How good is the f2p experience? Campaign?

[Blegh]

How much can you do for free is my question. And how fleshed out is the campaign and is it for free or do you have to pay to get the full experience?

[Nightslasher]

all the content is 100% free, but just like any other game you can buy premium currency to speed up your own progression.

[Skeleton]

Messaggio originale di Blegh:

Second question, if me and my 2 friends (we started to play this a few days ago) just want to have a casual experience going through the story, are we going to have to grind a lot? And if so, what are we going to have to grind for

So remember earlier when I mentioned the planet Junctions?

Each one is guarded by a mini-boss, you may get stuck on some that will force you to go back and learn how weapon mods work, or craft an entirely new set of equipment. Similarly, main quests may serve as "stat checks" that are not afraid to slap you if you're undergeared and just been rushing through junctions. Getting mods is easy - they drop everywhere. Getting the exact mods you want, though, might take a little bit longer.

Early on, you'll likely need to do some open-world fishing and mining for resources as well.
Raw mining materials need to be refined into usable material, which requires running missions for that planet's faction. For instance, if you need Auroxium for something that you want to make you'd need to mine Aurum on Earth, get Oxium from a specific common enemy, and then get friendly with the Earth faction in order to have the ability to make your own Auroxium. Getting your faction reputation up to this point can take a few real-world days.

Crafting is the second thing. Most gear in the game gets dropped as blueprints or pieces. Want to make a Rhino? Fight the Jackal boss and it will drop a part blueprint. Keep fighting Jackal until you have the four components. Sometimes you get lucky and have all your pieces within 4-5 runs. Longest I've seen was around 21 runs of Ropalolyst to get all the Wisp parts.

Certain equipment has a mastery level requirement. Mastery is like a summed total of all the weapon/frame experience you've collected. So in order to raise your mastery level, you'll need to concentrate on making new equipment and levelling it, which will in turn raise your mastery. This is what people were hinting at when talking about slots - since you have a limited number of gear slots, your cycle will be to craft something new, level it to max, then scrap it so that you have space for the next weapon. Fortunately there are some very fast ways to level equipment in this game - you can go from freshly crafted to 30 in 10-15 minutes of Sanctuary Onslaught.

[Numa]

The game is 100% free, and you can get anything from simply grinding or trading with other players. Buying plat supports the devs though.

[jonnin]

Second Q:
you will need to grind endo (the currency to upgrade mods), credits, to a lesser extent crafting materials, and from there if not gifted or traded from other players, the good mods which means running all kinds of things from nightmare missions (beware no shield and no energy modes at first) to vault missions to grinding relics to trade with baro to running open world bounties and more. Good mods are scattered all over the place and a lot of work to collect a full set.
85% or more of the game is about getting your mods and ranking them up. Once you have that, even a brand new gun or frame is moments away from being configured well enough to work around the same content as you were doing already.

mid to late game grinds include kuva and riven mods. Riven mods are tied to a specific weapon and give it effectively 3-4 normal mods in one, sometimes with a negative effect, and you randomize these mods with kuva currency. Nightwave event is almost always running and gives kuva and other things you will want, so you also grind nightwave around this time. Other mid and late game grinds include reputation with factions (esp the original 6 factions which have special frame mods that enhance frame abilities). Thankfully riven mods come naturally from killing eximus enemy over time. Other grinds include relics to get prime items and trade platinum as noted earlier, mastery rank (to at least 10), .... there are lots of other less critical grindage and some endgame stuff as well.

[Enemy]

the juice dont worth the squeeze, the only good things is the railjack, necramech and new war experience, but this ll cost you a month or 2 of heavy farm and some luck.

[Georgia_Guardian]

Don't waste your time. Your efforts will be nerfed and erased to the ground. The evil devs are now milking the players who do not know how the game is going currently.

[Formous]

Messaggio originale di Blegh:

How much can you do for free is my question. And how fleshed out is the campaign and is it for free or do you have to pay to get the full experience?

Sorry to be the buzzkill though, but Warframe's story is abysmal, and poorly told, generally spurring a effective story and interesting universe, while many of the missions tend to be one and done with no further impacts. If you wish for a story worth your time, go play Swtor or FF14. Warframe never had a writing team.

[dEAdOnE77]

If you like the action/gameplay, everything else will be just a bonus :D. Warframe is a journey with constant updates which brings new content. You can drop in+out at anytime and always feel the progess, your personel and of the game.

[Necrius]

It's like "Economy hotel" in dystopia novel for kids. You wanna save 1 cent - sleep without a pillow. Wanna save 2 cents - sleep without a blanket. Wanna save whole 5 cents - sleep on bare floor. But "Nobody forces you to pay!".

[Blegh]

Is clan supported for crossplay? We're trying to set one up but it says username does not exist when we try to invite eachother

[Midas]

Messaggio originale di The Shoes of God:

Messaggio originale di #sivik#:

microtransactions in this game is absolutely optional, you can only buy some cosmetics or make your progress a little faster

That is an absolute lie, weapon and frame slots are absolutely not optional and later you won't get by on the default pet or crew slots either.

If you don't pay for some things that I won't spoil you also have to be prepared to endure several month long reputation grinds until you can do the next quest. Just trying to grind through the story will get you burned out fast you have to enjoy doing the rest of the game over and over and over and over again with the story being a backdrop that you won't really get in full just from quests, there are lots of things that are not communicated well or even at all unless you look it up on the wiki.

I'm 2k hours in and I've nevet bought a crew or pet slot ever. Warframe and weapon slots are more necessary but you can get those through nightwave and events anyway. Hell we were just given one of each today for the cancer awareness month stuff.

[Donitsi]

Messaggio originale di Blegh:

Is clan supported for crossplay? We're trying to set one up but it says username does not exist when we try to invite eachother

Only Crossplay is supported for now.
https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1326149-cross-platform-play-initial-public-test/

"There will be a few limitations on some features during this test:

No Dojo support
No Conclave support
No Friend support
No Trading or Gifting of items across different platforms
No Voice Chat support"

[Blegh]

Messaggio originale di Donitsi:

Messaggio originale di Blegh:

Is clan supported for crossplay? We're trying to set one up but it says username does not exist when we try to invite eachother

Only Crossplay is supported for now.
https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1326149-cross-platform-play-initial-public-test/

"There will be a few limitations on some features during this test:

No Dojo support
No Conclave support
No Friend support
No Trading or Gifting of items across different platforms
No Voice Chat support"

I'm guessing conclave is the same thing as a clan?

[The Big Brzezinski]

Messaggio originale di Blegh:

Messaggio originale di Donitsi:

Only Crossplay is supported for now.
https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1326149-cross-platform-play-initial-public-test/

"There will be a few limitations on some features during this test:

No Dojo support
No Conclave support
No Friend support
No Trading or Gifting of items across different platforms
No Voice Chat support"

I'm guessing conclave is the same thing as a clan?

Nah, it's pvp that barely anyone does. The dojo is the clan hall you can build room by room.

[DLOZanma]

Messaggio originale di Georgia_Guardian:

Don't waste your time. Your efforts will be nerfed and erased to the ground. The evil devs are now milking the players who do not know how the game is going currently.

Joining a dojo and afking the game is not really "effort".