Hunhow existed for exactly two quests, then was forgotten for 6 years and when New War came out DE was like "oh right this guy exists" and just put himin there for approximately 40 seconds.
@@Sabuuchi 10 minutes and it would not have made any difference if it was Hunhow or Cephalon Cy. Actually, Cy would have made more sense, why does Hunhow who has slept at the bottom of the sea since the Old War or something know about the archons?
Honestly think the Second Dream was so acclaimed not because its an amazing story (IMO its pretty alright) but because this kind of story came from the funny sexy space narwhal ninja game
I'd be mad too if some lanky armed mfs forced me to travel vast nothingness for eons just to terraform a nothing starsystem and scrambled my eggs in the process.
@@Sabuuchi yea giving something sentience and then telling them that you are a slave and have no rights. Your only purpose is to find more land for them to conquer than die. What a flawless plan.
But that was just one of the 2 side effects of the trip to Tau, and as far as I know, it wasn't the real motive. According to me, once they became conscious, they simply realized that the Orokin were shit, and they would end up destroying Tau in the same way that they did with the solar system, as Ballas tells us in one of the vitruvians of the adventure The Sacrifice. This does not have much to do with it, but it is curious and is related to the infertility of the Sentients. Natah wanted his own children, just as Teshin said in the adventure of the same name. Those "children" would be the Tenno, and this only makes me think that Natah, in reality, did not loved the childrens, she only took them under her care on a whim as she could not conceive her own.
People praise The Second Dream not only for story reasons, but for content we got with it. Cool new moon mods and challenges, amazing spy missions with so much variety, rare things (rare sword stance, hard to get War parts). We even had a whole new focus system to grind from start. Also all cosmetic stuff in the store with few exceptions was pretty meh, and then they dropped Shadow Stalker armor set for fuck ton of platinum, probably best non prime cosmetic item till today. We never got so much lore, story and actually fun post quest content in one update and probably never will.
@@TheDragonfriday A lot of the moon drift mods are actually staples in builds to this day. Things like Coaction drift, Power Drift, Cunning drift and the like are used for getting small stat bonuses out of your exilus slot, or boosting the power of your aura. I would say they're still useful.
@@TheDragonfriday It give us Ivan's and drift mods that I use on nearly every build. As well as one of the most creative and fun spy tiles i still run today. The update was one beefy package.
5:20 This is such a perfect encapsulation of why I really want there to be _at least_ a codex entry for each event that gives new players an in-game option to catch up with what happened outside the quests. Most events are kinda their own self-contained story, but you can't just expect people to look up important shit like this online. Apart from that though, I do honestly think Hunhow is one of the best characters in Warframe. He absolutely hates the Tenno and anything related to Orokin, but his love for his family is even stronger than his hatred for us. That deep, booming voice certainly helps. His part in the New War was one of my favourite things about that quest and I certainly hope we will see more of him in the future.
For me the second dream was really just DE realizing that they could indeed tell us a story outside of text form, but it suffers from a severe lack of foresight in terms of both preexisting lore and the lore they were trying to build with it, this is a problem they still have for a majority of their storytelling but it has improved significantly since the sacrifice. it hurts my brain to know that this game is almost a decade old, it has come so far, yet i sometimes feel like DE hasn't learned some of the more obvious lessons after all this time.
I really loved the second dream. I liked the idea of hiding the entire moon, and adding a playable tileset. To this day Lua remains my favourite as it's just super pretty to me. I liked operators and the concept, it tied a lot of ideas together for me. I'll even ignore some of the more nonsensical bits because overall I just had a lot of fun with it. Edit: to add a little bit more to that I really loved the trial rooms too. Little environment puzzles that I had to work out myself, and to this day I can't resist solving them when I run into one
Holy shit, i didn't realize that alad V getting cured was never mentioned after that event. i was THERE for it and so alad v showing up later made sense but i cannot believe such an important thing is so glossed over. (not that people probably do patient 0 after mesa prime was released)
Back before Specters of the Rail, Steve said old events like that would return, retooled as quests for context to help along the main story. As of September of 2020 the files, scripts, voices, etc were removed from the game during the great ensmallening update; scrapped forever.
Second dream was when the game started to get interesting, but the quest itself is just sharkwing and running around while the characters scream at your ears nonstop, war within for me is when the quests start to get good story AND gameplaywise
I think what people liked about the second dream is just how it was the culmination of a lot of little lore bits from across the game. PS. I think the stalker was more possessed by hunhow or something when he gets to your orbiter because his energy colors are not blue but red. PSS. not really related to the Second Dream, but most sentient energy attacks turned from being blue to red after TNW released.
Ordis using the void for stealth. That would explain how in the man in the wall he’s able to hide not only the orbiter, not only the railjack cy runs, but also the extension cord connecting the two.
i think the second dream is so beloved since it (well technically natah as well) involves so many characters from opposing parts of the universe in one story, tyl regors labs and research opening up the sentients, alad v being... alad v (the best way possible), lotus and hunhow interactions, and seeing the stalkers personality, even if barely
Hey! Fun Fact! I somehow managed to break into the Tenno room in the orbiter while visiting a friends orbiter, before I did the Second Dream quest. I was stuck and confused so I did what any reasonable person does, fashion the person in the funny pod. Anyways that’s how I managed to have my operator customized before doing this quest.(for anyone knowing my reaction when I saw the big reveal, I was just laughing and shocked)
I liked the future story quests more (THE SACRIFICE), but The Second Dream does have a special place for me too. It is mostly nostalgia, since before The Second Dream there was a lot of speculation on what we actually were as Tenno, but reading some of the other comments reminds me how much else was introduced with the quest. Mostly the Focus system, and Lua along with all its unique Drift mods and associated puzzles. It introduced a lot of cool stuff. I also forgot about Tubemen of Regor for a minute there. It's kind of wild that such an important story beat (it's why Alad V is no longer infested and was helping us at all in the first place) is just, completely gone now. Ditto with the introduction of Stalker's acolytes trying to hunt Alad V down because he helped us.
A ton of event-exclusive story should be brought back into the game as minor quests or even codex entries just for the sake of people who started playing after the events were long since gone. I hopped in at the tail end of the Sacrifice update cycle (shortly before the Earth relay rebuild event) and man, it's jarring for the game to skip chunks of its own story, for the emotional impact of some events to rely on continuous exposure to quest-givers and mission command chatter (Alad who? oh, you mean that scrawny loser whose head I bashed in like six times to get Valkyr parts before moving on, cool), and for characters I've never met to act like we're buddy-buds (for example I've never even visited Teshin's crib prior to Natah because I've no interest in PvP, and I haven't bothered to talk to him before War Within either). At least some of the newer events get some kind of reprise - Orphix missions in Railjack, Zealoid Prelate on Deimos, the entire New War prelude being available even if you've barely touched Railjack, lore for the Exploiter Orb and Deck 12 still being in the game to some degree - but it's nowhere near enough to give you a full picture of the story without scrolling through the fanmade Wiki in a game that already hides chunks of its lore behind obscure collectibles and Simaris scan targets.
to be fair that first sentient fight gave me the first ass whooping i ever had in this game, i was very low lvl and ended up winning but man it took more than i ever had to give before
I don't know if I can say it's the best but , to me, the most memorable was Chains of Harrow. I get goosebumps every time I remember the "Rap Tap Tap" and "Hey there Kiddo". I love Chains of Harrow to death.
I started playing warframe right before the Natah quest came out and, lemme tell you, having the Second Dream come out after the parkour rework and story escalation of the Natah quest really hooked me on warframe for the following years. Lot of ups with mostly awkward or horrendous downs since then but, still, Warframe really is something special. Just a shame it's under the management of DE
Imagine what this game can do under the management of EA, Square Enix, Activison or Bungie. I can think of horrible server, cut content resale, paid tilesets, vaulted and later resold expansion... All the flaws you've mentioned, are the cost of an ENTIRELY Free-to-play model, it doesn't bring enough revenue to be guaranteed an investment.
6:43 I remember back in the days when I first met that one sentient ( all tho it was different looking) it took me a solid 5 minutes just to kill it because of the immunity to status effects and the dmg reduction they had
Yeah tbh I think it got really downplayed in this video how tough sentients were. With the content we had back then there were very little counters and you had to be aware enough to have them. We didn’t know how sentients worked and we definitely didn’t have the ability to remove their resistances the first time around. Yeah bringing mesa and blasting it as it was shown here works but chances are new players might not have had her or the foresight to bring her so they’d have to make do like I did with rhino. Back in those days you could skip the other quests except archwing and natah if you had a taxi. Which your boy did. (Honestly fuck the specters of the rail update, it gatekeeps too much content too hard)
I had fully finished a video on The War Within a few months after this one but I was VERY unhappy with the final product. Scrapped it. Been wanting to touch on the other quests lately, so I might take another crack at it.
When i was new to Warframe, this and the War Within were the most hyped up quests and my friends that got me to play kept telling me to wait for these quests. I played this game years after those 2 quests came out and they were riddled with game breaking bugs that caused me to exit application multiple times. It was one of if not the worst experience I've ever had in this game, and the story itself wasn't even all that impressive from what I'd experienced in other games. They were overhyped and never lived up to my expectations, but the gameplay of this FREE game kept me here today and I'm happy I get to see their most extensive update yet next month answering a lot of concerns I had with this game.
you can kind of of explain the ordis not being able to get into the tower bit by saying, in order for us to get into a tower we need a key, but when you jump to a random one you don't have the key ready so you need to open the tower from the inside. And to explain why the moon has a feature where it can be destabilized could be a way for the orokin to use a "scorched earth" tactic to prevent the sentients from getting oro.
The moon retcon and Alad V de-infesting might take away from the quest, but those issues don't effect people who started playing after it's release (or are oblivious and just didn't notice the moon, or just hadn't done Patient Zero yet) The moon reveal made me flip my shit because I was just under the assumption that it got destroyed at some point and like tbh up until that point Lotus didn't really seem all that cool tbh. She was nice, and having Space Mom keep you company was nice but I didn't realize she was actually powerful till she was just like "Oh btw the moon is real i just hid it from literally everyone" like bruh that was insane.
side note about the alad V situation. If you're playing through the game now then you haven't got up to patient zero when you do second dream. That quest is later on in the star chart. So you have even less clue why he's suddenly helping.
What Second Dream introduced, and the way it did while answering a huge question at the time, it’s no wonder why it became every long time player’s favorite, I showed it to my buddy who started 4 months ago (showed him Second Dream as he was going through it), and he fell in love with that quest as well
The second dream had many issues with continuity and other plot holes but im glad they decided to compile the lore into a tangible quest which could be expanded upon. While the entire quest may not have been the best the cinematic parts and highlights were executed very well which is why i think people still adore the quest
Well yeah, Second Dream didnt get me because of incredible writing. It was more like you ate normal pizza all your life long, and suddenly someone introduces you to stuffed crust pizza. Also, big goose bumps for the Hunhow line in the beginning and the Lotus line after we pop out of our reservoir.
I don't watch every video of yours anymore (because I'm not into warframe anymore) but each one that I do watch is always great. Keep up the good work!
Love the new vids Sab. Little bit more of a low-key energy, feels more like a YOU video rather than the countless faceless WF content creators. Keep it up
as someone who started playing in 2019 the war within is definitely still my fav cinematic quest. but tbh the second dream is still iconic for being like, the first quest where they actually cared to tell a story. you haven't cared for whatever story happened before, so the final twist is still powerful (especially the character creation) and also a sort of preamble to what's to come
I feel like who's in charge of the story doesn't know how to put it on paper to make a game out of it... sometimes doing less gives better results. The story is going everywhere and nowhere at the same time, I have fond memories of The Second Dream probably because it was the first reaaal big improvement in the storyline with a lot of new stuff (introduction to the tennos/operators). Me 6 years ago: WHAAAAT (that was so cool and cinematic) Me now: WHAAAAAAT (still don't understand but unga bunga I got a new frisbee)
I didnt play The Second Dream until like 2020-2020, but i managed to avoid spoilers that whole time. I remember being completely blown away at the change in pace this quest was compared to the ones before it, and that this random free looter shooter my friend showed me had an actual story.
Have been a WF player for a while and did experience The Second Dream when it first released. Even though it wasn't really challenging, and the story + characters were a bit hard to fully understand, it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen come from a F2P game. It was like DE opened up a door with tons of new possibilities of what they could do with their story and quests. They've definitely come a long way.
Yes, yes it is, I still get chills when hunhow says. "I, am hunhow, sentient destroyer of worlds, expose their heart by my edge....... and cleave it beating from its nest. " similar to drgs a distant terror at 0: 32
loved this video sab! while Warframe might not keep a lot of us playing current day, this video really does highlight the fact that DE have come so far, and that the story for this game (while jank) can still be really damn intriguing!
Personally I was always more of a fan of the war within, mainly because the Grineer are the faction I am most interested in and seeing the queens for the first time is one of my fondest memories from this game.
“If you aren’t paying then you are the product” is true but in this case it sounds like the company is saying it outright, which is a lot more reassuring. Like “yeah we’re selling your data but to reasonable customers in reasonable amounts and you get paid for it.”
I've thought back on this before and tend to mark either Second Dream or Plains of Eidolon (both really) as: _''The point in time when DE got waaaaaaaay high on ambition and priorities were never straight again.''_ Popularity grew, yes...but at what cost?
I loved the Dark Souls like lore in the codex. I really wanted to know more. The cinematic quests are great but they kinda were the easy mod of story telling for me. I remember actually being excited to finish scanning crewmen to be able to read about them
I’m glad you are doing this. I was going to redo all of the quests up to the new war once I got my neracomech but I guess I don’t have to anymore. I can just wait for your next videos and then play the 4 hour shitfest that is the New War. :D Thanks.
second dream was cool cuz it was the first quest with crazy cutscenes in it after hopping through half the star system, just doing what the junctions told me to do to progress and not really paying attention. but the sacrifice was cooler and you got a free, better Excal w/ cool sword and umbral mods
I mean, yeah, The Sacrifice is the only quest in the game I've played through twice (to scan all the music nodes since I missed one the first time around, but STILL it was enjoyable!).
6:44 Reminds me then I did this too then I was helping new player get past this section , his jaw dropped after I pretty much run a ground with it with no effort . Yeah , you read it right , some people actually struggled to take out Conculyst as their first Sentient .
Fun fact eventually if you cannot fine hunhow's fragment Alad V will tell you if he gets bored and I know this because I saw a friend of mine take like 10 minutes trying to find it, it was hilarious but Alad V eventually told him where it is.
The only real issue with the second dream quest is that it involves way too much digging to find out all the answers. Any question you can ask was answerable during the time, just not in the quest. It was all in other lore entries and codex scans.
The second dream was peak Warframe imo. My only complaint was Stalker being relegated from a fast paced evil Tenno fight to an easily kiteable normie miniboss
The only hard part about Stalker is early game when the most you can do to anything level 30+ is a light tickle. By the time I got to The Second Dream, I was basically one tapping him anyway.
I'm not gonna lie, when me and my friend found the first sentient doing a random mission in Uranus, we went *whack*. We didn't know a thing about the lore, and we legit panic lmao. I personally did enjoy Second Dream, and to this day, still follow and hype for the new stories of the game. With that said, I would like if Stalker does return later on, either for a redeem or something else.
I always thought of second dream as a "big quest" because it completely changes players perception of their character, not because of some unique gameplay, before this vid i didn't remember a single of those things that were happening before reservoir scene.
The Second Dream is a milestone because of the Operator. Period. The Sacrifice is about spending most of the quest in bed playing tik-tak-toe and getting Umbra (the only one of it's kind... so far). I can't remember the story or lore of either, so equaly good and equaly bad imo.
I Know iam Late but, i just need to bring this one up. My Friend made me play the game and we together played throu the Starchart including all Quests that could be done together, the secound dream is one of them when we reached the segment where the bits of hunhow are Alad V plays his hot and cold game, he will aparantly say it for both players. My Friend didnt wanted to spoiler nor help me throu the quest to show me the awesome story of warframe but we discorved 2 things about this segment. 1. Alad V plays the game for both of you without telling which can land to massive confusion, my friend was near it and me not, yet he called colder and warmer all the time until i figured it out. 2. after 10 min i finally found the path which led to the artifact and right before i reached it Alad V called me incompetent and revealed the Location on the Map. We both lost our Shit and Laughed for 6 minutes Straight. This will be forever my favorite Warframe moment.
Hunhow existed for exactly two quests, then was forgotten for 6 years and when New War came out DE was like "oh right this guy exists" and just put himin there for approximately 40 seconds.
10 minute actually. 10 grueling minutes of unskippable archon exposition.
@@Sabuuchi 10 minutes and it would not have made any difference if it was Hunhow or Cephalon Cy. Actually, Cy would have made more sense, why does Hunhow who has slept at the bottom of the sea since the Old War or something know about the archons?
@@zephyrprime8 Late answer, because of stalker most likely?
If they put him in any more quests before then i'm pretty sure he'd have a higher L count than Vor
@@zephyrprime8 The archons were made from old war primes, meaning they were most likely made during the end of the old war
Honestly think the Second Dream was so acclaimed not because its an amazing story (IMO its pretty alright) but because this kind of story came from the funny sexy space narwhal ninja game
Things are quite a bit more enjoyable when you don't have expectations
Lol true
Hold up hold up hold up
Where's the narwhal???
@@GladiusTR Excalibur’s helmet
Theres already a space narwhal game on ps4.
I still find it funny that the whole reason The Old War happened is because the Sentients couldn't fuck each other anymore
I'd be mad too if some lanky armed mfs forced me to travel vast nothingness for eons just to terraform a nothing starsystem and scrambled my eggs in the process.
@@Sabuuchi yea giving something sentience and then telling them that you are a slave and have no rights. Your only purpose is to find more land for them to conquer than die. What a flawless plan.
@@Sabuuchi The Sentients after their void jump
NOT MY SENTUSSY
Also because The Orokin are idiots and were destroying the solar system.
But that was just one of the 2 side effects of the trip to Tau, and as far as I know, it wasn't the real motive. According to me, once they became conscious, they simply realized that the Orokin were shit, and they would end up destroying Tau in the same way that they did with the solar system, as Ballas tells us in one of the vitruvians of the adventure The Sacrifice.
This does not have much to do with it, but it is curious and is related to the infertility of the Sentients. Natah wanted his own children, just as Teshin said in the adventure of the same name. Those "children" would be the Tenno, and this only makes me think that Natah, in reality, did not loved the childrens, she only took them under her care on a whim as she could not conceive her own.
People praise The Second Dream not only for story reasons, but for content we got with it. Cool new moon mods and challenges, amazing spy missions with so much variety, rare things (rare sword stance, hard to get War parts). We even had a whole new focus system to grind from start. Also all cosmetic stuff in the store with few exceptions was pretty meh, and then they dropped Shadow Stalker armor set for fuck ton of platinum, probably best non prime cosmetic item till today. We never got so much lore, story and actually fun post quest content in one update and probably never will.
But now we look at it now, it felt pointless the rare items are usually just gimmick mods that nobody will used
@@TheDragonfriday A lot of the moon drift mods are actually staples in builds to this day. Things like Coaction drift, Power Drift, Cunning drift and the like are used for getting small stat bonuses out of your exilus slot, or boosting the power of your aura. I would say they're still useful.
@@TheDragonfriday It give us Ivan's and drift mods that I use on nearly every build. As well as one of the most creative and fun spy tiles i still run today. The update was one beefy package.
@@Sabuuchi which spy mission if I may ask
@@soulsemblance3163 Pavlov.
Sab: ”Bringing us to the cutscene we’d all remember six years later”
*TH-cam begins playing shitty car insurance ad*
Yep exactly as I remember it.
Hunhows introduction to stalker is the best piece of "dialogue" in the whole story of warframe I swear it gives me chills every time I hear it
I mean, that line goes *HARDER* than it has any right to.
I love how you use comic sans to emphasize something that’s goofy
I wish I could talk in comic sans.
@@Sabuuchi talking lowercase is fine too
@@GreatDerg okay
5:20 This is such a perfect encapsulation of why I really want there to be _at least_ a codex entry for each event that gives new players an in-game option to catch up with what happened outside the quests. Most events are kinda their own self-contained story, but you can't just expect people to look up important shit like this online.
Apart from that though, I do honestly think Hunhow is one of the best characters in Warframe. He absolutely hates the Tenno and anything related to Orokin, but his love for his family is even stronger than his hatred for us. That deep, booming voice certainly helps. His part in the New War was one of my favourite things about that quest and I certainly hope we will see more of him in the future.
For me the second dream was really just DE realizing that they could indeed tell us a story outside of text form, but it suffers from a severe lack of foresight in terms of both preexisting lore and the lore they were trying to build with it, this is a problem they still have for a majority of their storytelling but it has improved significantly since the sacrifice.
it hurts my brain to know that this game is almost a decade old, it has come so far, yet i sometimes feel like DE hasn't learned some of the more obvious lessons after all this time.
I really loved the second dream. I liked the idea of hiding the entire moon, and adding a playable tileset. To this day Lua remains my favourite as it's just super pretty to me. I liked operators and the concept, it tied a lot of ideas together for me. I'll even ignore some of the more nonsensical bits because overall I just had a lot of fun with it.
Edit: to add a little bit more to that I really loved the trial rooms too. Little environment puzzles that I had to work out myself, and to this day I can't resist solving them when I run into one
I like the Lua Pitchers and would love for DE to give us a pitcher planter decoration for both pitcher species in the game.
Second Dream
The quest where you have to carry a grey potato to his gaming chair so that grass and fresh air stop weakening his power
Holy shit, i didn't realize that alad V getting cured was never mentioned after that event. i was THERE for it and so alad v showing up later made sense but i cannot believe such an important thing is so glossed over. (not that people probably do patient 0 after mesa prime was released)
Back before Specters of the Rail, Steve said old events like that would return, retooled as quests for context to help along the main story. As of September of 2020 the files, scripts, voices, etc were removed from the game during the great ensmallening update; scrapped forever.
Second dream was when the game started to get interesting, but the quest itself is just sharkwing and running around while the characters scream at your ears nonstop, war within for me is when the quests start to get good story AND gameplaywise
I think what people liked about the second dream is just how it was the culmination of a lot of little lore bits from across the game.
PS. I think the stalker was more possessed by hunhow or something when he gets to your orbiter because his energy colors are not blue but red.
PSS. not really related to the Second Dream, but most sentient energy attacks turned from being blue to red after TNW released.
lets be realistic
90% of poeple didnt know half of the lore bits second dream was relating to
Ordis using the void for stealth. That would explain how in the man in the wall he’s able to hide not only the orbiter, not only the railjack cy runs, but also the extension cord connecting the two.
I really don't know what the Lotus was thinking when she tried to tap back into Hunhow lmao.
i think the second dream is so beloved since it (well technically natah as well) involves so many characters from opposing parts of the universe in one story, tyl regors labs and research opening up the sentients, alad v being... alad v (the best way possible), lotus and hunhow interactions, and seeing the stalkers personality, even if barely
Hey! Fun Fact! I somehow managed to break into the Tenno room in the orbiter while visiting a friends orbiter, before I did the Second Dream quest. I was stuck and confused so I did what any reasonable person does, fashion the person in the funny pod. Anyways that’s how I managed to have my operator customized before doing this quest.(for anyone knowing my reaction when I saw the big reveal, I was just laughing and shocked)
I liked the future story quests more (THE SACRIFICE), but The Second Dream does have a special place for me too. It is mostly nostalgia, since before The Second Dream there was a lot of speculation on what we actually were as Tenno, but reading some of the other comments reminds me how much else was introduced with the quest. Mostly the Focus system, and Lua along with all its unique Drift mods and associated puzzles. It introduced a lot of cool stuff.
I also forgot about Tubemen of Regor for a minute there. It's kind of wild that such an important story beat (it's why Alad V is no longer infested and was helping us at all in the first place) is just, completely gone now. Ditto with the introduction of Stalker's acolytes trying to hunt Alad V down because he helped us.
A ton of event-exclusive story should be brought back into the game as minor quests or even codex entries just for the sake of people who started playing after the events were long since gone. I hopped in at the tail end of the Sacrifice update cycle (shortly before the Earth relay rebuild event) and man, it's jarring for the game to skip chunks of its own story, for the emotional impact of some events to rely on continuous exposure to quest-givers and mission command chatter (Alad who? oh, you mean that scrawny loser whose head I bashed in like six times to get Valkyr parts before moving on, cool), and for characters I've never met to act like we're buddy-buds (for example I've never even visited Teshin's crib prior to Natah because I've no interest in PvP, and I haven't bothered to talk to him before War Within either).
At least some of the newer events get some kind of reprise - Orphix missions in Railjack, Zealoid Prelate on Deimos, the entire New War prelude being available even if you've barely touched Railjack, lore for the Exploiter Orb and Deck 12 still being in the game to some degree - but it's nowhere near enough to give you a full picture of the story without scrolling through the fanmade Wiki in a game that already hides chunks of its lore behind obscure collectibles and Simaris scan targets.
to be fair that first sentient fight gave me the first ass whooping i ever had in this game, i was very low lvl and ended up winning but man it took more than i ever had to give before
Yeah it's extremely hard for newcomers but still gives to people who already have a lot of skill, which I think is the entire point
I don't know if I can say it's the best but , to me, the most memorable was Chains of Harrow. I get goosebumps every time I remember the "Rap Tap Tap" and "Hey there Kiddo". I love Chains of Harrow to death.
I started playing warframe right before the Natah quest came out and, lemme tell you, having the Second Dream come out after the parkour rework and story escalation of the Natah quest really hooked me on warframe for the following years.
Lot of ups with mostly awkward or horrendous downs since then but, still, Warframe really is something special. Just a shame it's under the management of DE
Sickest burn to DE ever
Imagine what this game can do under the management of EA, Square Enix, Activison or Bungie. I can think of horrible server, cut content resale, paid tilesets, vaulted and later resold expansion...
All the flaws you've mentioned, are the cost of an ENTIRELY Free-to-play model, it doesn't bring enough revenue to be guaranteed an investment.
@@sanguin3 bungo?
@@dascreeb5205 Y'know, famous developer who worked on critically acclaimed titles such as Halie and Destino
@@euclxd8033 no, I mean they don't buy properties.
6:43 I remember back in the days when I first met that one sentient ( all tho it was different looking) it took me a solid 5 minutes just to kill it
because of the immunity to status effects and the dmg reduction they had
Lotus: "Sentients can adapt to your damage, try something different."
LOTUS IT ADAPTED TO EVERYTHING, I AM OUT OF ELEMENTS!
Yeah tbh I think it got really downplayed in this video how tough sentients were. With the content we had back then there were very little counters and you had to be aware enough to have them. We didn’t know how sentients worked and we definitely didn’t have the ability to remove their resistances the first time around.
Yeah bringing mesa and blasting it as it was shown here works but chances are new players might not have had her or the foresight to bring her so they’d have to make do like I did with rhino.
Back in those days you could skip the other quests except archwing and natah if you had a taxi. Which your boy did. (Honestly fuck the specters of the rail update, it gatekeeps too much content too hard)
Nothing a poorly modded hek and roar can't solve@@Doc51499
2 years later, no war within or sacrifice "Good as you remember"
I had fully finished a video on The War Within a few months after this one but I was VERY unhappy with the final product. Scrapped it. Been wanting to touch on the other quests lately, so I might take another crack at it.
@@Sabuuchiis later now?
This game captured my attention like no other game has. The universe is pregnant with potential because the foundation is so effective.
When i was new to Warframe, this and the War Within were the most hyped up quests and my friends that got me to play kept telling me to wait for these quests. I played this game years after those 2 quests came out and they were riddled with game breaking bugs that caused me to exit application multiple times. It was one of if not the worst experience I've ever had in this game, and the story itself wasn't even all that impressive from what I'd experienced in other games.
They were overhyped and never lived up to my expectations, but the gameplay of this FREE game kept me here today and I'm happy I get to see their most extensive update yet next month answering a lot of concerns I had with this game.
Basicaly every warframe cinematic gives me goosebumba and hype even after 7-8 years playing this game...just hearing the music makes me wanna hop on
you can kind of of explain the ordis not being able to get into the tower bit by saying, in order for us to get into a tower we need a key, but when you jump to a random one you don't have the key ready so you need to open the tower from the inside. And to explain why the moon has a feature where it can be destabilized could be a way for the orokin to use a "scorched earth" tactic to prevent the sentients from getting oro.
The moon retcon and Alad V de-infesting might take away from the quest, but those issues don't effect people who started playing after it's release (or are oblivious and just didn't notice the moon, or just hadn't done Patient Zero yet)
The moon reveal made me flip my shit because I was just under the assumption that it got destroyed at some point and like tbh up until that point Lotus didn't really seem all that cool tbh. She was nice, and having Space Mom keep you company was nice but I didn't realize she was actually powerful till she was just like "Oh btw the moon is real i just hid it from literally everyone" like bruh that was insane.
side note about the alad V situation. If you're playing through the game now then you haven't got up to patient zero when you do second dream. That quest is later on in the star chart. So you have even less clue why he's suddenly helping.
What Second Dream introduced, and the way it did while answering a huge question at the time, it’s no wonder why it became every long time player’s favorite, I showed it to my buddy who started 4 months ago (showed him Second Dream as he was going through it), and he fell in love with that quest as well
The second dream had many issues with continuity and other plot holes but im glad they decided to compile the lore into a tangible quest which could be expanded upon. While the entire quest may not have been the best the cinematic parts and highlights were executed very well which is why i think people still adore the quest
Well yeah, Second Dream didnt get me because of incredible writing.
It was more like you ate normal pizza all your life long, and suddenly someone introduces you to stuffed crust pizza.
Also, big goose bumps for the Hunhow line in the beginning and the Lotus line after we pop out of our reservoir.
I don't watch every video of yours anymore (because I'm not into warframe anymore) but each one that I do watch is always great. Keep up the good work!
Love the new vids Sab. Little bit more of a low-key energy, feels more like a YOU video rather than the countless faceless WF content creators. Keep it up
as someone who started playing in 2019 the war within is definitely still my fav cinematic quest. but tbh the second dream is still iconic for being like, the first quest where they actually cared to tell a story. you haven't cared for whatever story happened before, so the final twist is still powerful (especially the character creation) and also a sort of preamble to what's to come
I feel like who's in charge of the story doesn't know how to put it on paper to make a game out of it... sometimes doing less gives better results.
The story is going everywhere and nowhere at the same time, I have fond memories of The Second Dream probably because it was the first reaaal big improvement in the storyline with a lot of new stuff (introduction to the tennos/operators).
Me 6 years ago: WHAAAAT (that was so cool and cinematic)
Me now: WHAAAAAAT (still don't understand but unga bunga I got a new frisbee)
Stalker had to be convinced to actually do the deed, even still attacked the warframe instead.
7:18 I thought we were pulling the moon back to prevent Stalker from trying to destroy the moon again like he tried at 7:57
I didnt play The Second Dream until like 2020-2020, but i managed to avoid spoilers that whole time. I remember being completely blown away at the change in pace this quest was compared to the ones before it, and that this random free looter shooter my friend showed me had an actual story.
Harrow quest feel like a main quest despite being an optional quest
because it's not optional. You need to do it to progress the story
Have been a WF player for a while and did experience The Second Dream when it first released.
Even though it wasn't really challenging, and the story + characters were a bit hard to fully understand, it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen come from a F2P game. It was like DE opened up a door with tons of new possibilities of what they could do with their story and quests. They've definitely come a long way.
Listen, I know it’s not the pinnacle of story telling but god I love this quest
Yes, yes it is, I still get chills when hunhow says. "I, am hunhow, sentient destroyer of worlds, expose their heart by my edge....... and cleave it beating from its nest. " similar to drgs a distant terror at 0: 32
lmaoooo you gotta make more videos like this for all the quests I'm crying
loved this video sab! while Warframe might not keep a lot of us playing current day, this video really does highlight the fact that DE have come so far, and that the story for this game (while jank) can still be really damn intriguing!
the pysics behind how dangerous moving the moon into the void is staggering and it really should be in a far worse place
I KNEW I wasn't miss remembering the moon existing before TSD.
Oh god he's doing Retrospectives
We just gonna forgot I did 3 videos, over an hour long in total, talking about Mega Man lore?
@@Sabuuchi most unfortunately don’t even know about it.
I have learned SO MUCH in this video about the lore... And I play for like 5 years or something wtf
I need a video explaining ALL the lore made by you
Oh god he has a crossing hands avatar now
Fun fact: that sprite is titled THEPOSE.png in my files.
Yeah it's not considered by many to be the best quest because of what it is, but because of how it changed players perspective on the game.
Personally I was always more of a fan of the war within, mainly because the Grineer are the faction I am most interested in and seeing the queens for the first time is one of my fondest memories from this game.
“If you aren’t paying then you are the product” is true but in this case it sounds like the company is saying it outright, which is a lot more reassuring. Like “yeah we’re selling your data but to reasonable customers in reasonable amounts and you get paid for it.”
"I am Hunhow, sentient destroyer of worlds. By your hand expose their heart, by my edge-"
*Ad Break*
I went back pre-new-war to play all the old quests and make bug reports and boy howdy was the old orbiter interior one of them
I've thought back on this before and tend to mark either Second Dream or Plains of Eidolon (both really) as:
_''The point in time when DE got waaaaaaaay high on ambition and priorities were never straight again.''_
Popularity grew, yes...but at what cost?
I’d say it truly peaked at Tennocon 2018.
@@theexurian1079 *checks what 2018 was* Oh dear! The Railjack reveal and it landing in open worlds, oh god!
Ya that certainly was a peak.
I loved the Dark Souls like lore in the codex. I really wanted to know more. The cinematic quests are great but they kinda were the easy mod of story telling for me. I remember actually being excited to finish scanning crewmen to be able to read about them
6 months from now: the new war, not as good as u remembered
I give it a Yeah/10.
6:44 That Sentient... Took me nearly 30 minutes to kill with my Excalibur and his 4rth ability...
Ordis, play this is what you are.
I am curious on how the operator manages to remove the sword on his warframe when he is awake at that time?
It wasn't the Operator, it was the warframe. Some vestigial, rewired self-preservation instinct probably.
HOLY SHIT I DID NOT KNOW THEY FUCKING RETCONED THE MOON JUST FOR THE QUEST
thats soooo fucking DE
I’m glad you are doing this. I was going to redo all of the quests up to the new war once I got my neracomech but I guess I don’t have to anymore. I can just wait for your next videos and then play the 4 hour shitfest that is the New War. :D
Thanks.
The War Within, Chains of Harrow, and The Sacrifice were peak Warframe for me
I 5000% AGREE, the sacrifice IS THE BEST QUEST!!!
second dream was cool cuz it was the first quest with crazy cutscenes in it after hopping through half the star system, just doing what the junctions told me to do to progress and not really paying attention. but the sacrifice was cooler and you got a free, better Excal w/ cool sword and umbral mods
Glad to know I'm not the only person constantly fucking confused during all of the lore moments.
I mean, yeah, The Sacrifice is the only quest in the game I've played through twice (to scan all the music nodes since I missed one the first time around, but STILL it was enjoyable!).
"Unleash these cheeks."
I came here to have a good time and I feel so attacked right now.
Stalker got tired of being bullied and decided to help for once.
God I wish all the event story was tied into the main game.
6:44 Reminds me then I did this too then I was helping new player get past this section , his jaw dropped after I pretty much run a ground with it with no effort .
Yeah , you read it right , some people actually struggled to take out Conculyst as their first Sentient .
I accidentally fought one in Fortuna beforehand, which ruined the suprise
just finished it about 30 minutes ago, best game quest ive ever done
Excuse me what? I WAS UNKILLABLE??? I SWEATED OUT OF MY DAMN MIND THAT FIRST PLAYTHROUGH
the second dream set the first precedent for what the game could be
Fun fact eventually if you cannot fine hunhow's fragment Alad V will tell you if he gets bored and I know this because I saw a friend of mine take like 10 minutes trying to find it, it was hilarious but Alad V eventually told him where it is.
man this quest seems sick, maybe i should've payed attention when i played it the first time, damn me and this cut-scene skipping body
Pretty cool how they must have patched the part where its not your ship. I walked through mine.
When I first saw the Hunhow and Stalker cutscene i thought that was the end of my character and by extension the quest since i mained loki lol
OH MY GOD I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED OF MUTALIST ALAD WAS AFTER SECOND DREAM OR NOT I HAD NO IDEA
I always assumed slad v became infested after second dream, well played
I agree that sacrifice is the best quest at least in warframe.
I'll admit the Second Dream didn't age very well at all, but it still holds a special place in my heart regardless.
had no idea wtf a tubeman was this entire time
This was actually a pretty neat video
What the FUCK. I never knew you could shoot Stalker's friggin cleaves in the orbiter...
i’m so lost in warframe story. i did marsh quest but i don’t remember it being learning the lotus was a sentient
The only real issue with the second dream quest is that it involves way too much digging to find out all the answers. Any question you can ask was answerable during the time, just not in the quest. It was all in other lore entries and codex scans.
The second dream was peak Warframe imo. My only complaint was Stalker being relegated from a fast paced evil Tenno fight to an easily kiteable normie miniboss
The only hard part about Stalker is early game when the most you can do to anything level 30+ is a light tickle. By the time I got to The Second Dream, I was basically one tapping him anyway.
Now, after 6 years, DE has to redo "The Second Dream" quest after this review 😅😂
The day DE listens to me again will be the official end of times.
This was a great watch :3
Yeah I Remember The Second Dream Fondly But The Sacrifice IS Where It's At
I've been replaying warframe on ps4 and I finished the second dream and the war within before patient zero was even unlocked
I'm not gonna lie, when me and my friend found the first sentient doing a random mission in Uranus, we went *whack*. We didn't know a thing about the lore, and we legit panic lmao.
I personally did enjoy Second Dream, and to this day, still follow and hype for the new stories of the game.
With that said, I would like if Stalker does return later on, either for a redeem or something else.
I always thought of second dream as a "big quest" because it completely changes players perception of their character, not because of some unique gameplay, before this vid i didn't remember a single of those things that were happening before reservoir scene.
The Second Dream is a milestone because of the Operator. Period.
The Sacrifice is about spending most of the quest in bed playing tik-tak-toe and getting Umbra (the only one of it's kind... so far).
I can't remember the story or lore of either, so equaly good and equaly bad imo.
I agree the sacrifice is the best quest for sure.
The fact i know the sauce of that image of uranus has me so sad i almost ended it all.
7:46 Well Seymour I made it, despite your void reflection
Not again
I Know iam Late but, i just need to bring this one up. My Friend made me play the game and we together played throu the Starchart including all Quests that could be done together, the secound dream is one of them when we reached the segment where the bits of hunhow are Alad V plays his hot and cold game, he will aparantly say it for both players. My Friend didnt wanted to spoiler nor help me throu the quest to show me the awesome story of warframe but we discorved 2 things about this segment. 1. Alad V plays the game for both of you without telling which can land to massive confusion, my friend was near it and me not, yet he called colder and warmer all the time until i figured it out. 2. after 10 min i finally found the path which led to the artifact and right before i reached it Alad V called me incompetent and revealed the Location on the Map. We both lost our Shit and Laughed for 6 minutes Straight. This will be forever my favorite Warframe moment.