Digital Extremes’ Warframe is likely one of the longest-lasting live-service video games available on the market, having began its free-to-play romp again in 2013. A few of the recreation’s oldest followers might effectively keep in mind that DE’s sci-fi journey ambitions began earlier nonetheless, with the unique idea behind Darkish Sector: a recreation that embodied a lot of Warframe‘s core design ideas at first, solely to finally be retrofitted right into a lavatory normal (albeit charming) cover-based third-person shooter. Nicely, Darkish Sector has all the time had various parallels with Warframe correct, and people parallels could also be explored in a brand new context with Warframe: 1999.

Notably, Digital Extremes lately revealed one in every of Warframe‘s two upcoming expansions, these being Whispers within the Partitions and Warframe: 1999. 1999 is because of launch someday in 2024, and what’s actually notable about it’s that it seems to take gamers far, far-off from the central battle of the Sol system. As an alternative, it’s seemingly set in an alternate model of the 12 months 1999.

Is Warframe: 1999 a Darkish Sector revival?

Digital Extremes has, traditionally, by no means been too involved about whether or not the staff will stray too far-off from Warframe‘s core lore and gameplay ideas. This has resulted in a remarkably layered but additionally fragmented expertise, the place not the entire recreation’s options essentially work together with each other. It’s all the time been a bit unusual, then, that the studio selected to not do something with Darkish Sector, wanting releasing a few of its cosmetics as microtransactions in Warframe.

It’s price stating that DE itself hasn’t come out and mentioned that 1999 is a re-envisioning of Darkish Sector. The similarities, nonetheless, are definitely hanging. The protagonist of Warframe: 1999 is a thriller man generally known as Arthur, who’s – for no matter cause – fielding the Excalibur bodysuit with an old-school fight harness and different numerous tidbits of normal, modern-day package. His enemies? The techno-organic plague, which can or might not have one thing to do with the mad scientist sort (Entrati) who seems on the finish of the trailer. The similarities with Darkish Sector‘s Hayden Tenno are unattainable to disregard.

Now, it’s anybody’s guess whether or not Digital Extremes is definitely gunning to reenvision Darkish Sector within the context of Warframe‘s personal lore, however that definitely appears like what’s happening. Warframe veterans might want to hold a watch out for 1999, then, because it has the potential of being remarkably fascinating to those that benefit from the recreation’s wacky lore.