There’s so much to like in Warframe 1999, the newest main replace for the free-to-play scifi motion recreation about magic house ninjas, mutant biotechnical horrors, and extra being pregnant than you may anticipate. The free enlargement launched final week, sending gamers again in time to an alternate-history 1999 to battle alongside—and probably romance!—a squad of misfit, proto-Warframe-wearing supersoldiers. It additionally added sick bikes, which shortly proved to be even sicker than meant.
Shortly after beginning the first story quest for 1999, gamers acquire entry to the Atomicycle: a Y2K-era sports activities motorbike that is been closely modified to let it make use of a number of the similar traversal tech as Warframes. The bikes can bullet bounce and goal glide. It’s glorious. Before 1999’s launch, Warframe developer Digital Extremes mentioned that after gamers accomplished the 1999 quest, along with utilizing the Atomicycle within the enlargement’s Höllvania tileset, they’d be capable of summon their bikes in Warframe’s open world areas as properly.
That proved true. However, it did not take lengthy for gamers to appreciate that they may additionally summon their Atomicycles in every single place else.
A widespread bug allowed the unrestricted deployment of souped-up bikes in any Warframe mission tileset, together with the numerous missions going down within the slender corridors of spaceships and orbital installations. Warframe can already transfer extraordinarily quick because of its suite of gravity-defying parkour traversal mechanics; now, any of the three different gamers in your mission who can already launch themselves throughout the map sooner than you possibly can observe may, a second later, be drifting round corners on their personalized, nuclear-powered Yamaha.
It was nonsense—extraordinarily radical nonsense. Luckily, extraordinarily radical nonsense is properly inside acceptable design parameters for Warframe.
On Monday, Digital Extremes made an announcement on the Warframe boards to say that the Atomicycle state of affairs was advantageous, really. “As plenty of you might have reported, the Atomicycle may be spawned and utilized in ALL missions, not simply 1999 and Open Zones like we initially meant,” Digital Extremes mentioned. “After some inner dialogue, we’ve determined to not change this. It’s rad and funky and we get pleasure from seeing you whip out the bike all through the Origin System!”
However, DE mentioned it would be eradicating the power to summon the Atomicycle in missions meant for the already-existing Archwing automobiles—missions that are inclined to happen in zero gravity, within the vacuum of house. Motorcycles do not operate properly in three dimensional fight encounters, it seems. DE additionally mentioned the bug-turned-feature will solely apply to Atomicycles; Archwings and the Ok-Drive hoverboards stay relegated to Open Zones.
I did not anticipate to get a lot use of my Atomicycle outdoors of 1999 missions, however I’m trying ahead to taking my bike on a tour of the photo voltaic system. If solely to confuse any new gamers who may not expect a motorbike to come back screaming by means of the bulkhead of a Grineer cruiser.
