Firefall - Engineer Battleframe & Giveaway Contest (Commentary)
10(2013) Firefall MMO FPS Engineer Battleframe & Giveaway Contest
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Firefall is a MMO team-based computer game from Red 5 Studios, a studio founded by Mark Kern. It is currently in its closed beta stage and it will attempt to mix element from the MMORPG and MMOFPS genres when it is released.
Firefall is an event that takes place almost 200 years in the future. An asteroid was predicted to fly right next to Earth and be a "near miss." However the asteroid instead hits the gravity well of the Moon and shatters. Many of these shards begin to slam into the Earth while the bulk of the asteroid enters a low, decaying orbit around the Earth, pelting it with even more debris that continued to break off of the asteroid. Eventually the asteroid itself crashes into the Earth, and with this event, plummets mankind into a new dark age known as the Nine Year Winter. Many of the larger governments fragment during this time, while other nations bind together forming a strong, unified alliance.
However, during this dark age, scientists in Japan stumble upon a new element called crystite. However what they first observed was not real crystite, which is called seed crystite. Only later when shifting through the crash site were they able to find this new element, but only a gram or two was actually uncovered through the sifting of the earth. Many of the studies on crystite show that it basically turns the known laws of physics on their head, and crystite quickly becomes a way to generate a massive amount of power with almost unlimited potential. Soon it becomes the primary power source in the world and a new golden age comes to pass. However, crystite itself is a substance that is a foreign element that came from the asteroid that impacted into the Earth and although it is a resource potentially without limits the world wanted more.
Official Web page: http://www.firefallthegame.com