Home Devstream 8

Home Devstream #8 aired on November 6, 2020 @ 2pm ET
Drop:5x Steel Essence

Summary credit to u/Cephalon_Zelgius on Reddit

HOUSEKEEPING

• Rifle riven alert for 72 hours after the stream
• Make sure to visit daughter in deimos for that spooky stuff, before the event ends
• Movember! Get those moustaches!

NEXT GEN

• looks like we're starting this stream with the Warframe PS5 trailer!
• your PS4 warframe account will work for the game on PS5
• nothing to share on cross play/save/whatever, but they do know that we want it

DEIMOS ARCANA

• various improvements to conservation (fixed paths, more/better callpoints, son token economy, etc)
• a big sarlac pit is part of the underground expansion
• Gara Deluxe, coming with a syandana and a sword skin
• New infested Warfan (+ a new stance)
• Entrati Grendate Launcher Archgun
• 7 weapons + infested kitguns in the update total

Bonewidow Necramech

• available from loid, as usual
• 1 impales/throws enemies
• 2 equips a shield
• 3 groups up enemies in front of you
• 4 equips the sword

LAVOS

• A Look at the ingame model - they can't show anything beyond that just yet (expect more snakery soon)

GENERAL WARFRAME REVIEWS

Chroma

• will be able to switch to any element during the mission, regardless of energy color
• spectral scream has 100% status chance, and it chains to nearby enemies

Nidus

• enemies dying in larva have a chance of adding a stack

Nekros

• soulpunch kills anything below 25% ,and either spawns a shadow or heals your existing ones

Atlas

• Bulwark deals shrapnel damage to anything passing by

Zephyr

• airburst will do more damage per target hit
• tornado will hold enemies better, tap/hold for either stationary or moving tornadoes
• for zephyr, enemies under 30% health (when hurt by airburst?) will be open to finishers

Ash

• bladestorm will automatically hit marked enemies with 3 attacks

'CORPUS QUEENPIN' / LICH IMPROVEMENTS / NEW WEAPON TYPE

Queenpin, corpus railjack and a new frame is what to expect beyond arcana

Lich Changes

• matchmaking improvements (region based)
• a boss fight in Railjack as new final confrontation is being tested

Queenpin

• Briefcase Rifle
• there will also be a secondary and melee briefcase

MELEE DEV WORKSHOP: GLAIVES

• Heavy Attack (aka Glaive detonation) will now do more damage, more consistently
• “Hold throw” mechanics now apply in Equipped Melee mode
• Glaive throws can now be performed while sliding
• Throw melee inputs can be “queued up”, one after the other
• Glaives can now be thrown multiple times in a single jump
• Melee stance combos are now available in Glaive + Gun mode
• Glaive + Gun mode now utilizes melee auto blocking when not aiming or firing

STEEL PATH + ACOLYTES

• Acolytes will spawn as minibosses in the steel path, dropping steel essence. This seems to be not be an additional, but the new source of essence
• daily steel path missions, for steel path rewards and matchmaking
• Teshin will have a weekly rotating selection of rare items for steel essence

NEW AUGMENTS

• Wisp - Breach Surge
• Revenant - Enthrall
• Gauss - Mach Rush
• Garuda - Talons

Q&A

• command intrinsics? seems to be actively worked on
• next tennogon on console? next major update
• lich beacon when? something like that is being considered
• will chroma have a new passive? "i guess he will have to"
• spider frame no
• new war/ 3rd orb advancing at various rates

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Hi Everyone!

This Friday at 2 p.m ET - join some Devs and I to spend an hour talking Warframe! We will be covering our in-development topics - from when you can expect Update 29.5: Deimos Arcana, to diving into some very exciting imminent news ;). We'll be going over a complete summary of what to expect in Deimos Arcana, along with a first look at some upcoming 'Corpus Queenpin' new weapons and details!

See you at 2 p.m ET Friday, Novmber 6th at twitch.tv/warframe

Or, if you're on Switch, check us out on Youtube: https://youtube.com/playwarframe

Source: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1234215-working-from-home-devstreams-november-6/