TennoCon

TennoCon is the annual official convention for WARFRAME, hosted by Digital Extremes. Apart from a gathering of the community, it also provides developer panels and Q&A segments, as well as sneak peeks for upcoming or currently developed content.

TennoCon Relay[]

From TennoCon 2017 onwards, those who purchased the TennoCon Digital Ticket will gain one-week access to an exclusive TennoCon relay on Earth during TennoCon where Baro Ki'Teer will be present with all of his previous offerings available to be bought.

Previous appearances

July 7th, 2018 at 11 AM ET to July 14th at 11 AM ET^[1]
July 6th, 2019 at 11 AM ET to July 13th at 11 AM ET^[2]^[3]
July 11th, 2020 at 11 AM ET to July 18th, 2020 at 11 AM ET
August 1st, 2020 at 11 AM ET to August 3rd, 2020 at 11 AM ET^[4]
July 17th, 2021 at 11 AM ET to July 24th, 2021 at 11 AM ET^[5]

TennoLive[]

TennoLive is a yearly developer livestream that is hosted with a live audience. These are when large future content updates are revealed to the WARFRAME community.

In 2014, TennoLive was aired during Gamescom in Cologne, Germany^[6], and in 2015, it was aired during PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.^[7] Since then, TennoLive aired at the end of every TennoCon.

Past Conventions[]

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TennoCon 2021 took place in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, July 17, 2021.

Vastilok was a Twitch drop for those watching any TennoCon panel on Twitch for 30 minutes consecutive with their WARFRAME accounts linked to Twitch.

TennoLive[]

THE NEW WAR: OUR MOST AMBITIOUS CINEMATIC QUEST YET[]

War has arrived. The Sentients fire the opening barrage in a conflict that will reach every corner of the System. Will long-time enemies in the Origin System unite to take on Ballas, Erra and the Sentient threat, or will fragile alliances buckle under the burden of repelling full-scale invasion?

Find out when The New War launches on all platforms later this year.

CROSS PLAY AND CROSS SAVE: OFFICIALLY IN DEVELOPMENT[]

Play anywhere. With anyone.

With Cross Play and Cross Save officially in development, the Origin System will be bigger and better than ever across all platforms, including our upcoming release on mobile!

You’ll be able to Squad up with friends regardless of what platform they’re on, and play the same account on any platform and continue your Warframe journey wherever you’d like. With the addition of Cross Play, all major updates will ship simultaneously across all platforms, so Tenno on Console can rejoice about never having a cinematic Quest spoiled again!

COMMAND THE INFESTATION AS NIDUS PRIME[]

The favorite Warframe of many Tenno and maggots alike, Nidus infests Prime Access later this year!

Nidus Prime is the Orokin’s original vision for the notoriously unkillable Nidus. Gilded and armed with his signature Weapons, Customizations and much more, Nidus Prime is sure to cause a stir in the Origin System.

NEW WARFRAME: CALIBAN[]

Introducing: Caliban. A warrior built from a combination of Sentient and Warframe parts and can only be described as wholly destructive. Unlike his Eidolon counterpart, Revenant, Caliban’s Sentient flair is found in his Passive Ability to resist Damage types as he continues to take hits, not only for himself but for his Squadmates as well.

Earn Caliban and add his signature Weapons to your Arsenal later this year!

THE UNITY PROJECT AND TENNOCON’S IMPACT[]

We couldn't be prouder to announce a $200,000 donation for The Unity Project! The Unity Project is a non-profit organization in London, Ontario Canada that has been committed to assisting people experiencing homelessness in the area for over 15 years.

This donation also marks a special occasion as we surpassed one million dollars donated to charity over TennoCon’s six years!

NEW WAR POSTER BY DAN MUMFORD[]

The design of our Mystery Poster has been revealed! Designed by Dan Mumford, this TennoCon-exclusive offers more insight into what The New War will bring, and would make a perfect addition to any Tenno’s wall!

[New War Poster by Dan Mumford – The Official Warframe Store SHOP THE NEW WAR POSTER]

UPGRADE YOUR IRL ARSENAL WITH TENNOCON MERCH[]

It’s not too late, Tenno! TennoCon Merch is still available. Take advantage and upgrade your IRL Arsenal with brand-new loot and the TennoCon 2021 Digital Pack and Merch Bundle before they're gone!

GIFT OF THE LOTUS AND MORE![]

If you can’t wait to jump back into Warframe after all that TennoLive hype, there’s plenty to do!

Take full advantage of a Double Credit Booster while you complete Gift of the Lotus Alerts, live on all platforms from July 17 at 7 p.m. ET to July 19 at 2 p.m. ET and earn an Orokin Reactor and Orokin Catalyst.

Nightwave also returns on August 4 with Nightwave: Nora’s Choice! Nora’s bringing back some of her favorite Rewards and a few new exclusives you’ll want to spend your Cred on.

We can’t thank you enough for joining us for TennoCon 2021, and we can’t wait for you to see what we have in store for you in The New War and beyond.

External Links[]

https://www.warframe.com/news/the-new-war-tennocon-2021 - Official WARFRAME recap of TennoLive 2021

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TennoCon 2020 took place in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, August 1, 2020.

The event was initially scheduled to take place on Saturday, July 11, 2020. However, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the attendee event portion of TennoCon 2020 was canceled, the date was moved from July 11 to August 1, and the event instead was held entirely digitally.

The TennoCon relay was available from July 11th to 18th and from August 1st to 3rd where Baro Ki'Teer sold his entire past stock. A separate TennoLive 2020 relay was available on the day of TennoCon where all players were able to live preview models of enemies and objects relating to future content as TennoLive progressed, similar to the Leverian.

Athodai was a Twitch drop for those watching any TennoCon panel on Twitch for 30 minutes consecutive with their WARFRAME accounts linked to Twitch.

TennoLive[]

TennoLive aired on August 1st from 5 p.m. ET to 6:20 p.m. ET. It was hosted by [DE]Rebecca and joined by Creative Director Steve Sinclair, Studio General Manager Sheldon Carter, Design Director Scott McGregor, and Art & Animation Director Geoff Crookes.

Housekeeping[]

Hydroid Prime was a Twitch drop for those watching TennoLive on Twitch for 30 minutes consecutive with their WARFRAME accounts linked to Twitch.

Players who were logged-in and inside the special TennoLive 2020 relay during TennoLive were awarded the Lemnas Staff Skin at the beginning and a Necramech Orbiter Decoration if they stayed until the end of TennoLive.

During the Heart of Deimos reveal, players inside the TennoLive Relay were teleported to explorable dioramas with in-game models of the new enemies and characters presented during TennoLive.
RedText engaged the players inside Tennocon Relays by displaying on-screen texts (instead of regular chat messages), spawned a Clem clone and Stalker to follow the Player around and could summon fireworks and make all players dance a Narta at the same time.

After the event, a 2x Affinity Booster week will start on August 1st to 12th^[8] while a 2x Credit Booster week start on August 12th to 25th.

Heart of Deimos[]

The next mainline update for WARFRAME featuring a new Infested open-world/landscape area on the Martian moon, Deimos. Scheduled to release on all platforms on August 25, 2020.

New Infested celestial body: Deimos
- Replaces Orokin Derelict as a location that can be accessed without using keys
New landscape: Cambion Drift
- New player hub, Necralisk, Void Research Enclave
- New Infested enemies of the "Gray Strain"
- New enemy faction, the Entrati, who was responsible for harnessing the power of the Void
- New characters
  - Loid and Otak, a Cephalon with a split-personality inside an Entrati robot
  - Mother, an Entrati fused with the Infested
- New Syndicate associated with open-world
  - Unlock more lore about the Entrati family as players progress through their ranks
- Procedurally generated underground areas
- Smaller in area than Orb Vallis or Plains of Eidolon, but more vertically spaced
- Fast travel system
- Conservation, Fishing, and Mining activities included
- New quest, "Heart of Deimos", associated with landscape
- Xaku Warframe, the 44th broken Warframe—themed around manipulating the Void
  - Xata's Whisper: Imbues weapons with additional Void damage
  - Grasp of Lohk: Disarms enemies to steal their weapons for Xaku to 'use'; enemy weapons surround Xaku and auto-fire
  - The Lost: Choose between 3 different Warframe abilities from the fallen Warframes that make up Xaku
    - Deny: Shoots out a Void beam, deals direct damage or creates a CC effect if they survive
    - Accuse: Creates a radial fissure that CCs
    - Gaze: CCs a target and nearby enemies have reduced defenses
  - The Vast Untime: Explode off the Warframe's parts, debuffing nearby enemies. In skeletal form, the player moves faster and have 75% damage reduction.
  - Blueprint unlocked through the new quest
- New vehicle called Necramech, an Entrati sentry robot
  - Operated by performing Transference on them
- New Set Mods
- New boss, Necramech, fought within the depths of Entrati ruins
- Features giant Infested worms Fass and Vome that provide light to the planet
- Can now use sidearms while riding on K-Drives or the new dragonfly-like creatures
New Player Experience, as teased during TennoCon 2019
- Veteran players have a chance to experience it
- Overhauled scenery to match new CGI trailer
- Polished Captain Vor fight, refined movement tutorials, and possibly new starter weapons to choose from
Helminth Chrysalis system
- New way to customize Warframes by swapping their abilities with different Warframes or with an entirely new Helminth ability
- New look to the Helminth Infirmary
- Helminth is now an actual creature that players can feed resources to level it up
  - Resource sink
- Non-prime Warframes can be sacrificed to the Helminth in order to extract one of their abilities to transfer over
  - Can only choose "non-signature" abilities or abilities that do not define the Warframe. For example, Nekros' Desecrate cannot be used but Volt's Shock can. 4th abilities are also excluded from being used.
  - Augments carry over
  - Sacrificial process takes 24 hours
Updated End-of-Mission UI
Hydroid Deluxe

The Art of Warframe Panel[]

The pre-recorded panel aired from 1 p.m. ET to 2 p.m. ET. It was hosted by [DE]Danielle and joined by Art and Animation Director Geoff Crookes, Associate Art Director Lucas Hug, and special guest Concept Artist Keith Thompson.

New Warframes to be released in 2020.
- Broken Warframe - Xaku
  - Signature warfan, syandana, and alt-helmet shown
- Alchemist Warframe
- Wraithe Warframe concept
  - Signature wrist-mounted sniper secondary, syandana, and alt-helmet concept art shown
Hydroid Deluxe concept and model
- Will come with a coat-like Syandana, Diriga Deluxe skin, and an universal speargun skin
Gara Deluxe concept and model
New Zephyr Deluxe concept by Liger Inazuka
- Will not replace the old concept of Zephyr Deluxe that was initially a passion project
New options for TennoGen: Claws, Machetes, Sparring, Armor pieces, Chain Swords, and Landing Crafts
New weapon skin bundle by Liger with universal skins for shotguns, pistols, and whips
- New Syandana included in bundle
Nightwave: Series 3 - Glassmaker's sword and the Glassmaker himself reveal
Infested themed
- New Infested enemies
  - Infested Femur, now called the Deimos Saxum.
  - Infested Bone Blade, shoots off pieces of its spines, now called the Deimos Jugulus.
  - Infested Ashen, a centipede-like creature, now called the Deimos Carnis.
- New Infested claws and arm-cannon
- Infested Kubrows and Kavats, now known as Predasites and Vulpaphylas.
- Infested Domestik Drone

Sounds of the System Panel[]

The pre-recorded panel aired from 2 p.m. ET to 3 p.m. ET. It was hosted by [DE]Helen and joined by Audio Director George Spanos, Sound Designer Erich Preston, and special guest Voice Actor Antonio Greco (voice of Erra)

Covered how the following sounds were made:

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11) The Deadlock Protocol music by Jason Graves
Ammo reload sound effect
Sentient voices
Gauss' Redline sound effects
Corpus Ship ambient sounds
Kuva Lich voices and murmurs
Glassmaker voice processing

Hydroid Prime Trailer[]

External Links[]

https://www.warframe.com/news/delve-into-heart-of-deimos - Official WARFRAME recap of TennoLive 2020
https://wccftech.com/everything-we-learned-about-warframes-heart-of-deimos-expansion/

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TennoCon 2019 took place in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, July 6, 2019.

Archived Streams[]

TennoCon_2019_-_From_Concept_to_Creation_The_Art_of_Warframe

Summary source: https://www.warframe.com/news/warframe-empyrean-full-reveal

TennoLive[]

TennoLive aired on July 6 from 6 p.m. ET to 7:30 p.m. ET.
Lotus Ephemera was a drop for those watching TennoLive on Twitch or Mixer for 30 consecutive minutes with their WARFRAME accounts linked to Twitch or Mixer. Nekros Prime was another drop for watching for another 30 minutes.
- Those who were at TennoCon received drops within a week after the event.
- Steam players were also eligible for Nekros Prime if they are logged in while watching the livestream for 30 consecutive minutes.

Empyrean[]

Enlist a four-player crew to hijack, scavenge and sabotage across the Origin System. Contact ground teams for support, steal enemy ships, explore ancient ruins, assassinate kingpins and get rewarded for your missions into deep space.

Siege and Steal Enemy Ships: Infiltrate opponent ships using Archwings, kill the captain and take the helm of their ship! It's time to become a swashbuckling space ninja, Tenno.
Dynamic Situations: During your missions, you'll need to take into account additional hazards to complete your mission successfully. The TennoLive demo showed off Void Storms that can disable equipment, boarding parties that can breach your Railjack and an Infested ambush deep within an ancient Orokin ruin.
Signal the Squad Link: Transcend beyond your solo objective and tap into a larger mission by reaching out to other squads of Tenno using the Squad Link. In multi-objective missions from space, players can call up active players on Orb Vallis or Plains of Eidolon (or vice versa) to help the bigger cause -- lower enemy ship shields, steal valuable data, and more, as the New War looms.
Customize and Upgrade Everything: The Drydock is your Railjack's personal space hangar. Upgrade your battleship's Equipment, Cosmetic, and Reinforcements with weapons such as the Auto-Cannon, Pulse Laser, Homing Missile Launcher, EMP Stun weapons, and Decoy Countermeasures. Boost your Shields, Engine, Hull and Stealth using resources found during your voyages. Beautify it all by customizing aesthetics from primary, secondary and tertiary colors and accents. And of course, christen your ship with a custom name emblazoned on the Railjack’s hull.
Kingpin System: Enemies have started to adapt to Tenno lethality, and from it, kingpins will emerge. More information coming soon, Changed to the Kuva Lich system

Win A Trip To Space Sweepstakes[]

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Become the first real Space Ninja. Play now to win $250,000 towards a trip to space!

Read the full rules and regulations here.

New Intro Cinamatic[]

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Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (Uncharted, Black Mirror, 10 Cloverfield Lane).
To be released alongside new player experience in the future

The Duviri Paradox[]

Next open world area under development

The New War[]

Nightwave: Series 2 - The Emissary[]

New Nightwave series released, more info here

External Links[]

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SEE THE FUTURE OF WARFRAME ON JULY 7 IN LONDON ONTARIO, CANADA!

— TennoCon 2018 Website Introduction.

TennoCon 2018 took place in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, July 7, 2018.

TennoLive[]

TennoLive aired on July 7 from 6 p.m. ET to 7 p.m. ET.

TennoLIVE from TennoCon 2018
Ash Prime was a Twitch drop for those watching TennoLive on Twitch for 30 minutes consecutive with their WARFRAME accounts linked to Twitch.
- Those who were at TennoCon received Ash Prime within two weeks later on.
- Due to viewer overload on the servers with almost 500,000 con-current viewers, not all viewers received their Ash Prime. This was fixed by having whoever logged into Warframe in the past 7 days prior to the fix on any platform with a Twitch linked account and did not receive the Ash Prime Drop instantly receive one. This was known as The Great TennoCon 2018 Ash Prime Drop Fix!

Amazon Prime Day Announcement[]

Amazon Prime Day Exclusives, Spektaka Liset Skin and Spektaka Color Palette.

Digital Extremes announced participating in Amazon's Prime Day, offering free exclusives bundle from July 12 to August 12 at 2 p.m. ET, those being the Spektaka Liset Skin and Spektaka Color Palette.

Nintendo Switch Port[]

Warframe's port to Nintendo Switch, first orchestrated by [DE]Sheldon Carter playing on the Switch, later showing the game to the cameras and audience, then followed by Digital Extremes playing the Nintendo Switch trailer, Warframe makes its debut to Nintendo's Console.

Prime Unvaulting, Summer of 2018[]

Prime Unvaulting of Rhino Prime & Nyx Prime, Summer of 2018.

The Prime Unvaulting of Nyx Prime & Rhino Prime with their Prime weapons coming the summer of 2018. Along with the availability of Accessory packages for the first time of Prime Unvaulting, at the price of $20 per Accessory Pack.

Content Reveals[]

Warframe concept arts, Warframe/Weapon/Companion deluxe skins & new weapons were shown first in the Art Panel, then later on at TennoLive.
Note that the points labeled with * at the end were only shown in the Art Panel.
- Gram Prime Reveal.
- Corpus Shotgun & Revolver.
- Corpus Glaive.
- Venus Solaris United Sentinel.
- Nyx Deluxe Skin concept art.
- Vauban Deluxe model, with his signature hammer skin.
- Limbo Deluxe Skin concept art.
- Titania Deluxe Skin concept art.
- Nezha Deluxe Skin 3D Scuplture.
- Nezha Deluxe accessories (Syandana & Dual Sword Skins).
- Nidus Deluxe Skin, alongside Kubrow Deluxe Skin.
- Nidus Deluxe Skin, alongside Kubrow Deluxe Skin. (Mutated)
- Kubrow Deluxe Skin.
- Revenant concept art.
- CODENAME: Garuda concept art.
- Revenant, with his signature Two-Handed Katana & Garuda, with her Raptors Gauntlets.
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- Gram Prime.*
- Corpus Bundle (Shotgun & Revolver).*
- Corpus Glaive.*
- Venus Solaris United Sentinel.*
- Nyx Deluxe Skin concept art, being the first Designer Deluxe Skin created by stjepan.
- Vauban Deluxe Skin model, with signature hammer skin.
- Limbo Deluxe Skin concept art.
- Titania Deluxe Skin concept art.
- Nezha Deluxe Skin 3D Sculpture.
- Nezha Deluxe accessories (Syandana & Dual Swords skin).*
- Nidus Deluxe Skin model, with Kubrow Deluxe Skin of similar theme.
- Revenant (Vlad) Warframe model, with signature two-handed Katana.
- Revenant signature Shotgun.*
- Garuda Warframe 1st concept art.*
- Garuda Warframe 2nd concept art.

Fortuna & Solaris United[]

Fortuna & Venus' new Landscape & Warframe's second open-world map, with the introduction of new systems such as Kitguns system (Secondary Weapon crafting) from NPC Rude Zuud, Moa Companions assembly system from NPC Boon, Species Hunting/Fishing services from NPC The Business & Bounty offers from NPC Eudico inside Fortuna & NPC Solaris United Agent from the outside landscape.

K-Drives & Venus Open-world[]

Gameplay footage of both Fortuna & Venus open-world showed Bounty system in Venus, deployable hoverboards from Gears tab to travel across the landscape similar to Archwing Launchers, the appearance of Spider-looking Corpus enemies (names currently unknown) which were teased in previous Devstreams, and Nef Anyo's Church.

Railjack[]

Railjack.

The New War[]

The New War Teaser Trailer was shown as the reveal of the upcoming chapter of Warframe Lore & Cinematic quests.

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TennoCon 2017 took place in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, July 8, 2017.

Archived Streams[]

TennoLIVE 2017 from TennoCon!

TennoCon 2017 - Developer Art Panel

Plains of Eidolon Reveal[]

Warframe_-_Plains_of_Eidolon_-_17-minute_Gameplay_Demo — Warframe - Plains of Eidolon - 17-minute Gameplay Demo

New player hub, Cetus
First Landscape area, Plains of Eidolon
- Follows a day and night cycle
  - At night, large Sentient enemies spawn
New Operator cosmetics and Amps
New modular melee system (Zaws)
New Fishing activity
Deployable Archwing

Content Reveals[]

Hydroid Prime
"Glass" themed Warframe, Gara^†
TennoGen Round 9
Grineer Bundle (four barrel rifle and submachine gun)^†‡
- Quartakk
- Stubba
Corpus Bundle (plasma shotgun and sniper pistol)^†‡
- Arca Plasmor
- Arca Scisco
Colorable Wraith and Vandal weapons.^‡
New glass Warframe bundle (glass shotgun, two-handed hammer, kunais)^†‡
- Astilla
- Volnus
- Fusilai
Nami Skyla Prime^‡
Ballistica Prime^‡
Grineer Kusarigama ( Jat Kusar)^†‡
Mystery melees (Zaws)^†‡
New Tenno squad ship^‡
Sentient outpost^‡
New Grineer enemy type, Ghouls^‡
Ballas^‡
Stalker Mode prototype