Frame Fighter

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U30.9 introduced new Warframes

Frame Fighter

Pick a Warframe and square off against all contenders in this mano-a-mano challenge.

—In-game description

Frame Fighter is a fighting mini-game where 2 players battle with their Warframe of choice. It is installed by default on the Ludoplex, which can bought from Cephalon Simaris for 50,000 Standing 50,000.

Upon collecting all unlockable Warframes, the player will be awarded a Frame Fighter Poster decoration which can be placed in the Orbiter or donated to the Clan Dojo to be placed as a personal Decorations.

Mechanics

In this minigame, 2 players fight at the Cetus gates outside the Plains of Eidolon, selecting their Warframe of choice beforehand (either by manually selecting the Warframe in question or choosing to select one at random). Players have 30 seconds to select their Warframe, or both players can start the match immediately by pressing Enter  to confirm their selection.

The fight is divided into 3 rounds, each round lasting 90 seconds. Both players must attempt to knock the other out with their attacks before the timer runs out. A player can achieve victory in two ways: if they knock out their opponent, or if the timer runs out and they have more health than the other player. The first player to win 2 rounds wins the match, after which both players are sent back to the Warframe selection screen.

Each different frame is identical in stats, the only differences being the appearance, size, and special ability of the frames. Larger frames tend to be easier to hit, but have longer legs(i.e. Frost). Special abilities have different effects, creating differences in how each can be played. A charge gauge is shown at the bottom corner of the screen, along with the special ability of the selected frame, and this gauge fills upon taking or dealing damage. Taking damage fills the gauge faster. Once the gauge is filled, the frame's ability becomes available to use, consuming the gauge.

Controls

The default controls of Frame Fighter are:

Action	Keyboard	PS4	Xbox	Switch
Jump	W  /	Joystick Up	Joystick Up	Joystick Up
Move Left	A  /	Joystick Left	Joystick Left	Joystick Left
Crouch	S  /	Joystick Down	Joystick Down	Joystick Down
Move Right	D  /	Joystick Right	Joystick Right	Joystick Right
Block	J			B
Grab	K			A
Light Attack	U			Y
Medium Attack	I			X
Heavy Attack	O	R1	RButton	RButton
Special Ability	L	R2	RTrigger	ZRButton

• Blocking reduces damage and prevents knockdowns, but does not stop grab attacks unless crouching at the same time.
• Attacks that knockdown either leave the opponent face-up or face-down. Face-up enemies recover slower.
• Successful grab attacks throw enemies into the ground, dealing heavy damage and knocking them down face-down.
• Grabs miss crouched opponents completely.
• Pressing crouch while in the air, along with any light, medium, or heavy attack, will perform a short-range slam attack, knocking enemies down face-up.
• Double tapping the left or right key performs a roll (towards the enemy) or a back spring (away from the enemy).
• Any attack made while crouching performs an uppercut, which knocks enemies down face-up.
• The last hit of any attack chain knocks down face-up.
• Light attacks perform punching animations.
  • The first punch is faster than most attacks.
• Medium attacks perform kicking animations.
  • The first kick misses crouchers in most cases but has good reach.
• Heavy attacks perform a spinning punch, headbutt, and heavy punch animations.
  • Heavy attacks deal extremely high damage.
• Rolling forward after an uppercut, ground pound, or any attack with face-up knockdown allows for a guaranteed grab as the enemy stands up.

Special Abilities

View Special Abilities List▾▾

Warframe	Ability	Effect
Ash	Shuriken	Throws shurikens, dealing damage.
Atlas	Landslide	Dashes forwards and hits the enemy, dealing high damage.
Banshee	Sonic Boom	Deals damage, knocks back, and knocks the enemy down face-up.
Baruuk	Elude
Chroma	Spectral Scream	Screams, dealing high damage over a short period of time.
Ember	Fireball	Throws a fireball at the enemy from a distance.
Equinox	Metamorphosis	Swaps between forms; one with damage reduction, and the other with damage booster.
Excalibur	Slash Dash	Charges at the enemy, dealing damage and knocking down face-up if it hits.
Excalibur Umbra	Radial Howl	Deals damage, blinds the enemy for 1 second, and restricts jumping for a short while.
Frost	Freeze
Gara	Shattered Lash	Deals damage from a short distance.
Garuda	Seeking Talons	Launches talon projectiles, doing damage multiple times.
Gauss	Mach Rush	Dashes at the enemy at incredible speed. Does damage on impact.
Grendel	Feast
Harrow	Condemn	Restricts the enemy's movement for a short while.
Hildryn	Balefire
Hydroid	Tempest Barrage	Summons a barrage of water at the enemy's location.
Inaros	Desiccation	Launches a blast of sand that deals damage and recovers a negligible amount of health for Inaros.
Ivara	Quiver	Shoots an arrow, damaging the enemy from a distance.
Khora	Whipclaw	Deals damage from a distance.
Lavos	Ophidian Bite	Does damage from a distance. Might heal lavos (confirmation needed)
Limbo	Banish	Deals damage, knocks back, and knocks the enemy down face-up.
Loki	Switch Teleport	Swaps your location with the enemy, deals damage, and knocks them down face-up. Cannot be blocked.
Mag	Pull	Deals damage, pulls in and knocks the enemy down face-up.
Mesa	Peacemaker	Shoots a few shots of her Peacemaker gun. Can be grabbed during the animation.
Mirage	Prism	Blinds enemy if it hits. Can knock down face-up.
Nekros	Soul Punch	Deals damage from a distance and knocks down.
Nezha	Blazing Chakram	Deals damage and sets the enemy on fire, causing damage over time.
Nidus	Virulence	Creates an area along the ground that deals damage when touched. Energy is greatly replenished on hit.
Nova	Antimatter Drop	launches a projectile that does small damage and sticks to the opponent. It then explodes, dealing larger damage.
Nyx	Psychic Bolts	Fires bolts at the enemy, dealing damage.
Oberon	Smite
Octavia	Mallet	Drops a Mallet that increases Octavia's damage while in its range.
Protea	Grenade Fan
Revenant	Reave	Dashes forward, deals damage and heals Revenant on hit.
Rhino	Rhino Stomp
Saryn	Spores	Does small damage. (Possibly intended to apply damage over time, but it doesn't seem to work)
Sevagoth	Reap
Titania	Lantern
Trinity		Heals Trinity rapidly while standing near opponent. Opponent takes large damage when the ability ends.
Valkyr	Rip Line	Pulls enemy to you and knocks them down.
Vauban	Tesla Nervos	Throws a grenade which latches to enemy and does damage over time
Volt	Shock	Deals damage from a distance.
Wisp	Reservoirs
Wukong	Defy
Xaku	Xata's Whisper	Boost Xaku's Damage for a time.
Yareli	Sea Snares
Zephyr	Tail Wind	Fly towards enemy at high speed. Does damage on impact.

Character Selection

A Frame Fighter Fragment

By default, Frame Fighter comes with  Excalibur,  Mag, and  Volt unlocked. In order to select additional Warframes for selection, players must scan their respective Frame Fighter Fragment scattered across the Origin system. Each planet generally has 3 Frame Fighter Fragments associated with it, and they only need to be scanned once to unlock a Warframe for use in Frame Fighter. The fragments will appear randomly with one usually appearing per map.

If a player owns the Prime version of a Warframe (or in Excalibur's case, his Umbra counterpart) they will be able to choose the corresponding Prime Warframe as their fighter, so long as the base Warframe's Fragment has been scanned to unlock it. Furthermore, for Warframes the player does own, any cosmetic customizations made to it will appear on the selected Warframe.

Lastly, there is a randomizer button, which will pick one Warframe at random out of the Warframes the player has collected fragments for.

Frame Fighter Fragment Locations

Planet	Warframes
Earth	Hydroid,  Gara,  Revenant
Mercury	Baruuk,  Rhino,  Ivara
Venus	Banshee,  Garuda,  Khora
Mars	Inaros,  Mirage
Phobos	Nidus,  Protea,  Wukong
Deimos	Nekros,  Octavia,  Xaku
Ceres	Frost,  Oberon,  Yareli
Jupiter	Limbo,  Valkyr,  Wisp
Europa	Grendel,  Nova,  Vauban
Saturn	Ember,  Nezha,  Zephyr
Uranus	Ash,  Equinox,  Lavos
Neptune	Hildryn,  Loki,  Nyx
Eris	Atlas,  Mesa
Pluto	Chroma,  Sevagoth,  Trinity
Sedna	Gauss,  Saryn,  Titania
Lua	Harrow

Notes

• It is possible to bullet jump in Frame Fighter (though inconsistent) by crouching, then quickly jumping after releasing the crouch key.
• The Prime variants of  Wukong,  Atlas,  Ivara,  Titania, and  Inaros are currently unusable.

Trivia

• Frame Fighter was inspired by a Twitter post from Community Moderator Justin "LocoCrazy_" Young, who provided the voice of the Red Veil representative.
• Frame Fighter's logo is a parody of the logo of Street Fighter V, which was released in February 2016 and is part of the long-running Street Fighter series of Fighting games developed by Capcom.
• It is the third minigame introduced into Warframe, as well as the first minigame that cannot be accessed via the Login Screen or through the Arsenal UI.
• At TennoCon 2018, Digital Extremes set up three full size arcade mockups of Frame Fighter for attendees to play. All available characters were unlocked on these machines. The cabinets featured X-Arcade control panels, hence the unusable trackball in the middle. DE teased the cabinet on Twitter the day before the convention.

Media

• Frame Fighter - Nova Unlocked
• Frame Fighter Icon On Mini Map

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Patch History

Update 30.9 (2021-11-11)

• Lavos, Sevagoth, Xaku, Yareli, Baruuk, Gauss, Hildryn, Wisp, Protea and Grendel are now available and can be used in Frame Fighter once their Fragments have been found/Scanned.

Hotfix 25.2.2 (2019-06-21)

• Removed Wukong from Frame Fighter until balance can be restored with his newly revisited abilities.

Update 23.5 (2018-08-24)

Frame Fighter Changes & Fixes:

• Movement is now disabled while crouching.
• Switched Equinox's Metamorphosis FX to match the ability outside of Frame Fighter.
• Equinox’s Night Form now gives damage reduction and Day Form now gives a Damage buff.
• Fixed inability to invite another player to Frame Fighter due to the session being full when choosing Frame Fighter and then backing out.
• Fixed aborting from Frame Fighter counting as a ‘Mission Failed/Quit’.
• Fixed Excalibur Umbra’s Radial Howl not working as intended. Radial Howl now removes the opponents jump and deals damage.
• Removed the open chat inputs. You can still open the chat while waiting for an opponent or with the pause menu open like in normal missions
• Fixed pause menu freezing your Warframe.
• You can now move, jump, and crouch using the D-Pad.
• Fixed Chroma's special being interrupted by grab.
• Chroma’s energy color no longer affects the damage.
• Fixed Nyx's special dealing more damage when shot up close to the enemy
• Added Revenant fragments the Origin System.
• Fixed EoM showing after leaving Frame Fighter

Hotfix 23.4.2 (2018-08-17)

• The Frame Fighter Warframe select screen now displays all Warframes, with the unscanned ones locked and with the addition of hints on which planet you can find the Fragments on.
• Excalibur Umbra no longer requires a Fragment Scan to unlock for Frame Fighter. He will be available upon completing The Sacrifice quest.
• More fixes towards numerous issues (crashes, game didn’t start, etc) when attempting to play Frame Fighter due to the 2-player restriction being surpassed.
• Fixed wrong icon being used on the Frame Fighter Poster.

Hotfix 23.4.1 (2018-08-16)

• Fixed numerous issues (crashes, game didn’t start, etc) when attempting to play Frame Fighter due to the 2-player restriction being surpassed.

Update 23.4 (2018-08-16)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 23.5 (2018-08-24)

See Also

• Happy Zephyr, a Flappy Bird-style mini-game.
• Wyrmius, a side-scrolling shooter mini-game.
• Ludoplex, the decoration that allows players to access Frame Fighter.