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- Warframe 1999 is releasing on December 13, 2024, and shall be obtainable without spending a dime on Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One.
- Discover out extra about the Warframe 1999 replace from Digital Extremes’ Senior Group Supervisor Danielle Sokolowski.
- Be the first to get an unique look and the probability to win one of two customized Warframe 1999 Xbox controllers.
Hearth up your Atomicycle and experience the satan down — Warframe: 1999 launches tomorrow, December 13! The following step in Warframe’s cinematic narrative continues as gamers leap again to 1999 and the city-state of Höllvania. Battle alongside The Hex, a crew of enhanced troopers resembling some of your favourite Warframes, as they deal with new enemies like the Techrot and Scaldra. Make new mates and foes and even indulge in a little romance for the first time in Warframe’s historical past!
For some additional insights into the 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 stay up for.
The Hex is a huge half of 1999. In what methods can gamers stay 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 in the new Cinematic Quest appropriately titled “The Hex,” the place you’ll participate in their efforts to forestall catastrophe in the metropolis of Höllvania on December 31, 1999. Nothing says “Joyful New 12 months” like taking down a tank with six of your soon-to-be besties.
Members of The Hex are core to many of the new techniques in the replace, which implies you’ll have tons of alternatives to spend time with them and try and woo them, if that’s your velocity. Enjoying as 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 of be part of The Hex in-mission by selecting up Bounties. Every member of The Hex may have duties for you, so that you’ll get to spend time along with your faves. Turning in Hex Treasures you discover in Höllvania or finishing Bounties will grant rewards like Blueprints for the new Warframe Cyte-09, Weapons, Cosmetics and extra.
And you’ll’t neglect the Gemini Oath Collection—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 hardly ever be a second while you aren’t interacting with The Hex in Warframe: 1999!
What variety of pleasure awaits in Höllvania, the battleground for Warframe: 1999?
Sokolowski: You’ll be able to positively anticipate a lot of Techrot and Scaldra exercise on and beneath the streets of Höllvania! The Scaldra are outfitted with corrosive weapons to battle off the pervasive Techrot: a mutated, infested menace. As you discover Höllvania and help The Hex, you’ll should battle your manner by way of each of these new threats.
You’ll additionally discover that the setting provides a lot of dynamic fight alternatives. Whether or not you tackle enemies in the streets, excessive above the skyline, or deep underground amongst the festering Techrot, it’s positively a parkour fanatic’s dream. You received’t should traverse the metropolis simply on foot, although! We’ve added a new automobile referred to as the Atomicycle, a souped-up (and trendy) motorbike. Gamers acquired a probability to attempt it in 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 enjoying Snake on my outdated cellphone, the coda.worm.nomnom<v.42> mini-game has a particular place in my coronary heart. You’ll additionally need to maintain your eye out for Hex Treasures to choose up, like an On-lyne CD and Temper Crystals. Returning these beloved objects may have the workforce again at the Mall hideout singing your praises.
Höllvania transitions by way of a number of seasons. How do seasons have an effect on gameplay in the replace?
Sokolowski: When you full “The Hex” Quest, an in-game Calendar turns into accessible from the Pom-2 PC that can inform you which season is lively. At launch, gamers will first expertise Höllvania in the lifeless of winter, with spring to observe, then summer time, fall and winter once more. Mixed with procedurally-generated tiles, gamers will step into and expertise a very completely 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 you can work together with in a season. Every week in the actual world equals a season in 1999 and the varieties 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 recreation that permits you to work with a squad to finish aims in opposition to NPCs, so including PVP components—whereas conserving that collaborative spirit—is a mixture we really feel gamers will actually take pleasure in.
We name this recreation mode “Faceoff” and I believe that completely embodies pleasant competitors—everybody wins in the finish, however what in case you “received” simply a little bit higher than the opposing workforce and scored a pizza occasion? With eight gamers operating round Höllvania, it’s positively an bold recreation mode with tons of shifting components. Gamers are inspired to carry their finest gear to those missions and coordinate with their teammates in direction of victory! If battling different gamers isn’t your velocity, there’s a solo mode that fills each groups with NPCs.
What different new mission varieties shall be obtainable in Warframe: 1999?
Along with the new Faceoff mode, there are 4 different mission varieties in Höllvania guided by members of The Hex. Some shall 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 battle. Or let Lettie information you in HellScrub to clear the Techrot by conserving Hell-Scrubber units charged and clear of Infested gunk. There’s additionally basic Exterminate, with Quincy directing you to filter out Höllvania to guard civilians, alongside non-obligatory provide caches—at the value of sending Techrot enemies into a frenzy. Eleanor instructs you in Legacyte Harvest to observe Kalymos, Albrecht and Loid’s trustworthy feline companion, as she searches for Techrot Legacytes to destroy. However she have to be protected in order to trace correctly.
There’s additionally the 1999 Arcade basic Caliber Chicks 2! If you need a break from the chaos in Höllvania, you may sit back with Jillian and Lillian Killian in this run-and-gun platform recreation co-developed by Sumo Digital. This infinite recreation mode has you gunning down punks and chasing their ruthless chief, Anna Ki, to rescue the President.
Can gamers anticipate the roster of Protoframes to develop in the future?
Sokolowski: 1999 isn’t even out but and there’s already been a lot love for our six Hex Protoframes! Reception since the first teasers has been overwhelmingly optimistic, and the quantity of fan artwork and fan edits alone has been astounding… simply continuously flowing.
There’s already clear curiosity from the neighborhood, so it will really feel like we’d be lacking out if we had 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 positively additionally in seeing extra Protoframes after 1999. The storytelling prospects are infinite with the Warframe roster; it’s simply a matter of discovering what most closely fits the workforce’s imaginative and prescient.
The launch of Warframe: 1999 tomorrow, December 13, isn’t the solely 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 in the armor of Hex chief Arthur Nightingale, whereas the different sports activities the modern blue hues of his proper hand, Aoi Morohoshi. You can enter to win one of these exclusive controllers right now!