 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here back with another Firewall Zero Hour video. This one is all about the huge and extremely moist new update coming called Operation Nightfall. And yesterday we learned loads of new information regarding this, including its release days, which is the 21st of May and that is of course next Tuesday so not far away at all, get absolutely hype and we have pretty much all our questions answered from the last video that I did so without further ado let's just jump right into it and get into these juicy details. Okay so yesterday two things happened, we got a brand new trailer that details a lot of the changes coming with Operation Nightfall and I'll have that playing in the background right now but we also got a blog post from Damon Shabs over on the PS blog where he goes into the nitty-gritty details of what we can expect and there is a lot of information here. Now the first thing Shabs talks about is the brand new seasonal progression system that has been added to the game and this revolves around missions, tasks and rewards. So it kind of resembles a battle pass if you've seen that in Fortnite and the kind of battle royale games. So Shabs talks about how they've changed up the current challenges that are in the game and made them more meaningful. So that means either challenges have been replaced and are no longer in the game or they've evolved into one of these missions or task category type things. So what is the difference between a mission and a task? Well each week we will be given a mission which will yield some kind of cosmetic reward upon completion. Tasks on the other hand are daily and will reward you with just crypto and XP. Now things do get a little bit complicated here because there are more than one type of weekly mission. So this is because first contact entertainment are adding an up pass to the game. So for the price of $9.99 you can purchase this pass and get access to some extra missions in the form of premium and bonus missions which will unlock more cosmetic items. So let's take a look at this image here from the PS blog to see what the difference is between having the pass and not having the pass. So whether you have the pass or not you will get access to the two new maps which are Hanger and FOB. Though FOB won't come out until halfway into this season. Daily tasks and 8 free mission rewards are the other two things that everybody will be getting. Now the rest of the list then here is just for those who will be buying this up pass and those benefits include Ace Premium Mission Rewards and Ace Bonus Mission Rewards. And I'll be very interested in finding out what the actual difference is between a premium mission and a bonus mission. You'll get access to two new contractors Ruby who we have already discussed and a new contractor called Lynx who we know very little about. He'll be added halfway through the season and is briefly teased at the end of this trailer. You'll also get access to two new skills one of which is Ruby's Thief skill. The other one will be Lynx's skill but we don't know that one. Yes, but we'll talk about that a little bit more in just a bit. Now the skill thing here feels a little bit like walking on thin ice. On the one hand Shab's later points out that the skills are just timed exclusive to up pass holders and that after the nightfall season ends the skills will be available to everyone. But on the other hand this opens the door for a pay to win debase. Now Ruby's skill, Thief isn't exactly going to win a game for anyone but if Lynx's skill is more impactful and I think it will be to the gameplay then it could be a little bit problematic. Let me know what you think about this in the comments below. Finally up pass holders will have a chance to unlock a legendary weapon skill. For Operation Nightfall this will be Okoro's AK-47 and you have to admit that thing looks bad as the lion caravan on the stock is truly moisture inducing. But if you want to get your hands on this bad boy then not only will you have to be an up pass holder but you'll also need to complete all 24 missions. So that's the 8 free missions, the 8 premium missions and 8 bonus missions. And you'll need to hand over on top of all this 250,000 crypto which is a considerable amount. I think I only have something like 200,000 right now. So maybe I will be using that Thief skill after all. Now you may be wondering where the new weapons are on this list and I believe they are going to be free mission rewards but we'll get to the weapons in just a bit. Next up Shab's talks about the new contractors and new maps. We'll be getting two of each. The first map, Hangar, actually takes place in Malaysia. Now is this some kind of nod to Malaysian airliners going missing or something? I don't know. But in the developer stream the UI states it that Hangar took place in the UK and that's something I went over before so it turns out that must have just been a placeholder. Now the second map which will release sometime mid-season is called FOB which stands for Forward Operating Base and we see it teased here at the very end. Now the most exciting part of this map is that we see it has weather effects. Now in this case a sandstorm. So we can assume this takes place in a desert environment on some type of military outpost. I'm getting very big Metal Gear Solid V vibe from the shot we see here. Now during this tease we also get a glimpse of what I assume is the new contractor, Lynx. Now we see Lynx in the distance but he is clearly in a downed states. Then we hear the revive audio cue. Take a listen. And Lynx rises to his feet. This feels like a big clue to Lynx's skill being the ability to revive himself from a downed states. It is possible that an off-screen teammate shot him with the revive dirt but I think there's just too much emphasis on the revive aspect for it to be anything else. If true then this resurrection skill we'll call it for now would definitely impact gameplay more than Ruby's thief skill and then you're talking about pay to win kind of stuff. At least timed exclusive pain to win if you know what I mean. So that can get a bit messy you'll be interested to see how the community reacts to that. Next Shabs tells us about the three new weapons coming with Operation Nightfall. Two primaries and finally a secondary for the first time. So we're getting the Richardson SG-12 which is a cool looking pump action shotgun that seems to be based off the Kel-Tec KSG if my googling skills are accurate. Next we have the Sarge which is a pistol based on the iconic 1911 and is the very first DLC hang on added to this game. Hopefully it'll be good enough to make me think about dropping the very useful revive pistol in order to use this instead. Now finally we have the Raptor which we already talked about in the last Nightfall video so I won't repeat myself there. Now interestingly in this image we see that each of these weapons is a mission reward so the shotgun is a week two reward the pistol is a week five reward and then the raptor is week seven. So this raises a couple of questions. Firstly when we are rewarded these weapons do we immediately receive them or do we still pay crypto to access them? And also what happens if I don't do the week two mission for example? Do I miss my chance to get the shotgun? If so do I have to wait until the season ends before I can get us? Like with the skills? I don't know. Let me know what you guys think down below in the comments and how this is all going to work. So Shabs then goes on to talk about the new UI and quality of life changes. Now we've covered a lot of the UI in the last video but there are a couple of differences here this time and some things that we now understand better that we didn't know the first time. So starting with the operations tab this has been renamed to the missions tab and I'm guessing this is where you'll go to see the current weekly mission. On the left this progress bar had us baffled last week but we now know it's a progress bar towards completing all 24 of your missions. And finally the mysterious USB symbol has been revealed to be a hack key and we'll talk a little bit about hack keys in a minute. First Shabs talks about the quality of life improvements we can expect to find in nightfall and these include squad optimizations, the ability to customize contractors in your lobby, hallelujah can we get an amen, map and laptop location refresh in bunker and compound which we already knew, as well as updates to enemy indicators and headshots sound effects. So keep an eye out for all of that stuff. Now next up Shabs talks about enemy AI which I found very surprising. First contact entertainment have been working on improving enemy AI and we even see some of this in the trailer. AI will now behave more like real players, breach indoors, hunting you down and using equipment intuitively. So you can expect an even bigger challenge from the level 50 AIs in this game than we already have now. Lastly Shabs talks about new ways to access more content as well as changes being made on the ps store to existing content. So Shabs breaks it down here, Operation Nightfall itself is free for everyone and will install as a free updates to your copy of the game. The nightfall up pass then will give you full access to all of the nightfall missions and rewards that you can unlock. But for those who don't have time to be completing all these weekly missions and whatnot you can buy these hack keys. So hack keys can be used to instantly complete a weekly mission but only free missions. Doing this won't give you XP but you'll receive whatever the cosmetic reward was for doing that mission and hack keys can be bought in bundles of 5 for 4.99. And then finally there is the nightfall up pass plus 25 hack key bundle. Now the price isn't listed for this bundle here but if you do buy this you can use these keys on any type of mission free premium bonus whatever unlike the five bundle keys. So keep that in mind when you're buying if you're deciding on buying five key bundles or whatever that the five key bundles will not work on premium or bonus missions. And then at the end of the ps blog article here Shabs talks about the current cosmetics that we already have on the ps store. They're all going to be reformatted into seven different bundles and will be available for one week only. After that time they'll be removed from the store. It says here that after May 21st cosmetic items will be available in-game as rewards for completed missions. Now I don't really know if that includes the ones they already had on the store or if those ones will be gone forever. So I'd like to see a bit of clarification on that one. Now in the comment section of the blog Shabs answers an important question that came in from Kusman who you may know. He just watched this channel from time to time. How long will a season last to which he replies 12 weeks. Stating that if you want the legendary Okoro AK-47 then that's the amount of time you have to earn us 12 weeks. And then that's it from the blog from Shabs. Now let's take a closer look at the trailer to see if we can spot anything interesting and almost straight away we are given an example of what a task will look like as on this monitor we can read the following. It says task one eliminates certain number of players with any smg and beside us are spaces for how much crypto and xp that task will be worth. We also see a progress bar beneath it that shows he's got 25% of the current task complete. Now this could just be a stylized graphic so it might not look 100% the same in the game but I think that's probably a realistic example of the types of tasks you can expect to see in this game. Next on this monitor here we see the map layouts likely for the hangar map itself so you can get an idea of how it will look and the size of us. We get a good look at the unique reload animation here for the new shotgun before we see the new AI in action busting down a door. Here we also get to see the 1911 in action with the suppressor attached. We see a screen here teasing a weekly mission but it doesn't reveal any details as it cuts away before the file is finished loading. We get a look at new face paints and camouflages and new trinkets which include a pair of grenades and a gemp head. Now keep in mind this is the stuff that you will be unlocking by doing these weekly missions it's all cosmetic stuff. Next we see Ruby's thief skill in action which nets her 115 crypto from this poor Odin player. It's hard to say for sure if this will be a set amount or if better performing players will net you extra cash but for now it's probably safe to assume it's 115 per body. Here we see Ruby holding Okoro's sexy AK-47 and then the trailer ends with the teas that we've already talked about so I want to talk about it again and whoof that was a lot to go over. This really is Firewall's biggest updates ever and it might really change the flow of the game. It certainly raises a lot of questions. I would imagine that there will be another season or another operation when this one is over that will bring even more content, more legendary weapon skins stuff like that because remember a few months ago Hesperber stated in a reddit thread that they were working on six new maps and that two of them would arrive in the coming weeks or months. Now the first two are Hanger and FOB so if the remaining four maps follow this password then first contact entertainment probably have at least two more operations lined up with two new maps for each one. And let's remember one thing it is not often a PSVR exclusive game gets this kind of post-launch support so first contact entertainment I think are to be applauded for not forgetting about this game. Yes the game does have issues, yes there are bugs that need fixing and improvements that would be very welcome but we know about them, first contact entertainment know about them and who knows maybe a lot of those fixes will be included in this update but they just didn't mention them because they aren't really selling points. For those of you who are currently loving Firewall however this update looks very promising and I think it might be worth picking up an op-pass for 9.99 if you feel like you want to support this small team of developers who are breaking new ground on PSVR. Anywho that's it for this video lads and ladies before I go let me give a shout out to my supporters over on patreon who are currently helping me get a better quality microphone for making these vids and I have to give them huge thanks. 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