Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Not really a critique of Warframe as a whole, more of a discussion about what tradeoffs this strange specimen of a game makes for players interested in choosing builds.

These are the games from the short montage in the intro, in order of appearance:
Arknights
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Limbus Company
Genshin Impact
StarVaders
Hades
Nova Drift
..but it was hard to choose, we've played a lot of stuff in the past few years!

Besides Warframe, this video also features Pyre, as an example of a very condensed build system with high opportunity cost, and very briefly Path of Exile's skill tree, as an example of lots of options but in what feels to me like fewer different systems compared to Warframe's spread of build options.

00:00 intro
01:04 many decision points
08:40 strong generalist options / wide difficulty range
14:39 the Helminth system
22:10 closing thoughts on playing Warframe to make builds

#gaming #build
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