Adventures in FireFall
So recently, I have been super swamped with my masters work. For stress relief, I play games, usually at night while monitoring my computer jobs while they run on the supercomputer cluster. In the midst of playing SWTOR and waiting for Wildstar, I got a suggestion from one of my friends in my guild, Old Timers Guild, named Sadistical. He is also the one responsible for the beautiful graphics work that has been going up over on Wildstar Radio. He suggested I play FireFall.
For those who don’t know, FireFall is a combination between a First Person Shooter and an MMO. It is a sandbox-style game that has crafting as the main form of upgrading weapons and your armor. I played for a couple of hours last night, and I wanted to talk about what I saw. Here’s twenty-five things you need to know about FireFall. Read more…
Review of Rise of the Hutt Cartel on MMO Reporter
Just posted today was my review of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion on MMO Reporter. It is in both audio and print! Go check it out now.
Things That Veteran SWTOR Players Know
Just thought I would write up a quick list of things that veteran SWTOR players know. Here are twelve of my favorites (note: heavy sarcasm below).
- It is pronounced “swoh-tor” or “swuh-tor.”
- To win PvP, all you have to do is: pass, get ahead for passes, cap, stop caps, call inc, and KILL THE FREAKIN’ HEALER‼‼‼
- The Legacy System was once just an experience bar.
- “The game died a week after launch”
- Watch it the first time, spacebar after that
- PvP gear isn’t hard to get anymore
- Ilum was still fun.
- The Cartel Market is in fact really Ebenezer Scrooge. Two words: Life Day…
- The Rakghoul event was in fact one of the best pieces of content in any MMO ever.
- There are really three server names for your character. Your first server, your transferred server, and your mega-server (where you now reside). For example, I am from Lord Praven/Drooga’s Pleasure Barge/The Harbinger.
- Darth Malgus makes a good paperweight.
- Powertechs used to be scary.
EDIT: Had to fix number 10…it got lost halfway through…
Bioware Needs to Be Cautious
Recently there was a post by Bioware Lead Designer Bruce Maclean (who unfortunately seems to be my favorite punching bag). It said a lot of stuff about events and such, but the final paragraph read as follows:
Game Update 2.4 is also in the pipe and being worked on for an October release. Even though our mantra is smaller more frequent patches this particular update is shaping up to be very big, with tons of new content and big PvP updates especially targeting Ranked play. We’ll start sharing details next month. If you absolutely *have* to glimpse the potential future, enter a Force trance and focus on these key phrases. Oricon. Warzone Arenas. Dread Masters.
Now, I look at this and the first thing I think is “Warzone Arenas?!?! AWESOME!!!”
The second thing I think is “what the heck do Oricon and Dread Masters have to do with PvP?”
Read more…
Rhekk
Geldarion
Torvox
The Fanatical Swordsman 