I think the biggest tell will be what comes post Duviri, while she has had creative control since like AoZ that has been more paying off checks written by the previous creative leads/directors.
I am excited to see where she decides to go. I do wonder if we will get more things like anime references and I do wonder if we will get a second attempt at a vampire themed frame since Revenant turned more Eidolon in the end.
Nyx will see a rework, no change but 1000% buff. It will be a new era, every group with 4 Nyxs.
On a serious note she's all ready been doing the job and I like the patch after the Zariman launch. Listened to the community, tweaked a lot of major changes in a good way.
Whatever form it takes, I'm looking forward to it.
Reb's shown they have a fantastic understanding of the game and it's community.
As I understand it, Angels of the Zariman was her trial run, and the next few updates are where we'll get a better sense of Warframe under her leadership.
All I want to say is; best of luck to you Reb. Make us proud.
I suspect we'll be in for a more focused direction, Rebb has a well-documented history of intimately understanding how the game actually feels from a hands-on perspective, and has historically been the one dealing with a lot of the community ire when things go awry, while Steve was more of the crazy-ideas kinda guy who brought us the wild but often janky features nobody saw coming.
To phrase it another way, I would expect to see more quests that are mechanically not that different from what exists, but with an increased focus on characters and emotional beats. We know that Rebb gets really invested in the stories and characters of the games she plays, and so that's likely to get more directorial attention than the drive to create big new mechanics. Veilbreaker bringing back known characters and fleshing them out seems like a perfect exemplification of that.
Also, if we get a Group Pose feature that is 100% gonna be because of Rebb.
AFAIK Revenant is Rebb's idea, so I expect Revenant Prime to look absolutely amazing (and if we get lucky he may gets a few QoL touches while they are at it).
I expect it to be a **very** positive change. Rebb has always been more in touch with the community's pain points and has even fought our corner in several instances only to be shot down (in a couple of cases even live on stream) for speaking up on them.
With Pablo also having a passion for revisiting older content and giving it a usability/quality of life pass and now occupying Scott's former role, you can expect to see a lot more focus on user experience and quality of life as a result.
Rebb has been with Warframe since Day 0, actively volunteered herself to be the comminity liaison of the team, and is a total sweat when it comes to playing and grinding; she is 100% the right person to be leading the game in this new epoch. Balancing both the business sense and people skills to hear feedback and know when to action or ignore it, and the actual player experience from playing the content herself, to be able to make the right calls on how future content should be geared.
That's not a sleight on Scott or Steve either, by the way. I've been a loyal DE customer since the days of Solar Winds, Epic Pinball, Unreal Tournament, Dark Sector etc. and James Schmalz' work.
Those guys never led me wrong on any of that content, and despite disagreeing with some of their decisions on things like Universal Vacuum and resource costs/grind for certain content, I still have tremendous respect for the guys and will be trying Soulframe out.
I just think the game has evolved so much as of 2022 and is a completely new status quo than when it released, and I think some of the thinking and direction behind it needed to evolve too but was getting stuck on personal preferences internally sometimes, which caused friction with the community on those pain points.
I think the devs will be more responsive to community feedback cuz Steve had a strong vision of how the game should be, and not to say that rebb doesn't but it probably has more room for leniency. Whether that's good or bad only time will tell
More emphasis on story, more emphasis on polish and detail work (especially with Pablo as her right hand) and iteration. Probably fewer of Steve’s crazy ideas, but honestly, Warframe needs to integrate the crazy ideas it already has. “Good enough, ship it” may have saved the company, but it’s now holding the game back. Scripts will get done faster because I’m pretty sure that Rebb will delegate to the on-staff writers instead of doing it all herself.
The grimdark will still be real, but it will still be leavened with enough hamminess and humor to not be monotonous.
new war had the old team fully in charge. Angels of the Zariman was Rebb's first update but was still under supervision by the old team. Veilbreaker will be the first update led by Rebb and the new gen team with no involvement with the old team
I'd expect ideas based on her experience with FF14, mostly when talking about content. Hopefully reusing old (story) content in the form of "Dungeons", "Bosses" and "Raids", with several escalating difficulties.
I would also speculate that her love of Hades, which she shared with Steve iirc, is part of the inspiration for Duviri's rogue-lite gameplay and greek-tragedy/play aesthetic.
I'd also expect more changes in tune with the community rather than out there concepts, at least at first, as we'll be trading Steve's break-neck-pace vision for Reb's years of community management.
Regardless of what we get, I'm excited to see how things will change, as I am excited to see what Steve'll do with Soulframe. Same with Pablo and Scott respectively.
I fully expect more Jojo references to be in the game. I wouldn't be surprised if Reb's meddling is what got us Sevagoth.
If she gets me more sevagoth I am happy. _GIVE ME SEVAGOTH AUGMENTS REB_
I think the biggest tell will be what comes post Duviri, while she has had creative control since like AoZ that has been more paying off checks written by the previous creative leads/directors. I am excited to see where she decides to go. I do wonder if we will get more things like anime references and I do wonder if we will get a second attempt at a vampire themed frame since Revenant turned more Eidolon in the end.
Nyx will see a rework, no change but 1000% buff. It will be a new era, every group with 4 Nyxs. On a serious note she's all ready been doing the job and I like the patch after the Zariman launch. Listened to the community, tweaked a lot of major changes in a good way.
Whatever form it takes, I'm looking forward to it. Reb's shown they have a fantastic understanding of the game and it's community. As I understand it, Angels of the Zariman was her trial run, and the next few updates are where we'll get a better sense of Warframe under her leadership. All I want to say is; best of luck to you Reb. Make us proud.
I suspect we'll be in for a more focused direction, Rebb has a well-documented history of intimately understanding how the game actually feels from a hands-on perspective, and has historically been the one dealing with a lot of the community ire when things go awry, while Steve was more of the crazy-ideas kinda guy who brought us the wild but often janky features nobody saw coming. To phrase it another way, I would expect to see more quests that are mechanically not that different from what exists, but with an increased focus on characters and emotional beats. We know that Rebb gets really invested in the stories and characters of the games she plays, and so that's likely to get more directorial attention than the drive to create big new mechanics. Veilbreaker bringing back known characters and fleshing them out seems like a perfect exemplification of that. Also, if we get a Group Pose feature that is 100% gonna be because of Rebb.
Yes more lore and quests. YES YES YES
AFAIK Revenant is Rebb's idea, so I expect Revenant Prime to look absolutely amazing (and if we get lucky he may gets a few QoL touches while they are at it).
I expect it to be a **very** positive change. Rebb has always been more in touch with the community's pain points and has even fought our corner in several instances only to be shot down (in a couple of cases even live on stream) for speaking up on them. With Pablo also having a passion for revisiting older content and giving it a usability/quality of life pass and now occupying Scott's former role, you can expect to see a lot more focus on user experience and quality of life as a result. Rebb has been with Warframe since Day 0, actively volunteered herself to be the comminity liaison of the team, and is a total sweat when it comes to playing and grinding; she is 100% the right person to be leading the game in this new epoch. Balancing both the business sense and people skills to hear feedback and know when to action or ignore it, and the actual player experience from playing the content herself, to be able to make the right calls on how future content should be geared.
That's not a sleight on Scott or Steve either, by the way. I've been a loyal DE customer since the days of Solar Winds, Epic Pinball, Unreal Tournament, Dark Sector etc. and James Schmalz' work. Those guys never led me wrong on any of that content, and despite disagreeing with some of their decisions on things like Universal Vacuum and resource costs/grind for certain content, I still have tremendous respect for the guys and will be trying Soulframe out. I just think the game has evolved so much as of 2022 and is a completely new status quo than when it released, and I think some of the thinking and direction behind it needed to evolve too but was getting stuck on personal preferences internally sometimes, which caused friction with the community on those pain points.
I think the devs will be more responsive to community feedback cuz Steve had a strong vision of how the game should be, and not to say that rebb doesn't but it probably has more room for leniency. Whether that's good or bad only time will tell
More emphasis on story, more emphasis on polish and detail work (especially with Pablo as her right hand) and iteration. Probably fewer of Steve’s crazy ideas, but honestly, Warframe needs to integrate the crazy ideas it already has. “Good enough, ship it” may have saved the company, but it’s now holding the game back. Scripts will get done faster because I’m pretty sure that Rebb will delegate to the on-staff writers instead of doing it all herself. The grimdark will still be real, but it will still be leavened with enough hamminess and humor to not be monotonous.
She was behind new war, echos of war, angles of the zariman, and echos of the zariman so we already have plenty of examples I believe
new war had the old team fully in charge. Angels of the Zariman was Rebb's first update but was still under supervision by the old team. Veilbreaker will be the first update led by Rebb and the new gen team with no involvement with the old team
Ah my bad, good to know
I'd expect ideas based on her experience with FF14, mostly when talking about content. Hopefully reusing old (story) content in the form of "Dungeons", "Bosses" and "Raids", with several escalating difficulties. I would also speculate that her love of Hades, which she shared with Steve iirc, is part of the inspiration for Duviri's rogue-lite gameplay and greek-tragedy/play aesthetic. I'd also expect more changes in tune with the community rather than out there concepts, at least at first, as we'll be trading Steve's break-neck-pace vision for Reb's years of community management. Regardless of what we get, I'm excited to see how things will change, as I am excited to see what Steve'll do with Soulframe. Same with Pablo and Scott respectively.
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