50 Fun Facts About Warframe

Which Canadian studio, a co-developer of Unreal Tournament, makes and publishes Warframe?

Digital Extremes spent years as a work-for-hire studio, and Epic Games once tried to absorb it before trouble with the Canadian government ended the merger.

Which guide wakes the Tenno from cryosleep at the start of Warframe?

The Lotus later crossed over to Nintendo. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate added her as a collectible spirit in a 2020 event for black-clad characters.

Which premium Warframe currency is sold for real money but can also be traded between players?

Platinum can be earned without paying a cent, because players sell Prime parts and rare mods to one another for it.

Warframe grew out of the original concept for which 2008 shooter, whose hero is named Hayden Tenno?

Dark Sector was announced in 2000 as a sci-fi online game, and when the 2008 release strayed from that plan the studio reused its ideas and art for Warframe.

Orokin Reactors and Catalysts, which double mod capacity in Warframe, share what vegetable nickname?

Potatoes come in two colours in fan slang, golden for Reactors and blue for Catalysts, and the official store has sold a Potato T-shirt in their honour.

Which Warframe completes the trio of starter frames for new players, alongside Excalibur and Mag?

Volt is the only frame to be a starter in two separate eras: it was dropped for Mag early on, then came back in Update 14 to replace Loki.

Which damaged Cephalon serves aboard the Orbiter in Warframe and addresses the player as Operator?

Ordis was once Ordan Karris, a mercenary who turned on his Orokin masters and was punished by being remade as an immortal machine mind.

Which console got Warframe at its launch in November 2013, the game's first release beyond PC?

PlayStation 4 players had Warframe from the console's first days, while the Xbox One version did not follow until September 2014.

By what name does Warframe know the far-future Sun and planets where its missions take place?

The Origin System was the seat of the Orokin Empire, which sent colony ships toward Tau when its resources began running dangerously low.

Which Warframe assassin hunts boss-killing players and can drop the weapons Hate, Dread and Despair?

The Stalker warns his target by making the screen flicker deep red, then arrives to avenge the bosses that player has killed.

Which dragon-themed Warframe sheds its own pelt to leave a sentry behind with its Effigy ability?

Chroma means colour in Greek, and fittingly the energy colour a player picks decides which element his powers use.

Which Warframe draws extra loot from corpses with Desecrate and raises slain enemies as allies?

Nekros can keep a squad supplied with health pickups this way, and his own parts drop from the Infested boss Lephantis.

Which Warframe, the first designed without feet, floats constantly and buffs allies with Reservoirs?

Wisp is won by beating the Ropalolyst on Jupiter, and she was the first frame whose main blueprint dropped from a boss.

Which Warframe, built from parts dropped by the Jackal on Venus, protects itself with Iron Skin?

Rhino pairs that defence with a ground stomp that sends nearby enemies tumbling and slows them down.

Which gunslinger Warframe draws twin Regulator pistols when she uses her Peacemaker ability?

Mesa moves through Peacemaker in a style inspired by the Gun Kata of the film Equilibrium, and the firing hammers of her pistols sit on her thumbs.

Which Warframe fights with songs that players compose themselves on the Mandachord?

Octavia plays short loops built from percussion, bass and melody tracks, and a player can share a finished tune for others to copy.

Which Excalibur ability in Warframe summons a sword of light that throws energy waves as it swings?

Exalted Blade was made of pure energy until a 2018 update gave the weapon a physical form so that players could customise it.

Which bow can new Warframe players choose as their first primary weapon in the Awakening quest?

Paris is a charge-and-release weapon, so it is many players' first lesson in bows; the game offers it beside the Braton rifle.

Which three-edged throwing weapon in Warframe was first wielded by Hayden Tenno in a 2008 shooter?

Glaive attacks even keep their original finisher, in which the wielder kicks an enemy and stabs them in mid-air.

Which Tenno shotgun in Warframe fires one shell when the trigger is held and another on release?

Tigris holds only two rounds, so every full press and release empties the magazine and forces a reload.

Which machine race, built by Warframe's Orokin to terraform Tau, returned to wipe out its makers?

Sentients were the enemy in the Old War, the conflict that pushed the Orokin to create the Tenno and ended with their empire's collapse.

Which Grineer officer, armed with a trademark Seer pistol, hunts new Tenno in Warframe's opening?

Captain Vor is one of the few Grineer who understands Orokin technology, which is how he built his armour around an ancient key that lets him teleport.

Which Void Trader visits a Warframe Relay every two weeks, selling rare wares for Ducats?

Baro Ki'Teer stays for only 48 hours each visit, and kiosks in every Relay count down to his next arrival.

In Warframe's Stolen Dreams quest, which captured thief guides the Tenno to the Arcane Codices?

Maroo had been hired by the Grineer scientist Tyl Regor to steal a codex, but she cheated him and sided with the Tenno in return for protection.

Which Grineer defector in Warframe says little beyond his own name and the word 'Grakata'?

Clem owes his tiny vocabulary and short stature to a cloning mutation, the same flaw that freed him to disobey the Twin Queens.

Which Orokin Executor and member of The Seven is credited with creating the Warframes themselves?

Ballas is also the voice players hear narrating the trailers that introduce Prime frames.

Which Corpus plutocrat, a self-styled 'prophet of profit', exploits Fortuna's workers in Warframe?

Nef Anyo claims the Void itself chose him as its prophet, and he holds a seat on the Corpus Board of Directors.

Which Chinese technology giant became the owner of Warframe's developer by buying Leyou in 2020?

Tencent took over Leyou, the holding company that had held a majority of the studio since 2014, and the game came with it.

Which Ostron trading settlement on Earth is the gateway to Warframe's Plains of Eidolon?

Cetus was first named Karifamil, 'family and prosperity', and took its present name from an Ostron word for the landless who belong to no clade.

Which Ostron phrase is the common greeting that villagers call out to the Tenno in Warframe?

Swazdo-lah is hello in the Ostron tongue, which also has Sho-lah for farewell and Kruna metta for a pleading 'please'.

Which Orokin objects do Warframe players crack open in Void Fissure missions to earn Prime parts?

Relics come in four eras of rising value, Lith, Meso, Neo and Axi, and each player may bring one into a mission.

Which canine companions, once kept as pets by the Orokin, do Warframe players hatch from eggs?

Kubrows turned feral on Earth after the Orokin fell, and players learn to breed one in the quest Howl of the Kubrow.

What does Warframe call the hoverboard-style vehicles that arrived with the Fortuna expansion?

K-Drive boards are built by the Solaris out of Corpus technology, and riders score points for grinds and trick chains.

Which Warframe move, triggered by leaping from a crouch, sends a frame spiralling through the air?

Bullet Jump arrived with the 2015 overhaul called Parkour 2.0, the same update that scrapped the game's stamina meter.

Which buildable warship, inspired by FTL: Faster Than Light, came with Warframe's Empyrean update?

Railjack crews of up to four share the jobs of flying, gunning and repairs while they fight enemy ships in open space.

Which Warframe quest, the first told as a cinematic story, reveals the child controlling the frames?

The Second Dream arrived in December 2015, more than two years after the game launched, and names the pilot behind the frames the Operator.

Which Grineer nemesis is created in Warframe when a player executes an enemy called a Larvling?

A Kuva Lich was an ordinary Grineer grunt until an infusion of a mystical resource turned him into a super-soldier.

Which free reward track in Warframe works like a battle pass, with challenges known as Acts?

Nightwave is styled as a pirate radio station hosted by the enigmatic Nora Night, who narrates each series in episodes.

Which snowy open world on Venus do Warframe players enter from the colony of Fortuna?

Orb Vallis owes its snow to Orokin terraforming devices, and its rivers run with coolant instead of water.

Which moon is home to Warframe's Infested open world, the Cambion Drift, and to the Entrati family?

Deimos also holds the Necralisk hub, and the family living there is credited with the first technology to harness the Void.

Which director of 10 Cloverfield Lane made the cinematic intro for Warframe's reworked tutorial?

Dan Trachtenberg premiered the short at TennoCon 2019, three years before his Predator film Prey reached screens.

Which in-house engine, built after its developer moved away from Unreal Engine, powers Warframe?

Evolution was begun during the troubled making of an earlier game, when the team was also racing to support a new generation of consoles.

Which weapon does Warframe's Stolen Dreams quest award as a blueprint, alongside an Orokin Catalyst?

Ether Daggers can be claimed from the quest only once: replays give no further blueprint, so a player who sells the pair must buy it elsewhere.

Which colossal Old War commander, father of Natah, lies beneath the oceans of Uranus in Warframe?

Hunhow was presumed dead until the Grineer scientist Tyl Regor disturbed his resting place and woke him.

Which Orokin scholar in Warframe's lore was executed for defending the Zariman children in her care?

Margulis was blinded when the children lost control of their powers and burned her eyes, yet she still refused to denounce them.

Which of the five Focus schools open to Warframe's Operators is titled the School of the Protectors?

Vazarin stands for water among the five schools, and an Operator who chooses it describes seeing a cresting wave, wide in the ocean.

Which Parazon mods in Warframe, with names such as Fass, Jahu and Oull, hold just three charges?

Requiem words form the passphrase that ends a nemesis for good, though the murmurs that reveal them never show the right order.

Which damage type, made in Warframe by combining Cold and Toxin, increases damage dealt to health?

Viral is one of six combined elements, and stacks of its Virus status can raise the damage an enemy's health takes as high as 325 percent.

Which prefix marks Warframe's anniversary gift weapons, among them a Furis, a Dakra and a Sybaris?

Dex gear began with a pair of Furis pistols given to everyone who logged in during the game's first birthday week in March 2014.

Which master of the Conclave do the Tenno chase to the Grineer Queens in Warframe's The War Within?

Teshin turns out to be a Dax, a warrior caste bound to the Orokin, which leaves him unable to defy the Elder Queen's sceptre.