Recent reviews by Krasnoya Ronin

My main account is on Playstation, but I started a PC account to go through the The New War expansion storyline, and as a challenge for using only Excalibur, my favorite Warframe.

It has a solid and interesting (if not sometimes confusing) story, with only a few hiccups for progression (Mastery Rank requirements for the Star Chart and obtaining a Necramech without paying real money were both frustrating and took a number of days to complete). It's still really good though, even if you aren't into "games as a service."

My advice for new players who find they enjoy this game is to do everything you can to get through the story as soon as each element unlocks. You get some incredible story rewards that you can use for other parts of the game that will make things much easier if you decide to become a collector or completionist. Also, if you're not a weird nerd like me and want to try other warframes than the one you start with, save your starter Platinum currency for warframe and weapon slots. Yeah, that's a thing. If you just wanna run with your starter (which is absolutely possible), then you don't have to worry about this so much. But c'mon, who's gonna do that?

As for the Free-to-Play nature of the game, Warframe is also excellent imo. There are various methods of monetization, but the only things you can't get without paying up are purely cosmetic. Everything else you can get for free if you're patient and don't mind grinding. There's even some stuff you can ONLY get through playing, which is neat. You can also obtain premium currency by trading with other players, but I admit that is pretty time consuming. Just know that if you play a lot like me you naturally will get a lot of mods or prime parts to sell just through the course of running missions.