Warframe scares me a bit. Okay, it scares me lots. This is this massive free-to-play MMO that is been rising for over a decade, including layers upon layers of advanced sci-fi lore and context to its imposing metallic kind.
I could not inform you earlier than googling it why one in all my fellow article writers had declared within the chat for a latest press preview that Excalibur Prime customers will not be spared when the revolution comes. I can inform you that its finish of yr 2025 replace is known as The Previous Peace, and appears prefer it’ll be a hoot.
The Previous Peace, which builders Digital Extremes have simply proven off a demo of at this yr’s version of annual Warframe get-together TennCon, is all about “the war-scarring battle between the Orokin, their creations, and a coalition of Dax Anarch Warriors” upon the Perita moon”. The demo of it kicked off with the participant combating an enormous robo-lad that turned out to be manned by a small robo-lady, who then accompanies you thru occasions you are hallucinating through a Matrix-esque tech bathtub with The Lotus, the mysterious determine who talks you thru missions from the beginning of the sport.
“You had the brand new warfare, you recognize concerning the previous warfare,” Warframe artistic director Rebecca Ford stated of the replace, “however now it is time to be taught concerning the previous peace, the place, as with all wars, there was a second in time when there was an effort for peace, a treaty. There was a time on Tau when issues may have been totally different.”
The Previous Peace, which’ll broaden Warframe’s focus talent tree and add in a brand new baddie faction, is bringing with it a standalone aspect story referred to as The Satan’s Triad that appears prefer it’ll see you tackle three scary bosses to earn a brand new warframe and a few new protoframes. The body’s dubbed Uriel, it is satan themed, and it is also the final warframe that the sport’s former artwork director Michael ‘Mynki’ Brennan labored on previous to his loss of life from most cancers in October final yr.
Earlier than all of that, the sport’ll even be getting an autumn replace that includes a Lavos Deluxe beauty, a rework of the Oberon body, and a quest referred to as The Trainer. The latter’s designed to show you all about modding in Warframe, which sadly is of the including stuff to gear in a sport selection, fairly than the downloading a factor that turns NPCs into Shrek selection.
Digital Extremes additionally introduced {that a} standalone Warframe TTRPG module, made in collaboration with sci-fi cube sport Starfinder devs Paizo and dubbed Warframe x Starfinder: Operation Orias, is launching in October this yr.
Going again to The Previous Peace, the very finish of its TennoCon displaying teases Warframe’s future, with an replace dubbed Tau coming in 2026 set to proceed the sport’s present “Void Conflict” story arc. “We now have a really bold subsequent couple of years [planned], to get the roots of Warframe and the whole lot we’re gonna want [in place] to proceed this loopy journey,” Ford stated.
So, no slowing down in sight for the large MMO’s continued metamorphosis, at the same time as Digital Extremes’ different mission, Soulframe, inches nearer to full launch.
