FBC: Firebreak

Good God its bleak, I love the Remedyverse and I love horde shooters but this is easily one of the absolute worst I've ever played. I wanted so badly to like this and was initially worried about running out of content before I was satisfied...this is no longer a concern. Not only completely aggravating to play, but I crashed twice in the same mission!

Huge Remedy fan but what were they smoking with this one...

Really great game that needs to be further developed Beware of the MASSIVE VRAM leak

its just not fun

Destroy Sticky notes Slow objective to do so, water feels ineffective, finally deplete the objective after fifteen minutes. Hope to GOD there's a different more entertaining objective afterwards w/how bad the markers feel to lead you everywhere. Destroy Sticky notes.

got shot with a minigun, then got stabbed cause I live near London, had a shower because that's how you heal in game 10/10

FBC: Firebreak has fantastic bones of a horde shooter set in the Control universe, but suffers from a lack of content. The gameplay is solid: The classes are fairly unique and interesting, the gunplay is good, the elemental interactions between various ammo types and weapons are interesting and fun to play with. The visuals are solid and match-up well with Control. The quirky humor works well with the setting and it doesn't take itself too seriously, which is for its own benefit. As other reviews mention, the disappointment comes directly from the sore lack of content. There's a lot to unlock and really great bones, but there just aren't enough unique missions or enough twists to make all of that content worth exploring for the average player. The initial pricing may have had a negative impact in the games development, although the recent price reduction and friend pass options make Firebreak much easier to recommend. It's just a shame that it wasn't done earlier to get more of a foothold in a competitive genre to continue developing missions. With all of that said, I would lightly recommend FBC: Firebreak to those invested in the Control universe or looking for a quirky horde shooter with friends. The friend's pass stretches the price into acceptable territory if a team can be assembled between friends.

I think its fun. Will be playing more soon

Дякую за можливість побути пожежником. Також дякую за переклад на мою мову

Firebreak is a three-player co-op shooter set in the unified Remedy-Connected universe, alongside Control and Alan Wake. Depending on where you are in the franchise, this will either be an accessible introduction to the future story narrative of Jesse Faden in Control, or a paraquel to the upcoming Control: Resonant universe expansion. Firebreak enlists you into a crisis-response strike team inside the ever-shifting corridors of the Oldest House - a mega structure headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control. The Bureau is entering its 6th year of lock down from the outside world, due to a series of interdimensional containment breaches, and your job is to contain reality-bending anomalies before they spiral into catastrophe. Unlike other Remedy's traditionally story driven narrative-heavy games, Firebreak focuses on teamwork and momentous gameplay, as you repair infrastructure and neutralise supernatural hazards through increasingly dangerous objectives in frantic battles against overwhelming tides of supernatural chaos. Progression comes through three branching classes, a big variety of perks, and weapons. Unlocking new perks slots gradually expands the prospective variety of equipable perks, or otherwise stacking highly-leveled ones. Each of the three operator classes is offered an incomparable array of equipment alongside its unique functionality. Different class tools, and ammo types, are able to inflict elemental effects, which have a variety of interactions with each other. For example, different repair tools can complete respective objectives quicker, while elements can be combined to create powerful reactions or cancel each other out - for example, using a class-specific voltaic cannon with another class’ water dispenser can create uncontrollable electric infernos; while a pressured-water cannon might be utilized to remove the DOT effects of a transdimensional mold. However after exhausting the available missions, Firebreak will reveal itself to be a bit bland - the array of available maps and enemy types is limited; despite the intrinsic randomness of objective spawns and enemy encounters each round. Beyond completion of 4 primary operation difficulties & the available maps within the first few hours, the end-game loop consists of replaying these missions to improve class level & unlock more perks. This is done through a similar sample collection system like Helldivers, where you must find dynamically placed research ‘samples’ inside the facility. Gunplay and equipment synergy also becomes restricted as difficulty increases - due to highly unbalanced horde spawns on higher difficulties, the optimal gameplay becomes stunlocking hordes using class tools while slowly advancing forward.