Warframe's next updates include a secret Necralisk lab, grimoires, and a Headless Horseman homage

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Greetings, Tenno! This message comes to you from that primeval epoch known as "Last Wednesday", when Digital Extremes treated RPS to a preview screening of the Warframe update announcements planned for this year's Tennocon - a special Tennocon indeed, coinciding as it does with the game's 10th anniversary and the studio's 30th. Alas, "Last Wednesday" was a regular Dark Age, and we dusty ancients were granted only a partial glimpse of the promised new areas, weapons, cosmetics and story content, Digital Extremes having reserved some of the key reveals for a happier period, "Today" - which, according to our most trusted seers, will be an era of understanding and transparency. Fickle are the winds of history! Still, even with the limited insight of our time, we grasped at some sense of the offering's magnitude. Read on, if you dare.

The bulkiest of the planned Warframe updates - Whisper In The Walls, arriving later this winter - is a new area, the secret laboratory of one Albrecht Entrati, located beneath the Necralisk on Deimos, where you'll help a floating drone called Loid complete/avert something called the Kalymos Sequence, which involves something or someone called the Sleeper.

I confess, I'm not up to speed with Warframe's on-going plot, so here's what it all looks and sounds like to a layman: gold and blue hallways, wide spiral stairs, ominous statues, cosmic turbines hanging from the ceiling, chonky Teslawatsits shooting lightning bolts everywhere, strange banging noises, breakable walls hiding secret chambers, overgrown cats with glowing eyes, suggestive anachronisms such as flip phones, and colossal brains on shelves. The area features new lighting technology, which certainly lends itself to the Mad Science