a week and two to forget about the need for money)In general, they helped in every way (by the way, if you came across a bad and/or empty clan, then you can easily leave it (find your name in the list of the clan – PKM – leave the clan).

And having gathered everything that I want and gaining access to the cool guns, I continued to create and use new, purely for the sake of the fan

There is also a chic “Harrow” chains and the hidden quest “The Beginning of Speaking”, let and lasts only 5 minutes (as it is a teaser to the “victim”), but it throws a good twist, impressive and very intriguing, forcing to wait impatiently (a new large quest, the level of “second sleep”, which will be released in the next weeks). Moreover, he was especially impressive for those who discovered him, not in vain about his existence (which was very likely, at first, since he was added with one of the hotfixes, without even indicating in patchika)

But in general, I agree – there are little good quests in Warframe (I hope the “victim” will correct the situation a little)

About trade – everyone should actively promote Warframe.Market. It is very convenient and you can forget about the trades in the game. Similarly about rare missions with the right catalysts and other things, they can be observed outside the game on special tracks.

About slots: 55 frames (if you do not sell a non-gram version) and about 300 guns will require 1100+1800 = 2900 platinum, which with a 75% discount will cost a little less than 1000 rubles. At the same time, not one hundred hours will be required to fill all this free space, so this is completely inexpensive and not a special problem. In fact, 2000 will not leave there, because most of this arsenal is irrelevant and can be sold after pumping, as well as the usual options for frames, since now their skin is worn for free on the primes.

I would also add about developers who are extremely actively communicating with their audience on the forums, on Twitter and Reddite, hold regular girls and even find time to regularly find and discuss fan creativity, some of which gets into the game of posters, and part in the form of skins (that is, yes, you can have real money, if you are artist and understand local aesthetics). Not democracy, of course, but I have never met such an approach from other developers of conditionally paying projects before, and now I don’t know those. Even in richer studii, this is not so often found.

I protest. Almost all weapons in the game are useful, you just need to seriously engage in half. With the right mods and polarities, even a rattle with low damage begins to kill hundredth levels. With warframes a little more complicated, because there really are single -flowing specimens, but the rest of the framework does not become useless from this. Yes, and Nerfights, for the same Ash now you do not put one button.
But I agree about the farm.

Obviously, the problem with the tag . Perhaps he is not closing. If it is difficult to navigate in a pile of text and tags, you can use editors understanding the markup (such as NOTEPAD ++ with HTML syntax) so that the tags highlight.

Thanks for the advice about NOTEPAD
And then I checked everything a couple of times and in a pair of places I put the closing tag of the bold font, but still after that, the text going after it remained fat.
In the evening, I’ll try to look with NOTEPAD again, what’s wrong with tags

Thank you, for praise)

Similarly.
Although I like mostly plot games, but Frames just conquered me to everyone

OK. Here I merged (in the review, I generalized too much, trying to put a bunch of information, as few text as possible (+the above reason), so that there are “wolves fed and the sheep are whole”, and “neither yours nor ours” came out).

According to your advice, I once again checked the tags (although I did not hope, now, from the phone to find something) and found the problem.
A couple of times, instead of a closing tag, for some reason the second opening. Corrected and now everything looks better.
Thank you)

I propose to familiarization, my PThe first thoseTOSTATE OF THE VISTORY.
Objective criticism-glad (especially if you tell me how to correct the bug, because of which, the second half of the text, stood out with a fat italics)

Well, you were lucky.

And in an attempt to understand Laura, I rummaged in dozens of articles and videos such as “The True History of Warframe (Old ENT)”, and met a bunch of people who, even in 2018, are sure that Dark Sektor and Warframe are one universe (but the experts objected to them quickly, although they made a million references and initially planned to connect these games.Now these are different universes). Damn, even in Viki, a couple of months ago (when I digged in Laura) it was written that they were one universe, that the developers “confirmed” (probably it said that the pages of Vikiya could edit anyone else).
Here for such people, I decided to make this retreat.

Although yes-here I have already stepped, without relying all over again, and not finding out that DE stated that “the connection between them is the maximum, as between Dark Souls and Demon Souls,” still somewhere in the girl and my words are not true

Most likely, during the war+falls Orookin+due to transfer to the abyss (after all, as we know, the abyss is not the most pleasant place)

Because it would be strange that right during the exhausting war, the empire would begin to rebuild the moon.

Well, do not rebuild from scratch In general, that’s it, of course, but at least restore key objects destroyed by BP, they could well. + Why did you get the idea that many objects on the Lua were precisely what were destroyed and restored, and not for example, damaged by the abyss/VP/time, but not destroyed until the end
Cephalon fragment – collapse
Immediately after the victory of Tenno over the possession of the mind, after the end of the old war, the golden buildings of civilization Orookin collapsed. The true reason for this is unknown, but theories consider natural disasters, political uprisings and a universal war, as possible cataclysm catalysts. The archival data of these events is never obtained.

The fact that “the moon was destroyed” was believed by everyone who did not know that it was in the abyss, and all these cracks in the moon and devastation appeared, after the war with BP, due to the fact that the moon plunged into the abyss. And I talked about this.

Then there are contradictions.

If you carefully read the review, you will understand that I knew this, devoted this to the walls of the text, only leaving a retreat into a couple of lines, for the “those fanatics of the DS and WF association” (which I have encountered too often) that “perhaps you were once right, but now there is definitely no”.

Unfortunately it gives the opposite effect.

And damn it, even with a very inattentive reading, above the highlighting video “Trailer DS” (in which pure WF) was supposed to hint that I knew the story of creating a game

This does not say anything = D
Because you throw the same evidence to the fanatics (well, at least recently, when everything is definitely) they do not all believe.

P. WITH. Here’s how I managed to accidentally click, cancel the edit and immediately post =/

But over time, the ENT game expanded, really magnificent quests appeared, the Universe of the game overgrown with history and separated from the Dark SecTOR universe.

You answer strangely. It seems that you agreed and continue your original text from the blog to prove.

Then I will repeat again:

But over time, the ENT game expanded, appeared Really magnificent quests, the universe of the game overgrown with history and separated from the Dark SecTOR universe.

*where enemies will not die from one bump

Damn, so there is not enough opportunity to correct comments

Personally, I really like Warframe, but his “fashion” pumping is a real crap. It turns out that absolutely all guns and frames without modifications are garbage with which only flies to beat. No matter how much you played, the force will no longer become.

Is it worth it to try if you love first of all the classic single shooters, but you are positive about the coope?
Most of all are interested in shooting mechanics: it is “shooting” (as in doom or halo) or “rpgish” (as in Destiny or Borderlands)?