To get DLC, start game, in menu go to downloadable content, click install. Restart steam. Then it will update with 480mb download. 
If you guys think steam DLC always goes well for every other game but Brink, you havenât played enough steam games. It always happens like this :rolleyes:
!Oh Myâ˘Brink has both maps in the server map rotation. Have fun.
I do hate Steam with a passion - under the hood it must be pretty awful, and Valve have admitted as much on the Steam forums. My biggest gripe is that itâs a download manager, that doesnât properly manage downloads 
I have a connection with crappy bandwidth, so Iâm used to downloading stuff at work and taking it home - which works great. My home connection is fine for playing games, and I have no better options available sadly.
So, I figured to help this out Iâd tell Steam Iâm on a 56K modem - surely it wouldnât misbehave if it thinks Iâm on 1990âs technology right? Wrong On startup it will usually stealth-download a client update (might appear in download list, usually doesnât - so unable to pause). Then, it realises 6 of my games have been updated, and attempts to download all 6 updates at once - even on 56K setting. Still, itâs a download manger right? It can handle this. Unfortunately, it cannot - because the interface stops responding, while the data keeps coming down the line. It can be like that for over an hour, depending on the total size of data to download. Better still, it can actually queue up even more updates in the background as it goes, and all the time I cannot see what is going on or reliably stop it. Clicking anything produces the âprogram is dead, broâ message from Windows.
âSteaming pile ofâ is exactly right - itâs just that most users never see it, because they have decent internet connections. Given a connection where Steam doesnât saturate the bandwidth, the interface remains responsive most of the time. Sadly, when you try to relay this to Valve they basically say âto be honest, we arenât touching that code for fear of our lives. Itâs⌠complexâ - which means itâs a complete mess, and has been for years. This is then followed by idiots suggesting âget new broadband lulz its 2011â, because the combined IQ of the Steam community appears to be a negative number.
Sadly, behind the scenes Valve are not as competent as many seem to think. Hell, Portal 2 almost had the source engine splitting at the seams, and with such tiny maps too. Awesome game, but it did show the weaknesses more strongly than their previous titles. I love Valve, and their games, and their attitude to work - but I canât help thinking theyâve been left behind slightly by advances in recent years. They better get HL3 or EP3 released soon, because if they donât - they may need to use someone elseâs engine to do it
yea, and steam doesnt do that?
steam can also implement new features without telling you. such as when i hadnt used it for a while and it wanted me to authorise my pc. for some reason it needed to send an email to the reg email address, which had changed.
i had to wait 5 days before i could access any games as this was in a holiday period.
i still have to re-authorise my pc every month or so, even though i have that feature turned off. as it magically re-enables itself.
maybe because im quite new to steam (i only have 3 games bought) and im used to simply downloading a patch, that this whole process seems screwed.
steam also limits downloads, ive often got the âsteam too busy to downloadâ message. brilliant!
or the fact the company is run by lazy yanks that dont bother to release stuff until USA early evening, when working europe isnt playing games, meaning yanks get the game a whole day earlier than us lot.
Because increasing user security is always a bad thing. Btw, if it keeps asking you then you have a problem. Mine asked once when it was first implemented and once when I first logged in from browser. Never again after that.
All Steam does is âsimply download a patchâ. It just does it automatically and installs it for you. Saves you, the user, having to check # different sites just to keep your games updated.
Again, only ever had those kinds of messages when thereâs maintenance or thereâs a lot of traffic for a new release. I sign onto Steam almost daily and it runs well most of the time.
Heaven forbid someone lives in a different region of the world than you, the almighty consumer. FYI: Steam released Agents of Change at roughly 2 PM their time, so Iâd hardly call that âearly eveningâ.
Regards,
Nexo
Great, after 18 hours of busy servers unable to handle the starting of Brink I just figured something is wrong with my installation. So I tried to reinstall Brink and now Iâm not able to install the game cause the servers are too busy.
You know, I never thought it is possible to screw up the DLC release that much.