If anyone has a spare key, It will certainly be much appreciated, have never been lucky at getting selected for any betas and been dying to try out this game since they first released the trailer.
Thank you!
Dr. Von Derful United States. December 22 2011 20:04. Posts 346
A friend and I would love to get our hands on a beta key, if anyone has 2 (or just 1) to give away, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm extremely interested in the concept of an MMOFPS.
YunhOLee Canada. January 04 2012 23:27. Posts 2421
no new wave of invites yet & NDA still in effect so ;/
i was driving down the road this november eve and spotted a hitchiker walking down the street. i pulled over and saw that it was only a tree. i uprooted it and put it in my trunk. do trees like marshmallow peeps? cause that's all i have and will have.
iKill[ShocK] Vietnam. January 09 2012 21:57. Posts 1169
It's a little outdated by now, from October 2011, but I just saw this and had to share, very cool stuff. Makes sense why the Chinajoy Firefall trailer I posted on the last page says it takes place in Brazil :D
i was driving down the road this november eve and spotted a hitchiker walking down the street. i pulled over and saw that it was only a tree. i uprooted it and put it in my trunk. do trees like marshmallow peeps? cause that's all i have and will have.
FireWaterFX United States. January 10 2012 04:46. Posts 21
On January 04 2012 23:27 YunhOLee wrote: any news? i want to play this beta so bad
Hey all,
My name is FireWater, and I'm a very active member in the FireFall Community. I am also a member of the beta, and was invited to the Red 5 Studios community day as seen here:
So obviously I'm a huge firefall fan, and was so a soon as the PAX Trailer was released in 2010. I believe that this game can be a competitive shooter, because the developers are taking into consideration eSports, but also doing a huge reach into the casual community by offering open world PvE. Their CEO, Mark Kern, was the team lead on World of Warcraft, and also worked on Diablo I and II. Their lead designer is Scott Youngblood, who was the lead designer of Starsiege Tribes.
I can't comment on anything beta related, but what I am pretty sure of (and this is speculation) is that they are looking to expand the beta soon. Every beta member so far got 2 invites in each wave (I think there was 3 so far), and that is looking to expand, until invites just get kind of irrelevant.
I have to say, that when I went to the studio, I was extremely impressed. I met with their eSports Liason, Rhoulette from the Frag Dolls, and we had some pretty good conversation about eSports. While I don't have specifics, Red 5 studios is DEFINITELY interested in supporting the scene.
So now what I will pledge to do, is to give away a key (and see if I can secure more from my army Digital Syndicate) to the team liquid forums, as I feel that this community has given me a wealth of knowledge already. I would give both keys but I owe one to Mango, as he has been very helpful and is an old teammate of mine.
I will also post here any firefall forum contests for beta key givaways, if that is allowed.
Any other questions that aren't NDA related, please feel free to ask!
never heard of this game before but it certainly looks new. If anyone has spare key, feel free to contact me. I might have dota 2 key for exchange or Path of Exile :d
VTArlock United States. January 10 2012 05:49. Posts 1746
As I previously said, I'm in the beta, but cannot comment on my beta experiences due to NDA
From playing it at PAX I really loved this game, and will definitely be playing it a lot once it comes out. I do not have any beta keys, and the next few I get are fairly spoken for. If I get any extras I'll drop by here.
From talking with the devs, they not only seem to know what they are doing, but they have a passion for the game. When going around the booths at PAX, you can see which games are just churned out, and which ones have people truly passionate about them. It was very obvious with bioware, the devs on DA1 talking about it right before it came out were really excited and into it, the next year when they were talking about DA2 I could tell right then that the game would be ass, just because of how lackluster they had become.
With Firefall I got the same excitement as DA1, where the people showing you the game are there because they want to show off their baby, not because they're getting paid for it.
fucking NDA, I really want to talk about the beta!
Last edit: 2012-01-10 06:13:58
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VTArlock United States. January 10 2012 06:56. Posts 1746
Well Shiladie, I think it's safe to presume from your post that the beta is AMAZING . I'm sure they wont mind you spilling the beans on it's rad factor.
Hi, I'm Mark Kern, the CEO of Red 5 Studios, makers of Firefall.
We do have a seperate marketing budget. Rather than buy banner ads that don't really work anyways, we decided to use our Marketing budget to do cool things that have more impact. Firefall cosplay is only one small part of that, and Typhon and Mourningstar are going to be appearing in that armor at 6-10 events this year. The events are really what we built them for.
The high quality of the video and production is because we've realized that all game marketing right now is shifting to video. Screenshots and text blogs don't really cut it anymore. We invested in creating a little digital film dept inside of Red 5 called the "Chop Shop" which will produce all our gameplay videos, behinds the scenes, dev diaries and yes, even little documentaries like this one.
It does cost money, but we feel its surprisingly affordable compared to other avenues of marketing such as incredibly expensive ads. Ads cost $15,000 - $30,000 per month on a *single* site, and we shoot video for far less, especially since we have invested in our own staff and equipment so we can do lots of these. It used to cost us $70,000 to produce a gameplay trailer out of house, and now we can do them far cheaper, at higher quality, and soon, more frequently.
Thanks for all the interest in Red 5 and Firefall!
Planetside was one of my favorite games. I'm looking forward to PS2.
That said, Firefall offers a very different experence. We have huge open world PvE co-op play, fighitng off Chosen invasions, locating and refining Crystite resources into tech modules to upgrade your battleframes, and a story campaign.
There is room for both games. And Firefall will also feature open world PvP in the future.
Well, I came from Blizzard, so "it's done when it's done" runs deeply in my veins.
But really...what we are working on now is the Open World. It takes a lot longer to do that than the PvP aspect. We don't have a release date, but bring the game up in phases of features and content. Each phase is accompanied by more testers. At some point, the store will be brought online, but the game will still be in beta but with even more users. At some point, we drop the beta tag altogether and let users invite whoever they want.
Last edit: 2012-01-10 19:46:05
i was driving down the road this november eve and spotted a hitchiker walking down the street. i pulled over and saw that it was only a tree. i uprooted it and put it in my trunk. do trees like marshmallow peeps? cause that's all i have and will have.
YunhOLee Canada. January 10 2012 23:12. Posts 2421
On January 04 2012 23:27 YunhOLee wrote: any news? i want to play this beta so bad
Hey all,
My name is FireWater, and I'm a very active member in the FireFall Community. I am also a member of the beta, and was invited to the Red 5 Studios community day as seen here:
So obviously I'm a huge firefall fan, and was so a soon as the PAX Trailer was released in 2010. I believe that this game can be a competitive shooter, because the developers are taking into consideration eSports, but also doing a huge reach into the casual community by offering open world PvE. Their CEO, Mark Kern, was the team lead on World of Warcraft, and also worked on Diablo I and II. Their lead designer is Scott Youngblood, who was the lead designer of Starsiege Tribes.
I can't comment on anything beta related, but what I am pretty sure of (and this is speculation) is that they are looking to expand the beta soon. Every beta member so far got 2 invites in each wave (I think there was 3 so far), and that is looking to expand, until invites just get kind of irrelevant.
I have to say, that when I went to the studio, I was extremely impressed. I met with their eSports Liason, Rhoulette from the Frag Dolls, and we had some pretty good conversation about eSports. While I don't have specifics, Red 5 studios is DEFINITELY interested in supporting the scene.
So now what I will pledge to do, is to give away a key (and see if I can secure more from my army Digital Syndicate) to the team liquid forums, as I feel that this community has given me a wealth of knowledge already. I would give both keys but I owe one to Mango, as he has been very helpful and is an old teammate of mine.
I will also post here any firefall forum contests for beta key givaways, if that is allowed.
Any other questions that aren't NDA related, please feel free to ask!
Dsyn-FireWater
how will you choose whos going to win that beta key? :D
Last edit: 2012-01-10 23:18:53
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FireWaterFX United States. January 11 2012 07:34. Posts 21
I have a few thoughts, either doing a random drawing (if allowed) or maybe a first come first serve, where I post an opportunity for a key, and the first responder gets it.
It is what it is, until it isn't.
bakedace United States. January 11 2012 07:51. Posts 659
On January 11 2012 07:34 FireWaterFX wrote: I have a few thoughts, either doing a random drawing (if allowed) or maybe a first come first serve, where I post an opportunity for a key, and the first responder gets it.
would love the chance
deth2munkies United States. January 11 2012 08:08. Posts 1804
(Thank you KST ;D)
