The Old Peace is the next big update to Warframe’s cinematic story, coming on December 10, 2025. While the game’s campaign has revolved around the Drifter with Whispers in the Walls and Warframe 1999 for two years, The Old Peace will bring the spotlight back to the Operator. This will also be the first step towards the long-awaited expansion of the Tau system (although for now it’s just adventures on a Tau moon called Perita).
The update was first revealed at TennoCon 2025, then most of its features were explained recently in Devstream 190 and Devstream 191. In particular, only one of its promised features was removed: the reintroduction of wall-running in Warframe won’t happen until 2026. Otherwise, here’s everything that’s coming with The Old Peace (patch 41).
All the major features in Warframe’s The Old Peace update
As expected for major updates, there will be a few quality of life features coming to Warframe’s The Old Peace update. However, when it comes to the main features, here is what you can expect:
- 63rd new unique Warframe, Uriel
- Three protoframes: for Harrow, Wisp and Uriel
- An hour-long cinematic quest
- Two new game modes: Descendants turn, and the Perita Rebellionincluding three new bosses
- Visual overhaul of the Operator and Drifter
- Tauron Strike Abilities for Schools Focus
63rd unique new Warframe, Uriel (and the first rifle-melee hybrid weapon)
Uriel (or the Orokin Roathe protoframe if you get the Gemini skin) is the new Devil-themed Warframe that comes with The Old Peace. He has several summons to aid him in combat, but unlike Caliban, the gameplay here will react to the whims of your summons to gain bonuses, rather than the other way around.
Uriel also comes with Vinquibus as his signature weapon. Vinquibus is the first entry into the unique two-in-one weapon type, the bayonet, which is both a primary weapon and a melee weapon. This one will have two separate modding setups for primary and melee, as you would expect, but will share Formas.
Three protoframes (The Devil’s Triad)
Half of the new content in this game is related to three new Protoframes in an unknown century before the events of Warframe 1999. After completing the quest, you can enter the new faction added with The Old Peace: The Devil’s Triad, comprising three NPCs. Here is the voice casting 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 The Cathedral (xx99), accessible from a new infernal portal in Sanctum Anatomica (as with everything related to protoframes). Tauron Strike abilities for each Focus school (discussed later) can be obtained here.
The Beating the Ancient Peace quest also opens the new command “Dark Refectory” when you are next to the navigation panel, which allows you to access the two new game modes: Descendants And The Perita Rebellion.
New game mode: Descendia
The Descendia game mode sends you into a new Crimson Tower with 21 randomly generated floors. Here’s most of what we know about Descendia:
- Descendia rewards will reset weekly, so this is weekly content similar to Archon Hunts and EDA/ETA.
- You can to safeguard your progress in the Descendia Tower reaching every seventh floor (so twice: once on floor 7 then on floor 14). Exiting the session will load you from the last visited save point and you will then have to repeat the floors.
- Each floor can be cleared on the fly depending on its unique objective, and while some are just regular combat floors, there are also escape floors and puzzle floors.
- A Devil Triad protoframe will appear on floors 7, 14, and 21, acting as vendors offering various rewards and cosmetics for you to purchase.
- Additionally, you get rewards for completing each floor, and these rewards reroll every week in the same way as the Circuit stage rewards.
New game mode: Perita Rebellion
Perita is the Tau new moon where part of The Old Peace quest takes place. Once the quest is completed, you can reminder this place through a new limited-time game mode called The Perita Rebellion. This will be a 12-minute mission where you’ll be given a theoretically unlimited number of objectives until “Trauma Manifestations” and forced to fight a boss.
On the start screen, you can select one of five Tauron Strikes to use during your stay on Perita, the Tau Moon (even if you haven’t unlocked that Tauron Strike). This also determines certain buffs you can get for each objective completed. You can keep these upgrades for the rest of the missions, meaning the more objectives you complete before the timer expires, the stronger you are for the boss fight at the end.
What’s interesting about this mission is that the music is also a 12-minute custom track, so the orchestra swells throughout the mission until the final confrontation. Speaking of which, there are three Perita Rebellion missions, with the big difference being one of the three new bosses you’ll face at the end.
Other than that, this is the type of mission that exclusively features the Anarch, which is made up of former Grineer and Dax troopers, as well as enemy Primed Warframes commandeering the terrain as miniboss encounters. Each sequence in Perita Rebellion is essentially the same for the 12-minute objective completion trial period, but bosses are chosen based on which booster sequence you select:
- Hullus
- Dactolyst
- The first avant-garde
Tauron Strikes and Tektalyst Artifacts
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 closed behind the Tauron Strike node for each school. Simply put, Tauron Strike is a charge and cooldown based special ability that you can use as an Operator/Drifter.
You can obtain five Tektalyst artifacts from Marie in The Cathedral:
- Lorak – the Zenurik grimoire
- Vexoric – Naramon’s Spear
- Thara – the arch of Madurai
- Cogron – Uniaru’s hammer
- Nidri – Vazarin’s staff
Once unlocked, these can be equipped to their new weapon slot on your Operator/Drifter. This not only comes with its own unique five-module Arcane mod setup, but also brand new mods and Arcanes (which haven’t been revealed) that you can use to power up your amp, Tauron Strike, and Operator/Drifter. From what the stats screen shows, it looks like you can upgrade a number of things, from the critical damage amplifier to the operator’s health/armor/sprint speed.
As an example of the new Focus School nodes, Devstream 191 only showed those related to Zenurik (Lorak). Lorak fires a beam, and enemies affected by this beam will drop powerful energy orbs if killed within 10 seconds of the Tauron’s strike ending.
Meanwhile, the Boundless Energy subnode of the Zenurik tree also ensures that Spectral Pages are created when you shoot Lorak, each granting bonus cast speed, ability strength, ability duration, and energy.
Overall, the Tauron Strike abilities themselves offer much more than flavor. The resulting buffs and debuffs can be quite significant when the Focus school is fully upgraded, and the stat increase that the operator/drifter can gain from the new mods also makes life easier after the transfer.
That’s about all that’s important coming with Warfarme’s The Old Peace update. Stay tuned for further news, potentially including release time as we get closer to the release date (December 10).
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