Brace yourselves, Warframe lore heads: We're lastly going to Tau in 2026
At its tenth TennoCon fan convention on Saturday, Digital Extremes revealed its plans for the subsequent period of Warframe. Following a serious replace that’ll shut out 2025, Warframe will lastly chart a course for a vacation spot that is been teased for years: In 2026, the Tenno are headed to Tau.
The Tau system is, to place it calmly, a fairly large deal for Warframe. It is the place lots of the core conflicts of Warframe’s storytelling had been first set in movement: A far-off star the place, hundreds of years earlier than in-game occasions happen, the artificial race of Sentients rejected their lot as terraforming serfs for the Orokin empire and returned to the Sol system in violent riot.
Within the Previous Conflict that adopted, solely the Warframe-equipped Tenno proved able to resisting the Sentient onslaught, till they too turned on their Orokin overlords and delivered a bloody coup de grace that toppled the oppressive empire. After the sport opens with their Tenno character waking from ensuing centuries of suspended animation, every part the participant sees is fallout from the tried colonization of Tau—and for years, the arc of Warframe’s plot has hinted we would ultimately journey there ourselves.
After numerous teases, winks, and nudges, 2026 is when Warframe will make that long-awaited interstellar leap.
Digital Extremes did not provide many particulars about what to anticipate from subsequent 12 months’s enlargement, however a serious story replace touchdown on the finish of 2025 will act as a prelude for Tau. Known as The Previous Peace, the replace will see gamers reliving archived reminiscences from a tenuous truce in the course of the Previous Conflict, when the Orokin and Sentient forces tried to barter a ceasefire.
Given how the remainder of Warframe historical past performs out, it looks like these negotiations did not finish nicely. However residing via the peace talks—and, presumably, their collapse—on the moon of Perita will give us our first actual glimpse of the Tau system.
You may wish to verify in on any Warframe lore heads in your life. They’re in all probability hyperventilating fairly laborious.
The Previous Peace will even add a sidequest known as The Satan’s Triad, which is able to introduce Uriel—a brand new demon-themed Warframe—and a pair of extraordinarily Catholic-coded area weirdos that I am certain everybody might be very regular about.
That is not all of the Warframe we’re getting earlier than the 12 months’s out. Digital Extremes mentioned there’s additionally a currently-untitled replace arriving within the fall, which is able to convey a capability refresh for the long-neglected Oberon Warframe. It will additionally add a brand new tutorial quest for the Mod system—a vital a part of Warframe gameplay that may be fairly impenetrable for brand new gamers.
The 12 months forward seems prefer it’ll keep Warframe’s standing of being the widest and weirdest sci-fi dwell service sport available on the market, and I couldn’t be extra thrilled. So should you’ll excuse me, I’ve obtained just a few months of grinding to do if I wish to get all my Tau prep squared away.