Warframe Story, Act II: Escalation
1. Unlock Ceres -> Tethra’s Doom begins.
Link: https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-tethras-doom/
– “Vay Hek is rebuilding the Fomorian fleet. The previous one was destroyed by Tenno efforts, but Vay Hek has made some upgrades and they will all but ensue Grineer domination of the Origin System. We must sabotage production of their Cores on Ceres”.
Do Ceres missions (I’d recommend doing Cinxia - Interception - TW) until you reach the Ludi node on it. Reaching it results in Vay Hek sending a message to the Tenno (imo all players should experience this glorious threat).
Link: https://youtu.be/wOygJJ7Zudk
Escalate the efforts and do Hijack mission several times (2-3). (Personal note – I wish the assassinate mission on Ceres was actually Grustrag 3 as Lech Kril and Vor don’t make sense and those 3 serve same purpose imo).
2. Operation: Cryotic Front
https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-cryotic-front/
– Realizing that Tenno efforts are barely delaying the arrival of The Fomorian Fleet, Lotus seeks a way to combat the threat more directly. A secret benefactor is willing to give information on old Archwing technology in exchange for us mining Cryotic for them.
Do some Excavation missions (500 cryotic total should be enough to suffice) (according to Star Chart progression, available Excavation missions are on Earth, Venus, Mars and Europe - TW).
The contact is revealed by Darvo to be Baro Ki'Teer. [This research doesn’t go unnoticed.]
3. Operation: Gate Crash
https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-gate-crash/
– “Vay Hek learns of Tenno attempts to rebuild archwings and seeks to put a stop to it. Intercept his attempts”.
Another sad casualty of not being in the game. But can be essentially replayed if you play the Stribog, Void mission (but if you can’t access it or get taxied, Formido, Deimos can also be good).
4. Archwing Quest – self-explanatory.
TW: as usual, replaying the quest doesn’t show the initial message on your screen, so you have to look for it here:
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/The_Archwing/Transcript
Once done Eyes of Blight begins.
https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-eyes-of-blight/
You can basically do the event once the Fomorian in deployed in the game now, as it’s essentially the same event.
TW: If it’s not present, here is the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/nnGRnsHpEeU
TW: The destruction of Strata Relay and Vay Hek’s message:
https://youtu.be/AZeJJjbRvGQ?t=242
5. Vay Hek Assassination /Law Of Retribution
– “The Tenno exact vengeance on Vay Hek for the events of Eyes of blight”.
Story and dialogue wise, the cannon choice seems to be LOR, but unfortunately it is no longer available, so the assassinate can substitute. If you are interested in the dialogue and stuff, this is the best one I have found.
Link (TW - Second Dream spoilers, so if it’s your first playthrough, be careful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgZOb1M_bo
6. Make your way to Jupiter.
– “With the end of Fomorian crisis, Frohd Bek finally honors his side of the bargain and gives you the location of Alad V’s labs on Jupiter.”
Unfortunately it’s impossible to fight the captured warframe Valkyr anymore on the tileset. So just assassinate Alad V here.
TW: Alad V’s evil experiments on warframes: https://youtu.be/7QzMaXVxpLQ
7. TW: Sands of Inaros Quest. It can’t be replayed, so here is a YouTube walkthrough:
https://youtu.be/zqHh48cWSAk
I placed it after the end of Vay Hek’s story arc, where Baro was introduced.
8. Stolen Dreams. Nothing much to note about this one.
TW - as usual, the inital message is not displayed when replaying, so you’d have to look for it in the wiki:
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Stolen_Dreams/Transcript
9. Suspicious Shipments
https://www.orokinarchives.com/suspicious-shipments/
Turns out Alad V survived and is now experimenting with the infestation. Unavailable at all in game, this video will have to do to give more context.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlC9s1nVBBo
10. TW: The Limbo Theorem. The quest in non-replayable, so here is the playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39rBPYJYfYg
11. The New Strange. Once done Simaris stuff becomes available.
TW: the initial message can be found here:
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Strange/Transcript
12. Get to Saturn – Pacifism Defect
Link: https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-pacifism-defect/
Cressa Tal contacts you and ask for help with evacuating several kavor defectors from ships that had been hit by infestation. Just do several missions on Caracol node and you are set.
Sargas Ruk doesn’t like this. At all.
13. The Pyrus Project
https://www.orokinarchives.com/pyrus-project/
https://youtu.be/jaC954Xhf-o?list=PL77Z7WRW-YK-v5laBuY7cyrBDkm0gSRkq
Steel Meridian helps with reconstruction of earth Relay. This event is no longer available but it has a lot of story elements that should be in the game imo.
You can substitute the ending with just Sargas Ruk assassinate mission.
14. TW: A Man of Few Words (Darvo and Clem mission, can be done after unlocking Uranus).
15. Mutalist Incursion begins.
Link: https://youtu.be/itwFTvVdvK8
This is the biggest problem story wise in Warframe right now – Eris is unlocked much later yet the events of it are clearly happening before we get to Uranus. I hope at least something is done to fix this at some point. Right now all I can say is this is how the story is supposed to go, but new players will have to skip this till they get to Eris. This event is comprised of:
- Patient Zero quest
- Operation: Breeding Grounds
https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-breeding-grounds/
Ends with Mutalist Alad V assassinate.
16. TW: The Jordas Precept, can be done after unlocking Eris.
If you already have necessary quest items, some parts of dialogue might be omitted, so it’s better to read the full version here:
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/The_Jordas_Precept/Transcript
17. Tubemen of Regor
https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-tubemen-of-regor/
Another victim of being just an event. The intro is thankfully self-explanatory and you could just do the missions on Uranus until you get the Oculyst scanned. You are missing out on some glorious dialogue from Tyl Regor. I want that event to be back as a mission just to get that back.
Link to Nef Anyo, Alad V, and Tyl Regor Voice Lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tevrIe3jbNc
18. Natah. Pretty self-explanatory.
Do Tyl Regor assassinate after this.
Links to all posts:
Warframe Story, Introduction
Warframe Story, Act I: Awakening
Warframe Story, Act II: Escalation
Warframe Story, Act III: Turmoil
Warframe Story, Act IV: Prelude to War
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