Warframe Adding Mobile and Crossplay

Oni · 08-12-2021, 10:05 AM

Warframe will be getting crossplay, cross-saves, and a mobile release. Hard to believe the game will be playable on phones, but Digital Extremes has done an excellent job of optimizing the game.

Looking forward to the results!

Quote:After years of fans begging for it, Warframe is finally getting both crossplay and cross-saves, meaning its player base will no longer be separated by what console they're playing on. This also means that Warframe's console updates (starting with the release of The New War later this year) will happen simultaneously with the PC update. In addition to that, Digital Extremes is also working on a mobile version of Warframe.

Revealed during TennoCon 2021's keynote presentation, Warframe's cross-save and crossplay functionality will let players seamlessly take their account from one platform to the next and also matchmake with other players on any console.

This is actually huge. Though crossplay and cross-saves have steadily become a more common feature in games, it was never a guarantee that Warframe would eventually have it too. Back in 2019, creative director Steve Sinclair explained that it was one of the "highest-risk things" Digital Extremes could do.

Sinclair hinted that the challenge lay not just on Warframe and its sometimes wildly varied expansions, but also implied there were issues in negotiating crossplay with the platforms themselves. Though Sinclair never named any names, Sony has been infamously resistant to let Xbox and Nintendo players team up with PlayStation users.

Read More: https://www.pcgamer.com/warframe-cross-play-cross-save/

Accident Man · 08-12-2021, 10:09 AM

Cross-save is long overdue, in my opinion. I cannot say I was expecting Warframe on mobile though.

Oni · 08-12-2021, 10:15 AM

(08-12-2021, 10:09 AM)Party Pete Wrote: Cross-save is long overdue, in my opinion. I cannot say I was expecting Warframe on mobile though.

There's a lot of games I'd expect to see on mobile, but nothing with graphics as pretty as Warframe.

Accident Man · 08-13-2021, 05:21 PM

(08-12-2021, 10:15 AM)Oni Wrote:
(08-12-2021, 10:09 AM)Party Pete Wrote: Cross-save is long overdue, in my opinion. I cannot say I was expecting Warframe on mobile though.

There's a lot of games I'd expect to see on mobile, but nothing with graphics as pretty as Warframe.

I can see how much of Warframe would work on mobile, but the movement...? You need too many buttons.