While each different on-line recreation value mentioning is packing its world to the gills with seasonal cliches – snowball fights, gingerbread cookies, gaudily wrapped presents and the like – Warframe is bucking the pattern and supplying you with an enormous ol’ mess of offended cyborg zombie mutant clones to homicide throughout the more and more poisonous and inhospitable plains of Cetus.
Santa Claus might need to simply tick off this entire area as Too Naughty To Bother, until the Tenno can’t clear factor up over the subsequent few weeks.
I’m being at the very least a bit bit glib. Warframe gamers are being given quite a lot of Christmas-themed goodies upon login throughout the season, however the occasion itself appears relatively extra grim and apocalyptic than you’d anticipate for December. Hunting these new Ghoul enemies (Grineer clone troopers, seemingly mutated by the poisonous plains) would be the focus of the occasion, with NPCs round Cetus city providing contracts to stem the pseudo-undead horde, and presumably paying out some attention-grabbing new goodies.
The Ghouls themselves fall into 4 principal classes, acquainted sufficient to anybody who’s performed a zombie survival shooter – you’ve bought the quick melee one, the sticky tongue one, the digs-under-the-ground one, and the suicidal exploding one, however given the melee-focused nature of those enemies, it would go an extended solution to combine up the number of fight throughout the plains, which has up til’ now been very ranged-oriented.
Fighting the brand new enemy group apart, there are some good additional options to sit up for with this replace, together with a brand new wing opening up in your private spacecraft; your private quarters, customizable and free so that you can adorn as you see match with quite a lot of amusing space-gubbins. Presumably lots of them are lurking behind within the money store, however contemplating the completely elective nature of the chamber, that’s not too large of a deal, at the very least in my eyes.
There are additionally just a few new weapons to mess around with, such because the Corinth shotgun. A 5 spherical journal and strong base stats make this one appear to be a dependable sufficient weapon, though I don’t see something dethroning the double-barreled, hellaciously-powerful Tigris any time quickly. For the more room ninjas trying to boost their melee, there’s the Gunsen bladed fan, attacking in swish arcs and chargeable to do additional melee injury, a trait extra generally related to heavier weapons.
There are additionally a pair of latest Grineer-themed weapons. The bizarrely organized Quartakk, a quad-barreled rifle, and the Stubba machine-pistol. Unsubtle, however one factor I’ve all the time appreciated about Warframe is that every villain group is effectively outlined by their weapons. The Grineer specifically do issues loud and gracelessly, normally by throwing as a lot lead as potential at an issue within the shortest potential time.
You can read a bit more about the update here, which features a quick comedian detailing how the extremely shouty Vay Hek modified from being a generic NPC villain into the cyborg monstrosity he’s now.
