Firefall

[Ranualf]

http://www.firefallthegame.com/home

i`ve been following this for while now, its looks pretty damn good tbh, much along the line of borderlands, but with better world graphics, and more classes(yea i know borderlands 2 is in the pipe line)
 

about the game its FREE TO PLAY

basically is a RTS, with team play elements- seek, kill, capture and aquire resources

some you can solo, some you need a few mates, others you need a LOT of mate - like, well LOTS ! the more of you and your budies there are to kill, the less(haha) likley it is for you to be squished(some of the bugs are HUGE !)

the pvp action looks like its going to be interesting, there`s a new vid on Sunken Harbour area

go watch the vids on the above link
click on the media tab(thats on the left of the big FIREFALL logo)

oh and its FREE TO PLAY

hopefully this will get some of us into killing the bugs- before aliens - C.M. arrives !

[Ranualf]

we have more news on the Firefall front !

here`s a early beta review, yes loads of stuff is not yet implimented, but its like all MMO`s, they take time to "flesh out"

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/12/hands-on-firefall-beta/

[Ranualf]

More news Firefall fiends !

Yesterday i got a nice Email from Firefall, saying that they would like me to participate in their closed beta !:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

So, seeing as i was at uni, and was working on one of my projects right up to slow login of wow for the HC madness attempt, i didn't get to download it ;/

Sorted that now, and we are ready to run, jump and shoot.

On the beta note, there`s video of a bloke who looks a bit like TL, explaining very carefully what to look for, and repeating the message, that this is B E T A, and not the full finished game, there may be place holder characters, weapons, sounds etc etc.. for those who know nothing of what a beta is about.. yeeees (think, yank)

so, onwards, and skywards hopefully !

Let the beta begin.

For those still wishing to join the beta here is the link > http://www.firefallthegame.com/game

Hint the BETA INVITE is in the TOP RIGHT, on the above links page...FYI

See you in game, hopefully !

[Tutonic]

I've played the beta.

It's fun, for about an hour. Then you've pretty much done everything there is to do and it just becomes a case of grinding to get XP.

Until they inject some more content into the game, it's not worth playing - hopefully this is just a limitation of their beta test.

[Ranualf]

i`ve managed to get up to level 5 on my assault and have learned several things !

The invite and accept is a bit weird, as you have to /accept...
there is a day and night cycle... this was made out in an exceptional manner to myself, having created a char, and logged it in, it was pitch black, and i mean pitch black, i could hardly see a thing.... so after a few deaths to the beasties... i checked the key binds... yup there`s a flash-light ! (F)
so after some running about, and bouncing all over with the rocket boosts, i headed out into the wilderness to quest a bit...

after a shaky start i had to blow up some rocks, to get 10 bits of this stuff.. i had 4 bombs... forcing me to treck back to town and buy more !

The crafting system is a bit weird, but i think i have the hang of it, find/buy a plan, learn it, then stick it into the ... munching machine, and see what happens.. you then unload the thing and see what you get.

not tried pvp yet, but apparently you can get certain ore from it.

overall i`d say its going to be a grind, but team play is very important, as the thumper (ore digger) need a lot of protection, and can quickly get swarmed under by massed of the little bugs, but one one of them rolling huge things gets onto it, its fubared quick !

Due to the milestone patching, the crafting and levelling system is now gone.

[Roxanda]

Been in the beta for some time now, playing it on and off after patches and new content and such.

It's a fun game, but you really need friends that play with you and they really need to review some things before launch.

PvE is all about thumping. You scan the earth by hitting a huge hammer on the ground, showing you if a place has resources or not. When you find a spot that has, you call down a thumper to extract these resources. And here the fun begins. The thumping atracts all kinds of bugs, comming at the thumper in waves. The bigger your thumper, the bigger and more bugs will come.

PvP has 4 modes (Team deathmatch; Capture objective A, B and C; Hold objective A-C for points and another I haven't tried yet) with each mode only having 1 map at the moment.

There are 5 roles (Battleframes) to choose from. Dreadnaught (kind of a tank), Assult (aoe dps), Medic (healer), Recon (your sniper) and Engineer (gadgets like turrets and aoe healing platforms). The fun thing is you don't have to start a new char for each role. You only have to switch battleframe whitch can be done at certain stations. Or when you're dead. They each have to be leveled up seperatly tho.

You gain resources for PvE and PvP whitch has to be refined at a station and can then be used to craft gear or nodes (nodes add certain stats like % runspeed or crit effect and such). Gear and recipes for nodes drop from bugs or can be won in pvp.

It's quite fun to just login, play a bit and log out again.

If you think this is interresting: I have 2 more beta invites at the moment. Send me a PM with your e-mail and I can invite you. The first 2 will get them!

[Roxanda]

All keys gone. Will post again if I get more.

[Ranualf]

The new milestone stage of beta testing has arrived early this week, i downloaded it last night and its been great fun !

They have made some radical changes to how your character functions by taking out the levelling system, and replacing it with a battle frame tier tree, where you get to choose what you want to spend on, there are 3 tiers in the 1st tree. Its pretty decent, although they need to make the text in the boxes bigger for us old folk, still its beta.

As always if you want to try it out, log onto http://www.firefallthegame.com/ and the beta invite button is on the top right side.

back to thumping for me..............
There`s also a video

Edit- I have reached the point where i can upgrade to the 2nd tier, but cant afford the 7500 crystal cost :/
After discussing with some other folk we think its a bit pricey, as you also have to "Buy" a 2nd battle frame, like you would to chose a different class, so i expect the tier 3,4 & 5 costs to shoot up !
[video=youtube;C4E63IoXcZQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4E63IoXcZQ[/video]

[DuVeL]

Think I'll give it a try...

Now to wait for a Beta invite...

[DuVeL]

Joined their mIRC as they were giving away Beta-keys, now I have one also.
Will try out the game and see what it's all about.

[Ranualf]

i have one beta key going for free, let me know the email address to send it to, and its yours, 1st person wins !

[DuVeL]

I've been trying out the Beta alot, allready got my Tier 2 almost filled up with Exp for the next battleframes.
For a free MMO it's pretty good but it's quit a grind. They have introduced some new stuff in the latest patch but unfortunatly no extra quests yet.

[Sneakytiger]

just got my new pc mag and has a free code for the game, any 1 playing it?

[DuVeL]

Haven't played it in a bit due to Borderlands 2, CS:GO and BF3.
Might have a look again soon on how it's going.

[Liberator]

Resurrecting this thread as the game went live last week and I started playing to get the free bonuses for people who registered back in the day.

I'm quite liking it, it's very BL in it's approach to missions and can be very challenging with it's level based enemies. The good thing is that if you come across another random player in trouble with a mining "Thumper" station running, you can help out and get some of the reward.

If he's a lower level than you, you can be very helpful, but if you join in a higher level mining op, make sure there are a few high level people around.

At the moment the area mission boards are quite repetitive, but to be honest you should have levelled up enough to move onto a higher area before you get to repeat them.

But as you level up your other battle frames you will have to repeat them.

Single character, multiple base battle frame types and sub-models (once you max out the base model or pay cash), each frame with it's own XP levelling. So you just go to a frame station and change from your lvl6 assault frame into you lvl2 recon frame and level that up, without having to log out and back in as another char.