#warframe thoughts

[newbiespud]

I don't have a whole lot of post-TennoCon-2025 thoughts and speculation, because all of it was just plain ol' good stuff in my opinion. Not as explosive as 1999 was, but still an exciting direction to explore.

...Okay, maybe I got a couple in me.

I was definitely thinking "Don't you need a bit more time to come up with a whole second galaxy chart while you're still ironing out the kinks of the first?" Turns out I was right - we're going there in single-node alternate-universe form before we go there for real next year. Smart way to cheat our way there for a test run. (Meant entirely positively - I will always be in favor of clever, sustainable cost-effectiveness in gamedev.)

That mission drop entry was extremely Helldivers-coded. (Again, complimentary - these devs wear the inspirations they clearly love on their sleeve and I support stealing strong inspirations.)

I'm actually not as excited about wall-running as everyone else, mostly because it's going to be interesting on older maps where there's a lot of wall geometry. And I've been playing this game long enough to actually remember the original wall-running that used stamina and was finicky as all heck. But I can't deny it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, if only because it's a little silly that our space ninja game is missing such a classic ninja move, even if infinite wall-hopping accomplishes the same thing mechanically.

This is definitely going to be an instance where the question "Are we the baddies?" turns out to be a more clear "Yes." Because there's no way the Orokin Empire actually making it to Tau ultimately turns out to be a good thing for anybody involved. (Who didn't immediately cringe at Ballas being back in this timeline?) But hey, it's an alternate possible reality, so we can more safely indulge in a bit of what-if.

Finally, time for the 33% of us who picked Operator over Drifter at the opening of The New War's third act to shine. The Drifters had their time in the spotlight, now it's our turn, darnit!

...Hold on, wait, doesn't that mean the Warframe / Transference development projects took a VERY different route post-Zariman-jump since it actually succeeded? What ARE the Tenno in this timeline, what do they represent, and why were the Warframes created? These are very different circumstances!

Archimedean Yonta's comments about "I had just figured out how to actually do it" are probably going to come into play. This'll be the timeline where she actually solved it.

The whole academy setting feels very much like DE's take on the "young adults with superpowers in a military academy on the edge of war / colonization / apocalypse" that is such a common setting for online multiplayer action RPGs these days, especially coming out of east Asia. And I love that for them, because I usually hate that setting, but getting to see the Sentients as such strange classmates is well worth it, and you know they're going to poke the right holes in the premise.

...I dunno, I just love when they add new UI styles to the game, like the new communication popups on the side. I don't know why, that's just a thing that tickles my aesthetic sensibilities because it says so much without being intrusive.

Tired: Breaking up with your best friend because you had to defend yourself and kill one of their kind. Wired: Breaking up with your best friend despite everything you've overcome together because this is an alternate reality and you never became friends at all in the prime timeline

[pavooko]

HELLO HI HI HELLO WIFE WAIT FOR ME TAU IS NOT TOO FAR

[cth297]

Serious question, how does making warframes in your orbiter work??

Spoilers for making warframes ig?

Are the warframes you craft on your own just based on one made with a human or are you like. Making a whole guy under there. Obviously there’s organic parts but surely you’re not crafting a whole underlying person right? Is the human underneath the original supplemented by the mechanical parts when you make it?? I’m sure this is explained somewhere I just haven’t gone and found it yet.

[tvsoftboi]

Gotta flesh out my Drifter’s (and I guess by extension my Operator’s?) backstory so I have an excuse to write a ship fic involving her and Aoi

[shardofpetrichor]

i think that in warframe, we should get a tenno/more than one tenno as lore characters and NPCs. like, we know there's canonically more then the player one(s), and a few are referenced/mentioned in some lore for the Warframes, but presumably they've been there this whole time, and they all have their own unique stories that our different than ours, right? (obviously we have Rell but then I'm more thinking about Tenno who have been in the second dream)

[eljeebee]

DE should have 1999 by charli xcx and troye sivan playing when loading like "i just wanna go back to 1999, take a ride to my old neighborhood"

Idk this is probably corny LMAO

[pavooko]

YOOOOOOO

what

[honeycombstrudel]

Choose your frame⚔️🧲⚡

[total-trash-tenno]

:::::Obsidian Heart

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Eleanor will keep it forever <3

[sevastiel]

GS Drifter and @gruvu 's Tsun team up to ask the REAL Important question in Isleweaver. She'd better cough up the answer quick.

[pavooko]

Revised all of my void angel au stuff

Firstly, tf was I on

Secondly, I need to get bacc so badly

[cth297]

I have some decent ideas for a trio of warframe ocs but I always forget the actual frames can’t talk (except for specific special ones, anyway) and so it makes it tough explaining how they became a team. I guess I could also make operator equivalents for all of them? Or just make up something random I suppose, nobody’s gonna analyze my characters anyway.

[tvsoftboi]

I think I wanna build Limbo out

[upsidedownsmore]

incredible game

[elfhunk]

good evening, tumblr user @morning-st48. or should i say... bad morning? because i think you are the one spreading misinformation about my big beautiful daughter.

but i will not hold this against you. i am a big man with a big daughter, and i would like to use this as a teaching opportunity.

i will teach you about my daughter.

[ritasanderson]