Warframe is currently incorporating more and more other genres as mini-games. After the Streetfighter mode “Framefighter”, there will be a hoverboard mini-game in the upcoming Fortuna update, similar to Tony Hawk.
Hoverboards in Warframe? In the announced Fortuna update for Warframe, we will head to the planet Venus, where there will be a large open world again. One particularly cool new feature: hoverboard racing tracks!
You can ride on 20 tracks in the icy wasteland full of enemies and dangers with a so-called “K-Drive”.
All about the hoverboards and the new faction in Fortuna
Where can I find the hoverboards? To get a K-Drive, you need to befriend a new mini-faction: the Vent Kids.
The “Vent Kids” are cool teens who hang out in the eponymous ventilation shafts (English “Vent”), listen to funky space beats, and spray impressive graffiti with socio-critical content on the tunnel walls.
The kids also hack into Corpus technology to obtain the tech for their boards.
How do the races work? Once you have a K-Drive, you can start a hoverboard race at specific locations. Holographic rings will appear everywhere that you must pass through.
Your time counts, but also that you perform cool moves along the way. So backflips, grinds on railings, and other skateboard stunts that you would expect more in a Tony Hawk game than in a grim space shooter.
What rewards are there? If you perform well and complete moves like “Floppy Grandmother”, you earn reputation points with the Vent Kids. For that, you can get goodies like the aforementioned graffiti for your board as decoration.
When can I finally ride a hoverboard? Unfortunately, there is still no more precise release date for Fortuna. It is supposed to come this fall. A video of the hoverboard races can be found in the current dev stream that we have embedded here.
More information about the features of Fortuna can be found here:
