Firefall first public beta weekend starts Friday

If you're looking for a new way to shoot faces this weekend, consider giving free-to-play shooter MMO Firefall a bash in its first proper public beta weekend. It's been running in a closed beta for a while, selling access and 'Founder' membership in tiers starting at $20, but all and sundry are allowed in over the weekend.

Alice O'Connor

January 22, 2013 4:00 PM

The beta will kick off at 10am PDT on Friday then run until 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, developer Red 5 announced. To get in, simply register an account. Don't think you'll go playing non-stop for 62 hours, oh no, as accounts are limited to 48 hours of play over the weekend. Just because.

Look, here's a new trailer showing off the joys of shooting man and beast:

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January 22, 2013 4:00 PM

Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Firefall first public beta weekend starts Friday.

If you're looking for a new way to shoot faces this weekend, consider giving free-to-play shooter MMO Firefall a bash in its first proper public beta weekend. It's been running in a closed beta for a while, selling access and 'Founder' membership in tiers starting at $20, but all and sundry are allowed in over the weekend.
- seawolfnfhq
  
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  January 22, 2013 4:01 PM
  
  whee more dx9 games
  - Gwyndion
    
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    January 22, 2013 6:17 PM
    
    I don't think you would say this if you saw the game in motion. It's gorgeous, one of the prettiest games I've seen.
    - intothefray
      
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      January 22, 2013 6:36 PM
      
      Yep, the look and feel is great.
      - InfoBiter
        
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        January 22, 2013 6:37 PM
        
        Did you keep playing?
        
        There was some mission early on that I just couldn't get past; like the second thumper mission. I did it with groups where everyone else got credit but I was bugged =\
        
        intothefray
        
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        January 22, 2013 7:09 PM
        
        It's been awhile. Content was coming in too slow so figured it'd be best to give it some time and come back. I prefer MWO for the instance PvP rather than Firefall.
- boarder2
  
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  January 22, 2013 6:39 PM
  
  It's an awesome setting, amazingly beautiful, interesting game. I wish they had more solo stuff to do, but seriously, give it a try. It's a fair bit different from the typical MMO
- PointlesS76
  
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  January 22, 2013 7:24 PM
  
  I think like half the trailer got uploaded. It just cuts off during the action.
- vertdang
  
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  January 22, 2013 7:52 PM
  
  Looks like Tabula Rasa.
  does it play similarly?
  - Gwyndion
    
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    January 22, 2013 8:47 PM
    
    When you are playing it it feels more like Quake 3 in 3rd person with Tribes Jet packs.
- Disarray
  
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  January 22, 2013 8:16 PM
  
  Wonder how much more content they've added since I played and it pretty much capped out at thumper runs
  - Ride-My-Rocket
    
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    January 22, 2013 8:31 PM
    
    Yeah, it's been a few months since I played. Last time they had some random incursions, but not many folks were exploring beyond the core city areas. Looks pretty good tho.
  - Gwyndion
    
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    January 22, 2013 8:48 PM
    
    Yup, that's exactly how I felt. It was pretty and it was fun, it just didn't have enough content to really keep me interested. And then I guess MWO happened and I was pretty much done.
  - boarder2
    
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    January 22, 2013 8:58 PM
    
    They're concentrating on making collaborative world events, not so much solo content. So when there aren't a lot of people, especially friends, it's pretty empty feeling. It should be interesting when it launches though.
  - lastplayboy
    
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    January 22, 2013 11:00 PM
    
    I had an assault frame and worked my way through to the level 2 frame, my guy felt infinitely weaker and I stopped playing, because I felt robbed...
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  January 22, 2013 9:34 PM
  
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