I just want to play the game. A lot of the game is low functioning or not functioning at all right now. Every other match is a hit detection nightmare.
Cosmetics are pointless, I just want my bullets to work
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Oh no, 2 items (in total maybe 30 now) that are only available through real money purchases, items that occasionally come back at a cheaper price when they’re not new.
Whatever will I do, being locked out of 1 Syndana, when I only have over 100 other alternatives.
Edit 2: Just to clarify, even if the bundles are 60-80 USD on release, they leave, and then come back multiple times at a fraction of the cost, they’re not gone forever, you’ll always have an opportunity to get them akin to Halo’s rotating shop.
Sorry for the lackluster and sarcastic response, but no game is perfect, something has to be exclusive.
Still gotta play the game to level the gear up, get the mods… but if you wanna buy that advantage, it’s your money.
Almost like that’s the point of the game?
Well, seeing as some people like the game, the time it takes isn’t really a big deal, especially when we’re talking about buying collectors items without paying a penny.
Depends on what you have, you might only need 5 items, or as you said, a kajillion.
This right here is becuase they are entirely different games, having items locked in an arena game means it isn’t an arena game, compared to a wierd RPG power fantasy game where balance isn’t an issue.
It wouldn’t make sense in Halo to have the BR locked behind a progression system or some mission.
Warframe does this too, but warframe allows you to earn it for free too. This argument makes no sense as warframe is literally doing more than Halo infinite in that regard.
Edit: wouldn’t you want to be able to earn items in the cores without spending, doesn’t have to mean everything is free, but if just the Mk. VII core alone was free and unlockable, earnable, it would be far more enjoyable.
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This right here.
At the beginning, I thought, “yeah, there’s not much here, but what is here is good!”
But the glaring consistency issues hurt the game too badly, and I haven’t played in a few weeks because of it.
To the OP, people have expectations based on the history of the franchise. The expectations simply weren’t met.
Yeah, we all know how modern gaming is, but it’s okay to be disappointed. It’s totally understandable.
Realistically speaking, the game will probably be great in a year.
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Thank you for voicing what I was going to say. Yes Warframe is hard to start but honestly once you get going. YOU GO HARD. My friend picked it up 2 years ago through lockdown, me and my mate have been playing since 2014 so we gave him all the help he needed to really get going. After that he was so addicted he was off trying to tackle the game when we couldn’t play. Plus if you’ve met the Warframe community. They are some of the most helpful people around. If you ask for help in global chat. Someone will always come to help.
And yes. I am that hoarder with the vaulted parts.
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What you’re asking for is a game that gives you a gold star and all the content for logging on because why put in effort right? Why try to enjoy the game?
Warframe which has being doing the F2P formula for almost 9 years now has refined the process that again asks you to spend £/$0 on stuff within the game. Yes you have to grind but for a game that is designed as a PVE focused loot and build that’s the formula. Just like any MMORPG when you want to roll a table for 1 drop.
There is very very very minor FOMO in Warframe. That is the Prime access accessory items BUT they will comeback again because that’s how they cycle the system. The Vaulting of warframe’s is temporary. They cycle those frames out the vault every couple of months so you will not lose out on the items for long. This is also done for balance reasons so that your loot tables don’t become 1000 items at the same time. The only truly unobtainable items in the game are from the Founders Pack. These are people who supported the game within the first 6 months of the game coming out. Those are the only items you cannot get anymore. (Bar a few mod cards which were taken out the game for balance reasons.)
Halo’s F2P model provides very little to players. Warframe gives you hundreds if not thousands of hours worth of content.
Warframe is so confident in it’s F2P model that they also hold an event called Tennogen. This is where player from the community create cosmetics for the game. The ones that are deemed the best are added to the game and a portion of the proceeds that are used to buy said item are then sent to the creator of the item. And if you haven’t seen a TennoCon you are missing out.
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I want to agree about your final statement, which is ironically the only direct edit on your post. “343 gave color meaning in Infinite.”
Except I’m one of the few thousand players who did the work for Watchdog. And I get the feeling you’ve already had one or two people bring this up to you to prove a point, but I’m here to say my piece, not theirs.
I can TOTALLY see what you mean by giving it meaning, and the only game I personally liked the coloring in was 5, I literally just used the blue team multiplayer colors because they look SO GOOD with full Achilles. (I also spent 60+ days in infection, so I almost always saw the colors I wanted to.) And yeah, with the other games it was a straight waste in some cases given the way the lighting/shaders impacted the colors most of the time.
But back to Watchdog. If you don’t know what it is, it’s for the people who reached SR 152 in Halo 5 before infinite officially got going. But if you do know what it is, you’ve probably heard the buzz about how it turned out to be way different in game once the lucky few had it in their coatings list.
Color has meaning, but only if you’re honest about what the meaning of the color is. Watchdog was meant to be more along the lines of looking like it was a primary of polished aluminum, flashy red accents, nice black undersuit. The weapon coatings we got are how it should have looked. But what we got for armor was a very weathered steel which looks suspiciously similar to the color of Jorge’s beefed up collar section/plating. The red is so matte you’d find it in a box of crayola crayons, and the undersuit is the same as the default in terms of color/wear.
Watchdog was meant to be special to us. But honestly, I can’t say I’m particularly proud of it given just how much it makes me blend in when compared to some of my teammates armor coatings. I know you’re talking about an F2P game, but I really focused in on the bit about color and meaning, sorry if it seemed unrelated to your larger topic. I’m also sorry if you’ve heard this all before. But I have to say it regardless. Because Watchdog isn’t a cosmetic you can buy in the store for twenty dollars. It is prestigious. It is rare. It is supposed to show you that the person wearing it is either insane or incredibly dedicated for having earned it. But it looks like it belongs in a museum, given the weathered state it’s in. Sure, it’s an F2P like you said, but some of us were promised better than we got. That’s something I’d expect to be rewarded like it’s shown, regardless of whether I paid nothing or 60 dollars for the game. If I earn something and see what it’s like before it’s released, I don’t feel particularly satisfied when I get said item and find out it looks so much different to what I was expecting. And please don’t go on about how it was a preliminary photo and they probably changed it, the literal color palette for the coating in game has the top three petals as aluminum, not steel. So it was clearly meant to look like it originally did.
I am sorry for this passionate rant, and I just realized it has next to nothing that really relates to your post directly… Then again, I’ve written all this already so I’m going to send it anyways. Cheers!
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