p2p is not something that is desirable. Even if you don’t have servers located close to where you are, I can’t imagine there would be a huge number of players with computers powerful enough to act as a listen server. MW is probably an outlier in this respect, as it had just so many people playing it that there were probably a bunch near you that could host their own server and play without lag. I doubt brink is going to be that big, so the result of a nearby listen server would be just as laggy as a far off dedicated one.
That said, in every PC game w/ dedicated servers that I’ve ever played, you can always start your own listen server. So in a sense you can always get p2p, just not sure if someone will join you…
Also, most of the time you can filter to use dedicated servers or not on PC. Since SD seems to be very good on the customizable game experience, I expect that would be in there too. You’d probably have to rely on other people (or yourself) setting up a listen server though.
Great, so sounds like I should be able to play with my mates and only them…maybe some bots too though.