Next patch; "contains some multiplayer improvements" - can i play with friends then?

(Jedibeeftrix) #1

Been playing brink all weekend, great game, enormous fun. one major hitch.

Me and my homies are mainly singleplayer gamers, but we like a bit of coop action and were looking for a new fix since L4D2 got boring.

So while I and my friends have each racked up at least 14 hours of brink play according to steam we have not played together, on the same server, at all!

I like that you created a L4D style “join game” button that throws you into a fully populated server with zero hastle, but couldn’t there have been a way of letting you easily play with your friends?

We also tried creating a private match but the joinee’s were just getting steam messages saying the server wouldn’t refresh.

How are people playing with their mates, because i can’t figure out an easy way of doing it?

(Jedibeeftrix) #2

bump.

this guy knows there is a problem, have SD said anything about it?

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=308717&postcount=146

([UK]RookieAndrew) #3

I’m having the same problem, wish I could help.

(Brink Lags) #4

Relax, the beta is almost over. It will work at launch. That’s what this beta was for.

(lucayo) #5

beta ??
i thought game released at 13 mai ??

(Brink Lags) #6

[QUOTE=lucayo;310506]beta ??
i thought game released at 13 mai ??[/QUOTE]

No, people are playing a beta now. The people that really were the biggest fans got access to it early by paying $60.

Everyone else will pay half price after the beta is over.

(burawura) #7

Yep, my buddy and I just tried to host/join some private games on the same network and it was a no-go. Every steam invite resulted in message “server is not responding”.

(Jak Swift) #8

[QUOTE=Brink Lags;310511]No, people are playing a beta now. The people that really were the biggest fans got access to it early by paying $60.

Everyone else will pay half price after the beta is over.[/QUOTE]

Haha epic way of putting this pile of **** they released, hopefuly when the betas over itll be top notch. just needs some tweaks

(Shackahn) #9

I have played co-op fine, you must open the ports on your router in order to host co-op

(Jedibeeftrix) #10

comon dude, this is 2011, years after steamworks games such as L4D made coop play easy, i will not be mucking around with firewall ports, and nor will my mates.

so if this game is going to provide coop play it had better do it out of the box.

have there been any indications that a patch will fix this?

(dazman76) #11

Ehm… L4D(+2) uses Valve-hosted servers for all game types, therefore it isn’t peer-to-peer - meaning all traffic is outgoing from all players, to the server. Since Brink PC uses dedicated servers for online play, that probably means co-op is done with peer-to-peer traffic directly between players (don’t think the servers are involved at all) - meaning there is no simple shortcut available. Incoming traffic without a connected outgoing request, requires firewall port manipulation - current year is irrelevant to the discussion, I’m afraid.

So yeah - either you will be mucking around with firewall ports (max. 1 minute of simple tweaking), or you won’t be playing co-op Brink.

(Jedibeeftrix) #12

that would suck, big time!

it’s not that i care about coop, i just want to play with my friends, so even being able to join a half empty server would be handy.