TennoCon 2019 is was this Saturday July 6, 2019. I will be updating this thread with the latest teasers, announcements, and trailers.
TennoCon Live Announcements:
Those were some crazy announcements and reveals at TennoCon TennoLive:
Want to go to space you might be able to? (Feels to much like an ad so won't go into that...)
Here's the announcements relevant to the actual game:
New Update Dropped
First off, Nightwave Season 2: THE EMISSARY is out on ALL Platforms!
Check out the Giant Bomb Warframe Clan for more information about the new update
New Intro (to address New Player Experience On-Going Revamp)
A full version of the Warframe CGI trailer shown in theaters in promos in (Spiderman Homecoming) DE revealed and invited Director Dan Trachtenberg of Black Mirror, 10 Cloverfield Lane fame, - also the TBD Uncharted movie on stage to present the full trailer. The trailer is going to be the new intro cinematics to the game. So what you see when you first start a new account in Warframe. The trailer is part of their on-going work to revamp the introduction of warframe for new players (ie. New Player Experience). As stated, with this new player experience they aiming to better bridge the gap between the introduction of the game and the 50-75 hours a player has play to experience first original cinematic quest called the Second Dream.
Disclaimer they showed the content off in a weird order. But to my knowledge Warframe Empyrean is next upcoming planned expansion. The New War afterwards and then a tease for the thing that never been seen until at TennoLive when they announced it.
Order has been changed. The New War trailer was suppose to have Christmas 2019 release date but they decided to commit to hard release date. This implies the New War may come out before Empyrean.
Ship Upgrade
We knew that space battles and a new Multi-Crewman ship is coming but DE still surprised us with a graphical update to our existing ships (Orbiters). The updated ship will be bigger and come with a sun roof!
Also, they showed off Warframe's new TBD Rendering Engine. Believe it was asked on the Bombcast by @brad and @jeff what the future of Warframe looks like on a new Generation of consoles. I think the new Rendering Engine is a glimpse at what Warframe on next gen will look like. See below the gameplay demo video for it running in the game.
Warframe: The New War Trailer
The New War is an expansion that is set to release around Christmas 2019 the upcoming planned expansion this year.
With the space battles coming in Empyrean and following the major spoiler events after The Sacrifice story quest. The New War will be the next big story arc and major challenge the Tenno will face. The Sentient machine race which were defeated in the Old War are coming back. Hopefully the Tenno will be ready.
Warframe: Empyrean
This used to be called Railjack and was demoed in a very early ALPHA state at last year's TennoCon 2018. As mentioned this is the upcoming Expansion (preceded by The New War) The devs are back this time to show a more polished and more thorough demo of how the Empyrean new Railjack system works.
Clan Participation Required
The creative director Steve Sinclar confirmed that in order to access the multi-player ship, Railjack players will need to be part of clan.
Join the Giant Bomb PC Clan here! https://www.giantbomb.com/warframe/3030-38788/forums/warframe-tennocon-2019-updates-and-annoucements-1869200/
The Clan constructs a new dojo room called the "Dry Dock" this will be where players go to customize and pimp out their very own Railjack .Steve also confirmed although unlocking Railjack and Research is will be a clan effort each player will get their own get their own Railjack which you can NAME! The name of the ship appears on side of ship. As community manager Rebecca Ford demonstrates naming her ship the S.S JO JO (the JoJo meme queen at DE).
NPC Crew
In addition to Railjack being manned by a multi-tenno bridge crew, each working at different stations. Upon enterinbg the Railjack we are greeted with a new (red) Ship A.I by the name of Cephlon Cy (with a cool deep voice). The ship also seemed have a crew of NPCs. Steve alludes to a players being able to hire and fire NPCs to help on the ship and provide customization and upgrades for the ship.
Note: The people of Fortuna that fight for the tenno are called the Solarians, part of the Solaris United introduced in Warframe Fortuna. It does sound like they are saying Salarians which makes me think Mass Effect.
The Demo then goes through a exploration mission. Where players are able to traverse space and find space towers and other ships to salvage. One interesting thing is that other players are stuck on the Railjack they can go out and raid temporarily take over nearby enemy ships. (As Steve puts it, "SPACE GTA" Potentially all players can man their own ship. Railjack crew also have some sort of teleportation (Star Trek style) to beam them to the main Railjack ship
KUVA Lichs (Formally code-named the King-Pin System aka. Nemesis System)
including revealing a new (Shadow of War like) NEMESIS SYSTEM. (Yes, the thing we though every game would be copying from Shadow of Mordor - Warframe devs have done that). If didn't think the game already different have too many systems layered onto it by now, here's another.
Better explained the demo, the Kuva Lichs are special enemies that player encouter, and every time they do they get stronger. Even after you defeat them. (Kuva is a magical thing that makes you semi-immortal in warframe if you didn't know....) Anyways, the Kuva Lichs are said to be able to "Steal" Waframe powers and get more powerful. Sounds like they will be a persistent threat to you personally.
SQUAD (LINK)
Squad link will be new feature in Empyrean that allows some multiple squads to "participate" in con-current separate mission objectives. Remember how in EVE, they were going to tie Space Battle Sim EVE to Dust514 a FPS. Well, in short this sounds very familiar. The idea trying to be conveyed in the demo seems to that while in Railjack space missions players can send out a (monster-hunter-like SOS) signal. This will inform other squad of players otherwise engaged in other activities (in this case fishing) to join your instance and been separate mission on-world. This on-world mission's completion will aid the original squad in their space mission. In case of the demo, the ground team was able to help the space team by destroying the support shields of the Captial Ship the space team was trying to target.
One thing to note is that Steve did say that Squad Link would be optional and there are ways for the space team to have taken on the capital ship without the aid of the ground team.
It's one of those interesting in concept, but really hasn't been realized in any other game.
The closest thing is probably again what EVE tried to do with Dust514.
Or when you see multiple squads in the field in PSO2 and suddenly both squads have a bonus missions.
The Duviri Paradox
Finally, the Duviri Paradox boy, I look forward to Mike Mchardy trying to explain this to Dan, @alex, or @vinny at the next stream he is on.
I cannot really say anything about this trailer, (even my speculation) on what's going on the trailer without going into deep Warframe (post Second Dream-post every story quest) spoilers.
As one of the Veteran Warframe players in the Giant Bomb Community, trailer sill bat shit crazy, but kind of makes sense...
Is WARFRAME A STRAN GAME? ALL THIS TIME! STEVE MENTIONED CONNECTIONS
Here's the reaction the members of the Unofficial Giant Bomb Warframe Discord had when the trailer showed.
This part of what I can only imagine what we will be seeing closer to post The New War.
The Duviri Paradox was teased (in a Dev Stream in the beginning of this year) as a brand new 5th faction coming to Warframe. (We have Grineer, Corpus, Infested, Sentient, and now the entity seen in the Duriviri Paradox).
The Warframe official twitter when posting the trailer included this:
Tenno, it’s time to grow up.
To Recap (Release Plans)
This is getting long. So if I get this straight there's New War expansion end of this year or next year, then Empyrean, and then this The Duviri Paradox (???).
Warframe has its problems, implementable to some, and hard to come back to, However, it seems to be ever moving forward.
If @mento didn't think the game was confusing enough. I look forward to your future blog posts duder!
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