Brink Catch-All

Yes it's a Steamworks game, no matter where you buy it it activates on Steam.

That's neat. Too bad it looks like you'd have to activate the game by Thursday to get the free DLC. Considering shipping times it might be iffy.

I was looking at the xBox version, for what it's worth.

Looks like the servers are going for another month at least.

I think there was some weird subscription thing where they billed me, even though there was money in the clan pay. So I may have unknowingly funded a month. Still looking into it...

By the way, Brink is now $10 on Amazon now, which seems to be the best deal going. You don't get the DLC though, but chances are Steam will have a sale on that sooner or later.

Anyone still have this on 360? I just picked it up and have the dlc. Boosters welcome!

Yeah I grabbed Brink for 360 just recently as well. Let's knock that thing out!

honeycut1 wrote:

Yeah I grabbed Brink for 360 just recently as well. Let's knock that thing out!

Sounds good - the nice thing is you can private match a lot of the achievements!

Anyone still have this? I need help with a couple of easily boosted achievements to finish off this bad boy.

I am on 360:)

Brink is free to play this weekend on Steam in case anyone is interested. Already played in on 360, but I think I'm gonna give it another shot now that I can actually run it on my PC.

Also it now has clan and tournament support!

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

Scratched wrote:

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

There isn't one.

It's a super fun game but nobody plays it.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Scratched wrote:

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

There isn't one.

It's a super fun game but nobody plays it.

Bots?

Citizen86 wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:
Scratched wrote:

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

There isn't one.

It's a super fun game but nobody plays it.

Bots?

The bots are f*cking terrible.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Scratched wrote:

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

There isn't one.

It's a super fun game but nobody plays it.

ya, i was disappointed with the lack of interest! the trailer looked cool, the characters are cool. the single player is meh but the multi-player is quite fun.

I pre-ordered this one but only played it a few times due to extraneous circumstances (i think other gooder games came out) and the last time i played there were a bunch of asshats yelling at the noobs to go play wow or something. I turned it off.
I hate impatient asshats.
I too may have to revisit.

Scratched wrote:

Any hints you can give us about the future of Brink?

Nope, I am not the media team. Your best bet for finding things out without making me lose my job would probably be @PaulWedgwood (CEO) and @SplashDamage on Twitter.

Yeah our stash of saved up money on the GWJ servers finally ran out this month. They are harassing me to renew it. But honestly it's not worth it. No one has played in months. Sorry guys.

It was fun for a few weeks. I like the ideas. But the bots are terrible. And the maps had some severe chokepoints. If there's a Brink2 someday I'll give it a shot, but not on a pre-order.

The idea flying around the RPS forum is that it should go F2P. I saw one comment pointing out that Brink on sale now costs less than a TF2 hat, which is one example showing not much being in favor of Brink ever gaining a reasonably sized lasting audience that's worth maintaining. It does seem like it's a case of adapt or die.

Even with BF3 i'd probably still try and get some Brink games in if there were just more people playing it. It's a damn fun game.

The game looked promising at first but the rocky start along with the poor reviews on the SP side of things really hurt the game. And in theory I should have loved it but there's something about the gameplay that doesn't make it my game.

I downloaded the game last night. I have to say... it's odd. Love the meta parts of the game. The story, the character builder (OMG why can't EVERY game do it like this?), the FMV, the idea of the game. But the actual gameplay just falls on its ass. I haven't done much, but I played some challenges to unlock weapons (which seem to have no meaningful differentiation what so ever :() and started on the single player campaign. I quit in about 15 minutes. It may be just my newbness, but I find the game borderline unplayable. I can't tell one character from another. The levels are a maze that have no sensible clues as to where you're supposed to go or why. And to top it all off, the performance leaves something to be desired. My machine may not be some modern monster, but it runs just about everything I want to play perfectly fine. This game... forget it.

I'll try and give it another chance some time later this weekend, but I don't have great hopes of continuing past that.

I remember commending at the last free weekend that I felt it was too balanced, although that was from playing with bots. I think they concentrated so hard on making the scales even, unless you cheese it a bit and manage to rush before the opposing team is ready, that it's hard to tip the scales during play, and in a competitive play what you can do to tip the scales on either side is what makes it fun.

Brink reminds me very much of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, except smaller in scope in every way. It's a beautiful game, and the reports from the GWJers are that it's a hoot...I guess I just need to play more. The sale is so tempting!

Natus wrote:

Brink reminds me very much of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, except smaller in scope in every way. It's a beautiful game, and the reports from the GWJers are that it's a hoot...I guess I just need to play more. The sale is so tempting!

Same folks made it.

Scratched wrote:

I remember commending at the last free weekend that I felt it was too balanced

This is probably my only complaint. They tried so hard to niche themselves an audience that they did such a good job they lost everyone.

I remember thinking it looked interesting when it came out, but I had so much going on I didn't bother getting into it. I just saw it this morning on the Steam sale, and figured "Hell, $7 ain't bad." Wish I had checked this thread first, I bought into it because I thought there was a GWJ crew into it.

Anyways, I'll play it a bit, just to get my money's worth. It's a little weird, but mildly entertaining. Just wish it was a little more... fluid.

It had some great ideas implemented really poorly. Also, the AI was incredibly bad. With real people it would probably be pretty fun, but online is dead.

Gave it another shot yesterday. Only lasted about 20 minutes before quitting and uninstalling. What a shame. I still have the same problems with it that I mentioned originally. Maybe I'm spoiled with the likes of TF2. Where a lot of time and effort went into making sure that the game doesn't fight you. You always know where to go. You always know whom you're facing. What to do next.

Brink, on the other hand, is just a confusing mass of hyperness with nothing much to give if differentiation.