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Faceoff is a special Mission type introduced in Update 38.0 (2024-12-13). The first PvPvE game mode, Aoi and Amir invoke a competition where players are divided into teams as they compete against each other while battling against Scaldra and Techrot enemies.
Access to this mission requires completion of The Hex quest.
Mechanics
The mission node Lower Vehrvod competes against AI-controlled Tenno (Single Squad), while Vehrvod District competes against other players (Squad Vs Squad).
Eight Tenno are divided into two teams of four members: Aoi's Team or Amir's Team. After interacting with the phone booth, teams must complete 3 objectives and the first team that clears the race is the victor.
Objectives
- Exterminate: Kill a number of enemies.
- Data Burn: A variant of Excavation without a defense object, players must operate a CD Burner for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Generator Gas dropped by enemies provides 15% power. If the power reaches max, additional burners reduce the timer by 10 seconds.
- Techrot Scan: Players must guard a Techrot Scanner from enemies for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Destroy nearby signal jammers to reduce the timer by 15 seconds. If the scanner loses its health, it will enter a recovery phase.
- Pirate Radio: A variant of Ascension, players must guard a Mobile Voice Pirate Radio balloon until it reaches its destination. Destroy signal jammers to give the balloon an 8 second speed boost. If the balloon loses its health, it will stop in place and enter a recovery phase.
- Lockbox: Players must collect 5 keys one-by-one in the marked area to open a lockbox. Once looted, the key will self-destruct after 15 seconds.
- Assassination: Kill three designated targets, which can be Techrot Babaus, Jugulus-like Techrot, or elite Scaldra units. These targets will always be Eximus.
Boosts
Blue pickups can be carried to deploy a boost for the team.
- Protective Shields: Squad receives invulnerability for 5 seconds, 10,000 Shields for 30 seconds.
- Fleet Footed: Squad gains increased Move Speed and Parkour Speed for 30 seconds.
- Situation Critical: Squad inflicts Red Critical hits for 30s.
- Contents Unknown: Squad receives a random boost, opposing squad receives a random penalty.
- Elemental Damage: Squad gains random elemental damage for 30s.
- Energy Regeneration: Squad Energy Regeneration, scales with Affinity Link and lasts 30s.
- Melee Lethality: Squad receives Melee Damage increase for 1 minute.
- Summon Kubrow: Summon a friendly Kubrow to assist in combat.
- Protea's Aid: Summon
Protea's 
Dispensary. - Pause Enemies: Stops all enemies in their tracks for 20s.
- Gravity Wells: Creates miniature blackholes that pull in enemies.
- Pickup Radar: Mark pickups for 45 seconds.
Penalties
Red pickups can be carried to deploy negative effects for the opposing team.
- Eximus Influx: Spawns 5 Eximus near a random player
- Danger Zones: Drop damaging zones on your enemy's position for the rest of the match.
- Bolstered Badguys: All enemies gain Overguard.
- Vampire Curse: Health slowly drains for 45s. Kill enemies to recover health!
- Booby Traps: Booby traps 3 random Boost or Penalty pickups.
- Fog Out: A dense fog reduces visibility, making it harder for the opposing team to see.
- Chemspires: Creates 3 Chemspires with increased health near opposing squad members and mission objectives.
- Fire Orbs: Deploys floating bubbles of fire that explode on contact and inflict
Heat Status Effect. - Disabled Health Orbs: Health Orbs do not work for 60 seconds.
- Disable Energy Orbs: Energy Orbs do not work for 60 seconds.
- Longer Cooldowns: Abilities have +10s cooldown for 15s.
- Mortar Strikes: Inflicts a mortar barrage.
Restrictions
To promote fairness between teams, certain Gear items are restricted:
- Team Bonus Consumables have a 3 minute cooldown.
- Deployable allied units such as Specters and On Call Crew cannot be used.
- Air Support Charges are disabled.
Locations
| Planet | Mission Name | Faction | Credit Reward | Addtional Credit Reward | Wiki's DropTableAlias | Level | Tileset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Höllvania | Lower Vehrvod | Scaldra | 7,400 | 0 | |
65 - 70 | Höllvania |
| Höllvania | Vehrvod District | Scaldra | 7,400 | 0 | |
65 - 70 | Höllvania |
Rewards
- Lower Vehrvod (Single Squad):
- Normal: 30
Vosfor or 1 Arcane Enhancement (
Arcane Bellicose, 
Arcane Truculence, 
Arcane Impetus, 
Arcane Camisado, 
Arcane Crepuscular, 
Primary Crux, 
Secondary Enervate, 
Melee Doughty) - Steel Path: 2
Steel Essence and 1 Arcane Enhancement
- Normal: 30
- Vehrvod District (Squad vs Squad):
- Winner:
- Normal:
- 30 Vosfor or 1 Arcane Enhancement
- 30 Vosfor
- Steel Path:
- 50 Vosfor or 1 Arcane Enhancement
- 2 Steel Essence
- 50 Vosfor
- Normal:
- Loser:
- Normal:
- 30 Vosfor or 1 Arcane Enhancement
- Steel Path:
- 50 Vosfor or 1 Arcane Enhancement
- 2 Steel Essence
- Normal:
Conclave Standing:
- Normal:
500 for completing objectives 1 and 2, 1000 for completing objective 3, 2000 in total. - Steel Path: 750 for completing objectives 1 and 2, 1500 for completing objective 3, 3000 in total.
- Normal:
- Winner:
Faceoff/Rewards
Notes
- Squad Vs Squad can only be initiated in Public Matchmaking mode.
- Teams are placed into separate maps, meaning they will never directly interact with each other.
- During Data Burn, the server power cannot be maxed until 33.33% (50s) of the burn has completed. Any Gas Canisters added past 85% power will simply fill the generator to 99%.
Patch History
Hotfix 38.0.6 (2025-01-09)
- Fixed Faceoff Assassination targets not being flagged as VIP units, meaning they were able to be trivialized by various Warframe Abilities.
Hotfix 38.0.5 (2024-12-18)
- Fixed Faceoff music being overheard mixed with the KIM music if players have their volume slider set extremely low.
- Fixed the Faceoff rewards missing from the Official Warframe Drop Tables site.
Hotfix 38.0.4 (2024-12-17)
- Made several adjustments to the audio in Faceoff missions (including reducing Transmission frequency).
- Fixed Steel Path difficulty modifiers applying twice on the Faceoff Assassination targets (notably the Techrot Babau).
- As a refresher, yesterday’s Hotfix reduced the overall tankiness of both the Techrot Babau and Scaldra Dedicant. Now with this fix, hopefully Babau feel like a more reasonable fight now across the board!
- Fixed script error in the Faceoff lobby UI.
Hotfix 38.0.3 (2024-12-16)
- Improved the enemy spawning logic during Exterminate objectives in Faceoff missions.
- Fixed squad icon in the Faceoff lobby overlapping with the players platform icon.
- Fixed multiple script errors in Faceoff missions.
Hotfix 38.0.2 (2024-12-14)
- Fixed the Mobile Voice Pirate Radio not taking damage while in the underground tileset of Faceoff missions.
Hotfix 38.0.1 (2024-12-14)
- Fixesd towards the Mobile Voice Pirate Radio in Faceoff missions not taking damage from Scaldra/Techrot weapons.
- Known issue: Melee enemies do not damage it.
- Fixed Host migration in Faceoff missions causing enemy difficulty to increase and Boost/Penalty pickups to spawn more than the intended amount.
- Fixed Faceoff HUD tracker showing X/Y in objective HUD instead of numbers after Host migration.
- Fixed enemies that carry Gas Cans in the "Date Burn" Faceoff objective missing an official name. They are now "Scaldra Jaegar/Harbinger Gas Carrier".
- Fixed script errors that could occur in both Squad vs. Squad and Solo Squad Faceoff missions.
Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)
- Introduced.