 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here back with another Firewall zero hour update. This time we've got a massive one as Firewall Operation Nightfall was just recently teased by First Contact Entertainment over on their YouTube channel during a live developer stream hosted by Firewall Frank himself. So in this video we are going to go over everything we know about Operation Nightfall so far and we are going to speculate on some things that have raised my eyebrow and got me feeling very moist so let's not waste any more time and let's jump right in. So the first thing you'll notice is the new loading screen here it's got a new redesign a new color scheme it puts operation nightfall front and center so what we can gather from this is that this isn't just another DLC content drop like we've been getting until now this is more like an expansion or maybe even firewall 2.0 as I've seen people mention something along those lines basically this is big and we can see how much has changed once Frank loads into the lobby area not only has the UI been drastically redesigned into something that looks much sleeker than what we have now but the actual lobby area itself has changed you're not in the shoot house map anymore you'll be in the brand new hangar map which was previously teased and we'll talk a bit more about that later for right now let's take a closer look at the new UI I'm going to break the new menu down piece by piece starting at the very top left you'll see a metal cog shape which is very likely to be the settings menu just to the rice of that then is what appears to be an eye in a white circle which I am assuming is an information icon now I'm not sure exactly what will happen when you click on this but it's probably safe to say it will give you information about some aspect of the game maybe we'll explain the rules of the currently selected mode or something like this now to the rice of that then we have a tab that says updates now this could be a few things it could be a place where first contact entertainment can display a message to the players letting them know about updates or patch notes or maybe scheduled maintenance or something along those lines you'll be familiar with that type of thing if you play online games often I'm sure to the rice of that then we have a daily tasks tab which I'm very happy to see so if you don't know what daily tasks are they are essentially a list of objectives for you to complete within 24 hours doing so will net you some kind of reward these tasks tend to be things like you know get 15 kills with the desert eagle or maybe hack the laptop three times stuff like that there are little things but the best part is they kind of force you to maybe play in a way that you wouldn't normally so you try out new weapons and equipment and it'll just add a bit of variety a bit of spice to the game the question is what will be the reward for completing these challenges it's safe to say you'll probably get XP and crypto but for the level 50 players who already have everything it would be nice if we see a little something extra and I'll talk a bit more about that later on in the video now moving down and to the left we see a large panel that shows the artwork for the nightfall DLC we see a portrait of the new contractor Ruby who was previously teased but not revealed until right now and she's standing in the new hangar map in front of a cargo plane fuselage or something along those lines if you missed it last time around Ruby's embedded skill is called thief and it allows her to hack into dead enemies wrist tablets and extract crypto now it's going to be interesting to see how much crypto that you can actually nest if you do this and if it actually removes that amount from the enemy's bank account which I hope it does just for the lords you know now if we move down onto the panel we see a very intriguing progress bear that is currently sitting at 13% and that bear itself is simply labeled nightfall so what could this bear represent could it be a community challenge that requires the player base to score a certain amount of kills or wins in order to fill the bear and if so what happens when the bear hits 100% could it be representing new trophies at the game and the players progress with unlocking them could it be tracking a daily task of some kind I've got no idea but that bear does have me moist I'd love to hear what you lads and ladies think that might be in the comments below now directly beneath that progress bear then we see a panel that is advertising the playstation store it's safe to assume that clicking on that will open up the playstation store for easy access to purchasable cosmetics if we move to the right abyss we can see some player stats now the level badge is there as usual but it appears larger now it's more front and center directly beneath that badge you can see your progress towards your next level now if you look closely here you can see that frank is already level 50 and he has earned 1 million and 65 000 xp so he has actually passed the threshold needed to hit 50 so I'm going to take this to mean that operation nightfall will not increase the player level cap otherwise we'd see him progressing towards level 51 right now now it's possible I'm wrong and that they're hiding us or they haven't finished this and it'll be there in release but not right now but until I see otherwise it looks like the level cap is going to remain 50 for now directly beneath that we see the players total crypto and total xp but underneath those is something brand new there appears to be a new type of currency or collectible there now I'm not sure what that icon is but it looks to me like maybe a usb stick or maybe a grenade chime in below if you think you know what that icon is right now whatever it is frank has zero of us now this brings me back to the daily tasks could it be possible that completing daily tasks will reward us with this new type of currency and that this new type of currency could then be used to unlock some cool stuff like maybe fancy camouflage or weapon skins or something along those lines or is it something else entirely again let me know your ideas on what you think that might be it's one of the more interesting items on show here and it's got me feeling a bit moist with the possibilities you know right now I'm not going to lie I'm sulking so let's move over to the right side of the new menu now now starting with the top right corner you can see frank's avatar the little astro bot dude and beside that there is a plus button which appears to be the squad invite button we'll talk a little bit more about the invites and squad building in a bit for now let's move down to the tabs running along just below us there are five tabs displayed here and they are mode loadouts contractor operation and leaderboard frank currently has the mode tab selected and we can see that below this displays the three modes available below these modes are the same that we already have these are tutorial training and contracts now as frank hovers over training and contracts we see a drop-down menu briefly appear that will let you choose between solo private and public very sleek indeed next frank selects the contractor tab which of course allows you to select your contractor now the difference here though is that each contractor has been given their own nice-looking character portraits four contractors are displayed per page and you turn the pages by hitting the arrows on the sides of the character panel frank selects the new contractor ruby and we see that as he hovers over her the icons for the skills that are equipped to her appear over her portraits so in this case she has the embedded thief skill and the scout skill equipped two more icons then seem to appear after he selects ruby one of them is a cross shape or maybe a post shape and the other looks like an edis icon now i'm not sure what that cross shape does but i'm going to assume that the icon that looks like an editing icon will allow you to edis your contractor skills and appearance doing this in the lobby menu is something that firewall players have been crying out for since day one so that is such a nice quality of life improvement right there if that's the case next up frank selects the loadout tab and we see the new weapon for the first time it's called a raptor and it's a submachine gun that seems to be based on the real life ump45 or perhaps an mp5k as was pointed out to me during the live stream yesterday now i've looked up both weapons i'm leaning towards the ump45 based on the shape of the magazine the mp5k seems to have a bit of a curve on us whereas the ump is pretty straight looking but i'm no gun expert so if you know better then let me know down below one thing i also noticed or rather didn't notice was that i couldn't tell if they added more custom loadout slots or not so that's kind of still up in the air right now next then frank receives an invitation from demo one and we can see that when he goes to check it out he can see all the other players in that lobby beforehand now i'm usually the one who sends out the invites when it comes to firewall so you guys will have to let me know if that's the same way it's always been or has the invite system been improved anyway frank accepts the advice and is loaded into the new lobby and there are some changes from the first lobby at the top of the menu we can see that he's now in a private pvp lobby so private contracts basically and on the far left panel we see a list of all the connected players along with new icons beside each person's name there's either a shield icon or a sword icon which represents whether or not they're on the defendant team or the attacking team frank then looks to his left and we can see his teammates are in the middle of loading in now if you look over their heads you'll see that the icons that represent your teammates loadouts have been updated they are no longer white silhouettes they are now detailed images of the actual weapons and equipments that you'll be using now these small touches really make the game look a bit more polished in my opinion back on the right side of the menu again there are still two tabs that frank hasn't selected now the one on the end is the leaderboard tab and that should be self-explanatory but then we have this one here called operation and this one has me scratching my head now remember this update is called operation night fall so if we pick this tab will we see operation nightfall listed there and with potential spaces for future operations if so what would happen if we picked a different operation could it be a playlist of certain maps for example maybe middle eastern maps uk maps or russian maps in their own playlists i truly have no idea on this one so i'll be needing you lasin ladies to give me your thoughts on this one down below moving on we see that the two texas teammates have loaded in on frank's menu and i know some of you folks out there have noticed this their character models are doing a default animation rather than actually tracking and mimicking what the teammate is doing in real life and i see some of you thinking that they've removed us i just want to say that you could very well be right about that but i suspect that because this is an in-house developer build of the game that not all things that we see here are going to be representative of what we see in the consumer version there may be no point in having this in the developer version now that's just a guess on my part but i just don't see them taken away or i can't even think of any reason why they would take it away next frank looks to his right side where we see ruby for the first time in flesh she kind of looks like she's wearing a leather jacket or something and it kind of fits in with her skill of being a thief and she has this kind of cat burglar look going on now after this frank loads into the compound map and as soon as he spawns in he opens up the in-game menu and we get a look at the new ui style for that menu it then proceeds to move over to the right side of the map and we see a huge change here so instead of the big white open space that you'd be used to on the compound map now we have a bunch of tents and other large objects like sonar panels and crates and stuff like that this creates loads more cover and that section of the map which should change up some of the dynamics on the compound map this is on top of the new spawn locations that we already knew were coming for both compound and the bunker map too which they show off a little bit later on we also see here that the red enemy player names are gone instead they've been replaced by the red arrows or red chevrons if you if you prefer we saw these in the last t-stream but in case you missed that there you go so then after the match ends we get a quick look at the after-match summary as a new summary tab appears alongside the other five now the scoreboard is incorporated into the new menu rather than being its own separate page like it is now we see how the attackers and defenders fared on the left side of this summary space and on the right we see a large panel which is empty and that's titled earnings now then to the right of this there is another smaller panel also titled earnings and this one shows you how much xp and crypto you've earned in that match so it's going to be interesting to see what that first earning panels will display finally on the bottom right of the summary space we see an unlocks panel and all of these are empty of course as we all know you don't earn anything for playing in private matches so we're not going to see anything there next frank picks the new maps tab that appeared above and replaced the molds tab from the previous menu now this tab shows a large portraits of the map and the host then selects the brand new hanger map and we see for the first time that the hanger map takes place in the uk now this brings the total number of uk maps to four and it's interesting that both the map and the new contractor are both from the uk now i don't want to talk too much about the new map hanger because we already covered this in previous video and the gameplay kind of speaks for itself really so if you want to watch all this i'll have the link in the description that you can check it out for yourself all i say about hanger is that it's the first daytime map which is actually kind of ironic considering it's coming with operation nightfall it's quite large it has interiors and exteriors and it also has a cool skybridge next we see the devs go to the bunker map and we see a new spawn location here which is right in the middle area behind the caged fence area and i hope this replaces the current middle area laptop spawn on this map because that is hard as hell to defend now there's not much as to talk about on this map that i could see and then for the rest of you know that's kind of all there is to talk about in terms of what we were shown that i could see anyway now there's a lot of questions raised after all of this like when will operation nightfall actually release will it be free or will it be paid or will it be some of it free like the maps and the guns and some of it paid like ruby and cosmetics like it has been all along is this the first operation of mani will this update include a bunch of much requested fixes too stuff like you know stuff like that now keep in mind this was just a 20 minute tease frank never actually addressed all the stuff we were seeing on the screen they're basically putting on the nipple clamps right on us you know clamping them on nice and tight giving them a twist and you know just daring us to say the safe word but you know we're not going to not going to not yet now i was restreaming this live when it was shown and some of the first contact entertainment devs popped into the trash including hess barber himself and he met a comment that we've learned more concrete info about this updates in a few sleeps so it sounds like days rather than weeks going by what he said but you know hess he likes to keep things vague so of course take that with some salt and that's about it for this video lads and ladies get in that comment section and let me know what you think all about this and share your theories and your speculations and all that good stuff and before i end this video let me give a quick thank you to my patreon 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