Firefall is a hard game to summarise. It tries to be everything at once, and it does it well.What is Firefall? It's a F2P MMOFPS/TPS from Red 5 Studios, yeah, a mouthful.
For ages my friend and I have been searching for an MMO to keep us busy, where we can level our respective characters and explore. Ah yes, exploring, what has happened to mmo's these days, every enviroment seems bland, generic and only seems to serve as a place to hold the mobs you grind. Firefall rids us of the point and click and selection based combat to bring true gunplay into the mix. Jetpacks add a unique hight element during PvP and PvE while being a huge boon to eploration allowing the devs to build their worlds vertically. All this and more adds a sense of depth to Firefall that many and more MMO's fail to capture.
You start out creating your character, picking from several battleframes, the classes.
The first thing you'll notice is the unique cel shaded art style akin to that of borderlands but toned up and fitting to the setting and area.One of the many unique things about Firefall is the fact that you can quickswap your class, you are not locked down to any single one. All you have to do is drop by one of the terminals and pick a different battleframe, no cost, no setbacks, though the frames level individually.
Actually having to aim, shoot and reload makes the mundane generic quests of every other mmo exciting. Though quests in the current state of the beta are sparse and only seem to serve as a sort of guide to help you along. Not to say that this is is in anyway generic, its not, it takes the best elements from questing and chucks the rest out the window.
You battle on Earth, though far in the future and now inhabited by many otherworldly creatures, from swarms of insectlike beings seemingly inspired from Starship Troopers, to dinosaur esq runners. You fight many and more of the creatures in the wonderfully detailed and rich environments, only a single (massive) one in the closed beta however. It is open world, so once you get in there are no load times unless you happen to join a PvP match.
Watch the video above and skip though to get a nice summary of what the game is all about.A big part of the game is resource gathering, you call down a "Thumper" dropped from the skies that pounds the ground to harvest its delicious minerals. Unfortunately, all the racket wakes up the locals whom then proceed to swam you and attempt to take down the thumper, which you now have to defend.You can build larger varieties of thumpers, the one on the video is the smallest. Larger thumpers are louder and thus call in a much larger swarm of enemies.
Crafting is a huge part of Firefall, when you level they give you "nanoprints" essentially recipes that you have to craft to give you the item you want. The many items you can craft ranges from modules you can stick into your armour to give you your class abilites or the armour itself. You can craft weapons and mods for the weapons and even refine the minerals you dug up to create better gear.
Though PvP is another way of resource farming, I can't say much about it. You go to a PvP terminal and sign up for TDM or sabotage and duke it out in arenas. Though due to the game still being in closed beta, its hard to get a PvP match going.
There are loads of random events and things to keep you busy that i'll talk about in my next video, however, the thing that blew my mind the most, was the day night cycle.Suddenly the game started getting darker, I though it was just me, but eventually it was near pitch black and as it turns out, everyone has a flashlight. The lighting looks amazing at night, a chaingun going off in the distance, the glow of your jetpack, your limited visibility. Never before have I seen a day/night cycle in a MMO, and it is fantastic, especially so with the projectiles, jetpacks and the setting.
Firefall is going to be a AAA F2P the likes of which the world has never seen before. It will be epic, it will be awesome, you better get ready, I for one sure as hell can't wait.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder