Fire on Fight Preview

My God, I definitely fished up a stinker from the pools of Steam Next Fest with this one. Fire On Fight : Online Multiplayer Shooter is a multiplayer first-person shooter that appears to be trying to recapture the glory days of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and subsequent sequels. The interface certainly seems like it's trying to go that way with the two faction scores down on the bottom right. Unfortunately, this falls way short of the mark as the controls feel sluggish, clunky, and downright awful.

Characters move at a snail's pace, even when attempting to sprint, gunplay is non-existent with recoil patterns that serve no logical purpose other than to piss you off, as they certainly don’t match the animations presented from the weapon models; like am I really to believe that a full auto AK is going to take a swan dive into the dirt? Oh! Before even reaching the point of playing the game, I had to “register” for some unknown arbitrary account in order to play? Not going to lie here, that seems fishy as all flip so I would strongly advise using some burner email account, if not some made-up email address if you are curious to try this one out.

I don’t want to say this feels like some Unity asset flip cash grab, but I just can’t shake that feeling, especially when seeing wave after wave of copy-pasted soldier assets, but in a different colour, being touted as selectable characters. That being said, everything outside of the starting characters and initial loadout is locked behind some arbitrary payment method. Want a new gun? That’ll be 2000 imaginary game points. How do you get game points? Buggered if I know as I’ve certainly not earned any while playing the game, that’s for sure. Fancy changing the reticle of your sight? 200 game cash squire, but again, not a Scooby Doo how this is acquired. As this seems to be coming from a single developer — Amonga99 — that just exacerbates my gut feeling of an asset flip. Looking at their other title, The Undisputables, which is also on Steam, all I can say is holy plagiarism, Batman. If this isn’t a blatant rip-off of the old Battlefield Heroes game, then slap my arse and call me Susan!

So far, there only seems to be team deathmatch available in Fire On Fight : Online Multiplayer Shooter, with only player-hosted sessions — or rooms as the game calls them — and a grand total of one map to do battle in. You’ve got 10 minutes to rack up more points than the opposition and that’s basically it. It ends quite abruptly, and everything just feels disjointed.

I will give it some positives though as this isn’t the worst game to grace my eyes, and the weapon variety is quite large, it’s just a shame everything is locked with no clear method of earning these fake dollarydoos and game points. But overall, this is bull knackers and I wouldn’t recommend playing unless you want to suffer as I have.