If you’re just clocking in for your first shifts in FBC: Firebreak, it might seem a trifle overwhelming. Firebreak teaches you little about how cleaning up The Oldest House works, and it’s easy to miss some small, important details, things like activating respawn points or weakening waves of enemies.
Below, we’ve put together a list of FBC: Firebreak beginner’s tips to help get you in and out safely and efficiently.
1. Activate safe rooms as soon as you come across them. These serve as respawn points and save you having to trek from the elevator all the way back to wherever it was you died. You can grab some ammo in there, too.
2. Repair showers and ammunition booths immediately. These are located at the start of a mission area and are essential for success, the latter for replenishing ammo, of course, and the former for cleansing all negative effects.
3. Watch your aim. Friendly fire is a thing in FBC: Firebreak.
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4. It’s possible to clear everything alone. Solo play is more demanding, but depending on how your teammates play, you might have better luck rationing revives by yourself.
5. Just don’t rely on the shotgun or bolt-action rifle. Their low capacity and long reload times make them highly impractical for solo play and two-member teams.
6. Stick together if you’re in a team. Not only is it safer, but you always want to revive a fallen ally manually instead of having another employee sent in.
7. You can change your job kit and your loadout in the elevator or a safe room at any point, so if you’re struggling or need to tackle a task faster, don’t hesitate to swap out.
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8. Job kits have combat functions as well. The splash kit can stop groups of enemies, and the jump kit stuns them briefly. Combine the two, and you’ll electrocute a whole wave of foes.
9. The goo that pours out when you shoot a leech actually protects you from radiation for a short time, so bathe in that nasty stuff while you’re carting pearls around.
10. Use ziplines to get around quickly, escape the Hiss, and to attach objects like the radioactive pearls for fast transport.
11. Equip perks that expand your grenade capacity. Grenades are perfect for disrupting Hiss hordes and weakening any enemy that isn’t a “strong” Hiss.
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12. Look up! One type of Hiss flies, and they’ll take you out quickly if you don’t target them as soon as they’re within range.
13. Extinguish fires when you come across them. Hiss that come into contact with flames become twice as strong.
14. Check the roof above flames and oil spills to see if there’s a sprinkler. If so, shoot it to put fires out and keep new ones from springing up.
15. Grab research files for extra points to spend on requisitions and perks. You’ll drop any files when you die, but you or another teammate can scoop them up again.
