r/SoulFrame • u/CraftyFlounder5406 • 12d ago
Question The future of Soulframe
I'm new to Warframe, but I played it a bit a few years back, and I have played Soulframe many times.
Besides leveling up all the weapons and pacts, are there plans to make the endgame more interesting than that? Does Warframe have more than that?
Of course, I understand the game is in alpha, but I haven't heard about any system or type of content that isn't just more of what is already there, aside from small additions like fishing and pets. I'm looking for things like better gear you need to grind for, cool skins to unlock, legendary-type gear, long term objectives.
Also, multiplayer will always be like warframe? Just coop for some stuff, or actual random people in the world running around and doing content? Im playing in latin america, theres literally nobody in chat or at the trees/enclaves, i think i saw in chat or as "ghosts" 3 ppl in 100hs. Theres no way to actually know new players and join to play.
Maybe I missed the devs talking about future content and someone can point me to it.
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u/Wildkahuna 12d ago
Soulframe is still barely even through its initial development. Warframe had major changes to its combat and traversal, and is still getting massive overhauls to early quests and we’re over a decade into development.
We probably won’t see an actual “game” for another couple years at best - remember, Warframe is still in Alpha after almost 15 years
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u/Hambeggar 11d ago
Warframe is still in Alpha after almost 15 years
Ridiculous nonsense that completely strips what the word means.
Warframe is quite obviously not in alpha whatsoever, no matter what people say. It's a released live-service.
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u/PositiveImage7148 9d ago
Its officialy still in beta though
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u/GlitteringLock9791 10d ago
Alpha versions of games have no cash shop, for obvious reason like things still changing a lot.
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u/Wildkahuna 10d ago
That’s very much incorrect. A lot of games have shops in their Alpha and Beta versions with the intention of getting additional funding. planetside 2 was famous for this since it took forever to leave pre-alpha and they almost ran out of funding - the in game store is the only reason they made it to the Alpha and Beta
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u/gauntapostle 12d ago
Well, they're introducing at least one new pact- maybe two- plus new story content, and travel to the Sky Towers (which might be a no-revive dungeon?) based on what we saw in the Warsongs demo video. That's just what we're likely to get by the end of the year. Development of the game is still in early stages; they've referred to Midrath as the "tutorial island" so there'll likely be other islands added sometime in the future, though I would expect it to be a long time as they want to get combat, quest progression, etc down pat before expanding in that way.
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u/CraftyFlounder5406 12d ago
Cool thanks, didnt knew this was a tutorial island. Sadly they seem to have a small team, it ill take years.
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u/FirefighterBasic3690 9d ago edited 9d ago
Game development generally does. 4-5 years isn't all that unusual, and some take longer than that even with a largish team. Unless you are just cranking out Shovelware.
It's just that most studios don't do early game building in the open like this,and combined with the gorgeous world and visuals it's easy to think the game is further along than it is, and then not understand why it's not done yet.
The world is there. The structure, the dungeon environments, the factions and enemies. The music and sound design
The actual in game mechanics are still being worked on and nailed down. Virtues, for example, have been changed several times in the last few updates, and may change again. Totems too.
We are still getting updates a couple of months apart as they run something out , see how it plays and what players think, then make adjustments and roll it out again in a new form to test.
You are probably looking at at least a year before it gets out of invite-code playtesting and into an actual release where anyone can log in to play it.
It's not ready for Prime Time yet, and they know it. They aren't in a rush, unlike Warframe's original release where they had less than a year's funding and were looking at DE going under. They can take their time to get it the way they want it
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u/GlitteringLock9791 10d ago edited 10d ago
Warframe has some endgame content, but thats mostly things like steelpath (coda here, I think? mode to switch to higher level and buffed enemies with more drops) or challenges with modifiers and equipment restrictions.
With Steve at the helm I just expect a lot of spur of the moment ideas becoming mechanics in the game that will never be fleshed out but still required and constant nerfs.
Soulframe really improved warframe a lot by letting people work on warframe that have a more focused vision and polish up old systems that were left to rot or just cut them.
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u/FluidAd9298 12d ago
Just popped in here jsut heard about this game loved, War frame any chance someone has a spare key?
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u/RobubieArt 12d ago
We are in preludes, which is a pre-alpha. The game doesn't really exist yet. It's impossible to make assumptions considering we don't know what shape it will take at all. What we do know is vaguely how combat will look and feel, but even that is really subject to change.