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Firefall: PAX Preview, Demo Impressions & More
SBFord
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During PAX last weekend, FPSGuru.com's Adam Janovyak managed to get a good look at Firefall. Adam has a ton of impressions of Firefall, from the size of Firefall's presence on the showroom floor to his impressions of the demo. It's a great read for fans of the MMOFPS genre!
At PAX, Red 5 Studios was showing off both Firefall’s PvP and PvE elements. The PvE was just a small taste of what Firefall is going to be bringing to the table as far as quests and size of the world (which is reported to be over ten square miles). But the taste was still delicious. That sentence kind of creeped me out as soon as I wrote it... It’s true though so I’m going to take it back. From what I saw, Firefall’s PvE aspect is like most MMORPG’s, only way better in my opinion because it is a shooter. There is no “dice-rolling” to see if you hit in Firefall because it is all based on skill.
Read more of FPSGuru.com's Firefall PAX Preview.
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estimate release ?
Official release is in december, closed beta starts today.
The Fpsguru preview was pretty good. And romanator, the closed beta doesn't start today, there has been some misinformation flying around. They're trying to send the first wave of beta keys before the end of this week but there's no word of the start of beta date yet.
Why the hell don''t these sites have an edit button? Forgot to put in my firefall forum name, ImOnTheRadio
from all the background chatter i'm getting about this game it might be the next mmo holy grail actualized... a true mmofps! finally!
i'm really flabbergasted it's not hyped more on mmorpg com since it's something us old trolls have been clamoring for since... forever?
dunno why this is so... lack of promo from red5? or the unpopular "F2P" model ("free", yeah right). Hmm.... LoL proved you can have a quality popular F2P which isn't exploitative grindfest. we'll see.. i've never seen so many 100% positive reviews from both official and unofficial sources.. excepet for GW2, ofc.
Yep, closed beta only starts at the end of the week. I really hope I'll get in it eventually though, this game looks really awesome.
@Pilnkplonk: Red 5 studios wanted to spend most of their time on making the game instead of marketing it to make it a really good game. Their theory is that if their game is good, players will come to it by themselves (people tell their people about the game, you know what happens then
). At PAX they really started promoting their game, firefall had one of the biggest booths there and there were even firefall stickers in the bathroom, they also had a big statue at PAX 
I'm pretty sure firefall will receive more media attention now that the closed beta will start soon
I'm really hyped about this game hopefully their payment model succeeds, but you never know. The game looks really good and it shows how much effort Red5 put into it. I'm a little amazed at how much advertising this game got at PAX, but so far it seems like the game truley deserves that much attention.
There is an edit button,you just have to go to the thread thru the main forum which you can access by clicking that link right below that picture just above the tweet tab,then click the edit tab.
Love that they're both showing off open world PvE, showing how dynamic missions work, etc. While at the same time providing a solid fun 10v10 PvP map. Don't forget they also had the 4th battleframe play-able for the first time at PAX. Lots of exciting stuff happened at pax and is bound to happen. Beta should be hitting soon. And it will hit hard. This game will revolutionize the F2P and general gaming market!
I hope we can change the colors of our armies transports to match the army. Same for the thumpers, and whatever other machinery/vehicles that they give us. Same for our Engineer built stuff, like the turrets or whatever else the engi builds.
Anyways to the video, I really like hwo the SIN works, and I cannot wait for my first Chosen invasion.