TennoCon 2022 | The Duviri Paradox | Full 20-Minute Gameplay Demo 

I hope I'm not the only one who noticed that the Drifter was impaled by the Paracesis (just like the Operator) and that Lotus's severed hand fell is the same hand that cut Ballas, but the continuity of events was reversed. Welcome to Duviri's Paradox, ladies and gentlemen.

"This place can change? This place can change!" The hope in the drifter's voice is so powerful.

The voice acting is incredible, very excited to see this update, I like how the drifter reacts to what he sees like the change and the operator, hope there's more like that.

This is like watching those NEVER LET THEM KNOW YOUR NEXT MOVE videos. Just when you thought that the double jumping horse was enough, it can freaking fly.

I love how the executioner looks at his blade after the Ballas stab as if thinking "Wait, did I do that?"

I like how when the dax guards catch you they yell "BACK IN YOUR PLACE!" like it's stage direction for a play or something. When this whole dimension is set up like a play to entertain Thrax.

This was such a chaotic rollercoaster. I've no idea what was happening is this gameplay. I very, very hope that a lot of questions and lore stuff will be explained when this update actually launches. Very excited.

Even if everything else fails (which it didn't here), you can trust that the art department knocks it out of the park.

Ok, so theory time... With how they acted throughout the demo, I believe Dominus Thrax is a Tenno who gained void powers in the reality where the rest of the children (the Drifters) didn't. Because of this, due to being at a young age, they believed they were a king, ruler of the surviving Zaramin crew, thus utilized the Void to raise fallen Dax soldiers to build an empire within the Duviri demi-plane, and make everyone his play things. And because they ruled unimpeded for what appears to be over decades from such a young age, Dominus is essentially a spoiled brat that has everything handed to him without question, and gets emotionally upset if something doesn't go his way, thus needing a singer/mother figure to calm him down (which could be the day/night cycle for the open world).

I want to try to list the differences i noticed, 1 by 1, with the current update after lauch now that has been a day, so: - In the demo, the Drifter doesn't get a gun, he uses the Lotus's severed hand as a weapon, and the event of the hand attaching to his arm is skipped from the demo. - The design for Lotus's severed hand was changed in the game. In the demo, Lotus's hand holds on the Drifter's forearm, while in the game, Lotus's hand mutated when the Drifter interacted with it, opening up like a bracelet and holding itself like a broken glove to the Drifter's arm while also growing strings that attatched to the Drifter's elbow and upper hand. The Drifter was shocked when this happened and unable to take off the hand. It is never explained how was he able to take it off after he escaped the paradox. - Dominus Thrax does not talk every time you die during the quest. Instead, a small animation of him hitting his throne plays before a black and grey spiral appears on the screen and sends you back to the checkpoint. (I feel the spiral clip somehow changes the tone of the quest as it appears a few times outside of dying). The clips of Dominus don't appear anymore after the story quest is over, instead replaced by the normal revive icon, a limited number of revives per run and an icon of the spiral. - In the demo, the Drifter is able to kill the fake dax at the citadel with lotus's hand, giving a surprised reaction the first moment it happens. In the game, you're unable to kill or even damage the dax until you get sun & moon from Tenshin. - In the demo, the Drifter gets his mount by taking out the rider. In the game, you find the mount without rider, right before the bridge. The mounted dax will appear later as open world mini bosses. - In the demo, the world is colorless until the Drifter uses guidance to revitalize a point of interest in the world and he makes a remark upon seeing this. In the game, all things all black and white with a few lines of colors constantly moving around the screen as smudges. All points of interest however, have a smugde of color on them from the get go that can be seen from a very long distance, and guidance doesn't interact with any object and insteads just directs you to your main objective. The radius of color around guidance has been made way smaller in the game, compared to the demo. By the time the worm spawns on duviri, the world is fully colored. The worm can't spawn if this doesn't happen. - In the demo, it seemed that Bombastine was going to be used to apply any decree to our character during the run as well as a small guide telling where your next objective is. In game, the Drifter talks with Bombastine during the story quest once to find out how to leave duviri. All upgrades and decrees are given to the player to choose right after an even or puzzle is completed on the world. - In the mirror puzzle they showcased in the demo, the operator is wearing a mask of Dominus, while in game, they'll be wearing the normal outfit the players had already given them. The Drifter makes another remark before, during and after this encounter. - The mask, while appearing in the demo as an object needed to progress and/or level up, has no use in game and no drifter is able to wear it. - In the game, the ability to summon a mount is not a drecree but a permament upgrade. - In the demo, the Drifter is killed by the worm on the ground while he is riding. I have not seen the worm getting anywhere close to the ground during gamplay of the storyquest and the 2 gamemodes where you can access duviri. Instead, the worm will stay high in the sky, flying in circles while it shoots at the player/s. - In the demo, ( at 14:17 ) we get view of a second screen of what could be a central hub for duviri just like cetus or fortuna are for their respective open world levels. We can assume this because the amount of warframes present in the shot is larger than 4, the max allowed per party. This hub was completely cut from the game. There is no central hub and instead you can only access duviri from the main navegation menu, to wich you'll see 3 options on the screen, the circuit, a mode where you play with a random equipment in a closed area not belonging to the open world, the dp experience, where you fight a different worm, every hour or so, by completing challanges and puzzles around the duviri open world, with a few of them being mandatory to complete the run, and the solo story, which is the same as the second mode without all the multiple puzzles and encounters in the open world, only the mandatory enounters are present. - The portals that appear in game do not reflect the area you'll be coming out of, as shown at 14:57 - The cave where tenshin resides was changed drastically for the better. The warframes do not rest on the ground looking at the portal but rest on top of 5 small platforms looking close to the portal and looking away from it. The area is well illuminated, the portal is much smaller, being the same size as all other portals. - In the demo, Tenshin references the drifter already seeing the Lotus's hand but never taking it until this time. Tenshin is much more agressive to the Drifter in the demo and refers to the help the drifter's gets from the other side not as the tenno's help, but "himself" (refering to the operator). He is also missing the rabbit pet that in game we get to name Sol, Lua, or Terra. - In the game, the Drifter does not interact or acknowledge with the warframes until a few times visiting tenshin, and does not fail the first time he tries to use transference. In the demo, this selection is done by walking to a frame while in the game, the screen turns to black to show the selection screen from when new players have to choose their first warframe after making a new account. This changes after the story quest is done, with each new run, the player as the Drifter, just needs to walk to a warframe and select it with x to have transference occur. - In the game, the Drifter is the one who chooses to ignore's Tenshin's help the first time he mets him to which Tenshin tells him to use his swords, telling him that he would not stop him. - In the game, combat was expanded with the addition of a pistol. When enemies make special moves instead of normal attacks, the players can shoot the enemy to knock them to the ground while doing minimal damage.

Love that they made the drifter look like Hayden Tenno from the series that started this whole roller coaster of Warframe, Dark Sector! I was waiting for him to pull out his glaive

The biggest change is they actually made it a open world game not a town with a combat open world zone.

I just realized that the drifter was stabbed by the paracecis of ballas at the beggining and you can hear him say "send them back to hell" i like how the new war and this is taking place at the same time

Once again I am impressed by the teams creative competence. Once again I am skeptical as this looks like another content island that will be irrelevant after completion. As always, I won't judge it fully until it is released, but this studio does have a particular record for releasing non sustainable content islands. My hope is on the roguelike elements allowing for some replay ability. I wish you good fortune DE.

So freaking awesome, I am very excited to see what the next stages of Warframe will be like!

Tenshin seriously went "It's dangerous to go alone, take this."

**SPOILERS** I've played through The Duviri Paradox quest and I personally felt like the whole Timeloop aspect of it was under utilised. It only barely scratches at the iceberg of potential for this

For some reason the "This place...can change? This place can change!!!" line really hit home to me, right then his voice held both astonishment and such relief I could physically feel it. Whoever did this guy's voice is stellar!

Im definetely loving whats going on here! the void being even more interesting than i immagined, love the little details too!

I love the feeling of the game without the power creep, the feeling of not being the galaxy most destructive force really brings the story together. Also does remind me of simpler days on Warframe (2014 or so).

Man this feels like a whole new game and not an update, DE are just insane with this update. Can't wait to play it

The sheer amount of palpable relief, excitement and hope at the idea of the possibility of change leaves me wondering how long the drifter has been stuck here..

When you thought the horse could only double jump and run, dude could also fly. Dam

Warframe never ceases to amaze me in every aspect and how it tries to do something new every time to broaden its horizons. BRAVOO

Was a closed beta tester, damn, how far things have come!

This version is better than one we got in end(

15:24 I'm getting greek hero vibes, teshin the old wise guy who guide the heroes and then at 20:05 the horse turns out to be a pegasus. The Perseus Paradox :D

Balancing myself on the edge of cautious optimism, this is truly a new era for Warframe with Rebb at the helm for creative director. Another content island is a phrase that I see repeated over and over again, my main hope is that the roguelike elements of Duviri are able to spider web it's mechanics across the game to give significant more replay value for the rest of Warframe. I'll give admission that my eyes have been watching development at DE for about 3 years, with playing Warframe on and off between then. I sincerely hope that the new blood coming in will bring me back to playing this experience I have been with for nearly a decade. Best of luck DE

The desaturated scenery gives me heavy vibes of "The Giver" and how that world is very dystopian, and then when he fires The Lotus's Hand the world gains colour, as if hope is there with every shot

I love how bright and saturated the colors are when they appear among the greyscape.

I just can’t wait to ride the void horse

The horse segment was really cool, i hope we can get one of our own to use outside of the duviri paradox

This looks like an alternate world where everything that happened to the story so far went the other way. Which isn't surprising considering that the concept of Eternalism had already been introduced to us. Okay, the way the interactions go, I'm starting to think that this Dominus Thrax is actually another version of the Tenno. That's why the other characters are thinking the Drifter is the "King" maybe the Dominus Thrax is a Tenno who decided to join forces with the Man in the Wall or maybe just a version who had learned how to control the Void Powers they possess. Now that I think about i the trailer showed 4 people riding void horses. One is wearing Zariman Suit, which means that must be our Operator. Then another one is wearing Drifter attire but with the mask on. This is probably the Drifter who helped us in the New War. A Drifter from the future who was able to leave this place, temporarily to help us. Then this drifter, this person might be a version of the Drifter (from new war) before he was able to leave this place. I mean, the Drifter from New War should have Void Powers now (at least that's what New War hinted) but this Drifter doesn't seem to have Void Powers. This can be supported by the line the Drifter said in New War; that they're the version of the Operator that wasn't saved from Zariman (which might mean they didn't obtain Void Powers). And lastly, someone who's wearing the same mask as the Dominus Thrax. This is probably the Tenno who was in the first Duviri Paradox Trailer. I think my guess about there being two drifters is correct. The Teshin of this world doesn't understand why is "the other side" which is most likely the world where the main Warframe is in is helping this drifter. Perhaps, the reason why the drifter was even able to help the Operator in the New War is because the Operator also helped them in Duviri Paradox. This isn't really impossible lore-wise since this still falls under the concept of Eternalism. And this is the Tenno we're talking about.

Aside from the obvious future of this new content of becoming yet another map for endlessly looping farms and fetch quests, I just can't get enough of the voice acting. It just keeps getting better every time.

Definitely filling this is a rogue lite type gameplay with very limited check points. One and done, perfect it or screwed. Or done through multiple play throughs death loop style changes. Hopefully its a mix of both will great replay ability. I also feel like people need to understand The Old/New War Arc ended. That was like 8 years of story ended last year. This is a new beautiful chapter in this game. Props to trying something different. Im always down for a rogue lite open world and more systems. I think people completely forget how game changing PoE or Second Dream/New War was. Also getting like “do the introductory quest then heres a big open world lol with big major quests and some minor ones.” Would be very disappointing if they rendered the gameplay loop to another rep/bounty board system. Im also curious on how the operator will make a play. From the 2019 reveal the operator buried a gun just for the drifter to pick it up. Revive PvP with this hopefully polished Sword combat and gun combat. Im really enjoying the gameplay and if its more then just a quest and its a rogue lite Ill be all in.

I hope you can use the sun and moon nikanas on your Warframe and not just the drifter

Location design and art direction of npcs, landscape and enemies is amazing. If Orokin looks like Greeks gods and some Olympus reference, so Duviri is definitely reference to Rome and Sparta, but with some machine elements. Trees, every npc, enemy and even ground contains biomechanical elements, and this is fantastic. Some people saying "It;s just another open world/content island, that will be irrelevant after completion", but I think it is doesn't matter. If quests, content and story are cool - what's wrong? And I want to remind - this is Warframe. This is the game, which started with a few mission types, only 2 fractions of enemies, and 6 or 7 warframes. That's all. No big bosses, no cool story, no void relics, zariman and open world elements; no operator, no drifter, no 100+ type of game battle mechanics and other great elements. And look at this game now, just fo a moment. For 1 year Warframe making such steps forward, what other games like Destiny needs 3 years to make. So, I will be thankful if DE will continue making theirs work so I and other Warframe players could enjoy their new performance.

"Maybe I.. Should just go there... Myself" you can literally find Thrax's mask in the Zariman in New War, I guess we can say Thrax made it

Warframe of Tsushima. I love it. Great job on that map design too.

This is so cool and unique, I liked It so much!

I just noticed, before his execution, he gets into a meditative Tenno pose.

I had some thoughts about the butterfly effect of the Tenno never being rescued from the Zariman, and oh boy a lot will be different on the 'other side'. Some, none, or all of these things may have happened: - Warframes weren't developed to be controlled by the Tenno so the Old War could have ended completely differently in stalemate, loss, or victory, it's impossible to even guess (but they do exist in this video) - The Orokin Empire might never have fallen as the Tenno weren't around to kill the Orokin - The small bit of Earth we see in this trailer looks much healthier and almost gardenlike, which suggests to me that the Orokin or some other group healed it - Natah was never born for the purpose of killing the Tenno and might not exist at all - Margulis was never executed as she never met the Tenno and didn't get the chance to defend them or care for them - If the Orokin Empire never fell then Parvos Granum still rules the Corpus, the Grineer never rebelled or consequently degraded, and the Dax might be the sole elite fighting force of the Orokin without the Tenno overshadowing them, therefore most of our timeline's syndicates cannot possibly exist, including the Solaris, Ostrons, and Entrati (the latter are probably still serving the Seven) - We might get to kill Ballas again, in which case sign me up for all of this madness!

"Ever get that feeling that you're stuck? Spinning inside your little wheel, day in and day out?" Ah yes, I too have tried to farm Chroma Prime.

I really hope we can play drifter like warframe do so its not just story, but always avalaible This make me love war frames

Space Mom’s hand is a surprisingly powerful weapon

HO HO HO MY GOD!!! You know, I just started playing warframe when the open beta starts. It was in 2014? I remember the old cores for mods, Loki as a first frame, stamina for run, then the old parkour system, keys for the Void missions... And look what's going on now! What a fffuc is just happening on my screen? It's so great and massive! When the DE just desided to make a product that have no alternatives? I dont know, but IT's FREE AND THAT WAS A PERFECT DESISION! Thank you for that teaser. My sensor's are --bleeeeeeding--...Pleased.

Duviri seems like a cool,fresh concept so far and I love the aesthetics they went with for it. My only problem is that all we've seen so far regarding it was the quest (which is a mere fraction of what open world updates are about) + some of the mechanics (which honestly looked interesting) and I just wonder how will it all translate to the actual post-quest gameplay. My main hope for this update is tied to the fact that with it apparently being detached from actually using Warframes and all the forms of traversal we've been used to so far (archwing,k-drive etc.) they might be able to pace it out a little better and make the opennes of the map actually valid and less artificial,'cause the mission structure they've been using so far for their open worlds is literally a corridor structure where the entire space between the points of interest is redundant and the gameplay is inconsistent due to the need of coming back to the hub/corridor-quest-giver every single time. Having some handicap on our traversal (the steed seems slower than a k-drive and notice that even tho we get some aerial traversal,it's gliding rather than full-on flying) might imply that there finally might be some exploration and organic open world gameplay involved in Warframe which would be a super nice thing. It's all still "would" and "might",tho,so I will be awaiting this update in a rather cold-headed manner,until I see what the actual post-quest gameplay looks like. Also one criticism I have for what they showed us so far is that the whole update seems like YET ANOTHER content island,so this detachement from the rest of the game's features really is a double edged sword

This is mind-blowing in two ways. First the sheer creative output is jaw-dropping, second how THIS is still the same game I played years ago while farming plastid and what not with a speed nova! Warframe has come so far :D

I never expected Pedro Pascal armed with a handgun riding a Pegasus against a flying worm

I'm going to be honest, "DEATH. BY. METEOR!!!" is so much better

I've not seen the whole vid, but so far Duviri looks aesthetically similar to the Dreaming City from Destiny and I'M LOVING THIS SO MUCH!

6:15 "This is an open world experience but it has alot of twists". proceeds to walk passed a fucking twirly plant.

Warframe really does have some quality storytelling talent. And it's free! Best game ♥️

I was a little burned out by the old grind routine but this makes me excited to play the game again.

I love the music and soundtrack of this place already

It looks promising. And I hope that the horses are more like the archwings and less like a K-Drive when it comes to handling

Okay okay, this a little TOO badass. I must stay patient my brotha’s 😭

I remember thinking the paradox was the Operator growing Up, only for new war to do that.

The sheer amount of detail in the environment alone has me over the wall excited for this update!

Default Drifter looks so much like Pedro Pascal. I don't mind if DE invite him to do some live action trailer or smth :D

Bro I hope the dual nikanas sun and moon are given to us after the quest.

Is Warframe turning into a game with both souls-like AND power fantasy combat? That's so exciting

You have outdone yourselves again, great job, I'm looking forward to the update

I'm very excited now. The anticipation!

This new Warframe game reminds me of a indie game called The Magic Circle. I see similarities from the drifter defying the Orokin bringing color to a dry colorless land ,and refusing to be a play thing of the Orokin. The plot of The Magic Circle was that a Npc gains sentients deciding to bring life to his game well rebelling against his creators refusing to be a play thing. The Npc decides this after seeing years of neglect from the Developers unable to create a coherent game. Which the Devs had left the game a mess with scattered code containing unfinished devnotes and scraped a previous game that was the source of the Npc gaining continence from the broken code that desired to be fixed and see the world of the game finished bringing color to it. Just a thought no biggy if no knows what game I'm talking about is. :P

The drifter always give me "yeaah I dont care" vibes 😂😂😂

That splash of color reveal every now and then is quite satisfying

This next story update looks dope! Can't wait to play. And they put the exactly mechanics i wanted, I'm not talking about the same mechanics that we saw in the demo but I'm talking about new mechanics. More puzzles and stuff like that.

Please let us have facial hair for Our drifter DE

This game just keeps getting better and better There are literally zero excuses to not get this

Lotus' hand falling from the sky like a missile brings a whole new meaning to "What the heck"

The thing I love most about Warframe is you know you're going to get something unique. It might remind you of this, that, or the other, But when you look at the mix in totality you go "how did they come up with that" The live event in game was cool too :)

Looks fantastic but the player movement animations needs to be redone and updated, they look so old, janky and static. I don't even know if it's possible to do so but i hope we get that updated in the future.

Man i cant wait to see how the hell this ties into the story 😂, recently warframes story has been insane but somehow always makes sense

One detail that I think proves many people’s theories of Thrax being a tenno is the bombastine part. If we go under the assumption that bombastine truly thinks that you’re “the king” by confusing you for him, that would imply that you and thrax look similar. Maybe this is why in the beginning your character is sentenced for execution. Because you existing threatens thrax’s rule

If u notice in this drifter has somatics currently in game drifter don't have them (u can't equip it)

Warframe be getting parts of other games from here and there and its amazing

Void Pegasus. That's something I was not expecting

THIS PLACE CAN CHANGE!!!!!!

One good thhing form this patch that they changed Teshin texts to Drifter, more Mentor like and not agrssive, more true to hin like with war within. And bunny. Best Bunny

"Instant horse" love it

DE: this is major branch of story where you have to choose between fire damage buff, void damage buff, or summon an android alien looking horse. we know where 99,9% player will go.

Oooh this is pretty cool, looks like it might be what the drifter was dealing with in the void as the operators alternate during the events of the new war, before the operator and drifter switch, as a mirrored reality. Maybe we'll begin to start the MITW big bad quests

I think the DE quest writers have been on a continuous acid trip for the past 9 years

Ok, that looks awesome, also I realy hope we got to keep those blades.

Curious if we’ll see the man in the wall, unless of course Dominus thrax is the man in the wall

This looks so cool. Love the artistic direction. All we need now are dual MIGHTY SEERS

Theres a glitch going around rn where u can use the guiding hand as a weapon ad shown in this demo

18:07-18:11 18:26-18:30 18:41-18:45 18:58-19:04 Excalibur: Your champion strength is too weak.

I hope the end goal is to make color into the world permanently

this made me excited more for the quest

The music when Drifter wields the twin swords ⚔️

I love luscinias singing at the end

I liked it warframe team, please keep your good work!

I like how the drax in the corner jumped and said “where the f*+k did that come from”

21:07 that song in the end, just wow. So many good warframe osts recently 😭

I live to serve! Even as food!😂

This game has come so far from being just about the legendary Warframes, and yet up until now it's been readily apparent how everything flowed together so seamlessly, storywise. I am so anxious to see how this will fit into what we know and do not about the void and the origin of the Tenno's powers.

8:28 notice how the guy has a longer arm like ballas

OMG this has gotten very interesting can't wait for the new update