Soulframe: Half Warframe, half Soul Train?

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    ‘Soulframe’ is the ‘Warframe’ creators’ follow-up to their decade-spanning hit
    The developer describes its new game, “Soulframe,” as less of a sequel and more of a sister to “Warframe,” the online space ninja opus that’s come to span countless genres over a decade’s worth of updates. Steve Sinclair, who is stepping down from his decade-long tenure as “Warframe” director to help lead the new project, told The Washington Post the game will share “Warframe’s” focus on cooperative player-vs-environment combat and procedurally generated environments, but it will be “the mirror universe version of ‘Warframe.’ ”

    This applies to setting: “Warframe” is a unique, flesh-mech-powered spin on the sci-fi genre; “Soulframe” will be a suitably strange take on fantasy. It’ll also apply to gameplay.

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    “Where ‘Warframe’ is focused on shooting, this one’s focused on melee,” Sinclair said. “Where ‘Warframe’ is super fast and crazy high-speed, this one’s going to be a lot more slow and heavy. But it still has a lot of similarities to the genre that we have experience in.”
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    While combat will be slowly paced and melee-focused — and the game is literally called “Soulframe” — Sinclair and Crookes emphasized that they’re not trying to make a game in the vein of From Software’s genre-pioneering Souls series, which includes 2022 megahit “Elden Ring.” Or rather, they didn’t go into the project with that in mind.
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    First I've heard of this. Any other info out there? The official site is a bit sparse.
    https://www.soulframe.com
    solution for the puzzle there:
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    not sure the signup works.
     
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    Signup worked for me using Edge. Firefox and Chrome were no good.

    Edit: Or it's because on Edge, I tabbed to the Signup button and hit return when the bounding box was around the button. Just clicking on the button doesn't seem to work.

    WaPo has an article on Soulframe. They interviewed both Steve and Geoff:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-ga ... lden-ring/

    RPS has the reveal video and the bit about the trademark:
    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/soulfr ... g-warframe

    You haven't heard anything because they only announced it today, though apparently they had trademarked the name. I was thrown off initially after the bit about Airships working with DE, but it sounds like that's in another capacity, not Soulframe.

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    I liked how PC Gamer described it: Warframe x Princess Mononoke. I really like the aesthetic. I bounced out of Warframe because I couldn’t grok the movement mechanics well enough, and I tried to do waaaay too much. Trying to engage with too many systems at once and I was obsessing over min/maxing. Otherwise I had a good time. The movement is really the only thing keeping me from going back now that I have learned to accept not having the greatest build with the most DPS possible and to just have fun while engaging with the story.

    This is the first MMO in a while i that I’ve looked at and went, “yeah… I dig it.”

    Color me interested and intrigued! I definitely want to know more.
     
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    I wasn't super impressed by the mini-soulframe they put in the last Warframe expansion: all the systems are there, parry and riposte, etc., but the movement and lack of weight meant it was usually fine to just spam attacks and then back off and shoot things in the face as you healed. Obviously that's not the new game but as a trial balloon, it was remarkably unconvincing and if it wasn't meant to be a trial balloon, maybe they shouldn't have put it up?

    I'm also not sure that their business model (which is FANTASTIC for a F2P game, I should add) would carry over: Warframe's grind is more or less acceptable in most places because it feels fast paced. If it were to be slowed down to hit, block, parry, backstab, etc. -- the grind could definitely feel more grindy if you shuffle about, always out of stamina, etc. Again, I don't know the exact details from what limited info I've seen, I'm just skeptical despite being a six year player of Warframe.
     
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    I will most likely end up giving this a try for the sake of Warframe. I'm expecting to bounce off it though.

    I played plenty of Warframe back in the day, there are lots of great things in terms Warframe did right, but also plenty that I didn't super like their approach to. Their story wasn't built with live service in mind, and the operator was just clunky and bleh. Additionally, I think I have a slight distaste for practically every character or what they did with them.

    I'm not much of a fan of the aesthetic, feels like a nomadic Warframe which doesn't do it for me. I already don't like Warframe's aesthetics much.

    Never been super much into Dark Souls gameplay or style. The only reason why I'm interested in Elden Ring is for the exploration and widely varied sets of enemies... which isn't what a procgen Warframe type of game would have. I just can't imagine Warframe's systems doing well with what is traditionally a single player game (for a good reason).

    I guess we'll see what becomes of it!
     
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    Mike Bridge said:
    logged in, did some stuff, not entirely sure what's going on, but that's ok.
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    That was my experience. The combat takes some getting used to and they were pretty bad about explaining mechanics. Granted I haven't played it since around May, so maybe they've expanded on things. It is also a lot slower than Warframe. But I had fun with it, and the world is quite good looking.
     
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    Very recently decided to return to the game and give it an earnest go. I get that they have designed the game to be "learn by exploring", but I definitely have had to dive into the wiki to understand a few things. But I'm having a good time with it. I was using the bow a fair bit but got a quest that includes using a Rune, and the only Rune I currently have is for the sword. So I've made the switch. Haven't figured out how to USE said Rune, so I guess it's back to the wiki.

    Unrelated, but Preludes 15 has dropped. A lot of good QoL changes.

    https://forums.soulframe.com/topic/12146-soulframe-preludes-15-gods-ghosts/
     
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    Mortus said:
    Very recently decided to return to the game and give it an earnest go. I get that they have designed the game to be "learn by exploring", but I definitely have had to dive into the wiki to understand a few things. But I'm having a good time with it. I was using the bow a fair bit but got a quest that includes using a Rune, and the only Rune I currently have is for the sword. So I've made the switch. Haven't figured out how to USE said Rune, so I guess it's back to the wiki.

    Unrelated, but Preludes 15 has dropped. A lot of good QoL changes.

    https://forums.soulframe.com/topic/12146-soulframe-preludes-15-gods-ghosts/
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    Lol sounds like Warframe 😂

    I'm down for a code if people have one spare :)
     
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