Freitag, 3. Mai 2019

A chat with the lead artist on Warframe: The Jovian Accord

While Warframe‘s next major expansion, Empyrean, is still a way off, players of the free-to-play space-ninja shooter won’t have long to wait for new toys, as the Jovian Accord update hits “very soon”, according to developers Digital Extremes.

Much like April’s remaster of the game’s Plains of Eidolon environment, the Jovian Accord will spruce up the Gas City tileset used for Warframe’s Jupiter maps, providing both a visual touch-up, and larger environments more suited to parkour. Also included will be a new set of baddies: cyber-mutants called Amalgams, who will bother you in regular play, as well as in a new endless survival mode. The update will also introduce a new Warframe, Wisp, with support and stealth chracteristics, as well as a boss fight with an airborne Eidolon known as the Ropalolyst.

I got to have a chat with Ron Davey, art director at Digital Extremes and art lead on the Jovian Accord, about revamping one of Warframe’s oldest environments:

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