The Sun

What I like about it is the infestation is... Well to be honest it's one of the weakest parts of Warframe as a franchise. All the other stuff is kind of interesting with weird twists but the infestation is literally just every other sci fi hive mind bioweapon ever, it's the tyrannids, it's the dead space necromorph, it's the starship troopers bugs, there's really nothing new or novel there other than I guess the relationship to our warframes... Until it gets put in 1999

The rest of the game are these fantastical sci fi far future tilesets with space ships and corpus angular technology and orokin white and gold, it's completely detached from our view of the world because the orokin destroyed all the old world stuff, but all of a sudden in 1999 things are familiar. You RECOGNIZE this stuff, you could picture going downtown and seeing everything look like that... And the infestation is eating it alive, the techrot.

You get put face to face with what it looks like and how it works, you see a familiar landscape get torn apart almost instantly and everyone panicking or desperately trying to fight it off (and for some reason still finding the time to celebrate new Year's Eve with a scheduled boyband appearance lol)

Halo tried to do a similar thing with the flood when they made the big reveal that the flood were on earth and fucking shit up but it just felt like another generic sci fi shooter level, even people who play the game don't often realize the ramifications of earth being infested, it's just such a bang bang oorah way of engaging with it. It doesn't help of course that every single halo game immediately goes to shit the moment the flood show up and start instagibbing you with perfect accuracy shotgun shots and rockets

Keeping up with all the new quests and nodes is also nuts, I'm sure if you lived through them all as they came out it made perfect sense, like how I was around for citrine and voruna being added as like small updates, but now I'm like fifteen people are dming me asking to help them do random bullshit

There's the second dream operator story where we're uncovering things about our past and how much of a dick Ballass is and who the hell Margulis even was, there's the Albreicht Entrati stuff with 1999 and supposedly trying to stop a nuke from going off that is apparently connected to the old peace but I have no fucking idea how, there's WHATEVER the fuck is even supposed to be going on with Teshin and Duviri at all, I still don't know why they exist or what their entire deal is even supposed to be, there's the original story from 2013 with the corpus/grineer/tenno/infection war going on which I guess is all on pause for now while we figure our shit out, there's Stalker discovering the joys of parenthood with a... baby warframe? (Does it eat? Does it shit? Does it have abilities and mod slots? Was it also an orokin experiment? Is there a tiny infant operator that was on the zariman with us? lol)