At the character creation screen. And the music. This is just really something special. I cannot believe this was in store for me, after like 30 hours.
How many times have I cried at games in my life? Maybe 3.
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So the joke we can say now is that you finally made it to character creation. The story quests stay at a pretty high level, so there is more to come.
I think War Within is the weak one from the main 3. Even some of the non "main" quest like Chains of Harrow (clearly still a main story quest, just not part of the trilogy) are better in my opinion.
The Sacrifice though is at LEAST as good as Second Dream. My favorite part being the confirmation of a long running community theory that I won't specifically call out for spoiler reasons. Most of you know what I'm referring to though SO DON'T SPOIL IT WITH SPECIFICS!
I think TSD is my favorite for just the sheer brain-explodey nature of it, but The Sacrifice is definitely the better quest. You can tell that they've really improved in their craft.
Wait till you get to the quest where you find out the operator is made up of nanomachines and there is a tiny gecko piloting it.
And the entire plot of the game is centered around saving you 15% or more on car insurance
@rebulast Corporate sponsorship when? I mean... railjacks need insurance, right?
Wait, weren’t the nano-machines used because the operator knew about a secret faction so when the operator says the name they instead say “la li lu le lo”?
Nano-machines son
Could have gone pro if i didn't join the 10-0
Congradulations!
You beat the Tutorial!
Congradulations!
You began the Tutorial!
FTFY
You may leave the tutorial, but the tutorial never leaves you!
Took many of us several years.
im still honestly surprised at the emotional depth warframe pulls off for a free to play shooter. its a lovely story
A couple suggestions to make the later quests a better experience.
Chains of Harrow: lights out, headphones on
The Sacrifice: might want to keep a tissue box handy sniff
Chains of Harrow genuinely freaked me out. I mostly play late at night, so it was after midnight, pitch black except the TV light. I had no idea what I was getting into.
I remember going into the quest with Rhino Prime and an Opticor thinking "There's no reason to be scared when I have this load out"...
That day a Rhino learned how to run like a Loki.
Imagine with a headset. Rap...tap...tap....
I was sad that it was hyped up so much. Felt meh at best.
Ditto
I started that quest at night and noped the fuck out during the intro scene.
Ngl, I didn't expect the sacrifice hit my feels that hard
Who can resist that sexy long arm?
And an underpowered loadout for chains, if you can handle it. Get the gameplay to match the feel, and you can always turn on easy mode later.
I knew what happened from the title. :D
The Second Dream is one of the best pieces of storytelling I have ever seen in more than 30 years of gaming experience.
2000% I'm actually gonna have to replay it. I barely knew what was going on at the time. Looking back though. incredible story.
How do you replay quests?
From the codex
it is an emotional rollercoaster, I just wish the multiple choice dialogue had a bigger impact like in detroit become human
Would have loved it if my operator would have ended up with a somewhat corrupt personality or atleast kept the voice in my head
I hope drinking the Kuva does something later.
Same because i mean i just had to drink the koolaid
yea that sounds cool
Wonder if they're still planning to use any of that.
can't believe it's been over 3 and a half years since I played it
Congrats! Welcome to the real game stardust :)
Now pay it forward by only using your 5 if you’re in high level content or if you’ve carefully checked that your allies are MR 5+ (not a guarantee, but a safeish minimum)
Mr 5? Dem lol I tend not to use it anything below Mr 8-10 cuz I'm not sure if they done it yet.
Nothing like breaking line of sight in Helene for a quick energy top up where the MR 4 player can't see you...
Nothing in life is guaranteed. I’ll be more cautious the lower the MR but I think if someone has toiled around below Saturn long enough to hit MR10 I feel like chances are good they probably saw it enough times to know somethings up...
5 is just the strict cutoff below which I’ll use energy pizzas rather than risking a dip into zenurick to top off.
If you check their profile you can see if they've done it or not by whether or not their operator is visible next to their warframe
I advise you drink some water before next main story quest or you may become Inaros.
I had a similar reaction myself. It comes so LATE in the game but flips EVERYTHING upside down! Such a wonderful, emotional twist. So glad you weren't spoiled early.
Not being spoiled is hard to achieve, gotta say. I was somewhat spoiled by the wiki. Having mostly played before quests were ever a thing, I had a lot of catching up to do with a lot of things when I returned six months ago. Alas, in those wiki trips a bunch of references added up, you could say. Not that it became as a huge surprise or anything, speculation had been rife even in beta - mostly it was the specifics that were revealed, as such.
i got it spoiled before i even started playing lol, i was on the wiki trying to decide if i should download the game and try it out
Good morning Tenno. Glad you could finally get your lazy ass out of bed!
Wake up, Tenno, we've got a system to burn.
And that's not all. You get a brand new BOAT! (soon)
The music is so nice and calming when I am in my orbiter chatting with somebody I sit in my operator room just to hear the music its so nice I also was tearing when creating my character.
Dude If you cried there prepare to weep uncontrollably later on. Yeah that quest was alot emotionally. But it's just the tiniest tip of the ice Berg.
Does anyone actually know who wrote TSD, TWW and Sacrifice?
Not for sure, but I do know that (obviously) Steve is involved, as well as a writer called Cam Rogers who was hired in early 2017 and is lead writer/worldbuilder of Warframe according to their Twitter (@Cam_Rogers)
Steve at least drafts the scripts, how much input anyone else has past that point is unknown.
Hey you, you're finally Awake...
no... no no no. not again
This is who you are.
This is also where you realize you've only really played half the game. There is so much more in store for you!
Congratulations, now do The War Within and you finished the tutorial. ;)
I’m impressed you got to it in 30 hours, took me just over 100. Congrats on making it into the real game
Laughs in closed beta player
Lol. Yeah, to be fair I did start playing in about mid 2015, so it wasn’t actually in the game yet, but it still took a while to work through the... not starchart (planets with a grid of missions around them, as they were at the time).
Still starchart, but just 2.0. We in 3.0 now, I think?
Oh yeah, still technically starchart, but all I meant was that it was far less of a chart/map than 1.0 or 3.0 (yes, we’re on 3.0 now).
I still remember when Specters of the Rail dropped, that update was one of the non-quest updates that left the biggest impressions on me.
(Wasn’t that when we got endo for the first time as well? God, I remember that devstream/prime time where they explained how endo worked for the first time, it seemed so complicated yet so streamlined. Ah, the memories)
Was that the ring of planets, or the mission grid before the ring of planets?
The ring of planets, where you could zoom into and spin each one with the mission nodes around it.
Turns out it was 50, I just guessed. I didn't actually know how to check at the time :|.
Took me 1400, although it didn’t exist when I started playing.
SO WORTH IT THOUGH.
Still one of my favourite moments in any game.
the reveal is actually kind of designed to happen after about 40-100 tho, id almost say OP should have spend more time playing the game before doing that...
Seeing as OP clearly still got the emotional payoff of it, I’d beg to differ.
im not saying that he clearly didnt have any emotional impact from it, just that i assume, given how the reveal impacts you, that it would have been stronger if OP took more time, i dont know if he rushed it or not, all i know is that i played the game for like a month before getting to the quest