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Warframe’s next updates include a secret Necralisk lab, grimoires, and a Headless Horseman homage"Our first true hub expansion", say Digital Extremes
“Our first true hub expansion”, say Digital Extremes
Image credit:Digital Extremes
Image credit:Digital Extremes
Greetings, Tenno! This message comes to you from that primeval epoch known as “Last Wednesday”, when Digital Extremes treated RPS to a preview screening of theWarframeupdate announcements planned for this year’s Tennocon - a special Tennocon indeed, coinciding as it does with the game’s 10th anniversary and the studio’s 30th. Alas, “Last Wednesday” was a regular Dark Age, and we dusty ancients were granted only a partial glimpse of the promised new areas, weapons, cosmetics and story content, Digital Extremes having reserved some of the key reveals for a happier period, “Today” - which, according to our most trusted seers, will be an era of understanding and transparency. Fickle are the winds of history! Still, even with the limited insight of our time, we grasped at some sense of the offering’s magnitude. Read on, if you dare.
The bulkiest of the planned Warframe updates - Whisper In The Walls, arriving later this winter - is a new area, the secret laboratory of one Albrecht Entrati, located beneath the Necralisk on Deimos, where you’ll help a floating drone called Loid complete/avert something called the Kalymos Sequence, which involves something or someone called the Sleeper.
I confess, I’m not up to speed with Warframe’s on-going plot, so here’s what it all looks and sounds like to a layman: gold and blue hallways, wide spiral stairs, ominous statues, cosmic turbines hanging from the ceiling, chonky Teslawatsits shooting lightning bolts everywhere, strange banging noises, breakable walls hiding secret chambers, overgrown cats with glowing eyes, suggestive anachronisms such as flip phones, and colossal brains on shelves. The area features new lighting technology, which certainly lends itself to the Mad Science theme. It’s sort of an Ancient Egyptian crypt through the lens of Tron.
Image credit:Digital Extremes
According to Warframe’s creative director Rebecca Ford, “this our first true hub expansion - we’re taking the Necralisk update, and we’re adding a basement”. There’s an entirely new faction in the works (perhaps you are even now laying eyes on it at Tennocon. We antique scholars can but dream) and expansions for the existing Necramech faction. Oh, and there’s a new secondary weapon type, too: grimoires, also known as books. You can actuallyreadthe books, I think, but mainly you’ll be using them to hoik handfuls of astral energy at people.
Continuing with the more functional stuff, Digital Extremes are committing to the much-demanded introduction of cross-save this year. “Cross-save 2023 is indeed the plan,” said Ford. The developers are also planning an iOS version of Warframe to release in 2024, with pre-registration kicking off at Tennocon.
