Third-person shooter Warframe is the latest free-to-play title announced to be heading to Sony’s Playstation 4, and there players will join their PC playing counterparts as it supports cross-platform play..
Warframe puts players in control of a member of the Tenno, ancient warriors who have awoken from centuries of cryosleep to find themselves at war with the Grineer, a race of militarized humans, and the Corpus, a merchant guild. The Tenno use advanced armor with unique properties, called Warframes.
Speaking to GamingBolt, Digital Extreme’s Creative Director, Steve Sinclair, expressed excitement at bringing the game to the Playstation 4. Not only has Warframe been ported over to the PS4 in a mere three months, the game is also quite far into its development cycle.
“We got our Warframe engine up and running in just three months on PS4 – it was such a pleasant experience. PS4 is a powerful console with great connectivity and online features. It lets us bring over our high-end visuals without compromise, with the promise of pushing it even further in the future. The unified memory is part of what makes the console so great to develop on. You can use threads to generate textures and graphics assets. You can use the GPU to process physics and effects data,” said Sinclair
Unlike Planetside 2, where it’s every person for themselves, Warframe is a co-op game where teamwork is essential to survival. Because of those gameplay limitations, Digital Extremes has redesigned the PS4 version to run concurrently with development of the PC platform, keeping both platforms abreast with server updates and content as well as ensuring feature parity.
“Our goal is cross-platform play. Our goal is updating the PS4 version in sync with the PC version with all the same content, features and events. For those things to happen–for the eco-system to be shared–we cannot diverge.
Of course we have amazing PS4 features for things that don’t split the player base – the Dual Shock 4 is the best controller I’ve ever touched. The Share features are perfect for our audience. The GPU is a beast and the game looks stellar running on the PS4! But we want there to be one ‘Warframe’ version that all players participate in.”
Sinclair also noted that the arrival of the PS4 would herald a slew of new content for both platforms, including more factions, mission types, events, and new Warframes to play as. Sinclair did not comment on issues such as cloud computing to advance the console’s capabilities, but said that the console would probably be a good choice for gamers with low-end PCs that aren’t capable of running the game.
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Useless feature. Huge disparity between players as one have mouse and keyboard. Others have controllers.