History YMMV / WarFrame

** [[spoiler:Praghasa. The mother of Lotus and Erra, Praghasa had been teased as a major threat since the first trailer dropped for the New War. However, as the storyline progressed, it was revealed that she's brain dead, with her admittedly impressive appearance at the end of the quest having her solely being a plot device. Some fans have stated that she could have been used to further enhance Erra's character, by having Ballas piloting her corpse being one of the events that sowed doubt in Erra's mind regarding his and Ballas' partnership.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Despite claims that there would be a big change following The New War, [[spoiler:many of the plot elements introduced by the quest simply disappear after it's done. The Sentients, who now officially have no leader, return to attacking every other faction despite the Tenno freeing them from being deceived by Ballas, the Stalker will continue to hunt the Tenno over assassinations despite them allying and helping his master and Narmer becomes a largely nonexistant threat.]]

* ToughActToFollow: While almost everything in the game has at least ''some'' fans, the reason DE have struggled so much with every alternate play mode (Archwings, Railjacks, Necramechs, [[spoiler:Operator mode]]) is because they succeeded so well in making the Warframes some of the greatest and most-satisfying LightningBruiser playable characters in the history of gaming with their blinding speed, fluid agility, selection of awesome weapons and array of devastating powers, that every other mode just feels like a downgrade by comparison. Archwings feel weightless and hard to control, Necramechs feel slow and lumbering like characters from a more conventional 3rd-person shooter such as ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', Railjacks are even slower and more-disconnected from usual gameplay than Archwings and feel more like something from an entirely different game, and [[spoiler:Operator mode]] is squishy, slow, not very agile and far less-destructive than a Warframe's arsenal of weapons and powers. This was notably ''not'' the case for the segments of "The New War" where the player controls Kahl, Veso, and Teshin, though, which has enjoyed immensely, in part because [[TropesAreTools the entire point of these segments is to feel difficult and convey how dangerous the invading sentients are]].

** Vampyric Liminus has two slow moving [[InvincibleMinorMinion and invulnerable Liminus]] from Duviri pursue you across the level, heavily draining health and energy if they come close. They're easily avoided on most missions, though if you have them on Asassination during The Fragmented boss fight or Mirror Defense you have to position yourself carefully to avoid either running into The Fragmented's attacks or luring a Liminus into draining the Auricle or Vitreum.

* {{Adorkable}}: Male liches quite often come with endearing personality traits, being either AffablyEvil or comically insane, and tend to be more sarcastic and silly than either the flirtatious or ConsumateProfessional female ones.

* AccidentalInnuendo: The randomly generated names of Kuva Liches had to be patched in order to exclude some rather lewd and unfortunate names; early Kuva Lich names included strings like "Titt", "Kokk", "Hesukk" and "Yiff".
* {{Adorkable}}: Male liches quite often come with endearing personality traits and tend to be more sarcastic and silly than female ones.

** Tellurium can only be found on Archwing levels (as well as Uranus, Railjack missions, and [[spoiler: the Kuva Fortress]] thanks to Archwing being required for those nodes. It has an absurdly low drop rate, and since you can't find resource deposits of it like every other resource there, you need to get it from enemies (who also have a very low chance to drop it). And like Argon, it's a fairly common component in powerful gear,

** Lethargic Shields increases shield recharge delay by 500%, making it take at least six seconds to start recharging. [[MercyInvincibility Shieldgating]] at best gives around three seconds of invincibility.

*** It seems the devs intended this, as they were initially planned to be released side-by-side but weren't, due to time constraints. As well, the devs called the duo "Super best friends" and Grendel [[EarlyBirdCameo even gets a small appearance in Gauss's introduction video.]] Whether or not it's canon, everyone seems to agree on the same thing.

* MagnificentBastard: Parvos Granum, [[OurFounder the Founder of the Corpus Empire]]. Once a lowly grain farmer, after stealing from the Orokin an incredibly valuable gem after being convinced by a mysterious voice to do so, he started to give loans to his fellow farmers and started new businesses until he had so much money that he created the Corpus Empire. After surviving two assassination attempts, the first one being from [[OneManArmy a Warframe hit-squad]] and a second one from failed sabotage from his Board of Directors, he returns to the Origin System to bring back the Corpus into its old glory of self-reliance. Smart, resourceful and charismatic, Parvos shows time after time when he shows up that he is always two steps ahead of everyone.

** With ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', in part because a number of available frames (such as [[TimeStandsStill Limbo]] and [[GoodOldFisticuffs Atlas]]) have powers that emulate popular Stands, as well as the screenshot potential of [[spoiler:an Operator]] and their "Stand". This eventually resulted in Rebecca Ford, voice of the Lotus and community manager, becoming a ConvertedFangirl and even commissioning [[https://old.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/c3s2ws/atlas_and_rhino_commission_i_got/ art of Rhino and Atlas]] posing as Joseph and Caesar. [[spoiler: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warframe/images/e/e3/DrEntrati.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20231213043020 The appearance that Albrecht Entrati]] takes on in 1999 almost feels like acknowledgement of this, too.]]

* Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus. Once a lowly farm, after using his newfound wits and guided by a mysterious voice, he becomes so insanely rich that even the Orokin respect him for this. He survives not one, but two assassination attempts and when he is finally released from the Void, he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scolds Nef for being a incompetent lazy man]] and immediately starts a splinter faction within the Corpus that puts the entire Origin System in alert mode. All of this, while he is only a simple old human with no extraordinary powers other than being incredibly smart.

** Entrati Lanthorns can be found in [[spoiler: the Zariman and Albrecht's labs]] through rare enemy drops like Tellurium, which requires dedicated farming to get enough for the amounts needed for the various blueprints found there. While [[spoiler: Albrecht's labs]] has them more availably, you need to either kill a [[MetalSlime Gruzzling]] and hope it drops three instead of an Echo Voca or Melee Arcane, clear [[BrutalBonusLevel Netraclell or Deep Archimedea missions]] which can only be done weekly, or get lucky when defeating [[BossInMookClothing Rogue Necramechs]].