You shall be missed. I loved the game, it’s just, it needs work, and a lot of it. I sold it today. This is not a troll post, as I sincerely loved the game.
I plan on picking it up again when it’s gotten a fair amount of updates and DLC released. I look forward to that day.
GL Brink fans
hopefully you have more patience than I.
Fair well. So long as I still have friends to enjoy this game with, flaws and all, I’m not selling it myself. That’s just me of course.
not gonna sell it either I have a feeling when it’s patched it will be solid but i feel you on that and it’s probably smarter to wait and trade it for one of the bigger games coming out if it still isn’t fixed completely.
I don’t know. Brinks premature launch has caused the community to die pretty fast. The last nine games i played, i couldn’t get more than four human players into a match. Playing with/against bots bores me and competitive is only 5 vs. 5.
Is there no way to play Big Team 8 vs. 8 with friendly fire and VOIP on without creating a private game and inviting people from my friendslist?
Looking at all the matches that contain more bots than players i get the impression that Brink plays with itself…
(Behold the next step in the evolution of gaming: Brink the game that plays itself.)
lolmao Spez i kinda agree with that you sayd about brink playsitself im on pc and gets me really meh why all servers need to fill up with bots, so ye i understand what your sayng and i agree.
But on PC you can use freeplay to search for servers that have 14/16 people and join that (or 7/8 if you prefer co-op to versus). It’s easy on PC to completely avoid bots if you want to (not to mention the game modes where you can turn off bots… is it oldskool or custom?)
and yes i do go trought freeplay choose a server with 14-16, 15-16 join all good, but when map changes some people leave and it fills the remaining slots with bots.
Which I favor much more then starting the map with 3 people less and letting the other team dig in at the objective.
I really dont get the negative hype about the fill bots. They are a good addition and also when you start a new server, its much more likely it will fill up with humans quickly when you play 8v8 with bots then just raping the solo guy on the other team.
Disclaimer: I’m commenting on my personal attitude and not on the game itself, this is just my gaming preference and relays what I like in a game and why Brink isn’t grabbing my attention and keeping me coming back for more. Long post alert! You won’t lose anything by not reading
I’m gonna be honest, my attention span has dropped substantially for games to a point where I’m getting bored quite quickly… I started suffering this with ETQW after a few years and it has transferred to Brink. When I’m on defence, and we have a good lockdown going on, I look at the timer and see we still have another 10+mins to defend for and I sigh. When I’m on offence, I get bored of the rinse/repeat lemming strategy on most pub servers and doing the same thing over and over wears on me… so by the end of a long haul map I’ve generally had enough and quit.
I think this is why I like QL (CA specifically), mindless fast paced, quick action rounds. I think RtCW appealed to me even more than Q3 due to the simple objective maps, that were non-linear and you could push straight for the jackpot if you want instead of being forced to complete objectives in order. With linear objectives on an 8v8 server, you’ve got 16 players at objective A, then 16 players at objective B, then 16 players at objective C etc. Sure the maps are large, but you’re forced to single points of the map each time, and this convergence is just disorganized.
Non-linear RtCW style had some strategy, on defence it was a choice of settling back to cover the primary objective and allowing the alternate quick routes/spawns to fall to the enemy, or push to hold the quick routes but risk someone slipping by to the main objective. Offence was ignoring the alt routes, hoping the enemy had some man power there leaving less cover at the main objective, but risking a longer journey back into the fight, or spending time to open up the quick route but leaving less time for the main objective.
It was fast, 10min rounds which had nail biting moments. The single main objective had meaning, and gave more diversity between maps… 1 map would be capture docs, next would be dyno the comms towers, or blow up a submarine. I personally prefer the focus on the single objective and fast paced gameplay on different maps rather than lumping several all in one map and having the rounds last 3x as long. The short maps switches things up frequently and keeps it interesting, but again that’s just my developed ADD attitude to games.
If I could have 1 wish for gaming, it would be that RtCW made a massive comeback. I don’t want a new version, or fancy stuff added… for me it was perfect the way it was, and possibly a fight for 1st place for my perfect team based fps game. The maps were great, the mods were great, the community was great, comp play was great and kept close to pub play. I think it was this greatness that made people despise Wolfenstein even more.
Apologies, that was completely random and had no baring on any discussion. I’m just trying to convey why Brink isn’t holding my attention, and possibly why it isn’t holding other peoples either.
I feel the same, this game is bugged as hell. Every single game I experience issues, sound, gameplay, spawnraping, the ****ty server browser, the stupid leveling etc…
I definitely hear what darkangel is saying about the pub “lemming strategy”. However, playing Brink with even just a friend or two can be very fun. When Brink works it works very well it is just a shame that there are so many obstacles to enjoying it. I’ll definitely be sticking with brink until the community dies.
