Warframe Opens Tau Route With One-Time Community Event
The event is explicitly framed by Digital Extremes as one-time-only, and the Tau Prologue tied to it stays in the game permanently, so the community push is the story setup for Warframe: Tau rather than a repeatable seasonal activity.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Digital Extremes is running Operation: Path to Tau, a community event for Warframe, from October 16 to November 18, 2026, in Japan time (October 15 to November 17 US time). Anyone past the Vor's Prize tutorial quest can go to Eris, collect the new resource Moon Fresh, and hand it to the Sentient mothership Praghasa for rewards. A global progress bar tracks the push toward Tau, setting up Warframe: Tau later in 2026.
Community Director Megan Everett answered questions about the event by email. She said the operation has parts open to anyone past the Vor's Prize quest and parts reserved for players who have finished both The Hex and The Old Peace. Those players get a Tau Prologue mini-quest that relives part of Lotus's memories, with combat against the Infested on Eris. Everett said the prologue is permanently added to the quest codex and can be played after the event ends, unlike the event goals.
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