Curious about one aspect

(Weapuh) #1

I was wondering, say I’m playing Brink and I’m on my character optimized to be a medic, nobody is doing the soldiers objective, so I decide to switch. Is there no way I can switch to my character optimized to be the soldier mid-match or would i have to make due with using my medic character as a mediocre soldier even though I’m being a team-player and completing an objective. I’ve read all the info, this is how i understood it to be. Also the inability to change body-type mid-match. Has this changed?

Thanks :slight_smile:

(RAAAAAAAAAAGE) #2

Good question, but i dont think you can change character during a game. Only the class. Thinking about it im not 100% sure now lol.

That actually raises a question from me. When you choose your abilities for a character, unless you specialise in say being a top medic, but instead choose a wide range of abilities. Some of those abilities will be wasted cause they’re class specific? Although the answer to that is dependant on the answer to OPs question.

(BioSnark) #3

@OP: Unless it has changed recently, no mid char changing.

(LyndonL) #4

OMG this question has been done to death. As early as a week or 2 ago.

No! You cannot change CHARACTER mid round unless you quit, change, and log back in.
No! It is not a “mediocre” soldier since the abilities are nothing more than that. Your ability to kill people is no better on a specialised build.

(Mr. Magikarp) #5

Building off of what Lyndon said:

It’s just not as specialized a build. And don’t give us any of that min/maxing stuff. You would make up for your lackluster soldier by being a better medic after you achieve the objective (your capacity to complete objectives isn’t impacted by perks, from what we’ve seen). Also, in a perfect world, you won’t have to worry about this problem because someone on your team already specializes in Soldiering.

(Nail) #6

I figure, ya got a gun, go shoot people, worry about the small stuff later. You get your basic needs to start

(Cankor) #7

A bit of an exageration. You’re saying a soldier, with improved blast radious on his nades and other such abilities is no better than a solider without? An engie with a level 3 turret is no better than an engie with no engie abiities? common…

(GkrewZ) #8

If your switching just to complete one objective I doubt you need those abilities as bad because honestly your not playing that class the whole time since you set your guy up for medic. Its a switch to do one thing not go for the whole game. I dont think its so big a deal.

(Linsolv) #9

If you switched to Engineer just because you’re supposed to be repairing a crane, what’re you doing making L3 turrets? There’s soldiers, medics, and operatives for killing.

(BioSnark) #10

holding the objective because you’re tired of seeing blind lemmings stream past you to certain death and your non-lemming team can’t hold the room for **** because they are down x number of players who are busy being lemmings.

(Linsolv) #11

Luckily, your opponents will also have lemmings. Unless you’re suggesting you might pub against a clan for some reason.

(BioSnark) #12

you are on offense.

(SockDog) #13

I still don’t understand how the abilities are meant to be important and tactical and also of little consequence at the same time. <shakes head while walking off into the distance>

(LyndonL) #14

Abilities augment your play style. They don’t make you invincible. People are very scared over nothing

EDIT: maybe not nothing, but very little.

(Linsolv) #15

Okay. It’s very simple. I don’t know why people don’t get it.

Choice of abilities is a tactical decision which you make as you level your character. If you plan on running solo all the time, and you find that there are rarely enough skilled players on your team to justify specializing, then don’t. Pick up a few abilities for each class and then you’re set. It’s not like that’s not an option, and based on what we’ve seen so far you don’t need every ability for you to have important stuff—with 20 abilities, that’s enough to have 4 in each class and then 4 general abilities as well.

If you find that you often will have a specialized player of every class, then feel free to select one or two classes for your character(s) and specialize. Then, if you absolutely have to switch classes to one that nobody has specialized in, then your tactical guess was WRONG and you lose because of it, just like if you pick rock when your opponent picks paper.

For some reason, if you are playing rock-paper-scissors and you pick wrong (despite having no knowledge of what your opponent will pick, just like here) it’s obvious to people that you’re stuck with a bad decision, but in Brink where rock DOESN’T always beat scissors they feel like they should be able to choose paper after the fact anyways.

(Nail) #16

tactical decision in video game = stay alive, or die tryin’

(Chili Squirts) #17

I’m specializing in engineer whether I can change characters mid game or not. The way I see, a super specialized engineer, even if he can’t plant explosives, is still effective enough to support the people who are “mediocre” soldier builds. If you spec your character for something, you should just stick to it. Odds are somebody on your team will have a soldier spec, so the best you can do is support them with your spec’d out class and help them do the job they are spec’d to do.

(Linsolv) #18

9 posts and I already like him more than some of the veterans I’ve met in the past few months I’ve been here. This is the viewpoint that I would expect most people to have and I’m honestly flabbergasted that anyone has a problem with the current system.

(BMXer) #19

This is a great question. If some of you are correct, I foresee not only “quick class change binds” like we had in ETQW and W:ET but “quick disconnect and reconnect class change binds”!

Here is what I see happening… Round begins, everyone notices the team is full of specialized medics and no one wants to play objective. Since you can’t switch to the character you worked so hard to build, you disconnect and join another server.

(Chili Squirts) #20

Ya, I am surprised as well. Even if somebody isn’t a super spec’d out soldier, I’m sure having a Gatling Turret backing them up as well as a nice armor and weapon buff will sure make their job easier. I hope that people don’t all spam the same class and fight to complete the same objective at the same time on every map. Technically it might only take a soldier to plant the bomb, but it takes a mix of every class to complete the objective.