Ever since we introduced Firewall Ultra, the subsequent evolution of the Firewall franchise, final yr right here on the PlayStation Blog, the outpour of encouragement from the neighborhood has been nothing in need of wonderful. The pure pleasure in all of your feedback, messages, tweets, and posts have us all much more motivated to make the sport as nice as it may be.
Which is why we’re so excited to debut our new gameplay trailer that includes contemporary PvP gameplay footage!
To cap off that pleasure, immediately we’re thrilled to announce that pre-orders are formally stay for Firewall Ultra beginning immediately with a launch date of August 24, 2023 at 10PM (Bangkok/Jakarta) / 11 PM (Singapore/Kuala Lumpur/Hong Kong/Taiwan) / August 25, 2023 at 12AM (Seoul).
Firewall Ultra places the next-gen VR options embedded within the PS VR2 entrance and heart to ship a compelling and immersive first-person shooter expertise. This contains eye-tracking for revolutionary use instances like closing your eyes to keep away from the consequences of a flashbang, unbelievable haptic suggestions within the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for practical weapon suggestions, headset suggestions while you take harm or toggle on evening imaginative and prescient goggles, and a lot extra.
Firewall Zero Hour gamers know the way a lot we proceed to assist and construct on the sport after launch, and that we worth suggestions from our neighborhood – so we will likely be trying to discover including extra content material resembling new weapons and contractors, maps, further sport modes, and probably guide reloads post-launch. Keep an eye fixed out for our operation calendar and extra data on our post-launch plans as we get nearer to the discharge of the sport. In the meantime, we’re excited to disclose that we’ll offer methods to amass distinctive variants of our weapons when enjoying Firewall Ultra for the primary time ever. These distinctive weapons* will come pre-fitted with nice attachments, an unique pores and skin, and legendary variations will actually have a totally different look all collectively.
* Unique Weapons require sport development
We’ve additionally overhauled the sport’s inner infrastructure with an immersive social foyer space and taking pictures vary in our Safehouse between sport classes, devoted servers to assist decrease dropped community connections, and a brand new best-of-three round-based player-versus-player (PvP) format that can have you ever spending much less time ready and extra time enjoying. You can learn extra about all of this within the PlayStation Blog’s hands-on report proper right here.
What is Firewall Ultra?
Firewall Ultra is the subsequent evolution of the Firewall franchise following the 2018 hit PS VR shooter, Firewall Zero Hour. The major PvP sport mode known as Contracts pits two groups of 4 in opposition to one another in a best-of-three sequence of matches that function tense tactical fight throughout a wide range of maps.
In every match a defending workforce should defend a laptop computer stuffed with categorised intel utilizing an assortment of devices and weaponry whereas the attacking workforce makes an attempt to bypass the safety entry factors and hack the laptop computer. Tools at your disposal embrace proximity mines you possibly can place in artful places to catch attackers without warning, door blockers to fortify your place, and lots of extra. Attackers must tread rigorously round maps and work as a workforce to decrypt the intel earlier than time expires.
It is significant to pay attention to your environment always whereas enjoying Firewall Ultra. Nighttime out of doors maps like Oil Rig, as seen in our gameplay trailer, and even the darkish, decrepit corners of indoor maps like Office can get extremely darkish and harmful. Thanks to the dynamic lighting and practical shadows afforded by Unreal Engine 5, we’re capable of ship an unbelievable sense of pressure, immersion, and visible constancy in real-time.
Firewall Ultra will function a brand-new player-versus-environment (PvE) sport mode that can let both you by your self otherwise you and as much as three different contractors tackle lethal enemy AI throughout the complete choice of maps. It’s an entire new strategy to play Firewall and we will’t wait to share extra about that mode quickly.
Cutting-edge FPS immersion
We use eye monitoring in various methods to reinforce precise gameplay in Firewall Ultra. For instance, you possibly can shut your eyes bodily to keep away from the blinding mild of a flashlight. You may also shut your non-dominant eye when aiming down the sight of a gun to make the view even tighter for barely extra precision. These are each pure issues gamers discover themselves doing whereas enjoying, so we reward you for getting misplaced within the expertise, having a way of presence, and giving into the immersion.
Using eye monitoring you’ll have the ability to rapidly swap weapons on the fly without having to take time away from the motion and foveated rendering ensures you’ll all the time have a pointy and crisp look into the world because of PS VR2’s highly effective 4K HDR** show.
Just wait till you play one of many darker maps and witness the dynamic lighting out of your aspect barrel flashlight attachment for the primary time. There’s nothing else fairly prefer it.
Finger contact detection and the adaptive triggers elevate issues even additional, letting you are feeling the totally different resistance ranges of every weapon in your hand. Pulling the set off of a pistol is totally totally different from the set off on a sniper rifle and experiencing the extreme haptic kickback of a shotgun is extremely visceral. Using the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers you’ll have the ability to flip a knife throughout your fingers for stealth takedowns – or just exhibit this nimble hand motion to buddies. You may even make practical hand indicators and silent instructions to workforce members for higher tactical realism and interactivity. The PS VR2 Sense controllers make for an extremely immersive sport expertise.
We leverage the wonderful {hardware} options of PlayStation 5 to make it simpler than ever to affix your folks. If you see your folks in a sport of Firewall Ultra, you possibly can rapidly hop immediately into the squad instantly from the cardboard in your PS5 Game Base if there’s room. Load instances are blazing quick to chop down on friction.
Pre-order particulars
We need to thank all our followers for patiently ready on new data to return out about Firewall Ultra and are happy to disclose that your persistence is being rewarded with pre-order and version particulars.
Choose between the Firewall Ultra Standard Edition for SGD 54.90 / MYR 169 / IDR 579,000 / THB 1,290 which incorporates entry to the complete sport or the Digital Deluxe Edition for SGD 79.90 / MYR 249 / IDR 879,000 / THB 1,990. When you pre-order Firewall Ultra earlier than launch, you’ll get entry to one among our favourite legendary weapons: the Reaper X75. This is included for each Standard and Digital Deluxe Editions when pre-ordered.
For people who buy the Digital Deluxe Edition, you’ll obtain early unlock of 4 of the sport’s contractors (Meiko, Skip, Fang, and Node—pictured above,) which incorporates their distinctive abilities, in addition to alternate outfits for every contractor. The Digital Deluxe Edition may also embrace 4 weapon camos that may be utilized to customizable weapons within the sport and you get entry one post-launch Operation Pass*** for Firewall Ultra.
We can’t wait to see you all in-game when Firewall Ultra launches solely for PS VR2 on August 24. Don’t overlook pre-orders are stay now so you possibly can safe every little thing you have to put together and be able to squad up subsequent month!
** Consists of two 2000×2040 OLED shows
*** Access to finish content material for one future Operation (date TBA).
PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2 required to play. PS VR2 isn’t to be used by youngsters beneath age 12. Internet connection & PS Plus membership required for on-line play. PS Plus is topic to a recurring subscription payment taken mechanically till cancellation. Full phrases: play.st/psplus-usageterms.
