It's now 2023 and I decided to rewrite this review, because Warframe today is a new game, a more full fledged game and finally a game that has been in development so long it's unfair to leave a review that was written considering the game was in beta.

Without burying the lead I do not recommend this game for many reasons, but the primary reason is the old school mentality that leaves the average player wondering if there weren't darker more profit centered motivations behind design decisions.

Let's start with this, most media personalities youtubers and twitch streamers are shilling for this game. What I mean is they function more like advertisers than reviewers much less gamers. This is by design and it's a culture that is fairly well known albeit often forgotten by those who were here from the early days. So when you see their stuff, know that their commentary likely had some kind of financial incentive behind it in some way shape or form.

I'll give a specific example of the fore mentioned old school mentality: Developers, especially in multiplayer games often decide nerfing is the best thing since sliced bread. In some formats like TCG's such as Yugioh, the intrroduction of Ban Lists serves a similar purpose, where you ban key parts of popular archtypes to force people to buy different archtypes. These Ban Lists reintroduce and remove things that are arguably valid for removal.

Nova or the old Nova is one such case, she was incredibly powerful, but she was also VERY clearly defined. If you played Nova you knew exactly what this frames purpose was. How did you know this? Because you could compare her directly with other frames. The modern Nova is an absolute mess, I couldn't tell you exactly what her role is, also it's annoying even seeing one in your group of randoms, you can only hope it isn't a slowva or a speedva depending on the context of your run.

Compare this with Saryn; old Saryn was a mess, she was supposed to be a tank with her Molt distracting enemies and allowing her to do some single target focus down with a 4 panic button. She failed at this when Rhino was released as well as balance changes to enemies which made her incredibly squishy.

None of that mattered though because with a Nova on your team, going to Wave 50 just about every frame was made viable. She was that dominant. Nova's nerf however came with a cost of increasing the difficulty of farming infinity runs. Which makes one wonder if that was really the point. But aside from that Saryn took Nova's place of mass killing but not her place as the CC machine.

Now you might say, well Nova is a CC character, and I might agree but YTers will claim she's viable at DPS or worse that she is still a DPS frame. This isn't the case, yes you can use certain weapons and Riven them to get her DPS crazy high kills... but think about it, You could have done that with Mag and got a better result. Speaking of Mag, Mag is a mediocre CC frame, I do not think anyone would argue against that point. But by comparison to a mediocre CC frame Nova is no where near as efficient as Mag.

So be it DPS Nova isn't a DPS frame, CC she is not a CC frame, Support? No again you have a 50% chance of frustrating your allies especially in pubs where they could be looking for a speedva or slowva but would prefer NO-nova honestly. And by NOT I mean she can do these things but she isn't identifiable by these things in a way that is efficient by comparison to other frames. The goal of Warframe is to complete missions, so I am contextualizing this to that end. Bonus to the value of definitions goes to how efficiently compared to other frames this is done. What about Tank? You can waste a mode slot to make her more Tanky, but the sick joke to me is that the slot wouldn't be wasted since nothing else would really matter if you put it in that slot... to me that's kind of sad. Sad that the frame is knee-capped that even if you can increase its stats the actual values are capped already.

This is to point out that DE is willing to discard game play for some other motivation which I guess is likely profit. And good for them. But let's say you spent real money on Nova back then, or any frame and it was over night turned into something unrecognizable... can you get a refund on the time and money you invested in that frame? Some might say you aren't entitled to that, you had your fun and that's that.

This is honestly why I prefer offline games but w/e.

The game otherwise looks great, the game is buggy as heck for certain things but generally it's okay. The grinding can be a bit ridiculous and it's solid to give it a try. Just expect that you need to respect your own time as DE wont. And also it's very sad to know that DE and these "Influencers" decided to pollute the historical record on their game with so much propaganda that if you didn't know these things happened, watching certain YTers for information about builds or viable frames will nearly always be a mislead.

Nothing like some guy talking about how great X frame is and then he shows his setup with rivens, primed mods, etc. I have those things as well, but I wouldn't dare try to convince people that it makes a frame viable. Those things would make ANY frame viable. But the frame wouldn't be distinguishable from any other frame is my point. What exactly is the point of Nova now? Where does she fit in a group? Where does she fit solo? Why even have one in the group when you could have Ivara or Mag or nearly every other frame that does what she does but better, because they actually are built for their archtype.

Finally, considering my friends and I lovingly refer to this game as Grind-Frame now-a-days whenever I play certain frames like Nova I can't help but stop as ponder about some of the things I mentioned above. I look at her and I would just delete her but I feel DE would win at that point. I've relegated her to her own slot and named it Trash so I don't accidentally pick her forgetting that she was anything but trash. XD

Well I hope this was informative, and Warframe is free, though I don't recommend playing it in 2023 I will say if you have nothing else to fill your time go ahead and give it a whirl.

It's now 2023 and I decided to rewrite this review, because Warframe today is a new game, a more full fledged game and finally a game that has been in development so long it's unfair to leave a review that was written considering the game was in beta. Without burying the lead I do not recommend this game for many reasons, but the primary reason is the old school mentality that leaves the average player wondering if there weren't darker more profit centered motivations behind design decisions. Let's start with this, most media personalities youtubers and twitch streamers are shilling for this game. What I mean is they function more like advertisers than reviewers much less gamers. This is by design and it's a culture that is fairly well known albeit often forgotten by those who were here from the early days. So when you see their stuff, know that their commentary likely had some kind of financial incentive behind it in some way shape or form. I'll give a specific example of the fore mentioned old school mentality: Developers, especially in multiplayer games often decide nerfing is the best thing since sliced bread. In some formats like TCG's such as Yugioh, the intrroduction of Ban Lists serves a similar purpose, where you ban key parts of popular archtypes to force people to buy different archtypes. These Ban Lists reintroduce and remove things that are arguably valid for removal. Nova or the old Nova is one such case, she was incredibly powerful, but she was also VERY clearly defined. If you played Nova you knew exactly what this frames purpose was. How did you know this? Because you could compare her directly with other frames. The modern Nova is an absolute mess, I couldn't tell you exactly what her role is, also it's annoying even seeing one in your group of randoms, you can only hope it isn't a slowva or a speedva depending on the context of your run. Compare this with Saryn; old Saryn was a mess, she was supposed to be a tank with her Molt distracting enemies and allowing her to do some single target focus down with a 4 panic button. She failed at this when Rhino was released as well as balance changes to enemies which made her incredibly squishy. None of that mattered though because with a Nova on your team, going to Wave 50 just about every frame was made viable. She was that dominant. Nova's nerf however came with a cost of increasing the difficulty of farming infinity runs. Which makes one wonder if that was really the point. But aside from that Saryn took Nova's place of mass killing but not her place as the CC machine. Now you might say, well Nova is a CC character, and I might agree but YTers will claim she's viable at DPS or worse that she is still a DPS frame. This isn't the case, yes you can use certain weapons and Riven them to get her DPS crazy high kills... but think about it, You could have done that with Mag and got a better result. Speaking of Mag, Mag is a mediocre CC frame, I do not think anyone would argue against that point. But by comparison to a mediocre CC frame Nova is no where near as efficient as Mag. So be it DPS Nova isn't a DPS frame, CC she is not a CC frame, Support? No again you have a 50% chance of frustrating your allies especially in pubs where they could be looking for a speedva or slowva but would prefer NO-nova honestly. And by NOT I mean she can do these things but she isn't identifiable by these things in a way that is efficient by comparison to other frames. The goal of Warframe is to complete missions, so I am contextualizing this to that end. Bonus to the value of definitions goes to how efficiently compared to other frames this is done. What about Tank? You can waste a mode slot to make her more Tanky, but the sick joke to me is that the slot wouldn't be wasted since nothing else would really matter if you put it in that slot... to me that's kind of sad. Sad that the frame is knee-capped that even if you can increase its stats the actual values are capped already. This is to point out that DE is willing to discard game play for some other motivation which I guess is likely profit. And good for them. But let's say you spent real money on Nova back then, or any frame and it was over night turned into something unrecognizable... can you get a refund on the time and money you invested in that frame? Some might say you aren't entitled to that, you had your fun and that's that. This is honestly why I prefer offline games but w/e. The game otherwise looks great, the game is buggy as heck for certain things but generally it's okay. The grinding can be a bit ridiculous and it's solid to give it a try. Just expect that you need to respect your own time as DE wont. And also it's very sad to know that DE and these "Influencers" decided to pollute the historical record on their game with so much propaganda that if you didn't know these things happened, watching certain YTers for information about builds or viable frames will nearly always be a mislead. Nothing like some guy talking about how great X frame is and then he shows his setup with rivens, primed mods, etc. I have those things as well, but I wouldn't dare try to convince people that it makes a frame viable. Those things would make ANY frame viable. But the frame wouldn't be distinguishable from any other frame is my point. What exactly is the point of Nova now? Where does she fit in a group? Where does she fit solo? Why even have one in the group when you could have Ivara or Mag or nearly every other frame that does what she does but better, because they actually are built for their archtype. Finally, considering my friends and I lovingly refer to this game as Grind-Frame now-a-days whenever I play certain frames like Nova I can't help but stop as ponder about some of the things I mentioned above. I look at her and I would just delete her but I feel DE would win at that point. I've relegated her to her own slot and named it Trash so I don't accidentally pick her forgetting that she was anything but trash. XD Well I hope this was informative, and Warframe is free, though I don't recommend playing it in 2023 I will say if you have nothing else to fill your time go ahead and give it a whirl.