IGN - Warframe is a free-to-play, third-person, co-op shooter in the vein of Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, but with approximately 250 percent more ninjas wearing sci-fi suits (the titular warframes). The starter suits offer plenty of variety right from the get-go: one, Excalibur, is a well-balanced set that’s a good starting point for beginners.
"Digital Extremes’ free sci-fi epic Warframe, a zeitgeist of online gaming, is now available for Nintendo Switch™ 2." - Digital Extremes.
Very much so, and I sure hope so. I do recall that people pointed that out for System Shock as well (I think that problem has been solved now).
I just downloaded it on my phone a few weeks ago and the framerate isn't bad if you set it to 60hz. I suspect the switch 2 version should fair better interms of performance.
It's originally a game released in 2013, obviously a lot has been changed since, but still the base code for this game was in development before at least 2011, which means that thing was probably going to run on PS3 and XB360 with a few tweaks, Digital Extremes just chose to skip into next gen... Someone would have had to majorly fuck up for the Switch 2 not to run Warframe smoothly, a game with 15 year old mid power target specs! It's a very light and optimized game by now anyway, it famously runs well on relatively old notebooks with CPU integrated graphics... Hell, even the mobile version manages to not run like ass.
That is true, so there should be no problems like you said, unless someone has messed-up really badly.
The game has received many quality of life updates since the PS4 days and receives content drops several times per year. The best part is that it is not pay to win.
It is a great way to unwind, but you will need to be active in the community to play this game. Most of the mechanics are explained by youtubers, forum posts and wiki pages.
Exactly. And nope, it was never a P2W title, and from what I understand, it will remain that way as well.
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"Digital Extremes blended two major announcements with careful brush strokes on Devstream 193: Warframe will be available for Nintendo Switch 2 (and all platforms) alongside its next major update, The Shadowgrapher, for free on Wednesday, March 25." - Digital Extremes.
Been playing this quite a bit, for anyone who is against the whole F2P model its worth mentioning that you can pretty much earn everything in the game without spending money.
Depends on how much time you are willing to invest really as all items that you don't pay real money for require blueprints, then you needs the parts to construct the item then finally it needs to be built.
Game is a little repetitive but I would say the review score is fair, its a good time sink.
The description is almost exactly what me and a mate said to each other the first time we played Warframe.
To be honest, we love the game. I've spent a couple quid on it and that's all and we're still having fun two weeks on. Yes things are much harder to earn in game without spending real money but that's where the grind comes in. If you have the time, Warframe is really rewarding to those who wish to play instead of spend.
He complained about the it being boring and having expensive micro-transactions really? he's in the video with over 2000 platinum (which you can only obtain by real money if you don't know) and the only platinum pack that would give you that much is the $150 package. Let's not mention the frame-rate drops, enemies disappearing leaving some missions unbeatable, glitchy interface and fucked up drop-rate. Let's complain the pricing of the micro-transactions
Strange...I can play Warframe for free and like he said, play repetitive missions where I all I do is kill things (albeit there are many ways to kill things in this game as there are many powers, different abilities and characters)
or I can pay 60 pounds and just constantly kill things just with different guns in different maps with COD
Err...
Why is it if you change the perspective to first person, make your enemies into either military or terrorists your game automatically gets a free pass from repetitiveness and glitches?
Don't care about the score, it's the actual review I read I don't agree with.I'm just can't believe how all military shooter are exempt from certain things the reviewer mentioned.
Microtransactions in paid games suck. But microtransactions in FTP games have to be there or how on earth would the developers make any money? Or are we demanding that developers let us play their games for free now?
Rule of thumb when it comes to F2P games for me: spend no more than you would on a full price game and there should be no problem.
Sucks you can only play it online. Means i can't play it at work :-(