Firefall

Draco · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject: Firefall

Didn't see a forum post for this game yet so I decided to make one.

For those who haven't heard of it, Firefall is a free to play FPS/TPS that is going to have some MMO elements in it (e.g. an open and persistent world, the final size is apparently going to be 1/10th of the earth). It's class-based with 5 currently out already (Assault, Medic, Engineer, Recon and Dreadnought) and more possibly on the way. One thing I love for this game is that you have the option to change classes by just changing your armour, and the equipment levels up instead of your character. This means that you can have a battleframe (what the armours are called) that can be an Assault at level 30, but a Medic battleframe that's at level 1. This prevents people from power-grinding with one class and then switching to another. The weapons can also be modified to fire differently or change the alt-fire on them.

I could go on and ramble a lot more, or I could just link you all to the site

Badman · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject:

ive been thinking about this game and i would love if anybody else would join to play this, (not as much as tf2) but you know amuse myself for a while
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Draco · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject:

So...*Sips tea*...I got a beta invite...

Badman · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:21 am Post subject:

damn you
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junkyard · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:26 am Post subject:

I actually got to play a short amount of this at PAX East.. seemed pretty fun, I'll be keeping an eye out.

Berry Punch · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:29 am Post subject:

I saw TB show a bit of the game and explain what it's about.. sounds interesting enough. If I remember right it was f2p? Don't remember, either way i'll probably end up buying it or playing it.. though the question is.. will any of us actually love it that much to move away from TF2? Or will we forever be on egypt?

BarytaQ · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:44 am Post subject:

I'm definitely giving it a shot. Sounds like some gam I played on the 360 a while back, giant bugs were attacking earth.
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Draco · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject:

Kirov wrote:

I saw TB show a bit of the game and explain what it's about.. sounds interesting enough. If I remember right it was f2p? Don't remember, either way i'll probably end up buying it or playing it.. though the question is.. will any of us actually love it that much to move away from TF2? Or will we forever be on egypt?

Suffice to say I've only had 2 sessions in the beta and that was with only the PvP aspect. Despite some balancing issues that are still being tweaked (cause let's face, that's the point of a beta) the game was very enjoyable and now I'm actually finding it difficult to start up TF2 and play since all I think about is "Oh boy, beta servers should be up in a few more days again!" As for whether it's F2P, yes it is. It's a F2P MMO(FPS/TPS) that is working to have competitive eSports level PvP and massive open world PvE.

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Insomniac · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:12 pm Post subject:

so this is borderlands F2P?

Draco · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject:

Insomniac wrote:

so this is borderlands F2P?

Okay time for an in-detail rant about the game. Because of the beta NDA I can't reveal any specific stuff but I can give you information that has been released. GET READY FOR ABOUT 5 SOLID PARAGRAPHS!

Outline: Firefall is a F2P MMOFPS/MMOTPS (you can toggle between first or third person) that is class based. The game has Player vs Environment (PvE) aspects to it much like WoW and it also has PvP which they are hoping to make into an eligible eSport like TF2 or CS. The game will also feature a dynamic world and the overall size will be 1/10 the size of the earth.

Classes: The game is class based like in many MMOs. You have the choice of (as of now) 5 classes which are Assault, Medic, Recon, Engineer and Dreadnought. All the classes have varying health, primary weapons, skills and other stats (although not a lot since the game is focusing on being skill-based as opposed to level-based). You can easily change what class you are by equipping a different Battleframe (the armour that you wear) which leaves the characters appearance intact but does make your class visible. You also have the ability to modify weapons, for example: the Medic's primary weapon is a healing gun like the TF2 Medic's, the only difference being that left-click heals people and right click will either overheal teammates or if you modify the heal gun it will drain enemies health allowing Medics to work either has a key member of the team or as an independent unit. While some classes may sound similar to TF2's and other games there are quite a few differences and it really does stand out on its own.

PvE: The game is being made so that you will have this vast open world to explore in PvE where you can go out as any class and hold your own. There are missions that are always changing or will only be available during specific times of the day or even year as well as other things.
One thing you can do in PvE is resource collecting, I know that one mission like that has you call in what is effectively a drill to dig up some minerals (which are used for currency as well as other things) and that turns into a whole mini-game on it's own. What happens is the drill makes a thumping noise (hence being called a Thumper) which attracts large insects so as it collects resources you have to fight an ever growing horde of creatures that will try to destroy it so you need to consider whether or not having the thumper return would be smart or if you can hold out and get a few more resources.

Dynamic World: The world is going to be ever changing. City hubs have a chance of being attacked by a group called The Chosen and unless all the players work together to get rid of them there's a chance that the Chosen will take over a city. Once this happens that city stays captured until you and all the other players in the world band together, attack the city and reclaim it. This will also cause some missions to disappear and new ones meant to help the city appear.
The game also takes place in what is called "The eye of the melding storm" this is more of a plot device though as the melding is this large electrical-type cloud that is covering the world. As the game progresses players are going to have to craft machines to repel the melding revealing more of the world. I remember in one video they had said they have like 10 squared miles that is playable, but only a small fraction of that will be available when the game goes public so that players will constantly have motivation to reveal more of the world.

The game is definitely looking quite well even for a beta and I can't wait for the release of it. (Also PvP was left out cause that doesn't need much explanation)

BarytaQ · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:10 pm Post subject:

Lookin forward to this so much now..
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Draco · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:

http://www.twitch.tv/r5studios/b/306843779

Stream from the beta session today. Only showed my worst XD