Published Jul 26th, 2024
New Warframe: 1999 Gameplay and Release Window Revealed at TennoCon 2024 Alongside Future Content Release Schedule
Sold-out fan celebration recap: New Warframe content and more arriving all year long, including fresh Quests, Updates, gameplay mechanics, and multimedia projects
Digital Extremes revealed a wide variety of new content for its 80+ million player sci-fi epic, Warframe, including an extended gameplay demo for its next Narrative Chapter in the evolving saga — Warframe: 1999 — releasing Winter 2024 on all current platforms. Players won’t have to wait long to go hands-on with new Warframe content, though, with a new 1999 Prologue Quest — The Lotus Eaters — debuting for all platforms this August offering a bite-sized entry into Warframe: 1999 and further staging its narrative stakes.
"I feel so blessed that this incredible community trusts us with this strange new adventure we are setting off on with Warframe: 1999," said Rebecca Ford, Creative Director on Warframe. "We've collaborated with our community collectively over the past 11 years and promise to continue to do so in an era full of space boy bands, Warframes and Protoframes meeting, and working to figure out: Where is Albrecht Entrati? We will be hitting the road on a worldwide tour to express our gratitude to players in person at Gamescom, Tokyo Game Show, and more!"
Notable reveals made during Digital Extremes’ annual celebration include:
WARFRAME: 1999 (WINTER 2024): Enter a brand new era of Warframe by traveling back to Earth in 1999 and discover a grungy, alternate world littered with secrets. Narratively team up with a cast of six different iconic Protoframes in order to track down Dr. Entrati before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve. New and notable features arriving alongside Warframe: 1999 include:
INFESTED 90’S BOY BAND HUNTS: Get ready to go larger than life, Infested Liches are finally coming to Warframe! Infringing on the copyright of 90’s boy band On-lyne, Technocyte Coda are an Infested variation of Earth’s iconic heartthrobs, one of which being voiced by Nick Apostolides (Resident Evil 4). Download their hit single “PARTY OF YOUR LIFETIME” tomorrow on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and more!
ROMANCE SYSTEM & A-LIST VOICE CAST: Develop relationships and connect with a party of six Protoframes with a retro instant messenger system, including notable new voices like Amelia Tyler (Baldur’s Gate 3), Kevin Afghani (Super Mario Bros. Wonder), Melissa Medina (Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail), Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge (Forza Horizon 5), Alpha Takahashi (Cyberpunk 2077), and Ben Starr (Final Fantasy XVI). Meet the full cast of Warframe: 1999 before the clock strikes midnight here.
NEW WARFRAME, CYTE-09: Previously a reckless and friendless fortune hunter, he now lends his skills to Arthur’s team as the best marksman around. Meanwhile, in the modern Origin System, bring this new playable Warframe’s passé sharpshooter skills from 1999 into the present (wearing a stylish beret).
MOUNTS + WEAPONS + SKINS: Mount up on a new method of traversal with the Atomicyle, capable of drifting, bullet-jumping, and even acting as an impromptu explosive. Loot new weapons similar to real-world counterparts with a special Warframe twist, like Arthur’s AX-52 rifle. Fully voice acted, customizable, premiere Gemini Skins for Protoframes and base Warframes with exclusive emotes will be obtainable.
THE LOTUS EATERS QUEST & SEVAGOTH PRIME (AUG. 2024): Reunite with one of Warframe’s most iconic characters in The Lotus Eaters, a Prologue Quest that picks up after the events of Whispers in the Walls, setting the stage for the stakes of Warframe: 1999. The Update will ship alongside the Sevagoth Prime, an enhanced form of the dark helmsman in signature gold trim and complete with exclusive weapons and accessories.
EMBER & RHINO HEIRLOOM SKINS (TODAY / EARLY 2025): High-fidelity Heirloom skins for the Ember and Rhino Warframes were highlighted now permanently available instead of time-gated. Ember’s skin arrives today with Rhino’s charging into 2025.
WARFRAME: 1999 ANIME SHORT (2024): Crossing the timestream into another immersive medium, animation arthouse THE LINE will be collaborating with Digital Extremes on an anime short diving deeper into the world of Warframe: 1999 this year.
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