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[Mesa]

While I'm not going to shame those who didn't watch the TennoLive show...Holy damn it was totally worth it.
The full stream (and neatly cut-up parts of it) are up on YT, but in short:

Spoiler: Spoilered for your convenience, especially for the last point which has The Sacrifice spoilers (click to show/hide)

0. New Deluxe skins, two new Warframes in the works (the one we already sorta knew about ie. Vlad/Revenant, and a Zephyr-esque 'frame codenamed Garuda). Also, Warframe is coming to the Switch, so that's also worthy of note.


1. As expected, Venus open world! - but nonetheless, full of really amazing stuff. The open-world area, a cold and frozen (but still livable, filled with Morrowind-esque mega-mushrooms) surface is called Orb Vallis, and there's also the underground colony of Corpus slaves (known as Solaris United) called Fortuna. They even have their own theme song which is an absolute bop. It's like Dwarf Fortress almost!
New stuff you can do include DIY secondaries (Gunkits) and MOA companions a'la Cetus' Zaws, FREAKING HOVERBOARDS, animal hunting conservation, giant spider robots, and surface area which is apparently even bigger than Plains of Eidolon. Fun stuff!


2. Totally unexpected, the Railjack is basically FTL/Elite: Dangerous style of gameplay in space, where you and your co-op buddies get to steer and manage a spaceship (the titular Railjack), complete with going into space with the Archwing, flying right into the enemy ship, and destroying it via a combination of the person inside and the people on-board, complete with a daring escape afterwards as the thing explodes and crumbles to pieces. The fact it transitioned from the Fortuna/Orb Vallis demo pretty much seamlessly made it that much more amazing.


3. Last but not least, a teaser trailer for the next cinematic quest - The New War! Featuring the Sentients and post-Sacrifice Lotus, there's a chance we'll finally get to go to the Tau System ie. the Sentients' de facto home system they were sent to colonize ages ago...But I personally think it'll involve a full-on Sentient invasion of our System, and Railjack-powered space combat. But who knows!

No ETAs were given for basically any of this, but I wouldn't expect them to come out for quite a while still, especially the Railjack and New War, but it's still very exciting to see where the game is heading. I haven't been this hyped up for anything in absolute forever, and it's extremely great to be able to feel that way again!

[Wiles]

I know it's probably not going to happen but if my pc account unlocks would transfer over to the switch I'd be so happy. Otherwise I'll probably never touch it because I have too much time (and a bit of money) invested on one platform already.

[Ozyton]

Spoiler: Spoilered for your convenience, especially for the last point which has The Sacrifice spoilers (click to show/hide)

you and your co-op buddies get to steer and manage a spaceship

This sounds like what the Archwing should have been to begin with.

Spoiler: Spoilered for your convenience, especially for the last point which has The Sacrifice spoilers (click to show/hide)

FREAKING HOVERBOARDS

As cool as this sounds, how do you benefit from using one over an Archwing?

[frostshotgg]

You don't have nauseating movement and get shot out of the sky constantly. Let me count the ways in which I hate archwing, not least of all the fact that it behaves wildly differently in every single different variation. Space archwing controls differently from sharkwing controls differently from plains flight and all of them are miserable.

[Greiger]

He sold...everything? D:

Just when I got a good grakata riven mod and was looking for a prisma grakata...  Wish I knew about it beforehand.

[nenjin]

I gotta applaud this as pushing toward unifying all the types of gameplay in Warframe, something I've been waiting for them to do for a long time. Archwing may not be good but maybe when it's tied more closely to other gameplay than essentially being optional or mission only, they'll work on it more. Although this is DE we're talking about. They've made so many systems now it's hard to expect any one of them to get a mechanics or content pass. Like, with Venus, with the PoE ever have more content?

Didn't expect the FTL thing, which looks pretty great. I gotta give it to DE. I may not always agree with the look or the format or the difficulty or the mechanics or, well, a lot of the directions they have gone in WF. But they're constantly pushing the boundaries of the game outward and I respect that, even if it does come with a fairly heavy dose of grindy mechanics and content.

[MrRoboto75]

Venus plains is cool and all but I thought Earth Plains kinda sucked.

I just hate how the objectives are miles apart.  Its just not fun to traverse because most of the movement WF is built around doesn't really work in a wide open field.  Just bullet jump for an hour straight.  Its even worse if you try multiplayer, now your team is a km away waiting for you or someone else.  I've tried faster frames like volt or zephyr but its still just miserable.

Not to mention most of the stuff you could get out of it requires more work out of just the Plains.  If something requires a normal resource there's probably a dozen things I could do on the starchart to work towards getting that resource.  Meanwhile if I want to build a spear it requires thousands of standing, many fish brains, a bunch of alloys, and a partridge in a pear tree, which can only be found bumbling on the plains, at specific places and specific times often enough.

[Teneb]

Baro is there, but only if you bought a special item from the market before today. Apparently he is selling every item he has ever sold at any point, all at once.

It's not a special item in the market, it's for people who bought the Tennocon Digital Ticket.

Though to be honest, you'd need to grind like hell to make that Baro truly worth it.

Meanwhile, we plebs will get regular Baro next friday.

[milo christiansen]

I'm not sure why people complain about movement on the PoE, the place is so small you can cross it *very* quickly simply by bullet jumping. On the archwing it is absolutely trivial to get where you are going.

Anyway, this morning I decided to grind the blueprints from the bosses of the low level planets I had finished long ago. I now have 6 warframes being constructed, to add to my current 9. Sadly, I have no free warframe slots, so I can see lots of platinum grinding in my future.

[MrRoboto75]

Sure, bullet jumping a million times.  My hand ends up hurting after doing a handful of bounties.

[nenjin]

Will be less of an issue when the Back To The Future Hoverboards are in.

[Rex_Nex]

Can't you also use your archwing in the plains, as well as hijack grineer dargyns?

Best part of the reveal was definitely We All Lift Together!

[milo christiansen]

It looks like the official solution to the broken Ash Prime Twitch drop is in. Not sure how long it will take before it goes into effect.

[Cathar]

Oh, in other news: Nyx Prime and Rhino Prime are confirmed to be unvaulted soon!

Rhino Prime are confirmed to be unvaulted soon!

Rhino Prime

Oh my god yes. I will get that fantastic bastard and never ever switch warframe ever again until Rhino Umbra.

[milo christiansen]

Oh my god yes. I will get that fantastic bastard and never ever switch warframe ever again until Rhino Umbra.

My thoughts exactly I love Rhino, and I can't imagine how much more awesome a prime version with a reactor installed will be.