Firefall

[Gorion]

Firefall is quite heavy on resources.  It was even worse during the closed beta phase.

The game is nice, but I find it very grindy.  It's always the same events over and over and nauseum.


When there's something different it's usually a temporary thing and the servers get slammed into oblivion.

[Sn00ks]

I like it because it's quite simple and easy to play. You can get more involved and do all the research and crafting and more in depth stuff or you can just dive in and shot stuff.
You can leave it for a few weeks when you get bored and then come back and chances are the content has changed and there is some new stuff to do.

Playing together to take on some of the separate instance missions is a lot more challenging and does require a better degree of team-work and a spread of capabilities to take out the bosses.

And best of all it is free.

[Liberator]

The first 10 minutes of the game is just tutorial and is quite hectic, once in the man world things settle down as much as you want them to, it's good to pick up job board missions as they earn you local rep with the traders and unlock special items.

World events in the original release were pretty much just melding tornado's and Aries missions with other response missions dotted about. Since then the world has grown and there are now 1 or 2 hourly events on the first 2 areas up to lvl37. The events scale with the number of players involved.

Endgame content was non-existent when myself and Sn00ks started playing, but they have added instance raids and a contested map in the Amazon that also scales on the success of the players in the whole area. Amazon zone, with dailies that unlock a Sunday mission.

There is an update coming by the end of the year which may change the way the Battleframes work and add another map.

Resource grinding for lvl40 gear is heavy, but challenging and that sort of makes it fun. For solo uranium thumping you need a lvl3 thumper and a fully spec'ed Bastion frame or a lvl3 squad thumper and a whole lot of friends.

It's not for everyone, for me it's a happy balance between MMO and  FPS with great Co-op, not to mention guns, motorbikes and jetpacks.

I'm looking forward to us getting people up to lvl40 and going out to do some 10-20 man raids, so far I've held off doing them because I want to do them with people I know.

Every frame you get to lvl40 adds a 10% permanent XP boost to you which makes lvling the next frame a bit faster.

[BrotherTobious]

Yay

How do we do that? Is there some sort of search option?

Have added you the roster

[Chaosphere]

It kinda makes me wanna go back and play UT.....

[pesteh]

It kinda makes me wanna go back and play UT.....

i've been trying to double tap dodge without success.

[Jamoe]

I've been enjoying this although for some reason I didn't see the tutorial and thrown straight into the first world.

I did try and join TS the other day but was having sound/keyboard/mic issues. Turns out my mouse had a faulty cable and the constant on/off messed up my usb ports which messed up my keyboard and headset.

I'll try again next week

My character is called Jamoe if that helps anyone.

[Gorion]

The tutorial is being thrown into the game.  You should have seen a cut-scene with a bunch of talk, and you should have ended up activating a pillar.

Unless things changed.

[Jamoe]

Ah I think I watched a few videos where you shown how to move, fire weapons etc, then you get the "Activate Broken Pillar" mission. I guess it's changed since those were made.

[smilodon]

Oddly although I can now get back into the game, it crashes every ten minutes or so. No idea why as it's not using a huge amount of resources. Free to play games tend to be a bit light on serious bug fixing as long as they work for the majority so I doubt I'll get much help from them. It looked like a nice time sink in a Battlestar Galactica kind of way, shame. If I have a character in the Guild/clan/wahtever you might as well bin it as I don't think I'm going to be able to get reconnected with it.

[Penfold]

This is the same issue I had.

Kept crashing to desktop every ten minutes for so and then rejoined. I didn't get to the bottom of it.

[Jewelz^]

Slightly late to this party with this. Downloaded the other day, currently a lvl 6 Dreadnaught. Wouldn't mind finding you guys in game Shall find some of you on TS later hopefully.

[pesteh]

you see chosen, you shoot chosen.

that is all

[ArithonUK]

Bad news for this game, the developer Red5 missed it's Payroll for December, citing "insufficient funds" to pay it's 80 employees. This follows layoffs last month.

There's a GoFundMe campaign titled "Give Red5 Employees Christmas" to raise the salary funds for the employees started by a developer from Blizzard (who has been in the same boat in years past).

An update posted on GameInformer yesterday says Red5 are going to try and pay their staff tomorrow, but it doesn't look promising for the company or Firefall.

I know more than a few dMw's play Firefall, so I thought I'd pass this on as it popped up on my usual news feeds.

[RogueTaylor]

thanks for the news update arhtion its sad to hear that they weren't able to get payed but i hope it sorts out soon and i hope the game dont take to much of a hit due to it