Warframe

"Please stay calm and avoid any sudden moves that might frighten the hamsters." -Red Text

You may of heard of warframe, its the coop mmorpgtps that people often refer to as "a better version of destiny", or "what destiny should have been". Just to clear up some thoughts people often have, Warframe has been in beta for years, it has been around since before destiny.

I love Warframe, it has thousands of gameplay hours, many different game play modes (including pvp arena, hijack, defense, survival, sabotage, data retrival, excavation, assassination, void missions, nightmare missions, alerts). There are tons of weapons, warframes (suits, they are basically equipments like weapons), mods (modifications to equipments).
Theres so much to do its crazy, not to mention there are like 13 planets, lots of areas, and the areas are dynamic (they are a tile based system so the same area is never the same).

The game is updated weekly, huge game change updates once a month, lots of DEV streams where the developers talk to the community and discuss whats coming while answering questions.

The Devstreams are live on twitch.tv/warframe. This is the Youtube playlist for Devstreams.

-Nodes-

View of planet Ceres in navigation console.

There are many different planets in the solar system you can navigate. Each one looks like this (pic above) with many "nodes" or areas you can play. Each one may have different levels, game mode, enemy type (see section below), and each use the tile set of Ceres, making them seem similar while still being different. Tile sets from planet to planet differ greatly, or are suppose to, as of this point they dont have tile sets for each planet yet, they are working on it though (earth has a jungle set, another planet ice based, and now a water based tile set).
Nodes can also host nightmare missions (a harder version of a normal node), mission/quests, and syndicate missions (not mentioned in this review, as there is so much to warframe that theres much left out of this review).

-Enemies-

Corpus
"Drench them in water I say! In Water!!"

They favor long-medium range attacks, but most annoying are the anti-power types this race has. The anti-power type mob has a type of bubble extended around them and nearby allies, which prevents your abilities and damage from reaching them, it also negates abilities so they do nothing. Dealing damage takes the bubble down, or you can get dirty and close with melee in the bubble. This race is the tech race, lazers, electricity, robots, robots, robots, they also have my favorite tile sets. Infested
"These guys provoke an irresistible urge to poke."

I love these little critters, and not so little critters. They favor melee combat, but there are some medium range types thrown in, also higher levels have auras which really fuck you up. Those auras can go from energy drain, to heal allies to toxin, and so on. Other races have auras as well, but I feel like infested have more, alot more. Obviously these guys are the biological weapon types, you know, the whole weapons made of fleash types.

Grineer
"Effing bleed toting turtles"

These guys are the most annoying for me, partly because of bleed damage (health drain over time) but also because I just dont like their ugly faces or design ideas. They are the human (or most human) race, they actually live through cloning. Their maps have tons of pipes and such, almost steam punk like race, but more "grimy". These guys are the projectile based weapons enemy, missles, bullets, and the like.

Tenno
"Oh crap, am I a girl? A boy? Oh god, oh god, oh god..."

This is the race the players play as, we know a little bit about them and where they get there tech (another ancient race that died out), but not much about who we are. Anyway, we make use of all races tech, plus our own, as you may already know (and should) the "warframes are the main tech of this race, they are suits you can wear giving you super abilities. We also get our own dojos (clan halls) that we build to our likeings (adding rooms) which includes adding research rooms to research and build tech not in the shop.

There have also been rumors of a fifth race (or fourth enemy race), some details have been released via devstreams and events, but nothing that really tells us anything. Cant wait to see what they are, and start customizing my weapons to destroy them.

-Equipment-

Weapons store front.

There is a ton of equipment in this game, guns or all kinds plus bows, swords, daggers, cross bows, axes, whips, hammers, gun sword, and they just keep adding more as they get more ideas. But the fun doesnt end there, theres also tons of warframes (and more being added all the time), I think around 20 or more so far, and more planned. Warframes are not just the same thing with different skin or different visual, their abilities are very different, one might create a bubble to protect anyone in it (snow globe), while anothers ultimate ability may lift everything up around you and slam it into the ground (reckoning), and yet another will spread out and slow down enemies while increasing damage done to them AND causing them to explode on death and deal damage to others (allowing for huge chains of explosions from one kill), and way way way more. And thats just the ultimates, warframes have four, 4, FOUR abilities, and with mods (see customizaion below) you can change them to act differently or reduce one part of it (like range) in exchange for greater duration or strength.
Annnnnnnd the fun still doesnt end. They also have Archwing, a different form of battle (open space battles with jetpacks) with different abilities and mods, and they are adding sharkwing (name may change on release) like archwing but underwater battling. Oh, then theres the sentinels and kubrows, which are pets, sentinels are techy, while kubrows are...well they are dogs. Theres so much to this game, I mean seriously, so so so much to this game, and they keep adding more.

-Customization-

Customizing your stuff is awesome in warframe. From mods that augment your weapon, adding damage, fire, ice, electric, toxin, or even combos of these adding up to corrosive, viral, radiation and more, all with their own unique procs, all the way to increasing range, or clip size and so much more. Then you get to color the shit out or your stuff, all kinds of colors all kinds of combos and you can add accessories. They even added a type of "tattoo" now that you can put on your warframe, some change colors depending on different conditions, other glow, some show something different depending on your rank. Warframe is a great game for showing off individuality, I never see people looking like me, and when I do it takes only one sec to change things. They have bobble heads for your ship, capes for your warframe, parts (wings, tail, face) for your sentinel and they even added arrow skins recently. It never ends.

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Bottom line, Warframe is F2P game, with more content then most pay to play games, and you can get everything in game (you can trade the IRL money currency ingame) and they dont do P2W period. So theres no guilt in giving it a try.