Warframe has a helpful and social community, where teamwork is highly valued. Therefore, a video featuring an experienced player looking after a newcomer was very well received. This brought a lot of joy and nostalgic feelings to Warframe fans.
What can be seen in the video? In the Reddit video, you can see a little “Baby-Space-Ninja” sneaking through the jungles of Earth with great concentration, trying hard to avoid every enemy or stealthily assassinate them from behind.
But to ensure everything goes well, he has his Space-Ninja Master, an experienced Tenno, with him. He is far better equipped and follows the newcomer closely in the background.
Whenever the rookie gets in over his head, he intervenes, but otherwise, he lets the “little one” do his thing, although he could easily wipe the entire map in a few minutes with his super-duper Tenno skills.
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Video evokes nostalgia: “That’s how I started too!”
This is how the video was received: On Reddit, the video was received with great favor. It received over 5,000 upvotes and more than 400 comments. Fans praised that they too had started in this way and had stealthily rushed through the levels:
- “If you don’t solve everything with Bullet Jump and nukes, the game really can pass as a stealth title!”
- “I always play spy missions like this, as roleplay.”
- “That’s how I played for the first few hours. I took it quite seriously and explored every corner of the maps. I think my first spy mission took me 45 minutes. Not because it was so hard, but because I was constantly sneaking around the levels in a crouch.”
- “That’s how it was way back when. I honestly miss the atmosphere that Warframe had in its early days.”
- “As a newcomer with less than 20 hours of experience, I played most of the missions this way. I only recently switched to a somewhat less stealthy assault rifle and am mowing down enemies with it now. But that’s not as much fun.”
Others praise the helpfulness of the “caretaker,” who keeps a close watch over his protege:
- “I love welcoming new players on Earth. I encountered a player with MR 0 in a mission and watched him struggle through it. I don’t know why, but I just find new players adorable.
- “When I see a newcomer, I make sure not to rush past him at a zillion miles per hour.”
- “Sometimes I just stand in front of the gates of Cetus or Fortuna to see the new players. It makes me happy.”
This is what Warframe looks like when you don’t play it casually: As a stark contrast, we have included a speedrun that takes down the Jackal boss in 68 seconds. A newcomer would have barely eliminated a few enemies in that time and would be quite astonished if the mission ended in just under a minute.
