FireFall - A Sci-Fi Action Shooter MMORPG... FOR FREE!
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The devs seem like bros from these videos. Now I just have to get my hands on a key for the Milestone.
I play a female character (because fuck you) and haaate the engi battleframe aesthetic. I understand that you've got to make your armor look nice and sexy and all that bull, but the missing leg and asscheek armor looks horrible!
Forgot about these
[url]http://www.firefallthegame.com/2012/07/18/summer-milestone-design-update-biotech-edition/[/url]
[url]http://www.firefallthegame.com/2012/07/20/no-longer-easy-to-learn-easy-to-master-part-3/[/url]
Anyone remember during the valve TF2 dev thingamajig where the dev explained that the kill screens were about reducing player frustration? And the fact that sniper rifles were so utterly useless when not scoped in that it removed all player frustration with the weapon entirely?
The recon class is so utterly and completely useless in PvE that it's a joke, and it's use in PvP only serves to test the strength of the glass on my screen when I throw my mouse at it. Every ability, every skill, every aspect of it's use is to annoy the everloving tits out of anyone trying to play a decent game of PvP. It's the one class you can remove from a game and not lose any diversity in the total game play.
Recon, and anyone that careers recon (or sniper, or whatever) deserve nasty things done to them.
Rant aside, does anyone know if the engi's dispenser still has the insane healing effect still?
[QUOTE=SylverSun;36954716]
Rant aside, does anyone know if the engi's dispenser still has the insane healing effect still?[/QUOTE]
"Repair Station Changes - Engineers have always loved being able to heal their teammates, but other players have always really hated how free and easy the healing was from the repair stations. Thus, we’re trying a couple of different solutions, and while we haven’t settled on a specific one quite yet, we’re trying a few different mechanics. [B]To give you an idea of the direction, one of the more promising styles is a repair station being a deployed as a crate of a couple of health and ammo pickups – that either team can take. This means Engineers have to be a little more careful about where and when they place them, and that they don’t continuously provide sustained healing.[/b] We like that Engineers were the only non-Biotech that could heal and support their teammates in that fashion, and will ensure that they can still do that, even if it means not just placing a deployable that continuously heals."
From the Firefall Facebook:
[QUOTE]Join the Red 5 tribe at GamesCom August 16th - 19th in Cologne, Germany to celebrate the launch of EU servers for Firefall. We'll be playing the latest version of Firefall at our booth in Hall 8.
We are also partnering with ESL ([url]www.esl.eu[/url]) for a weekend tournament at the show with a prize pool of 10,000 Euros. You can find out more information on the tournament at [url]http://ow.ly/czSYj[/url][/QUOTE]
Anyone else starting to get the feeling we'll be seeing a new update soon? (if PAX was anything to go by)
I recall them saying we'll get it by the end of July, hopefully they aren't like SOE with the Planetside 2 beta and will actually deliver
Why does it take months to get a beta keeeyyy.
Been waiting 2 months and no key. (Yeah I know people have waited longer.)
[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;36998100]Why does it take months to get a beta keeeyyy.
Been waiting 2 months and no key. (Yeah I know people have waited longer.)[/QUOTE]
I'd make a card crusher about it but I'm afraid of being banned. I reckon there will be a huge flood of invites when the EU server goes up, so stick around and you'll probably get one in here really easily.
EU servers? Yay!
[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;36998100]Why does it take months to get a beta keeeyyy.
Been waiting 2 months and no key. (Yeah I know people have waited longer.)[/QUOTE]
I think there are no keys being given atm as there is basically nothing happening in firefall.
[editline]30th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36997865]I recall them saying we'll get it by the end of July, hopefully they aren't like SOE with the Planetside 2 beta and will actually deliver[/QUOTE]
I hope so. Though they were talking about "somewhere around end of july and beginning of august.
[B]Though[/B] i think they WILL release it before PAX so that they get people to test first. They wouldn't want to throw a game with so many changes right into public without proper testing.
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;37017848][url]http://www.firefallthegame.com/community/threads/milestone-update.46432/[/url]
welp[/QUOTE]
Woooh! The long wait is coming to an end!
I did an excitement wee.
Anyone feel like PMing me some details from that post? My goddamn account is bugged and I can't view the beta boards on the forum. :/
The good news is we have a definite probable general release date for the milestone update
The bad news is it's not this week
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;37017848][URL]http://www.firefallthegame.com/community/threads/milestone-update.46432/[/URL]
welp[/QUOTE]
does the link not work for anyone else?
[editline]1st August 2012[/editline]
shit nevermind i wasn't logged in
[editline]1st August 2012[/editline]
fucking PONIES are you shitting me??? christ no where is safe
I'm logged in and I still can't see that page.
[quote]Hey all,
It's time again for a milestone update. I know many of you have been waiting to hear what's happening. Last Thursday the internal Firefall build was put into lockdown, which means only bug fixes are allowed to be checked in unless otherwise approved. The entire company spent the day hammering on the build to locate any showstopper or critical issues.
Suffice to say, there were definitely some issues. We are still working on categorizing, prioritizing, assigning, and fixing all the bugs that we can. If all goes well over the next few days, then on Friday we plan to shut down the beta servers so that we can begin deploying test builds to the external server infrastructure.
The Red 5 team will continue to deploy and test over the weekend to knock out any new bugs that crop up on the new environment with the goal of launching the new milestone early next week.
Obviously all dates mentioned here are goals and not guarantees. Should we hit major bugs that would prevent a stable environment, we need to rethink the deployment strategy and deal with those issues. Hopefully all goes well and we'll all be playing the latest version of Firefall next week.
Thank you for your patience and continued support. As always, if I have new updates, I will provide them as quickly as I can.[/quote]
Your welcome.
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;37017848][url]http://www.firefallthegame.com/community/threads/milestone-update.46432/[/url]
welp[/QUOTE]
Finally, I've been waiting forever for this update and now, while away in Ukraine, I will enjoy thinking about playing it.
[quote]Mark Kern ‏@Grummz
Firefall beta servers have been shut down. Big patch is coming. #pureawesome #hardwork #[B]soon[/B][/quote]
Soon...
Beta invites pls firefall pls.
I'm starting to run out of fun games to play for free.
[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;37075039]I'm starting to run out of fun games to play for free.[/QUOTE]
Well [I]thars[/I] yer problem!
1 day to go! Hopefully this all works out for them.
So this update explains why it was down one or two days ago?
[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;36998100]Why does it take months to get a beta keeeyyy.
Been waiting 2 months and no key. (Yeah I know people have waited longer.)[/QUOTE]I had to wait 6 months for me to get my key, and I was an active forum member since sep '10.
Just wait.
Wow I almost forgot about Firefall. Signed up for beta last year and never heard from it again.
[QUOTE=mchapra;37088567]So this update explains why it was down one or two days ago?[/QUOTE]
"The beta servers are now offline. They will remain offline until the new milestone is released and ready for all of you. We hope for this to be early next week.
The reason we took the servers down is so that we could test the new milestone in a production environment. The entire Red 5 team is working over the weekend to test the build in the hopes that it'll be all good for you early next week."
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