Wow...

(booned) #1

So after anticipating this game for a while and staying away from any media apart from the odd trailer I have to say, this is probably the worst game I have played in years.

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[li]The enemy bots are riddiculously overpowered.
[/li][li]The bots on my team are useless to the point where they are a nuisance.
[/li][li]The guns are weak as hell.
[/li][li]The free running is pretty useless as a game mechanic.
[/li][li]The netcode is laggy as hell.
[/li][li]I’m rareley ever matched with more than one human teammate.
[/li][li]What happened to having real players on both teams?
[/li][li]The abilities are useless and give no noticable advantage whatsoever.
[/li][li]You die far too quickly and the bots sponge bullets.
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(Angry Machine) #2

It’s a MP game, who cares of bots ?

(booned) #3

You’re right. I would rather play against real players instead. But that doesnt happen does it?

(needforWeed) #4

XBOX version? PC works great!

(KAS--Will) #5

[QUOTE=booned;311779][ul]
[li]The enemy bots are riddiculously overpowered.[/ul][/quote]
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Uh-huh…

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Mm-hm…

[quote=booned;311779][ul][li]The guns are weak as hell.[/ul][/quote]***
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Uh-huh… go on…

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Right, uh-huh…

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Right, totally agree there… (only part where I can not be sarcastic FYI)

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Okay, I’m going to stop you here… and just start by saying, your missing the point, or what BRINK is about… your not understanding it. First of all, I deleted one of your bulletins, that are totally useless, and I have no comment for. Secondly, refer to the asterisk.
Now read this:

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Alright, now read the quote above this, and that’s your answer why the guns are, QUOTE: “weak as hell”.

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Again, if you utilized the abilities, you wouldn’t die so quickly, engineers can buff you with Kevlar, and Medics can give you health, capturing and upgrading command posts affect this too.

Another thing you want to note, is the free running element, isn’t completely useless, you just not giving it a chance or using it properly. The whole idea of the free running, or “SMART” (Smooth Movement Over Random Terrain) is to move over objects or certain obstacles with ease, where in most other games, you’d lose about a second hopping over, a few seconds climbing over, or you’d be overall restricted to maneuvering around. So if you find it useless, go into the Challenge, Parkour This and hold your sprint button (enabling SMART), and watch it do the work, even though it won’t be perfect, or what you want it to do… but then try just SPRINTING, and seeing what it’s like doing it manually (don’t even try to maneuver or jump, just sprint into a a box, and then remember, sprinting is what all first person shooters have, SMART is what makes BRINK distinct.

Hope this helped, if not, go play Crysis 2, you can slide in that and tell me how awesome it is to move around like a constipated gay robot.

(booned) #6

The press for this game said that I would be playing against human players in a campaign designed for competetive multiplayer and I am yet to play against another human in the campaign.

Are you saying that the fact that enemy bots can headshot you from across the map with a minigun isnt broken?

I’ve already 3 starred all the challenges, its about the only thing I enjoyed about the game so far.

Again I’m only playing this on the 360 so I’m not up to speed on what its like on other platforms, but trust me when I say the game is pretty much useless.

Also, you can be informative and offer a constructive arguement to my post without being a pompus elitist about it.

(KAS--Will) #7

Dully noted.

I’m just saying, reread my post, try what I mentioned, buffing your weapons and stuff, the challenges aren’t the best part about the game, if anything, it’ll ruin the game for you. Try going into Freeplay > Public Game.

(ED209) #8

I have some friends who have hosted a 16 slot server, and usually it is full during the peak. Most are ETQW vets and inspite of some glitches and annoying crashes I found it fun. Bots are just annoying

(Kalbuth) #9

Is it on PC, XBOX, PS3? I don’t know for console case, but PC servers are full of players, and not much bots (and bots on PC ain’t that of a match). I don’t understand much of you complaints, but they may be very valid for console

Except perhaps the weapon “weakness”. This is not a 1shot-1kill FPS, on purpose. It’s a gameplay decision to make the combat longer

(obliviondoll) #10

PS3 is nowhere near as easy to get real players as on PC, but it’s still a lot better than XBox if my experience is anything to go on.

The 360 appears to have been screwed on many levels with this game’s release - it looks to need a fair amount of patching - and certain players on PC have ben having some trouble with it as well. PS3 version seems to be the most consistent, but I’d honestly (as a PS3 player) say the PC version seems straight-up better when it’s working right. Which is reasonable, when you think about it - more up-to-date technology, SD have experience on PC, more precise aiming controls (skilled players can keep up with the AI aimbots a little easier), and a playerbase who are more familiar with this style of game.

The lower power of the weapons was deliberate, as is the lack of K/D tracking and the way you’re rewarded with more XP for buffing friends than for killing enemies. More than half your complaints are about non-issues that a decent amount of research into the game would have told you (and possibly made you appreciate), while I’m fairly sure the rest will actually be getting patched pretty soon.

(booned) #11

On the Xbox, we get bots instead of human players. They are overpowered to the extent of them killing you in one shot sometimes. When I say the guns are weak, I mean in comparison to the bots, who just seem to sponge bullets and kill you in nanoseconds.

(theorigin) #12

You simply picked the wrong game. Brink is perfect as it is. Go back to CoD.

(Kalbuth) #13

OK, I see…
Well I can’t really comment on that, just hope for the best for you 360 guys. Game is great when working.

(KnollDark) #14

Thats ur opinion, I like the game

(Nex) #15

I also WANT to like this game, but i can’t…it’s been a 3 or 4 days that i didnt play it, i rather play tf2 or black ops (which runs better than brink)…

Also menu in this game and graphics in it compared to the ingame graphics are so better, like its not the same game…

(BLADE-SLINGA781) #16

[QUOTE=obliviondoll;311963]PS3 is nowhere near as easy to get real players as on PC, but it’s still a lot better than XBox if my experience is anything to go on.

The 360 appears to have been screwed on many levels with this game’s release - it looks to need a fair amount of patching - and certain players on PC have ben having some trouble with it as well. PS3 version seems to be the most consistent, but I’d honestly (as a PS3 player) say the PC version seems straight-up better when it’s working right. Which is reasonable, when you think about it - more up-to-date technology, SD have experience on PC, more precise aiming controls (skilled players can keep up with the AI aimbots a little easier), and a playerbase who are more familiar with this style of game.

The lower power of the weapons was deliberate, as is the lack of K/D tracking and the way you’re rewarded with more XP for buffing friends than for killing enemies. More than half your complaints are about non-issues that a decent amount of research into the game would have told you (and possibly made you appreciate), while I’m fairly sure the rest will actually be getting patched pretty soon.[/QUOTE]

This…

(mrJeffah) #17

Hes right about not playing with humans on 360.

Even on freeplay, i only pick competitive, cause i can’t stand playing against bots.

The warmup feature only works on this matchtype aswell. So if your playing on standard/advanced/big teams it only takes 1 person to ready up and the whole server fills up with bots. Yeah, it gets the game rolling but people join half finished matches and leave cause they are loosing etc.

Should use the warmup feature on more of the matchtypes, and only start a game when theres a minimum amount of humans on the server.

(Bakercompany) #18

[QUOTE=Kalbuth;312065]OK, I see…
Well I can’t really comment on that, just hope for the best for you 360 guys. Game is great when working.[/QUOTE]

I had a match last night that was absolutely brilliant. Full human competition (well 4v4 with 4 bots on each side).

I can deal with that for now. Obviously i’d love to have lag free 8v8 humans. But a match like that shows what this game is really about. Man we had a blast. It was the mission where engineers must open the safe. I was on defense and propped myself up on the balcony above the safe, dropped a turret, and let loose with my Drognav.

Great, GREAT match. I love this game. Xbox version just has a few kinks and ONLY a few and it will be flawless.

EDIT: Can someone please explain to me where this warmup thing is on the xbox? The free for all deal while waiting? I’ve never seen it, and only had the option to ready up and the match starts.

(mrJeffah) #19

Yeah its only on the “Competitive” Match type.

Basically its TDM until everyone is ready/server has filled up and then the real objectives start.

(system) #20

It happens on PC, muhahahahaha.