Duviri Delays
Unfortunately, in Devstream 165, it was announced that the Duviri Paradox, the next massive story quest, is going to be delayed until 2023. For a lot of people, this is a major disappointment. Especially since, during Tennocon, we were told that the Duviri Paradox would be coming this year. As for me, I really don’t see this as a bad thing. After all, the Duviri Paradox has a lot to unpack, and a completely different modding system.
Warframe is a buggy game
In fact, Warframe has always been a buggy game. It can break in a myriad of ways. Even a small update can both fix or break goodness knows what. And massive updates ALWAYS come with bugs, some of which are game-breaking.
Normally, that wouldn’t be too much of a problem. However, with the Winter 2022 deadline that was originally announced, there wouldn’t be time to fix bugs. After all, everyone’s getting ready for Christmas. Including DE’s staff. If there’s massive bugs over the holiday break, then they can’t be properly fixed until everyone is back at work. We’ve had game-breaking bugs before, especially in bigger missions.
Considering what we’ve seen of Duviri so far, it definitely looks like a ton of things can go wrong. The modding system is more of a card game than actual modding, and there is a TON of time travel and previous lives and stuff involved. And we all know that anything that messes with time and death loops always leans on the crazy side. Both in story and development.
We’re still getting a winter update anyway
It’s not like DE are going to go completely silent over the holidays. We’re getting a new update called Lua’s Prey, which will introduce some new things, like a new Warframe (named Voruna, based on werewolves) and a sort of prelude and prequel to the Duviri Paradox. I honestly don’t know what else is coming along, but I don’t want anything massive. Lua’s Prey is definitely a filler update, to keep us engaged until Duviri Paradox comes out, but it does look like it has some cool things going for it.
A prequel is already a good thing, because apparently Duviri Paradox is introduced before later quests like the New War. It’s a sort of stopgap between old quests and new ones. With added time shenanigans.
We’ve already waited this long.
In fact, we’ve been waiting for years for the Duviri Paradox. The announcement video dates back from 2019, and it was teased alongside Railjack. Both it and the New War were delayed and for good reason. These quests are MASSIVE and are clawed out from the same clay that normal Warframe is made of, then twisted and bent into a new shape where Warframes aren’t involved in the slightest. These quests are complicated in other ways too, like making brand new assets, getting voice actors together to record and, particularly in Warframe’s case, mo-capture needs to be done.
Basically, just like New War, the developers are creating a whole new game inside their game. Of course that’s going to take time to complete. But I’d rather wait a few more weeks or months and get a slightly buggy experience, rather than releasing in a hurry and not having time to fix bugs over the winter break. We can wait a bit longer. We’ve already waited this long.