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Recommended
11.4 hrs last two weeks / 2,349.0 hrs on record (1,798.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 27 Jul, 2022 @ 8:03am

Warframe.

A game full of grind.
Or is it?

If you take a closer look at Warframe - free-to-play action game, filled with tons of content, lore, activities, open world there and there - and IMO the most important thing - developers that still actively add content into the game and usually even listen to their players.

People tend to say this a lot, and it's true. This game can be very frustrating for new players - it throws a ton of content at them after some early missions, not giving any certain hints to what to do.

But - in this case, community alone has done a lot of work, and still does, for new players, and not only them.
Don't know how to use something? There' a full wiki of info for you. Don't have anyone to play with? Ask someone in main chat, or join a dojo and play with you clanmates. Give it some time, and you're gonna be able to play just like if you knew everything.

Warframe is filled with a lot of different playstyles, divided by everything the game currently offers. Wanna play a glasscannon frame with tons of damage? No problem. Wanna go and shockkk- all enemies until they die? Sure thing.

49 different warframes, with 50th on it's way. Hundreds of weapons, tens of types - ranging from rifles to cannons, launchers to machine guns, etc. Wanna go and kill everyone silenty with sniper? Not a problem. Wanna go full rambo? Not a problem either.

Warframe offers a lot of uniqeness. Fashionframe, as players call it, is another activity for Warframe. Wanna own tons of cosmetics? Do you like to make your warframe look like a fairy? Or perhaps an assasin? Definitely an option here.

Now to the other side.

Grind. A lot of grind. Especially in later phases of game.

And not just grind for materials. You have to grind for blueprints. It wouldn't be so annyoing if the drop chances weren't getting "lower" with each content update. With materials, it's 50/50. Some are painful to get, some on the other hand are easy, and can overflow in your inventory after some time.

Warframe tends to be buggy on new content release, sometimes a lot, sometimes just a bit. Some people wait a week some two, just to get a smooth experience out of new content. I don't think it's usually so bad, but some pre-testing would always be nicer, than having to wait a week (always different, sometimes it's day, sometimes it can be up to a week) just to get a fix for these bugs.

TL;DR
It's fun. Reccomended with friends or clanmates, if you get into one. A lot of weapons, frames. Grind is always present in later phases, can get boring and repetitive. Early phase can be hard for new players, so don't be afraid to ask for help. Definitely would reccomend.
Warframe has some downsides, but those are essentially non-existent thanks to it's upsides.
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