So, after a lot of painfully boring gameplay, I finally made it to Day 8: Fallout of the Security campaign.
This is a triple-objective defence mission, where you have to defend two bomb points or hack point or whatever the crap it’s not important. Here’s what happened.
Three times, in a row, consecutively, we would hold the object for 9 minutes and 30 seconds without a single problem. Then, at 9:30 minutes and 0.00001 seconds, my entire NPC team’s balls suddenly drop off while the other team suddenly become coordinated killing machines and we all die. The NPCs plant the bomb, and it goes off with about 10 seconds left to go before we would have won.
This happened three times in a row.
THREE TIMES IN A *****ING ROW
ON EASY
*****ING EASY
I HAD TO START PLAYING ON EASY AFTER THE FIRST MISSION BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW RIDICULOUSLY SKILLED YOU ARE, NOTHING CAN COMPENSATE FOR HOW HORRENDOUSLY BAD THE ALLY AI IS.
WHAT THE HELL SPLASH DAMAGE?
At other points in the game like that mission in the area that looks like an airport, I’ll camp the objective for 3-8 minutes while my team is off masturbating somewhere.
What’s even worse then that, is when the team is there, and it’s a robotics objective, and two robotics are standing right in front of it and THEY REFUSE TO COMPLETE THE OBJECTIVE. THEY DO *****ING NOTHING.
WHAT THE *****ING HELL SPLASH DAMAGE? DID YOU PROGRAM THESE GUYS TO STARE AT WALLS AND CRAP THEIR PANTS ALL DAY OR DID THE CODE JUST GET DROPPED ON IT’S HEAD AS A BABY? IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE A SINGLE PLAYER MDOE THAT IS A DIRECT COPY OF THE MULTIPLAYER OBJECTIVE BASED MODE, YOU NEED AI THAT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO BACK YOU UP LIKE OTHER PLAYERS WOULD.
Now, the game is designed to be co op, that’s understandable, but the first thing a normal person wants to do when they get a new game is to experience the storyline in a nice linear fashion. With Brink you have three choices:
a) Join a nice low ping server and play whatever levels they happen to want to play and have no concept of story progression
b) Select “public” in the campaign menu and get paired with people in czechoslovakia and have to put up with terrible lag
c) play solo with bots
Obviously C is the only good choice there.
The game will not run smoothly on my rig that runs Crysis 2 at maximum (GTX470, Q9400, 4gb ram) and the multiplayer lags like hell, both latency and frame rate drops and stuttering. None of the guns are fun to use, ALL the assault rifles are inaccurate, do barely any damage, and have way too much recoil. Literally the only good guns in the game are the bulpdaun smg, the machine pistol, and the minigun. The “parkour” is about as fluid as a brick and every multiplayer match I played consisted of people camping a single corridor.
Quake Live is a good shooter.
Section 8: Prejudice is a good shooter.
Unreal Tournament is a good shooter.
Natural Selection 2 is a good shooter.
Crysis is a good shooter (not the sequel, that was trash)
Brink is just bad. As bad as I have ever seen.
Section 8 Prejudice actually has a campaign, better objective based multiplayer, is better optimised, and is $15. I want a refund on for the $80 I spent on this laggy buggy mess of bad programming and bad gameplay.
This is just a first impression from my first 6 hours of playing the game, but SD are going to need to do a LOT to make this a decent game. More then I have ever seen any developer fix a game after release.
