Warframe Kicks Off Its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
Mar. 23, 2023Warframe Kicks Off Its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
Warframe kickstarts its 10-year anniversary celebration quite early with weeks of freebies, updates, and the return of in-person Tennocon!
It’s amazing to think that Digital Extremes’ one and only game (for now) has been steadily gaining traction over the past 10 years. It’s even weirder to think that that year had some other heavy hitters that are still popular until now, like Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us (original).
However, we’re here to talk about space Ninjas, and how one company braved it all to get where they are now.
One of the biggest confirmations is that Tennocon, the Digital Extremes’ exclusive convention, will be making a return to the in-person format. The event will take place on August 26th, in London, Ontario, Canada. There is even a helpful page on Warframe’s main site that has a nice countdown so you can expect when the gates open (which is in 156 days as of writing). Tickets go on sale starting April 5th. Those who cannot get to Canada can still partake by purchasing some digital packs.
Next up is the announcement that Warframe’s celebrations have just begun. Starting tomorrow, March 24th, players will get treated to weekly “Alerts” which are basically in-game rewards for their space ninjas. Goodies include various Noggles to display on your ship, various Dex skins from the community, actual weapons, and other cosmetics. Additionally, every weekend will have various boosts enabled, such as double currency drops, resource drops, or affinity (basically EXP).
Rewards for Weeks 1 through 10 have already been outlined. The rest will have to be a surprise for now.
Since then Digital Extremes became known as a developer/publisher that reaches out to its community. They desired openness and transparency in their development process, and this led to the inception of their regular Devstreams. Other than that, they participated in other well-known gaming conventions such as Gamescom in order to connect with their fans.
A surprise teaser in the Anniversary Kickoff Devstream was a short snippet of actualSoulframegameplay. The footage showed off was quite short, and still rough around the edges but that is totally acceptable as it is an extremely early dev build.
It featured a lone character in white. They wielded a trusty longsword throughout the duration of the gameplay tease, and they used it to stylishly execute some armored soldiers. Visually, the game looks like it is quite the step up from Warframe, with extremely good and soft lighting effects.
Animation-wise, it looks like Soulframe is still borrowing some from Warframe. But Soulframe is definitely a lot slower. You don’t have the crazy bullet jumps, double jumps, air dashes, and whatnot on display here. It’s also much faster than a Soulslike so this is probably not intending to compete with the likes of Elden Ring.
This is an entirely newroguelitemode that features a Pedro Pascal lookalike that plays a drifter stuck within a time loop.
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Auberon
Writer at Fextralife. I really like vanilla ice cream.
