Warframe has been getting more and more, delightfully bizarre during the last couple of years, main as much as final 12 months’s time-travelling, NPC-romancing blast again to 1999. And issues are about to get even wilder when developer Digital Extremes invitations gamers to begin kicking boy band butt in its new Techrot Encore replace, arriving on nineteenth March.
Techrot Encore sees Digital Extremes constructing on final 12 months’s 1999 replace by introducing a spread of latest gameplay programs. That begins with the introduction of the Technocyte Coda – a corruption of Warframe’s in-game 90s boy band On-lyne, whose members (Harddrive, Zeke, Drillbit, Packet, and DJ RoM) will randomly seem in ranges till gamers defeat them.
It is an adversary system – initially resulting from launch final 12 months till it ballooned into one thing extra expansive – that works equally to Warframe’s Kuva Lich and Sisters of Parvos. As such, gamers – who’ll must have accomplished The Hex quest first – cannot have a Lich or Sister tied to them in the event that they wish to expertise the Technocyte Coda. Oh and be warned that you will achieve a steadily rising pimple till you handle to defeat your bothersome boy band foe.
On prime of that, Techrot Encore provides 4 new Protoframes to 1999’s Höllvania Mall, which has been expanded to supply entry to the grungy The Spherical Desk pub. Right here, gamers can meet Velimir (the Protoframe of Frost) and his ex-wife Minerva (Saryn), in addition to good younger engineer Kaya Velasco, the Protoframe of Nova. And lastly, there’s the David Bowie-inspired Flare – the one surviving member of a band referred to as Temple, and the Protoframe for the sport’s musically inclined, talking-guitar-wielding sixtieth Warframe, Temple.
All these characters have a presence within the mall, that means you possibly can discuss to them on the planet, or delve deeper into their backstories by conversations utilizing 1999’s AOL-inspired KIN system. You will not, nevertheless, have the ability to romance any of the brand new NPCs. Not even the guitar.
Away from the story stuff, Kaya’s your port of name for accessing Techrot Encore’s powerful new Temporal Archimedea missions. These could be performed for varied rewards, and have a stackable sticker-inspired enhance system gamers can discover to achieve benefits whereas out within the discipline. That is alongside Flare’s new Stage Defence missions, which see gamers venturing out to Solstice Sq.. Right here, their job is to guard Temple from incoming foes throughout three waves (all Defence missions have been diminished to a few waves within the new replace) as he rocks out on stage in mourning for his bandmates.
Rewards for efficiently finishing a Stage Defence mission embrace Techrot Heartstrings. These could be given to Flare at The Spherical Desk to get Temple’s blueprints in case you’re not fortunate sufficient to obtain them as a mission reward. Temple, by the way, is a heat-based Warframe with a definite musical twist, on condition that he – and his sentient guitar Lizzy – achieve an assault enhance if gamers handle to forged his skills on the beat.
Pyrotechnics, for example, causes Temple to rock out on guitar and unleash pillars of fireside, which could be doubled if deployed on the beat. Overdrive, in the meantime, is a crit debuff that spawns a circle of subwoofers to stun enemies, and may prolong the length of Ripper’s Wail if on-beat. Talking of which, this one’s a buff skill that heals participant and makes them invulnerable for a time, all whereas giving hearth harm to allies. Touchdown on the beat makes therapeutic twice as efficient. And at last there’s Exalted Solo, which turns Lizzy right into a flame thrower (as a result of why not!) that may be augmented with further electrical energy assaults.
And there is loads extra! Techrot Encore additionally incorporates a new Rainbow Highway-inspired bike-racing arcade sport generally known as Ollie’s Crash Course, and brings new Ollie-themed cosmetics, together with an Ollie floof. That is alongside an enormous vary of changes and high quality of life improvents, together with Warframe augments for Gyre, Qorvex, Koumei, and Wisp, plus a Pseudo Exalted Rework for Kora, Atlas, Gard, and Ash. Gamers may anticipate a shortened Star Chart path – making it simpler to entry the Second Dream quest and the wild new content material Warframe’s added in the previous few years. There’s additionally simpler Archwing crafting, plus adjustments to make The Duviri Paradox and the The Hex Quest extra replayable. And most enjoyable of all, there’ll lastly be a strategy to replay Fortuna’s iconic We All Elevate Collectively cinematic.
All this shall be out there when Warframe’s expansive (and free) Techrot Encore replace launches for PlayStation, Xbox, Swap, and PC on nineteenth March.
