Please add lobbies into the game.

(HOLOGRAM) #41

Casual Gamers buy consoles so they don’t have to hassle with the stuff that PC gamers hassle with. It’s 2011, a lobby system is a standard for FPS games nowadays. Whoever made the decision to not put lobbies obviously didn’t get the memo. From my experience, console gamers have little patience, so when they can’t get into a game with their friends it becomes a major problem and the game automatically sucks because the lobby system isn’t like Call of Duty. For this reason, I cannot recommend this game to my friends because I can already hear them complaining. I played wolfenstein on the original xbox and this game is the closest to re-living that great gaming experience.

(Theironenforcer) #42

agree 100% with the OP

(shadowmike) #43

Yeah I support this as well. I really like the game but the absence of lobbies is quite a bother.

(TameGamingGod) #44

This game would be amazing in the competitive scene, but there is no way to compete. How is a clan even supposed to play together if there is no lobby? I want all of my friends to play this, be able to strategize about what class everyone takes, have designated classes and all that, but there is no point, because there isn’t a way to play with them without a lot of luck. The whole reason people don’t play objective modes is because unless you have a group of friends, you’re gonna get railroaded. And you made a whole game about objectives, and took out the one feature objective maps hinge on. If you guys patched a lobby in and put out a demo, this game would blow up. Everyone is tired of Call of Duty, but no game steps up. Make it Brink, please?

(Arealease) #45

I agree that a lobby system would be nice :slight_smile: I haven’t really had troubles with my friends being able to get in, but I have heard them yell when they can’t at other times. And i totally agree with a very simple system. Nothing too fancy, we just get lonely without our medic friends that we trust, picking us up!

(Thresher) #46

Thanks for the thread.

Here is another attempt from a different angle to shed light and replies to the lobby issue, check it out if interested:
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25819

(Jess Alon) #47

I’ve never had a problem having a whole team of my friends going up against randoms. There’s even an invite xbox party button in the menu.

(Psi Brain) #48

Lobbies for the PC would be awesome.

(Dr. Herbert West) #49

/agree

This is something that should be added for all platforms, makes team ups with clans/friends much easier.

(PillowTalk) #50

I can understand lobbies on console. Even now when you can chat and stuff outside of a game on the console’s dashboard/homepage.

But for PC, I really don’t. You all definitely have the means to set up a lobby outside of the game with a tool already present on your machine: Steam. That is what groups are for. You can have dedicated chat rooms to use as lobbies, and they even work in-game through the Steam overlay, and all connect to each other through that group chat.

Why exactly do you need a redundant system to rally together for a game? Do not take this as discouragement for the idea; more features are better than fewer features. I’m just curious as to why the Steam chat option is out of the question.

(Dr. Herbert West) #51

[QUOTE=PillowTalk;305281]I can understand lobbies on console. Even now when you can chat and stuff outside of a game on the console’s dashboard/homepage.

But for PC, I really don’t. You all definitely have the means to set up a lobby outside of the game with a tool already present on your machine: Steam. That is what groups are for. You can have dedicated chat rooms to use as lobbies, and they even work in-game through the Steam overlay, and all connect to each other through that group chat.

Why exactly do you need a redundant system to rally together for a game? Do not take this as discouragement for the idea; more features are better than fewer features. I’m just curious as to why the Steam chat option is out of the question.[/QUOTE]

Team auto balancing in-game, which prevents a group of friends from being on the same team most of the time. Especially on a server with no bots, player only and auto balancing.

(Shredow) #52

I find that really hard to believe. Seeing as everyone i’ve spoken to has said that they can never get more than 2-3 of their friends into a game. If you’d read my OP you’d see how i explained how the current system is bad and why a lobby system is needed.

(FlameHaze) #53

I agree its needed SD you said on the machinima live stream that if enough people wanted party lobbies you would do it well that time has come

(FlameHaze) #54

Hell yea I agree impossible to get a full party in one game

(GingThu) #55

BINGO!

Ok SD time to add lobbies.:tongue:

(BallsPartyof2) #56

Perfectly said! This loby issue is what’s holding this game from dominating FPS. I am a huge fan of this game. I have turned gamers attention to this game for some time now and it is amazing! This is the only down side to the game that I see but a huge one. People get bored real quick when you take away the ease of online chat or/and game lobbies. Lets pray something can be writen into the code. If not, once again, a game developer not fully understanding what sells games.

(wolfnemesis75) #57

Choose a specific map in the menu, like NOT container city. And bang, Brink will create a new room for you. Problem solved.

(Tope) #58

Anyone else find that sentence ironic?

You might have had some decent points in your post. I stopped reading after that sentence though.

Us PC-supremacists have better things to do than to listen to the ignorant ramblings of the Console-supremacists.

(Bakercompany) #59

I think platform supremacy is retarded.

We should all push for a better game, period.

(Brink Lags) #60

Its not what the public wants. Its simply a console industry standard now.