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Warframe Whispers in the Walls (and beyond) Q&A with Creative Director Rebecca Ford
09.12.2023 - 18:59 / wccftech.com / Clive Rosfield / Neil Newbon
At The Game Awards 2023, Digital Extremes confirmed the final release date for Warframe's Whispers in the Walls update. Players will get the free patch on Wednesday, December 13, and it'll also mark the start of the long-awaited cross-save rollout.
At the event, we also learned that Best Performance winner Neil Newbon (Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3) and nominee Ben Starr (Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy XVI) will join the voice cast with Whispers in the Walls, with Starr coming back for next year's Warframe 1999.
Digital Extremes also took the opportunity to confirm the official dates for TennoCon 2024, which takes place next July 19-20 at the RBC Place in London, Ontario, Canada. The studio promised further expansion to the fan event with two days of activities, signings, panels, and lots of surprises.
Just before TGA 2023, we met up with Warframe Creative Director Rebecca Ford to talk about Whispers in the Walls and beyond.
Tell me a little bit about the new Warframe expansion that you've shown here at The Game Awards,
We are announcing the launch date of Whispers in the Walls. This is our next kickoff of our cinematic arc. This is where we're going to be taking the game in the next 5 to 10 years, and it all starts next week.
For players who want to get a quick refresher so they don't go into this blind, what would you recommend to get them started?
Definitely study up on the lore, but we will give them a cheat sheet. But honestly, hop in and play at your own pace. The update's not going anywhere, and it's always going to be there. You can just jump in and enjoy the Warframe you know at the pace you want to play it. We'll always have more content for you all the time.
Can you talk a little bit about the Primes that you are launching with the new expansion?
We actually had to make a business decision to move the Prime, so Gauss has moved to January. That was just a business decision. We didn't want to do too much at the end of the year because we have a supporter pack and other packs coming, so we wanted to phase out just how much we had.
Are there any Prime reworks on the horizon?
For Prime reworks, we have no hard plans. Well, we have some plans, but we're not ready to talk about them yet. We want to be very strategic with who we rework next year.
Is there a list that Warframe fans are talking about when it comes to the Primes most in need of rework?
Yes. I know what we're doing, I've talked about it but we're not ready to say exactly under what update or how we're going to approach it but we absolutely will be doing one next year.
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