What you need to know
Vay Hek has reached out bearing news of a mutual enemy. A band of his own Ghouls have committed mutiny against the councillor, attempting to commandeer his galleons. Given time, these Ghouls would strike at Vay Hek, and eventually, us.

With his stolen ships, the Ghouls plundered two of his weapons: The Tonkkatt, a pair of Grineer Tonfas, and the Tak & Lug, a Grineer Sword and Shield.

Vay Hek’s solution is us. Lending his favorite instrument of destruction, a Volatile Ogris, to the Tenno, you must capture key Ghoul targets to reclaim the stolen galleons. In return, Vay Hek grants us the weapon parts they stole.

Each weekend holds a new set of rewards, and completing one of the Tactical Alert weekends will reward the player with the Stratos Emblem.

Be cautious, Tenno: Warframe and Operator/Drifter Abilities are disabled, and the Volatile Ogris in hand is capable of causing some self-damage to the user, should you misfire it near yourself...

In addition to Warframe and Operator/Driter Abilities being disabled, players are unable to use Gear Consumables, Companions or other weapons. However, Mods and Arcanes still apply on your chosen Warframe!

What you need to do

On each May 2, May 9, and May 16th weekend, a new Tactical Alert will be introduced, taking the player to capture more Ghouls. You’ll only be armed with a self-damaging Ogris using the new but familiar Volatile Ogris skin sent directly to your Inbox while a weekend Alert is active (which, yes, you do get to keep!) If you missed a weekend, you’ll receive the Volatile Ogris in your Inbox on the following weekend Alert.

Queuing into any of the Alerts will automatically equip you with the Volatile Ogris.

Weekend 1: Friday, May 2 at 11 a.m. ET - Monday, May 5 at 11 a.m. ET
Strike at the first set of stolen galleons looming over the Martian planetscape.

Earn the Tonkkatt Blueprint in your Inbox upon first completion of the event. Re-running the Mars Tactical Alert will earn you a guaranteed random drop of the following:

• Tonkkatt Blade
• Tonkkatt Handle

Tonkkatt: Rend enemies and up the heat with these mining tools repurposed into machine-tonfa. Building the Combo Multiplier overheats the Tonkkatts, setting enemies ablaze.

Crafting Requirements:

• 2x Tonkkatt Handle
• 2x Tonkkatt Blade

Weekend 2: Friday, May 9 at 11 a.m. ET - Monday, May 12 at 11 a.m. ET
Saturn is next, with these galleons holding the parts to the Tak & Lug Sword and Shield.

Earn the Tak & Lug Blueprint in your Inbox upon first completion of the event. Re-running the Saturn Tactical Alert will earn you a guaranteed random drop of the following:

• Tak & Lug Blade
• Tak & Lug Handle
• Tak & Lug Guard

Tak & Lug: Take active defense to new heights with this deadly flying shield and brutal blade. Throw the shield with a unique Heavy Attack, inflicting Blast Status Effects and dealing damage in a wide area.

Crafting Requirements:

• 1x Tak & Lug Handle
• 1x Tak & Lug Blade
• 1x Tak & Lug Guard

Weekend 3: Friday, May 16 at 11 a.m. ET - Monday, May 19 at 11 a.m. ET
The Ghouls are back on Mars. Finish them off for an Orokin Reactor and Orokin Catalyst, delivered to your Inbox, upon first mission completion.

Re-running the Sedna Tactical Alert will earn you a guaranteed random drop of the following:

• Tonkkatt Blade
• Tonkkatt Handle
• Tak & Lug Blade
• Tak & Lug Handle
• Tak & Lug Guard

Important Information

Each Tactical Alert will only be live for its respective weekend, meaning if you miss a weekend, you’ll be unable to acquire the main Weapon Blueprint rewards for that specific Alert until the event has concluded. Rest assured, players will be able to obtain these weapons via another source after Galleons of Ghouls ends! Lastly, the Volatile Ogris skin will be acquirable from Baro Ki’Teer sometime after the event.

In a near future Update, the Weapons Components and Blueprints will be found on Ghouls wandering on their own!

• Ghoul Augur and Ghoul Rictus will drop the Tonkkatt Blueprint and Components.
• Ghoul Devourer and Ghoul Expired will drop the Tak & Lug Blueprint and Components.

Additionally, Rivens for these weapons won’t be available until our Interim Cert Update deploys.

For now, let no Ghoul go unpunished, and no weapon unclaimed, Tenno.

Coming Soon: Devstream #188

I know what you’re thinking, didn’t we JUST have a Devstream last week?

You’re so right, and we hope you enjoyed it! The team is traveling to Boston for PAX EAST 2025! Don’t miss Devstream 188 LIVE from the Pax East Main Stage on SATURDAY, May 10th from 3 PM - 4 PM ET.

The team is bringing you the first reveals for the next Major update coming to Warframe! Plus, get a first look at our next Prime Warframe, introduce yourself to our 61st Warframe, see which Warframe is receiving a rework, and much more!

The Soulframe team will also bring you the latest from Preludes 10 and a tease at what’s coming for TennoCon 2025!

This is our last Devstream for both Warframe and Soulframe until TennoCon 2025.

Due to the off-site location, there is no Twitch Drop for these Devstreams - sorry!

See you at twitch.tv/warframe and/or twitch.tv/pax on SATURDAY, May 10th at 3 PM ET!

See you online!

Tenno,

Tune into twitch.tv/warframe on Thursday, May 1st for Prime Time #435! With more hijinks, community highlights, and showcases than we know what to do with, you do not want to miss this. The action begins at 6 p.m. ET and you can earn this week’s drop by watching for 30 minutes.

Our Spanish-speaking Tenno can also watch Emisión Tenno on April 30th at 3 p.m. ET over at twitch.tv/warframeinternational!

Twitch Drop: 50 x Nora's Mix Vol. 8 Creds

Claim Time: 30 Minutes (Drop 1), 60 Minutes (Drop 2), and 90 Minutes (Drop 3)

**This Twitch Drop Campaign has a Claim Limit of 3 should you wish to get the maximum limit (progress can be earned on both the Emisón Tenno and Prime Time streams) .

Raid Drops:

Emisión Tenno Raid (Wednesday)

Our Spanish community team will be sending the love to SerganIkari after their Emisión Tenno stream! Watch SerganIkari for 30 minutes on Wednesday from 4pm to 5:30pm ET to earn a Nora Night Noggle.

Prime Time Raid (Thursday)

After Prime Time we’ll be raiding AuntieTan to continue the fun and share with their community. Watch AuntieTan for 30 minutes on Thursday from 8pm to 9:30pm ET to earn a Nora Night Noggle.

Weekend Drops!

Every Weekend, we run a short Twitch Drop campaign on two Creator channels to offer a fun way to cap off the week and shine a spotlight on the Creators themselves. The Drops will run for two hours on each channel, with a 30 minute claim time for an Orbiter Decoration that the Creator has picked themselves!

Smettbonia (English)
May 3rd from 4pm to 6pm ET
Channel: twitch.tv/Smettbonia
Drop: Display - Glyph

Ozku (Spanish)
May 4th from 6pm to 8pm ET
Channel: twitch.tv/Ozku
Drop: Maggot

Each week’s schedule will be posted in our weekly Drops thread, so keep an eye out to see what campaign is coming next. :)

Hiho Tenno!

Thanks so much to the 69,483 of you who responded to our 2025 Community Survey! We had a wide variety of questions, and your answers did not disappoint. Whether you're Legend Rank 5, or started playing in 2025, we have compiled each and every response to showcase the results for everyone to enjoy.

Results:

You can find the full data set for the results here.

We loved to see so many players had a great time playing Warframe this year. It is especially amazing to hear such great feedback about the KIM messenger system - a risky new direction that ended up being a huge success! We also appreciate you telling us about the things that we could be improving, like some older bosses and the introduction to Modding.

We've got some exciting plans for 2025 and beyond, and your feedback is invaluable to our efforts.

Cheers, Tenno!

Link to our prior survey from 2022: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1301906-the-warframe-2022-survey-results/

Tenno,

Tune into twitch.tv/warframe on Thursday, April 24th for Prime Time #434! With more hijinks, community highlights, and showcases than we know what to do with, you do not want to miss this. The action begins at 6 p.m. ET and you can earn this week’s drop by watching for 30 minutes.

Our Spanish-speaking Tenno can also watch Emisión Tenno on April 23rd at 3 p.m. ET over at twitch.tv/warframeinternational!

Twitch Drop: 5 Live Heartcells

Claim Time: 30 Minutes (Drop 1), 60 Minutes (Drop 2), and 90 Minutes (Drop 3)

**This Twitch Drop Campaign has a Claim Limit of 3 should you wish to get the maximum limit (progress can be earned on both the Emisón Tenno and Prime Time streams) .

Raid Drops:

Emisión Tenno Raid (Wednesday)

Our Spanish community team will be sending the love to ozku after their Emisión Tenno stream! Watch ozku for 30 minutes on Wednesday from 4pm to 5:30pm ET to earn a Lizzie Guitar Decoration.

Prime Time Raid (Thursday)

After Prime Time we’ll be raiding pnx_vector to continue the fun and share with their community. Watch pnx_vector for 30 minutes on Thursday from 8pm to 9:30pm ET to earn a Lizzie Guitar Decoration.

Devstream 187

Watch Devstream #187 on Friday at 2pm ET to earn items from our Blessed or Cursed grab bag!

Weekend Drops!

Every Weekend, we run a short Twitch Drop campaign on two Creator channels to offer a fun way to cap off the week and shine a spotlight on the Creators themselves. The Drops will run for two hours on each channel, with a 30 minute claim time for an Orbiter Decoration that the Creator has picked themselves!

egirltenno (English)
April 25th from 9pm to 11pm ET
Channel: twitch.tv/egirltenno
Drop: Citrine Prex Card

VVhite_Angel (French)
April 26th from 2pm to 4pm ET
Channel: twitch.tv/VVhite_Angel
Drop: Note Beacon

Each week’s schedule will be posted in our weekly Drops thread, so keep an eye out to see what campaign is coming next. :)