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First Assault's first new character since the launch of Early Access is being added to the game soon. The new character, Maven, is "an expert on guerilla warfare and topography, stemming from her time in the South American military." She was scouted for Section 9 after she "single-handedly held off an insurgent attack after her entire squad was killed." Maven's [...]
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If you are a Windows 10 user, you may have had issues with First Assault crashing at startup. The launcher for Nexon and Neople's online shooter uses Flash via Internet Explorer. A recent update made to Flash Player for Windows 10 was causing the game to crash on startup. A new update to Flash Player has been distributed and, should [...]
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First Assault Sunday Funday Gameplay Video Played some First Assault with Erhan, Matt, and Sean this week for Sunday Funday. The game's full title is "Ghost in the Shell Online: Stand Alone Complex First Assault" which is absurdly long, so we're just going to stick with "First Assault". It's a sci-fi themed lobby based lobby based shooter developed by Neople (the subsidiary [...]
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Valve may have single-handedly ruined the concept of Steam sales by removing daily and flash sales, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get a ton of games and their DLC at great prices. Today, we have a gigantic list of all the great sales going on in the MMO genre. Buy-To-Play and Subscription MMORPGs The Black Watchmen Season One is [...]
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I’ve never so much as seen a clip of the Ghost in the Shell anime, although my anime obsessed friends say it’s pretty good. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex First Assault Online – which is clearly running for the “Longest MMO Title Ever” award—wasn’t even on my radar until a couple of weeks ago. The trailer for this [...]
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First Assault Gameplay Preview (Press) I (Omer), Erhan, and Sean participated in the Nexon press preview for First Assault, their upcoming free to play sci-fi shooter based on the Ghost in the Shell franchise. The person speaking throughout the video was a Nexon representative walking us through some of the game's basic features. Despite the sci-fi elements, First Assault felt [...]
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Nexon's cyberpunk shooter First Assault enters Early Access today, at an entry fee of $4.99. Featuring familiar names from the iconic Ghost in the Shell franchise, players choose a character endowed with unique abilities, such as Batou's devastating rocket launcher or the Major's camouflage. And then plunge into science-fiction maps across a variety of game modes, from fast-paced Team Deathmatch to coordinated objective-focused [...]
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Keeping in line with a promise to release First Assault before 2016, Nexon and Neople announced today that the Ghost in the Shell shooter will be released as an Early Access title through Steam on December 14th. The release is a bit surprising considering the sci-fi FPS has only had one Closed Beta test under a strict NDA. Ultimately First [...]
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Nexon announced today that Neople's free-to-play shooter set in the Ghost In the Shell universe, First Assault, would be available "soon" on Steam in addition to the Nexon launcher. While they did not give an exact release date, the Steam store page currently says "December 2015," which would appear to imply that the game will be releasing in full before [...]
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Fans of Ghost in the Shell rejoice! Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Online: First Assault is on its way to the West and has teased images of Ishikawa's in-game model. The Support character can obstruct enemy attacks and create diversions with his Cyber Sentries, further showing off the team aspect of the upcoming FPS game. Ishikawa is the [...]
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