The Firm

Overview

The Firm is a classical tactical turn-based game translated into VR.

Gameplay Loop

Prepare in-between combat - Analyse enemies, choose your weapons, reload, activate abilities, heal up and set your move for the next round. When ready, dive into the action where taking cover and utilising destructible objects in the environment will be to your greater advantage. Once the round is done, prepare again and resume the gunfest.

Combat Mechanics

Action Points taken from the classical tactical genre and tailored to VR by way of player speed and movement distance over 5 second duration combat rounds. Choose to equip light armour and light firearms and your movement distance and speed will be great, choose the heavy stuff and have the armament of a tank, you'll also crawl like one - Typical of turn based games.

Player stats increase after progressing through levels. Speed increases, allowing for faster and further movement. Health increases for better survival. Weapons and armour tiers also unlock, giving the player access to more and more.

AI takes into account the player's weapon and its own, making decisions based on range. Long ranged opponents will flee if too close, some may wait and guard instead of attacking, some can evade while some utilise shields, have their own abilities and others will simply assault you head on.

Weapons & Equipment

Weapon varieties include Light Pistols, Combat Pistols, Heavy Pistols, Sub Machine Guns, Machine Guns, Hand Cannons, Shotguns, Rifles, Snipers and Blasters. 48 physics-based weapons to play with that have feel and weight. They recoil and have their own sounds, animations and abilities.