A New Beginning with the Duviri Paradox?

Warframe has always had a problem with actually getting into the game. Once you’ve completed Vor’s Prize, it’s a long, often convoluted journey even to complete the star chart. This means that many new players never actually get to try the cool things, like Necramechs and the New War. A lot of the new, fun and interesting stuff actually has a lot of requirements. The New War in particular required both a Necramech and a Railjack. Both of which are… Not so much end-game content, but still pains in the ass to obtain. Railjacks in particular have had their costs reduced repeatedly, to make things more new player-friendly.

Even then though, there’s still a lot to cover. After all, before you can get to things like Chains of Harrow, the War Within and the New War, you have to also have done quests like the New Strange, Natah and the Second Dream. But the Second Dream is all the way past Uranus.

As you can see, you can understand why Digital Extremes wants everyone to be able to play the Duviri Paradox. The amount of work they have put into this strange new place, it all kinda goes to waste if many players can’t reach it. Luckily, because the whole area is, well, a paradox, you can put it nearly anywhere on the star chart and it still kinda fits. Ideally after the Second Dream, since that is where we discover the true nature of the Tenno.

But DE hasn’t done that. Instead of putting the Duviri Paradox in a reasonable place, they have put it… right at the start of the game. Meaning that you can choose to play the Duviri Paradox BEFORE playing Vor’s Prize. Your first choice in Warframe is whether you want to start either at Earth, waking up and choosing your Warframe… OR you can START with the Duviri Paradox. Which barely has any Warframe action at all. In fact, Duviri is almost a whole new game, with horses and rogue-like elements.

Honestly, in my opinion, making the Duviri Paradox one of the first quests you can play is insane. It’s very disconnected from the rest of Warframe. Not in the way the other open worlds are either. Duviri is a brand new system that features Warframes only as an afterthought.

Ok, I get it. Everything around the Duviri Paradox is going to be weird and confusing. It’s a paradox after all. But this is a very ballsy move by Digital Extremes. Especially since they originally said that the Duviri Paradox would be available around the same point the Second Dream is. Speaking of the Second Dream, that could be moved forward to an earlier planet too. But the Drifter exists separately from the Operator, and the two only coexist after the New War. And during the New War, they also played very differently.

Either way, any newbie who finishes the Duviri Paradox is going to be very confused when they get into Warframe proper. Where we have no Drifters until the New War…