The Warframe dev studio Digital Extremes is well-known for its prolonged, enjoyable, and informative devstreams at this level – certainly, you might argue that they’re an enormous a part of the sport’s success, because it’s pleasing to see a gaggle of devs who actually care about their recreation collect to overtly focus on its future, deal with ideas and issues from gamers, and tease cool new stuff.
Nicely, we’ve simply had the primary devstream of 2025, and oh boy, it was a doozy. I’m often watching intently throughout these live-streamed occasions, however this one had me really grinning at my display; hell, I’d go as far as to say that Warframe’s recreation director Rebecca Ford by some means gazed instantly into my mind to assemble the script for the group’s 184th devstream, as a result of this one felt quite particularly curated to me and the issues I like most.
First up? David Bowie, clearly. Sure, the following warframe to be added to the sport – the sixtieth distinctive playable body – is Temple (not ‘Tempo’ as some individuals apparently misheard in the course of the stream), a particularly funky glam-rock-styled character who was instantly impressed by David Bowie and appropriately makes use of a guitar as their signature weapon. Oh, and so they’re canonically non-binary too, which made me (a queer mess of a human being) quite glad.
Digital Extremes is partnering up with Grammy-nominated American prog-metal band Periphery for some acceptable audio deliciousness for Temple, presumably making an attempt to seize that elusive style of ‘songs to kill monsters with a guitar to’. Dope. Did I point out the brand new body is Bowie-inspired? Sorry, I’ve obtained Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide enjoying at most quantity proper now, I can’t hear you.
Shut up about David Bowie, what else?
Alright, I’ll chill. I’ve converted to Soul Love now. What else did we get in Devstream 184? An entire heap of stuff, really: Sizzling on the heels of the sport’s wonderful 1999 replace, the reveal of alchemical body Lavos’ primed variant, TennoCon 2025 tickets happening sale, and a few returning occasions – Star Days and Stomach of the Beast – have been amongst my favourite moments. We additionally obtained to see extra of Rhino’s Heirloom pores and skin, a peek at upcoming cosmetics together with Gyre’s Deluxe pores and skin, and an evil workplace chair.
Extra intriguing than all of this, although, have been some (long-awaited) reworks to recreation mechanics: mainly, the discount of enemy waves per spherical in Protection missions from 5 to three. As anybody who performs Warframe will inform you, that is large: fewer waves means quicker missions and extra rewards for anybody grinding out lengthy Protection goals. We’re additionally getting a rework to ‘pseudo Exalted’ weapons, elevated Riven and mod capacities, and higher choices for promoting or dismantling undesirable duplicate mods. These are all good issues.
Maybe extra importantly to me personally is affirmation that we’re getting extra conversations with the Hex, the six ‘protoframe’ NPCs (non-player characters) who you may chat with (and smooch, for those who’ve obtained the sport for that). Not solely that, however your chosen paramour will even hold you firm within the Backroom hub space. Presumably all of the R-rated scenes involving Quincy and Amir won’t be among the many needs Rebb scooped from inside my head.
Dangerous boy band
Lastly (effectively, I’ve missed a lot of excellent stuff out right here, however that is my article so I get to choose the music) is the hotly-anticipated debut of the Technocyte Coda – previously an attractive dance-pop boy band generally known as On-Lyne, now horrendously mutated right into a gang of 5 extraordinarily tentacle-y dudes by the techrot virus infecting the town of Höllvania. Sure, I’d nonetheless kiss them, however it seems like I’m going to should accept stabbing them repeatedly.
These foes sit throughout the ‘Adversary’ system already seen within the recreation with Kuva Liches and Sisters of Parvos – distinctive, procedurally-generated rivals to the participant who taunt you and steal your stuff till you hunt them down and provides them the ol’ double-tap – and so they convey with them a collection of grungy Coda weapons and beauty gadgets.
In much more excellent news for time-poor gamers like me, Digital Extremes has improved the system for acquiring these weapons: quite than farming for an Adversary who occurs to have the weapon and factor mixture you’re in search of, you merely get tokens that may be exchanged for a weapon of your alternative from Eleanor in Höllvania, and a brand new Elemental Vice merchandise will allow you to swap the factor on any Adversary weapon, backwards-compatible with gear you’ve beforehand obtained from Liches and Sisters. Rebecca, you’re spoiling us.
I might in all probability hold going, speaking about among the nice accessibility modifications which are coming to the sport or the brand new Nightwave season beginning this week (Warframe’s completely free season move reward monitor), however I’ll wrap it up right here. You’ll be able to learn the total patch notes on the sport’s web site, or you may simply go and spend the remainder of your day enjoying Warframe, which is what I’d quite be doing than working.