 so you're just starting off in firewall zero hour for the playstation virtual reality headsets and you don't know maybe where you should start or what you should do to get you started on the road of popping headshots and getting all them w's if so this guide is for you hey there lads and ladies this is petrifying pumpkins here and this video is all about a beginner's guide for firewall zero hour just to help people get into the firewall to kind of know what it's about especially considering that firewall has been added to the instant game collection for ps plus this month so without further ado let's just jump right into it so my first point would be communication so firewall is a team-based 4v4 online user so communication is key especially considering you only have one life and if you want to win you're going to need to be talking to all your teammate you should be thinking about playing tactically rather than going out guns blazing or being a lone wolf and the best teams out there do this by constantly communicating with each other now i know some people out there watching may be shy and they may find the idea of talking to strangers intimidating or what not but you don't need to have a huge conversation and tell people your life story simple callouts like enemy to the left enemy to the rice there's a trap over there there's you know laptop is open stuff like that that would be a huge help for your teammates and that would greatly enhance your odds of winning a game and keep in mind once you do die in firewall you get access to all the security cameras all over the map so this is where communication is vital you've got the bird's eye view you can be telling your teammates information that they want to know otherwise and that could be usually helpful for your team keep in mind as well every ps4 or headset has a microphone built in so you're good to go now this next tip is to start with four and i understand this is easier said than done but if you do have some friends who own firewall zero hour in a ps4 or headset or if you just join maybe a firewall community maybe on redis or the discord or you know just those playstation communities that they have built into the psn i would recommend that you gather a full squad of four before you even start searching for a match and there's a couple of reasons for this number one most obvious most important is that any online game is better with friends you're going to have better communication it's more reliable and it's just going to be all around more fun in general my second point my second reason for this is that you're going to have an easier time matchmaking when you got a full squad it'll go quicker for you you should encounter less host migration issues and when you have a full squad you can be matched up against another full squad so matchmaking can be rapid when you have the full squad so i know it's not viable for everyone but if you can get that full squad do next up you might be wondering which contractor is best for you for a starter so firewall launched with 12 contractors but since then they've added a whole bunch more with dlc so it might be a bit of overwhelming to figure out which contractor is good for you considering each contractor has their own unique embedded skill and i do have a few recommendations for beginners so my first one would be okoro his skill is heavy juicy that allows you to take extra explosive damage so and think from grenades mines c4s you're going to survive them where other contractors wouldn't another good start to contractor would be texas now texas has the bullet sponge ability lets her take more damage from bullets obviously but it does not have any impact on headshots so think of it like you're wearing a bulletproof vest getting shot in the head is still going to down you as quick as ever do keep in mind that every contractor has two skill slots so that means that why you can have texas with her bullet sponge as her primary one her embedded one you can't change that one the second one you could put okoro's heavy juicy in there and all of a sudden you've got resistance to both bullets and explosives and i think that's a good that's a good mix for beginners because you're going to be kept alive longer and maybe you're going to get more experience which might be vital for those early hours when you're starting off playing now those are just the two recommendations i would make to beginners but that's not to say that they're the only contractors you should go for it's a couple of other good ones too raha her ability is called scouse and that lets enemies show up on your wrist radar as long as they're within a certain range of you that's a very useful skill to have also some people find firewall maybe a little bit slow in terms of the movement speed so diaz will be a good choice there his skill double time will let you move faster than anyone else who doesn't have that skill and keep in mind you can take those skills and put them as the secondary skill for any of the other contractors so you can mix and match find what's right for you and go with that so those four contractors i would recommend taking a look at see what works for you and then as you get more experience experiment with the newer ones you know next up is your loadouts now i always get the question in my videos you know what is the best weapon in the game what's the best loadout for somebody who's starting off and before once upon a time it was the tailor cqb assault rifle that was the king in this game since then recently enough first contact entertainment have kind of changed the balance of the guns in this game so why the tailor cqb still very good still very effective there's other guns that are viable now too so it's not just tailor every time having said that i would still recommend the tailor cqb for beginners it unlocks early it's like a level six or level seven or something like that so you can get that very quick a couple maybe an hour or two a gameplay and you should be able to get that if you want to try a different assault rifle later on maybe the reg classic that they've added to the game that's pretty much another hot one that a lot of people are using especially a close range it seems to be very effective now i wouldn't worry too much about the attachments like the muzzle brakes and the hiders and stuff like that they don't seem to impact the weapons too much the suppressor maybe more so than others but you should put on an extended magazine when you unlock as a laser is no harm and then a size either the red dot size or the hollow sights whichever one you want whatever you prefer i prefer a red dot sight myself and a foregrip as well next up then you might be wondering more about your secondary weapon which handgun do you want and i'm always going to recommend you go for that revive pistol so even though it's recently been nerfed so it only carries one revive dart now revive pistol is still such a useful tool it's going to save your teammates bacon on so many occasions it doesn't unlock until level 26 which is going to be quite a few hours of gameplay maybe before you can get that so until you do get that i would recommend you just pick whatever handgun you want you're not really going to be using handguns now they did get buffed in a patch recently enough but there's still nowhere near as effective as your assault rifle you're never going to use them unless you kind of have to unless you're out of ammo or you're stuck in a reload or something like that it's going to be very rare next up then are your lethals and i would recommend you just experiment with these yourselves fry grenades very easy to understand everyone kind of knows what they are but you might prefer impacts you know you might prefer stickies try them out see what feels better for you you know maybe you want to lay down traps instead with c4 and mines you know whatever you got to see that for yourself i can't tell you what's best there the same story applies for your tactical isomes you're going to want to experiment with these but you also want to keep in mind you know the map and stuff like that some of these isomes are going to be more effective on certain maps where they wouldn't on others you know depending on how exposed they are how many doors and stuff like that my next tip is to aim for the head go for headshots whenever you can and this one is kind of obvious but some people including me for the longest time would just go for the chest area center mass it's an easier target you kind of instinctively go there but i would recommend that you be a little braver and go for that head i know it's a smaller targets it's more difficult to do but you will put so much more damage into an enemy and when you do get that headshot it makes a sound very satisfying you know you can practice doing this in the training solo training mode stuff like that so you can get a feel for what it's like to hit enemies in the head just go for the head basically you know because in those 50 50 situations where you and the enemy both spots each other at the same time if you're going for headshots he's going for chest shots you're going to win every time next tip is dealing with rushers so rushing in firewall is a tactic that some squads in firewall use so at the beginning of the round straight away they just sprint to where they think you are and they will immediately rush in there trying with the idea of catching you with your pants down and just like try and wipe you out straight away it can be very difficult especially if you're a defender you're trying to set up your traps and stuff like that all of a sudden they're on you and you don't really have time to put down any traps your pants are down you're exposed and you just get nailed but there is a couple of things you can do to kind of minimize the impact of rushers so once you know you're dealing with a squad that is russian consistently first thing you want to do is stick together with your squad if you can obviously this is where communication is key once again stick together have each other's backs be ready to revive another thing you can do is to maybe pull back find yourself a nice little defensive position get into cover watch your corners let the rushers come let them do all the work they want to rush let them do us and then you got a more more of a fair fight then you know rather than being unprepared now some people maybe yourselves included will think that this russian tactic takes the fun out of the game but it is a valid tactic and first contact entertainment have taken steps to kind of neuter the effectiveness of this tactic is still a very effective tactical so i wouldn't be surprised to see first contact entertainment taking even further action to you know nerf russian my next tip then is to just jump right in now you may be wondering about things like you know map knowledge and stuff like that and that is very important there's nearly 20 maps in this game some people have been playing for over a year so they've got a big advantage of you in terms of that bus i think the best way to learn these maps and whatnot is to just jump in play by experience you could try playing in solo training and you will learn like spawn locations and stuff like that there that's a good idea but the ai in the training isn't going to behave the same way as real players so you want to play real matches you're going to see how people react how they're like the choke points on matches and the lines of sites and stuff like that that maybe you wouldn't see with ai so i would recommend you just jump in and learn by experience my last tip then is to just simply have fun now you can play firewall in a very serious way you can be super coordinated playing for the win every time stuff like that you can have fun doing that and you will find that in firewall and on the other side of the coin you can just like goof around mess around make some friends have some laughs and just you know kill some people while you're doing this and it's definitely that fun is to be had like this channel i've met so many kind of serious videos about firewall maybe analyze and weapons and maps and trailers and all that kind of stuff if you actually watch any of my streams you'd see that like 90% of the time i'm just messing around with my teammates we're just having fun we're just laughing constantly uh well constantly of course sometimes we get serious sometimes we get salty but most of the time it's just good fun you know and that is it for this video lads and ladies i hope you enjoyed this i hope you got some kind of benefit from us if especially if you're a newcomer to firewall before i end this video let me give a special thank you to my patreon supporters who are keeping this channel afloat their names are on screen right now thank you very much for your support and let me give a particular shout out 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