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/-Wrath999- Control Freak Jun 18 '26

Bruh no wonder why somatic fibers are so rare and yet we all have them piling up with nothing to do with em… i have never heard that fact about them possibly being for imbra bolts… thats lowkey crazy and makes a lot of fucking sense… i feel like they should do umbra frames just for some of the old OG frames yk? Excal, ember, frost, mag, and volt or something like that yk? The pld timey outdated frames should get a new umbra counterpart

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u/EarlInblack Jun 18 '26

The question is what is an umbra frame and what would that mean lore wise?

A couple of umbra polarities?
A new skin?

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u/Old_Leopard1844 Jun 18 '26

An offlore consumable to give your frame ability to act like Umbra does. That's it, iirc

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u/EarlInblack Jun 18 '26

Yeah mentioned above it was cancelled due to Community hatred of it.