Recent content by Noctus

The Brody thread on the forums was the best meme in Firefall history imo.

Hitscan weapons give you better latency compensation with laggy players, along with less server overhead. Many weapons used in Firefall were laser based, and would have been practically no different than hitscan anyway. At the range most conventional ballistic weapons would generally be used...

I'd rather have a bounty system. Where killing enemies would pay you a bounty from whatever organization you were working for at the time. I'd prefer resources other than maybe pickups (eg. health, ammo, etc.) not really drop from enemies at all since it doesn't really make a tone of sense...

The Charge Rifle was always my favorite gun in Firefall. I loved the versatility of having both a high rate of fire, low damage weapon and a high burst damage, low RoF weapon in one package. Plus it had more flare than a typical sniper rifle or assault rifle which is common place in most...

I always loved Sn0flak3's videos on gliding and ultra-mobile combat. They're for me, everything Ioved about Firefall distilled into a short video. The speed, the freedom, the power and the beautiful, vertical environments. These aren't my videos so I hope he doesn't mind but I'll post them anways.

The constraints system did this really well. I hope that's the design system we go with in this game now that permanent breakage isn't a thing, which was the biggest nuisance with that system.

I feel that Firefall had the right idea at the end. PvP should be completely gated and separately balanced from PvE. If you go into a PvP mode, there needs to be separate stats from each weapon and piece of gear. As we've seen in many other MMO's with focused fair PvP, a calss balanced for PvP...