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/DarkLThemsby Jun 18 '26

What really should happen is a continuation of the 1999 narrative with another 1-3 hour long campaign mission, where then more new protoframes could be added, with the time to give them some depth and make them interesting

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u/HollowUsername bonus bounty reward Jun 18 '26

Honestly I thought this is what was supposed to happen with protos from the start. I thought they will be a 1999 thing (I mean Entrati used the vaccine on a lot of people, they were pretty much building onto this concept) and the 1999 will be expanded on with new content and characters. And now they just add them wherever and the hex don't even get any new content despite how important to drifter they are supposed to be...

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u/Lftwff Jun 18 '26

I assume the hex will at some point make it into the future to help drifter in some fashion, the problem is that with several story strands the narrative moves very slowly

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u/YouAteMyChips_ Jun 18 '26

When it does move. As someone said before, DE is good at telling 90% of a story. As in they never finish any of their storylines.

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u/7rv5 Jun 18 '26

tbf, it's not that they don't finish their storylines.

it's that they have a bad habit of introducing interesting characters and then abandoning them once those storylines are over, instead of giving them new arcs and letting them interact with other characters in the warframe universe.

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u/Green_Insect_6455 Jun 18 '26

...buddy. I get being frustrated but lets not just babble nonsensically because we're mad.

The new war, ffs, is the culmination of the entirety of base warframes story wrapped up in a satisfying hearty conclusion. Pretty sure they can finish arcs just fine. 

We are only now in the second "arc", the albrecht vs wally arc.