Warframe Techrot Encore Preview: Robot David Bowie, Infested Liches, and Boy Bands

Warframe players have been enjoying the party of their lifetimes in 1999, hacking and slashing through Scaldra and Techrot enemies as they bond with the Hex. But the status quo will shift when the Techrot Encore update is released on March 19, 2025
— the next big expansion for third-person sci-fi looter shooter Warframe.

All is not well in the city-state of Hollvania, the area introduced in the last big Warframe 1999 update, and a new menace is about to imperil every uninfested person out on the streets. The Technocyte Coda — the long-awaited infested liches — are the next addition to Warframe’s adversary system. These gruesome foes are looking to grow the Techrot hivemind, and they need you out of the picture to do so.

Luckily, the 60th Warframe is a pyrotechnic phenom. Temple is a rock star with a penchant for flames, and they’re the best bastion against the evolved infestation. Pillars of flame blast from the ground before this Warframe while they wield their guitar as an exalted flamethrower, melting the opposition.

Everything coming in the Warframe Techrot Encore update

The next big Warframe update builds on the groundwork laid by Warframe 1999, introducing a brand-new Warframe alongside new game modes and gameplay mechanics. Here’s what you can expect when the update releases on March 19.

• Infested Liches: The next addition to Warframe’s expansive adversary system will add new Techrot nemeses to the game. Themed around the fictional ’90s boy band On-lyne, players can hunt these foes down for new weapons and cosmetics.
• The Temple Warframe: The 60th Warframe is a glam rock icon, bringing their pyrotechnics prowess to any battlefield in the Origin System. Whether they’re buffing allies, debuffing enemies or wielding their sentient flamethrower guitar, Temple is a force to be reckoned with.
• New Protoframes: Temple, Frost, Saryn and Nova are getting new protoframe skins as their 1999 counterparts arrive in the Hollvania mall. Each new character has unique KIM dialogue as players get a chance to build new relationships and uncover the next piece of this narrative.
• Temporal Archimedea: An expansion of the Deep Archimedea game mode, the Temporal Archimedea brings the multi-stage gauntlet to Hollvania. A new tileset brings new challenges as the Scaldra and Techrot are buffed by randomized mission modifiers that completely change the flow of the game.
• Quality-of-life Changes: Developer Digital Extremes has honed in on problems with the new player experience, making it easier to broach the most important parts of Warframe’s story. Veteran players will be happy with Aura Forma changes and a pseudo-exalted weapon overhaul.

The threat of the Technocyte Coda looms large over Hollvania

The 60th Warframe is a rock-and-roll superstar, and they’re ready to overwhelm their enemies with solid walls of sound. Temple’s kit is themed around pyrotechnic stage design, pumping out loads of heat-based damage. That’s appropriate for an infestation-themed update, because Warframe players are going to have to blaze a path through angry biomass if they want to unlock the new lich weapons.

Temple’s passive introduces a metronome mechanic that buffs their four core abilities when you activate them on the beat. Those abilities synergize to buff Temple and their allies, debuff surrounding enemies and spew a lot of angry flames into foes’ faces. Here’s the full breakdown of each of Temple’s abilities:

• Pyrotechnics: the first ability in Temple’s kit targets enemies with pillars of fire, inflicting them with rapid stacks of heat damage. If Temple casts this ability on the beat, twice as many pillars will spawn on surrounding enemies. This ability is Temple’s Helminth subsume, which means it can be transferred to other Warframes.

• Overdrive: Temple’s second ability spawns a ring of Techrot subwoofers that slam enemies with soundwaves, dealing heat damage and debuffing them to be more susceptible to critical damage.

• Ripper’s Wail: Shredding on their guitar, Lizzie, Temple buffs the weapons of surrounding teammates with the ability to inflict heat damage. Temple also regenerates health every second during their third ability’s uptime.

• Exalted Solo: After building up enough charge by playing abilities on beat, Temple is able to wield Lizzie as an exalted flamethrower, spewing flames from the neck of the guitar. If Temple is holding down the trigger on the beat, the flamethrower also spews bolts of electricity.

Warframe 1999’s relationship system expands with four new protoframes

Kaya is the Nova protoframe, and she’s a scientist with a lust for life and a passion for discovering the secrets of void-related technology. She’s banded together with Velimir and Minerva on their journey to Hollvania because she’s convinced the city-state holds the secrets she needs to make a breakthrough. Maybe she’ll even be able to solve her special interest and figure out how to time travel.

All of the new protoframes will be able to form relationships with the Drifter and chat on KIM, but they won’t be romanceable companions when Techrot Encore is released. Temple, Frost, Saryn and Nova will have protoframe skins and Gemini transformation emotes available to buy for platinum in the Warframe Market.

A new endgame mode awaits Warframe veterans

The Deep Archimedea and Elite Deep Archimedea modes are some of the most challenging content in Warframe right now, plunging players into a multistage gauntlet spanning the derelict halls of the Sanctum Anatomica to try and win some of the game’s best rewards.

Now another version of the endgame mode has arrived in Warframe 1999: Temporal Archimedea. This set of missions will take place on the Hollvania tileset, where players will have to face Scaldra and Techrot enemies while bearing the brunt of the same equipment restrictions and mission modifiers that make Deep Archimedea so challenging. Elite Temporal Archimedea will also be available on launch.

This version of the game mode will reward players with archon shards and arcanes as well as a new currency to spend at Kaya’s Temporal Archimedea store.

Quality-of-life changes for newbs and vets alike