So, I’ve been playing Warframe for about 2 weeks and boy, it has turned out to be a really cool game. I’ve completed more of the storyline, ground out a bunch of weapons, and unlocked a bunch of new warframes and other goodies.
One of the things I realized is that this game takes a lot of mental capacity, because it is more than just running around and killing everything. You have to think about, where do I get this? What do I have to do to get that? How much time will it take to create, once I have everything? Enter farming locations.
Farming is nothing more than grinding out a particular mission that drops a lot of an item you are looking for. For example, one popular resource is called Ferrite. It is a key component in weapons, warframes, and other items. So, you go to the place that drops a lot of this each game you play and just play it over and over until you get what you need.
Warframes is a really cool addition to this looter-shooter genre, because each Warframe is unique. They come with special powers and attributes that allow them to do some types of missions better than others. I particularly like using warframes that have good crowd control powers. Necro is a good example. Once he’s killed a few creatures he can raise them from the dead to fight for him. What I’ve discovered is it is best to kill the really heavy-duty creatures and then raise them back up to fight for him. He’s terrific with defense, mobile defense, and survival missions.
There’s another mission that requires certain specific skills to complete easily. This is the spy mission, where your warframe has to negotiate a level and hack into multiple computers to get data needed by the powers that be. I have found a warframe that is really good at this. His name is WuKong. He has an ability that allows him to turn into a cloud. So, not only can he fly through security lasers, he can also get to places other warframes cannot without a lot of jumping, searching for secret passages and airvents, and so on. I’ve used him on multiple high-level spy missions and he has no problem whatsoever getting in and out–unseen.
Besides Warframes that allow you better chances of completing a level, there are also weapons to consider. There are a lot of weapons in Warframe. As with any game that allows a person to grind weapons, I’m in. What I’ve learned is that there are many weapons that are ok, but few that are absolutely meta. There is a caveat to this, however. Your style of gameplay will also dictate what weapons you like to run with and use. I tend to enjoy melee weapons the most. My second are sniper rifles, bows, and crossbows. For me it is very satisfying to run into a crowd of enemies and just rip them apart with my trusty pole weapon. So, whatever weapon you enjoy playing with, do it. It’s all about the fun anyway, right?
Anyway, there are some levels and missons that are very heavy and up-close, like survival missions where you are fighting a particular enemy called the infested. Pole weapons and other melee weapons are great here. Flame throwers and other environmental-type weapons are also a nice thing to have. But the one thing about melee weapons–they don’t run out of ammo. For the missions where it is more spread out, give me a bow, crossbow, or sniper rifle. All will allow you to have a reach out and touch capability other weapon systems will not give you.
Well, that’s enough for today. The real key to Warframe and a reason I am really enjoying it is the strategy of supply, the decision-making of which warframe and weapons to use, and all the thinking that goes into this game. Yeah, there are straight-up hack and slash games like DOOM and even Call of Duty, when you think about Zombie play, but nothing has compared so far to Warframe. I really enjoy the steep learning curve and investigating every nuance of this game. It is a lot of fun.
Well, have a great Saturday, folks.
See you on the battlefield.
Dave
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