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    September 14, 2019

    Warframe [META] New or Returning Player? Welcome (Back) to WARFRAME!

    [META] New or Returning Player? Welcome (Back) to WARFRAME!

    Posted: 29 Jul 2019 09:02 PM PDT

    "New strength creates new weakness. Pupil, can you balance these opposing forces?"

    Warframe is a game grounded in familiar ideas permeated with distinct style and flair. You, a mysterious warrior with an unclear past, wield gun, blade, and the spectacular power of your Warframe. You contend with a totalitarian clone military, a high-tech merchant cult devoted to profit, and an ill-fated bioweapon designed by a fallen super-civilization. In your battles and adventures, you become a savior of the weak, a saboteur of the wicked, and a survivor against immense odds. Uncover your past, unlock the power of your weaponry, and unite with other players against the game's villains and its difficulty.

    Whether you're joining us for the first time or are a returning player, the moderation team at /r/Warframe would like to welcome you (back) to the community and to wish you a happy second half of 2019!

    This is one of the official fan sites for Warframe, and we're happy to have you join us! We've got users from all over the world and all walks of life, ready to give their assistance or have discussions for your needs. Below is a basic introduction to the game and the subreddit.

    Here are a few important resources to get you get started!

    The official Warframe Quick Start Guide will get you playing in no time!

    The official Warframe Quest Guide is also here to steer you on your way through the story

    Fortuna Map and comprehensive guide to the cold Venusian surface will help you brave the largest open world expansion yet!

    Plains of Eidolon Map and getting started on Plains of Eidolon, two helpful resources written by the community for the community!

    Unofficial Warframe Handbook written by /u/DapperMuffin and updated by /u/TheStonedDerp ! Whether you're new or returning it's highly recommended you give this a look.

    Fennyface's Beginner's Guide ! the most comprehensive and robust explanation of the new player experience in the community.

    Folren's Riven Bot Discord, By /u/Folren ! A discord bot server dedicated to answer the main question: "is this riven good?"

    Beginner's Gun Modding and Melee Modding Guides, by /u/Mogwin ! A how-to on the basics of weapon modding.

    Community Tier List by /u/sakai4eva ! Perfect for seeing what is regarded as "good" or "bad" in the world of Warframe. Please remember that everything can work if you put time into it! Alternatively, you can try searching for recent tier lists.

    Community Guide to Farming Resources by /u/ByteRoster ! A perfect place to find out where to efficiently farm for the materials needed for that gun you've had your eyes on since the start!

    This forum thread by Rydian covers all major changes since Update 8! It's a few months out of date currently, but we have painfully compiled a list of changes since the last time that one was updated.

    Looking for streams or creators? Check out the Official Warframe Partners page, as well as the Warframe Partner's Program if you're interested in joining them!

    Prefer to search for specific written guides? The Steam community has plenty of guides that you can search through by category or keywords!

    Our subreddit FAQ has the answer to many questions you might ask when starting out. finally updatedyay i did something

    The Warframe wiki, a fellow official fan site, is the premier information hub for all things Warframe. An index of everything in the game, it's the first place and the best place you should go to figure out what anything is!

    Be sure to check out our other player-made resources over here!

    Our weekly threads (links to the most recent ones are in the sidebar!)

    Warframe Weekly Q&A | Ask Your Game-Related Questions Here! - This thread is for any and all questions you have about the game! Players check every day of the week to answer your questions, no matter how simple or complicated they are! There's a new thread every Sunday!

    Warframe Weekly Moments | Good Luck? Bad Luck? Share Your Experiences Here! - This thread is a place where people can post about their good or bad luck! Whether you praise the Void or curse RNGesus, everyone here can sympathize! There's a new thread every Monday!

    Warframe Weekly Off-Topic Thread | Share Whatever You'd Like! This weekly thread is a place where people can post anything, even things that would the Relevance Rule

    Warframe Weekly Vent/Rage/Rant Thread! - This weekly thread is for anyone who wants to let off steam, we all love the game, but nothing is perfect!

    Warframe Weekly Recruitment | Share Your Name and Get in the Game! - This thread is for anyone looking to help other players or to get help themselves! Share your in-game name to group up for tough missions, make new friends, or find a rare item! There's a new thread every Friday!

    Warframe Weekly Riven Thread! - A weekly thread for anyone who is interested in the Riven aspect of Warframe. Builds, rolls, tips and tricks are all freely shared and discussed in this thread.

    And make sure to check out our public communities page if you're looking for some cool Warframe related Discord channels to join!

    Not a fan of Discord? We also have an IRC channel!

    The Warframe Reddit network

    Warframe Reddit is more than just /r/Warframe. Here are the other subreddits in our network, and their various purposes:

    • /r/WarframeRunway is dedicated to everything fashionframe and captura! Keep in mind, posting your fashion to the main sub is not only allowed but encouraged!

    • /r/MemeFrame is the place where most Warframe-related memes and image macros go!

    • /r/WarframeClanRecruit is for all your clan recruitment or invitation needs!

    • /r/WarTrade is where you can find trade requests and offers for all tradable items in Warframe!

    • /r/WarLFG Need some people to clear the star chart or run relics with? This is the place to group up!

    • /r/MandachordMelodies Share your tunes with the rest of the community!

    • /r/WarframePvP For everything PvP! Not very active, but might still be worth checking out if you're really into the PvP side of the game.

    Finally, an overview of our subreddit rules.

    "The world weighs more heavily on you now. Try not to lose yourself."

    Welcome Tenno! We'll see you in the stars!

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    Warframe Weekly Recruitment | Share Your Name and Get in the Game!

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 08:32 AM PDT

    This thread is for anyone to recruit or request others to help them out. It's open to all types of recruitment, and you can recruit any day of the week!

    • Asking for help from other players or offering to help? Go ahead and share your name!

    • Need people to do a certain kind of run? Put your name out there!

    • Want to recruit for your clan? Do it!

    • Anything else you want other players to add you up for? Get the word out and see who offers!

    Please provide the following information in your comment (in no particular order or format):

    • Platform (PC/PS4/XB1/Switch)
    • In-game name (to add to contacts), or clan name if recruiting
    • Location (for lag concerns or looking for players from specific regions)
    • Goal (What are you going to be doing?)

    No formatting necessary! That's right, format your requests or offers howeveryou want! The nicer and prettier it is though, the easier it is to read so keep that in mind!

    Read the other comments! If no one answers your response, add the others who have shared their info! Keep checking back to see who else is out there! Request away!

    And remember...

    You can recruit any day of the week!

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    Trinity, The Beloved

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 11:50 AM PDT

    "Unstoppable Force" Chroma Captura Edit - AoD

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 09:42 PM PDT

    DE when

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 06:19 PM PDT

    To all the Vault Hunters in Warframe

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 03:39 PM PDT

    MR 27 struggles and planning to make them touch the roof lol(sucks i dont have art skills to make a golem)

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 01:54 AM PDT

    Imagine you just sleeping then you lift your head up to find this.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 04:04 AM PDT

    Cool operators dont look at explosions.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 10:46 PM PDT

    It took a while but I finally got my 1000th log-in!

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 07:50 AM PDT

    So theres two Mow Them Down dailys and after "completing" them in a mission they just reset to zero after 150 kills

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 05:30 PM PDT

    Girlfriend painted our mains for my birthday

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 12:01 PM PDT

    Doing the last sortie today when this happens

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 04:01 PM PDT

    Baro's new decor (pedestal for scale)

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 06:16 AM PDT

    TIL If you equip the Shawzin emote with Octavia, you can play the currently equipped Mallet track on your Mandachord. Now you can make your own one-man band!

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 03:18 PM PDT

    [Bug] Nightwave Act resetting mid mission - And also being aviable twice

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 06:07 PM PDT

    Hey DE can we get a banana for scale or something on the previews? They look like tables and yet are smaller then Ayatans

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 08:08 AM PDT

    The Steam Review Bombing and the Simplified Chinese Translator Incident

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 10:31 PM PDT

    The Steam Review Bombing and the Simplified Chinese Translator Incident

    Earlier today Warframe experienced a massive review bombing on Steam which changed its recent review state to Mixed. This is caused by a community outrage following an incident with one of Warframe's volunteer Simplified Chinese translator. I'll try to explain what happened and clear up things a bit in this post. To clarify: this translator works for the Steam branch of Warframe, not the Chinese branch.

    TLDR: A Simplified Chinese (zhCN) translator well appreciated by the playerbase was kicked out by DE for NDA violation. The translator considered the decision unfair since DE used evidences prior to the NDA. The translator proceeds to share his thoughts on Warframe zhCN localization in two personal blog posts. Players spontaneously review bombed Warframe after hearing the news.

    Please keep all discussion civil. Estimated reading time: 15min

    The translator's first post is mostly a summary on what happened and a leave announcement.

    Warframe Forums denying China Mainland users with error 403 (access denied) with no official explanation

    Thanks for All the Fish

    Hi. I guess not much of you remember my gamertag and call me by "the translator." You can stop doing that now.

    Screenshot of DE's notice of termination

    I am kicked out of the localization team for "publicly sharing internal information" and "insulting DE staff members."

    I asked myself what internal info did I leak - was it that I talked about Crowdin? And about insulting staff members - that might be for when I muttered about the official translation for Saints of Altra looking like machine-translated. Yes I understand machine translation is probably the biggest insult toward translators. Not only for a game but also in other fields. I did apologize afterwards but I guess it didn't help. All those details don't matter now anyway.

    Update: there's been a lot of misunderstanding so I'll try to elaborate.

    Leaking info - I tweeted about Crowdin the localization platform some time ago; at that time I hadn't even signed an official NDA with my name on it. I got the NDA afterwards and it said I can't even mention I'm an official volunteer translator. After I signed the NDA, they collected evidences from before I did so and flagged me. I removed those tweets but... Well I'm out of the business already. All I have to say is that I'm too young to know companies can make you sign a contract and fire you by going back in time. Doesn't look like DE intend to give me a second chance either.

    Crowdin - that's a localization platform, an utility website, not some confidential translation company.

    "Insulting DE staff members from the translation team" - I knew they worked very hard for those contents and I apologized for my machine translation mutterings. But "insulting"... I thought you only use that word for swearing and personal attacks. Guess I'm too young to know. Adding "machine translation" to my no-no dictionary. (It seems like they fixed most of the text afterwards but I have no way to know.)

    Anyway if you work with DE you should expect to be DEnied with no further details. I'm well aware of this principle and I will not go deeper into these stuff.

    "Nah it's just a game, I have better stuff to do like fighting dragons in Iceborne."

    Back to Warframe translation. Moving forward, if y'all ever want to send translation feedbacks, send them to the support team if the official forum 403's you. I asked about the 403 quite a while ago but I've yet to receive any official response. Looks like the support team is in charge of the translation now.

    And my college life isn't going well at all. Here's a joke - you don't always hear about Chinese college students changing their majors halfway through college, right? I've already wasted a few years on a major I don't like in a college abroad. I've just graduated in another major and my family always blamed my job as a volunteer translator for being a major contribution toward my failure in the first major. On the bright side I can now write "volunteer game translator" on my CV! Sadly there will no longer be any evidence for it...

    I've been translating patch notes for almost five years. I'm thinking of passing on this job. It's time for me to take a break, and I might come back after I walk out of this. I have a full life ahead of me and it leaves no time for translating articles of 30 pages long.

    And my personal translator's notes might just end here. Thank you for your reading and supporting.

    And for the game... I'm a bad Warframe player. I might try to make some fun videos on Warframe or other games. But I'll for sure end up being a low-key content creator. I'm no longer a huge Warframe fan and I've been looking for other fun games all the time.

    And for the devstreams... I'll only reupload complete ones when I have time.

    Some people suggest me to translate for other games. I'll see if there are any offers I can take. I'm no match for the real pros.

    However no matter how I love my job, my family would just consider it a waste of time - no prospect, no fortune, so why don't get a real job instead?

    Finally I'm putting my tokens as a translator down, and taking off my sigils. Sadly I mostly play with pugs and nobody gives a shit. If DE decides to take them back then they're gone forever. Let them be a small rememberance.

    Tenno Translator sigil

    Tenno Translator sigil

    Tenno Translator sigil

    All right that's it. Thank you for supporting me during all these years. GLHF.

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    The second post is more about their personal reflection on Warframe's Chinese localization work.

    A persisting translation issue that has been around for quite a while and not getting fixed anytime soon

    So Y'all Gonna Keep Heating This Up?

    Based on the previous post, I'd like to offer an update especially after seeing the heated discussion among the playerbase.

    First of all, an explanation on my recent tweets:

    DE planned to migrate to a new translation platform. We translators were asked for personal information to sign a new NDA. That was on Sep. 4th EDT. I finished all of that on the same day and waited for the permission to the new platform. Today (Sep. 12th EDT) I was notified of the violation and removed from the team with no chances to appeal.

    Prior to this new NDA, DE does not possess our personal information, nor had we signed official NDAs with DE.

    The NDA, tldr:

    • You cannot disclose your communication with DE staff. (Game over. I talked a lot about the support team's translation decisions, including the Wukong Iron Staff one.) *OP's note: the translator believes a name straightly taken from Journey to the West should be used as Iron Staff's translation, as opposed to the official, lackluster one. The translator organized a poll and the majority favored the translator's version.*

    The translator's tweet: "I showed them the poll result but the support team said they'll keep the official translation because it's more characteristic and stays close to the English name, 'Iron Staff.' Well... Nah I'll let this one pass and play my sole role as a bug fixer. Just explaining to those who voted in the poll."

    • Volunteers can interact with players on social media but cannot claim it is upon DE's request. Emmm... I think they can also make something out of this. "Leaking info" is such a big scope that they can shape it to whatever they want.
    • Abusive language is not tolerated and suggestions should be brought up in constructive manners. This is also very open to reinterpretation. If you say no toward the product of their hard work, it can fall under "non-constructive criticism." One step further and it'll become abusive language. (I gave my apology but it won't work unless every DE staff accepts it.)

    Not to mention that DE kicked me out without telling me which part of the NDA had I violated. Understand that it's the DE style, they ban players in the same fashion after all...

    Anyway DE didn't offer me any further details. Everything above is just my speculation. Of course they won't spend more time telling me what went wrong but to just treat me as an average player from now on.

    I want to talk about our intimate connection with DE staffs when the volunteer translation team started. Back then we used to discuss translations and look into each other's sources of reference. Volunteers gave fair suggestions and staffs were happy with them. The atmosphere was really nice back then. DE staffs spent their time reading support tickets all day so they mostly let volunteer translators do what they want. The result was some very nice localization.

    I don't know what happened after that but it looks like DE asked staffs to withold their job of ensuring translation quality. Was it that translators for other languages did something bad? There is no way to know. From that point on, DE staffs treated volunteer translators as tools. Not to the extent of commandment or exploitation, but more like this hot phrase:

    "I don't care what you think. I only care what I think."

    Yes you can say my translations are missing reference sources. But I've listed them all. Of course I can't do much if you argue with "internal sources." But when you turn down our suggestions with a "result from internal discussion," and do it again after seeing the opinions of the playerbase, it only reveals that you treat volunteer translators as "players with unconstructive criticism."

    OP's note: the translator refers to an old post made by another Simplified Chinese volunteer translator.

    The Fortuna update is finally out. There are a few bugs but they doesn't stop it from being a very successful update. However I have to talk about some other things.

    Self intro: I am one of Warframe's Simplified Chinese (OP: zhCN) volunteer translators since 2016. I did most of ingame conversations and lores. I joined the team simply because I felt Warframe's localization is not good enough. There were a lot of errors and the localization had a Taiwanese flavor (OP: zhTW), which is not great enough for Simplified Chinese Mainland language habits. Old players might remember zhTW texts occasionally showing up in the old zhCN localization. Even now there's a small portion of zhTW texts in zhCN that are unfixable (they've existed for so long that they are permanently locked.)

    After becoming part of the team, I understood the lack of zhCN volunteers is the root of this issue. zhCN translation was mostly done by Taiwanese volunteers and DE staffs who are migrants from Taiwan. I consider myself as a doer so I fixed the majority of important convo subtitles and big text chunks. Then I worked on the problematic translations when I have time. I requested the Traditional Chinese team (consisted of Taiwanese players) to not modify Simplified Chinese texts. Although sometimes it's just a matter of automated conversion, usually there are big deviations across these two versions and it doesn't make sense to force both languages to a same version.

    Then came the translation project for Venus in October. The workload is tremendous: 1000+ convos and thousands of other texts. I finished a small portion and localized some terms in a fashion I felt suit for zhCN. Then I took a break to deal with personal work for a week. Everything changed when I came back. Part of my translation was modified by DE support team in a way that doesn't make much sense. Here's the most absurd example: "Sawgaw" is a bird in Vallis. It's translated to "梭哥" (OP: a transliteration/exonym). The meaning of Sawgaw is clearly stated in its description, "sawgaw = soar gore (flying blood)." The name Sawgaw points to the "soar" of this red-faced bird. I gave it a name, "飞血", expressing this meaning, but for some reason the support team thought a meaningless transliteration is better than mine. I couldn't find other word to describe this action, but "arrogant". And this wasn't the first time it happened.

    There are a lot of errors too. They asked me to point them out so I did so. Once I found a dozen issues in a 50-line convo. I ask - what's the point if I need to offer my advice for free and watch them freely tampered by people bad at their translation job? There was a line, "come back in a few", uttered by a merchant to the player. My version was "经常回来看看" (OP: don't forget to come back) but someone changed it to "过一会儿回来" (OP: come back in a short while). I can't stand all those out-of-context translations.

    The name of the map is Orb Vallis. With the DE supervisor we confirmed "orb" as the spider-like creatures on the map, or the "orb weavers." The best translation would be "圆蛛山谷" (OP: orb weaver valley) instead of "奥布山谷" (OP: exonym of "orb" + valley) which is adopted. The support team didn't care: "'o-r-b' is nice; keep it as it is." Absurd.

    These are just some of the most outstanding issues. Hope you get a glimpse into how bad the situation is. Honestly the nature of Warframe makes localization pointless to many players since it's the farming that matters. Personally I strive to deliver a better Simplified Chinese experience to players - instead of a localization with errors and sentences awkwardly put together. I am not here to ignite clashes between zhCN and zhTW players, neither did I say zhTW translation is outright inferior. Instead, my idea is that zhCN translators should be given more trust over zhCN localization, as opposed to zhTW styles completely overriding the zhCN one with no attention to details.

    (It's likely some translations were reluctantly corrected at last, but to this day this has always been the atmosphere in the translator team.)

    Later I found this in DE's job posting of a Simplified Chinese customer support.

    Screenshot of DE's zhCN community support job posting

    "Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, your job application will not be considered."

    It wasn't here a few years back. I imagined they can find someone who truly understands how the Simplified Chinese culture works. This clause only leaves them students studying abroad and Canadians... I'll stop here. No politics.

    I read the texts that players were most angry about. Lots of them just didn't make sense. So I posted them, with player feedback, to our internal group chat. (They dropped my permission so I can't take screenshots anymore.) I muttered, "looks like these translations are done without volunteers. They looks like machine-translated. I'll refine them when I have permission." If this happened a few years back everyone would sit down and figure out together what need to be done better. Now it was:

    "These are all contents we made with great efforts; some of us even sacrificed our off-work hours." Fine I'll apologize. I'm sorry. I too need to sacrifice my off-work hours and shoulder the players' complaints. I need to face all of their swearings, pick out errors in the localization and send them to you. So I'm nothing but a language filter? All right, guess you're not gonna read player feedback anyway, wish the players be happy with your translation then. Oh yeah I'm a volunteer, no need for me to butt into your business. I'm such a doormat.

    So why don't I make players post feedbacks on the forums? I did make a tutorial for that and called for people to do so. But most Simplified Chinese players would just resort to blaming DE in QQ group chats and on Tieba (OP: like Reddit). They won't look for official channels. Yup I'm a doormat and "violated the NDA" by passing along players' feedback to you. Fine. You got thousands of support tickets per day. Some players said they did send tickets but I didn't hear the staffs talking about translation feedback. So did you just slap on a copypasta response and clicked Next, or actually worked on fixing the translation? I saw a lot of tickets about blatant localization errors with no DE follow-up... Oh right you must be really busy. I'm just a volunteer.

    Awesome. I'm not a volunteer anymore so I can point these things out here. I'm not going to call out names since not all DE staffs are that stubborn. There are very nice ones.

    But occasionally the language barrier gives players a hard time communicating feedback. Talking Chinese with foreign DE staffs? Forget about it. They can't read Chinese and will just reply with "staffs are absolutely right but I can't understand so I will ask our Chinese staff for a translation." Welp, I won't be coming to you if Chinese staffs actually cared...

    Lastly I hope they can fix future translation. If players still whine a lot, then thank them for spending their off-work hours. I can now take this job off my off-work hours and be a spectator on Warframe's future localization. I guess the reaction of Simplified Chinese players will be an answer.

    BTW most foreign players in the official forums think, "why don't you play on the Chinese server instead of the Steam one? Didn't they make a server specifically for you guys?" Yes, the Chinese mirror of many games does look different than the international one. I understand such thoughts. Fellow Chinese players, if you run into such players, you can explain: "well if DE hates Simplified Chinese so much why don't they just delete the language from the Steam branch?" This constructive suggestion of mine can probably save a lot hassle for Chinese DE staffs too. And it also gives those fluent in English a chance to show off, "yup I know English and I don't need the translation."

    Finally I ask everyone to calm down in the face of this incident. I don't expect to return to the translator team since I'll still be nothing but a "volunteer" there. I sincerely hope you take reasonable actions to seek improvement to the localization. I don't understand how Steam reviews work but I think they will believe I asked y'all to review bomb Warframe. I feel like sitting on a pile of oil. It either dries out, or gets set on fire by foreign players. This is up to your choice. And I don't expect an official explanation from DE since the staffs are part of them but we're just volunteers.

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    I Present to You... My Ayatan Dragon! ...I was Bored.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 09:29 PM PDT

    Every day, this Condroc curses the god that made her a bird

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 02:14 AM PDT

    Baro Ki'Teer 9/13/2019

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 06:00 AM PDT

    Inspiration on how to use Baro's new decos in your orbiter!

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 09:07 AM PDT

    My Gram now does more than a thousand damage.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 01:41 AM PDT

    It's now called KiloGram.

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    Bruised and battered, they're still among us.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 08:07 PM PDT

    DE is planning on letting people buy back milestone reward weapons at Simaris

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 11:59 AM PDT

    This was news to me up until a minute ago, and I believe most people don't know about it (although apparently it had been mentioned in a dev stream some time ago):

    If you've claimed and sold one of your milestone login reward weapons, they are planned to be available at Simaris' offerings for re-purchase. The support staff member I've talked to has confirmed that an update like this is in the works and that it would be "rolled out in due time".

    Rejoice!

    Source (my support ticket, published with express permission): https://i.imgur.com/K97f3v5.png

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    I tired to make the worst Zaw possible, and I believe I've done it. An Impact damage Machete that can swing... sometimes.

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 03:16 AM PDT

    Gonna get any angel frames any time soon? Also, THE EMPRAH PROTECTS

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 12:06 PM PDT
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