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

Fireplace up your Atomicycle and trip 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. Battle 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 Neighborhood 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 an enormous a part 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 within the new Cinematic Quest appropriately titled “The Hex,” the place you’ll participate of their efforts to stop catastrophe within 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 most of the new techniques within the replace, which implies you’ll have plenty of alternatives to spend time with them and try to woo them, if that’s your velocity. Taking part in because the Drifter, the Operator’s extra mature counterpart, you’ll get to know every Protoframe via a ’90s chat messenger system known as the Pom-2. That is actually the place you’ll work together on a deeper stage with them—whether or not that’s via 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. 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’ll’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 strains. There’ll hardly ever 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 may positively anticipate a whole lot of Techrot and Scaldra exercise on and beneath the streets of Höllvania! The Scaldra are geared up with corrosive weapons to battle off the pervasive Techrot: a mutated, infested menace. As you discover Höllvania and help The Hex, you’ll must battle your manner via each of those new threats.

You’ll additionally discover that the atmosphere affords a whole 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 positively a parkour fanatic’s dream. You gained’t must traverse town simply on foot, although! We’ve added a brand new automobile known as the Atomicycle, a souped-up (and trendy) bike. Gamers received an opportunity to attempt it within the 1999 Demo and since then, due to their suggestions, we’ve improved its total dealing with and responsiveness, in addition to added new options.

There are different interactive parts in Höllvania as effectively. As somebody who spent an excessive amount of time taking part in Snake on my previous cellphone, the coda.worm.nomnom 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 gadgets may have the crew again on the Mall hideout singing your praises.

Höllvania transitions via 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 energetic. At launch, gamers will first expertise Höllvania within the lifeless 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 possibly can take inventory of the challenges, rewards, upgrades from The Hex and extra that you would be able to 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 allows you to work with a squad to finish goals towards NPCs, so including PVP parts—whereas protecting that collaborative spirit—is a mixture we really feel gamers will actually take pleasure in.

We name this recreation mode “Faceoff” and I feel that completely embodies pleasant competitors—everybody wins in the long run, however what in the event you “gained” just a bit bit higher than the opposing crew and scored a pizza occasion? With eight gamers operating round Höllvania, it’s positively an formidable recreation mode with plenty of transferring 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 velocity, there’s a solo mode that fills each groups with NPCs.

What different new mission varieties can be out there 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 can 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 protecting Hell-Scrubber units charged and away from Infested gunk. There’s additionally traditional Exterminate, with Quincy directing you to filter out Höllvania to guard civilians, alongside non-obligatory 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 trustworthy feline companion, as she searches for Techrot Legacytes to destroy. However she have to be protected with the intention to observe correctly.

There’s additionally the 1999 Arcade traditional Caliber Chicks 2! If you’d like a break from the chaos in Höllvania, you possibly can sit back with Jillian and Lillian Killian on this run-and-gun platform recreation co-developed by Sumo Digital. This countless 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 sooner or later?

Sokolowski: 1999 isn’t even out but and there’s already been a lot love for our six Hex Protoframes! Reception because the first teasers has been overwhelmingly constructive, 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 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 contemplate all potential choices, however we’re positively additionally excited 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 crew’s imaginative and prescient.

The launch of Warframe: 1999 tomorrow, December 13, isn’t the one motive to have a good time. We’re additionally giving freely a set of customized, limited-edition Xbox controllers impressed by the replace! Similar 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 modern blue hues of his proper hand, Aoi Morohoshi. You may enter to win one among these unique controllers proper now!