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Post by psijaka on Dec 31, 2011 2:42:54 GMT -5
Hey, have any bros registered for or are in the FireFall Beta?I'm really getting excited about this; both the competitive multiplayer and the open world aspects of the game look great, and the graphics are just sumptuous. And the developers, Red 5, have stated that it will be true Free 2 Play. Check out this video of open world gameplay with dev. commentary for a taster - And this for multiplayer with commentary - 2 hours of closed Beta live footage with commentary Update on Beta progress www.firefallthegame.com/community/threads/firefall-beta-update-2-27-2012.19713/You can register for the beta at www.firefallthegame.com/home
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Post by psijaka on Jan 4, 2012 6:07:27 GMT -5
Well, I've been offered a beta key pretty quickly, much to my surprise as they appear to be in great demand Quite excited about this game; and they are a pretty friendly bunch on the forum. Edit - Beta covered by a Non Disclosure Agreement, so unfortunately I will not be able to report back in any way.
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Post by psijaka on Jan 12, 2012 12:40:54 GMT -5
If any Bros are hungry for a Beta invite, this is how you can get one: 1/ receiving a random invite from the developers, Red5. A bit of a long shot; some people have been waiting several months. 2/ getting an invite from an existing beta member. Whenever Red5 have wanted more people to join in the past, they have given 2 invites to existing Beta members to hand out as they wish. 3/ enter one of the many competitions that crop up in the off topic section; basically people from 2 above giving away their spare invites. Often these are a simple lottery, but sometimes there is a competitive element, which can be quite entertaining. So if you really are keen to lay your hands on a beta; just join in discussions on the forum, and maybe enter a competition or 2 (even if you lose, it may get you noticed). Some good threads on the forum and some more light hearted stuff (I just love the fact that a my little pony thread is the most viewed on the forum), but the beta forum (accessible once you get an invite) achieves bro like levels of discussion. I got a Beta invite 8 days after registering, I think because I got stuck in and started posting on the forum; must have made a good impression somehow because, out of the blue, I got a private message asking me if I wanted an invite . Good luck!
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Post by rudybojangles on Jan 15, 2012 11:46:40 GMT -5
If you don't have anyone else lined up... could I reserve an invite from you if you happen to get extra?
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Post by psijaka on Jan 15, 2012 14:28:05 GMT -5
If you don't have anyone else lined up... could I reserve an invite from you if you happen to get extra? I'm not making any promises on this, rudy, but you are the only Bro that has shown any interest in Firefall so far.....
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Post by mannon on Jan 15, 2012 18:33:51 GMT -5
It looks pretty cool and I'm rather curious, but I doubt my current PC can run it. ;-( Also if it's going to be subscription I will not be playing it. But if it's free to play then I might try it after it's out. I might be able to dumb it down enough to be playable. Some games work like that and others don't. New games are usually iffy, though.
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Post by psijaka on Jan 16, 2012 5:35:14 GMT -5
It looks pretty cool and I'm rather curious, but I doubt my current PC can run it. ;-( Also if it's going to be subscription I will not be playing it. But if it's free to play then I might try it after it's out. I might be able to dumb it down enough to be playable. Some games work like that and others don't. New games are usually iffy, though. The developers are adamant that it will be true "free to play", and not "play to win", mannon, I'll post the published requirements for the beta shortly. Edit - found this post by a mod on the Firefall site: "Welcome! They're still working on optimization but the current target is something like a 9800GT, dual core CPU, and 4 gigs of RAM as the minimum reqs." Nvidia GeForce 9800GT is 3.5 years old graphics card, although a fairly good one "back in the day".
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Post by Usagi on Jan 17, 2012 15:38:47 GMT -5
I remember seeing/hearing about this game almost a year ago. It looks really cool and the art style reminds me of Borderlands. Quite frankly I'd love to play but I don't think I have the time to really get into an MMO as they're always a huge investment of effort and time. I must admit that I am skeptical that it will be free to play because it looks like a huge undertaking for the developers, and if it's really as good as we think it will be, games of that caliber don't come cheap.
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Post by psijaka on Jan 18, 2012 3:06:15 GMT -5
I remember seeing/hearing about this game almost a year ago. It looks really cool and the art style reminds me of Borderlands. Quite frankly I'd love to play but I don't think I have the time to really get into an MMO as they're always a huge investment of effort and time. I must admit that I am skeptical that it will be free to play because it looks like a huge undertaking for the developers, and if it's really as good as we think it will be, games of that caliber don't come cheap. There are a number of short 5v5 Player games (variants of TDM etc),as well as the open world, which is what I presume you are referring to.
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Post by rudybojangles on Jan 18, 2012 12:40:12 GMT -5
If you don't have anyone else lined up... could I reserve an invite from you if you happen to get extra? I'm not making any promises on this, rudy, but you are the only Bro that has shown any interest in Firefall so far.....
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Post by psijaka on Jan 22, 2012 13:00:03 GMT -5
1000 random Beta invites went out last Thursday (19th Jan), the day after Red5 Studios went dark in protest at SOPA.
"Hey folks, Just wanted to thank you all for sitting through our blackout yesterday. Your support is extremely appreciated, especially for such a good cause. In an effort to share our thanks, we are sending out an additional 1000 invites today. We hope those of you that receive an invite will join us in testing Firefall. We are continuing to send out invites every week and we will see the numbers continue to grow as we get further into the year. Thank you for being a part of the Firefall community."
Phobos; community manager
Note the "invites every week" bit.
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Post by tiesieman on Jan 25, 2012 14:10:47 GMT -5
I looked at some footage of this...and I don't know what to make out of this. The art style isn't really that attractive (for me) but gameplay looks decent enough. Probably won't play it though since nobody I know will be playing anyway
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Post by psijaka on Feb 3, 2012 5:50:17 GMT -5
BETA LIVE STREAM
2 hours of live closed beta footage with commentary.
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Post by rubionubio on Feb 3, 2012 11:43:24 GMT -5
Registered, looks pretty neato! Watching the videos now.
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Post by mannon on Feb 15, 2012 9:31:19 GMT -5
I figured I'd go ahead and register. I still doubt I can get an acceptable framerate in the game but some games let me dumb them down enough and since there is PvE it might work out. at low framerates. (I play Borderlands with my GF at 15 to 20 FPS and it's still fun to play.) Trying to play an FPS in PvP at that prolly not going to work so well, though. And hopefully it has a stupid amount of stuff for me to turn off, though it seems like with my video card good framerates always come down to lowering resolution more than anything else.
It's weird but I can turn on 8x or even 16x AA in most games and get little or no FPS drop, but any increase in screen resolution what so ever tends to hammer me. ;p I think I actually play Magicka in 800x600. O,o And I still get crap performance and glitches... but that game is just TOO fun not to play so it doesn't matter.
Anyway back to FireFall... apparently I didn't get a key just for registering so I guess I'll lurk on the forums a bit. I'm not asking any bros to gift me one, though... It's unlikely that the game will actually be playable so it would prolly be wasted.
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Post by stofferstoffer on Feb 15, 2012 17:27:07 GMT -5
BETA LIVE STREAM 2 hours of live closed beta footage with commentary. Hey im a huuge firefall fan, and wanted to know if you are in possesion of a key? literally did everything on your "how to get a key" post in weeks now, but people seems to be running out of keys.
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Post by raxcoswell on Feb 16, 2012 16:26:59 GMT -5
hell yeah the whole reason i took friday off from work was so i could stay up really late thursday night watching 2 hrs of some game on youtube
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Post by psijaka on Feb 16, 2012 17:52:12 GMT -5
I figured I'd go ahead and register. .. Anyway back to FireFall... apparently I didn't get a key just for registering so I guess I'll lurk on the forums a bit. I'm not asking any bros to gift me one, though... It's unlikely that the game will actually be playable so it would prolly be wasted. Yeah, I was offered a Beta key when I was just running on a lame laptop that wouldn't even run BFBC2. But getting the key spurred me on to buy a half decent gaming PC; nothing too fancy but gets the job done nicely. Intel i3 4GB RAM Nvidia GTX550ti Really enjoying BFBC2 on my new machine, by the way. Sooooo much better than COD, IMO. Hey im a huuge firefall fan, and wanted to know if you are in possesion of a key? literally did everything on your "how to get a key" post in weeks now, but people seems to be running out of keys. I was lucky enough to get a key after 8 days of activity on the forum. The offer came in a PM from a existing Beta member with a spare key. Very grateful! Red 5 are giving away keys pretty regularly, I believe.
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Post by psijaka on Feb 17, 2012 18:31:33 GMT -5
2 beta keys have recently been given to all existing members, so there are lots being given away on the Firefall forum at the moment. www.firefallthegame.com/community/Mine are spoken for, by the way.
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Post by psijaka on Feb 21, 2012 2:42:43 GMT -5
I've given away the 2 Firefall Beta invites that I have recently been given, but I'm on the scrounge for more. If any Bros would like a Beta key, please let me know.
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Post by Megaqwerty on Feb 25, 2012 15:15:52 GMT -5
If any bro does acquire a spare key in the future, I would more than love to receive it.
...although "Tribes-like gameplay" does scare me off. I just started playing the Tribes Ascend beta and, God, I suck at it.
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Post by Den on Feb 25, 2012 17:38:55 GMT -5
There's no GOTTA GO FAST in Firefall.
It's a lot like Global Agenda.
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Post by psijaka on Feb 26, 2012 16:34:00 GMT -5
If any bro does acquire a spare key in the future, I would more than love to receive it. ...although "Tribes-like gameplay" does scare me off. I just started playing the Tribes Ascend beta and, God, I suck at it. Not sure when I'll be given another 2 invites, but will be giving them to Bros. Interest noted I really wish that I could talk about the Beta, but it is covered by an NDA.
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Post by Den on Feb 26, 2012 16:56:24 GMT -5
I really wish that I could talk about the Beta, but it is covered by an NDA. Perhaps I could do... this.
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Post by psijaka on Feb 28, 2012 8:31:22 GMT -5
Latest public update on the Firefall Beta from Phobos, Community Manager, Red5:"Hey Folks, It's been a while since my last beta update. My sincere apologies for that. It's been busy around here to say the least. We've had a lot of new staff starting and we've been really moving on getting more and more of our game out to beta testers. Last week we sent out our largest wave of invites ever. A total of 10,000 invites were sent by Red 5 and over 8000 invites were given to our beta testers to give out just the week before. This more than doubled our existing beta users. All these additional users created a very scary situation as we weren't sure how many would be able to play on Saturday. Since we are still on a strict testing schedule, some users aren't able to play when the servers are up. In the end though, we nearly tripled our previous record of concurrent users and more than tripled the number of unique users. All didn't go perfectly though. As we expected, the massive increase of users pointed out a lot of places where our scalability was bottlenecked. Some of these issues we were able to fix on the fly and keep running the test. Others are being tasked out to engineers to get fixed ASAP. Just a couple of weeks ago we moved our users from a temporary zone where they could queue up for PVP into Copacabana, the starting area that will ship with the game. This is still mostly just a queuing area, though we do have various creatures for testers to kill and loot. We also revealed manufacturing, resource refining, and more within that release. The release of Copacabana allows us to roll out new content a lot easier than before, so we are currently prepping for the release of resource collection (aka thumpers), Chosen combat, missions, invasions, and more. There's still a lot to do for each of those, so they will probably come out in bits and pieces, but it's a very exciting time for us. While we probably won't send out more invites this week (at least until we get most of the scaling problems fixed), we are still growing beta and will be doing so much more rapidly than in previous weeks. Keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter for additional chances to grab keys. Thanks for being a part of this community. Thank you for all of your support. I hope to see you all in game very soon. " www.firefallthegame.com/community/threads/firefall-beta-update-2-27-2012.19713/ ;D
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Post by darkkuma on Mar 2, 2012 12:32:28 GMT -5
Would it be possible for anyone with an extra key to firefall beta to pass one my way? Been trying for a key since last year, with little luck.
Cheers,
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Post by psijaka on Mar 24, 2012 6:19:56 GMT -5
If any bro does acquire a spare key in the future, I would more than love to receive it. ...although "Tribes-like gameplay" does scare me off. I just started playing the Tribes Ascend beta and, God, I suck at it. You still after an invite, Mega? If any other True Bros would like an invite; please let me know. Be quick!By True Bros I mean long standing and active members of the forum.
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Post by psijaka on Mar 26, 2012 8:19:01 GMT -5
Anybody interested in a Firefall Beta key?
Please reply today: I'll be offering them elsewhere tomorrow as I don't want them to go unused; there's a lot of demand on the Firefall forum.
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Post by mannon on Mar 26, 2012 14:20:34 GMT -5
I would, but I don't think I can run the game. I could be wrong, though. I was able to get Tribes:Ascend running okay with some low res.
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Post by psijaka on Mar 27, 2012 0:52:14 GMT -5
I would, but I don't think I can run the game. I could be wrong, though. I was able to get Tribes:Ascend running okay with some low res. Want to give it a try? Check your messages
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