https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/6/15930776/firefall-shutting-down-red-5-studios
Firefall died a quiet death, i was shocked there was no Gaf thread
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RIP Firefall
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https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/6/15930776/firefall-shutting-down-red-5-studios
Firefall died a quiet death, i was shocked there was no Gaf thread
NinjaCoachZ
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vincenth69
Member
Never heard of it.
Snowblindvictim
Member
One and done. Hilarious.
I thought about making a thread when I got an email from "Em-8ER" (read as Ember I guess) which is apparently some sort of spiritual successor to it, but I wondered if people even knew Firefall was still alive all this time, or what it even was.
https://em8er.com/
They had a "funding" campaign and all and were promising credit to all Firefall old users, so here we go again!
https://em8er.com/
They had a "funding" campaign and all and were promising credit to all Firefall old users, so here we go again!
Prez from The Wire?
Tons of money doesn't always mean smart money
LelouchZero
Member
I thought this went down last year? Firefall had such a really cool concept, it's quite sad to see it go. I was following it since it's inception and played quite a bit of it 
They only got art right now, not even a demo
SliceSabre
Banned
I heard of this game once and entirely forgot it existed.
Pinko Marx
Banned
That which is already dead cannot die.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Remember playing it at Pax East back in... 2013 I think?
Was never impressed with it
Was never impressed with it
That's right, the funding campaign was actually just to develop a small playable demo as proof of concept. Of a self defined "massive planetary wargame" with 24/7 kaiju multiplayer battles involving hundreds of players.
Yeah... deep down I think I didn't make the thread to save some poor soul from even warming up to the idea.
SparksterMeta0
Member
I may have heard of it at a Gamescom some years ago, and last year I heard of the development hell it went through which included that damn bus.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
What's wrong with him?
wtf am I watching.. hahahah
lol I hope not
NinjaCoachZ
Member
He is Strife of the undead. Bringer of good tidings. Lover of werewolves and Morrissey.
Purple Cheeto
Member
I'm surprised it was still going in any state. A bunch of people I know who worked there haven't worked there in years. Must've been a skeleton crew the past two years.
Man a nice site can get you so much free money. The book is cool i give them that
GuitarAtomik
Member
Surprised it lasted this long.
I really wanted this game to be good. I remember signing up for the website/beta long before the beta went live, and being really excited about the idea of a sci-fi setting MMO using an FPS playstyle, and really interested in the lore they were revealing on the website.
Then the game went live and they didn't do much with it, and made it kind-of a grind fest with little to no actual story development there, and tried to focus on eSports even though not much of their playerbase cared about that, and kept swapping progression systems around, usually not for the better. :/
Sucks, though; the game had potential, even though they totally squandered it. And I know a guy who left the place I work at to work there, only a few months before things started to really go downhill for Red 5.
Then the game went live and they didn't do much with it, and made it kind-of a grind fest with little to no actual story development there, and tried to focus on eSports even though not much of their playerbase cared about that, and kept swapping progression systems around, usually not for the better. :/
And then I learned about what kind of a person Grummz (forgot his real name) is and felt dirty for ever looking at the game to begin with.
Sucks, though; the game had potential, even though they totally squandered it. And I know a guy who left the place I work at to work there, only a few months before things started to really go downhill for Red 5.
Sir Abacus
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It was like Wildstar. It was a mediocre, middle of the road experience that would have been great about five years before it came out. But the world moved on and I have too many games to play.
sixteen-bit
Member
Didn't they build an expensive custom esports bus for this game?
Dog Problems
Banned
Well that's sad. I played a little when it was in open beta, I think? Enjoyed it and always meant to go back.
I speel my dreenk
Member
When Firefall first entered alpha/beta/whatever their initial invite-only play phase was, and it was just Copacabana and the sparsely populated walled-off open world, it felt like it had such promise and was already quite fun. It handled really well and looked great for the time, there just wasn't much to do - but I still played a bunch of it. Then development stalled out, and years of quiet and eSports later, here we are. Damn shame.
...but yeah holy shit
...but yeah holy shit
the anime man
Banned
That was fucking hilarious.
captianpants
Neo Member
yup that's where I played it too
also not impressed
did they ever get sued for using the Starcraft font ?
ChasingComets
Member
This is amazing.
It really wasn't. It probably could've been, but good lord was it not.
I played in the very first open beta and was surprised at how poorly it ran on my computer. Fired it up again after I upgraded and they revamped how their loot and crafting mechanics worked and it was just a confusing, micro-transaction fueled, mess.
I really liked the idea of an open world game heavily centered around jump packs, traversal was super fun, I loved how the transports weren't just loading gates and you could jump out early and glide around, but the game just had so many small problems.
Had a fun bug though were I got into a transport and ascended to the top of the skybox, haha.
I really liked the idea of an open world game heavily centered around jump packs, traversal was super fun, I loved how the transports weren't just loading gates and you could jump out early and glide around, but the game just had so many small problems.
Had a fun bug though were I got into a transport and ascended to the top of the skybox, haha.
matrixman92
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in the dark dark woods, theres a dark dark cabin. In the dark dark cabin, theres a dark dark room. In the dark dark room, theres a dark dark cabinet. In the dark dark cabinet, theres a dark dark shelf. On the dark dark shelf, theres a dark dark box. And in the dark dark box.......there is firefall
Baron Von Beans
Member
I know nothing about Firefall, or the gif that was posted so far. I'm two minutes in to the video accompanying the gif, and I need to learn everything I can about this stuff. It's.....really something.
Edit - is this an actual show?? Do they have normal shows?
Edit2 - Omg. I am enthralled by that clip show. Currently now watching the two and a half hour full stream fore more. Is there a summary of events for the event? WHo was that normal guy? Was he in on it?! How did this even happen? Did they actually rob the show?
Edit3 - Seriously, wth is up with this show. I found it's tied to Mega64....but are all of their podcats like this? Any fans of MEga 64 here? This Firefall thing seems like one big joke. A joke that isn't funny. A joke that keeps getting attention, and being retold in worse ways.
Edit - is this an actual show?? Do they have normal shows?
Edit2 - Omg. I am enthralled by that clip show. Currently now watching the two and a half hour full stream fore more. Is there a summary of events for the event? WHo was that normal guy? Was he in on it?! How did this even happen? Did they actually rob the show?
Edit3 - Seriously, wth is up with this show. I found it's tied to Mega64....but are all of their podcats like this? Any fans of MEga 64 here? This Firefall thing seems like one big joke. A joke that isn't funny. A joke that keeps getting attention, and being retold in worse ways.
TheBrainninja
Member
i am dying here
matrixman92
Member
The guy in a zombie costume was some head person from firefall. They asked mega64 to be on there, and said they could do whatever they wanted. He didn't know they were going to do this goth skit. So they showed up in goth attire and improvd from there. They talked about it on a mega64 podcast one time
If by normal guy you mean the guy in penguin shirt, he was in on it. That's Shawn from mega64
Tim Minchin's looking a bit off.
Jest Chillin
Member
The game played very well but the problem was that they never finished any idea they had. They would start going one direction.. stall out and then overhaul everything. They did this multiple times and every single time they lost a huge chunk of the playerbase that enjoyed whatever the previous iteration was.
Potential was there and the base was solid. Just couldn't figure out a clear direction and follow through.
Potential was there and the base was solid. Just couldn't figure out a clear direction and follow through.
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