Yes, it’s 2025, but it’s not too behind schedule to start playing Warframe.
I know it’s intimidating. Starting a recent online game, and even more so with 12 years of catching up, is a discouraging perspective. WarframeThe shooter of a third person, is known for grinding-but also offers stunning, absolutely bonkers stories and has one of the best communities for many players. It’s also fun.
I am here to say that you can not only start playing Warframe in 2025, but digital programmers are also extreme invested in facilitating – without sacrificing what it does Warframe So strange and good above all.
The latest game update, IsleweaverThis is the latest step in this process.
Isleweaver It covers a recent part of the content of the story, which takes place in the game area for which I have a zero context. There are characters I have not met. I’m not worried. You shouldn’t worry about it either.
The extension also improves WarframeThe structure of the early game so that novices do not feel like walking in water, waiting for crazy things. Polygon talked with Warframe Taylor King and the director of the Megan Everett community about what exactly the changes attract.
Of course for years Warframe It was issued, the number of missions only swelled.
The knots are not stories. There are only so many types of missions, and there is excessiveness on the planets. New players will still have the same significant experience, but they spend less time for Grind.
King and Everett say that the team is aware of tension between players hearing about invigorating recent chapters of history – like The Buzzy 1999 expansion – and knowing that they have to play Very Games to get to things that everyone is now scared.
“This is a battle that we will fight for the rest of our lives when we still add things to the game,” says Everett.
Here is good news, from my perspective: I don’t have access to any of the latest content (yet). AND Warframe It’s still damn fun.
I started playing in January 2025. With my boyfriend, who quickly blew up the content of the behind schedule game and left me dust. I am deeply aware that they are waiting for the development of the plot, that I cannot even start understanding. He always travels to locations that I must not see, collect resources that I have never heard of, and participate in events that I must not know about. Sometimes I receive ominous texts that say: “We don’t even play the same game anymore.”
I have a great time after planets, unlocking recent war layers, armor armor and grinding resources. I spent the centuries that I had raised, fishing and I mined so that Rudy unlock the war I wanted instead of playing story missions. (This is a way Simone de Rochefort.) I was extremely unskilled with 130 hours, which I have played into the game so far.
Perhaps I am a problem that is digital, the studio at the back WarframeI’m trying to take care of.
“The goal is to really introduce players to history and use it to lead them through the table of the stars, because differently – Warframe, you can simply simply Faff and do whatever you want,” says King. I can definitely!
The team also tries to think more about how the game introduces and teaches recent mechanics. In the airy of this connection, which with the gate, each planet receives a refreshment.
Each intersection requires players to perform a series of tasks, and then win the Battle of Mini-Boss to unlock the next planet. This is a skill control – only now the tasks have been converted to make sure that players learn the right game mechanics at the right time.
“There are many accepted knowledge in Warframe that you will simply use,” says King. Earlier, the intersection could have required that the player update the mod, any mod. Now the early Venus Junction game specially asks players to equip and improve the fashion of the aura, which is crucial for the development of stronger compilation and engaging in deeper game mechanics.
It may sound really obvious NowBut all this is part of the game that has grown ecologically over 12 years. The game throws many mechanics at recent players and does not hold your hand and does not say what to do at any time.
This is a general thing. Nobody will accuse Warframe Being excessively simplified or stupid. But the team now recognizes that the early game must be changed to properly introduce the width WarframeMechanics.
“In a sense, we must experiment when it comes to new things to players to somehow welcome them and teach them somehow, where it is right,” says Everett.
Not every attempt to improve this experience was successful. In 2023, the digital extremes issued He owed the paradox Expansion and place it at the beginning of the game.
“The problem we tried to solve with Should If we intended to put it all the time and effort in this mission, this story, this world, how exciting would be if the player opens Warframe at a medium level and can play immediately? “Everett said.
But players who started playing with Should He jumped back. Should It is a artistic great attack, a sequence that is fantastic, but deep and completely strange. He is still in the game, and technically players can still access it long before playing in any of the tasks they do Should Have sense (and it makes sense). But you still have to make a lot of time Warframe Before you can go from a space game to the one that has flying horses. (Don’t worry about it!)
IsleweaverIt is therefore a more sophisticated way to solve the same problem: introducing players to the door and to receive parts weirdBut without sacrificing too much growth that attaches them to the world-and their war frames.
One of the often asked questions that I see on Warframe Subreddit comes from players who want to know if the whole game is playable or, like in Destiny 2New players are closed from the main story missions. Importantly, none of the changes with which he introduces digital extremes Isleweaver They affect the superior story that the developer is trying to tell. The update does not affect the narrative ups Warframe – It simply makes reaching these ups more productive.
I was very stunned by giving the community to support WarframeA strange narrative has a secret. The community is generally accepting recent players and helps them mechanically, while treating narrative surprises such as nuclear codes.
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I have hearty nervousness to play multiplayer games in which my skills (or lack of them) can affect other players. I had my part of embarrassing moments Warframe – Like getting lost on the map when everyone else is at the extraction point. Or get stuck in a hole when everyone else is at the extraction point. None of this matters. The community is genial and helpful.
“I think that our community was phenomenal in teaching players, what to do,” says King. “But many of these changes that we make are a reflection of what players say – what they need to teach others Tenno.”
At this point WarframeI am not the greatest beneficiary Isleweaverchanges. I will not utilize the improved early game, and it will pass a minute before I can enjoy the latest history update. But I hope Isleweaver Fry wheels for recent players he is looking at Warframe in 2025
After all, it’s never too behind schedule to play a great game.
