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Warframe Jade Shadows will be the game's next update after Dante Unbound, coming sometime between May and July this year. Other than the titular Warframe Jade, the update will also involve a cinematic side quest casting some limelight on our favorite assassin, the Stalker.
Unveiled during the hour-long DevStream #177 hosted during PAX East 2024, Jade Shadows was a surprise reveal for many fans. However, parts of its ideas have previously come up in some of last year's DevStreams.
This article goes over everything we know about the Warframe Jade Shadows update so far, including its expected release window and known features.
Warframe Jade Shadows release window: When is it expected to go live?
While the Warframe Jade Shadows update does not have a release date yet, we can expect it in June 2024 as explained in Devstream #179.
A more concrete release date for the update is likely going to be announced in Devstream #180, which will be held in May.
All features of Warframe's Jade Shadows update revealed so far
Here's everything coming with Warframe's Jade Shadows update (that we know so far):
- A new cinematic quest from the Stalker's point of View
- New Warframe: Jade
- New Weapons: Evensong Bow, Cantare Throwing Knives, Harmony Scythe
- New Game mode: Ascension
- New Landing Craft: Terror
- New Eximus unit type: Jade Light Eximus. This will be an Eximus variant added to all existing enemy factions.
- A new Clan Operation, Belly of the Beast, is coming shortly after the Jade Shadows update
- New Duviri Decrees
- Four new Warframe augments for Qorvex's Containment Wall, Dagath's Grave Spirit, Protea's Blazing Artillery, and Sevagoth's Sow
- New Arcanes
- Enemy Scaling and Status Effects rework
- Other quality-of-life changes
All about Jade, the anti-Stalker
Jade, the titular Warframe, is poised to be the polar opposite of the Stalker, complete with an angelic theme. Instead of hunting and exterminating, her skillset will be all about supporting her allies and rebuffing her enemies.
Jade will also come with three signature weapons: Evensong, Cantare, and Harmony - which are foils to the Stalker weapons (Dread, Despair, and Hate).
Jade's abilities will be showcased and discussed in more detail in Devstream #180.
Jade Shadows will bring massive changes to Warframe's enemy armor and status effects
The Jade Shadows update will try to shake up Warframe's stagnating status meta once again. How Digital Extremes will exactly go about the status effect and enemy armor rework has not been finalized yet.
Here are the broad strokes of the proposed reworks, as explained during Devstream #179.
Partial Armor strip viability: make Corrosive good again
Currently, damage resistance enemies gain from armor is very bottom-heavy. Even at 10 stacks of Corrosive, enemies retain the majority of their damage resistance.
This makes it a dramatic difference between 99% armor strip and full armor strip. The rework will redistribute damage resistance gained from armor in a way that makes partial armor strip more viable. No more stacking Emarld Archon shards to make your Warframe viable on Steel Path.
Additionally, Digital Extremes are adding a cap to how much damage mitigation enemies can gain from armor. The proposed cap right now is 90%, but it is subject to change.
To balance the enemy EHP change mandated by this armor scaling change, raw health pool of armored enemies will be buffed to make them as durable as before.
Corpus shields will recharge now
The shields on your frame recharge automatically - but not the ones on shielded enemies unless they have a Shield Osprey hovering around them. The Jade Shadows rework will change that to give Corpus recharging sheilds past lvl 70.
Buffs to Cold, Blast, and Gas status effects
Here are all the status effect reworks coming in Jade Shadows:
- This update will be yet another attempt at buffing Cold damage, but the idea is more actionable this time around. Cold will now freeze enemies (sans Eximus units and bosses) at 10 stacks. Frozen enemies will be more vulnerable to critical damage.
- The Gas status effect will have improved visualization to let your distinguish which enemies are affected by it at a given point.
- Blast damage will be more 'blasty'. Digital Extremes has not elaborated further yet.
- Magnetic damage will disable enemy shield regeneration. This change has not been confirmed yet, and it is subject to change.
Warframe: Jade Shadows' quest will be from Stalker's point of view
The Warframe Jade Shadows key art was shared during the update's surprise reveal at PAX East. Two figures feature in it: Jade, the 57th unique Warframe, and what seems to be a Stalker-themed landing craft.
Jade will also be coming with her own signature melee weapon in Warframe - which could be a polearm, scythe, or speargun. In any case, not many details can be listed about the new frame before the upcoming DevStream, which will talk more about the new update.
Here's what Community Director Rebecca Ford did say about Warframe Jade Shadows during the hour-long PAX East stream:
"This will be a cinematic quest update... from the Stalker's point of view."
Is Stalker mode finally coming to Warframe with the Jade Shadows update?
The contents of the cinematic quest remains unknown due to spoiler reasons, but the developer also mentions how Stalker "gets from place to place using some type of landing craft of his own."
There is a slight chance this will either make improvements to the Stalker invasion mechanic in missions or finally introduce the much-coveted Stalker Mode in Warframe.
- The 'Stalker Mode' feature was first proposed during TennoCon 2017, complete with a proof-of-concept gameplay segment.
- In the original Stalker Mode concept supposed to debut last year, you essentially get to play the Stalker and invade other players during mission.
- Stalker has already become a playable Warframe of sorts if you unlock the final Opportunity Drifter Intrinsic on the Circuit.
- Like Whispers in the Walls, Jade Shadows might be another quest you gain access to later in the game.
Arcane farmers can rejoice during this update, as it brings the glad tidings of a new Clan event, likely also pre-TennoCon.
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