Free Space For Railjacks

When Fortuna was announced at Tennocon years ago, a big part of the teaser was seeing a Railjack come in, Mag jumping on and us all seeing a transition straight to a Railjack mission, fighting a Kuva Lich. It all ended in a teaser for the Duviri Paradox. Now, while we’re all still waiting for the Duviri Paradox, we did eventually get most of what was teased. Fortuna became a cool open world area, we have Railjack mission and can fight Liches on, and the Duviri Paradox is on its way soon. We got most of what was promised, even if it took a very, very long time to get there.

But there’s one thing that we never got, and that’s a better connection between Railjack content and everything else. As it stands, Railjack content is incredibly disconnected to normal Warframe content. There was an attempt to correct this, to add normal missions into Railjack missions (mainly on the Corpus side of things). But these Railjack missions only made matters worse, as your ship just becomes a 5 minute taxi ride to a normal mission, with no real changes. And we definitely don’t have extraction via our Railjacks, it’s always just our landing craft.

What we really didn’t get though was a sort of open world area for your Railjack to go to, and where you can come from. The majority of missions in Railjack, you’re generally just floating around with the nearest planet in the sky box above you. It should be possible to at least extract from the Plains or the Orb Vallis, and enter some sort of in-between, a place where we can roam around in our railjack, but also have the choice to seamlessly start either new missions or, well, just chill out.

Why do I say this? Well, on Earth Proxima, we have Free Flight, a node that, well, is free flight. You can zoom around an empty map that just contains some resources. What I am suggesting is that we have Free Flight nodes on every planet, not just Earth. But make it more of an open world, similar to the Orb Vallis, where you can optionally turn up the heat and attract enemies. After all, everything arrives via ship, so there’s no reason why we can’t have ships teleporting in to fight.

Railjacks also don’t work as a base you can operate from. We can use Drifter’s Camp or the Dormizon in the trapped Zariman, but we can’t use our Railjacks, which have plenty of space in them. Heck, we should be able to start building things or check out our mods or arcanes while on our Railjacks. It would be cool for you to get resources then remotely start building things in your foundry. You can already access the arsenal while on your Railjack when it’s parked at your dojo, but it would be nice to be able to access your arsenal on your Railjack while in quiet places like the Free Flight node on Earth Proxima.

Honestly, a way you could make Railjack content better connected to normal content would be for us to use our Railjacks the same way we use our orbiters. But that might be a bit too complicated…