#Interview with a pair who made Warframe a part of their proposal

Yearly, Warframe developer Digital Extremes places on a fan convention for the sport referred to as Tennocon. Gamers worldwide congregate in London, Ontario, Canada, to have a good time the sport, be taught extra about upcoming expansions and updates, and alter out collectively.

After I attended Tennocon 2024, I used to be amazed by the sheer quantity of positivity and camaraderie a group can have. For instance, gamers don’t wish to spoil something for one another, in order that they hand out hints and provide each useful resource beneath the solar to assist a fellow participant navigate Warframe‘s 11 years of story content material. The second that showcased how optimistic and healthful the Warframe group is, although, was when a pair acquired engaged at a photobooth, and all the tent stuffed with builders, followers, press, and content material creators erupted with cheers, screams, and celebrated them.

The blissful couple, who’s in-game names are “ProfPangloss” and “truckshepard” clearly needed to make Warframe an enormous a part of this second, they usually wouldn’t have finished it at Tennocon in the event that they didn’t need the group concerned too. Working with Digital Extremes, I caught up with the couple after their celebratory vacation that adopted their engagement to search out out what makes Warframe this necessary to them.

Destructoid: How did you go about planning the proposal at TennoCon 2024?

ProfPangloss: I got here in with a unfastened concept of how it might go – I had gotten us each VIP badges for Tennocon this 12 months so I figured it was a protected guess that we might discover a comparatively quiet second to ourselves the place I might say a couple of phrases and suggest. That stated, neither of us had been to Tennocon earlier than so I knew I’d must play it by ear. The VIP-only hour of TennoVIP on Friday turned out to be excellent, and as quickly as we walked in I clocked the unbelievable Eros Wings prop/photograph op and instantly realized that’s the place it must be. After we put in our customized t-shirt orders and we had a couple of minutes of ready round, I urged we take a “photograph” in entrance of the wings and that was that!

Big due to the DE workers member who helped out by recording the second beneath the guise of taking a photograph of us, apart from cluing him in on the final second there was no one else concerned and no planning. As an apart, one attendee did me a HUGE favor by holding onto the engagement ring briefly whereas I ran exterior of the occasion to provide truckshepard his badge as a result of I used to be nervous safety would examine me once more (they did!) and reveal the ring. Kudos to that attendee, he was so recreation to assist and ended up saving the plan.

Destructoid: For added context, Tennocon has VIP tickets that entitle holders to a number of alternatives, together with a VIP-only hour within the VIP space. This was the Ventkids tent the place there have been freeplay arcade video games, a customized t-shirt bar, Relic gacha machines, and the fated photobooth.

Why did you wish to get engaged at TennoCon? What’s it about that occasion that’s so particular to you?

ProfPangloss: Warframe is admittedly particular to each of us so the importance of doing it at an official occasion was actually significant. I had deliberate to get VIP badges as a result of I figured we might have entry to some sort of VIP lounge or equally non-public area the place I might suggest which might be public-but-not-too-public. We had post-Tennocon plans to go spend the week enjoyable with household out on the Massachusetts cape, so getting engaged at Tennocon then enjoyable and celebrating on trip afterwards simply labored out so nicely.

Destructoid: Clearly, Warframe should imply quite a bit to each of you, might you inform me a bit about that? For instance, did you meet by way of Warframe, is it a shared ardour?

ProfPangloss: We now have each been taking part in Warframe off-and-on for years – me since 2017 (Valkyr Prime was my first Prime Entry) and truckshepard since 2018. We first met on-line in late 2019 in a Discord server utterly unrelated to the sport however the very first shared curiosity we found was Warframe.

Truckshepard: One in all us was truly on a break from the sport on the time, however quickly after we met ProfPangloss reinstalled the sport so we might share our style frames and orbiter decorations with one another. Regardless that we didn’t find yourself taking part in rather more Warframe collectively on the time, it was nonetheless a possibility to speak and bond over the sport. We began relationship on-line in late 2020 and all the brand new Deimos bulletins have been a scorching subject between us.

Even when Warframe wasn’t actively performed in our family we’ve stored in contact with updates and been rooting for the sport. Cross-save rollout was actually the ultimate factor we wanted to get again in totally as a result of it meant we might decide the sport again up on our newest consoles slightly than mud off our PS4 and Change respectively. As of proper now, one among us often performs on the PC within the workplace whereas the opposite performs on Xbox in the lounge.

By way of what about Warframe attracts us each, we’re simply each so head over heels for the all-encapsulating Weirdness that has been core to Warframe‘s DNA for the reason that starting. The story, the lore, the world, the buck-wild gameplay surprises, there actually simply isn’t any recreation fairly like Warframe. Extra particularly for every of us, ProfPangloss is the actually min-max minded buildcrafter who digs into the mechanics, I’m totally invested within the ornament and customization. It’s an enormous credit score to DE that it has continued to enchantment to such a large breadth of participant preferences, and it’s a credit score to the Warframe group that there are people on the market to assist and encourage each facet of it.

Additionally bullet leaping. No different recreation has gotten enjoyable motion fairly as proper as Warframe, and sure I’ve performed Spiderman for the PS4. We are going to hold coming again if solely as a result of we might by no means have extra enjoyable transferring from level A to B in some other recreation.

Destructoid: Will your wedding ceremony be Warframe-themed?

ProfPangloss: This can be a very enjoyable and cute concept, however no we expect we’ll be going our manner and having a broadly homosexual and colourful however in any other case themeless wedding ceremony someday in October 2025. We’d like to have a nod to Warframe someplace in there although, truckshepard simply now urged we should always put on our pleasure pins from Tennocon on our lapels. We’ll see!

Destructoid: What’s it concerning the group across the recreation that you just take pleasure in a lot that you just needed to contain it in one thing so private?

ProfPangloss: On prime of the equal-parts sensible and mawkish causes outlined above, I simply trusted that the Warframe group would have open hearts and be welcome and celebratory to our homosexual little second, and from the entire of the reception we acquired all through the weekend, I used to be 100% proper. Warframe and DE as a complete has fostered such a heat and welcoming group that actively encourages celebration of affection in its many types, in order I’d hoped it turned out to be such a great residence for that second.

I want ProfPangloss and Truckshepard nothing however the perfect with their wedding ceremony plans and lives collectively. Watching a room crammed by a gaming group have a good time this second collectively, and now realizing that some members even helped hold the shock alive, exhibits how a lot of a protected area Warframe is.

With Koumei & the 5 Fates and Warframe: 1999 coming earlier than the tip of 2024, there’s by no means been a greater time to leap into the sport and journey by way of the plethora of content material it has to supply with the assistance of its group.