- xSapphire
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Did anyone got the chance to play this game yet? It's out in closed beta right now. If not, have you heard about it before, and are you excited for it?
If you've never heard about it, Firefall is a free-to-play MMOFPS for PC currently under development by Red 5 Studios, based approximately 200 years in the future after humanity suffered a series of major catastrophic events, one being a massive meteor shower known as the Firefall, and the other being a more recent event, an energy storm unleashed by humanity's first attempt to FTL travel, a wall of death called The Melding, which almost covered the whole planet.
The beta takes place in a "small" 10 square mile area in Brazil, around the crashed Arclight, the ship that crashed to Earth after its failed FTL jump, and the only place on Earth not consumed by energy storms. You start off as a soldier of The Accord. Being in the future, everyone runs around in high-tech exosuits called Battleframes. These frames come in severalclasses, and even the lightest frame, Recon, weighs more than 5 metric tons. They include Recon, Biotech, Assault, Engineer, and Dreadnought. In the game, you mine for resources to upgrade your frame, hold back The Melding, and fight The Chosen, interdimensional beings who came from the energy storms to wipe out the last of the human race.
Firefall Introductive cinematic trailer: The Arclight's failed FTL jump and the release of The Melding
Firefall early cinematic trailer, showing how one mines for resources, and the dangers behind it
Screenshots and stuff!
Some of the scenery.
More scenery, also third-person view.
The crashed Arclight off the coast.
A Chosen outpost.
The Melding, the energy storm that engulfed the rest of the planet.
My Battleframe, Recon class.
So, that's it. The game is absolutely fantastic, I urge you to make an account on the site so that you can possibly get a chance to get in too! Also, I do have one beta key that I can give to one other person... >.>
[Edited on 12.12.2012 7:26 PM PST]