Get ready, Tenno—Warframe: Techrot Encore has officially landed, and it’s free on all platforms starting today. As the follow-up to the massively popular Warframe: 1999 update, Techrot Encore turns the volume up with fresh characters, a new Warframe rocking guitar riffs, intense boss fights, and even a mini-game that challenges your drifting skills. It’s all part of celebrating Warframe’s 12-year legacy, offering that signature mix of sci-fi action, quirky surprises, and totally ’90s flair.
Amp Up Your Arsenal with the Technocyte Coda
The highlight of Techrot Encore? The Technocyte Coda, an infested boy band that’s taking the galaxy by storm—if you dare to join their “performance.”
- Access the Adversary System to confront the Coda head-on in musically charged boss battles.
- Defeat these Infested superstars to unlock 13 new Coda weapons, plus plenty of other thematic loot for you to collect.
If you’ve been craving more of that Warframe weirdness, these jam sessions are the perfect place to find it.
Introducing Temple, Warframe #60
Step aside, classic guitars—Warframe’s 60th addition, Temple, is here to melt faces (and enemies) with explosive riffs and pyrotechnic attacks:
- Ignite Pyrotechnics: Summon blazing pillars of fire using Temple’s guitar, Lizzie.
- Overdrive: Unleash red-hot heat waves that scorch foes and pump up your party’s adrenaline.
- Ripper’s Wail: Let out a shredding solo to grant brief invulnerability and healing.
- Exalted Solo: Switch Lizzie into a flamethrower with optional elemental damage for flaming variety.
Temple’s signature sidearm, the Riot-848, even lets you recall bullets back to your magazine—ensuring you never miss a beat in the heat of battle.
Meet the New Protoframes in Höllvania Central Mall
A social hub Höllvania Central Mall expands with a new area, The Round Table Bar, where you can befriend four fresh Protoframes:
Through the expanded K.I.M. conversation system, players can form deeper, platonic relationships with these Protoframes, unlocking unique dialogue and storylines. Each Protoframe also offers a Gemini Skin, so you can tailor their look to your style.
New Missions and a Racing Mini-Game
Stage Defense
Help Flare put on an epic memorial concert—complete with killer tunes—to honor lost companions. Think Defense mission, but with a rock star twist.
Temporal Archimedea
Brace for a re-tooled version of Warframe’s toughest challenge. The newest Protoframes might just give you the edge you need to survive its relentless onslaught.
Ollie’s Crash Course
Swap your Warframe for an Atomicycle and drift around a brand-new arcade racing mini-game. It’s located right in the Höllvania Central Mall, featuring voicework by James Conlin from Digital Extremes’ partnership with the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Fresh Weapons, Cosmetics, and a ’90s-Style Soundtrack
- Four New Scaldra Weapons: Purgator 1 grenade launcher, Dual Viciss sickles, EFV-8 Mars pistol, EFV-5 Jupiter assault rifle—now up for grabs.
- Original Track “Lamenting the Days”: A collab with Jake Bowen and Mark Holcomb from progressive metal band Periphery, and vocalist Elliot Coleman from Good Tiger, to add that perfect 1990s rock vibe to your missions.
- Gyre Vortengeist Deluxe Skin and the TennoGen Encore Collection: Expand your fashion frames with new Warframe skins, Syandanas, and armor pieces.
Quality-of-Life Updates and Changes
Techrot Encore also refines several core systems:
- Exalted Rework: Pseudo Exalted Abilities see a refresh for select Warframes.
- Defense Mission Tweaks: Shorter wave counts for smoother gameplay.
- Quest Replay: Revisit The Duviri Paradox and The Hex storylines.
- Loaner Necramech: Starting The New War quest is easier than ever with a borrowed mech.
- Crafting & Star Chart Adjustments: Archwing crafting is simpler, and the route to The Second Dream quest has been streamlined.
For every intricate detail, head over to the official patch notes and dive deeper into what Techrot Encore has to offer.
In an interview with VG247, Megan Everett, Community Director and Head of Live Ops at Digital Extremes, discusses the unexpectedly positive fan reception to the Warframe: 1999 update—specifically the introduction of protoframes (human-like precursors to traditional Warframes). The enthusiastic response to these new characters, along with the addition of romance and a ’90s setting, far exceeded the team’s expectations. Everett notes that the passion fans have shown—evidenced by an outpouring of fan art—encouraged the developers to embrace more experimental approaches and “get weird with it.”
Regarding the new Techrot Encore update, Everett confirms it adds four fresh protoframes but does not include romance options. While the team recognized the popularity of romance in Warframe: 1999, practical constraints made it difficult to replicate for this follow-up. Instead, the focus is on building deep, platonic relationships that help players care about these new protoframes as much as the original ones.
Everett stresses that introducing protoframes requires significant development resources and narrative planning, and they must fit naturally into the story. Though the team sees the fan excitement around protoframes as a reason to continue exploring them, not every upcoming update will feature a protoframe. In some cases, it may simply not make sense for the storyline or the existing Warframe universe.
Lastly, Everett explains how these new protoframes in Techrot Encore fit into the 1999 timeline and lore. She highlights how they each have their own histories that parallel the events of the original protoframe storyline. This approach maintains internal consistency, ensuring that any future protoframes or expansions will likewise be introduced only when they match both the narrative arc and gameplay context.
Join the Party
Techrot Encore is live—so grab your Warframe, tune up Temple’s guitar, and track down the Technocyte Coda for some unforgettable battles. With new mission types, social hubs, music, and more, there’s never been a better time to rock out in the ever-evolving universe of Warframe. Rock on, Tenno!
