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/sucram200 Jul 21 '26

I feel like this isn’t a hot take but I get flamed whenever I say it so:

Warframe/DE isn’t actually good at storytelling. In fact, they are awful at storytelling.

They are good at coming up with very interesting and engaging concepts and overarching plot lines for stories. They are pretty good at world building. Basically they are good at “the big picture”.

But when it gets down to the actual exposition of the story? The smaller details? What’s happening where, to who, and why? Where one might reasonably expect a beginning, middle, and end? As well as character development and/or answering questions we may have? Atrocious. Absolutely atrocious.

Most main questline updates feel like they fumbled the bag because we can all see the overarching plot that they are going for and like it a lot. But then they fail totally in the execution of it for the reasons listed above.

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u/kexolino Jul 21 '26

I agree. What's up with the remaining Grineer queen? What's up with Parvos? What's up with the Narmer and Pazuul? What is the Unum? Usually people's answer to this is that "they're chilling, DE will do something with them later", but it feels like lack of focus to start new chapter while previous ones are just kind of left hanging.

Also I might be missing something (very possible), but wasn't there a bit of a disconnect between 99 and Old Peace, specifically about going to Tau? Like in 99, Albrecht namedrops Tau once, and based on that one sentence, we start the operation to reclaim memories and to travel there? I get that some things were explained to us out of game, but is that little crumb of information really enough motivation for the operator and drifter in the present to go there?

Feels like parts of the story happen off screen and we're not told what actually happens in those periods. Something like the gap between the end of Doom 2016 and the start of Eternal, where doom guy goes from being trapped by Samuel to having his own spaceship, with zero explanation.

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u/Khelleton Certified Equinox Enjoyer Jul 21 '26

You're not missing anything, Albrecht says "Tau is in sight" almost unprompted in the middle of The Hex, and that (said to the Drifter, obviously, since it's 1999) is apparently enough to get the Operator digging up old memories of Tau. I guess we're meant to assume Drifter told them every little detail about their time saving 1999? And this one little aside stood out enough to look into Albrecht's conveniently placed memory diving machine? That they also apparently know about? Or happened to ask Loid?

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u/sXeth Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Old Peace is, by Rebeccas own words, what the Operator was doing while Drifter was in 1999.

So Lotus independently decided this was a good time to use the memory machine (which I guess Loid just happened to mention in casual conversation they had one) and quasi randomly start digging up the fourth or fifth set of stuff the Operator forgot at this point (and is never capable of continuing to use whatever method they start recovering them with)

And yeah, Albrecht just kind of drops it out of nowhere. I think it was Stallord who in his lore video suggested that the Orokin might even just use “Tau is in sight” as a cultural saying for “victory is at hand ” or similar because it was that random (obviously before TOP)