As a brand new player to Warframe, Duviri has confused me to the point to where IDK WTF. What do I do?

[StaXks]

I was told to start with Duviri and I'll end up in the regular game.... OK... Cool..I keep jumping back and forth from 2 characters. I have to keep changing my keybindings. It feels like I am playing 2 games at once. Can someone please explain WTF is going on? WHO am I??

[Nolo Contendere]

Originally posted by StaXks:

I was told to start with Duviri and I'll end up in the regular game.... OK... Cool..I keep jumping back and forth from 2 characters. I have to keep changing my keybindings. It feels like I am playing 2 games at once. Can someone please explain WTF is going on? WHO am I??

can you explain what you mean by having to keep changing your keybindings?

as for answering your questions (and trying to avoid spoilers)......

WTF is going on

Duviri paradox is a question answering how your character got into the main warframe......dimension i guess is the word(?)

WHO am I??

Short spoiler free answer: you're the guy you controlled at the beginning of Duviri

[StaXks]

It showed 1 character who key bind 2 was to show my path.. next i'm another character where my 2 key binding is telling me its a spell to run faster. then it jumps back to the other character that "2" is find my path again. now i'm changing key binding again. Then I dont have any of the same weapons. One character I have a mount that flies in the air. then I'm back to some other character that is fast and mobile with Spells and magic. then I am another character who is slow.....Like who am I??? wtf is going on? I am new to the game. This is the most confusing ♥♥♥♥ I have ever seen. .

[Blaydon]

Originally posted by StaXks:

It showed 1 character who key bind 2 was to show my path.. next i'm another character where my 2 key binding is telling me its a spell to run faster. then it jumps back to the other character that "2" is find my path again. now i'm changing key binding again. Then I dont have any of the same weapons. One character I have a mount that flies in the air. then I'm back to some other character that is fast and mobile with Spells and magic. then I am another character who is slow.....Like who am I??? wtf is going on? I am new to the game. This is the most confusing ♥♥♥♥ I have ever seen. .

put simply
slow guy controls fast guy

[Donitsi]

It's confusing because you're at the start of the game. Story unfolds as you progress further and gameplay is more consistent after Duviri. You're not forced to jump back and forth between the two playable characters every 5 minutes when you leave Duviri.

[StaXks]

slow guy controls fast guy [/quote]

Horrible way to bring forth this game. "Absolute chaos in your face madness". There is no room to breathe. Not to mention the tutorial is thrown down your throat, and can't even exit the game or save for later. its a 45 min tut.. and you have to ALT F4 or CAD out. Then you have to start it all over. Plus the game starts in the lowest settings, Windowed, lowest resolution. I get that part. "trying to get every player you can with Minimal specs" But good lord. Main topic is " No room to breathe"

[StaXks]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

It's confusing because you're at the start of the game. Story unfolds as you progress further and gameplay is more consistent after Duviri. You're not forced to jump back and forth between the two playable characters every 5 minutes when you leave Duviri.

Did you start with playing 2 different characters with 2 different keybindings?

[mrunuick]

Whoever told you that you should start with Duviri definitely did not do you any favors. Story-wise, Duviri comes after tons of story build up, while being accessible from the get-go. I find the decision to make it an option at the start to be a mistake but here we are.

If you're given the opportunity to choose again, I recommend starting with the Warframe path. It takes longer to get to the meat and potatoes of the story (approx. 40 hours), but it's also simpler and won't really waste your time giving you doodads you have no real use for (though some of the duviri stuff is nice if you're starting out).

In the event you aren't able to re-choose and get fed up with Duviri, there is the option of making a new account.

[StaXks]

In the event you aren't able to re-choose and get fed up with Duviri, there is the option of making a new account. [/quote]

Are you telling me I can't go back and start a new path without making an entire new account?

[KIREEK]

As explained at a later quest in the warframe side of things, reality isn't just 1 area that you see, but many of them combined and connected.

In duviri you likely had a hand fall from the sky that bonded with drifter, that hand was able to go from one reality to another, it belongs to someone.

As explained under eternialism (later on), things from different timelines or different realities exist all at once and the frame that bonds all of them can be changed.

The center piece is obviously the drifter.
So yes, it does feel like 2 different games.

[Theutus]

Duvari is not the way to start this game. I've been playing for years and that forked up game setting confused me at first. Just finish the quest. Once you can, get back to the orbiter and start the original warframe quests. Act like duvari doesn't exist until a later date when you get a feel for the main game.

[romy]

Starting with Duviri is really not a good idea.

Duviri is meant for veterans, as a new player you have no idea what to do with all this stuff that you won't find before way later in the game and the story can't make sense because it is the following of lots of story content that you haven't played yet.

Why DE made an option to start with Duviri as a brand new player is beyond me.

Duviri is the best thing that happened to this game in a long time, but it is really not meant for new players. I see a lot of experienced players who have no idea how to play this already.

[Renkuya]

Duviri is a really nice intro to the game. I don't have any idea why people parrot the "it's too confusing!" line. The story isn't confusing and does exist as a way better intro than "okay you're in your ship, go do stuff or something" after initial login. It gives you enough room to question WTF you just played and that should encourage you to go slog through to War Within and so on.

I don't understand why OP is confused between the two characters. Unless OP is just sitting there jamming to tunes with Warframe on mute, the game does a pretty good job of explaining WHY you're picking a warframe, WHEN you can switch to it and the drifter looks nothing like any of the three frames you can play as. So OP essentially complaining that there is more than one character in the game, which isn't Duviri's problem, it's OP's.

The different abilities are literally handfed to you on the drifter side of things, I could get why the Warframe abilities could be confusing because I don't think it really explains them upfront.

Duviri is honestly one of the better entries into Warframe in a LONG time and I'm just lost as to why it's so hated. Like, if you want to complain about something there are things to complain about but overall it's a pretty straight-forward quest with lots of flashy visuals that in theory should catch newbies. It was also a story pretty devoid of the flip-flop nature of previous areas or enemies. You enter, the bad guy is immediately clear, you play some guided missions, do a tutorial, play some more missions, watch some cutscenes and continue on your way. EASY, it's only confusion-inducing when you know all the rest of the story and have to fit it into Duviri, extra when you're trying to do that without spoilers and for people that essentially know nothing about Warframe. That being said, DE did a good job of streamlining the lore while still leaving a little out there to raise an eyebrow or two.

[player7112]

You will be controlling more than one 'character' in Warframe.
The 10 years worth of content could be overwhelming so better take it easy.
Or you might lose your sanity :3

[Wintermute]

Yeah, better get used to "different keybinds" dude. Each warframe has different abilities on 1-4, some have different dash effects. And then there are archwings, necramechs and railjacks which control differently as well.

Overall - just follow quests and move across planets. It will get clearer over time.

Edit: well, and to at least answer the question. You are the operator of warframe suits. One way or the other.

[tv]

haha wait till the game hits you with that ~(4th)? character creation menu.