Devstream 183 was our last of 2024! With the release of Warframe: 1999 right around the corner, the couch crew revealed some intriguing new details surrounding The Hex members, including Gemini Emotes for Quincy and Eleanor, Ability changes for Nyx, a full breakdown of Cyte-09 and more. We also showed off an entirely new Scaldra character, our new Faceoff game mode, and our first-ever Romance & Relationship System. Warframe's new era just can't arrive quickly enough!

As always, you can watch the full stream below, and/or read on for our complete Devstream Overview:

Housekeeping

• Pre-Registration is open now for Warframe Android!


• Black Friday sales are live! Get deals on Supporter Packs, and in the Warframe Merch Store!


• Tune into The Game Awards on December 12 for 30 minutes to earn a Nyx Warframe and Warframe Slot! We’ll be at The Game Awards, so keep an eye out for Rebecca on-stage!


• Dark Sector is free on Steam until November 30th to celebrate the launch of Warframe: 1999 later this year.


• TennoCon tickets are going on sale in early 2025. If you want to join us on July 18th & 19th, keep an eye out for ticket sale information in the new year!


• Gift of the Lotus Alerts are live for 24 hours after the stream! Grab your Orokin Reactor and Catalysts Blueprints while you can.


• Tennobaum and Snowday Showdown return on December 2nd. Give gifts to support Toys for Tots Canada!


• Warframe is taking over Giant Bomb at Nite on Dec 11th from 5pm - 11pm PST — 1999 style! Don’t miss it!


• We’ve added new 1999-themed stickers to the Warframe Discord, courtesy of community artist Primed_Average

Rhino Heirloom Skin - Coming Early 2025

Rhino is our next Heirloom skin, slated for release early next year! Here’s a look at his in-game render for the first time:

Quest to Conquer Cancer

Together we have raised over 1 MILLION dollars to Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation!

We have also made another donation of $18,845.83 CAD on the behalf of the community to the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. That total is the combined amount from Conquera Merch net-proceeds and 100% of the sales from the Conquera Tribute Shirt, purchased by you from October 31st to November 28th. Thank you again, Tenno for your incredible support this year!

The campaign’s final reward of a Double Affinity Booster is live now until December 2nd at 2pm ET!

On-lyne Delayed!

On-lyne have postponed their tour until 2025, meaning you will not be facing off against the Technocyte Coda with 1999’s release.

We couldn’t get this new Technocyte Coda system implemented to our standards in time for Warframe: 1999, and felt it was best to invest developer time into must-ship items for the update. This feature was the “cleanest” part of the update to separate into another update, coming next year.

That said, a good boyband never leaves their fans hungry. Thanks to the incredible efforts of Tenno who participated in our latest ARG, On-lyne have released their next hit single: The Great Despair! Look for it tomorrow on all streaming platforms, or simply listen to the official YouTube upload on repeat:

If you want to support your new favorite boyband to party like it’s 1999 head on over to store.warframe.com to pre-order new On-lyne merch!

The Line Anime Short: Releasing December 5th!

We’ve been sharing previews of our incredible partnership with The Line to produce a Warframe Animated Short. Players can look forward to its official release on December 5th. In the meantime, here’s a little tease of what to expect:

Warframe: 1999 — Coming December 2024

We didn't want to give away too much 1999-related info with the release date now so tantalizingly close. Nevertheless, we had a LOT to discuss regarding Warframe's next major update:

• Pre-Requisites for Warframe: 1999


• New Faction: The Scaldra


• New Syndicate: The Hex


• Romance & Relationship System


• New Game Mode: PVPVE


• New Warframe: Cyte-09 Gameplay!


• Gemini Emotes for Quincy and Eleanor


• Quality of Life Changes


• Nyx Light Rework


• Caliber Chicks

Prepare for 1999

If you want to jump into The Hex Quest right upon release, make sure you have the following pre-requesites completed:

• The Lotus Eaters Quest


• The Duviri Paradox Quest

While you’re waiting, make sure you jump into the Warframe: 1999 Demo (available now via the Pom-2 computer in your Orbiter!) to grab your very own Protokol Longsword Skin.

New Faction: The Scaldra

There’s someone you haven't met yet - a leading figure in the Scaldra enemy faction who you will meet in the quest, Lieutenant Viktor Vodyanoi. Neil Newbon rejoins the Warframe voice cast to bring him to life!

While fighting the Scaldra, you will be taking on a Tank as an assassination target. Here’s a look at some of the… complications that can arise from that Mission:

New Syndicate: The Hex

Those who have visited the Höllvania Mall may be FAMILIAR? with the Hex, but we’ve brought details on how each member functions within The Hex Syndicate itself.

Quincy:
Quincy offers a variety of cosmetics and Captura scenes to keep you looking fresh:

• Protokol Skins (from Nightwave)


• Visage Inks


• Pixel Glyphs

Arthur:
Visit Arthur to rank-up in The Hex Syndicate. Big Bytes has left its impact, as all ranks are pizza-themed. Cowabunga!

Aoi:
As The Hex’s resident On-lyne Stan, she offers new Somachord Tones from Warframe: 1999! According to Erich, this is the most music we’ve put into an update — basically a full album’s worth!

Eleanor:
Eleanor offers Arcanes in exchange for Hex Standing. She’ll also bring Technocyte Coda weapons when that launches in 2025!

Lettie:
Visit Lettie to exchange Syndicate Medallions for Hex Standing! The Syndicate Medallions are themed around each Hex member

Amir:

• AX-52 Blueprint


• Cyte-09 Main and Component Blueprints


• Vesper-77 Blueprint


• Reconfiex Main and Component Blueprints

Floofs

Following in Arthur’s footsteps, the remaining Hex have been Floof-ified!

Bounties

Head to the Bounty Board in Höllvania Central Mall, and play missions to earn standing for The Hex Syndicate!

Each Bounty will have a Hex member who joins you in-mission — playing with them will also earn you Chemistry as part of the Romance & Relationship System. The assigned Hex member is randomized per Bounty rotation so you can play different mission types as you romance your boo!

Romance & Relationship System

The Romance & Relationship System allows players to gain Chemistry with members of The Hex. Players can interact with this feature in a variety of ways, depending on their comfort and interest levels.

Bounties:
Play Bounties to earn Chemistry with the assigned Hex member! This ensures you can increase your Chemistry rank purely through gameplay, if you’re not interested in the narrative aspect of this system.

Chatroom

Access the KIM program on your Pom-2 to chat with your faves! Here you can have deeper connections with these characters and dive deeper into the lore of Höllvania through unique conversations that are available once a day (per Hex). This immersive experience has over 166,500 words of writing (two novels’ worth!) and is intended to take players time to fully explore — don’t expect to be smoochin’ on day one, Tenno!

Check the Hex’s profiles in KIM (Kinemantik Instant Messenger) to see your Chemistry rank, catch up on your notes about their personality, and more! In this screen you’ll also be able to give them gifts, as another way to increase your Chemistry!

Starting Over
If you regret breaking up with a Hex member or simply want to try a new way to earn their hearts — in honour of our QA Lord Paul, first lover of all Hex — you will have the ability to reset your progress after a set interval.

For more details, look to our patch notes on launch.

Smoochin’
Speaking of kisses, here’s a preview of the kiss scene with Eleanor!

New Game Mode: Faceoff

Warframe 1999 brings our first “player vs player vs enemy” game mode: Faceoff!

Whether you play against AI or against other Tenno, this game mode pits two squads against each other to complete objectives before the other side. Teams will experience a random series of three different mission types that they must complete in succession — for example: Exterminate, then Assassination, then “Data Burn” (a new spin on Excavation). At the time of writing, there are 6 unique objective types that can spawn in Faceoff!

While speedily completing objectives is one thing, we want to make sure you can still impact your competitors’ progress. Various Boosts and Hindrances will spawn amongst the landscape; pick them up and trrigger them to brighten your Squad’s day or add a wrinkle to the other team’s mission. There are currently around 10 different Boosts and Hindrance types to play with!

Regardless of whether you win or not, both teams will earn rewards for playing. Winners will get a bonus prize of Vosfor as their trophy.

New Warframe: Cyte-09 Gameplay!

Passive:

Each Weak Point Kill permanently increases Cye-09’s Weak Point Critical Chance by 1% (up to a cap).

Ability 1: Seek
Deploy a scanner that highlights the weakpoints on enemies it detects. Detected enemies take increased Weak Point Damage, and become visible through walls. Weapons gain (an insane amount of) Punchthrough.

Note: this Clip also offers a preview of the 1999 mission selection screen!

Ability 2: Resupply
Throw two Elemental Ammo Packs that instantly refill the active weapon’s magazine, while granting the weapon an additional instance of the selected Elemental Damage and Status Effect. Reload clears the effect. Sniper Rifles gain extra damage.

Hold the ability to select the Elemental Damage type.

Ability 3: Evade
Jump backwards and become invisible for a short duration. Killing enemies on their Weak Points extends the duration and heals Cyte-09. This is Cyte-09’s Helminth Ability.

Ability 4: Neutralize
Summon the Neutralizer, Cyte-09’s exalted Sniper Rifle. Bullets ricochet off Weak Points to seek out other nearby Weak Points. Alt fire lobs a Cold grenade that completely freezes enemies.

New Weapon: Reconifex

Coming with Cyte-09 is the Reconifex, which borrows mechanics from his Resupply — and from the Sirocco pistol!

Land a perfect reload to increase your Reload Speed and imbue your bullets with Heat Damage:

Gemini Emotes: Quincy and Eleanor

While Rebecca didn’t have much success showing off Quincy’s Gemini emote in-game, here he is in all of his glory in the Arsenal:

As a reminder, we offer separate hair customization options for Gemini skins, and auxiliary attachments to remove certain accessories (like Quincy’s hat!).

Rebecca managed to safely pull off the emote in-mission so here’s Eleanor’s Gemini transformation:

For those Fashion Frame hounds out there, here’s a look at how she’ll customize in-game:

While we personally love the voicelines that play while using Gemini Skins, you will be able to mute them in your settings if you wish.

(Note: we don’t often address rumours directly, but we do want to clarify that Major Rusalka is NOT Proto Saryn.)

Quality of Life Changes

As part of our New Player Experience improvements this year, one of the largest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from players is “increase default slot counts!” — so, we’re doing just that.

New Players as of Warframe: 1999 will see their default slots increased as follows:
Weapon slots: increased by 3
Warframe slots: increased by 1

Additionally, we are changing Boltor and Fragor blueprints earned from Junctions to fully built weapons, meaning new players will earn 2 additional weapon slots as they progress through the Star Chart.

If you’re an existing player, these additional Warframe and Weapon slots will be delivered to you via inbox message with the Update’s release. Depending on your Junction progress, you’ll receive the fully built Fragor and Boltor as well.

Mastery Rank Tests - Failure Cooldown

Mastery Rank Tests will no longer make you wait 24 hours upon failing an attempt. This means you can continue with your Mastery Rank attempts until you succeed — with only a bruised ego holding you back from trying again!

The cooldown timer will remain for successful attempts.

Atomicycle Improvements

Those who tried the Warframe: 1999 have sent us great feedback on Atomicycle handling, which we’ve been diligently working on for release.

In addition to general handling and movement improvements, also look forward to the following changes when you get your very own Atomicycle upon playing The Hex Quest:

-Increased number of Atomicycle abilities from 2 to 4.
-Can now be cast mid-air (hell yeah).
-More forgiving over small bumps/objects
-And more!

Nyx Light Rework

Nyx, our beloved, is receiving some ability changes to coincide with the inclusion of her Protoframe in 1999!

We’ve covered this rework extensively in our Dev Workshop, but as a quick overview, here’s what has changed:

• Mind Control target is more lethal and has new UI elements to help players maximize their use of this ability.


• Psychic Bolts now spreads to other enemies on-kill, and will give Nyx a portion of the defenses stripped.


• Chaos properly applies Radiation Procs to allow cohesion with Arcanes and cause enemies to deal extra damage to each other.


• Absorb is duration-based now, and offers extra invulnerability based on damage amount Absorbed. Enemy-on-enemy damage now is also affected by this Ability to increase synergy in her kit.

Again, this is the barest overview of the amazing changes our team has cooked up. Please read the Developer Workshop for details on her rework (and more details on what’s coming for Trinity as well).

Caliber Chicks

Caliber Chicks 2 is a new Arcade game, brought to Warframe: 1999 in collaboration with our friends at Sumo Digital! We’ve previewed parts of this game in previous Devstreams, but here’s a look at the gameplay:

This game will include leaderboards for those fiending for a high score.

Operators - 10 Year Anniversary in 2025

Let’s take a brief moment to look into the future as we discuss something on our radar for next year: Operator Art.

In designing our Hex Syndicate members, the technology we’ve used is significantly better than what was available to us in 2015 for the Operators’ release. We’re looking to revisit the aesthetic of Operators (specifically Faces and Heads), and want your feedback!

If you’d like to share your thoughts, please do so in this dedicated thread.

Thanks for joining us, Tenno!