Please add lobbies into the game.

(Shredow) #1

This is mainly speaking for the Xbox 360 and PS3 game version. For the PC gamers who don’t know Console games use a matchmaking system. Meaning that you click search and it puts you in a match. Most games have a pre-game lobby system to where you can make a party and then start searching. Brink has no such system. Read below for why it should.

Let me start off by saying that brink is simply amazing. I mean it.

The customization is expansive and immersive, the combat is quick, dynamic, and tight, and you generally feel like an all around bad ass playing brink.

All that aside… YOU NEED TO ADD PRE-GAME LOBBIES. I don’t claim to be a competitive player and i don’t need to try to look like one to justify my points. Also, any PC-supremacists can go ahead and post but no one is going to take your opinions very seriously.

Now don’t be mistaken. I know how the warm-up period works. And, i know what how the fire teams work as well. Those are both cool innovations to have, but they are not a replacement for lobbies. Simple as that.

When i get home from work/school/wherever, I want to be able to turn on my Xbox start a party with my friends open a lobby THEN start searching. While Warm-up periods would be cool in conjunction with lobbies, without them they are back wards and frustrating.
Lets use an example here.

You get on brink
You have four friends who want to play with you
You say, “Alright I’ll get in. Join up when i tell you to”
“alright I’m, Join now.”
Friend 1 says, “Alright i got in”
Friend 2, however, says, “Dang, Its full”
Friends 3 and 4 confirm this.
You then say, “Alright lets try a game with warm-up lobbies.”
“Alright I’m in, Dang its almost full. Join now.”
Friends 3 and 2 confirm that they could get in but 4 and 1 aren’t able to.
You and your friends just give up in frustration.

And thats what this currently back words system does. It saps you of the motivational momentum you had to get into the game and kick ass.

Now lets see how it would work with in-game lobbies.

You get on brink, get in your friends party, and say, “alright lets play together guys”
You start a lobby. You invite friends 1,2, and 3, while 4 joins before you can even invite him.
You guys discuss the options and you fiddle with them. You hit start search with all four of your friends in a lobby.
Game starts, you guys have fun, and you play another game, and another, and another.

Now I understand why you guys don’t want to conform to how other shooters work and i respect that. But, this is one area that the tried and true system of the norm should be used.

Actually, using both the warm-up system and the lobby system in conjunction would be that much better.

Also, an alternative to lobbies that would work just as well would be to have the ability to convert or open private matches to public matches after your friends and you start it.

Also, please, PLEASE don’t play the “We’re going to ignore the problem and hope it goes away” card. Trust me it hurts public image alot.

A small little company with a small little sequel to a small little best RTS of all time decided not to put in basic chat channel functionality and tried to play it off.

They said we didn’t need chat channels and questioned if we really wanted chat channels.

They got so much flak (I’m talking forums filled with nothing but complaint threads) that not only did they have to publicly admit their mistake but take production time out of the expansion to add chat channels into the game.

For those of you who aren’t aware (Probably my console brethren) i was speaking of Blizzard and Starcraft 2.

Please don’t make the same arrogant mistake blizzard made. Please listen to your community and nip this issue in the bud. And trust me this is an issue

Brink is an amazing game. Its simply revolutionary in every way. This is one of the two biggest issues currently holding the game back (The other being lag which they’ve said they’re working on) If you add lobbies into the game brink will be borderline perfect.

Feel free to Constructively support the addition of lobbies, and/or discuss other ideas in this thread, or even why there shouldn’t be lobbies… But i stress Keep it constructive Developers won’t (And shouldn’t) take your opinions and feedback seriously if you can’t represent yourself like a decently educated person.

Thanks for reading. Happy playing.

(Al_Kamone) #2

i’m all for lobbies, would love it on the pc too. In conjunction with dedicated servers, of course.

(perochialjoe) #3

Or maybe you could do what people have been doing for years on almost every other PC game and just choose a server that won’t get filled up in 2 seconds.

(Shredow) #4

Xbox 360 games have no dedicated servers.

Or servers at all, really.

You search for a match and it puts you in one.

Please be informed before you enter a discussion.

(Amg Zone) #5

Completely agree, some sort of party system for the console version would be great.

At the moment it sucks having to hope you and your friends are on the same team.

(FrankFronk) #6

I’m quite certain he plays on the 360.

(Norb) #7

I dont have the game yet but cant you set up a private co-op match get your friends in then switch to an online multiplayer and all move over together

ill be on 360 aswell im just guessin from what ive heard on threads so dont take it as gospel but if it works let me know

(Shredow) #8

[QUOTE=Norb;299811]I dont have the game yet but cant you set up a private co-op match get your friends in then switch to an online multiplayer and all move over together

ill be on 360 aswell im just guessin from what ive heard on threads so dont take it as gospel but if it works let me know[/QUOTE]

I wish this were the case. But there is not a way to convert private matches to public, unless im missing something significant. Which i doubt. IF this were in-game already lobbies would be unneccisary.

(p93) #9

I’d love this on the PC as well.

(FrankFronk) #10

I’d say it’ll come eventually. If not, I’d say it’s good to wait until the popularity dies down. It was just released.

(Shredow) #11

I’d rather they add lobies and make the popularity skyrocket.

(FrankFronk) #12

I didn’t mean it that I hope the game loses popularity. I ment it more like, wait until everyone who bought it isn’t playing at once.

(DeadEye) #13

Here’s what happens for xbox players. You decide to play, so you start a room, wait for the loading screen to end, then you invite a friend. By the time your friend joins, the bots are already getting butchered and you’ve lost the first objective. After that happens you fight till the next objective, but when the game’s over you decide you don’t want to play campaign anymore… you want to play online. So instead of just pressing B to back into the menu, then go into “Free Play” you have to exit to main menu before switching, then inviting them back to the new game.

(SentencedToBurn) #14

[QUOTE=Shredow;299801]Xbox 360 games have no dedicated servers.

Or servers at all, really.

You search for a match and it puts you in one.

Please be informed before you enter a discussion.[/QUOTE]

just about every FPS on the console has a lobby system.

LOBBIES PLEASE.

(Bakercompany) #15

OP: That is a perfect example of GOOD criticism and excellent feedback. Splash Damage would be wise to read and listen (which is why we’re on their forums).

I completely agree on all counts. Definitely don’t ignore something like the lobby issue. There are too many threads from people crying for this. One poster put that Brink is literally a couple patches of being the new best FPS out there and I completely agree, it just needs a couple things. I’d even pay for a DLC to get the new features.

Give us lobbies for sure. Just copy off any or all current MP FPS games, plenty of examples. Add your Brink flare, and boom epic success. I’d also like to see stats. That decision puzzled me, but i’d like to see Kills/Deaths/Wins/Losses/Accuracy/XP Breakdowns etc. I know this game in no way is about those stats (except winning of course) and you definitely cannot win focusing on those stats. But I still want to see them. Thats one thing that drives a huge part of the FPS playerbase. They want to see how well they did. At a bare minimum give us XP breakdowns for XP earned from combat related things (kills, melee, turret damage) and XP earned from Objectives (general and class specific). That, along with fixing the latency issues, and implementing lobbies, could turn Brink into my favorite FPS of all time easily.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a few generic gameplay modes. I know the current playerbase is 50/50 but im not complaining at all. I do think Team Deathmatch/CTF/King of the Hill style game modes add infinite replayability. You can easily throw in the objectives into even standard TDM.

(LastGun) #16

hey splash damage. take note of what this guy is saying. its what the public wants.

(DarkSlayer54) #17

I agree with this. Being able to gather friends before a match would really help.

(LastGun) #18

keep this topic alive guys so SD might read it and decide its a good idea. AKA: implement it into the game

(Shredow) #19

Thanks for the feedback guys. I know for a fact that Brink would be amazing if they added lobbies. I got on today and found that they’ve corrected most of the lag and that the only thing lacking in multiplayer is coordination, which could be gained from having a game with 3-4 friends.

(Karazykid) #20

I’ve got several friends who are holding off purchasing this simply because of the frustration of having to invite people mid game and not having room. A simple lobby system would most likely generate TONS of sales from people just like them, as well as keep current players happy. Happy players buy DLC. Disappointed ones don’t.