Warframe’s previous couple of updates have been a story tour de drive by way of time and house, weaving collectively disparate threads from the far-flung previous of the yr 1999 and the fairytale void-dimension of Duviri.
Core to those expansions is the battle with the Eldritch risk identified solely because the Indifference. Because it comes nearer to piercing the veil of our actuality and escaping the void, it is as much as the Tenno to navigate misplaced recollections — rediscovering forgotten allies, a peace that was doomed to fail and a path to a star system past our personal.
Warframe’s The Previous Peace enlargement offers us our first actual take a look at Tau, introduces a body that follows intently on Oraxia’s heels and expands gamers’ arsenals with a well-known Prime Warframe and new Operator skills.
At this yr’s TennoCon conference, studio Digital Extremes outlined what’s coming within the subsequent yr of Warframe, together with its subsequent enlargement touchdown within the coming months and the large plans for subsequent yr.
Here is every part it is advisable to know concerning the subsequent chapter of Warframe — as we as soon as extra delve into the previous to organize for future battles.
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Relive previous battles within the Tau system as you dive deep to uncover essential misplaced data.
What’s Tau? Touring to Warframe’s promised land
For Warframe lore junkies, the upcoming alternative to really see the long-teased Tau for the primary time is a mind-boggling prospect. That is the star system that the Orokin Empire created the Sentients to colonize. It is the very place that the Zariman Ten Zero was en path to earlier than its accident created the Tenno, the void-powered participant characters.
The turbulent rise and fall of the present main factions might be attributed to a grasping superpower desirous to get its paws on the assets on this star system, making it arguably probably the most necessary set items within the Warframe universe. And now we’re getting our eyes on it for the primary time within the sport’s 10-year historical past.
Word that gamers will not really get to correctly discover Tau till 2026 — many of the system’s mysteries will stay intact for now, with gamers grappling with the previous as they run and gun throughout a single planetary moon.
Within the lead-up to Tau, The Previous Peace would be the subsequent enlargement — one other time-bending journey, because the Tenno use funky void powers (and sensory deprivation tanks) to discover repressed recollections.
Although the brand new narrative would not essentially retcon something we all know concerning the previous struggle between the Orokin and the Sentients, it does name into query how a lot we actually find out about that point interval. The Tenno, Orokin and Sentients all made it to Tau and at one level established a tenuous peace — you may even discover out a couple of forgotten childhood greatest pal, a Sentient named Adis.
The Previous Peace will certainly be a tragic story, as a result of we all know this story ends in bloodshed. Even when the Tenno implement the peace by slicing down Orokin Dax warriors who’re presently violating the settlement, struggle will inevitably get away and historical past will run its course. Though we cannot be capable of make a distinction on Tau’s moon of Perita, there are hidden truths to uncover — ones that may assist us put together for the approaching struggle with the Indifference.
The Satan’s Triad is a major instance of the Orokin Empire’s tendency to blur the strains between political and non secular issues.
The Satan’s Triad: An Orokin story that introduces visually beautiful zealots
The Previous Peace introduces three characters who may as nicely be the bodily embodiment of Catholic guilt. I like decking my Warframes out to look a bit medieval, so this gothic squad is correct up my alley.
The Satan’s Triad is a bunch of Orokin enforcers — spiritual zealots and confessors — who appear to be concerned ultimately with Albrecht Entrati, the scientist who made first contact with the Indifference, created the Warframes and hid within the 1999 time loop.
Father Lyon Allard and Marie Leroux are new protoframe variants of Harrow and Wisp, increasing on the idea launched with the Drifter’s Hex allies. Their colleague has been totally consumed by the Infestation’s steelskin, changing into the following Warframe: The satan Uriel.
These characters match the darker vibe of The Previous Peace — their placing visuals recall to mind the spiritual zealotry of the Warhammer’s Inquisitors, and so they match proper in with Harrow’s authentic lore as Rell’s Warframe protector within the Purple Veil faction.
The alliance between the Tenno and the Sentients created lethal instruments. Chief amongst them is the Caliban Prime Warframe.
Caliban Prime, focus system upgrades and extra
A psychological traipse by way of Tau reveals previous Tenno powers born anew. A short lived alliance with the Sentients created hybrid applied sciences misplaced to time — however now we’ll have the prospect to convey them again to the current.
The subsequent Warframe to get the prime remedy might be Caliban — which slots completely into the lore for the upcoming enlargement. Prime Warframes are extra highly effective variations of the biomechanical fits that have been created within the heyday of the Orokin Empire, and Caliban is the amalgamation of the Infestation and Sentient expertise.
It solely is sensible that Caliban Prime is the product of the titular previous peace, and so the not too long ago reworked ally-summoning body will get its likelihood to shine in your arsenal very quickly.
The opposite large change to Warframe’s energy scaling will not come within the type of conventional weaponry. The Tenno’s void powers are getting upgrades, as gamers who’re totally invested within the 5 core focus faculties (Operator talent timber) will quickly be capable of wield highly effective final skills. Although there aren’t many particulars but about what the Tauron focus enlargement will seem like in observe, developer Digital Extremes has promised to elaborate on the characteristic in future Devstreams.
Different large TennoCon bulletins that may form the way in which you work together along with your Warframes and weaponry all through the remainder of the yr embrace a long-awaited Oberon Warframe rework, a brand new mod-related story quest that teaches new gamers the right way to correctly ramp up their energy, and particular skins for Valkyr and Lavos.
The Previous Peace enlargement will launch later in 2025, with continuous content material updates slated to come back out within the following months. Tau is about to turn into the important thing story driver for Warframe subsequent yr, so it will turn into an necessary enlargement to familiarize your self with postrelease.
