Warframe's Update 42 is here, and Digital Extremes isn't painting with light strokes. The Shadowgrapher drops today across all platforms, bringing a new Warframe, a haunting co-op game mode, three adversary weapons, sweeping quality of life changes, and a full visual remaster of the new player experience.
The headline addition is Follie, the 64th Warframe, a spooky yet jovial frame who coats enemies in ink and summons tactical items from her sketchbook. She arrives alongside her signature beam rifle, the Enkaus, which instantly kills and dissolves inked enemies at low health.
Getting your hands on her requires completing the Chains of Harrow quest first, after which Aspirant Zorba appears at any Relay to sell her blueprints for the new Atramentum resource.
That resource comes from Follie's Hunt, the update's new co-op game mode set inside the ruined Vesper Relay orbiting Venus. You and up to three squadmates gather paint to complete scattered Shadowgraph canvases while being stalked by an invincible Follie who ramps up pressure the longer you survive. It's clearly drawing from the genre of a multiplayer survival horror game, and it looks like one of the more distinct modes Warframe has added in recent memory.
Three adversary weapons round out the major content additions. The Kuva Ghoulsaw, Tenet Quanta, and Coda Bubonico are now available through their respective adversary systems, and yes, your Kuva Lich can ride the Ghoulsaw as a charge attack. Look out below!
On the quality of life front, this update tackles a long list of veteran pain points. Security Bypass pickups in Survival let you double mission time speed for a minute, Excavators are tankier and start with brief invulnerability, and grind on older content has been cut significantly.
Excalibur, Volt, and Mag blueprints now build in 24 hours instead of 72. Ivara, Khora, and several other older frames got reworked drop tables with improved rates. Palladino's wares now include Riven Ciphers, Riven Transmuters, and Requiem Ultimatums.
The Awakening quest has also received a full visual remaster with new tiles, updated lighting, revised tutorial pacing, and completely re-recorded Lotus dialogue. If you've been putting off showing Warframe to someone new, now is a better time than it's ever been.
Operation: Atramentum launches April 2nd as a timed variant of Follie's Hunt with dedicated operation currency and rewards. The full details will go live alongside it, but you can start preparing now by completing Chains of Harrow.