Whereas Soulframe’s pre-release playtesting has traditionally been invite-only, that is altering quickly. Beginning subsequent week, anybody on PC will have the ability to strive the fantasy Warframe spin-off without cost due to Soulframe Open Preludes, which is rolling out forward of the sport’s Verse of the Veilands replace.
When will Soulframe Open Preludes and Verse of the Veilands be launched?
Soulframe Open Preludes launches on Nov. 6, and the Verse of the Veilands replace will drop later that month. For now, Soulframe Open Preludes is simply on Home windows PC and never on launchers like Steam. As an alternative, you will need to obtain this alpha model proper from the sport’s web site. Not being invite-only is a giant shift for the sport’s ongoing alpha playtest, although, as new gamers have sometimes solely been let in en masse around TennoCon annually.
As for why Digital Extremes is opening up Soulframe to extra gamers now, artistic director Geoff Crookes defined in a press launch that “the introduction of mounts and world development programs we revealed at this time is the correct time so we are able to collect important suggestions on these options and every little thing we have labored on thus far.”
In that assertion, he is referring to among the greatest new options coming within the Verse of the Veilands replace later in November. On this replace, gamers can discover new areas and purify them with a brand new character Pact known as Ode Shrike. After purifying two areas, gamers can prepare and feed it till it evolves into the Omen Wolf, Soulframe’s first mount.
Within the Halloween spirit, Digital Extremes has additionally introduced again the Bita’s Eve in-game occasion. It provides a brand new headless horse-riding mini-boss, Veltruska, and a brand new fish known as the Sunken Terror.
This shift to Open Preludes is likely one of the greatest developments for Soulframe since it was first announced, and it reaffirms that Digital Extremes is dedicated to seeing this recreation by means of to a wider Home windows PC launch. There’s nonetheless no phrase on when that will occur, although.