Tips for every job in FBC: Firebreak
This BigFriendly.Guide will give you three tips for each of the jobs in FBC: Firebreak to set you up for success.
Each of the jobs in FBC: Firebreak have their own objectives and idiosyncrasies. While there's always Hiss to shoot, every job is a little bit different, and understanding what you're doing will save you time, frustration, and a lot of flailing and failing.
This BigFriendly.Guide will give you three tips for each of the jobs in FBC: Firebreak to set you up for success.
Hot Fix
- Do not take this job on without someone on your team having a Splash Kit. There are a lot of mechanical and electrical fixes you’ll need to deal with in this job, but you’re going to die a lot if someone isn’t there to douse you if you get set on fire. If you’re playing solo, you’re better off manually repairing everything and being able to splash yourself.
- Don’t just put out fires, put out the Hiss as well. As the Hiss run through fire or get blasted by the big, flaming fans, they’ll get set on fire and glow red. This is bad for their health, sure, but it’s also bad for your health. If Hiss get close to you and hit you, they will start to light you on fire, so make sure you’re paying attention there.
- Start the furnace fight by opening the shelters in the sunken area of the arena. When the furnace sends out a flare, you'll get burnt to a crisp if you’re standing anywhere in the room other than the middle area. But enemies can also swarm those areas and be safe from the attack, so open up shelters to give yourself somewhere to run and stand your ground, get ammo, get healing, and hide from the flare. There are two shelters in the lower area, one on each side.
Paper Chase
- Soak and then shock the post-it notes to get rid of a bunch of them at once. By giving post-its the wet condition, you can then use your Jump Kit person or a Shock Grenade to destroy them in a chain. If you’re efficient, you can create a chain that spreads an entire room and destroys hundreds (or even thousands) of notes at once.
- Focus your efforts on the post-it note zombies. In the second area of this job, you’ll start facing down post-it note zombies that run toward you. Kill them and seek more out, as they count as post-it notes you need to destroy in order to progress the mission.
- The massive post-it note golem is the only real boss fight in the game, and you can keep the damage window open by having someone repair the mechanisms while the boss is vulnerable. It’s a good idea to send one player without their ultimate up to do this while your Splash Kit uses their flamethrower to decimate the boss.
Ground Control
- The cart where you place the pearls is the central focal point of every area of the Ground Control map, so you need to make sure it’s placed well before you grab any radioactive items to place in them. You can and should move the cart manually by walking behind it.
- Finding enough leech pearls can be really time consuming, but there are big leeches that often drop two or more. Look for these massive leeches -- they seem to like to hide in shadows, so make sure your flashlight is on -- to complete these jobs quicker.
- Beware of pits. The second area has several bottomless pits that will consume you and anything you’re holding. This includes your upgrade resources like Lost Assets, so be extra careful when traveling over zip lines or anything like that.
Frequency Shift
- Take your time to destroy the pink goop whenever you see it, as it not only can grow to block your path, but it often has the panels you need to finish the mission hiding under the masses.
- Look for bomb clusters within the piles of goop. Occasionally, you’ll find dense little balls of pink goop in the normal clusters. If you hit these, they’ll explode and destroy multiple globs all at once.
- Be very careful of the turbines covered in goop. Once you destroy the goop covering them, they’ll start spinning very quickly. If you’re not careful, you can get bounced by one generator into another over and over again until you’re dead. Remove the goop from a distance to avoid getting clobbered.
Freezer Duty
- The worst part about this mission is that it’s a lot of waiting around for ice to melt — literally. The best thing to do here is grab a generator or two, throw it on some ice, and go grab some more while your Jump Kit operator runs around and activates all of them with their Electro-Kinetic Charge Impactor (zap gun).
- The ice anomalies are best destroyed by the generators. However, you can also destroy them with any kind of fire damage. So if you’re missing some generators and have a Splash Kit player with their flamethrower ultimate available to them, you can pop it to blast through one in a hard-to-reach area.
- During the final section where you have to find the manikins, it’s worthwhile to bring generators with you to break out some of the ice anomalies and create better paths. The manikins can be hard to find, so it’s important to have space to move once you’re ready to load them up.
This post originally appeared on BigFriendly.Guide
Please pardon any formatting weirdness