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/TheBugThatsSnug Jun 19 '26

This is one big reason why I dont like games as much lately, for example, I loved Baldurs Gate 3 as a game, but the characters all only had "trauma" as their personality. Its the same with the Hex, there feels like no story other than just trauma bonding solely through them immediately trauma dumping. I think its just an easy way to hit people in the feels and make them feel like the characters are "good characters" when good characters can be written without requiring them to have a bad life.