Update on Brink DLC, Title Updates, and New Screenshots

[neg]

I think Bethesda, or what ever it’s called is behind this.

yeah and they made them push out a title that wasnt even ready for release a week early, asif to tout ‘the game is finished so we are releasing it a week early’, with the only patch on release day being the ‘better steam error reporting’ one… and not to mention the fact that Bethesda’s QA dept missed all the nvidia and ATi performance/issues entirely? not to mention the blaring bugs with the game…
and you call yourselves Triple A gaming designers
they have to retain some common sense, even if they just want their money

[Jimmy_James]

That suggests yes, anyone that doesnt grab it within the 2 weeks will need to pay for it after that period

That is just stupid if it’s true. Does that mean there won’t be any more bugs in two weeks?

It makes me wonder what about the game exactly makes SD think that the first DLC should be free for only two weeks. Was it only sort of crappy on release? Not bug ridden enough to warrant an actually free DLC only a temporarily free one?

It makes no sense. Next they’ll be telling me I’ll soon be able to buy Hellgate in North America even though I already bought two lifetime accounts four years ago. Oh wait…

-JJ

[NIDCLXVI]

[QUOTE=neg;344707]blinded by greed, nice job showing your true colours here splashdamage, you wont be getting my money ever again after this stunt, saying the first DLC would be free for everyone, sure just did a 180 on that…

lets not mention all the promises you made pre-release at all the gaming conventions and in interviews with gaming websites[/QUOTE]

I just spotted this, hopefully someone posts between me replying. But it is free to all existing BRINK players who have endured the slightly rough few weeks and all purchasers thereafter for 2 weeks. So will you find it difficult to download it within 2 weeks?! Or do you just misunderstand, it is NOT after 2 weeks of playing you then have to purchase to KEEP it. It is more that those who purchase it after 2 weeks will be new purchasers and so therefore do not get the “apology” DLC free as they did not endure anything to require recompense for!

So chin up lad!

[tokamak]

Yeah that’s the normal PC HUD.

They don’t show the player hues though. For a very good reason.

[its_al_bout_security]

i love you

[neg]

[QUOTE=NIDCLXVI;344714]I just spotted this, hopefully someone posts between me replying. But it is free to all existing BRINK players who have endured the slightly rough few weeks and all purchasers thereafter for 2 weeks. So will you find it difficult to download it within 2 weeks?! Or do you just misunderstand, it is NOT after 2 weeks of playing you then have to purchase to KEEP it. It is more that those who purchase it after 2 weeks will be new purchasers and so therefore do not get the “apology” DLC free as they did not endure anything to require recompense for!

So chin up lad! :)[/QUOTE]
doesnt matter, they’ve said numerous times the first DLC would be free, for everyone not just people who’ve bought the game before a specific date… attempting to drum up more sales of a game that still isnt working as it is supposed to be isnt exactly a nice move for the community

not to mention the clear lack of information they have been releasing regarding known issues aswell, atleast with ET there was a thread on the forums with ‘known issues’ and ‘issues being worked on’ so atleast the community at large had a good idea of what was going on… even if it wasnt specific

[Iinky]

[QUOTE=NIDCLXVI;344708]Really, the small niche competition requests will stop pubbers buying it?!?! no. I think not sir, but nice try trying to strong arm SD. Those are not key to “fun public games”, full holds in “home maps” make sense, and when you play with friends and for fun not e-peen you don’t really worry about hackers etc. And the choke points are being addressed by these choke point busting new abilities. Napalm, and nade buffs. Plus the netvar tweeks that are now possible since todays patch.

So it will all come good, SD are on our side, they are gamers too!! :stroggtapir:[/QUOTE]

you’re kidding right?

the game’s a joke, the maps are terrible and the spread is horrid and we can’t forget about all the locked command bull**** - oh yeah! how well this game is played on ATI also sure tells us splash damage aren’t retarded at all.

lets just push a potentially decent game to release early while also hyping this bad boy… incredibly massive let down - I can’t deny I enjoyed it for the first couple days(yey decent nvidia vidcarded rig[120fps]), pity the maps are terribly designed and are too few to keep most entertained long enough. good bug ridden horrid release.

game’s dead.
sd are bad.
l8r bads:stroggbanana:

[kilL_888]

They don’t show the player hues though. For a very good reason.

maybe with the screenshots they implicate the new, super uber advanced gui costumization instroduced with the new dlc?

[tokamak]

I wouldn’t know how they would otherwise be able to reconcile the cognitive dissonance between pushing this orange console crap on the pc while advertising the graphics without.

[BiigDaddyDellta]

In the last screen shot the player you can see is wearing the outfit seen in very early interviews with the “leather-ish” look gaunlets and armor and the bandalero. It this the “punk” outfit?

[neg]

[QUOTE=NIDCLXVI;344708]Really, the small niche competition requests will stop pubbers buying it?!?! no. I think not sir, but nice try trying to strong arm SD. Those are not key to “fun public games”, full holds in “home maps” make sense, and when you play with friends and for fun not e-peen you don’t really worry about hackers etc. And the choke points are being addressed by these choke point busting new abilities. Napalm, and nade buffs. Plus the netvar tweeks that are now possible since todays patch.

So it will all come good, SD are on our side, they are gamers too!! :stroggtapir:[/QUOTE]

Yeah… and no.

the small niche of competition requests? you joking? small… even ET for a free game was released in a far better state(just) at its time of release than Brink was, not to mention the maps are horribly designed and extremely choke orientated, which even for pub is terrible, and makes attacking maps like first phase terminal in a comp setting almost impossible considering the amount of grenades a team of 5 can have at any given time.

ill ignore your statement about playing with friends…

i also dont understand what the hell you are on about with the ‘dont really worry about hackers’ statement either, considering i myself havent seen a single cheater since ive been playing the game?

as for you talking about choke points… even though i partially addressed that in my first paragraph i dont see how you have played against a team of even remotely decent players… you are welcome to grab 5 of your friends against 5 of mine and we can see if you can get past first phase terminal, before and after the DLC LOL

So it will all come good, SD are on our side, they are gamers too!! :stroggtapir:

if that were true they would of played their game on something other than console… lol

edit: the other thing is considering how small most of the maps are… how is the performance so atrocious?

[Seiniyta]

[QUOTE=neg;344724]Yeah… and no.

the small niche of competition requests? you joking? small… even ET for a free game was released in a far better state(just) at its time of release than Brink was, not to mention the maps are horribly designed and extremely choke orientated, which even for pub is terrible, and makes attacking maps like first phase terminal in a comp setting almost impossible considering the amount of grenades a team of 5 can have at any given time.

ill ignore your statement about playing with friends…

i also dont understand what the hell you are on about with the ‘dont really worry about hackers’ statement either, considering i myself havent seen a single cheater since ive been playing the game?

as for you talking about choke points… even though i partially addressed that in my first paragraph i dont see how you have played against a team of even remotely decent players… you are welcome to grab 5 of your friends against 5 of mine and we can see if you can get past first phase terminal, before and after the DLC LOL

if that were true they would of played their game on something other than console… lol

edit: the other thing is considering how small most of the maps are… how is the performance so atrocious?[/QUOTE]

How much maps had W:ET at launch? barely anything, nobody liked the original W:ET, it’s mods like Jaymod and the likes which made the game really popular. It were the custom maps. And chokes? W:ET WERE FULL OF THEM. Every single map in W:ET was one huge choke fest. However, the reason why it worked there was because those chokes werent as much an issue due that you could get killed really fast if you had a good aim and you could push through.

[kARDON]

Hahaha, hey splash damage, there is a reason you guys are averaging ~150 players at prime time in America, and guess what, it’s not because we don’t have a shield and new skins. ****ing morons, you should all be fired.

[neg]

How much maps had W:ET at launch? barely anything, nobody liked the original W:ET, it’s mods like Jaymod and the likes which made the game really popular. It were the custom maps. And chokes? W:ET WERE FULL OF THEM. Every single map in W:ET was one huge choke fest. However, the reason why it worked there was because those chokes werent as much an issue due that you could get killed really fast if you had a good aim and you could push through.

so you just proved my point even further for me?
thanks i guess?

[Darksider]

Ah well, environmental wise I would love to have seen an outside map during daylight next to the sea or something…

[tokamak]

Like reactor…

[Galaxy]

They don’t show the player hues though. For a very good reason.

Are you referring to the red hue that enemies have? Because they do have the hue in those screenshots too (though its more accurate to say it’s like red lighting), I just compared with some of my screenshots.

I’m personally more curious about the outfit of the enemy in the last screenshot, since those seem like goggles on top of his head and if so I think they are not a current item, and I’m not sure about the shirt.

[Darksider]

Is the PC stat site going up with this DLC update as well? seriously the “more info soon” tag is getting old, what’s the dealio?

[neg]

[QUOTE=Galaxy;344734]Are you referring to the red hue that enemies have? Because they do have the hue in those screenshots too (though its more accurate to say it’s like red lighting), I just compared with some of my screenshots.

I’m personally more curious about the outfit of the enemy in the last screenshot, since those seem like goggles on top of his head and if so I think they are not a current item, and I’m not sure about the shirt.[/QUOTE]

prolly wont be attainable by players, not to mention the ‘clean’ look is prolly due to some custom graphical settings + some photoshop thrown in for good measure

[AmishWarMachine]

The beauty of DLC? You don’t even have to own the game it applies to, to download it.