It was the worst Enemy Territory-esque game Splash Damage made by far.
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Brink becomes F2P 6 years later(well, effectively free since there's not much to buy)
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It was the worst Enemy Territory-esque game Splash Damage made by far.
LordRaptor
Member
It had terrible performance on 360 and reduced player map counts at launch, which killed its word of mouth from the console majority.
It is also highly reliant on teamplay, and it shipped with bots that tried to fulfill objectives, not babysit you the player as the superstar rambo no scoper
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I thought it was better than QW:ET and Dirty Bomb ¯\_(ツ
_/¯It also ran like ass everywhere else.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
I remember textures fading in as you ads. Good times.
capitalCORN
Member
Sooo.... What's happening with Dirty Bomb?
Nexon sold the rights back to Splash Damage and they update it from time to time.
LordRaptor
Member
It ran fine on my fairly modest rig at the time.
My biggest compaint was that it went with COD style progression unlocks, which is actually detrimental to gameplay, because if you need an engineer and nobody has engineer unlocks, your team has a shit engineer.
You were also unable - the game literally prevented you - from maxing out all the available class tress, so you would always have a class you were sub-optimal at.
Which is pretty bad in a game where every class is necessary.
Yep and it's damn good.
The core problem of Brink was that they put the focus too much on objective play and purposefully made the gunplay worse with random weapon spreads and more. Also, on PC at launch it was plagued with horrible game breaking bugs. AMD cards in particular had it really rough.
Furthermore there was a super nasty bug where the sound just ceased to exist on some maps.
The level design had issues, but the studio wasn't agile enough in dealing with those on top of all the critical problems the game had.
They eventually patched it up and released some maps but at that point the game was community wise rather deader then dead. QWET ended up played more until Dirty Bomb was released.
Furthermore there was a super nasty bug where the sound just ceased to exist on some maps.
The level design had issues, but the studio wasn't agile enough in dealing with those on top of all the critical problems the game had.
They eventually patched it up and released some maps but at that point the game was community wise rather deader then dead. QWET ended up played more until Dirty Bomb was released.
You still need to mess around with loading your own local server. Note that this messes up the challenge mode maps that involve AI teammates, you'll be on your own if you use this method -- I think. Animation will remain @30 fps just like in ETQW.
http://www.kn00tcn.net/site/unlocking-brinks-famerate-in-singleplayer/
Crimsonclaw111
Member
You gotta be kidding me. This is actually a thing? What a dumb as shit design decision.
Also lol less than 70 people playing. Rip again.
Savage 😂😂😂
More like was never fixed, but yeah. SP / offline is limited to 30fps.
Man I really liked Brink when it first came out. I thought it was a blast to play and loved the movement of it, but I found the game modes pretty frustrating since it seemed like defense had such an advantage. I really wanted to see a CTF mode for it.
Now Overwatch scratches that itch.
Now Overwatch scratches that itch.
Sora the Cat
Member
Just tried the game. A tutorial video told me I need to unlock new weapons by playing the game, so that means not every player will be equal if I just pop into the multiplayer right now. Will uninstall as I just can't stand these kind of games, it's not fun when someone has an advantage just because he played more time.
I have probably hundreds of Steam games, and Brink is one of maybe 3 that I've ever regretted getting. The sliding/parkour idea was neat, but other than that it was pretty miserable. Weird art style, crappy bots, no good co-op/singleplayer support, mediocre multiplayer.
I'd legitimately rather play the original Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein if I wanted multiplayer.
I'd legitimately rather play the original Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein if I wanted multiplayer.
jim2point0
Banned
All I remember is that everyone was incredibly bullet spongy. Guns felt like shit to shoot. And that's a death sentence for FPS games.
The parkour stuff never really took off as the levels didn't feel like they were designed around it.
The parkour stuff never really took off as the levels didn't feel like they were designed around it.
Masterspeed
Member
It was fucking boring.
balladofwindfishes
Member
This game came with a pretty cool TF2 hat
...that's all I remember about it.
...that's all I remember about it.
calavera_jo
Neo Member
Nvm, Can I delete a post?
That's from 2011 lol
calavera_jo
Neo Member
haha, I saw, I wanted to delete my post, but can't find the trashcan icon
This game was just a non-stop trainride of stupid bullshit.
No party system for a team based shooter in 2011. Ran like complete garbage, especially on ATI cards. Bots subbing in for real players in matchmaking. Numerous bugs. The weird ass 30fps for the single player and challenge modes. Terrible map design for the parkour conceit that the entire game hinged on.
Was such a cool ass concept and they completely fuckin' dropped the ball. Only Titanfall healed these wounds.
No party system for a team based shooter in 2011. Ran like complete garbage, especially on ATI cards. Bots subbing in for real players in matchmaking. Numerous bugs. The weird ass 30fps for the single player and challenge modes. Terrible map design for the parkour conceit that the entire game hinged on.
Was such a cool ass concept and they completely fuckin' dropped the ball. Only Titanfall healed these wounds.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Real fascinating how the first Titanfall expanded on this concept.
Damn lol
I missed buying this turd by the skin of my teeth. Me and my friend were all hyped up to play it...but then reviews came out one day in advance and they were terrible. Friend said "fuck the reviewers, I'm getting it anyway!" I backed out...I was proven right in that circumstance.
Peroroncino
Member
Onlinehero
Member
Classic consolification. After the hugely ambitious ET: Quake Wars you got a watered down ET-style game where complex movement was the focus... just that it was complex movement for consoles. It had 3 classes where one had more speed and could reach higher places, naturally on PC there was really no other choice than to play light, heavy was completely redundant. If you wanted to change your loadout, instead of pressing a loadout button you had to find a loadout station in the level. It was a pretty fun game on PC for a while but the levels were small and not that interesting. It had a neat movement system but there were only a handful of spots where it was actually useful.
I got out before the first DLC which supposedly took better advantage of the different movement skills.
And I believe it had perks that you needed to unlock and that it was terrible.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
What
Why
Who cares
I seriously have no idea what they hope to achieve with this
Why
Who cares
I seriously have no idea what they hope to achieve with this
Teknopathetic
Member
Loved the visual style, and obviously Splash Damage's trademark FPS style, but it ran sooo bad and had a ton of showstopping bugs.
A few maps had egregious sound bugs where the sound in the game would eventually just die out and you wouldn't be able to hear anything. This was stuck in the game for weeks.
A few maps had egregious sound bugs where the sound in the game would eventually just die out and you wouldn't be able to hear anything. This was stuck in the game for weeks.
Mr. Phellps
Member
Coming for those LawBreakers numbers.
Bought this game day 1
Same. My TF2 Sniper looked rad, at least.