Warframe‘s next major expansion, Techrot Encore, will focus on its new Warframe and Technocyte Coda Adversary system. However, those aren’t the only features coming in the next Warframe update, as the expansion will also include four new Protoframes.
Warframe‘s Techrot Encore update expanded greatly following its separation from Warframe: 1999, with the upcoming update now offering a whole smorgasbord of features. When the expansion launches on March 19th, fans will be able to engage with a new boss event, a new Warframe, new minigames, and much more. In an interview with Game Rant, a number of Digital Extremes devs (including principal writer Kat Kingsley) spoke more about the four new Protoframes that will be released in this update.
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Warframe: Techrot Encore’s Four New Protoframes Explained
Each Protoframe Coming To Techrot Encore
Protoframes are characters within the Warframe universe that double as cosmetic skins for their respective Warframes, as well as AI allies during Bounty events. The Protoframes coming to the game via Encore (with their Warframes in brackets) are Flare (Temple), Minerva (Saryn), Velimir II (Frost), and Kaya (Nova). It should be noted that Flare’s Warframe, Temple, is one of Techrot Encore’s new additions.
Much of the story content in Warframe‘s Techrot Encore surrounds these new Protoframes. This will include the Temporal Archimedea mission type, a new time-twisting take on Deep Archimedea. The player will have to interact with Velimir II and Minerva, former lovers and military veterans, when engaging in this genre of mission. Moreover, Kaya—a self-taught engineering wiz—will be around to help with these missions, opening up the Peely Pix system to players (a system of upgradable modifiers that can change the flow of each attempt at Temporal Archimedea). Flare’s character role is less known, but they’ll likely take on a similar revolutionary role to Temple.
In discussing the upcoming Techrot Encore expansion and its new Protoframes, Kingsley was able to go into considerable depth. In particular, she spoke at length about how these new characters will stand out from previous Protoframes:
“The four characters that are being released in the new Techrot Encore and are getting Kim expansions are not romances in the same way that they were in the original Kim conversations for the hex, the original six members, but they are still stories in their own right. They’re a little bit more of a novella, so they’re a little bit shorter in content than the original ones because they aren’t full romances, but they each still tell their own particular story. One might be a horror story, one might be a little bit more of an aspirational tale, one might be trying to reconcile a personal strife or a personal argument with someone. It was more about “How can we use the system to now tell different types of stories that the players can engage with” than more traditional, “Here’s a person, get to know them, maybe you get to romance them or just get to be their friends.””
The New Protoframes Won’t Be Romanceable
Kingsley continued to detail why the new Protoframes coming in Warframe‘s upcoming Techrot Encore won’t be getting romance options. This lack of romance options separates them from the other Protoframes that interact with the Kim system, but Kingsley asserts that the absence of romance will lead to the system gaining dimensionality:
“We really wanted to see what happens if we take the system that we’ve now built, that players really engaged with and seem to enjoy, and gave it a little bit of a spin and said, “Okay, now what if we use it in a slightly more unexpected way?” What we didn’t want to do was give people the same thing four more times, so we wanted to tell some more surprising stories this time.”
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March 25, 2013
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Violence