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Rivals at War: Firefight – Entertainment Game Review
Rivals at War: Firefight is a Entertainment/Simulation/Roleplaying game from Fresh Build Games Inc., first launched in 6th March 2014.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 941+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rivals at War: Firefight Stand Out
TAKE CONTROL of an elite team of combat soldiers. UPGRADE your weapons for each mission. FIGHT alongside your team in head-to-head battles. CONQUER rival teams from around the world. Fight for VICTORY and become the best team!
- Lead your Commander soldier into the firefight, taking part in the battles with full targeting and shooting control
- Battle across 7 different combat scenarios, each with its own 3D map and day and night missions
- Assemble your team, choosing from 6 unique soldier types – Commander, Medic, Radioman, Breacher, SAW Gunner, and Sniper
- Upgrade your soldiers' skills: Speed, Accuracy, Damage, Health, and Defence
- Customize your team with different uniforms and headgear
- Use powerful tactic cards to shift each battle in your favour
- Over 40 achievements to complete and unlock special rewards
- Compete against other players' teams to dominate the leaderboards
It is your duty to protect the world from the threats of terrorism and chaos. Prepare to enter the Firefight!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rivals at War: Firefight is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th April 2021
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Rivals at War: Firefight is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rivals at War: Firefight on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game was one of our favorites growing up. We wish they would reactivate the servers.
Loved this game when we were little try to redownload it and it doesnt seem to work wish they would make a new one.
You can gain a super soldier through tournaments if you win its not easy, but yes you can.
We like the game havent played it in a few years recently downloaded it but everytime we go to load we get an internal server error and it wont load please fix.
Over a decade later, still great.
Is our fav game but come on dont leave it and move on can yall remastered it or come up with a new game same concept as this one but better balance games and also better customization your troops and weapons but come on Ik yall can revive it.
Best game pls fix it every time we enter it says error.
Please get rid energy this game is very enjoyable. Pls read this.
We havent been able to play it please fix it we love this game so much.
Our only problem is that we cant play the game anymore because it keeps saying error even after we uninstalled and installed the game it says the same thing. Please fix this issue.
We used to play this all the time if they made all the rivals at war like this one that would be awesome.
Its alsome the game is good so fun to play.
Game is great especially for being free, but it can be a little frustrating and feel unfair at times.
We are so unbelievably happy and lucky to find this game again on the App Store. This concept is so good and we would love if a new version was released. Still a really good game thank you to whoever kept this game on the App Store you are doing gods work.
We use to play this game when we were younger and loved it. But we went back to it today and it wont load in it just says error every time. Any way to fix this.
We have had a recurring issue where it looks like our screen gets stretched out and we cant do anything. We have tried restarting and deleting it but it didnt work. It only got fixed the first time when we deleted our old team but its back again. Other than that, its a very good game.
In beginning went you try cilck continue it not working as much we try and how many times we restart it.
Hey when are you guys going to update the game its been years.
Its an awesome game, and its very fun to play. Its also addicting, and we love that you can customize the headgear. This game though has serious balance in issues. Im like level 10, but Im fighting against level 40 players. This needs to be fixed, because sometimes this can make the game hard to play. Other than that, this is a great game, and needs a sequel or something like that.
The energy bar needs to be deleted because 10 for 6 turns aint it.
We enjoyed playing this so much and put effort into building up our team. Then all of a sudden every time we open the app it instantly crashes. Please fix it.
First is you should be able to play as medic, sniper, saw gunner, breacher and radioman you own. Second is more nationalities ones we think should be added are Israel Iran Algeria Palestine Iraq Syria Saudi Arabia Lebanon Afghanistan Pakistan Kuwait Yemen Morocco Tunisia Egypt Jordan United Arab Emirates Cuba El Salvador Venezuela South Africa Kenya Nigeria Somalia Ukraine and more. Third more hairstyles one we think should be added are buzzcuts and rest is up to you, fourth is different hair colors different types of brown black and blonde, you should also add different mustaches and beards styles they also have the same option to add different colors ,colors are different types of brown black and blonde. Fifth you should also add different uniform colors ones we want to see are multiple types of red orange yellow blue green black brown white and purple are uniform are full color, and also add red,blue ,green,black, red,green ,green,blue, black,white black,red black,green black,blue black,yellow black,orange red,orange red,green yellow,orange and more they are two types of these example shirt and or vest green and pants blue and then pants green and shirt and or vest blue, all uniforms also contain these two color styles. Sixth You should be able to add 10-15 slots max examples health, defense, speed, accuracy and damage, and if they contain any of these slots already added to them you delete them all for free and choose which ones you want to add, can only be done once after that the ones you select are permanent. Seventh you should add a lot more maps, eight you should add more campaigns and missions both real players and bots. Nine some missions that are bots only you can choose the map every time. 10 you should also increase the amount of teammates you can have join battles with you It should be 12 max and you can choose any type of teammates including team commanders but you only have 2 team commanders max in all battles the remaining teammates can only be medics, snipers, saw gunners, breachers, and radioman. Also please either get rid of the energy completely and make it unlimited forever dont have to pay bucks/coins or anything forever , or increase it to 10 max forever and it only costs 5 or 10 bucks for a full refill every time forever, and also reduce the time it takes to refill full energy to every 3 minutes you get one energy every three minutes forever so you play as long as you want forever and one last thing is to fix the match making for example if you have a team rating of anywhere from 12 to 40 you only get paired with those that have a team rating of 12 to 40 and 41 to 60 and 60 to 80 and 81 and anywhere above and thats all please add these in the future updates it would really make the game a whole lot more better and fun and fair.
At first is a good game playing update the squad but after when we log in start lost connection or bad connection.
Cant load into firefight. Came back after years to play it again and game is not loading. Just says error as SOON as we load in.
We are on iPad Air but for some reason the tutorial continues doesnt work pls fix this hothead.
Why super soldier no accept tours ),:.
We really enjoy this game, but PLEASE get rid of the energy system. This game would be sooooo much better.
We loved this game when we were younger and just got back in it fun to play but some bugs this could be fixed easily. Also you should add more accessories.
They just added multiplayer and some other stuff to make the game more fun cause after u get everything theres nothing to do wish they would do something to it.
How about making a fresh rework,make the game like 2018 graphic.
This Is A Cool Game we been Play All Day.
This is a good game but each time ur in the snipers area u die snipers are way too over powered plz fix this.
This game is fun. Very fun. But the pay to win aspect and the A.we being borderline stupid ruins it. We could sink hours apon hours and still not have as good of a team as the guy who put 100 bucks in on his first day because of the pay to win aspect, which is extremely unfair. And more on the a.we. The bots will WILLINGLY run run out of the objective zone. They are also extremely passive, and almost never rush the objective, to the point where Im the only one covering it. Maybe if you gave us more control or at least decide the bots play style (offensive, defensive etc.) then we would feel more like a squad commander, and less like a babysitter.
Okay first off great game second this gonna be really short. So they need to nerf the snipers, and need to make in campaign you can go against your own level. Pardon us for lack of punctuation but this is our review.
Why just why this game is broken stuff around the map cant even cover you to protect you second of all do these bots have aim bot??? What is THIS please fix this.
First off we want to talk about how low iq and how bad your teammates are. We have to place 15 kills a game in order to win a simple match, our teammates are always dying, also they take longer to respawn like literally 10 seconds. They arent in the respawn area and im the only one alive. Remove snipers, they are too overpowered. Your own sniper doesnt do nothing but die. They one shot you every time. Lower rated teams can still win so easily because your team becomes so bad as you progress through the game. Delete this game if you have to, its bad.
Im losing soldiers which causes our rating to go down because the game wont allow us to use the tours they need.
We would give the game 5 stars but you only give 5 energy and have to wait for more…the game is supposed to be free to play.
Like the game and how everything works but man it really it dumb how you die from one shot to the head from anyone most of the time. Also the bots shoot through impenetrable buildingslike corners or sides of them. Also our bullets hit the bots and does no damage sometimes. The enemy sniper bots are tied for the most worst thing in the game cus they can take us out and all our friendly bots out 2 seconds after spawning in. If these problems werent happening and more balance and not bs would be hell of a great game.
Dont get this game, Ive raged so many times because the ai for our team does nothing.Unless you can have 100 accuracy with your commander, youre team will do nothing. We had an all silver team that did nothing. They dont move, dont do anything, they arent even doing their roles. Such a garbage game. Its basically you against the entire enemy team. The only team your team is doing something is against teams with -20 rating than yours.
Its a fun game but its irritating after every battle there is an ad that you cant close out of so you have to close the entire game and restarted it just to play one more battle for it to happen again.
This game is so fun hope you guys can make more great games like this.
We love the game and all but we wanna be able to put attachments and upgrade our soldiers gun. Like if we put a silencer their would be a silencer noise when the gun shoots. And we wanna be able to upgrade the guns rate of fire. Pls hot head games we hope you put this in your game. Also can you guys make the guns look like the real thing.
We love the games so much all of the rivals at war they are good and have now rated this one but we have been playing for years.
A better sequel to the original RAW game, we like that you can actually control the commander instead of just hoping for the best with the A.we our only problem is that we cant change our color to our patch. The primary color changes fine but theres no secondary color option to select and Im stuck with a weird Fuchsia.
Snipers can take you and your team out quickly and its very annoying and the energy system is really bad only five battles and then we have to wait for it to recharge and the matchmaking system is terrible im only level 8 and im fighting level 13 people with a team rating of sixty with us having a rating of 47 and its very hard to level up with all the hard battles and the tours/critically wounded things are both very dumb.
Should add attachments and make the game look better.
Us encanta los grficos de las caras de los personajes(depende pas)las armas,cascosy mapas,gracias por crear este juego.
We love the game and it is so fun but there is an issue. The one Im focusing on is the matchmaking. It is a huge chance that there will be a enamel super lower then yours or one that is higher. Very rarely do we get a match where it is even close to even. We still love the game and it is one of our favorites and if they fixed this it wold be even better.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.4
- Size: 96.71 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Fresh Build Games Inc.
Last updated: 29th April 2021 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Fresh Build Games Inc.