Warframe's big, weird Whispers in the Walls expansion arrives in December along with cross-save

Back in August, as part of this year’s TennoCon celebrations, Warframe developer Digital Extremes unveiled Whispers in the Walls, the next (and extremely weird) chapter in the free-to-play sci-fi shooter’s ongoing saga. And as its new confirmed December launch window approaches, the studio has shared a heap of new information on what to expect come the expansion’s release, including confirmation it’ll arrive alongside cross-save support.

Whispers in the Walls introduces new mission types, NPCs, bosses, and factions, a new hub known as The Sanctum, and a new procedural tile set. It’s an expansion primarily focused on the long-hidden laboratory of Albrecht Entrati, deep in the bowels of the planet Deimos, and one that’ll reveal the “proverbial big bang” that kicked off every event in Warframe.

In terms of enemies, the labyrinthine laboratory plays host to a much-expanded Necramech faction, including new Necrodogs, that players can battle using Whispers in the Walls’ new Grimoire, a secondary weapon capable of flinging pages of devastating Void. But that’s not the expansion’s only new threat; at certain points, players will find themselves whisked away from the gothic gloom of Albrecht’s lab to a vast Eldritch desert that serves as the home of the mysterious Man in the Wall. Here, they’ll encounter a second new faction, the Murmur, nightmarish multi-limbed creatures resembling tech-infused biblical angels.