@Face I did about 4 missions I think. Grabbed mods etc. Then I grabbed something else that turns into grey cubes on the left of your ship (facing forwards) can’t recall what they are called. I was then told to head back to navigation but the game just locked up. I could move around the ship but no interface would pop up regardless of what I did.

I had a PS Plus freebie set of cash and so was looking at skins stupidly thought I was spending credits but ended up wasting all my platinum on a skin. Does look cool though.

I have 100k credits which I assume you spend on gear.

As for the combat. So far levels feel samey, but appreciate I’ve not done much.

I like some of the moves but the sword combat feels far to easy to kill bad guys and very light with lack of decent feedback. I’m sure as I power up and enemies level up it will get more challenging.

Love the bow, it’s not quite as good as a Destiny hunters bow but it’s still got a nice feel especially when you get a head stealth kill.

Not sure yet about the abilities as I believe you need to kill stuff to get the blue energy to use them rather than it be a bar that fills over time. This has lead me to hardly use my abilities.

Haven’t spent any cash on anything yet. Question would be do you need spend or is the cash just for decoration/customisation?

What Face said. Every regular Warframe and most weapons can be acquired by farming their components in-game as well, spending cash can reduce or eliminate the grind, but you don't need to spend money on them. Cosmetics and decorations are cash only, if you want that stuff. I do. 

You'll need credits for everything else. 

That thing you need to do in your ship will be available, Boris, but Warframe often does a terrible job of signposting. The Wiki and YouTube are your friends here.

Regarding combat, it's more about the power fantasy of decimating waves of enemies in seconds rather than methodically taking down one or two challenging targets. Melee is designed to be super-fast and fluid, and to be perfectly matched to the crazy mobility you can achieve with a bit of practice. 

Abilities are a massive part of this as well, and are much more prominent in the minute-to-minute gameplay than in something like Destiny. They do need to be unlocked as you level up, and you can use mods to increase your total energy, energy cost, or ability duration. Once you get the abilities unlocked and learn how to use them they really give life to the individual Warframes, with each frame's abilities affecting your playstyle to a degree you wouldn't believe.

When you've got a team of Warframes slicing and dicing at 1000mph and all blasting out crazy abilities with particle effects for days - it is truly something to behold.

I really like the different planet tilesets, and the procedural levels are very well done.

But yeah, Boris, if ever you wanna team up for some easy-going co-op just let me know.

Nyx final bit nabbed. Will start building tomorrow. Woot.

Pretty well maining Nezrha at the mo, might go back to Nova Prime too.

Built another dread. Need to do another check through market for blueprints too. MR12 so close. And have 3 prime weapons waiting as soon as I hit it.

Stormy, you know which planet I farm the thing to make the formian stuff from? I need 4, and I got three from 1 mission, but fucked if I know which one it was.

Oh, Dang. Thought I had neutropics too. Oh well, will still chase the blueprint.

Waiting at dentist for Ara. Building Ciphers on phone.

What you gonna do with your new Dread? I've got a bunch of blueprints for that now and don't know what to do with 'em.

If you've maxed something once you can't get MR from the same weapon type again, unfortunately. Alternate versions of a weapon are fine though, so Braton MK1, Braton, and Braton Prime all count for MR, for example.

How you getting on with Dread these days? You should be seeing those in-game damage numbers as way, way higher than the stat block shows. I love that bow, but it's just one of many weapons where the stats don't even begin to tell the whole story, and that shine based on their inherent damage-type modifiers.

Oh really. Damn. Guess I'll sell it or something. That means the boar I built is a waste too.

Jump on stormy to do that balor fomorian thing. The actual mission takes 3 minutes. Archwing. In a squad it's a doddle. 200k and an orokin catalyst.

Inaros sorted. Think the boss glitched. Which helped.

Have avoided it so far because of this. My Archwing and its weapons are barely passable, and I don't enjoy the missions enough to want to level anything.

Played some more Elite Sanctuary Onslaught last night. Decent rewards (endo and radiant relics) but bloody hell it's tough going.

Aye, I get that. I love the minute-to-minute gameplay enough that I'll always be dropping in a few times a week just to play the game, but it does feel like I'm lacking readily available goals.

S'all good though. Since I've been bouncing between this, Destiny 2, and Genshin Impact for my long-haulers, I've pretty much avoided the feeling of burnout I usually get from focussing heavily on any one of these types of games, and just playing them for the sake of playing them is giving me enjoment enough right now.

Goddammit, so new content in time for new consoles and the new graphical updates have started to kick in. It's a subtle difference, but game is defo looking better and running smoother. (and it wasn't running badly before.)

Hard to quit.

'Course, this would be far less of an issue if they'd implement cross-save.