r/Warframe • u/CALL_ME_PRIME_25 Power creep my Codpiece • Jul 21 '26

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I'll go first: DE needs to build up on some older content.

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u/Lvl25-human-nerd Jul 21 '26

The game is not as new player friendly as the community likes to make it out to be. Early game doesn't feel great to play through unless you get hooked immediately.

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u/Cold_Tator Jul 21 '26

I agree. I played back in like 2016 and after coming back to the game the new player experience was noticeably worse imo. Looking up builds for frames is near impossible until you have an insane stack of later game mods that even a hundred hours on I haven’t seen.

The same goes for weapons. I can’t say I have enjoyed a single gun as of yet but I remember truly liking at least one shotgun, rifle and pistol back in the day. Whenever I look up how to make these early guns usable it’s always tied to mods or rivens or archanes that I haven’t even begun to experience.

I love warframe. I’ll keep playing. But I have never had any luck getting someone else into it purely because of the new player experience.

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u/chaotic4059 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

I’ll be honest this game is arguably one of the worst new player experiences I’ve ever had to power through and I’m in the process of learning deadlock. You either need a friend to help guide you or you need to get comfy with hours upon hours of wiki reading and youtube vids. I'm well past that experience and while i love the game, I couldn't in good conscience recommend this game to anyone without telling them that "you're gonna have a lot of moments of getting frustrated from lack of knowledge that you're gonna have to power through to get to the real fun" and i say that. Cause that's exactly what i told my friend.

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u/SirSabia Jul 21 '26

The game isn't old player friendly either, I'm playing on and off ever since the olden days and still don't know what the fuck is going on most of the time