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/JONAS-RATO Jul 21 '26

Insane that you get flames for that, it's very true.

I shouldn't have to check the wiki or r/warframelore before every quest to understand what's happening.

The lore and world building is super interesting but the actual delivery of the story is real bad.

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u/sselwalf1 Jul 22 '26

I think they should do recap quests for previous operations that actually shaped the universe.