17 Facts About Warframe

Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes.

Concept for Warframe originated in 2000, when Digital Extremes began work on a new game titled Dark Sector.

Warframe is an online action game that includes elements of shooters, RPG, and stealth games.

Player starts out with a silent pseudo-protagonist in the form of an anthropomorphous biomechanical combat unit called 'Warframe' possessing supernatural agility and special abilities, a selection of basic weapons and a space ship called 'Orbiter'.

The Operator is able to physically manifest themselves in the environment by projecting out of the Warframe, and disappear by resuming control of it, and possesses abilities of their own.

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Origins of Warframe came out of Canadian studio Digital Extremes' original vision for their previous game Dark Sector.

Warframe was publicly announced in June 2012 with its closed beta launched in October 2012.

For example, initially, each Warframe had a skill tree that the player could unlock completely through missions and gaining experience.

Open beta for Warframe launched in March 2013 for the Windows platform, with the game available from their own server systems.

Warframe was released at the same time that the studio was completing development for the April 2013 Star Trek game to tie into the release of the film Star Trek Into Darkness.

Warframe itself was not a critical hit with gaming publications, receiving average reviews; as IGN reviewed in 2013, the game was "fun, but a little bland".

The various versions of Warframe do not support cross-platform play, as Digital Extremes said they currently lacked the capability to keep all platforms updated simultaneously.

The Queens cause an overload on the connection between Tenno and Warframe, forcing the Tenno to seek them out themselves, slowly discovering their Void powers.

Warframe Revised, a major quality of life update, was released on 20 May, 2020.

Veilbreaker introduces Archon Hunts, difficult missions where players must hunt down and defeat the Archons, monstrous Sentient-Warframe hybrids created during the Old War, previously fought as bosses during the New War quest.

Warframe received "mixed or average reviews" on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, while the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 versions received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

In July 2016, Digital Extremes launched its first Warframe-dedicated convention, "TennoCon", in London, Ontario, drawing 1000 players, where they announced news of upcoming features and updates to the game.