Create the Social gathering of a Lifetime in Warframe 1999, Coming December 13

Fireplace up your Atomicycle and experience the satan down — Warframe: 1999 launches tomorrow, December 13! The subsequent step in Warframe’s cinematic narrative continues as gamers leap again to 1999 and the city-state of Höllvania. Combat alongside The Hex, a crew of enhanced troopers resembling a few of your favourite Warframes, as they deal with new enemies just like the Techrot and Scaldra. Make new buddies and foes and even bask in just a little romance for the primary time in Warframe’s historical past!

For some additional insights into the brand new replace, we spoke to Senior Group Supervisor Danielle Sokolowski about what’s coming in Warframe 1999, the setting of Höllvania in addition to new missions and PvPvE updates that gamers can sit up for.

The Hex is a giant a part of 1999. In what methods can gamers sit up for interacting with this crew of distinctive characters?

Sokolowski: They positive are! You’ll first work together with Arthur, Aoi, Lettie, Amir, Quincy and Eleanor within the new Cinematic Quest appropriately titled “The Hex,” the place you’ll participate of their efforts to forestall catastrophe within the metropolis of Höllvania on December 31, 1999. Nothing says “Glad New Yr” like taking down a tank with six of your soon-to-be besties. 

Members of The Hex are core to lots of the new techniques within the replace, which implies you’ll have a lot of alternatives to spend time with them and try and woo them, if that’s your pace. Enjoying because the Drifter, the Operator’s extra mature counterpart, you’ll get to know every Protoframe by way of a ’90s chat messenger system referred to as the Pom-2. That is actually the place you’ll work together on a deeper degree with them—whether or not that’s by way of a platonic friendship or steamy romance!

You’ll additionally be capable to be part of The Hex in-mission by choosing up Bounties. Every member of The Hex can have duties for you, so that you’ll get to spend time together with your faves. Delivering Hex Treasures you discover in Höllvania or finishing Bounties will grant rewards like Blueprints for the brand new Warframe Cyte-09, Weapons, Cosmetics and extra.

And you may’t overlook the Gemini Oath Assortment—which helps you to play as (and customise) the Protoframes themselves, and listen to extra of their personalities with a full gamut of distinctive voice traces. There’ll not often be a second if you aren’t interacting with The Hex in Warframe: 1999!

What sort of pleasure awaits in Höllvania, the battleground for Warframe: 1999?

Sokolowski: You’ll be able to undoubtedly count on quite a lot of Techrot and Scaldra exercise on and beneath the streets of Höllvania! The Scaldra are outfitted with corrosive weapons to combat off the pervasive Techrot: a mutated, infested menace. As you discover Höllvania and help The Hex, you’ll should combat your approach by way of each of those new threats.

You’ll additionally discover that the atmosphere gives quite a lot of dynamic fight alternatives. Whether or not you tackle enemies within the streets, excessive above the skyline, or deep underground amongst the festering Techrot, it’s undoubtedly a parkour fanatic’s dream. You received’t should traverse town simply on foot, although! We’ve added a brand new automobile referred to as the Atomicycle, a souped-up (and trendy) motorbike. Gamers obtained an opportunity to attempt it within the 1999 Demo and since then, due to their suggestions, we’ve improved its general dealing with and responsiveness, in addition to added new options.

There are different interactive components in Höllvania as properly. As somebody who spent an excessive amount of time taking part in Snake on my previous telephone, the coda.worm.nomnom mini-game has a particular place in my coronary heart. You’ll additionally wish to preserve your eye out for Hex Treasures to select up, like an On-lyne CD and Temper Crystals. Returning these beloved gadgets can have the group again on the Mall hideout singing your praises.

Höllvania transitions by way of a number of seasons. How do seasons have an effect on gameplay within the replace?

Sokolowski: When you full “The Hex” Quest, an in-game Calendar turns into accessible from the Pom-2 PC that can let you know which season is lively. At launch, gamers will first expertise Höllvania within the useless of winter, with spring to observe, then summer season, fall and winter once more. Mixed with procedurally-generated tiles, gamers will step into and expertise a really totally different Höllvania every season with distinctive lighting, vegetation and soundscapes.

As Höllvania adjustments with the seasons, so do the techniques in 1999. The Calendar is the place you may take inventory of the challenges, rewards, upgrades from The Hex and extra which you can work together with in a season. Every week in the true world equals a season in 1999 and the forms of challenges and rewards change with this weekly rotation.

What expertise are you attempting to carry to gamers with Warframe’s new PvPvE mode?

Sokolowski: Warframe is primarily a PVE sport that permits you to work with a squad to finish goals in opposition to NPCs, so including PVP components—whereas protecting that collaborative spirit—is a mixture we really feel gamers will actually get pleasure from.

We name this sport mode “Faceoff” and I feel that completely embodies pleasant competitors—everybody wins ultimately, however what for those who “received” just a bit bit higher than the opposing group and scored a pizza get together? With eight gamers operating round Höllvania, it’s undoubtedly an bold sport mode with a lot of shifting elements. Gamers are inspired to carry their finest gear to those missions and coordinate with their teammates in the direction of victory! If battling different gamers isn’t your pace, there’s a solo mode that fills each groups with NPCs.

What different new mission varieties will probably be accessible in Warframe: 1999?

Along with the brand new Faceoff mode, there are 4 different mission varieties in Höllvania guided by members of The Hex. Some will probably be acquainted to gamers, however with extra-special 1999 flare.

Take down the Scaldra H-09 Efervon Tank with Arthur’s intelligence in a multi-phase Assassination combat. Or let Lettie information you in HellScrub to clear the Techrot by protecting Hell-Scrubber gadgets charged and away from Infested gunk. There’s additionally traditional Exterminate, with Quincy directing you to filter out Höllvania to guard civilians, alongside elective provide caches—at the price of sending Techrot enemies right into a frenzy. Eleanor instructs you in Legacyte Harvest to observe Kalymos, Albrecht and Loid’s devoted feline companion, as she searches for Techrot Legacytes to destroy. However she have to be protected to be able to observe correctly.

There may be additionally the 1999 Arcade traditional Caliber Chicks 2! If you need a break from the chaos in Höllvania, you may relax with Jillian and Lillian Killian on this run-and-gun platform sport co-developed by Sumo Digital. This countless sport mode has you gunning down punks and chasing their ruthless chief, Anna Ki, to rescue the President.

Can gamers count on the roster of Protoframes to develop sooner or later?

Sokolowski: 1999 isn’t even out but and there’s already been a lot love for our six Hex Protoframes! Reception for the reason that first teasers has been overwhelmingly optimistic, and the quantity of fan artwork and fan edits alone has been astounding… simply continually flowing.

There’s already clear curiosity from the neighborhood, so it might really feel like we’d be lacking out if we have been to cease right here. We will’t promise who’s up subsequent, or if we’d think about all potential choices, however we’re undoubtedly additionally inquisitive about seeing extra Protoframes after 1999. The storytelling prospects are countless with the Warframe roster; it’s only a matter of discovering what most closely fits the group’s imaginative and prescient.

The launch of Warframe: 1999 tomorrow, December 13, isn’t the one purpose to rejoice. We’re additionally freely giving a set of customized, limited-edition Xbox controllers impressed by the replace! Identical to their Protoframe counterparts, these controllers have been turned into one thing new: one is clad within the armor of Hex chief Arthur Nightingale, whereas the opposite sports activities the smooth blue hues of his proper hand, Aoi Morohoshi. You’ll be able to enter to win one among these unique controllers proper now!