Warframe has been running for over 11 years now, and over the years, the team at Digital Extremes has delivered 98 playable warframes for gamers to enjoy. On March 27, the game's 99th warframe, Dante, will arrive, alongside plenty of other welcome changes, in an update titled Dante Unbound.
Digital Extremes's rundown of Dante reads as follows:
"Seeker of knowledge. Keeper of history. Daring researcher of Leverian lore. Dante composes arcane tales to support allies and devastate enemies. Abilities:
Passive: Chronicler’s Mark
Noctua scans targets, recording information for your Codex. Status Chance increases on fully scanned targets.Noctua
Open Noctua, Dante’s Exalted Tome, and unleash a tale of woe upon his enemies.Light Verse
Dante’s vitalizing composition grants him and his allies Overguard and increases their Health.Dark Verse
Dante’s composition draws blood from nearby enemies, inflicting Slash Damage upon them.Final Verse
Dante must compose two other Verses before his Final Verse. Two Light Verses invigorates allies with Triumph. Two Dark Verses attack enemies with Tragedy. A Light Verse followed by a Dark Verse supports allies with Wordwarden. A Dark Verse followed by a Light Verse summons Pageflight to swoop at enemies.
While Dante seems like an exciting, if somewhat complicated, addition to the game, there are some other changes coming to Warframe in Dante Unbound that are just as big for players that enjoy both Inaros and Mirage.
Digital Extremes's Megan Everett detailed these changes in a recent Warframe Forums post. Inaros, the tanky Egyptian-god-inspired warframe, is getting a big rework that will see him become much more difficult to kill. Instead of dying when running out of health, Inaros will become a Shadow, similar to the minions he creates. To fully respawn from this Shadow version, players will need to land hits on enemies, with a higher requirement for each respawn.
Additionally, Mirage, the harlequin warframe, will see significant changes to two of her abilities. Prism, her ultimate ability that launches an energy prism that projects lasers, and Eclipse, a buff ability that grants either damage reduction or increased weapon damage, will no longer be dependent on environmental lighting. Prism now depends on Eclipse, in the sense that whatever buff players invoke with Eclipse will determine Prism's damage output, with Solar Eclipse granting 100% increased damage and Lunar Eclipse granting reduced energy use for Prism.
Inevitably, any changes to a warframe's abilities means players will be changing their loadouts to take advantage of the changes. As such, Warframe players will each get two Forma, for resetting warframe mod slot polarities and such, as a login reward after downloading the Dante Unbound update.
Warframe runs on just about any old PC with any sort of gaming hardware, so it should run just fine on the Lenovo Legion Go (curr. $699.99 from Lenovo US) or the Asus ROG Ally with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU (curr. $599.99 from Best Buy).