Let me tell you about Firefall

Arhra · 08-09-2013, 09:53 AM

So hey, I've been mucking around in Firefall for a while now and seeing it recently went into open beta and they've just started a beta weekend to help new players get started, I thought I'd bring it up here.

It's a free to play MMO first/third person shooter being made by Red 5 where you run around a (currently smallish) very pretty, post-apocalyptic open world shooting at various wildlife, performing missions that are some variety of 'go here and shoot people to take their thing and put it in another thing', fending off Chosen attacks and picking fights with crazy space-tornadoes.

The Chosen are bad people coming from the Melding, which is a dimensional barrier that has engulfed most of the world during the second apocalyptic event in recent history. They want your jawbones. The first apocalypse was the titular Firefall, where Earth was bombarded with dozens of asteroids, which also turned out to be full of magic rocks called crystite. The second one was caused by trying to make a space folding faster than light spaceship using the magic rocks, which apparently merged the Earth with an alien planet.

Luckily you're in a stable pocket of the Melding in South America, which seems to be the eye of the storm centered around the crashed Arclight. Plot is slowly getting revealed with new things like the Blackwater Anomaly mission, which is something I haven't yet been able to do. Red 5 is starting to roll out the Chosen War stuff, which should mix things up a bit more. Eventually people will be able to permanently push back the Melding Wall and reclaim Earth piece by piece.

You can also mine resources by deploying a thing called a thumper that enrages all the local wildlife and so must be protected. It, like most things, are best done with a squad of people, as the wildlife is very angry.

As far as class selection goes, perhaps "Team Fortress 2 with jetpacks" would be the best comparison. There's five base battleframes - Assault, Dreadnaught, Biotech, Engineer and Recon - with two unlockable advanced variants of each class which are more specialised.

Assault is a mobility focused class with a splash damage plasma cannon, Dreadnaught's your heavy weapons guy, Biotech is a medic who also runs around spreading clouds of poison gas everywhere, Engineer sets up sentries and supply stations, and the Recon is a sniper with a few abilities that can be used to help allies or abscond if the going is getting tough.

Also the basic engineer class has a sticky grenade launcher that sticks to enemies!

This video gives a pretty good overview of the game in its current state:

Even with the tutorials there's a lot to take in, but the other players are pretty helpful if people have questions.

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08-09-2013, 09:53 AM	#1
Arhra Ara ara! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Neo Venezia Posts: 5,013	Let me tell you about Firefall So hey, I've been mucking around in Firefall for a while now and seeing it recently went into open beta and they've just started a beta weekend to help new players get started, I thought I'd bring it up here. It's a free to play MMO first/third person shooter being made by Red 5 where you run around a (currently smallish) very pretty, post-apocalyptic open world shooting at various wildlife, performing missions that are some variety of 'go here and shoot people to take their thing and put it in another thing', fending off Chosen attacks and picking fights with crazy space-tornadoes. The Chosen are bad people coming from the Melding, which is a dimensional barrier that has engulfed most of the world during the second apocalyptic event in recent history. They want your jawbones. The first apocalypse was the titular Firefall, where Earth was bombarded with dozens of asteroids, which also turned out to be full of magic rocks called crystite. The second one was caused by trying to make a space folding faster than light spaceship using the magic rocks, which apparently merged the Earth with an alien planet. Luckily you're in a stable pocket of the Melding in South America, which seems to be the eye of the storm centered around the crashed Arclight. Plot is slowly getting revealed with new things like the Blackwater Anomaly mission, which is something I haven't yet been able to do. Red 5 is starting to roll out the Chosen War stuff, which should mix things up a bit more. Eventually people will be able to permanently push back the Melding Wall and reclaim Earth piece by piece. You can also mine resources by deploying a thing called a thumper that enrages all the local wildlife and so must be protected. It, like most things, are best done with a squad of people, as the wildlife is very angry. As far as class selection goes, perhaps "Team Fortress 2 with jetpacks" would be the best comparison. There's five base battleframes - Assault, Dreadnaught, Biotech, Engineer and Recon - with two unlockable advanced variants of each class which are more specialised. Assault is a mobility focused class with a splash damage plasma cannon, Dreadnaught's your heavy weapons guy, Biotech is a medic who also runs around spreading clouds of poison gas everywhere, Engineer sets up sentries and supply stations, and the Recon is a sniper with a few abilities that can be used to help allies or abscond if the going is getting tough. Also the basic engineer class has a sticky grenade launcher that sticks to enemies! This video gives a pretty good overview of the game in its current state: Even with the tutorials there's a lot to take in, but the other players are pretty helpful if people have questions. My player name is Arhrahra! Friend me! __________________ This post is a good source of Ara ara, ufufu.* *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.