Tips to playing Brink online with humans.
[I][QUOTE=GrieverXVII;319434]New member here and wow people are acting very rude and immature…but besides that. Ive been searching the web for awhile now trying to find similar topics to my problems with brink and this seems closest.
I bought brink for xbox 360 im loving the gameplay and everything…my biggest gripe is everytime i try to join online matches, i have only ever got into a 3-4 human match with the rest bots…im sick and tired of versing useless bots…and when i do get into a decent match with humans its usually a 6 vs 2 game which just makes me want to ragequit with no sense of auto balancing…i live in canada with shaw cable extreme internet service…theres no excuse for me to be getting put into these matches unless literally no one actually plays this game for real…but thats my two cents. Love the game…would like to play with full human matches though.
Edit: oh and before a reply. Forgot to mention…yes ive tried old skool mode and many other online mode combinations to no avail…either i get put in a room by myself or 2-3 others and thats it, rarely. And most often its utterly unbalanced when u think u got into a good match.[/QUOTE][/I]
A lot of people are playing Brink, with each other. The way the matchmaking works in Brink is it searches for friends first before it starts looking for randoms. If you don’t have any friends, it searches next according to best connection with 6-16 available spots open. Many times it is fastest for matchmaking to create an empty room to streamline and speed up the matchmaking process. 9/10 if you do not have at least one friend playing, it will create a room for you with bots (Because there are bots in Brink similar to how the Gears of War 3 Beta did matchmaking. Bots allow rooms to be created faster and be on-going to optimize matchmaking times). It is a system optimized to find a match quickly rather than one that would be slower: searching for a match with 1 or 2 open spots. If several people are searching at the same time as you for a match with only 2 spots available, it will slow down the process.
Here’s what you do: make room on your friend’s list. Go to Teamtactical.com and join. Or go to Xbox.com/PSN Post on here or Bethblog looking for like minded gamers. It is not Brink’s fault that online can be a very unfriendly place. If you are an older gamer like me you can join 2old2play.com. You do have to do a little work to build up a list of NICE people to play with.
In order to optimize your online experience in any online game (consoles) today, you have to do a little digging and set up, MS and PSN won’t do it for you. You have to build up a list of friends playing the same game you are at a given time. If your friend’s list is full of nothing but Gears players who don’t play Brink or any other game, your experience in Brink or whatever game will be tougher sledding in a matchmaking system. Gears of War’s original lobby system (similar to a PC search system, I think) is friendlier to a solo/lone type of player who has no friends playing a particular game at a given time.
So, you have to build up a set of gamers playing your game in order to get the most out of a matchmaking system. A game like COD has so many people playing it that there is a larger pool by default. Brink is a brand new IP; it has not had time to build up 5 million players playing at a given hour! No new IP can do that. Actually, only COD can do that if you look at Xbox live most played list. So, find some Brink friends!
Here’s what I did: I play any of the modes where VOIP is turned on; Old School, Competitive, or Big Team or Advanced. If you are playing with people, invite them to a Fire Team. This will invite them to use their mic. Many gamers now a days have their mic ready, but will not turn it on in fear of THE JERK. You know who I am talking about.
Once you have a few Brink friends, you will find that you will be in fuller rooms by default because of how the matchmaking works. Also set your search to MY Rank or Higher. There is just no sense in setting it to MY RANK in a teambased game! If you are lower rank, rely on your team for more support or choose a supportive role, just like in real life.
When you have at least 1 Brink friend playing when you fire the game up, you will have more doors open to be matched with more people in a room.
So, it is essential to add Brink players. Once you do, then the matchmaking will be more optimized for a search. I have even noticed that it will match you with a friend of a friend’s room before it creates a new room for you or puts you in a new room with only 1 or 2 people playing.
Brink’s matchmaking works like Epic’s matchmaking. By default, if you don’t have Brink friends, you will have to play matches to allow time for new players to join.
If you are a cool person, send me an invite. If you are racist, an a-hole, or unfriendly, please don’t! Just let me know if you are from this forum.
