ROLE PLAY
W hen Warframe first added ship-to-ship space combat back in 2019, it was easily one of its most ambitious updates ever. The free-to-play loot shooter had experimented with zero-G fights with Archwings a few years earlier, but Railjack was much akin to Sea of Thieves. Players form a crew and explore dangerous asteroid fields surrounding various planets aboard a ship called a Railjack with multiple stations each player can take control of. Or they can eject themselves into space and board enemy ships, destroying them from the inside. But as cool as Railjack is, it fell woefully short of what players expected. For one, it was just too damn complicated.