Warframe: The Old Peace release date, and all known features

The Old Peace is Warframe's next big cinematic story update, releasing on December 10, 2025. While the game's campaign has been woven around the Drifter with Whispers in the Walls and Warframe 1999 for the last two years, The Old Peace will return the spotlight to the Operator. This will also be the first step towards the long-awaited Tau system expansion (although for now it's just adventures on one Tau moon called Perita).

The update was unveiled first in TennoCon 2025, and then most of its features were explained in Devstream 190 and Devstream 191 recently. In particular, just one of its promised features got cut: the re-introduction of wall-running in Warframe is not happening till 2026. Otherwise, here's everything coming with The Old Peace (patch 41).

All major features of Warframe's The Old Peace update

There's a lot of discordant elements in this update (Image via Digital Extremes)

As expected of mainline updates, a few QoL features will be snuck into Warframe's The Old Peace update. However, as for the major features, here's what you can expect:

63rd unique new Warframe, Uriel
Three protoframes: for Harrow, Wisp, and Uriel
An hour-long cinematic quest
Two new game modes: Descendia tower, and the Perita Rebellion, including three new bosses
Operator and Drifter visual rework
Tauron Strike abilities for Focus schools

63rd unique new Warframe, Uriel (and the first rifle-melee hybrid weapon)

Uriel with Vinquibus (Image via Digital Extremes)

Uriel (or Orokin protoframe Roathe if you get the Gemini skin) is the new Devil-themed Warframe coming with The Old Peace. He has multiple summons to aid him in battle, but unlike Caliban, the gameplay here will be reacting to your summons' whims to get bonuses, rather than the other way around.

Uriel is also coming with Vinquibus as his signature weapon. Vinquibus is the first entry into the two-in-one unique weapon type, the Bayonet, which is both a primary and a melee weapon. This will have two separate modding setups for primary and melee, as one would expect, but will share Formas.

Three protoframes (The Devil's Triad)

One half of the new content this game is tied to three new Protoframes in some unknown century before the events of Warframe 1999. After beating the quest, you can enter the new faction being added with The Old Peace: The Devil's triad, featuring three NPCs. Here's the voice-acting cast for the new protoframes:

Father Lyon Allard (Harrow) - played by Elsa Pérusin
Marie Leroux (Wisp) - played by Will de Renzy-Martin
Roathe (Uriel) - played by René Zagger

This new pseudo-faction can be found in La Cathedrale (xx99), accessible from a new infernal portal in Sanctum Anatomica (as with all things related to protoframes). The Tauron Strike abilities for each Focus school (discussed later) can be obtained here.

Beating The Old Peace quest also opens the new "Dark Refectory" command when you're next to the Navigation panel, which lets you access the two new game modes: Descendia and The Perita Rebellion.

New Game Mode: Descendia

It's just a silly tower with silly rewards (Image via Digital Extremes)

The Descendia game mode sends you into a new crimson tower with 21 randomly generated floors. Here's the gist on what we know about Descendia:

The rewards for Descendia will be reset every week, so this is weekly content similar to Archon Hunts and EDA/ETA
You can save your progress in the Descendia tower reaching every seventh floor (so twice: once in floor 7 and then in floor 14). Leaving the session will load you from the last visited save point, and you'll have to repeat the floors afterwards.
Each floor can be cleared by its unique objective on-the-fly, and while some are just regular combat floors, there's also escape-room floors and puzzle floors
One protoframe from the Devil's Triad will appear on floor 7, 14, and 21, acting as vendors who offer various rewards and cosmetics you can purchase
In addition, you get rewards for clearing each floor, and these rewards are rerolled every week in the same way as The Circuit stage rewards

New Game Mode: Perita Rebellion

The three recalls lead to different boss fights (Image via Digital Extremes)

Perita is the new Tau moon where parts of The Old Peace quest takes place. After the quest is over, you can recall this place through a new time-limited game mode called The Perita Rebellion. This will be a 12-minute mission where you're given a theoretically unlimited number of objectives till the "Trauma Manifests" and you're forced into a boss fight.

At the starting screen, you can select one of five Tauron Strikes to use during your time on Perita, the Tau moon (even if you haven't unlocked that Tauron Strike). This also determines some buffs you can get for each objective completed. You get to keep these buffs for the remainder of the missions, which means the more objectives you complete before the timer expires, the stronger you are for the boss fight at the end.

A neat thing about this mission is that the music is also a tailored 12-minute track, so the orchestra swells throughout the mission till the final showdown. Speaking of, there's three Perita Rebellion missions, the big difference being one of the three new bosses that you face at the end.

Other than that, this is the mission type to exclusively feature the Anarch, which is composed of old Grineer and Dax soldiers, as well as enemy Primed Warframes commandeering the field as miniboss encounters. Each Perita Rebellion sequence is mainly the same for the objective-completion trial period of 12 minutes, but the bosses are chosen based on which recall sequence you select:

Hunhullus
Dactolyst
The Prime Vanguard

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Tauron Strikes and Tektalyst Artifacts

Tektalyst weapon mods (Image via Digital Extremes)

With The Old School update, each Focus school in Warframe is getting big buffs with new nodes you can unlock on each tree. These are all gated behind the Tauron Strike node for each school. Simply put, the Tauron Strike is a charge-up and cooldown-based special ability you can do as the Operator/Drifter.

You can obtain five Tektalyst Artifacts from Marie in La Cathedrale:

Lorak - the Zenurik grimoire
Vexoric - the lance of Naramon
Thara - the bow of Madurai
Cogron - the hammer of Uniaru
Nidri - the staff of Vazarin

Once unlocked, these can be equipped on their new weapon slot on your Operator/Drifter. This not only comes with its own five-mod single-Arcane mod setup, but brand-new mods and Arcanes (which were not revealed) you can use to empower your Amp, Tauron Strike and Operator/Drifter. From what the stat screen shows, it seems you can boost a number of things, from Amp Critical Damage to Operator Health/Armor/Sprint Speed.

As an example of the new Focus School nodes, Devstream 191 only showed those related to Zenurik (Lorak). Lorak fires off a beam, and enemies affected by these beam will drop empowered Energy Orbs if killed within 10 seconds after the Tauron Strike ends.

Meanwhile, the Boundless Energy sub-node on the Zenurik tree also makes it so that Spectral Pages are created as you Fire Lorak, each granting Cast Speed, Ability Strength, Ability Duration, and bonus Energy.

All in all, the Tauron Strike abilities themselves offer much more than flavor. The after-effect buffs and debuffs can be quite significant when the Focus school is fully upgraded, and the stat boost the Operator/Drifter stands to gain from the new mods also makes life easier post-Transference.

That's about all the important stuff coming with Warfarme's The Old Peace update. Stay tuned for further news, including potenitally the release time as we get closer to the release date (December 10).