Last month, developer Digital Extremes revealed
three new frames coming to
Warframe, though offered little in terms of actual specifics regarding their abilities. That changed in the latest devstream as we were given
a look at Hildryn's abilities along with a sneak peek at Wisp.
Hildryn is unlike other Warframes "in that her shield pool doubles as her energy pool," the developer explained.
"Energy pickups will still work – they will increase this pool, AND will remove her shield recharge delay. One final fun thing, her dash will summon small shields."
In the videos below, Digital Extremes walks us through Hildryn's abilities. The first video provides a look at Hildryn's passive Shield Gating as well as her first ability, Balefire, which summons her Balefire Exalted Weapon. The second video features her second ability, Shield Pillage, and her third ability, Haven. Lastly, the third video shows off Aegis Storm, her fourth ability.
Passive: Shield Gating on her base shields, and her on overshields.
First Ability – Balefire: Summons her Balefire Exalted Weapon, a launcher that charges up and deals an energy blast!
Second Ability – Shield Pillage: Sends out a wave that pulses out, and rushes back to Hildryn, stealing some enemy shields and armor as is passes over them. Any allies it passes over as it returns to Hildryn are cleansed of Status Effects, including Hildryn herself! Finally, you can recast the ability to return the wave to you sooner.
Third Ability - Haven: Enemies in range will take damage based on the shields you drain from them. This ability also recharge your Ally’s shields and give them bonus shields in range.
Fourth Ability – Aegis Storm: You can fly up and down using your spacebar and shift. Enemies below you are caught in a CC pillar of energy. The higher up you go, the more damage done to enemies in these pillars, but the smaller the area of effect becomes! You can still use abilities in this mode (pending her Shield Pillage) for extra synergy.
In addition to Hildryn, we were also given another preview of Wisp. Unfortunately, details are still being kept under wraps regarding her abilities, but at least we get to see what she will look like in-game, including her alt helmet and animations.
"She’s the second Warframe with her own floating idle," revealed Digital Extremes.
"The animation team is experimenting with creating her own custom sprinting animation, as well as a potential custom movement set. We are still planning on doing work on her cloth details, so she’s not quite finished just yet."
There's still a third frame planned for the game, arriving after Hildryn and Wisp, but it has yet to be formally introduced.
Warframe is a free-to-play action-adventure game currently available on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.