I found out about Warframe after playing DarkSector and hearing that the two were related. The reviews seem generally positive with the exception of one massive negative spike.
Is there much in the way of grinding and micro transactions?
The game is extremely grindy and you can buy platinum with real money which allows you to buy a lot of things in game, not just cosmetics.
With that said though it’s generally a good game if you like grinding games in general. You don’t have buy platinum to get by and even if you do you can’t really skip the grind as far as I know (you can skip crafting times though which can be a week long for certain things last I checked.) You can also trade with other players for platinum, although I’ve never dabbled so I don’t know much about that honestly.
If you have 30 min, this video gives a fair overview of space ninjas for a new player
Very grindy. The story quests can be slow and annoying, yet they unlock gameplay content. Some of them will lock you in special states that require you to complete them before returning to normal gameplay.
There is a ton of content, but requirements are abound for each of them. Everything requires a grind.
It is a grindy game, eventually you will need to make use of platinum ( premium currency) to unlock slots for warframes, weapons, pets or to unlock skins and convenience items like forma - which can be farmed but fully completed ones are a rare drop and to build 1 takes 23 hours- ( item used to allow great customisation of frames and weapons and resets forma’d object back to level 1) and there are a few other things spending platinum on mostly for slots, but that is in spoiler terriority to mention.
One can farm stuff most of the stuff if you have the time and patience, besides the “prime” version of mods and weapons and warframes.
Prime stuff is essentially the “best” version of something and considered “best in slot” for the space it takes( prime mods are a bit more complicated in regards “best”)
The prime mods one gets from a trader that pops up every 2 weeks and exchanges currency that is earned by cashing in prime parts for currency and use the currency to buy from the trader.
Prime warframes and weapons are rotated over time and put in a “vault” when its time has run its course. There are a few primes that not vaulted, but for the most part one just has to wait if they are looking for a specific prime.
Platinum can be traded for items, but is probably best to trade platinum on the unofficial market site.
Generally it is a good game with good gameplay, but is very, for lack of better word “gated” by a lot of timers and daily caps that either the impatient can use premium currency push through either by buying the stuff they want or speeding up the forging process
its a good game but verry grindy and to fast paced for me,
its a looter shooter with incredibly fast movement options.
there is a sea of content but the game has terrible onboarding so you dont quite know where to get started.
if you try it out your first goal should be to unlock the solar system.
make a stop on venus to unlock rhino,
hes imo a good frame for beginners and you’ll learn how to farm (non prime) frames.
if you start to struggle with damage or defense,
look into the mod system, its very important and the game barely explains it.
there is a premium currency called platinum.
but you can trade it between players,
so it became the trading currency.
you can think of it like the path of exile economy,
except the currency cant drop and is sold by the developer instead of third party websites.
