Romance Hot Cyborgs And Dance to ’90s Boy Bands in Warframe’s Most Amazing Warframe Expansion.

Over the weekend, Digital Extremes hosted Tennocon, its annual convention dedicated to all things Warframeand revealed the first extensive preview of the upcoming gun 1999 extension. The free update, which is scheduled to arrive this winter, looks like a completely different game, and will therefore boast new features such as a dating system. Warframe fuckers always win, I guess.

During a lengthy presentation at the con, Digital Extremes finally gave an honest look at Arthur, Warframe 1999′s protagonist-presented by the new golden boy, Final opinion XVI‘s Ben Starr—along with his backing band, Hex. What does hex do? Warframe which is called a group, but what we can call a sect. 1999‘s “syndicate” features Amir Beckett, Aoi Morohoshi, Quincy Isaacs, Leticia Garcia, and Eleanor Nightingale, who appears as Arthur’s sister.

Onstage, the developers announced that they wanted players to be able to “get a little closer” to this syndicate than to others included in the game. As a result, Warframe 1999 it carries the entire romance system, and any of the Hex, including Arthur, can be loved. Yes, you read that right, you I can romance Ben Starr in this game, and maybe even get a New Year’s kiss from whoever you join in on.

Based on its 1999 setting (specifically New Year’s Eve 1999, leading up to 2000/Y2K), the expansion will convey this love trend through instant messaging. Before the meaty performance part of the demo, Arthur grabs a PC in an abandoned shopping center that Hex calls a center and boots up a chat client called KIM, followed by a proper dial tone.

Unsurprisingly, KIM looks remarkably similar to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) in its early days, with not only pop-up chat windows but also usernames and information such as bios and statuses. When a demo player opened one of Hex’s profiles, a gift icon could be seen, indicating that the relationship system might be taking points from games like. Stardew Valley, where giving gifts can make you popular. Otherwise, KIM looks like a carbon copy of the messaging apps of yesteryear, and I swear to god, if I hear the sound of a door closing when someone gets off, I’m going to sue for emotional damage.

After years of AAA game developers and publishers joking about changing their established franchises in visual novels and dating sims—usually around April Fool’s—it’s refreshing to see a game as big as Warframe treat it seriously enough to include it as a feature in the extension. While it’s not yet clear how deep the system is, people from the Tennocon crowd seem to be suggesting that fans of the game, especially the most dedicated ones, really want a system that like this. Digital Extremes could have lost some of that Warframe money from abroad a (bad) dating simbut it was not, and I think it deserves praise.

An interesting retro extension to Warframe it doesn’t end there. Throughout the 22-minute demo, there are glimpses of a boy band called On-lyne. The demo opens an On-lyne business, and their ads pop up around town as Arthur rides his motorcycle around. 1999‘s new environment. The banner for On-lyne even makes a brief appearance at the bottom of the KIM client. Actually, Digital Extremes borrowed a page from Riot Games and he saw fit to do the real one A group of 90s-style boys and stick them in the game. There’s one out now, called “PARTY OF YOUR LIFETIME,” and you can stream it. no shit people listen to this thing and tell me it doesn’t sound like the Backstreet Boys’ “Larger Than Life,” or some other cut No strings attached.

Even if you don’t see them during their youth 1999On-lyne seems to be making a bigger appearance at the moment Warframe timeline. Once the demo moves on to the latest Tenno on their ship, they pick up a concert sign that seems to be hitting the middle of outer space. Once the player reaches the arena, a bunch of pods hanging from above release a few corpses onto the stage, revealing that the boy band has joined. Warframe‘s enemy groups.

Unfortunately the action is shortened only because of the actual contact, but I have seen enough. I haven’t played yet Warframe first, and I really do not I need more service games to play, but I want to date hot cyborgs, ride around town on a sick motorcycle, and dance with cute boys and sing great songs. Deep down, you know you want that too.