Warframe Devstream 189 recap: Fall Update, mushroom-frame Nokko, Damage Attenuation modifications, and extra

Warframe is again within the outdated Digital Extremes workplace for Devstream 189, its first deep-dive into The Vallis Undermind replace (heretofore often called the Unannounced Fall Update). While quite a bit the stuff lined at this time was both hinted at or outlined throughout TennoCon 2025 (after which additionally in Devstream 188 afterwards), we lastly have all the small print on Warframe gamers can look forward in direction of this fall.

So for many who need an abridged model of all the pieces necessary revealed throughout Devstream 189: saddle in, as a result of we’ve many issues to cowl.

Warframe Devstream 189 overview: Everything you could know

Here’s a gist of all the pieces unveiled throughout Warframe Devstream 189:

• The fall replace, Vallis Undermind, is approaching Octber 15
• 62nd Warframe, Nokko, was revealed
• Loads of occasions coming in October: Nights of Nabreus, a brand new Nabreus Baro, and a brand new Nora’s Mix season
• New cosmetics, together with a brand new Lavos Deluxe and Wukong Deluxe
• Damage Attentuation Rework and Oberon Rework
• More QoL modifications
• New protoframe reveal (sure, it is Uriel)

The Vallis Undermind coming October 15

The Vallis Undermind, releasing October 15, is the ultimate main Warframe replace coming earlier than The Old Peace later this yr.

• To do the Vallis Undermind quest, you will have to have achieved the New War quest (which, spoiler alert, additionally modifications up the panorama on Orb Vallis a bit). Afterwards, just a little mushroom in Fortuna leads you to {a partially} fungus-infested airlock, the place you will discover a new NPC: Nightcap.
• Other than Nokko Parts, Nightcap additionally has an unlimited array of recent plat decorations, and a Field Guide system the place you recuperate and feed mushrooms to The Prince (a particular mushroom species Nightcap is tending to). Feeding The Prince allows you to go on little adventures as small mushroom-folk and discover out extra about their lore, in addition to about Nightcap’s previous.
• Doing the search additionally provides new Deepmines Bounties in Fortuna, which takes you underground, which is the place you will presumably get to gather the aforementioned mushrooms.

Nokko, the upcoming Mushroom-frame

New Warframe: Nokko would be the 62nd distinctive Warframe coming with The Vallis Undermind.

• Nokko Mycorrhiza alt helmet was the primary beauty revealed for this new Warframe.
• Also coming with Sprodling Ephemera, which spawns little beauty fungal companions that observe you round.
• Nokko is the primary Warframe to have dual-frame idles; he spawns Yareli (hologram?) by means of a portal to bop round with.
• Nokko can also be coming with the Arbucep Heavy weapon (archgun) as his signature weapon, which must be extra viable due to some archgun QoL modifications.
• Nokko’s talents embody rising varied forms of fungi granting varied buffs, turning right into a small transferring toadstool to keep away from injury, and rising his backyard to deal injury and cc enemies with an ult potential that bounces projectiles between them.

Spooktober occasions: Nights of Nabreus, Spooky Baro, and new Nora’s Mix

• Nights of Nabreus 2025 will start on October 11, 1 am ET with new spooky wares. The Dullahan Mask shall be briefly obtainable at the marketplace for 1 Credit.
• Nabareus Baro: Baro Ki’teer appearances throughout October (October seventeenth – November ninth) shall be a brand new Nabreus Baro variant, with much more appropriately spooky stuff in tow. So far, we all know that we’ll get the brand new Eskhatos Baro cosmetics: Eskhatos Ki’teer Ephemera, Eskhatos Ki’teer Chest Guard, Eskhatos Ki’teer Shoulder Guards, and Eskhatos Grimoire Skin.
• A brand new iteration of Nora’s Mix, Dreams of The Dead, will start in October too. There shall be a bunch of recent Day of the Dead-themed rewards, together with the brand new Monarcierro Day of the Dead Syandana.

Cosmetics: Wukong Qitian Skin and Lavos Khymia Skin

• Since it is a Mushroom-themed replace… in fact there’s Mushroom Floofs!
• New Wukong Deluxe bundle, that includes a really eastern-looking Wukong Qitian pores and skin, and the first-ever twin katana Deluxe beauty.
• Lavos Khymia Collection is the beforehand teased Lavos Deluxe bundle, additionally coming with The Vallis Undermind replace.
• TennoGen: Dagath Yaban Skin, Voruna Cavio Skin, Citrine Celestis Skin, Gothica Syandana, and extra

Damage Attenuation rework

Liches, sure enemy sorts, and plenty of bosses in Warframe have a defensive layer known as Damage Attenuation to maintain the combat going for a sure period of time. Digital Extremes has beforehand acknowledged the problems with how this method is applied, and Devstream 189 lays out how it should be tuned higher:

• Damage Attenuation will not be tuned with flat numbers on a selected enemy archetype/boss that is shared throughout regular, Steel Path, EDA/ETA, and different variants. It will now be primarily based on boss well being proportion, so all variants of the boss will now be considerably sturdy witohut changing into egregious injury sponges.
• Damage Attentuation shall be lowered by a bit throughout the board to make the system extra forgiving. To offset this, bosses could have greater base well being, so your weapon’s energy will matter extra (because it ought to have to start with).
• The formulation will now be standardized, moderately than changing into a variable complicated of “too much” hearth price, multishot, or different elements.
• Attentuation will apply individually for every occasion member in multiplayer.

Oberon rework

Oberon rework is lastly right here, and he’ll hopefully not gather mud in your basement as a lot. Here’s a gist of what’s going to change:

• Smite totally strips Overguard and deal’s injury across the goal primarily based on a proportion of its well being
• Hallowed Ground not will get insta-deleted with Nullifier Bubbles, applies in a circle, and does two procs of Radiation on all affected enemies each second
• Renewal has a set power value, applies to your Affinity Range no matter Ability Range, heals twice as a lot and will increase twice as a lot armor when forged on Hallowed Ground
• Reckoning now has LoS test, however does thrice as a lot injury and scales up additional with Radiation stacks on targets, independently armor-strips, marks targets for Health Orb drops, and likewise grants you Armor per enemy hit.
• A brand new passive allows you to achieve injury instance-negation fees (Righteous Negation) each time you choose up a well being orb

More QoL modifications

• Archguns will now be capable of use a Primary Arcane and a Secondary Arcane on the similar time, which makes them much more highly effective than earlier than.
• Grineer Asteroid tileset (and choose Tenno Relay rooms) acquired a visible uplift by means of lighting rework.
• Sclaldra Exterminate and Hell-Scrub missions will now have lowered underground Techrot tiles.
• Nullifier Bubbles will not immediately delete Snow Globe, Hallowed Ground, Cataclysm, Magnetize, and Webbed Embrace AoE.
• The crosshair reticle will now get a brand new Diamond part, which shall be consultant of Gun Recoil patterns.

Some extra trivia and different housewarming tidbits revealed throughout Devstream 189

• Two Gift of The Lotus alerts (Orokin Catalyst, Orokin Reactor) shall be up all through this weekend (September 25 – 27, 2 am ET).
• The TennoLive performance Live Album is on streaming platforms now.
• Some new QTCC-collaboration merch, together with a brand new Stalker floof (real-life) is accessible within the merch retailer now.
• The subsequent TennoVIP shall be held in Calgari (Albequerque, USA) on November 7, and registration begins on October 9. Warframe’s Android Beta shall be obtainable to play there.
• The VA for Ordis is retiring (known as Employee #5 in-house) from Digital Extremes. Kevin Lim, the VA for Bombastine (and different characters) shall be taking on the voice of the Cephalon for future strains.
• Digital Extremes lastly has Switch 2 devkits, so Warframe for Switch 2 is coming quickly(tm).

Other than this, the Devstream 189 additionally offers us some footage from The Teacher quest (which wasn’t mentioned a lot through the stream in any other case), and a sneak-peek into the brand new Operator rework coming in The Old Peace:

• The slider-blender continues to be there
• Body sort is now decoupled from face presets
• There’s an unbiased Brow possibility with many new choices
• A devoted make-up sample possibility was additionally proven, however not intimately
• Operators can now use Signas
• New hair tech with higher visuals and animation!

Last however not least: Uriel could have a Protoframe, and it is the first-ever Orokin Protoframe.

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