Tenno!
We bring you a very special Devstream #178 LIVE from the main stage at PAX East! Rebecca, Geoff, Megan, and special guest Ben Starr will be on stage to talk Dante Unbound, reveal our next Prime Warframe, and premiere a Warframe: 1999 teaser you won’t want to miss! Anyone attending PAX East can join us in the live audience and have a chance to ask a question during the Q&A segment!
There will be no Twitch Drop for Devstream #178 due to the offsite streaming.
We’re so excited to see you in person and virtually in chat! See you at twitch.tv/warframe AND twitch.tv/pax on March 22nd at 3 p.m ET.
This stream will feature both Warframe and Soulframe! To discuss any Soulframe segments, please head over here.
Here’s to hoping the post shows up without any issues this time!
No issues for me on desktop this time!
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Preparing for the recap, as usual.
#For the Soulframe section of the stream, check out this post on r/PlaySoulframe
Housekeeping
- Gift of the lotus alerts after the stream: Forma BP & Riven Cipher
Anniversary celebration
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new item: dex nikana reward for logging in starting march 27th
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as usual, all previous rewards return
Tennocon:
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throwing weapon skin
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backpack syandana
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Sales will support the SickKids Foundation and AbleGamers
Dante Unbound, coming march 27th
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will feature Drusus leverian and parvos granum
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Sticky corners are gone
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new emote from the gauss prime trailer
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Loki adjustmens and invisibility cosmetic changes, as already announced
Protea Prime
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Prime Ephemera
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comes with a prime trailer
Stalker Update: Jade Shadows
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Cinematic quest form the stalkers point of view
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Between Dante Unbound and 1999 (before tennocon)
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57th Warframe: Jade
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Stalker landing craft
1999
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Excalibur ≠ Arthur (Arthur will not show up in your arsneal instead of excal)
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Ben Starr had a great nap
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“conflict between humanity and the not human”
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“Proto-frames”
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Proto Excalibur: Arthur voiced by Ben Starr
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Proto-Mag: Aoi voiced by Alpha Takahashi
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“atomicycle”
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“pretty big role”
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more details at tennocon
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core warframe, but ever so slightly different (“it’s not duviri or anything”)
Various Q&A
Q: Caliban buffs?
A: He’s under the gaze of pablo
Q: any other rewords?
A: an unnamed frame is being looked at
Q: What inspired proto-mag (aoi)
A: Liger. Aoi as contrast to Arthur. Tennocon might bring more proto-frame designs
Q: removing pseudo exalted weapons / stat sticking?
A: removing stat sticks would result in buffs for pseudo exalted, but no specific plans
Q: trading improvements?
A: no immediate plans for warframe.market-esque features
Q: Drifter in profile view? new cosmetics (trench coat?)
A: interesting idea. more outfits coming soon
Q: More incentive for legendary mastery ranks?
A: no tactical rewards planned, maybe social ones
Q: infested liches?
A: watch tennocon
Q: dark sector inspirations?
A: warframe is sci-fi of the original dark sector ideas, so 1999 is kinda like dark sector again (but no remaster)
Q: Fashion proto-frame?
A: yes.
Q: grate prime?
A: confimred by ben starr
A: is squadlink ever coming back?
Q: not totally dead (just mostly), but maybe not returning as expected. something is being tested
Q: did anyone actually go to space? (an old contest)
A: nah, they jsut took the money (was an option from the beginning)
Q: Warframe tabletop game?
A: a content creator is working on a homebrew ttrpg, but no official plans
Q: Kit-Frames?
A: there was an old concept, but no actual plans
Q: To Rebb: Are you personally happy with movement in warframe?
A: bringing back wallrunning would be cool, but movement is great as it is now
Q: Soulframe movement similar to warframe
A: much slower
Q: Soulframe: other inspirations than “Cozy” fantasy?
A: player as healer, nature vs technology, romanticism
Q: if you could go on a date with a warframe, who would it be?
A: Geoff: Excal, Megan: Valkyr, Rebb: all of htem
Q: favourite voice acting parts for Ben
A: some not yet revealed stuff, also that he is a lovable character, despite being a relatively rough, “cool” character
Q: Titania Buffs?
A: tribue might be more user friendly, but she’s otherwise in a very good spot
Those Dex Pixia do kill, indeed
Q: What NPC would be your bestie?
A: Ben: Fibonacci, Megan: Ordis, Geoff: Lotus (totally not forced to say that), Rebb: little duck
Q: Where is Veso?
A: Veko is still dead.
Q: Clan improvements?
A: more clan events are planned
Q: how are new characters developed?
A: Library of devs and their passions. “the team is diverse and loves really cool shit”. also keith thompson is build different
Q: Void key style content?
A: “tease” with dagath keys, omnia fissures are somewhat similar
Q: protea toggle for visor?
A: maybe?
Q: fashionframe: DE colour palette of dev picked colours? (“Megans greatest hits”)
A: cool idea
Q: New Necramechs?
A: Not anytime soon, but necramech enemy AI is being reworked
Q: clem quest?
A: he’s already pretty busy, but maybe
Q: spawn rates and reactant in cross-platform missions are wonky
A: the worst causes can be tweaked
Q: duviri drifter melee on star chart?
A: maybe? would take some time to come up with a good implementation
Q: clan / alliance collaboration events?
A: social rewards are always great, so maybe?
Dantes not even out and we’re already hearing about the next warframe, excited to see what kind of frame Jade will be. Also new stalker content finally!
Arthur really reminds me of the cyborgs in Metal Gear. He looks a bit like Jetstream Sam
