Warframe‘s upcoming Techrot Encore expansion will introduce a new Warframe in the form of Temple, a glamrock warrior armed with a sentient guitar. As the latest roster addition to Warframe, Temple will take advantage of one especially unique mechanic.
Temple will be a headline feature of Warframe‘s Techrot Encore update alongside the Technocyte Coda. Armed with an infested guitar and various rock-and-roll abilities, Temple will offer a new way to play Warframe. Once unlocked via Encore’s Stage Defense mode, players will discover a Warframe with an unusual beat-based mechanic. Game Rant spoke to developers on Warframe, including design director Pablo Alonso, about the systems at work behind Temple.
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Warframe Techrot Encore’s Temple Warframe Explained
Temple’s Metronome Passive
Temple’s Passive ability, Backbeat, sets them apart from the game’s existing Warframes; players will use an onscreen metronome indicator to time their attacks and abilities. If activated on the Passive’s beat, the ability will gain a considerable buff—both a specific buff and a 50% Ability Efficiency bonus. Alonso went into depth on how this passive will work and how easy it will be for players to utilize it:
“Essentially, every time you catch an ability, ideally, you land on the beat. It’s not super demanding. Around 40% of the time you are on beat. If you’re doing it randomly, you’re actually going to be landing on the beat sometimes. But if you can get on that timing, you’ll do much better. The buffs are pretty good, but there are ways to mod around them. If you simply just cannot land it on the beat, there are ways that you can solve it through modding, so that the benefits that you would get from those things don’t impact you. Ideally, we want to encourage players to try it, so that when you’re playing Temple it feels different from other Warframes becaue you have this extra cognitive load of matching the beat.”
Temple’s Main Abilities
The rest of Temple’s kit is fitting for the Warframe: 1999 era Techrot is based in, with their glamrock aesthetic evident in their arsenal. Their first ability is Pyrotechnics, which summons pillars of fire from beneath the feet of nearby enemies. If timed correctly with the Backbeat Passive, more pillars are summoned through this ability. If no enemies are close enough, the flames will spawn in a line emanating from Temple.
Temple’s second ability further emphasizes their Warframe: 1999 aesthetic and lore connections, as Overdrive summons a twin pair of Loudspeakers to deafen enemies and make them more susceptible to critical hits; this vulnerability is increased if timed correctly with Backbeat. Ripper’s Wail adds some more support to Temple’s ability arsenal. This guitar wail will heal Temple and grant them brief invulnerability, which is extended if timed on the beat. The ability also adds a Heat damage bonus to ally attacks for a short period, a time that is itself extended if subsequent abilities are timed on the beat.
Exalted Solo is Temple’s fourth ability, one where they summon up Lizzie, their guitar infested with a sampling of Warframe‘s Techrot faction. Lizzie is fueled whenever Temple successfully times an ability to Backbeat, allowing the guitar to unleash a storm of elemental damage controlled by the player. While blasting out a flamethrower, the player can choose from four elemental damage types and shoot off sonic projectiles that deal the respective type. The radius and status chance of these projectiles are increased if timed to Backbeat correctly.
- Released
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March 25, 2013
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Violence