The Orbiter carries a smaller vessel called a Landing Craft, which are the actual ships that deliver the Tenno into the combat zone. Rugged and dependable, Landing Craft are capable of travel in a variety of environments, including deep space, planetary atmospheres, and even through the ocean depths.
Overview[]
A Tenno rides a Landing Craft by magnetically attaching to a covered passenger compartment by its underbelly, which flips them over inside so they are lying on their back when they deploy into the mission's Insertion point by simply dropping down from it. Landing Craft can also position themselves vertically on extraction points, where the Tenno can ride simply by stepping into the passenger compartment's human-shaped recess, where they are secured before the Landing Craft can depart. Landing Craft can also carry heavy cargo like Fomorian Power Cores by using a tractor beam to attach objects to its underside.
Types[]
There are currently seven variants of Landing Craft available to the Tenno. Acquiring one will unlock a single Air Support ability that can assist players in a mission (with a 5 minute cooldown) once called upon by using consumable Air Support Charges equippable in players Gear. These may be crafted in the Foundry.
- Main article: Liset
The Liset is the first Landing Craft that new players acquire during the Awakening introduction Quest, along with the various segments for the ship. The Liset comes with the Override air support ability, negating alarms raised by enemies as well as briefly disrupting security protocols that activate in Rescue and Spy missions.
- Main article: Mantis
The Mantis is a Landing Craft, which can serve as an alternative transportation choice to the Liset. It comes with the Med-Tower air support ability, deploying a Med-Tower that can be activated to release healing pulses.
The Mantis landed in Update 17.5 (2015-10-01).
- Main article: Nightwave (Landing Craft)
The Nightwave is a Landing Craft, which can serve as an alternative transportation choice to the Liset. It comes with the Dreamers air support ability, deploying a device that puts enemies near it to sleep.
The Nightwave landed in Update 27.5.0 (2020-05-12).
- Main article: Parallax
The Parallax is a Landing Craft, which can serve as an alternative transportation choice to the Liset. It comes with the Orokin Eye air support ability, scanning for nearby rare resources.
The Parallax landed in Update 31.6 (2022-06-09).
- Main article: Scimitar
The Scimitar is a Landing Craft, which can serve as an alternative transportation choice to the Liset. It comes with the Carpet Bomb Ability, dropping bombs in a line.
The Scimitar landed in Update 18.0 (2015-12-03).
- Main article: Skaut
The Skaut is Grineer Bolkor modified to serve as a Landing Craft. It comes with the Kahl Beacon air support ability, summoning Kahl-175 and his brothers for support. In addition, the Skaut possesses unique embarking animations that involve walking into the rear opening entrance rather than attaching to a traditional Landing Craft's underside.
The Skaut landed in Update 32.1 (2022-11-02).
- Main article: Xiphos
The Xiphos is a Landing Craft, which can serve as an alternative transportation choice to the Liset. It comes with the Sentry Gun air support ability, deploying an automatic turret.
The Xiphos landed in Update 18.5 (2016-03-04).
Modifications[]
Players can switch between acquired Landing Craft, customize their appearance and select any of the unlocked air support abilities while inside their Orbiter (default Esc > EQUIPMENT > ORBITER > LANDING CRAFT). Note that any air support ability once unlocked may be activated for any landing craft (and not just the one that unlocked it).
Appearance[]
Landing Craft's appearance may be customized with custom colors, a skin and also an optional Sumdali. The latter is a metallic emblem that can be attached to the nose of the craft that shares its color with the one selected for "engines".
Skins[]
Each craft has its own set of applicable skins, please see their individual pages above for a full gallery and acquisition information.
Sumdali[]
Sumdali are decorative emblems placed at the "nose" of the Landing Craft to represent the Tenno's mastery.
Awarded when Mastery Rank 30 is achieved:
Purchasable with Focus Points after all nodes in a Focus school have been unlocked and fully ranked:
Awarded when defeating The Fragmented One:
Awarded when defeating the H-09 Apex:
Awarded for beating Elite Archimedea with 37 (maximum) Research Points:
Awarded from Nightwaves
Bought from the Market:
(
35)
Air Support[]
Air Support abilities can be swapped between different Landing Crafts. These can be activated during missions using the 
Air Support Charges Gear item.
When used, Air Support Charges will throw a floating ball onto the ground held up by an electric tether. The Air Support ability will then be deployed after a delay of a few seconds. Air Support Charges have a 10-minute cooldown (5 minutes with Engineering Intrinsic Rank 2) in between uses, with a cooldown timer visible on the Gear wheel menu. Players may only bring 200 charges per mission.
Air Support abilities are locked behind certain Landing Crafts, noted in the chart below. Acquiring the Landing Craft will unlock their respective ability for all Landing Crafts, which can be changed in the Landing Craft Customize screen.
| Landing Craft | Ability Icon | Ability Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liset | 
|
Override | Ordis will Override security, sending a beacon that disables lockdowns, resets alarms, and disables security cameras while the beacon is active. In Rescue and Spy missions, any timers will also be paused while the beacon is up. Note that this will not deploy if you are not looking at a console when you activate the Air Support Charge. |
| Mantis | 
|
Med-Tower |
Ordis will deploy a Med Tower (which resembles a Life Support Capsule). It will heal the player for 100 health on each activation and may be activated up to 25 times by any player in the squad. It can also be used as a small wall as it does block Tenno, enemies, and possibly gunfire from passing through it. You can stand on top of the towers to avoid melee type enemies. |
| Nightwave | 
|
Dreamers | Nora Night deploys a device that puts enemies within 10 meters of it to sleep. The device lasts for 20 seconds. |
| Parallax | 
|
Orokin Eye | Rare resources and deposits, Ayatan Treasures, Syndicate Medallions, Somachords, Frame Fighters fragments, Cephalon Fragments, Kuria, and more are highlighted within a 150m radius. |
| Scimitar | 
|
Carpet Bomb | Ordis will launch an Air Strike, sending Carpet Bombs crashing on a path determined by where the player was to where the air support charge was deployed, each dealing 250  Impact damage.
|
| Skaut | 
|
Kahl Beacon | Ordis will activate the Skaut's alert signal beacon, summoning Kahl-175 armed with a  Grattler and two allies who may be either Tusk Hellions or Corpus Tech. After being summoned, further uses of Air Support will heal him. After 5 minutes, Kahl and his squad will depart. For every extra squad member using this Air Support charge, one additional unit will be added to Kahl's squad.
Note that ally names will be randomized. |
| Xiphos | 
|
Sentry Gun | Ordis will spawn a sentry turret which fires on nearby hostiles.  |
Notes[]
- Pressing the movement buttons during mission loading screens will cause the Landing Craft to tilt and angle.
Patch History[]
Hotfix 38.0.1 (2024-12-14)
- Fixed multiple script errors while customizing your Landing Craft.
Hotfix 37.0.7 (2024-10-16)
- Charger Liset Skin
Give your Liset the look of an Infested Charger.
- Charger Sumdali
With the head of an Infested Charger mounted at the front of your craft, you’ll make an instant impression on your enemies.
Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)
- Fixed Host’s Landing Craft Skins appearing as the default Liset to visiting Client players in the Drifter Camp.
- Known issue: The True Master Sumdali also does not appear for the Host.
- Fixed your Warframe being invisible in Junction completion cinematic if you used the Skaut Landing Craft.
Hotfix 36.0.2 (2024-06-19)
- Updates some of the Terror Landing Craft’s SFX.
- Fixed the Terror Landing Craft Skin missing VFX in its in-game Market diorama.
Hotfix 36.0.1 (2024-06-19)
- Fixed the Terror Landing Craft Skin’s tooltip in the Update screen saying it is for the Scimitar, when it is a universal Landing Craft Skin.
Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)
- Terror Landing Craft Skin
Transform your Landing Craft into a perfect match for Stalker’s.
- FIXES
- Fixed a random pool of blood floating in the water near the Landing Craft in the Drifter Camp.
- Fixed hitch when selecting Landing Crafts you do not own in the Landing Craft customizations menu.
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
- Fixed an issue where your Landing Craft would dock at a weird angle after quickly skipping the cutscenes while loading into Maroo's Bazaar.
Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)
- Fixed blurry ground texture in the underside of some Landing Crafts during Extraction cutscene if the High Shader Quality if toggled off.
Update 33.6 (2023-07-27)
- Fixed Landing Crafts appearing blurry docked in Relays with Motion Blur on.
Hotfix 33.0.13 (2023-05-26)
- Fixed the “Fire Weapon” input not applying Landing Craft “brakes” in the loading screens.
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- Fixed Liset appearing unlit when extracting at the end of a mission.
Hotfix 32.2.4 (2022-12-07)
- Fixed script error from Landing Craft customizing.
Hotfix 32.1.2 (2022-11-04)
- Fixed all Landing Crafts using the Liset Engine VFX in the Corpus Outpost and Grineer Shipyard tileset fly out extraction cinematics.
Hotfix 32.1.1 (2022-11-03)
- Fixed harsh black lighting on the Landing Craft in the selection and customization screens.
Hotfix 32.0.12 (2022-10-12)
- Landing Craft Blueprints are no longer tradeable.
- Blueprints are available in the in-game Market for purchase with Credits, so there was no need for them to be tradable.
| Landing Crafts | |
|---|---|
| Models (Air Support Ability) | Liset (Override) • Mantis (Med-Tower) • Nightwave (Dreamers) • Parallax (Orokin Eye) • Scimitar (Carpet Bomb) • Skaut (Kahl Beacon) • Xiphos (Sentry Gun) |
| Skins and Cosmetics | Arclite • Sumdali |