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[Smiler]

Get SMART Series: General Gameplay

Brink is looking pretty awesome. It's going to have a lot of character customization, which means that it will mostly be a race to find the most ridiculous outfit combo. It's also going to have on the fly co-op for the campaign. The nice thing about it is that it sounds like it is going to have a lot of mobility involved in fighting. The lighter units will be able to parkour all over the place to sneak behind the enemy while the other classes bring the pain with larger weapons. Splash Damage can usually make somewhat interesting games so I think this will be fun for a while.

Don't let this post sway you into buying it though; you should definitely do some research on your own. I read up enough to want to buy it and I hate spoiling games by reading too much per-release content about it.

[Malikial]

I'm liking the tribes like character customization and weapon customization in this game, you can play any play-style you like, are you, like Smiler, a crazy coked up chimpanzee who enjoys hopping all over the place and flanking people with machine pistols and crazily high rate of fire light assault weapons? Do you prefer a big slow fat guy with loads of armor and HP who walks around with a massive grenade launcher in one hand and a complete disregard for personal space in the other? Or are you some awkward combination of the two, some little guy who's quick and crazy but deep down on the inside always felt big boned so you wield a huge caliber but some somewhat limited ammo combination of a magnum revolver and a sawn-off double shotty? Hell, if you want to you can even play an average Joe with a battle rifle and medium statistic back up gun, you can be as creative or NOT creative as you want with weapons and character size/gear load out.

The only thing that seems like it might be a problem to some people is I have noticed a lot of COD/Battlefield players(I play battlefield myself...) have been complaining about the lack of current standard FPS modes. No Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag. Instead all the game styles are based on the map. Some examples include sieges(Law men trying to protect areas/certain VIPS), point control (Criminals trying to acquire water treatment plants or food storehouses), or other team based objective driven game types. I don't know, to me this seems like a good change for the type and style of game it's trying to be.

As Smiler said don't go buying this game just because I said so but it does seem like a pretty good game from the reading/investigating I've done on it thus far and I've already pre-ordered and pre-loaded a copy.

[Smiler]

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW on PC.

It has some wicked sick problems and a lot of people are having trouble running this game, myself included.

[Ziiro]

Working for me. I have a sort of monster PC however.

I'll tell you though: Do the challenges solo. They're bugged for co-op.

Also, can't figure out why anyone would go light. Unless someone can show me an amazing light-bodytype-only path in each map, carrying light weapons and having the health of tissue paper = bad.

[NexAdruin]

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW on PC.

It has some wicked sick problems and a lot of people are having trouble running this game, myself included.

I thought this would happen back when they were offering pre-orders before they had minimum system reqs figured out.

[Malikial]

It works you just have to NOT get the graphics card hot fixes or even roll back. Smiler I thought you got yours to work right by rolling back to 11.4, though. Mine came running smooth from the moment I started it but I have a monster PC like Ziiro.

[Smiler]

Nah, there are boatloads of people with wide ranges of computer setups having the same problems as I am. My computer is on the edge of the minimum specs, but people with quad cores and top of the line graphics cards are having the same terrible performance I am. It is a huge hit or miss thing right now. I finally got the game into a playable state after rolling back all the way to 11.3 and then going back to 11.5. It was hard to tell if it was FPS or lag, because both were plentiful when I was playing for a little bit last night. It'll probably take a few patches for the game to be running at 100%.

I had been reading that reviewers had problems with the lobbies and bad netcode. Of course, they went on to dock the game even more for not being call of duty.

[Smiler]

Okay one of the Devs said that there are a lot of bugs they didn't expect along with low performance with dual core processors and HD 4XXX graphics cards. Since I fall under those two catagories I probably will have a nice performance boost whenever they get around to fixing that. They are also working on getting a patch out ASAP too, which is nice.

[Ziiro]

Medic is a lot of fun, provided you have a team that's worth your dedication to support. (Time spent healing/reviving vs Time spent shooting) Also, the armor/general look of the game is pretty good when in motion - The only visual change I plan to make is switch over to the bomb squad vest later.

[Smiler]

Now Brink might deserve it's score at present, this other game must be a masterpiece.

[Defenestration]

Why do people still have a separate rating for sound and graphics instead of mentioning them in presentation if they are exceptionally good or bad?

[Lottel]

Ok. I'm hearing a lot of mixed things about this game. I think it looks pretty good and I'm always interested in shooters with medics but there is only one copy availble for rent in town and it's checked out. Chances of me renting it in the next few months are pretty slim.

But I recently came into money with the string attached being that I can't spend it on anything sensible. So I figured GREAT. I can by Brink. But between several lackluster reviews and two real life people saying it's slow, buggy, and not fun I'm not too enthused.

Is it worth buying now or waiting 6 months and renting it?

[Ziiro]

Maxed my Medic. Not too bad on the speed when you're averaging double to three times the EXP as anyone else in the game

Most abilities in the "General" tab are a must for all classes. The only one I didn't take is grenade shooting - too difficult to pull off in a pinch. The only one I'm unsure of is downed fire. It makes you incredibly fragile while downed, but the ability to keep gunning people down full force after a 1-1.5 second delay is amazing. I'll probably respec out of it in time.
As for medic abilities:
-Adrenaline Boost? In a coordinated environment it would be absolutely vital. In a pub environment? There's not enough indication to show players that they are invulnerable and they should act accordingly.
-Transfer Supplies? Motherfucker please, I am too busy spending mine to rez people to give it out for petty shit like ammo, turrets and buffs.
-Metabolism? I'm still not entirely sure how effective this is. "Lets your teammates health regenerate faster than normal." I will have to do more testing, but I'm unsure if this is delay before regen starts or the speed at which you regen is increased.
-Speed boost? Kind of garbage. It's something like 5 seconds of speed, and it's just not enough to warrant the point.
-Self Resurrection? Oh fuck yes. This is amazing. Second best point to spend in the medic tree - long cooldown, but considering the tactical use it's an acceptable cooldown.
-Lazarus Grenade? Fucking mindblowing. It's a grenade that will give every friendly in the explosion radius a revive syringe. Approximately 30 second cooldown. This thing will turn a fight around around.

You should be taking any of the passives in the medic tree. They're too good to pass up.

Ok. I'm hearing a lot of mixed things about this game. I think it looks pretty good and I'm always interested in shooters with medics but there is only one copy availble for rent in town and it's checked out. Chances of me renting it in the next few months are pretty slim.

But I recently came into money with the string attached being that I can't spend it on anything sensible. So I figured GREAT. I can by Brink. But between several lackluster reviews and two real life people saying it's slow, buggy, and not fun I'm not too enthused.

Is it worth buying now or waiting 6 months and renting it?

I assume you'd be looking into it for console? That's not something I can rightly endorse at the moment. My friends bought it for the Xbox - I'll see if I can try their version later and get back to you about it.

[Rico]

I've read in a couple places that the Xbox can't quite keep up with the game. PC Gaming is dead, long live PC Gaming.

[Lottel]

Well, here's how it is.
X-Box is supposedly the bad version. Which doesn't matter too much, because my x-box was stolen.
My laptop is not a bad laptop, but is aging. So I'm not entirely sure how well I could actually play on PC.
My PS3 could use the love but... well...

[Malikial]

For PC it's a bit buggy on the net code and random graphics card glitches. I have a monstrous PC and it runs the game PERFECTLY single player at maxed settings and from what I've played of that it is an all around excellent game but the moment I connect to multiplay it lags hard. THAT STATED the Dev forums and key Developer blogs are all saying they are working on fixes for the problems both me and Smiler are having, so it'll basically be a great game once they get that shit worked out for the PC. I don't know if your aging laptop would be able to run it, make sure it at least meets SOME of the recommended settings, not just required and you'll also probably have to wait a few weeks for it to be completely playable... For some people that is a deal breaker, for me? I wasn't playing this game last week so I can not be playing it until it's fixed too, I don't mind waiting for patches because what I've played of the game has the potential to be really awesome.

[Smiler]

The problem with waiting a week is that the game already got panned bad, so if Splash Damage doesn't somehow shit rainbows all over the game before a week has passed the life of the game is going to be cut down pretty hard. A lot of people who can actually run the game properly say that there is a good game under all of the shit performance, but I can't see it because I can't play for more than 5 minutes without a server crashing.