EDIT: Error at 10:31 when I mention the Wiki, I show on screen the Wiki ALTERNATIVE, since this region has 2 wiki pages, apologies! First and foremost I want to thank Dystopia for providing insights on the China build of Warframe, link to his channel here: www.youtube.com/@HeatInherit Second, apologies for the low quality clips in the China Build (ChangYou) footage, it was pretty difficult trying to find any clips of old Warframe China footage as most videos are either on the Tencent Version or global build, so there was only a handful of regular footage that I can show. Third, this ones obvious but in case I'm not clear somehow... this isn't a "chinaframe bad" or "china player sux" video, I'm merely showcasing what the ChangYou build of the game was like, this isn't a hate video against a group of players or race, respect each other and we all get along good. As always thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy! www.patreon.com/NovaUmbral And Join the Discord: discord.gg/RUKf8PVn2r
I feel having entire umbra frames released would kinda render primes obsolete. Instead, perhaps they should release 'umbra reactors' that you can implant into a warframe to unlock its will, and have that also unlock a lore piece of some kind on who the warframe used to be.
Literally was a planned feature back when they added Disruption to other tiles of the starchart, was going to be a rare reward for rotation C of Lua disruption, basically a thing you could install on a frame to get one week of Umbra functionality, but it was scrapped for unknown reasons.
won't that make wukong even more broken if you cast his twin, then you deploy specters then your actual wukong warframe to roam around and kill things while you're on operator? and many more cheese warframes like saryn or mesa and etc. so that'll make more nerfs and stuff but the idea about the regular warframes to become like umbra sure is a good one.
This feature was once considered to be added called “Echoes of Umbra” (except without new lore) but DE scrapped it due to backlash from the player base.
They selling frost for 1,570p holy f. I hope that plat isn't the same price as in China as it is in the US. Then the weapons you purchase can just dissapear? If games in the US were like that, I would quit gaming.
Umbra was and will always be the frame that kept me loving this game, his lore, the Sacrifice, it was amazing, it was Excalibur again but it was a way cooler one, I still enjoy playing with him.
I’m the guy who asked on the reveal stream if the scarf would actually be a part of his frame, not just concept art. They said they believed they made it work, that yes, he would have a scarf. As you can tell, I had my priorities straight. I’m still to this day 100% able to say the scarf single-handedly makes him the coolest frame in the game. Combine that with his amazing look and lore, he’s easily my favorite frame.
I just finished the Sacrifice quest, and the lore tied to him is insane. A vengeful man turned into a vessel for war and battle, trapped in a body that cannot call for help, only fight to try and hide the pain. Rage, sorrow, and guilt all pent up with no possible way to vent. The mission has made me love this game, I can't wait to see more of the story, as I plan to finish the store with Umbra. Kinda to have him see it through, to see Ballas dead and the remaining orokins crushed
I finished The New War with Umbra at my side. Not because I thought it would do anything special. But because it was RIGHT. Umbra got his justice at last, and I got to see Ballas fall.
I main umbra because it makes going into operator form not so worthless, since your warframe is just a free specter while you get to use your operator form for more than just abilities or movement
You should be able to switch between the umbra passive and Exals normal passive, as normal Exal passive is just too good to pass up if you wanna run exalted blade build
A little bit of context: most players were disappointed they will never get Excalibur Prime, since it was CBT exclusive, and wanted something instead. That's why all the hype. After all original Warframes got Prime versions, only Excalibur left, and all these Umbra drama started.
You just had to be there. I also remember the hype in the first War Within teaser where you see Teshin. I think that was the very first Tennocon if I'm not mistaken
I've been around since the beginning and the hype is always nuts around the game changing updates. As for Umbra I'm still disappointed with him. They hyped him up far more than was called for. He's cool. And one of my most used frames finally.
I did because I used to play the game back then 😂 I quit after Saryn Prime and came back to the game 2 days ago with a fresh account and let me tell you, the good old days were insane. Stalker and Excalibur Umbra were beyond mortal comprehension of hype.
A lot of people don't seem to understand. Umbra is the People's Excalibur Prime. other than getting some cool lore with him it wasn't supposed to go any deeper than that.
You know what's sad? Umbra isn't included in the new war story umbra the one sentient Warframe who absolutely despise ballas like operator is not helping us at all or not included more, considering his trauma and grudge caused by ballas, he doesn't even help in the new war like shadow stalker helped us, umbra should've been looking for operator after they disappear or we encounter him as drifter and he kills one of the archons trying to look for ballas to avenge the operator or even better like ordis he knows the drifter is the operator and is going around the map killing enemies in our way as the drifter, basically taking the role of shadow stalker
i dont think many will disagree with you on that. it one of those things that "could" be explained as him ascending beyond his hatred at the end of the quest, and how it was lotus turn. so him having a second revenge would make the sacrifice feel incomplete. but, like i said, i do agree that he should be part of the quest. and at minimum, we should take him when going to confront ballas, "lose him" at the end, of the first part, make it so he taking the railjack. so we have to find him again to get them back.
Which is Crazy bcs hes namedropped in the Jade Shadow's quest so we know he's still there with the operator. Would be kinda cool if we could see him wander the orbiter at least idk
I'm a huge nerd for the story in this game, so I love how Umbra's lore pretty much changed everything. I'm looking forward to when they release more about the Ur Frames, even if we only ever *get* Excalibur. (Nyx, maybe, for old time's sake?) Thank you for going into the troubled history of the Chinese build. I can't imagine how frustrating it is for devs to work with sets of requirements that are so different from each other. It's hard work and I salute them for it.
I’d imagine the number of umbra frames are going to be very small but will fill the niche of variant frames that are better than lesser primes (Ex. Frost Prime, Nyx Prime etc)
An awesome video! Sadly this is one of these frames where I wasn't there for the history, since I joined after the Sacrifice dropped, but these documentaries are insanely well done. Plus, the music is always on top. You would not get how surprised I was to hear an old Omega Strikers theme 👌
they actually had an entire gamemode planned where you would invade other players as the stalker and showcased it during a tennocon reveal, though just like alot of other content it was completely scrapped and never added into the game now forever being left to rot inside duviri where he is not only an intrinsic 10 unlock but als one you would never really pick for long endurance runs
@@maxineshideout852 DE still have/use Stalker Mode on occasion on some of their streams, and last I heard they still have some plans for Stalker's story. Whenever it'll be told. Give it a few years.
@@koldraxonofthefirstseven5718 few years hurts to read as someone who hopped into Warframe late and got to binge it's entire story now i'm done and left wondering *why*
@@maxineshideout852 DE has that, but they never plan on getting it out to the public, that's a DevStream / TennoCon exclusive where people get to play as the Stalker.
@@Goofyahh1337Ha, lmao. I mean, it won’t happen because Nyx Prime is permanently unvaulted, but that would be kinda fun. Maybe Nyx would get some love instead of always being D tier.
Literally what a toxic player I knew never understood. He figured we'd get a line of Umbras for "the vaulted mid-bottoms to fix the power curve". Guy also thought Duviri was the Tau system and that MR 17+ were a scam, but that's a separate can of worms with his bad takes
I feel like Umbral frames should exist for certain frames. Tie it to lore like we were told primes, at one point, were rumored to be. Regular frames were supposed to be the copy of the original that the Orokin created right? Umbra sets up a counter playstyle potential and more story routes for so many frames.
God I can remember it. The Sacrifice was literally all over the internet on release. People pretty much lost their minds. You can have your complaints about the game but god DAMN does DE know how to make a cinematic quest. Still fucking do too it’s amazing
Ik this might sound weird but Excal Umbra was the reason I started playing the game. I was like, damn that looks cool and downloaded the game and started working towards the quest ASAP
I think if they do more Umbras: It should be the launch roster that gets that treatment. And add Frost because he was the first Prime non-founders got access too. And thats it. Umbra Forma for eveeyone else.
I think Umbra's biggest impact for me personally was how much it inflated my platinum wallet on my xbox account. Was on vacation in LA with a buddy and ended up selling SOOOOOOO many mods. Ended up having enough plat to buy the prime versions of over half my arsenal. The umbral mods are nice too of course.
This video was really good man, the commentary and editing is on par with popular commentators that i was surprised you weren't more popular, you should expand your documentaries onto other games and pieces of media because the quality of your content is very high.
Excalibur umbra is the only one who kept me going i first played warframe 2 years ago my best friend got me into this game because my mate guided me through this game like a mentor and after my mate passed away I made a promise to him that I will reach legendary mastery rank with my excalibur umbra I will keep that promise to promise to the end
Most of the China exclusive items are available in global version. Things that still exclusive are mainly decorations and Primed Charged Chamber (Charged Chamber but having 110% damage buff addictive with Primed Chamber)
This was a very interesting video. It was especially fascinating learning about the china build for warframe. Its absolutely wild even imagining having to pay plat just to keep your weapons.
I love Umbra. Looks so sick. I'm not too fond of the Umbra helmet but the classic helmet with the umbra look? Amazing. Such a cool frame. That jumpscare he does when you build it is so much fun too.
i never knew about this huge drama, for me the only thing excalibur umbra did not deliver, was something aside primes, i thought we would finaly stop having new frames and starting having umbras instead, so every new frame would have three forms, almost an entire year on a frame, having a little tweaked skills, like we could have umbra ember having her old kit with world on fire etc.
When I first got Umbra which was recently a few days ago considering I'm a new Warframe player despite starting off with mag Umbra became one of my personal favorite warframes
Ohhh it's here YES. I finished the sacrifice quest about two weeks ago and it's so good, now im curious how people who've played the game longer than me reacted at the time
I’ve played WF on and off on various consoles since 2014. I beat the Umbra quest about a year ago. I remember when WF was mysterious and baron of any story. To play an actually compelling story quest was amazing. Especially becuase I played it around the time of my dads passing, so it hit me in the feels in a way I never expected.
I played on and off since 2014. I remember always hearing vague unconfirmed rumors and stories of an excalibur umbra throughout the community. The entire community was DUMB hyped for Umbra. When the time came the excitement was surreal…. I hope this puts it into perspective for you, bud.
The saddest day in my life for gaming will be the shuttering of warframes doors and it closing down for good. If DE had the ability to make a warframe movie, they'd have the framework and rich lore to do it. Warframe is a journey that everyone should make, it is the most memorable journey I've ever had in gaming and everything has been amazing. The people I've played with, the exploration of all the hidden nonsense behind the veil trying to unlock everything. It is something not seen and will likely never be again in gaming.
umbras lore along with his design is amazing and he is my dad. hes grown on me so much and he is my main frame at this point, i love other frames but i keep coming back to umbra time and time and again.
@@Obviousfrosting6998 Yea, that's really a trip down memory road. That build of the game is so alien to the one we have today. Ultimately, you got the better end of the stick though. We were also limited to three lives per day, and getting more lives was a microtransaction. So my friends and I would get on and play for a couple hours until one of us got locked out for the day. My primary role on the team was using invisibility to revive people because we were all kids who couldn't afford microtransactions.
Umbra story is still one of my favorites of the Lore of Warframe. Also He looks the most like a Ninja due to the Scarf he wears. Everything about Excalibur says NINJA. But Umbra pushes that ideal to it's Max. Also it cool to see how much HYPE he had.
We need another Umbra Warframe, new Umbra weapons and most of important Umbra Mobs. I wish that charge attack melee builds could get +220% status chance mod with double for Charge attacks. That way some melee weapons could not be forced to be specific weapon type to have forced slash status.
A small thing to note with design intentions . . . DE has known for years that the new player experience is on shaky ground. DE fostered an amazing community and that community has propped up the game for a very long time. Umbra was the start of the internal move toward meeting their goal of making the NEW PLAYERS experience better. The entire storyline is no longer gated behind mastery progression, which was the primary driver for new and casual players "get stronger and more of the game opens up." Now new players can hop right in and quickly gain access to a top shelf, one of the best warframes in the game that can carry them through ALL of the content if they so choose too. It was a sacrifice in many ways, one of them being the old way of warframe which kept all the goodies locked down.
The fact that umbra in Latin means shadow really does fit the fact he was hiding in the shadows for so long (out of all of the Warframes in my arsenal umbra comes second only to beaten by harrow prime in terms of favourites)
For future videos i suggest talking about the abilites when the frame launched and talk about how they changed instead of doing a overwiev at the end of the vid
The moral of the story; that DE *STILL* haven't grasped yet, is that content exclusivity is both unfair and makes people unhappy. Whether one is too young, can't afford, don't know, or aren't allowed, there are many factors that people can't help. It's my opinion that people should not be punished for being poor, but evidently DE disagrees.
I kind of agree. Excel Prime is nothing special really but it's a nice reminder to those of us who bought in at the very beginning of how far the game has come. I personally only bought the pack because I wanted to support the devs. I could see the potential in the game and liked how transparent they were during development.
There’s some things you should know and be asked though, like, would you actually PLAY as Excalibur Prime if he could be obtained like every other prime frame? Also, I’m pretty sure prime frames originally had no difference aside from name and cosmetic, so it wasn’t “pay to win”.
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He really needs to stay exactly where he is and no further "umbra exclusives" need to be brought over. All it would do is devalue the current existence of every prime we currently have. And the fact he is statically exactly the same as regular Excalibur Prime, the founders can keep their worse version since they all love lording it over everyone but we effectively got it anyway. And the way I feel about him finally being released was DE saying, "we know we're contractually obligated not to allow anyone else to have Excalibur Prime, but here is the exact same thing but better. So will you please leave us alone about it." So its a good consolation over the fact there are hardly any founders left to fight back against DE should they ever release the Skana or Lato again and thats why Umbra needs to stay right where he is. Even though the likelihood of those weapons being rereleased is next to zero, at least we have him.
As someone who ditches games for months at a time and comes back every few months or so, If I lived in china, my WF account would be wiped everytime I came back, and that terrifies me.
I modify colors a little (dulling the gold for a less pearlescent shade, as that's one thing I don't care for with Prime stuff, and also adding some dark desaturated blues as accents) but his main color stays the gray it naturally is
When I started playing I browsed the wiki a lot and found Umbra, I then proceeded to "speed run" my way to the sacrifice and got him close to Christmas of that year, (for a rough context of when this was, 2021)
DE didn't initially announce Excal Umbra Prime. They took a trip to China and pretended it was a vacation. Then the China build leaked and with that leak, Excalibur Umbra Prime leaked. That caused controversy because 1) DE was getting around their Excal Prime exclusivity pledge and 2) this new prime version of Excal was exclusive to China. It took DE a while to even acknowledge the truth, and at that point, they announced Warframe China and promised to release Excal Umbra to the global build. They then waited 3 years to start working on Excal Umbra, because that's how much they didn't want to release it for the global build. They never wanted their non-Chinese players to even know about the China build or its exclusives. The leaks forced them to acknowledge it. That's also why there have been no new Umbras despite DE saying they would release more. They never wanted to.
It all started when my friend told me about an rpg looter shooter game that is completly different from other rpg games. He explained the game to me about 1hour literally im not joking. But still succeed to make me interested in game. So... i downloaded it. The beginning was insane. Never saw something like that in rpg games. Mechanincs,guns animations... İt all was perfect. Then the tutorial ended. And i find myself wondering what should i do next? That was not a complain. That was "starting of an addiction" i was learning game from different channels and guides. And lerned pretty much everything about game. Thats the moment i realized i have been playing game for 240 hours in 2 weeks. Thats equal to 120 each week. I never played any game like this. Never. İ dont know why im still playing it and how i still enjoying it... I hate you my friend
I love these videos. I've been playing warframe a few weeks after Christmas it the year it released on Xbox one. So I remember rumors and discourse and joining different clans. It was an accident I was there. Just like it was an accident that I found out me and my partners favorite game as children was a game thier family called "shooty game" but it was a PC game made by DE! So watching these videos feel weird. Like I'm being acknowledged. I was there ! I remember
Ever after The Sacrifice quest, I always do the main quests of Warframe (Prologues, New War, Whispers etc) with Umbra, because it just feels right. He's not my "main" frame, but he's my "lore accurate" frame.
the only thing i wanted for warframe 10 year anniversary was a surprise 10 year anniversary warframe umbra... like anyone, even loki would had been cool. but we are not getting it. but hey, we got some glyphs, right
I think and actually hope umbrals stay very exclusive. Still I hope we see the other 2 starter frames added to that roster. (Also Loki, as it WAS a starter frame. Also also it could be a cool story beat)
Use Umbra, equip long range automatic primary (Supra Vandal, or Telos Boltor), put in gear few Wisp Specters, Shield Osprey Specter, Corrupted Bombard Specter, Ancient Healer Specter and Squad Energy/Health/Ammo Restore Large and go solo on the highest level Survival Dark Sector, choose a long hall with only one entrence, pres 5 and you read a book or watch a movie for few hours. You'll leave the place with loot for a month nonstop crafting. Just collect every 3-4 min life support modules activating Void Sling, to keep life support to 100%. You welcome.
i was the type that prefer to just get toe to toe with enemies instead of attacking from afar and this has always been my play style on every combat related game. So i really like using excalibur and then changed to gara since shes a bit tanky but can also nuke the whole field while still having the aspect of face to face combat. Aside from she being one of the earliest frames we can get. But after i got myself dagath and xoris, i just change my whole preference on combat in games altogether. Mid range combat just might be my best play style. And not too long after, i got myself khora prime. And about a day ago, i just finished the sacrifice quest and honestly, excal umbra made me realized why i really love close combat. Its the satisfaction. Despite what they throw at you, you'll just slowly but surely approach them and eventually defeat them. And umbra did just that, both to his guilt and his literal play style. I may still prefer mid range combat but umbra will forever hold a special place in my heart
not to mention. umbra was also another thing that allowed growing power stacking and all the other timed mods. just like it was for arkwing going in a out of it. tho idk how many ppl knew that cuz it wasnt talked about. only with my friends like Summit and others who looked for things like that.
10:32 actually the Chinese wiki page is for the international build of warframe the fact that it said wisp prime instead of the scuffed Chinese translation made by the Chinese publisher.
To be honest most Chinese players will starting playing on the international build eventually that's why no one cares about the Chinese build, eventhough it's technical illegal to use a VPN in China.
@@NovaUmbral yep it is now at hotfix 33.6.3. I usually use that wiki even though it updates slower as it just translates the English wiki but it is easier to navigate.
Im surprised the Excalibur prime owners did not have anything to say against it because umbra is basically from what i heard much better than prime version.
@@lp.shakur Lol salty? Oh forgot excalibur prime has no benefits ourside of the basics. I would be salty too knowing that a fan favorite is better than prime because not only he has the stats but actually useful pasive. Not even mentioning that his design is also preffered. And that the only ones still using prime are founder's who dont know how to hide pride.
@@crimson3274 omg the amount of stupidity, I dont even own the prime and you seem to not play steel path because his buffs literally always get a reset when changing into Operator, no one is salty here, your on some hard dose of copium, it's a fact he needs fixing which DE outright refuse to do you uninformed noob
@@lp.shakur only one on copium here is you. How 10% damage and speed with only swords is going to beat being able to have a free vapor that has whatever you put on it? Literally delusional. Not even mentioning that the orginal Excalibur looks 100% better than the prime. Also... What is Excalibur prime's orgine story? Oh forgot. He has none. He is just a collection piece for founders. Never meant to be anything more than just slightly better Excalibur. Not possible to compare to having a frame that with the right setup and a team of four others can grind various missions by themselves without the player needing anything more than a good operator. But go on. Prove what is so much better in the normal Excalibur? If all you have to say "polarization" then sorry but formas exist. Because as far as i know this is the only argument because the passive is worthless.
I know ive been watching a few Warframes videos and looking up how to farm certain things cause i play this game once every few seasons and dont know where everything is but i just unlocked this like an hour ago. This is the second time this has happened only its less weird now cause i actually am engaged with the game. The other time it was Risk of Rain 2
One correction: if I recall, the “global” Warframe community didn’t find out about Excalibur Umbra Prime by official announcement, but by a leak. DE didn’t tell us until the leaks sparked a bit of an uproar about DE violating the “agreement” with Founders. Honestly, the biggest issues were that 1) Umbra Prime was a marked visual improvement over Excal Prime, and 2) the Umbra leaks just fed into the long-standing discontent that Excal Prime had been so exclusive.
If they do another Umbra frame, I hope it to be Xaku, as I feel it'd be the most logical choice. Xaku is a frame that, if I am remembering correctly, is a frame that is made up of three other frames that were mostly destroyed on Deimos, so a frame that technically shouldn't exist originally, and shouldn't have a prime version. Because of this, mayhaps a fraction of Xaku could still have a form of sentience due the trauma of what happened and we can see what Warframes made Xaku in the eyes of one of the frames, reliving that memory as Excal Umbra was reliving his own.
EDIT: Error at 10:31 when I mention the Wiki, I show on screen the Wiki ALTERNATIVE, since this region has 2 wiki pages, apologies!
First and foremost I want to thank Dystopia for providing insights on the China build of Warframe, link to his channel here: www.youtube.com/@HeatInherit
Second, apologies for the low quality clips in the China Build (ChangYou) footage, it was pretty difficult trying to find any clips of old Warframe China footage as most videos are either on the Tencent Version or global build, so there was only a handful of regular footage that I can show.
Third, this ones obvious but in case I'm not clear somehow... this isn't a "chinaframe bad" or "china player sux" video, I'm merely showcasing what the ChangYou build of the game was like, this isn't a hate video against a group of players or race, respect each other and we all get along good.
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This is EXACTLY why you should never bater with the Chinese or communist nations in general. They ruin everything.
Greedy totalitarians.....
The definition of *I will make sure my viewers have a great experience and are informed of problems* what a fuckin chad
Xaku when and how?
I feel having entire umbra frames released would kinda render primes obsolete. Instead, perhaps they should release 'umbra reactors' that you can implant into a warframe to unlock its will, and have that also unlock a lore piece of some kind on who the warframe used to be.
Genius
DE hire this man bruh!! That’s actually nice
Literally was a planned feature back when they added Disruption to other tiles of the starchart, was going to be a rare reward for rotation C of Lua disruption, basically a thing you could install on a frame to get one week of Umbra functionality, but it was scrapped for unknown reasons.
won't that make wukong even more broken if you cast his twin, then you deploy specters then your actual wukong warframe to roam around and kill things while you're on operator? and many more cheese warframes like saryn or mesa and etc. so that'll make more nerfs and stuff but the idea about the regular warframes to become like umbra sure is a good one.
This feature was once considered to be added called “Echoes of Umbra” (except without new lore) but DE scrapped it due to backlash from the player base.
That Chinese build's monetization of warframe is straight out of my nightmares. What a dark path we could have gone down.
Wait until you hear about how nightmarish it is to *just* play a fucking game in Mainland China.
@@damearstor2120My friends tell me they just steal their parents' IDs to verify and play games
It’s why genshin is under such a tight noose now.
They selling frost for 1,570p holy f. I hope that plat isn't the same price as in China as it is in the US. Then the weapons you purchase can just dissapear? If games in the US were like that, I would quit gaming.
@@zerotodona1495I thought Genshin was from Korea
Scarfs make every frame better imo
Edit: I am happy too see how much love this has got hope yall are taking care of yourselves out there
low key you right, i wish i could put it on other warframes
That and capes
Yet umbra is the worst version
@alexorrick794 I said yes umbra is the worst version of excal
@@PetroleumJellyJuggernaut??? Its the best
Umbra was and will always be the frame that kept me loving this game, his lore, the Sacrifice, it was amazing, it was Excalibur again but it was a way cooler one, I still enjoy playing with him.
I’m the guy who asked on the reveal stream if the scarf would actually be a part of his frame, not just concept art. They said they believed they made it work, that yes, he would have a scarf.
As you can tell, I had my priorities straight.
I’m still to this day 100% able to say the scarf single-handedly makes him the coolest frame in the game.
Combine that with his amazing look and lore, he’s easily my favorite frame.
Considering how long the scarf was in the old profile pictures it literally defined his visual identity
The scarf is dope I want to put it on all of my frames
girl.. bffr rn hes so basic
@@max-jj1eycap
@@OneElectricBurritothe cope is strong with this one
Chinas MtX is so dystopian (gear vanishing without platinum ) makes EA , Bungie,Ubisoft practices sound charitable, and philanthropic.
You should see the Chinese version of some other popular western titles. The diablo franchise is monetized to absolute hell there. XD
China itself is dystopian.
I just finished the Sacrifice quest, and the lore tied to him is insane. A vengeful man turned into a vessel for war and battle, trapped in a body that cannot call for help, only fight to try and hide the pain. Rage, sorrow, and guilt all pent up with no possible way to vent. The mission has made me love this game, I can't wait to see more of the story, as I plan to finish the store with Umbra. Kinda to have him see it through, to see Ballas dead and the remaining orokins crushed
I can’t wait for June for Jade Shadows too. I think umbra and stalker kinda [might] have some parallels, at least in my opinion.
@@myorgansdontwork hey guess what
I finished The New War with Umbra at my side. Not because I thought it would do anything special. But because it was RIGHT. Umbra got his justice at last, and I got to see Ballas fall.
What do you mean by “a vengeful man”?
I main umbra because it makes going into operator form not so worthless, since your warframe is just a free specter while you get to use your operator form for more than just abilities or movement
You should be able to switch between the umbra passive and Exals normal passive, as normal Exal passive is just too good to pass up if you wanna run exalted blade build
@@thegodofallmekkahs399 But they both have the same passive, Umbra still has the melee speed and damage boost passive.
@@thegodofallmekkahs399 umbra still has excals passive
Using operator was never worth less, it's more of mechanic you use late game
My operator is more powerful than my warframes wym?
A little bit of context: most players were disappointed they will never get Excalibur Prime, since it was CBT exclusive, and wanted something instead. That's why all the hype. After all original Warframes got Prime versions, only Excalibur left, and all these Umbra drama started.
CBT exclusive🤤
Yep. I was a founder with Excalibur Prime. Havnt played in like 4 years
@@krazzykracker2564 i would gladly buy your exalibur prime for 5 platinum 😇
A Cock and Ball Torture exclusive? Damn, thank God I wasn't around...
@@krazzykracker2564don’t listen to the other guy, i’ll give you 6
This was a very good video, I never knew that Umbra had so much hype that people were screaming of joy from the first second where he was in frame
You just had to be there. I also remember the hype in the first War Within teaser where you see Teshin. I think that was the very first Tennocon if I'm not mistaken
I've been around since the beginning and the hype is always nuts around the game changing updates. As for Umbra I'm still disappointed with him. They hyped him up far more than was called for. He's cool. And one of my most used frames finally.
I did because I used to play the game back then 😂
I quit after Saryn Prime and came back to the game 2 days ago with a fresh account and let me tell you, the good old days were insane. Stalker and Excalibur Umbra were beyond mortal comprehension of hype.
Since excal was my main umbra was not a dissapointment since he was the closest id get to a prime so i was happy with him
A lot of people don't seem to understand. Umbra is the People's Excalibur Prime. other than getting some cool lore with him it wasn't supposed to go any deeper than that.
You know what's sad? Umbra isn't included in the new war story umbra the one sentient Warframe who absolutely despise ballas like operator is not helping us at all or not included more, considering his trauma and grudge caused by ballas, he doesn't even help in the new war like shadow stalker helped us, umbra should've been looking for operator after they disappear or we encounter him as drifter and he kills one of the archons trying to look for ballas to avenge the operator or even better like ordis he knows the drifter is the operator and is going around the map killing enemies in our way as the drifter, basically taking the role of shadow stalker
i dont think many will disagree with you on that. it one of those things that "could" be explained as him ascending beyond his hatred at the end of the quest, and how it was lotus turn. so him having a second revenge would make the sacrifice feel incomplete.
but, like i said, i do agree that he should be part of the quest. and at minimum, we should take him when going to confront ballas, "lose him" at the end, of the first part, make it so he taking the railjack. so we have to find him again to get them back.
Well that’s why part of the quest was unlocking him for use so that if YOU wanted to, you could use Umbra for the entire New War questline??
Which is Crazy bcs hes namedropped in the Jade Shadow's quest so we know he's still there with the operator.
Would be kinda cool if we could see him wander the orbiter at least idk
Yeah at least something that says Umbra is out there
I completed New War with Umbra, lol.
"We accept this memory, and move beyond its reach"
I'm a huge nerd for the story in this game, so I love how Umbra's lore pretty much changed everything. I'm looking forward to when they release more about the Ur Frames, even if we only ever *get* Excalibur. (Nyx, maybe, for old time's sake?)
Thank you for going into the troubled history of the Chinese build. I can't imagine how frustrating it is for devs to work with sets of requirements that are so different from each other. It's hard work and I salute them for it.
I’d imagine the number of umbra frames are going to be very small but will fill the niche of variant frames that are better than lesser primes (Ex. Frost Prime, Nyx Prime etc)
thanks for the video Nova. And i gotta say it's been 6y since excal umbra launched but i still get the chills with the sacrifice reveal teaser
I remember playing The Sacrifice quest for the first time. Goood times
@@ntactime_w3488I remember the chess, checkers scene with ballas and his weird arm 😂
An awesome video! Sadly this is one of these frames where I wasn't there for the history, since I joined after the Sacrifice dropped, but these documentaries are insanely well done. Plus, the music is always on top. You would not get how surprised I was to hear an old Omega Strikers theme 👌
I really like the concept of umbral, they should add more similar concept warframes, like maybe the stalker?
Duviri Paradox has him already
they actually had an entire gamemode planned where you would invade other players as the stalker and showcased it during a tennocon reveal, though just like alot of other content it was completely scrapped and never added into the game now forever being left to rot inside duviri where he is not only an intrinsic 10 unlock but als one you would never really pick for long endurance runs
@@maxineshideout852 DE still have/use Stalker Mode on occasion on some of their streams, and last I heard they still have some plans for Stalker's story. Whenever it'll be told. Give it a few years.
@@koldraxonofthefirstseven5718 few years hurts to read as someone who hopped into Warframe late and got to binge it's entire story now i'm done and left wondering *why*
@@maxineshideout852 DE has that, but they never plan on getting it out to the public, that's a DevStream / TennoCon exclusive where people get to play as the Stalker.
I kinda wish they also give us Mag and Volt Umbra to complete the trio.
Or Nyx Umbra, since they’re essentially brother and sister.
@@Goofyahh1337Ha, lmao. I mean, it won’t happen because Nyx Prime is permanently unvaulted, but that would be kinda fun. Maybe Nyx would get some love instead of always being D tier.
Loki and Volt*
@@eneco3965 New trio.
@@CovertKaz Old one's better
Here’s what people have to understand. Umbra is not a title like “prime,” Umbra is a character.
Umbra Excalibur prime when then
@@DeviousHabiedid you not watch the video?
Literally what a toxic player I knew never understood. He figured we'd get a line of Umbras for "the vaulted mid-bottoms to fix the power curve".
Guy also thought Duviri was the Tau system and that MR 17+ were a scam, but that's a separate can of worms with his bad takes
I feel like Umbral frames should exist for certain frames. Tie it to lore like we were told primes, at one point, were rumored to be. Regular frames were supposed to be the copy of the original that the Orokin created right? Umbra sets up a counter playstyle potential and more story routes for so many frames.
thats what primes are for tho, they are supposed to be the og
@@boom-jr8vi lol nidus prime.
Ash Umbra, Frost Umbra, Ember Umbra, some of my top wants for an Umbra release
The starter frames then Loki, Frost, Volt, and Mag Umbra
Y’all seriously forgot Rhino
God I can remember it. The Sacrifice was literally all over the internet on release. People pretty much lost their minds. You can have your complaints about the game but god DAMN does DE know how to make a cinematic quest. Still fucking do too it’s amazing
Ik this might sound weird but Excal Umbra was the reason I started playing the game. I was like, damn that looks cool and downloaded the game and started working towards the quest ASAP
You still play?
Still the coolest frame. I still occasionally bust him out.
I don't think they will ever have a story this cool again.
I think if they do more Umbras: It should be the launch roster that gets that treatment.
And add Frost because he was the first Prime non-founders got access too.
And thats it. Umbra Forma for eveeyone else.
And make them not have the umbra passive that gets em killed and turns off some abilitys
I think Umbra's biggest impact for me personally was how much it inflated my platinum wallet on my xbox account. Was on vacation in LA with a buddy and ended up selling SOOOOOOO many mods. Ended up having enough plat to buy the prime versions of over half my arsenal. The umbral mods are nice too of course.
This video was really good man, the commentary and editing is on par with popular commentators that i was surprised you weren't more popular, you should expand your documentaries onto other games and pieces of media because the quality of your content is very high.
currently on natah quest
onw for umbra!
Excalibur umbra is the only one who kept me going i first played warframe 2 years ago my best friend got me into this game because my mate guided me through this game like a mentor and after my mate passed away I made a promise to him that I will reach legendary mastery rank with my excalibur umbra I will keep that promise to promise to the end
You know wha’s funny, you can replay this quest AS UMBRA and literally make Umbra fight himself
Most of the China exclusive items are available in global version. Things that still exclusive are mainly decorations and Primed Charged Chamber (Charged Chamber but having 110% damage buff addictive with Primed Chamber)
This was a very interesting video. It was especially fascinating learning about the china build for warframe. Its absolutely wild even imagining having to pay plat just to keep your weapons.
I love Umbra. Looks so sick. I'm not too fond of the Umbra helmet but the classic helmet with the umbra look? Amazing. Such a cool frame. That jumpscare he does when you build it is so much fun too.
i never knew about this huge drama, for me the only thing excalibur umbra did not deliver, was something aside primes, i thought we would finaly stop having new frames and starting having umbras instead, so every new frame would have three forms, almost an entire year on a frame, having a little tweaked skills, like we could have umbra ember having her old kit with world on fire etc.
I wish I had the money to be a founder back when I could have.
Really want to put Excal. Prime's helment on Umbra's body
When I first got Umbra which was recently a few days ago considering I'm a new Warframe player despite starting off with mag Umbra became one of my personal favorite warframes
If i had to pay to keep my gun or itd dissappear id lose my mind
I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS UPLOAD RIGHT HERE
Whoever was banshee wailing during the convention footage, holy fuck
0:56 Bad music stops, video starts.
Ohhh it's here YES. I finished the sacrifice quest about two weeks ago and it's so good, now im curious how people who've played the game longer than me reacted at the time
I’ve played WF on and off on various consoles since 2014. I beat the Umbra quest about a year ago. I remember when WF was mysterious and baron of any story. To play an actually compelling story quest was amazing. Especially becuase I played it around the time of my dads passing, so it hit me in the feels in a way I never expected.
i don’t really care about the story but that mission got me interest, recently, the new war stuff got me too duviri a little bit
I played on and off since 2014. I remember always hearing vague unconfirmed rumors and stories of an excalibur umbra throughout the community. The entire community was DUMB hyped for Umbra. When the time came the excitement was surreal…. I hope this puts it into perspective for you, bud.
The saddest day in my life for gaming will be the shuttering of warframes doors and it closing down for good. If DE had the ability to make a warframe movie, they'd have the framework and rich lore to do it. Warframe is a journey that everyone should make, it is the most memorable journey I've ever had in gaming and everything has been amazing. The people I've played with, the exploration of all the hidden nonsense behind the veil trying to unlock everything. It is something not seen and will likely never be again in gaming.
Didn’t know about 90% of the things in this video. Great work man 👏
I literally only knew of Umbra Prime, The Sacrifice and the abilities, nothing else
@@sasson10 that’s the 10% I was referring to. Everything else involving China was unknown to me.
umbras lore along with his design is amazing and he is my dad.
hes grown on me so much and he is my main frame at this point, i love other frames but i keep coming back to umbra time and time and again.
Honestly having mag and volt umbra is the only thing i want because it just felt rightto have the startes have their light and shadow versions
The starter frames haven't always been those though. My starter frame was Loki.
@@epsteindidntkillhimself69 damn I remember when he was a starter pick suck I started Warframe after he left
@@Obviousfrosting6998 Yea, that's really a trip down memory road. That build of the game is so alien to the one we have today. Ultimately, you got the better end of the stick though. We were also limited to three lives per day, and getting more lives was a microtransaction. So my friends and I would get on and play for a couple hours until one of us got locked out for the day. My primary role on the team was using invisibility to revive people because we were all kids who couldn't afford microtransactions.
Wow. Imagine making it so you *HAD* to pay platinum (that was 10x more expensive) or your favourite gun would just vanish. What a scam.
17:55 that one lady going crazy needs to calm tf down bro
God bless u & these amazing edits big dawg 🔥👊🏾
Umbra story is still one of my favorites of the Lore of Warframe. Also He looks the most like a Ninja due to the Scarf he wears. Everything about Excalibur says NINJA. But Umbra pushes that ideal to it's Max. Also it cool to see how much HYPE he had.
We absolutely neeeeeeed a railjack video
Imagine having to pay plat so your weapons don’t vanish from your inventory, It gives me chills only thinking about it.
We need another Umbra Warframe, new Umbra weapons and most of important Umbra Mobs.
I wish that charge attack melee builds could get +220% status chance mod with double for Charge attacks.
That way some melee weapons could not be forced to be specific weapon type to have forced slash status.
Nah we don't need more
A small thing to note with design intentions . . . DE has known for years that the new player experience is on shaky ground. DE fostered an amazing community and that community has propped up the game for a very long time. Umbra was the start of the internal move toward meeting their goal of making the NEW PLAYERS experience better. The entire storyline is no longer gated behind mastery progression, which was the primary driver for new and casual players "get stronger and more of the game opens up." Now new players can hop right in and quickly gain access to a top shelf, one of the best warframes in the game that can carry them through ALL of the content if they so choose too. It was a sacrifice in many ways, one of them being the old way of warframe which kept all the goodies locked down.
The fact that umbra in Latin means shadow really does fit the fact he was hiding in the shadows for so long (out of all of the Warframes in my arsenal umbra comes second only to beaten by harrow prime in terms of favourites)
For future videos i suggest talking about the abilites when the frame launched and talk about how they changed instead of doing a overwiev at the end of the vid
I like how you have lightning returns music playing in the beginning
The moral of the story; that DE *STILL* haven't grasped yet, is that content exclusivity is both unfair and makes people unhappy.
Whether one is too young, can't afford, don't know, or aren't allowed, there are many factors that people can't help. It's my opinion that people should not be punished for being poor, but evidently DE disagrees.
I kind of agree. Excel Prime is nothing special really but it's a nice reminder to those of us who bought in at the very beginning of how far the game has come. I personally only bought the pack because I wanted to support the devs. I could see the potential in the game and liked how transparent they were during development.
Not getting some thing that's an exclusive isn't a punishment. Just because you want some thing doesn't mean you need it.
There’s some things you should know and be asked though, like, would you actually PLAY as Excalibur Prime if he could be obtained like every other prime frame? Also, I’m pretty sure prime frames originally had no difference aside from name and cosmetic, so it wasn’t “pay to win”.
Feels good to be an Umbra main :)
EDIT: If you don’t wanna use the typical Gloom build for Umbra, try Tharros Strike instead!
Should try Nikana with Daikyu Amalgum mod with Valkyrs subsume.
L helminth ideas. What is terrify ammiright?
Or Wrathful Advance + Chromatic blade and furious javelin.
Mirage eclipse. Nuff said
Hey! Are you an unoriginal sweat who will piss his pants without a boring-ass crutch ability that does all the work for you? Yeah? Well, try this even more braindead ability! Now with armor-strip!
He really needs to stay exactly where he is and no further "umbra exclusives" need to be brought over. All it would do is devalue the current existence of every prime we currently have. And the fact he is statically exactly the same as regular Excalibur Prime, the founders can keep their worse version since they all love lording it over everyone but we effectively got it anyway. And the way I feel about him finally being released was DE saying, "we know we're contractually obligated not to allow anyone else to have Excalibur Prime, but here is the exact same thing but better. So will you please leave us alone about it." So its a good consolation over the fact there are hardly any founders left to fight back against DE should they ever release the Skana or Lato again and thats why Umbra needs to stay right where he is. Even though the likelihood of those weapons being rereleased is next to zero, at least we have him.
There will never be another umbra frame They already stated that several times
That intro felt like an anime opening
As someone who ditches games for months at a time and comes back every few months or so, If I lived in china, my WF account would be wiped everytime I came back, and that terrifies me.
He’s the only frame I didn’t change the colors of. He’s so cool on his own
I modify colors a little (dulling the gold for a less pearlescent shade, as that's one thing I don't care for with Prime stuff, and also adding some dark desaturated blues as accents)
but his main color stays the gray it naturally is
When I started playing I browsed the wiki a lot and found Umbra, I then proceeded to "speed run" my way to the sacrifice and got him close to Christmas of that year, (for a rough context of when this was, 2021)
Amazing video pal keep it up
The only guy with 3 forms
He’s like that
At the 7:37 mark, I love the use of a Final Fantasy 13 track.
DE didn't initially announce Excal Umbra Prime. They took a trip to China and pretended it was a vacation. Then the China build leaked and with that leak, Excalibur Umbra Prime leaked. That caused controversy because 1) DE was getting around their Excal Prime exclusivity pledge and 2) this new prime version of Excal was exclusive to China. It took DE a while to even acknowledge the truth, and at that point, they announced Warframe China and promised to release Excal Umbra to the global build. They then waited 3 years to start working on Excal Umbra, because that's how much they didn't want to release it for the global build. They never wanted their non-Chinese players to even know about the China build or its exclusives. The leaks forced them to acknowledge it. That's also why there have been no new Umbras despite DE saying they would release more. They never wanted to.
It all started when my friend told me about an rpg looter shooter game that is completly different from other rpg games. He explained the game to me about 1hour literally im not joking. But still succeed to make me interested in game. So... i downloaded it. The beginning was insane. Never saw something like that in rpg games. Mechanincs,guns animations... İt all was perfect. Then the tutorial ended. And i find myself wondering what should i do next? That was not a complain. That was "starting of an addiction" i was learning game from different channels and guides. And lerned pretty much everything about game. Thats the moment i realized i have been playing game for 240 hours in 2 weeks. Thats equal to 120 each week. I never played any game like this. Never. İ dont know why im still playing it and how i still enjoying it...
I hate you my friend
You think if they ever catch up to new frames with prime they'll start releasing umbra versions of the other frames? I'd love to see a mag umbra
They can never catch up with newer frames lol, they are sure to release new frames around same time prime acces goes
I love these videos. I've been playing warframe a few weeks after Christmas it the year it released on Xbox one. So I remember rumors and discourse and joining different clans. It was an accident I was there. Just like it was an accident that I found out me and my partners favorite game as children was a game thier family called "shooty game" but it was a PC game made by DE! So watching these videos feel weird. Like I'm being acknowledged. I was there ! I remember
6:53 this would’ve been the perfect place to put a vpn sponsorship.
I love Umbra because of his unique passive ability that lets me move around and do stuff while the player is controlling their Tenno.
Now we need Umbral Lato and Skana.
Ever after The Sacrifice quest, I always do the main quests of Warframe (Prologues, New War, Whispers etc) with Umbra, because it just feels right.
He's not my "main" frame, but he's my "lore accurate" frame.
SF 3rd strike ost 🔥🔥🔥
the only thing i wanted for warframe 10 year anniversary was a surprise 10 year anniversary warframe umbra... like anyone, even loki would had been cool. but we are not getting it. but hey, we got some glyphs, right
Umbra isnt the same as primes lore wise, its doubtful any umbra warframes exist at all outside of Excalibur
.....
It wouldn't make sense for them to release another Umbra.
What is glyphs my friend
Isn't umbra the first successful Warframe, like all other excals are copies of him
@@practicallyprinzNo, Umbra is a unique Exalibur that is basically just full body CBT inflicted by ballass
I think and actually hope umbrals stay very exclusive. Still I hope we see the other 2 starter frames added to that roster. (Also Loki, as it WAS a starter frame. Also also it could be a cool story beat)
It makes no sense to make other umbra frames. Excalibur umbra exists because we can't get excalibur prime.
@@artin2451 And lore-wise he only exists because Ballas had an explicit interest in using the Warframe program as a way to torture one specific person
Ough, that way he said "Nezha" at 6:17 hurts my soul 😭
Use Umbra, equip long range automatic primary (Supra Vandal, or Telos Boltor), put in gear few Wisp Specters, Shield Osprey Specter, Corrupted Bombard Specter, Ancient Healer Specter and Squad Energy/Health/Ammo Restore Large and go solo on the highest level Survival Dark Sector, choose a long hall with only one entrence, pres 5 and you read a book or watch a movie for few hours. You'll leave the place with loot for a month nonstop crafting.
Just collect every 3-4 min life support modules activating Void Sling, to keep life support to 100%.
You welcome.
I finished the new war quest and damn... all of it is just crazy and i love it.
"galactic armor"
pffft... we haven't taken a step out of the milky way yet
i was the type that prefer to just get toe to toe with enemies instead of attacking from afar and this has always been my play style on every combat related game. So i really like using excalibur and then changed to gara since shes a bit tanky but can also nuke the whole field while still having the aspect of face to face combat. Aside from she being one of the earliest frames we can get. But after i got myself dagath and xoris, i just change my whole preference on combat in games altogether. Mid range combat just might be my best play style. And not too long after, i got myself khora prime. And about a day ago, i just finished the sacrifice quest and honestly, excal umbra made me realized why i really love close combat. Its the satisfaction. Despite what they throw at you, you'll just slowly but surely approach them and eventually defeat them. And umbra did just that, both to his guilt and his literal play style. I may still prefer mid range combat but umbra will forever hold a special place in my heart
not to mention. umbra was also another thing that allowed growing power stacking and all the other timed mods. just like it was for arkwing going in a out of it. tho idk how many ppl knew that cuz it wasnt talked about. only with my friends like Summit and others who looked for things like that.
The thing I love most about this Warframe is that he is sentient he is my everyday
Your editing must be at least lr 1 with an intro like that 🥰
"Excalibur Umbra is the Umbra version of Excalibur"
Roll Credits
i fucking love ff13 lightning returns music, the intro gave me nostalgia.
10:32 actually the Chinese wiki page is for the international build of warframe the fact that it said wisp prime instead of the scuffed Chinese translation made by the Chinese publisher.
To be honest most Chinese players will starting playing on the international build eventually that's why no one cares about the Chinese build, eventhough it's technical illegal to use a VPN in China.
Oh crap, I thought that was the wiki for the WeGame ver no? It's a week behind updates now so everything seemed up to date
@@NovaUmbral yep it is now at hotfix 33.6.3. I usually use that wiki even though it updates slower as it just translates the English wiki but it is easier to navigate.
Word becomes fact. What I expected from the beginning finally happened.
Domo arigato.
Reworked Hydroid and Excal are a match made in heaven
I remember umbra as one of my go-to frame to cheese sortie bosses since 4 can go through walls lol
530 plat for a Bronco is fucking diabolical
Im surprised the Excalibur prime owners did not have anything to say against it because umbra is basically from what i heard much better than prime version.
he's literally worse but go on
@@lp.shakur Lol salty? Oh forgot excalibur prime has no benefits ourside of the basics. I would be salty too knowing that a fan favorite is better than prime because not only he has the stats but actually useful pasive. Not even mentioning that his design is also preffered. And that the only ones still using prime are founder's who dont know how to hide pride.
@@crimson3274 omg the amount of stupidity, I dont even own the prime and you seem to not play steel path because his buffs literally always get a reset when changing into Operator, no one is salty here, your on some hard dose of copium, it's a fact he needs fixing which DE outright refuse to do you uninformed noob
@@crimson3274 the amount of copium is sad, please inform yourself, I dont even own the prime and still rather use the normal over umbra
@@lp.shakur only one on copium here is you. How 10% damage and speed with only swords is going to beat being able to have a free vapor that has whatever you put on it? Literally delusional. Not even mentioning that the orginal Excalibur looks 100% better than the prime. Also... What is Excalibur prime's orgine story? Oh forgot. He has none. He is just a collection piece for founders. Never meant to be anything more than just slightly better Excalibur. Not possible to compare to having a frame that with the right setup and a team of four others can grind various missions by themselves without the player needing anything more than a good operator. But go on. Prove what is so much better in the normal Excalibur? If all you have to say "polarization" then sorry but formas exist. Because as far as i know this is the only argument because the passive is worthless.
how Excalibur umbra umbra'd the community
Just came back to this video bc it was good and the paying to recolor reminds me of my experience with the first descendents monetization lol
Just unlocked umbra a few days ago, pretty lit
did you know you can type /unstuck and be unstuck
Excalibur Umbra is my favorite warframe. Waiting for Excalibur heirloom skin
I know ive been watching a few Warframes videos and looking up how to farm certain things cause i play this game once every few seasons and dont know where everything is but i just unlocked this like an hour ago. This is the second time this has happened only its less weird now cause i actually am engaged with the game. The other time it was Risk of Rain 2
One correction: if I recall, the “global” Warframe community didn’t find out about Excalibur Umbra Prime by official announcement, but by a leak. DE didn’t tell us until the leaks sparked a bit of an uproar about DE violating the “agreement” with Founders.
Honestly, the biggest issues were that 1) Umbra Prime was a marked visual improvement over Excal Prime, and 2) the Umbra leaks just fed into the long-standing discontent that Excal Prime had been so exclusive.
If they do another Umbra frame, I hope it to be Xaku, as I feel it'd be the most logical choice. Xaku is a frame that, if I am remembering correctly, is a frame that is made up of three other frames that were mostly destroyed on Deimos, so a frame that technically shouldn't exist originally, and shouldn't have a prime version. Because of this, mayhaps a fraction of Xaku could still have a form of sentience due the trauma of what happened and we can see what Warframes made Xaku in the eyes of one of the frames, reliving that memory as Excal Umbra was reliving his own.