Warframe Jade Shadows Soundtrack - Ascension - Matt Chalmers, Erich Preston

The full cycle of the combat track for the new Ascension game mode, this is probably the one you're looking for.

[@dr.tursko2312]

Not a lot of people are talking about Hunhow’s involvement here. He pushes Stalker to do the right thing. He truly has come around to the greater good and wants to aid his allies, he’s not as stubborn as he once was.

[@Paradox1012]

It sort of feels like the only actual threat is the murmur now. The corpus are being fucking goons though as usual. Greinner are pretty much disarmed and are actually helping us in some capacity with kahls efforts. Infested is infested, but the orgin of it through entrati are assisting us.

[@Files_Loathing]

The way he speaks to you in the final message you receive at the end of the quest too , you can hear his sadness "And I remain...the great and...terrible Hunhow..." You can at least definitely hear his sorrow. Maybe even regret?

[@DioStandProud]

I forever hope we can one day find a way to save him from the bottom of that ocean

[@maximilianoohmke5625]

Let us remember that Hunhow is also a father too, the sentient farmer designed to terraform the planets of Tau who was blessed by the Void to have to two children (Natah and Erra) along with Praghasa. And how it ended for him and his family, Praghasa dying during the Old War (with her corpse used by Ballas in the New War), his daughter Natah becoming a new tool for the Orikin, and his son Erra dying twice so that his body could be used as a new archon (Pazuul). Perhaps Hunhow wants the Stalker not to go through the same thing as him and offer a better destiny for this new life.

[@DioStandProud]

@@maximilianoohmke5625 he sounded so sad at the end of the quest. Like I know he was one of our worst enemies but he was a victim of the Orokin as well, moved forward by that trauma, like us. I just wanna go give grandpa Hunhow a hug he's had a hard life.

[@sabreshotinfinium8224]

Best elevator music ever

[@andrewgray573]

I never knew what was essentially THE elevator fight from every JRPG could be such an experience.

[@Yami_Industries]

But at least there's no heavy ass enemies crushing down the elevator while being put on a timer before the place implodes 🤣

[@Joshua.670]

For once we won't shoot the speakers to silence it

[@MisterCake]

A track to a gamemode which gives you the feeling you're contributing to someones journey

[@arachineatzeer7478]

Doing this as Stalker just hits different, it's like he's saying in his mind: 'The Tenno are my enemy but they're helping my love rest, so this time, I will help them'

[@danielmikula1375]

The minor key in the introduction of the pipe organ paired with the sorrowful song reinforces the fact that this is a funeral procession.

[@roonlima727]

@danielmikula1375 oh don't do this to me 😭😭 that's devastating

[@DioStandProud]

I literally don't care how many times Sorren has irrevocably slaughtered me mid mission. He is now and forever friend shaped.

[@Sunrise-d819i2]

sorren hate for us makes some sense tho. He just has Stockholm syndrome of his abusers and was happily living within Orokin as its all he had, it was his way of life. it;takes lots of time for people to understand that their way of life can be harming another's sometimes. edit: grammar checks

[@DioStandProud]

@@Sunrise-d819i2 completely agree, literally all the edgy thoughts towards him went out the window the instant I saw Jade. I only want our boy to live a happy life from now on.

[@agentmaryland1239]

I literally feel bad for dunking on him and mad shit talking him all these years now 💀

[@Sunrise-d819i2]

@@DioStandProud me too, hopefully he comes around an understand the same that tenno realized the some ways of life Orokin was awful for everyone. they can make clones of body's of warframes? why can't they make clones with blank minds to transfer into. finally offer that chance for anyone in need. The Orokin had a chance to be best society tho they threw that out of the window with their superior complex.

[@LSSTyranus]

if anything, any fights with him from now on should just be considered sparring...

[@magostarmus3705]

On one hand, endless grind. On the other, the music makes it emotional, and thus worth it

[@loafylovebit9964]

To be fair this is one of if not the BEST grinds ever, seriously you name it, credits, endo, rivens, its got it in large supply

[@youraveragechroma2139]

On one hand, Exalted blade Hate. On the other, BEBE!

[@SomeWeirdNinjaToon]

​@@loafylovebit9964 Zephyr is also really fun in this gamemode. Ascension made me go from "Meh, not my style" to "I AM COMING TO BIRD KICK YOUR ASS, GRANUM !"

[@agentmaryland1239]

@@SomeWeirdNinjaToon "KACAW! FEEL MY WINGED WRATH MOTHERFUCKER!"

[@kingoffire105]

@@SomeWeirdNinjaToon Chroma if he could fly: He would probably say something really bada**. Also playing as Jade makes this a breeze, but I kinda wish her flight steering was easier and less choppy on ceilings.

[@alruneblake]

Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't cry. (I CRIED, FUCK.)

[@MEYH3M]

Anyone who had a mother or father who had to makes sacrifices for them cried 😭

[@clem7814]

I just want stalker to get a happy ending 😭

[@ReyDoodlez]

UGHHGUG I WAS SOBBING UGHGHGHG

[@theopeneyes]

Elevator music has no right going this hard, god damn.

[@DogeZzzz]

The fact that a 20 minutes quest have a more interesting story than your average modern 60 hours game 💀

[@archon7105]

I would’ve paid for a expansion of this quality I don’t know how theu would do it but I had my eyes bawling at the reach the surface objective

[@astrisperspecto4130]

And a MUCH better soundtrack! The only other games that get me so invested with their music are Cyberpunk 2077, Final fantasy 9, Fire Emblem 3 Houses and Nier:Replicant

[@sitchreapotere1073]

@@archon7105 Same, dude... I was shivering with tears running down my face the entire elevator ride.

[@TheNefastor]

At some point in that quest, I fully knew DE would catch me right in the feels, and that awareness didn't prevent it. Warframe really is on a roll with the storytelling and world-building and character growth.

[@Paradox1012]

THe music makes the mission better

[@pocketdust2450]

Void Flood moment, wish this was an endless game mode

[@intoxicanyx4687]

Imagine if that minigun Placement was an actual enemy

[@sitchreapotere1073]

After this quest, I gladly relinquish my claim to the title of Protagonist. Sorren, my guy, you deserve it. I take back everything I ever said about you. You, more than anyone, deserve to be happy.

[@kanekicoffeeken3977]

sorren the dread dispenser 💀💀💀

[@sitchreapotere1073]

This track has half the lietmotifs in the game. Sorren's story is the culmination of so many events in Warframe's history... The Naga drums, pounding as they did on the night of the Tenno Rebellion. Jade's harmonies, clashing with the shouts and roars of the Warframes (which, too, would have clashed with Octavia's Anthem on the Night of Naga Drums). The Sentient leitmotif, a reminder of their manipulations which brought Sorren's eternal despair. And now, a new leitmotif - the bamboo flute, representing Sorren, a warrior without a master. Ronin. Stalker. Father. What a fantastic piece of music. My lord, the story in this piece alone is worthy of literary analysis all by itself.

[@Ultrapyre]

Adding onto this, you can recognize the synths from the Corpus Ship battle theme, which is likely associated with Parvos' involvement in trying to steal away what was left of Jade and use it for his own ends. This one battle theme feels like it's telling a story all on its own with the use of several familiar themes alone... the music team's REALLY cooking for this one.

[@dr.tursko2312]

The sentient lemotif also because Hunhow is pushing stalker to do the right thing, as well as assisting us. The jump pads are clearly sentient design.

[@RollerBaller]

​@@Ultrapyre Good point, it's also fitting how those synths get interrupted by the drums and war shouts

[@tylerwilliams9451]

It doesn't change the fact that stalker AKA sorren has been holding back against us when stalking us this guy literally does red critical attacks 😂

[@dr.tursko2312]

I think it’s more so a separation of canon strength vs gameplay. If stalker red crit new players it would be an issue.

[@VexWerewolf]

"All crews, cease fire. Cease fire! STOP FIRING!"

[@NoobityBoobity]

I am once again looking at my hand questioning all the corpus blood I've spilled. Like, goddamn. Never in my life have I questioned myself more as a hero. War has its casualties, but the Corpus grunts aren't to blame. They are just engrained that Parvos is God and profit is everything. I feel like I'm just killing engineers, not soldiers.

[@LeBlingKing]

@@NoobityBoobityThat Sniper Crewman had KIDS, Tenno! Twins and a Crewwife!

[@feifeili1658]

@@NoobityBoobitybecause they technically are. We fight more robotic units when we do corpus missions than organics. I mean, their heavy organic units are literally called “Techs,” like, Technicians. Although corpus with actual soldier-like armor would be fun

[@agentmaryland1239]

This is very clear spoilers so don't continue reading if you haven't finished the quest yet! Ye've been warned, Tenno! I won't lie, I was actually stunned to see that she called off the fire upon realizing there was a CHILD on the battlefield. And at first I thought she was going to try and steal the child, but she just...didn't. She just let him leave. I have so much respect for that Captain.

[@astrisperspecto4130]

​@@NoobityBoobitythat only shows that the rift among corpus goes deeper than philosophy about the worth of life (Perrin Sequence vs The Board vs Parvos' Hand) but also how much humanity they allow themselves: The Board abolishes all humabity, its too cost inefficient and leads to a loss of investment Parvos' Hand can allow for some humanity, but will still face repurcusions.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

Spoilers The fact that Ballas stooped so low that he Helminth'd a pregnant woman really demonstrates how irredeemably evil he is.

[@enderreaper9240]

he probably did it on purpose to torture and experiment on her baby. From what i got from the quest, stalkers class of soldier was not aloud to have children or romance, kind of like, eternally bound in servitude kind of deal, but, he did have a child, so the orokin punished him by wiping his memories (or heavily damaging them) of his family, and then using the helminth on his wife and baby, probably intending to torture her, and experiment on her baby.

[@jankieek8218]

I am 80% sure Ballas probably just got Jade to himself after she was sentenced to become a warframe as a punishment by the 7 and just didn't care, which doesn't make him a good guy but let's not act as if the experiment on the pregnant lady was some sort of his master plan when the quest suggests she was punished by being turned into a warframe, and at the time Margulis should still be alive so he hadn't yet made his great plan to destroy the orokin empire (she was killed by the Jade Light which the new event seems to suggest have been made based on Jades power so Ballas wasn't as unstable at the time where Margulis lived).

[@AlkanthorTheDragon]

Fuck. I dont know why I thought, Jade was one of older Tenno kids who by the time of Old War was mature enough to have romance with Sorren and for whatever reason got fused with her frame after the empire's fall. But your explanation makes much more sense. Thank you.

[@MakutaNazo]

The Orokin were known to not only punish a transgressor, but everyone associated with them. Umbra's son and family, the families of the Zariman protestors, and now Sorren and his secret lover Jade. Both were turned into immortal warframes, one to forget about love and serve the empire... the other, punished to eternally gestate a child she can never hold. There is a REASON the Tenno wiped them out.

[@Files_Loathing]

​@@jankieek8218 Let's not act like Margulis' death broke him. He was ALWAYS vile.

[@andrewgray573]

'Operator, we're receiving an offer of...assistance. From...an unexpected source..." Screen darkens, Stalker teleport effect sounds. Stalker stands from seiza.

[@yoredrag-onight4204]

This game's soundtrack maintains an iron grip on the peak fiction gavel never fails to introduce a new banger for my list

[@AELXO-cc7hr]

Beautiful - we so need the official soundtrack release for this

[@astrisperspecto4130]

I'd pay money for it!

[@MorningLightMtn]

You're a real one Captain Xeto. If you're ever in a bind, call up the Tenno. You would be quite shocked to know how many potential god-slaying void demons would come to save you (It's all of them. They won't even need to give rewards for helping. We'll rush to help you for 10 creds and a broken redirection)

[@arandom35yearold]

Broken redirection????? Holy shit you can keep the credits thats all I need

[@ostman7735]

Not even. Tenno slaughtered lvl 9999 enemies just for 1 credit. And nobody asked them to, but they did anyway. Xeto could offer a Flawed Trick Mag and we'll get her out.

[@jamabastionhyness99]

The same ticks that were used for Sentient themes in this music feels... different to me. Whereas the previous ones shows how dangerous the Sentients are, the use of the ticks here kinda feels like as if Hunhow is encouraging us to bring back Jade's glory or something??? Not to mention there are Sentient jump pads in the mission, as if he is genuinely trying to help

[@DioStandProud]

Hunhow has grown in his time under the waves and since TNW. He's much more remorseful and he knows better than anyone what it means to lose your family, your loves. The way he spoke of him in the message post quest makes him sound like a concerned grandpa. Really hope one day we can bring Hunhow out from beneath Uranus and give Stalker the most unimaginable extended family ever.

[@arandom35yearold]

Hunhow, like the stalker, like the tenno, are just another victim in the increasingly growing list of victims left behind by the orokin. We all may differ in our philosphies, goals and morality, but there is a shared origin, and a shared enemy. Hunhow clearly has had time to reconsider everything he has done in his time under the oceans of uranus. He also understand the pain of losing his own family, and probably could not bear witnessing the possibility of a new life being born denied, the same possibility the sentient lost to the orokin ambitions. We are not enemies as much as individuals with clashing ideals. He is basically a grumpy grandpa at this point lol

[@G.K1996]

tried hold back during mission but that music hits deep and can't handle it

[@carltong8973]

Hearing this track with the memories of the quest really bring tears and despair to me, im really glad she has return to her prime now with the tennos caring hand to work together

[@theshellderinslowbrostail5422]

The fact this counts as epic elevator music is amusing. But the fact its also an emotional elevator music track is a testament of how amazing DE's music team is.

[@DonnyDunne]

This music playing whilst I use Glory on High and Ophanim Eyes to fly down the elevator shaft to revive a fallen tenno.

[@DioStandProud]

Playing as Jade with all her weapons while this plays hits so fucking different

[@agentmaryland1239]

I can't tell you how many times I kamikaze dropped on the elevator from on high as Stalker to revive a fallen Tenno.

[@ReyDoodlez]

like that one fucking mercy meme lolol

[@dracojester2971]

Unfortunately it seems the sound from glory on high and the eyes drowns out the music

[@kazkat7368]

Stalkers new mission ... Protect his child

[@dreamlessking9]

I'd love a quest where we protect the stalker and his child

[@TheAsvarduilProject]

More fighting alongside Sorren is needed. Space Dad needs help.

[@velishasolon]

Man, imma feel bad when I have to put my man down after this quest. Like, buddy, you have big responsibilities now who the hekk is taking care of those while you chase me through the star chart??

[@noahjemetz4847]

The acolytes, presumably...?

[@feifeili1658]

Fun fact: if you play as Jade in a mission and the stalker appears, he just says “Never,” drops his items and dips

[@velishasolon]

@@feifeili1658 THAT IS AWESOME!

[@nyancat7511]

​@@feifeili1658he loves his wife

[@blazecreates_yt]

​@@feifeili1658 That might not be the Jade he knew, but the Stalker knows he could never land a single scratch on her. Just my interpretation on this fact, sorry for any cheesy shit, can't really write opinions about Jade Shadows without going emotional 😅

[@spacemastermind8866]

Elevator music doesn’t need to hit this hard. But this does.

[@martinvants1969]

That is some Hans Zimmer grade music, superb

[@xayah3943]

I know I would main Jade on release but the story/mission and soundtrack just made me so attached to her. Definitely my most favorite thing in warframe by far

[@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli]

"this is probably the one you're looking for." yep.

[@anonyme253]

i need this in my orbiter asap !

[@PyroKitsuna11]

When I realized at the end of this quest happened...it fraked me.out yet at the same time...omg this was beautiful and heart wrenching

[@tgtterrorizor3407]

For the first time since he became a killing machine, Stalker - no... Sorren... has finally found something to fight for. Not the hatred for his Orokin masters, not for his rage against the Tenno. No... He's now fighting for the love of his former life, and the future of their child.

[@fluffezic5183]

il be waiting on the somacord fragment for this

[@steakinbacon8593]

I don’t cry often but this……… this quest nearly got me.

[@kanekicoffeeken3977]

it was way worse than how New War hit me. this one made my tears dripping ffs

[@hoominmanen]

after a few weeks of hearing this, i finally got my 2 r5 arcane energizes thank you for making me rich, jade

[@robertonaza]

The baby 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@itsQueenPurple]

Thanks so much for uploading it! Im so in love with it

[@TheNefastor]

I will never look at elevators the same way again.

[@pvnkstxrnation1994]

thank you for submitting this to the stream

[@FN--ky6my]

''Never...''

[@zeroskillz90]

Playing as Stalker and reviving the Tenno we help during the Operation adds to it. He might be an executioner but Sorren is still in there.

[@Hunh0w]

this is great.

[@marinescu0511]

Love the new tracks

[@xela953]

2:38 thank you! i was trying to find the version with this part

[@tratamarack441]

The most fire elevator music i've experienced.

[@4beamn]

The overflowing emotions i had when this piece starting playing in the quest. It is phenomenal. I was heartbroken, but I had the urge to protect this child and father to the best my ability. It was necessary.

[@margotrosendorn6371]

I've been cranking up the music on my mote grinds, still epic after 50 runs!

[@themarkktv]

Does the ending of the quest mean Lotus is a grandmother now?

[@TheAsvarduilProject]

Naah she still Space Mom. Sorrento is Space Dad tho.

[@TotallyDapper]

Nah, more like an aunt. Space Mom’s dad is Hunhow. Hunhow is Space Grandpa. Space Grandpa adopted Stalker, making him Space Uncle. Now Space Uncle has a son, Space Cousin.

[@EnergonVlada]

The OST is very fitting during and after the quest. I also like how a part of it sounds like The Final Shape log in theme from Destiny 2.

[@BeardGrizzly]

Gives me Assassin's Creed Revelations vibes which is not at all a bad thing.

[@fnvfanMSPR]

I don't really play this game anymore but Warframe never misses when it comes to music!

[@somerandomdude5148]

Peak elevator music

[@Verdugo1712]

1:20 esa opera es GOD , like y comentario a los que les dio pena la pobre historia de Jade y Stalker. ------------>

[@forbiddenlight4408]

Could we get the Ordis music that plays when you talk to him on Mercury?

[@StallordD]

I uploaded that one as "United" but also added the quest completion version on at the end.

[@ReyDoodlez]

IM SO FUCKING EMOTIONAL

[@AwesomeDr111]

Me omw to build a copy of stalker's wife and then another copy to feed to my big gross dog

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

So is Stalker a Warframe or a non-dreamer who used Transference? Silver Grove suggested it might be the latter, but Jade Shadows seems to imply that both Sorren and Jade were made into warframes. What do you think?

[@d01nut3]

As I see it, Sorren and Jade were both turned into warframes. Sorren, as a low guard, became a defiled excalibur, and Jade was made into her own unique frame as punishment for her forbidden relationship with Sorren.

[@sitchreapotere1073]

@@d01nut3 That's my reading, as well. Whatever sentience they had was stripped away, and their love for one another was vestigial remnants of their prior selves. Still, it was enough that during the Tenno Rebellion, Jade abandoned her golden emperors to save Sorren instead, and allow the Tenno their revenge.

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

@@d01nut3 Then was he already a Warframe during Orokin Massacre? How could he be loyal to the Orokin if they turned him into a warframe? Some of those things do not add up.

[@Ydrakar]

Like Kullervo and Umbra. Made into warframes as punishment.

[@bookfish]

​@@wolfofwarframe3807 It might be that when he was changed, the orokin tampered with his mind. Or.. we know that when a human gets turned into a warframe, their brain suffers for it. They only have fragmented memories of who they were before the whole thing. We know this from umbra, where the moment he kills his son stuck in his head on repeat. My working theory is that the Stalker's loyality towards the orokin was so ingrained in him, that it was almost the only thing that remained in his mind. Also we don't know if he knows that Jade also was turned into a warframe. Maybe the orokin newer told him, because they knew that he would be easier to manipulate like that.

[@damienhine1861]

This, not the new character, weapons, quest or elements overhaul, is the best part of the new update 😀💥

[@fulgerion]

Bandcamp when

[@fulgerion]

2:03 NieR:Automata A Beautiful Song

[@lucasfig2002]

Ordis vs Parvos gamemode

[@jamsheed9867]

3:15 is my favorite part

[@rickvanboberson]

I love this soundtrack but I'll be damned if this story made no sense and the writing for it was as nonsensical as the new war.

[@DioStandProud]

Try finding the deeper nuance. This story is a sum of all it's parts. Music, atmosphere, sound, everything all together is this quest and it all tells a story. This quest was for Warframe diehards who don't need a full stack of explicit explanations.

[@Ydrakar]

Its weight is in its implications, not its explanations.

[@rickvanboberson]

@@Ydrakar The implication become mute they write stalker out of the game. Personally idc about a soon coming pregnant Tenno mini game. Doesn’t fit the universe.

[@Ydrakar]

@@rickvanboberson i’d argue it fits. The orokin are just the right kind of evil to curse a pregnant woman to the helminth as punishment for a forbidden relationship. Then the infestation makes no qualms about whose flesh it twists into sword-steel. Tell me about what the quest got wrong in your opinion.

[@rickvanboberson]

@@Ydrakar she wasn’t pregnant in the scene where’s she’s defending stalker from Excalibur…..so either a 9 month pregnancy took her 100’s of years or this wasn’t throughout right. Again tho this would have been much clearer if we got a clear answer on what stalkers deal was and when he started being stalker…..this is the new war all over again