1L19 said:
Loop Stricken said:
1L19 said:
Anyone suggested Warframe [http://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/] yet? I suggest Warframe [http://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/].
Well Warframe seems pretty damn cool. It says co-op multiplayer. Can I play alone or maybe with bots? Either way thank you Loop Striken for your suggestion. Game looks tight.
Bots, no. Solo...depends on the mission and your loadout. A lot of the missions can be soloed, but a good number of the bosses are balanced against a group (especially when considering newer players). A few of the missions, however, are "see how long you can survive/protect the hub", and trying to do those solo is VERY counterproductive. In those cases you get more rewards the longer you stay in the mission, and the enemies increase in difficulty as you go. Given the right well levelled warframe and the right gear, you can probably get to the first extraction opportunity, but with a well levelled team you can get through more waves per run. And that's important because - unless you feel like being a 'whale' - that's how you'll get most of platinum to buy new warframe and weapon slots.
Before going any further, let me clarify that co-op in Warframe is quite easy to pull off. It's pretty much 'opt out' rather than 'opt in', in fact. You plug in the mission you want to do and the game will quickly search for anyone else who is either in the instance with a group of less than 4 or has recently expressed an interest in the same instance. If it finds other players you could fit in a group with, it teams you up. If not, then after a few seconds it'll toss you into the mission (others can still join you during the mission). As a self-described "MMO hermit", I was a bit resentful of that at first, but I grew to appreciate it after a few "king of the hill" matches.
Returning to the topic of platinum: Warframe is a F2P game and its main source of income is platinum, which is their real money currency. Platinum is used for a few things like speeding up crafting (and speeding crafting is NEVER worth it. Crafting continues whether you're playing the game or not, so just take a break and be patient), immediate purchase of various equipment/warframes/cosmetics in the market, and most importantly purchase of additional warframe slots and weapon/pet slots (Which is almost always what you want to use it for. Warframe operates very much like Monster Hunter in that your equipment defines every statistical aspect of your character, so the more warframes and equipment you have, the better). That being said, what would otherwise be a prohibitive Pay to Win restriction ends up working because of how the reward system and player to player market works.
Short version is that unless you purchase them with platinum, a good number of "Prime" warframe and equipment parts are largely acquired by opening 'relics' (which are largely acquired through the aforementioned survival/king of the hill matches, and opened by collecting reactant during certain alerts (almost always active)). In many cases the random element and asymmetric drop rates make it difficult to get every piece you need...and this is where the player to player market comes in. See, the Player to Player market allows for trading crafting pieces and trading currency like platinum. So what ends up happening is that people end up opening relics, going to the trade channel and saying that, for the sake of example, they "WTS Oberon Prime Chasis,
20 platinum". It might take them a while to get a hit (especially as the process is entirely manual and the trade chat moves quite fast), but when they find someone willing to meet their price, boom. The other player gets their Oberon Prime Chasis and they get their 20 platinum...which they can then use to buy a new warframe slot.
I'm probably dumping a bit too much information on you here, but I figured those were the 'need to know what you're getting into' points. For what it's worth, I'm actually quite fond of the game myself and hold it up as an example of "F2P done right".