Warframe fans won’t need to be reminded it’s a big weekend for developer Digital Extremes and its long-running sci-fi shooter. Thanks to this year’s TennoCon live event, which is traditionally the time for the studio to dazzle its community with all sorts of things to come, we’ve now got a pretty good idea of what Warframe’s next twelve months look like.
Top of the list for this year’s big updates is The Old Peace, Warframe’s next major quest and narrative chapter. It’s basically the prelude to next year’s big Tau update (which we’ll get to in a bit) and comes packaged with a new side story called The Devil’s Triad.
Focusing on The Old Peace’s quest bit first, it whisks players back to the Tau of the past, where – to paraphrase the official description – they’ll ecnounter a childhood Sentient friend named Adis, and experience the conflict between the Orokin, their creations, and a coalition of Dax Anarch Warriors upon the Perita moon. And as for that Devil’s Triad side story, it’ll serve as the introduction to three new characters: Father Lyon Allard (the Protoframe of Harrow), Marie Leroux (the Protoframe of Wisp), and new devil-themed Warframe Uriel.
Alongside all , you’ve got a new enemy faction, a Focus expansion introducing a new Operator ability, and – on that subject – a full graphical remaster for Warframe’s Operators, which includes new character models and cosmetic assets, new facial animations, and more.