Warframe: Tau expansion launches December 2026 on PC, console and mobile

Tau sits beyond the Origin System and shows the present, battle‑scarred state of the setting rather than the past that the December 2025 "Old Peace" update covered. Two locations players will visit are the ring city Fornax and its satellite Perita; Fornax’s new social hub, Musu 90‑BF, is where you’ll meet new characters and rivals while digging into the system’s secrets. Perita is introduced as a devastated landscape controlled by hostile forces, and the allied syndicate scouting its wastes is named The Cleaving Glaive.

Cooperative modes in Tau modify existing gameplay loops rather than adding only brand new systems: the broadcast showed reworked survival missions taking place on Perita, and those missions can be unlocked for online squad play once players meet the requirements. The new Warframe Brisco is a detective‑noir inspired protagonist for the cinematic solo quest; actor Matthew Mercer performs Brisco’s internal monologue, and players will be able to earn Brisco through gameplay. Brisco also debuts a new cosmetic type, the Chimera Skin, and the stream previewed additional equipment tied to the update — a hound companion, a fist weapon called Rain & Shine, and an exalted magnum named Corecracker.

Cosmetics arrive alongside the systems: Koumei’s first deluxe skin, Koumei Enshoujo, follows a femme‑fatale concept and will be included in the December update. The next Airloom skin will go to Nata; concept art for that piece was co‑designed by Digital Extremes and Sumo Digital staff Mati Tapia and Stephan Zottelting and is planned for release in early 2027. Digital Extremes’ community director Megan Everett said more details will be shared on the November 27 Devstream, and the studio noted Warframe has amassed more than 90 million players worldwide since its 2013 launch.