Em8er Firefall Successor - anyone else playing it?

[AussieMark]

Hi all,

I saw the creator of firefall created a new game and I tried out the alpha build which was pretty fun with thumpers

https://www.em8er.com/

They are still building it at the moment

I also saw the old firefall is available to play,someone got it working and shared it around? Anyone try that. There's a website and everything but I forgot. Let me know if you need me to find it

[Just a Player]

if you find the old firefall working let us ALL know

[AussieMark]

https://github.com/themeldingwars/Arcporter

Ah it just lets you zoom around the worlds I think?
I havent tried it

"Arcporter is a small tool that will let you load and explore any of the zones in Firefall."

[TΞSTOSTΞROWNLOL]

Yeah it was The Melding Wars who tried to reverse engineer the game. And they did get quite far.

But they've been silent for the past 4 years I think.

[Degg]

Em8er is some kind of scam even worse than Star Citizen. There is nothing in this game for years except ugly tech demos and anime girl arts sold every month.

[SimranZenov]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Degg:

Em8er is some kind of scam even worse than Star Citizen. There is nothing in this game for years except ugly tech demos and anime girl arts sold every month.

yep... They toss some artwork out there to grab some cash once in a while, but only have a bare bones buggy demo to show for the past 3 or 4 years of work...

It's honestly not going to happen.

[Sir_0v3rk1ll]

When ever you see firefall working let us know. We ALL know about em-8er and it is not like firefall. It's a Mech mmo game. Just cause they used some files from Copa cabana map in their new map doesnt make it like firefall. Also I don’t think ember is ever going to be done. It's mostly a money grab. I did participate in it when I was exited about it. But, truth is that I don’t want ember. I want firefall. We should support those that are trying to reverse engineer firefall.

[[RxR] Stewie]

I would not touch anything by the firefall team again. I bought the first game that they constantly broke and messed with until it ended up dead. Why should I ever trust them again

[Blargo]

I followed Em8er a bit from the start, but I'm not really liking the direction it's going in now.
Looking at the website's homepage currently, it's just "sexy anime girl clickbait".

That, to me, is a big red flag. Typically any game that does this just means it's going to revolve around eye-candy, rather than actual gameplay. I can already see the extra skimpy outfits that you purchase as DLC for your character, since that's what the playerbase is going to be there for if this continues to be the focus of this game.

I'm closing my radar on Em8er for now, but I'll be interested again if the focus shifts towards things like jet thrusters/gliding, special abilities, weapons that feel both powerful & unique, tons of mobility options, lots of gear customization. You know, the stuff you'd actually expect from a FireFall successor.

[AussieMark]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Dxpress:

I followed Em8er a bit from the start, but I'm not really liking the direction it's going in now.
Looking at the website's homepage currently, it's just "sexy anime girl clickbait".

That, to me, is a big red flag. Typically any game that does this just means it's going to revolve around eye-candy, rather than actual gameplay. I can already see the extra skimpy outfits that you purchase as DLC for your character, since that's what the playerbase is going to be there for if this continues to be the focus of this game.

I'm closing my radar on Em8er for now, but I'll be interested again if the focus shifts towards things like jet thrusters/gliding, special abilities, weapons that feel both powerful & unique, tons of mobility options, lots of gear customization. You know, the stuff you'd actually expect from a FireFall successor.

hey thanks for sharing

I have played some of the alpha tests and the jetpacks and thumping is pretty fun along with the weapons. Definitely feels like firefallto me but yeah it still is in pretty early stages

fingers crossed

one thing that was freaking amazing was oneof the demos showing off all the enemies. you can fly next to them andsee them in alltheir detail. pretty impressiveand they are huge. the enemies dont move but you can at least see the enemy models.

[Wusscake]

The big difference between Firefall and EM8ER atm is that EM8ER is being crowd funded atm, and within a year or so, the official Kickstarter is planned to launch. Firefall had some big investors in it, hence it was able to be developed faster. Right now, the vanilla WoW dev lead Mark Kern (the guy who also was the CEO of firefall) is almost single-handedly working on the game, but recently got the money he needed to upgrade his servers and licenses for sound software. He will bring the rest of the devs in full time once the kickstarter gets going, I believe.

Basically, from what I gather what happened with Firefall, Mark was strongly pressured by Red5 devs as well as his investors), and since he was living in China at the time, he couldn't keep a close eye on the company. He knew they wanted to make "WoW with guns", but he couldn't do much about it, not without consequences, so he gave up the company.

They don't have a lot going for the game atm other than some art and being able to fly around, but he's got a pretty strong vision for what he wants the game to be. He's currently working on a resource table atm so you can thumb for resources, only in this game, you use your hand and punch the ground instead of using a hammer.

I understand if all of you are skeptical, I just felt this needed to be said. I think the guy at least deserves a chance. I mean, who are we gonna trust? Current Blizzard?

[Sir_0v3rk1ll]

I wish people would stop recommending that money grab em-8er. Yes we know of it and yes some of us like me already donated and supported it. It is not like firefall in any way other than using same vegetation from copa cabana. It's a 100% mech mmo game.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wusscake:

The big difference between Firefall and EM8ER atm is that EM8ER is being crowd funded atm, and within a year or so, the official Kickstarter is planned to launch. Firefall had some big investors in it, hence it was able to be developed faster. Right now, the vanilla WoW dev lead Mark Kern (the guy who also was the CEO of firefall) is almost single-handedly working on the game, but recently got the money he needed to upgrade his servers and licenses for sound software. He will bring the rest of the devs in full time once the kickstarter gets going, I believe.

Basically, from what I gather what happened with Firefall, Mark was strongly pressured by Red5 devs as well as his investors), and since he was living in China at the time, he couldn't keep a close eye on the company. He knew they wanted to make "WoW with guns", but he couldn't do much about it, not without consequences, so he gave up the company.

They don't have a lot going for the game atm other than some art and being able to fly around, but he's got a pretty strong vision for what he wants the game to be. He's currently working on a resource table atm so you can thumb for resources, only in this game, you use your hand and punch the ground instead of using a hammer.

I understand if all of you are skeptical, I just felt this needed to be said. I think the guy at least deserves a chance. I mean, who are we gonna trust? Current Blizzard?

[Wusscake]

Początkowo opublikowane przez 0V3RK1LL:

I wish people would stop recommending that money grab em-8er. Yes we know of it and yes some of us like me already donated and supported it. It is not like firefall in any way other than using same vegetation from copa cabana. It's a 100% mech mmo game.

You mean you don't fly around and gather resources? Drop thumpers to mine? Fight against an unknown enemy, bent on corrupting the planet? Cause that sounds similar to Firefall to me.

Believe it or not, games take a long time to develop, more so if your dev team is small, and especially if it's a pvp/pve MMO. Imagine how long WoW would've taken to make if it was crowd funded.

[AussieMark]

sorry dude,

reminded me of firefall and i played a few test versions it was pretty cool. But i tested firefall back at the beginning when it didn't even have enemies haha so use to a slow start

Początkowo opublikowane przez 0V3RK1LL:

I wish people would stop recommending that money grab em-8er. Yes we know of it and yes some of us like me already donated and supported it. It is not like firefall in any way other than using same vegetation from copa cabana. It's a 100% mech mmo game.

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[Sir_0v3rk1ll]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wusscake:

Początkowo opublikowane przez 0V3RK1LL:

I wish people would stop recommending that money grab em-8er. Yes we know of it and yes some of us like me already donated and supported it. It is not like firefall in any way other than using same vegetation from copa cabana. It's a 100% mech mmo game.

You mean you don't fly around and gather resources? Drop thumpers to mine? Fight against an unknown enemy, bent on corrupting the planet? Cause that sounds similar to Firefall to me.

Believe it or not, games take a long time to develop, more so if your dev team is small, and especially if it's a pvp/pve MMO. Imagine how long WoW would've taken to make if it was crowd funded.

its a mech mmo. its like mech warrior mmo. I hate mechs games. It's childish like need for speed. Nothing emphasizing the humans like firefall. I loved commander Kimbase or Hobbes or even slingshot, who dropped us many times into missions. Mech games don't have enough depth for you to fall in love with the characters and care for them or the game. No it is not the same. By the way why you guys are starting to sound like people involved in em-8er trying to so hard to shove it in here. Need people to spend more money on it? Just smells weird how passionate you are about em-8er yet I’ve never seen you talk in this forum about firefall. I sreached your name and not a dam thing. Not one time. Not buying it.

Listen I support em-8er. . . In em-8er website. Go hit me up there when you want to talk em-8er https://forums.em8er.com/members/0v3rkill.1287/ Leave this dying place for us firefall fans. Can we have that peace? Or we can't have the game and the forum either? Anyway I Unsubed from here. I'm done talking about this.

[AussieMark]

Początkowo opublikowane przez 0V3RK1LL:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wusscake:

You mean you don't fly around and gather resources? Drop thumpers to mine? Fight against an unknown enemy, bent on corrupting the planet? Cause that sounds similar to Firefall to me.

Believe it or not, games take a long time to develop, more so if your dev team is small, and especially if it's a pvp/pve MMO. Imagine how long WoW would've taken to make if it was crowd funded.

its a mech mmo. its like mech warrior mmo. I hate mechs games. It's childish like need for speed. Nothing emphasizing the humans like firefall. I loved commander Kimbase or Hobbes or even slingshot, who dropped us many times into missions. Mech games don't have enough depth for you to fall in love with the characters and care for them or the game. No it is not the same. By the way why you guys are starting to sound like people involved in em-8er trying to so hard to shove it in here. Need people to spend more money on it? Just smells weird how passionate you are about em-8er yet I’ve never seen you talk in this forum about firefall. I sreached your name and not a dam thing. Not one time. Not buying it.

Listen I support em-8er. . . In em-8er website. Go hit me up there when you want to talk em-8er https://forums.em8er.com/members/0v3rkill.1287/ Leave this dying place for us firefall fans. Can we have that peace? Or we can't have the game and the forum either? Anyway I Unsubed from here. I'm done talking about this.

Dont go I wuv you!