Firefall Beta Preview

klaynexas3

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FEichinger said:
klaynexas3 said:
This appears a lot like global agenda. Maybe a bit of a different story, but the over all gameplay looks rather the same. The only extra class here is the dreadnaught, and even that was covered by the assault class in global agenda. The rest of the classes have the exact same name, and seem to have the same abilities as those in global agenda. I'm doubting they could beat global agenda's PvP, especially with the AvA and such, but as it is a free game, I'll still give it a look.
It appears how Global Agenda used to be, or was supposed to become, not like today's cash shop imbalanced pile of ... well, you get my drift.
That said, currently it's still mid-development, estimates go from less than 10% finished to around 30% finished. An Army System and Open World conquest (as well as the Staged Content ExtraCreditz showed) is coming, as well as Open World PvP of some sort. PvP is also supposed to be less instanced but seamless with the Open World, so, basically, you enter the arena and hop straight into the PvP match. Said arena is part of the Open World itself, thus you just transition from the PvE area to the PvP arena (Go wordplay!).
Throw in the large PvE random events and the fight against the Chosen + Melding and you end up with an amazing game to come. Global Agenda 2.0 with a much larger focus on combining PvE and PvP, if you will.
One thing I beg to differ on, though: Except for the Engineer, none of the battleframes is properly comparable to Global Agenda's classes, as both weapons and abilities differ largely from GA's devices in both application and functunality. (Read: A whole different set of abilities, and a different system for weapons)
All that I know about Firefall is from this video, I was simply giving my thoughts on how it appeared in the video. I will admit Global Agenda is kind of crappy at the moment due to all the bugs and it having been for the most part forgotten by Hi-Rez.

And I understand this is still in beta, so I understand why it might seem a little unfinished, but at first glance, really, I think it closely resembles Global Agenda. That's just my opinion though.