tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post4674215601860535904..comments2024-03-28T02:55:08.855-07:00Comments on JVT Workshop: Firefall: First ImpressionsJoseph Skyrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08734014925489857811noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-61632567029663434792014-08-24T09:29:49.427-07:002014-08-24T09:29:49.427-07:00If you are really interested, check out the V1.0 p...If you are really interested, check out the V1.0 patch notes. Item changes. It reads harmlessly, but it completely shredded all crafting and the economy in favour of a mostly loot based system.<br /><br />I mean, you can still thump for ressources and build your gear, which for the top end gear still is a way to go, but before the endgame this is of no interest any more, and then suddenly turns into a chore. I really think they broke a lot by giving in to the "nice game, now please turn it into WoW" crowd. Sylownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-85936300681810504362014-08-23T18:43:05.648-07:002014-08-23T18:43:05.648-07:00Sounds almost like a different game to the one I&#...Sounds almost like a different game to the one I'm experiencing now. Other than consumable items, I am finding no reason to craft anything as I simply get better stuff from killing monsters... Joseph Skyrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08734014925489857811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-71391342536852740572014-08-23T18:31:53.232-07:002014-08-23T18:31:53.232-07:00Bah. One annoying typo.The last paragraph should a...Bah. One annoying typo.The last paragraph should actually read like this:<br /><br />he real sad part about all of this is, i could not even blame the developers for this. It was the community who cried for the game to be dumbed down. When any WoW-Clone hits the market, it is turned down for being a WoW-Clone, but when a really new and fresh game comes around, the community cries loudly that the game is not WoW and manages to make developers change their concept. The gaming future looks grim indeed. :(Sylownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-80429956058761435412014-08-23T18:22:21.299-07:002014-08-23T18:22:21.299-07:00Hmm. Firefall. Yea, it was hard when i saw this fr...Hmm. Firefall. Yea, it was hard when i saw this friend go, and i sometimes still miss him. <br /><br />At the same time i wonder, if i should rather be amused or sad on the turn of events. Firefall once was really innovative. It had a wonderful crafting system and a good advancement system ( albeit with the flaw of "CPU" ressource, which made crafting for the open market a nuisance). The world was open, everybody was able to go everywhere, vertical progression existed but was under control, so one of the first thing a new player did was to explore all of the map. After all, ares missions of varying difficulty spawned all over the map, so no matter where you were, you were able to find matching content. The variety of content was limited, but no matter how long you played, if a friend joined the game, you met up and were able to play together everywhere on the map.<br /><br />But alas. Everything changed a month ago. The whole progression, ressource and gear system was thrown out and replaced by something way more simplified. Vertical progression was stepped up, the map was split into smaller sections, so you better stick to your "level appropriate" small slice of the map now. So, the game changed from something fresh and new to basically WoW with jumpjets and smaller areas to play in.<br /><br />The real sad part about all of this is, i could not even blame the developers for this. It was the community who cried for the game to be dumbed down. When any WoW-Clone hits the market, it is turned down for being a WoW-Clone, but when a really new and fresh game comes around, the community cries loudly that the game is now WoW and manages to make developers change their concept. The gaming future looks grim indeed. :(Sylownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-22911069303624831482014-08-19T15:36:14.838-07:002014-08-19T15:36:14.838-07:00Yeah I jumped into the tornado portals (x2). Only ...Yeah I jumped into the tornado portals (x2). Only escaped the second time - first time I didn't know where to go! :P Also reached Shanty Town yesterday. Hoping to get all the jobs done before that Chosen "aggressiveness" patch hits.Joseph Skyrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08734014925489857811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-31254350958088117682014-08-19T07:14:37.845-07:002014-08-19T07:14:37.845-07:00Around Shanty town, there's tornadoes everywhe...Around Shanty town, there's tornadoes everywhere, it's really a good place to chase those, I really like chasing those things, I've got the tornado chaser achievement for a reason after all. Did you enter the tornado after it was destroyed too? that's really cool too, I know I didn't know you could do that when I started chasing tornadoses. <br /><br />There was no job board in beta, which is why people on played back then don't use the jobs that much probably. At level 25, you get a job out of there that let you built a LGV in Sertao, so obviously, some jobs are quite necessary..<br /><br />Apparently, the devs are working on fixing the jobs system, so maybe it's gonna be less annoying to do. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763922885025095106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-46914674863032210902014-08-19T04:13:53.371-07:002014-08-19T04:13:53.371-07:00Ahha, that melee thing is coming in handy now. Tha...Ahha, that melee thing is coming in handy now. Thanks for letting me know! With the job board though, everything in game sort of points me to use the job boards. They even dictate which one I should visit next once I finish an area so that's what I'm doing first. <br /><br />Once they run out then I'll see about running to random missions. The tornado ones are pretty fun, just fell into one of those today! Joseph Skyrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08734014925489857811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170161199375200085.post-40364601262680828722014-08-18T17:01:06.088-07:002014-08-18T17:01:06.088-07:00There is melee, you need to press G by default, an...There is melee, you need to press G by default, and you can use a sin blade if you have the perk for it. <br /><br />You're not suppose to use the job board exclusively, it's only meant as a bonus, you're only really supposed to pick one and do it while you're on your way to do events in the area.<br /><br />The item levels makes no sense but then again, they don't really make sense anywhere else. Without it though, there would be balancing issues, so they pretty much need to do it, unless they find another system closer to the one UO had, where anyone could use anything, which also had it's problems. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763922885025095106noreply@blogger.com