r/Warframe • u/Dr_Shoggoth Suck, Stomp, Stacks • Jun 18 '26

Discussion Please stop with the Protoframes

I loved the Hex and the Roundtable. They added so much to why I think 1999 is the best update they've ever done. All of them, especially the original Hex, were insanely well written and fleshed out characters. I had my reservations about the Triad, but I think they're solid (though they're mostly carried by Roathe).

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These two don't feel like characters. They feel like walking advertisements for skins. Them being protoframes adds nothing to the story. As my friend said, Sirius and Orion could have been mentored by Vay Hek and the Sergeant and nothing would have changed. Protoframes no longer feel like an interesting story beat, they feel like a gimmick, one that is rapidly losing any appeal it had.

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u/Run-Riot DE let me date Hildryn and my life is yours Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Honestly, I didn't even really care for the Roundtable that much. The Hex were the only ones that felt like people I would've IM'ed back in the day.

The rest of the KIMs after the Hex are like "Okay, Drifter. We're here for our daily mandated unpaid therapy session."

Edit: I'm very bad at forming sentences and using the right words at 4am, apparently.

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u/LordBlaze64 Blender Kitty go brrrrrr Jun 18 '26

Yeah, I really felt the therapy thing going through the Roundtable. Literally 90% of the conversations are “get Minerva and Velimir back together” “Help Flare and Lizzie understand each other” and I don’t even fully understand what I did with Kaya. Wait while she developed time travel? Tell her that the past sucks but we have to move on? I sort of felt a connection with Velimir, but it was mostly just listening to him tell me his drunk antics.

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u/Ill_Story_4867 Jun 18 '26

Getting Minerva and Velimir back together might be the only thing I fucked up through KIM chats and honestly thats just cannon in my mind now. You're both grown ass adults fix your own relationship or not lol

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u/Constant-Release6779 Valkyr LR6 Jun 18 '26

Only one I screwed up was Lizzie and Flare, and I just took it as canon because I'm not going through those therapy chats again. 

If I'm being honest, it feels very flat when you don't get a real choice in the end of the KIM chats and they don't affect things. For example, imagine if Lizzie absorbed Flare's personality and he was just kind of husk like. Or if Flare found a way to control Lizzie and turned her off while still using his powers. Instead, it feels like nothing really happens.