Brink story: Escape the Ark? or Control of the Ark?

(xTriXxy) #1

Save the Ark or Escape the Ark?
Is it me only or Brink Story was changed?

Lets talk about Ark

Brink takes place on the Ark. Built in the near-future as part of a contemporary green vision, the Ark was a model for sustainable living. The massive man-made floating city became a home to the scientists and thinkers focused on making the vision a reality, while its wealthy patrons built a recreational paradise. But soon the threat of a global environmental crisis became real: glaciers melted, sea levels rose, and the very survival of humanity was threatened. Thousands from around the globe fled to the Ark as a last hope. Refugees clung to survival however they could, while the original founders and their descendants struggled to maintain the island.

Now, existing in 2045, A whole generation has grown up on the Ark, and while it was originally supposed to house around 5,000 people, it now houses around 50,000. Now, the Ark has lost contact with what remained of the mainland and exists in total isolation. As the Ark’s supposedly renewable resources dwindle, the balance of power threatens to unravel and throw competing social factions into a horrific conflict. Civil War

Security

Ark Security has now expanded into a heavily armed counter-terrorism force. Most Security personnel have volunteered because they’re convinced that for the Ark to survive it must have peaceful order and conserve its remaining resources. And the extra water ration comes in useful too. Resistance provocations have forced Security to clamp down on Guest unrest, which has lead to the Ark teetering on the brink of outright revolt.

Resistance

The Resistance formed from those sick and tired of being the Founders’ captive workforce; they want equal water rations for all, and to use the Ark’s dwindling resources to reach whatever’s left of the World. Growing Guest unrest has led to Security crackdowns, which have brought the Ark to the brink of civil war.

----------------------------> this was previous brink story

Why Resistance want to Escape the Ark now? i know, there is an island somewhere. But i dont get it. If they want to leave, let them go. Anyway there is lack on resources on the Ark.

Is it me only or Brink Story was changed?

(xTriXxy) #2

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(H3LLS1) #3

we’re thinking…slow down. lol

(Testaterone) #4

The briefing for security on refuel explains why they don’t want people leaving the Ark.

(Nefarious) #5

Because the guest are a labor force and are fed up with it. The Ark Big Wigs are the bad guys. You get that from the intel in the Container City Mission where the Resistence are guarding Medicine/Cure and the Security Force is informed that it is a Bio Weapon instead.

The fact that it is a Cure is explained in loading screen quotes and in cinimatics of how the Guest are coming down with illness. And the Ark Big Wigs want control of the Cure to keep control of the Guest as labor.

Now Chen could of lied to the Resistence about it being a cure. Hell he gave the Green Light to Launch a missle at the Tower. But I dont think he would go as far as a Bio Weapon Attack considering he gets pretty pissed in the ‘What If Mission’ where the Resistence causes Radioactive Fallout and killing everyone.

Only a handfull of people can get on the plane and escape. The rest stay home on Ark where fighting is still going on no doubt. But the

So the way the story ends. The tower gets bombed and a few guys get away on the Plane.

The story wasint changed, just expanded. They still want watar and ****.

(Dire Wolf) #6

Yes they did make changes to the story! I knew basically that the Resistance wanted to fight to get what they thought was their “fair share”, while the Security force was trying to keep the peace & order.

However, one of the pre-release Brink hype videos shows a part of the Security’s story that I found particularly intriguing (u can STILL see it. goto http://www.brinkthegame.com/media/videos/?id=78 on pg2 called “Container City Part 3” . The cinema scene @ the 3min mark). This video added another layer, an element of mystery (and btw, imo, it had more depth and story than the entire release version does). They left this sort of vague indication with that ‘Evolution Begins’ a few seconds before they slap the Resistance’s ‘R’ in front of it @ the end of the vid.

 I don't feel they expanded the story at all! They give a very short audio-only briefing before each mission, where each side just tells their own version that makes them out to be the 'good' guy. Not the complex layered story they promised. Well I bought the game looking for this epic story they hyped, and they've almost completely removed it. Instead we get a broken and incomplete shadow of a story. To me, HUGE let down!
(xTriXxy) #7

[QUOTE=Dire Wolf;319189]Yes they did make changes to the story! I knew basically that the Resistance wanted to fight to get what they thought was their “fair share”, while the Security force was trying to keep the peace & order.
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exactly! it was, basically, war for resources.

(wolfnemesis75) #8

[QUOTE=xTriXxy;317819]Save the Ark or Escape the Ark?
Is it me only or Brink Story was changed?

Lets talk about Ark

Brink takes place on the Ark. Built in the near-future as part of a contemporary green vision, the Ark was a model for sustainable living. The massive man-made floating city became a home to the scientists and thinkers focused on making the vision a reality, while its wealthy patrons built a recreational paradise. But soon the threat of a global environmental crisis became real: glaciers melted, sea levels rose, and the very survival of humanity was threatened. Thousands from around the globe fled to the Ark as a last hope. Refugees clung to survival however they could, while the original founders and their descendants struggled to maintain the island.

Now, existing in 2045, A whole generation has grown up on the Ark, and while it was originally supposed to house around 5,000 people, it now houses around 50,000. Now, the Ark has lost contact with what remained of the mainland and exists in total isolation. As the Ark’s supposedly renewable resources dwindle, the balance of power threatens to unravel and throw competing social factions into a horrific conflict. Civil War

Security

Ark Security has now expanded into a heavily armed counter-terrorism force. Most Security personnel have volunteered because they’re convinced that for the Ark to survive it must have peaceful order and conserve its remaining resources. And the extra water ration comes in useful too. Resistance provocations have forced Security to clamp down on Guest unrest, which has lead to the Ark teetering on the brink of outright revolt.

Resistance

The Resistance formed from those sick and tired of being the Founders’ captive workforce; they want equal water rations for all, and to use the Ark’s dwindling resources to reach whatever’s left of the World. Growing Guest unrest has led to Security crackdowns, which have brought the Ark to the brink of civil war.

----------------------------> this was previous brink story

Why Resistance want to Escape the Ark now? i know, there is an island somewhere. But i dont get it. If they want to leave, let them go. Anyway there is lack on resources on the Ark.

Is it me only or Brink Story was changed?[/QUOTE]

<Spoiler Alert>
Resistance wants to escape: They believe that there is an outside world that they want to take their chances with. The Security Chief sent out a team 13 years prior to us playing the game when they had lost all contact with the outside world. The team sent never returned, and was tortured to death to reveal the location of the ark. The outside world is in even worse shape than the Arc (We don’t know 100%) we can only go by what the Chief of Security believes to be true. The leader of the Resistance, Chen was told this news by Mokoena, but Chen doesn’t want to believe that it is worse than Arc. “There is an outside world, but it is in even worse shape than Arc,” said Mokoena in the cut scene for one of the maps.

Resistance is running out of options and must seek help, no matter how desperate or unlikely from the outside world is the impression that I got. The length that they will go depends on who’s perspective that you take.

Remember, the Resistance is made up of refugees who fled from other parts of the world and found their way to the Arc. The Founders hastily created an Island for these Guests (Refugees) but are running out of resources. The machinery breaking down and water supplies are being rationed but its leading to sickness. Many believe that the water levels rose and most of the world was lost. As we fight, we are shown that most do not know either way. But classified intel from Mokena showed that the outside world could be a dangerous place.

I believe that there is an outside world but its not a good thing for the Arc, perhaps the lawless rule in what remains of the rest of the world. One of the audio logs talks of there being a terrible sickness killing people and how one doctor was shipped to the Arc to save what was left of humanity.

The outside world: They would take the Arc and kill everyone there including the founders.

(Zevron) #9

I got this from the audio logs.

The last team of people that went to the outside world to establish communication was tortured by the people of the outside world to find out the location of the arc, hinting that the outside world is in worse conditions than the arc, the arc couldn’t sustain more people so it had to be completely relocated, now, the arc doesn’t have enough resources to move the arc again, so they can’t afford that the rebels reveal the location once again.

(wolfnemesis75) #10

The story is while you play, you just have to be aware of it. What I like about the multiplayer in Brink is that there is a context to where you are fighting and why. The objective is also interwoven with the story. Works well if you ask me.

(iFork) #11

“The sickness is really just this year’s flu.”

(Calelith) #12

[QUOTE=Zevron;319291]I got this from the audio logs.

The last team of people that went to the outside world to establish communication was tortured by the people of the outside world to find out the location of the arc, hinting that the outside world is in worse conditions than the arc, the arc couldn’t sustain more people so it had to be completely relocated, now, the arc doesn’t have enough resources to move the arc again, so they can’t afford that the rebels reveal the location once again.[/QUOTE]

How do they know what happened if they where all tortured and killed? Not to mention how would a bunch of barbarians understand how to find the ark once told where it is? not to mention how heavily armed the ark is.

I call BS, it is a scare story M is using to scare the founders into letting him do what he wants to do. M is very smart and plays the founders how ever he sees fit.

(Dire Wolf) #13

You are absolutely right wolfnemesis, this is the story as it stands now, but the original thread was asking if the story was changed from the pre-release story…

  I kinda feel like they cut a lotta stuff out of the story from what it was intended to be, so much so, that it feels a little 'patchy' and 'thin'. It feels almost like pieces tossed together, not the epic story of the battle for the Arc (that they hyped). Mostly tho, each side of the story pretty much portrays you as the 'good guy' and at times has a different story for what you're doing on the same stage.

Spoiler Alert

Calelith: I found that part of the story was interesting but 'thin'. They lost contact with the outside world like 20 or more years ago. So, about 7 years later (13yrs ago), they decide to send a small group of ppl out to check out the status of the outside world. And yea... how in the world do they know so exactly what happened to the group? Also, seems like [I]everyone[/I] on the Arc woulda noticed the move 13yrs ago? lol But, there's no telling if the 'outsiders' are barbarians or not. They could be a somewhat organized group, held together by a leader (another faction for future expansion?) that want/need tech to expand their capabilities.

  On a side note, on one of Chen's first audio files, he mentions that they can no longer reproduce the special coral that keeps their 'pelgos' (and the Arc?) afloat. And the stuff that's already there is slowly deteriorating, much like the solar panels and everything else.  And he didn't tell any of the founders about it, because he didn't want them to blame him for it.

Also, there’s another small video clip that you see after you beat both stories on one character. More vague innuendo’s to speculate over.

That being said, I still leaning toward the saving the Arc side, mostly because the “guests” were never invited in the first place, criminals and bad elements showed up as well. The founders tried to welcome them anyway, and they’ve only wanted more and more ever since. To me, that would be much like an uninvited house guest coming to your home, and despite you offering him a meal and drink, he demands half of all your stuff! Then he’d demand to tear ur house up to patch up the his car (that he tore up to make a small lean-to in your house with), so he can leave, lol.

(Iramaj) #14

I too feel that some of the story elements were taken out that should have been made into a cutscene at mission end or maybe a movie with completion for the sake of brinking the story together. I was wondering about the container city part, as well, but i guess it messed up the smoothness of gameplay? I understand that, but they could have had it as an unlockable like the audiologs.

(light_sh4v0r) #15

Don’t forget there’s 2 more maps incoming, that could make up some ‘missing information’ :slight_smile: