Brink ability preview on Facebook

(elevator13) #61

Kevlar is definitely an Engineer ability (taken from GTTV’s Episode):

(Mustkunstn1k) #62

Indeed. It even says “X gave kevlar to Y” or something.

(ktr) #63

I know that can purchase up to 20 abilities, but can you use all 20 at the same time?

(Weeohhweeohh) #64

There is a difference between passive and active abilities. Passives don’t need to be mapped to your d-pad. Universal passive abilities persist no matter what class you choose to play. Class specific passive abilities only give you bonuses if you are playing that particular class. (ie: nerves of steel ((engineer passive)) which lets you disarm HE bombs faster)

To use class active abilities, you have to be playing that particular class. When you are designing a particular class load out (before hand, not during a game), you have 3 mappable slots on your d-pad (or whatever the PC equivalent will be) that you place active abilities into. If you buy/have access to 4 active abilities for a particular class, you will only be able to use 3 in a given match. You can change your mapped abilities by either jumping out of the game, or waiting till the game ends and fiddling with your load out during the break.

SO:
Universal: You have access to all Universal abilities you buy no matter what class you pick
Soldier: You have access to 3 active abilities and all class specific passive abilities you buy
Engineer: You have access to 3 active abilities and all class specific passive abilities you buy
Medic: You have access to 3 active abilities and all class specific passive abilities you buy
Operative: You have access to 3 active abilities and all class specific passive abilities you buy

Edit: Just my understanding of the system. I could be terribly wrong.

(Kinjal) #65

we done here? day 6?

(Mustkunstn1k) #66

Well… there was the weekend. And maybe they operate to time zones of US.

(Kinjal) #67

ROFL - :stroggbanana:

"Brink Ability Preview, Day 6: The Engineer’s Gatling Turret

This lets you plant a Gatling auto-turret which will detect and fire at any enemies. You cannot purchase this Ability without first purchasing Light Turret and Medium Turret."

(ktr) #68

Hehe, Beths didn’t realize they posted the same ability preview twice. Very unprofessional.

(BioSnark) #69

somewhere in the world, an intern is loosing their job :frowning:

(Kinjal) #70

When i saw the day 6, first thing that came in mind was :smiley:

(Ragoo) #71

:C so many gatling turrets making my life hard ; (

(Fireseed) #72

Thumb the thread once more.

So badman could realize the mistake and will give a us two abilities today as a sorry :stuck_out_tongue:

(Schwarzeis) #73

[QUOTE=Fireseed;280610]Thumb the thread once more.

So badman could realize the mistake and will give a us two abilities today as a sorry :P[/QUOTE]

Hey, one can hope

(Nail) #74

maybe now they’ve shown the same thing 3 days in a row we’re beginning to see Bethesda’s commitment to Brink, it’s beginning to smell like another “Lackovision” scenario

(Whydmer) #75

The same thought was starting to buzz around the back of my empty brain space.

Ahh… but now Day 7 is up!

Day 7: Downed Fire

(Whydmer) #76

So downed fire has a delay before you can use it and lowers your remaining HP while downed making it easier to kill/gib you?

(Nail) #77

I would think being incap would mean you had near to no health to begin with

(Bullveyr) #78

Na, incap health should be pretty high, afair one of the devs said it’s higher than normal health. Probably that has changed but look at W:ET and ET:QW where it also takes quite some shots to gib.

(Nail) #79

#8 Control Turret, operatives can get an ability to hack their own ? teams turrets to control them manually

(tokamak) #80

Wow that sounds like one hell of a way to grief.