The First Descendant simply launched, however it’s arduous to shake off how carefully associated it’s to its competitors– Warframe. Whereas the 2 video games will stand independently in the identical panorama, there are just a few obviously comparable issues. 

If you wish to see how shut issues are with the 2 video games, simply see these comparisons under.

10 methods The First Descendant is rather like Warframe

The Descendants are actually simply Warframes

I hate to be so brash proper from the get-go, however as a Warframe participant coming into the sport, the courses, their presentation, and skill setups simply scream Warframe. Originally, you’ve three courses to select from, all with 4 totally different unlockable skills. Each Descendant has a passive, too, complementing their meant playstyle. 

There are various extra after the start hours of the sport. You’ll be able to acquire them both with the premium foreign money, Caliber, or by grinding out particular objects for the Descendants. The method is similar in Warframe; you both purchase one outright with the sport’s premium foreign money or by grinding out particular parts for them.

Final Descendants are simply Prime Warframes

If you happen to scroll round within the recreation’s complicated menus, you’ll be able to see that there are totally different variations of the usual Descendants with the ‘Final’ prefix. They play and act the identical as their regular counterparts, simply with barely higher stats. Additionally they include hefty worth tags. To not point out, every Final Descendant within the store is all decked out in whites and greys with some gold trimming.

By way of Prime Warframes, they play the identical as their base varieties, simply with barely higher stats. They arrive in costly bundles too, and sport comparable base coloration schemes as these we see in The First Descendant’s store.

The modding system feels the identical as Warframe

The second I noticed the modding display for weapons and the Descendants, it felt like a one-to-one format of the Warframe modding system. Weapons and Descendants have mod slots with symbols that, when paired with a mod with the identical form, have their prices reduce in half. It’s actually the identical as Warframe, simply with totally different terminology.

Mod capability relies on ranges and matching slots. You’ll be able to even improve these mods to make them stronger in your builds in The First Descendant. Individuals who don’t play these kind of video games are going to be so confused by the complexity of those menus, however Warframe veterans will decide this up inside minutes.

Don’t even get me began on the Power Activators, that are principally the Orokin Catalysts and Reactors of The First Descendant. Wish to have extra mod capability in your stuff? Pop considered one of these, and you’ll customise your builds even additional.

The motion is all too acquainted

In Warframe, you’re virtually all the time sprinting, zipping round, and double leaping as a way of getting round quick and staying alive. Right here in The First Descendant, you’re doing the identical. Double leaping and sprinting to your coronary heart’s content material is an efficient option to get by way of issues and keep alive.

The Descendants don’t fairly have the limber prowess because the Warframes do, however that hole is narrowed with the grappling hook system. 

Mastery Rank

This one simply feels approach too comparable. The First Descendant has a complete of 30 Mastery Ranks to progress by way of as you achieve extra XP. Warframe had 30 ranks however has gone previous that with continually new objects to grind for.

In any case, each time you rank up in The First Descendant, you’d get extra mod house to your weapons and Descendant. Pair that with getting extra slots to your stock and storage. It’s like you’ve extra to work with as you make investments extra time into the sport.

Karel is actually Captain Vor

Vor was the primary massive dangerous man you fought in Warframe. He’s obsessive about this Janus Key that you simply’ll hear him discuss and the way it’s associated to the Void. Karel, although? Exchange the Janus Key with the Iron Coronary heart. The Void can be current on this recreation too. You actually simply can’t maintain again how a lot you wish to punch their ugly faces in.

The Information is principally The Lotus

The Lotus is actual in Warframe, however you don’t bodily see her till approach later. The NPCs you work together with have their reservations about her. In The First Descendant, individuals really feel the identical about The Information. She’s all the time with you in each mission, serving to you. She even has an analogous aura to The Lotus: very calm, reassuring, and motherly.

The ammo drops scream Warframe

The ammo drops are principally like Warframe’s, too. Kill teams of enemies, and also you see a bunch of coloured modules on the bottom. You decide issues up based mostly on the kind of ammunition you want. The remainder is simply there like a pile of Legos.

The sources and crafting techniques are similar to Warframe

In each video games, there are dozens of various kinds of sources to gather. Every useful resource will probably be helpful for crafting one thing. It’s only a matter of managing your sources and ensuring you’ve what you want. In any other case, you need to return to missions the place this stuff drop and repeat the cycle.

Then there’s the crafting system. You want varied supplies to analysis new objects, oftentimes with steep prices. Not solely that, however there are additionally crafting occasions, which means that you need to wait in between crafting stuff earlier than you should utilize them. If you happen to don’t wish to wait, you’ll be able to immediately end crafting by spending the sport’s premium foreign money. 

The beauty customizations 

There’s virtually no contest in the case of dealing with off towards Fashionframe in Warframe. The First Descendant tries to emulate that in an excellent and trustworthy try. Permitting for various head, physique, chest, and again attachments to your characters. Every attachment also can have totally different components of them coloured otherwise. 

It’s fairly enjoyable and really simple to fall into this for hours to get your Descendant to look good. Nonetheless, it isn’t a good argument to say that Warframe has higher customization. It’s been out for thus lengthy that there’s simply much more stuff you’ll be able to acquire and customise. It’s extra simply an remark that comparable customization mechanics are in place.

In any case, whereas The First Descendant will greater than possible be in contrast a lot to Warframe due to many key parts identified right here, it’s nonetheless distinctive in its personal proper. It’ll simply really feel all too acquainted with a recreation that’s been round and has advanced previously ten years.