By that virtue alone the scope grew, and it grew in a way that will very clearly set the expectation of where we’ll go next after The New War. So while you can set things in familiar places, sometimes it can be more interesting to go somewhere new with new things. Each of these places are like a footprint for the work involved and the scope. When we look at telling a story through our single-player quest experiences, we always make choices right? Like for instance in The Second Dream, it’s set in the Uranus Sealab, then you move onto a new place - Lua. VG247: In what ways has it gotten bigger? More content coming in the update? The size of the quest itself? Where the pieces that fell into place back in 2018 merit a much more epic exploration, and that’s what we set off to do in a way that I think no one will be able to see coming. Now, we have ourselves the more epic approach. The original scope was very poetic, it was very much an exercise on the poetry of the relationships in the world. Rebecca Ford: If I were to use a literary analogy, we were looking at a poem whereas now we are looking at an epic.
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VG247: So what did the initial update look like back in 2018? It’s obviously vastly different now, but what were we looking at back then? That’s always been planned of course, but the scope of the actual quest itself changed pretty dramatically when we realized we wanted to go bigger. Naturally, when we first teased it back in 2018 there have been things to move the lore along, whether it be the state Vallis is in, the introduction of Erra.
The characters, the world were always meant to be what they were. I think with our initial announcement back in 2018, anything you saw then, the DNA is the same. Rebecca Ford: Oh the initial scope! It did shift quite a bit. VG247: The New War was announced back in 2018, can you talk me through how the original scope of the update has shifted into what we’re seeing later this month? To see this content please enable targeting cookies. To find out exactly what has changed I sat down with Rebecca Ford, live operations and community director at Digital Extremes, to find out the journey the quest has taken, how development faired over COVID lockdowns, and how the team behind the game are feeling with the most anticipated content update nigh on release. However, that was certainly a while ago, and The New War has warped and shifted quite a bit since we first heard about the dramatic conclusion of the Warframe story as we know it.
The New War update has been in the works for a while now, first revealed all the way back in 2018 to the game’s community. Warframe, the sci-fi action game from Canadian developer Digital Extremes, is getting a huge new Quest update later this month.