{"id":3322,"date":"2022-04-28T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/warframes-new-quest-cracks-open-a-galaxy-full-of-weird-wild-lore\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:50:12","slug":"warframes-new-quest-cracks-open-a-galaxy-full-of-weird-wild-lore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/warframes-new-quest-cracks-open-a-galaxy-full-of-weird-wild-lore\/","title":{"rendered":"Warframe’s new quest cracks open a galaxy full of weird, wild lore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With a decade’s worth of content to explore, Warframe<\/em> can be intimidating, especially for those who are just starting out. Players who can put up with the high-octane space-mech killing gameplay and ninja flipping will discover one of the best plots in gaming. The game recently concluded a long-running, highly dramatic plot centered around the Lotus, players’ collective Space Mom. And with Wednesday’s new update, Angels of the Zariman, developer Digital Extremes has opened a new act for a universe that has grown to rival canons like Warhammer<\/em> 40K<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The world of Warframe<\/em> takes place in the Origin System — a far-future, very sci-fi version of our Sol system — after the fall of the gilded Orokin Empire. You play the part of an Operator for the Warframes. This is a mecha-organic killing machine that protects innocents against supersoldiers and space hypercapitalists. Warframe<\/em> also keeps a major part of its core premise secret until about 25 hours in — and the community carefully guards that spoiler from new players. <\/p>\n

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“Our biggest failure rate is how do you get a player from finishing the tutorial to The Second Dream?” community and live operations director Rebecca Ford said in a call with Polygon. “That’s the minefield of ‘Oh, god, will someone make it through’ for us, so that needs some patchwork repair — this update does a pretty good job at removing unnecessary obstacles, but it’s clear to us that getting someone there is what makes them actually like or love Warframe<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

For years, the focus of the game has been on the relationship between the player and the mysterious, maternal Lotus. Ford happens to be the voice behind this character. Now that The New War expansion has resolved that story, Angels of the Zariman is set to crack into several of the other weird, wild parts of the Warframe<\/em> universe. <\/p>\n

And for the uninitiated, Warframe<\/em> truly does get bizarre, going to places where other games are afraid to tread. You will be accompanied by a group of social revolutionaries on Venus, who use robot bodies and labor to pay off their debt. This quest zone is a major one. A second hub centers around family drama. Except that the family is actually a group of scientists who have been consumed by an alternate reality. This is a bit more complex than the killing of eight boars in a wooded area. <\/p>\n

“We make [our characters] as human as possible, under a wrapping paper that feels like it’s on space LSD,” said Ford. <\/p>\n

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