#How one can play each new sport mode in Warframe: 1999 – Destructoid

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Warframe: 1999 is packed to the gills with new content material, together with three all-new sport modes, in addition to a twist on a well-known one. However the sport doesn’t essentially clarify how you can play all of them.
Earlier than you dive into the brand new sport modes, although, try the brand new body, Cyte-09, how you can construct him, and the way his sniper rifle works. Then, it’s time to sink your enamel into the 1999 sport modes.
How one can play Hell-Scrub in Warframe

Hell-Scrub is, basically, a brand new model of Survival in Warframe. It is available in two flavors: Scaldra and Techrot. These play the identical, simply with enemies of every respective faction.
This mode performs like conventional Survival, however as an alternative of life assist capsules, there are Hell-Scrubbers. These nonetheless present life assist once you work together with them, however they are often contaminated by Techrot spores, which will be eliminated by destroying them together with your weapons or skills.
If a Hell-Scrubber is taken over by the Techrot, it would spawn a Techrot Babau. When killed, the Babau will drop life assist, however it’ll be lower than what you’d get from a Hell-Scrubber. Nonetheless, there are a couple of new mods added within the 1999 replace dropped from Techrot Babaus.
Merely activate Hell-Scrubbers as mandatory, and you may extract after 5 minutes.
How one can play Legacyte Harvest in Warframe

Legacyte Harvest is a novel mode in Warframe, however it performs considerably like Disruption. In Legacyte Harvest, you observe Kalymos underground and guard her as a gauge fills up. As soon as stuffed, a Legacyte will spawn in, which is a very chunky enemy with quite a lot of well being.
Kalymos is invulnerable, however the gauge won’t refill if she’s taking harm. Usually, the gauge will refill by 1% per second, however Pheroglands might drop from close by enemies that may be picked as much as enhance the gauge by 15% directly. Both means, filling up the gauge doesn’t take lengthy
When you harm a Legacyte right down to half well being, it would start working away in direction of a Techrot Umbilix. The Umbilix will be destroyed, but when left alone, the Legacyte will use the Umbilix to flee, failing the mission if a Legacyte hasn’t already been defeated a minimum of as soon as.
After you absolutely deplete its well being, the Legacyte is downed and will be captured. You may extract after capturing a Legacyte, or you possibly can proceed on and seize extra Legacytes.
How one can play Faceoff in Warframe

Faceoff is a PvPvE mode, the primary mode of this sort in Warframe, and by enjoying it you possibly can earn Conclave standing versus Hex syndicate standing. This mode performs with two squads of 4 folks, and the objective is to finish a sequence of three targets sooner than the opposite squad.
There are two Faceoff missions: one is the squad vs squad model talked about and proven above, and the opposite is Faceoff: Single Squad, the place your squad competes with an AI squad. The modes play the identical, however if you happen to play in opposition to the AI, you get fewer rewards than in squad vs squad.
Vosfor and the brand new arcanes added in 1999 are the first rewards for this mode, though you possibly can earn Metal Essence by enjoying Faceoff on Metal Path. As you’d count on, profitable in opposition to one other squad (not in opposition to the AI) will earn you extra rewards than you’ll get by shedding.
The three targets you full in the course of the mission are randomized, however they are often acquainted duties like Exterminate or Assassination in addition to a lot of duties distinctive to Faceoff:
- Information Burn: Switch the information. This performs like Excavation. A server will start transferring knowledge, and you must maintain the server powered with gasoline cans carried by enemies. As soon as an enemy with a gasoline can is defeated, it would drop, and you may choose it as much as convey it over to the server.
- Techrot Scan: Preserve your scanner alive. This performs like Protection, besides you’re defending a scanner. Jammers spawn that you would be able to destroy to scale back the time it’s a must to shield your scanner. In case your scanner is destroyed, the timer stops till the scanner revives itself.
- Pirate Radio: Preserve your broadcast. Like Techrot Scan, you’ll shield your radio because it floats round on a balloon. Jammers spawn that you would be able to destroy to scale back the safety time required. In case your radio fails, the timer stops till the balloon revives itself.
- Lockbox: Unlock the field. Marked areas on the map will be searched to search out keys. Ship the keys to your lockbox, and as soon as 5 keys have been delivered, the target is full. Fail to ship all 5 keys earlier than the timer expires, and your lockbox will explode as an alternative.
When you full these targets, you could find numerous boosts to your crew in addition to penalties for the opposite crew. Take a look at the patch notes to search out the total checklist of boosts and penalties.
How one can play Exterminate in Warframe: 1999

Exterminate in Warframe: 1999 performs like, properly, Exterminate. However there’s a new non-obligatory goal in 1999 Exterminate missions: opening Scaldra Provide Caches. Opening these caches awards you with one of many new arcanes added within the 1999 replace but in addition sends in stronger enemies.
To open a Scaldra Provide Cache, you’ll want to search out Efervon Fees. You want as many Efervon Fees as you could have squad members plus one. So, with a full squad, you’ll want to search out 5 Efervon Fees. Efervon Fees are situated close to the cache, however you’ll have to seek for them.
Pillars of inexperienced mild mark Efervon Fees, and if you happen to’re shut sufficient to at least one, a yellow indicator will seem immediately on prime of it. Efervon Cost places are static, however they’re tied to the place the cache spawns, and the cache can spawn somewhere else on the map.