TennoCon is back again this year, and a gameplay demo of Warframe from Digital Extremes' fan event is now available: a gameplay demo of Warframe: 1999, the next major Warframe update storyline! Warframe: 1999, the next major Warframe update story. Last year, Warframe: When Warframe: 1999 was first teased last year, I was honestly skeptical that this space ninja game would be able to capture the nostalgia of the CRT era. But when this year's TennoCon gameplay demo opened with an original single by NSYNC copy band On-lyne, I knew I was wrong to doubt.

Warframe: 1999 takes players out of Warframe's far-future setting and places them in an episode of Warframe's history: the last New Year's Eve of the 20th century, where players will hunt an enemy named Albrecht Entrati While hunting Entrati, players can explore city streets littered with antiquated 90s artifacts and Techrot monsters, drive high-tech motorcycles, and enjoy Warframe's first romance system.

In the 1999 story quest, you will track down the Entrati as Arthur Nightingale, squad leader of the Hex, a unit of six operatives equipped with Protoframe exoskeletons, each, prominently, in the game's modern era. look like earlier versions of the Warframe seen in the game. The Hex operatives will be the newest faction of Warframe, with its own reputation as the Solaris Coalition and the Ostrons.

The Hex will also be Warframe's first romanceable characters, and Arthur will be able to flirt with them through conversations on KOL Instant Messenger; KOL and On-lyn will be the first to show how Digital Extremes is a late 90s If that doesn't convey their commitment to parallel reality, I don't know what will. Like the Rob Zombie-specific music that plays during the boss fight in the second half of the demo?

Arthur himself is a guy with both a katana and a motorcycle, a cool idea from the late 90s: in 1999, you can ride around the Techrot infested streets of Höllvania, drifting, bullet-riddled, and stunt with your high-powered Atomicycle. You can drift, ricochet bullets, and stunt on your high-powered Atomicycle as you run around freely. Arthur's story also seems to shed light on Warframe itself. During the demo, the Tech Lot creature spits out a faceless entity that mimics the super-powerful sword abilities of Arthur's proto-frame, which is none other than Excalibur (the game's mascot Warframe).

DE concluded the 1999 exhibit with a sequence that took Warframe back to the present day. There, the surviving Techrot lineage had spent centuries creating my new favorite Warframe foe, a mutated bio-machine-only incarnation of Warframe 1999 against the Warframe's Grineer and Corpus avengers. As a long-awaited infestation, you will be able to hunt this space zombie boyband.

As expected, Warframe: 1999 will also add the beret-wearing sniper Cyte-09 as a new Warframe that players can assemble. The update will also add new weapons like the Kalashnikov-like AX-52 rifle and a new “Gemini Skin” that will allow players to play as one of Hex's operatives if they are using their associated Warframe The Gemini Skin is fully voiced and based Gemini skins are fully voiced and can be customized separately from the base Warframe.

Warframe: 1999 is scheduled for release in winter 2024. Prior to that, Warframe will be making a small update in August to add the short-quest “The Lotus Eaters” which will fill the gap between its predecessor “Whisper in the Walls” and 1999.