Warframe gets a mutated boy band in its whacky 90s update because the MMO's director accidentally "ruined" her family computer with a virus from Napster in 1999: "That always stuck with me"
Jul. 26, 2024The choreographed boy band will appear as a group boss fight
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Warframe’s massive 1999 expansion is shaping up to be quite a quirky one, as MMO players must prepare to face off against an Infested, choreographed boy band boss fight, all thanks to an experience its creative director had on Napster back in the 90s.
In Warframe, the Infested are mutated enemy creatures that’ve been taken over by parasites. They’re pretty horrifying, but making a boy band of them is simultaneously incredibly funny and also very fitting for the expansion’s 90s theme.
It all fits perfectly, but the creative director had some personal experience fuelling her vision, too. “I think the first virus I ever got on my computer in 1999 was trying to download a boy band song through Napster,” she says. “And that always stuck with me, like how desperately being someone who wanted to consume boy band music ruined my family computer. So that’s kind of where it came from.”
That’s not all that Warframe: 1999 is bringing with it, either, because it’s even adding an instant messaging dating system so we can get closer to the Hex syndicate characters. I’m guessing we probably won’t be able to date the Infested boy band members, though.
Warframe: 1999 still doesn’t have an exact release date, but it’s set to launch at some point this winter.
Warframe’s new boss fight with an Infested ’90s boy band and instant messaging romance system has finally convinced me to play.
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