Firefall

Anybody playing or interested in Firefall?

It's an online sci-fi fps with rpg elements built around a relatively dynamic world, a pretty complex and nice crafting system and there seems to be only a small difference in power between new and old characters which is something I'd really like to see much more often. It is and will be free to play and I feel like developers really care about fairness when it comes to selling things to players (ie no pay-to-win, mostly cosmetic).

The reason I'm asking - and by the way suggesting to give it a try - is the GUI's modability. It reminds me a tiny little bit (and not just because of the Lua) of Zero-K, although as an fps it doesn't have any sort of automation.

For those interested in lore: There was a big disaster. You control a character who's spending their day killing monsters, mining for different resources (this reminds me a tad of Dwarf Fortress) of varying quality using a thumper, trying to push back some crazy freaks who come from an all-devouring big blob of ???.. uh yeah and all this happens in Brazil and stuff.

The game is currently in closed beta, I've got five closed-beta keys to give away (and I think those get five keys each too, duh, dunno) and open beta will be starting in ~1 month (July 9th). Ya, I think that's about it. Oh wait: It doesn't run on Linux and Mac (I think), at least not natively.

edit: A note! Deep water is bad for your health!
edit2: Another note! I can see email addresses of people who used a key! ZOMG

That game is seriously hurt by the fact that it has the Starcraft logo with the text changed.

Hey, the game setting is in Fortaleza :P

Will try it in the open beta.

quote: although as an fps it doesn't have any sort of automation.

Most FPS "automation" i have see is Aimbots...
But not idea if it is useful in a FPS/RPG thing.

Skasi, I'll give it a try.

Looks pretty cool and I have a new graphics card I want to try out ;-)

I agree Saktoth, more often than not that's the case. I'm not sure how grindy the gameplay will be, simply because it's beta and a lot of things can change. There's no "go out and kill 5 blah blah, then deliver this item to that person and come back" yet. The current character/item design* and the fact that most players seem to prefer to "level" up and improve stats only for a short time (reminds me of ZK's unlocks) got me hooked. The developers say it's not an MMO. In fact there's just a few dozen players in one instance (aka shard) of the world, right now in the morning it's 12-17 players in one, usually it's around 50-60. I've read that devs want to make it so players can lose a shard to the melding. That'd be the first bigger online game I know where players can lose on this scale.

* I just started playing a few days ago, but from what I know current item design looks as follows: The best items you will be able to get are around twice or maybe trice as good as starting items. Since gear requires "power" and "mass" though, players will not be able to equip many of those, unless they replace their other equipment with very low quality stuff, or none at all. Some time ago they removed a skilltree and tier system (you get your character to a high level, then upgrade to a better). Again this reminds me of how ZK has gotten rid of tech levels.

[AOF]AgentE382 I'll send you a key per PM. You can redeem it here. Please tell us whether you got beta keys too once you use it. :)

quote: lose a shard to the melding

i don't even

It's pretty much just a generic fast-paced fps, but without the open world pvp, yup Sak.

@MauranKilom: Key sent.

This is going to sound really noob, but in the two years I've been playing ZK, I've never PM'ed someone. Where are my messages? Is there even a way to contact an offline player?

If not, I'm AgentE381 on Steam and I'm in the ZK group.

So... Noob again. Where do I check messages?

I didn't find anything in the Nightwatch chat channel...

quote: I didn't find anything in the Nightwatch chat channel...

Nightwatch is a bot, not a channel. Also it would pm you anything you've been private-messaged once you login.

Sometimes it also forgets to do that :)