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jaundicejuice
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Deadbeat said:
There are workarounds I've read about but I've never bothered to look them up. The dev console commands are apparently floating out in the aether of the interwebz as well.
One would think Splash Damage would want to do right by the PC version since it's likely the only version still selling, the only version with any sort of a community and the only version that will likely continue to have some sort of legs through digital distribution, at least during sales and further free weekends. It looks like Brink actually cracked the top ten on Steam before getting knocked out by Terraria, honestly didn't think that would happen.
It'll be interesting to see what sort of bump the overall player base receives after the free weekend, before it was at roughly 1000 players, it's hit ten times that amount because of the free weekend.
alske said:
If you can choose two extra missions below the Wat IF scenarios, you have the dlc.
The_Player
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jaundicejuice
Member
alske said:
Yes, the Resistance and Security campaigns. Click on one of them and scroll down. There will be six or seven campaigns, Day 1-8 and then two What If scenarios. If there are two extra Day twenty-something scenarios below the What If's, you have the DLC.
If not, click on the link in the store page to download it.
Edit: Screenshots...
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594692996074580935/0BD1979621D494746EE1759CB9DB6411D3077161/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594692996074582081/384C7EBD0E6B88DB29B4ABD2282569DC466F268F/
The_Player
Member
Try to verify integrity of cache, maybe?alske said:
I deleted the zzzdlc* files and some random small file, and that triggered a ~400 meg download for me after verifying the integrity of the files.alske said:
EDIT: Looking at the base dir now, there's two zzzdlc000 files (~480 MB) that weren't part of my original installation even after adding the DLC and verifying my files. I only had the two zzzdlcenglish ones, which I deleted along with one of the smaller pak files from the base game just to make sure it'd redownload something. That fixed it for me.
jaundicejuice
Member
Never delete and re-download an entire game. That's absurd.
I apologize if this has been brought up before (I'm assuming it has many times), but I can't get past the PLEASE WAIT loading screen after selecting a campaign mission. After it loads the introductory campaign video, it freezes when trying to load the level.
Specs:
GTX 570
Q6600
Win7 64-bit
Any easy fixes for this? Brink is not the easiest thing to search in Google
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Specs:
GTX 570
Q6600
Win7 64-bit
Any easy fixes for this? Brink is not the easiest thing to search in Google
.jaundicejuice
Member
One thing I think really works against Brink is the unlock system that they have there to give players a false sense of progress. Looking at my engineer character and nineteen hours of total playtime, you'll have to spend roughly twenty five hours grinding a character up to see the full potential of each class. That's so incredibly stupid. You only have access to the most basic of abilities of each class.
I get that they want to provide users with constant head patting and validation through the gaining of experience points, with bars filling and levels rising. The problem is you have to grind your character to unlock key functions of that class. Imagine playing TF2 as a spy and not being able to sap buildings for x amount of hours until you unlocked the appropriate level/rank to buy the skill.
I get that they want to provide users with constant head patting and validation through the gaining of experience points, with bars filling and levels rising. The problem is you have to grind your character to unlock key functions of that class. Imagine playing TF2 as a spy and not being able to sap buildings for x amount of hours until you unlocked the appropriate level/rank to buy the skill.
So I played the free weekend steam thing. Only single player since I didn't want to jump in at a low level.
Fairly competent team based shooter. Definitely feels like a lot of balance work has gone in, but the gun variety doesn't feel necessary. I wish there was more skills to play with rather than the focus on gun modding because after the first ten levels, it's just not interesting to level any more with one skill unlock per rank.
Parkour is useless though.
Fairly competent team based shooter. Definitely feels like a lot of balance work has gone in, but the gun variety doesn't feel necessary. I wish there was more skills to play with rather than the focus on gun modding because after the first ten levels, it's just not interesting to level any more with one skill unlock per rank.
Parkour is useless though.
The_Player
Member
JWong said:
Did you play heavy bodytype only or what? There're lots of things you can make, which you wont find in any other game. First of all you need to understand that Brink isn't about shooting people, it's about teamplay, right using of abilities, and movement. It feels a lot like an FPSMMO to me, with their cooldown abilities, buffs, character creation and so on.
There are places to get great use of the parkour but they are not as common as they could be. The huge gap as an attacker on aquarium is one of the few areas were a light body gets to do something really special that no one else does. The system really shines in Parkour this but that does not translate over to playing on the real maps at all.
Ignoring the animation side of Brink there is nothing done that is not smoother controlling in Q4 and Warsow.
Brink could be a great game with years of updates like Quake 4 but it would never get more players. Splash Damage needs to figure out what didn't work with Brink and make "ET4".
Ignoring the animation side of Brink there is nothing done that is not smoother controlling in Q4 and Warsow.
Brink could be a great game with years of updates like Quake 4 but it would never get more players. Splash Damage needs to figure out what didn't work with Brink and make "ET4".
Danne-Danger
Member
Is he playing with bots in games he made himself? That'll lock you to 30 no matter what.Vagabundo said:
So, has anyone else been convinced NOT to buy the game following the recent free weekend on Steam?
Weapons lack 'oomph!', level design is cramped and simplistic, the surreal character designs are some of the most repulsive I've ever seen, and the upgrade system that appears deep at first glance quickly feels kind of pointless when I am able to waste anyone and everyone despite only just having started the game. Perhaps worst of all, the on-screen image is drained of colour creating a uniform, grey, washed-out look that I find very unattractive. Oh yes, and the cinematics, as already mentioned in this thread, are completely horrible and made me just want to quit the game before a level had even started.
The basic idea behind the setting is strong, and holds much potential for a more open (maybe free to play) multiplayer FPS, but perhaps Splash Damage have shown that they are not the team to realise that potential.
To finish off, one positive I've taken from this experience is that the game seems stable on my rig, with not a single technical problem rearing its head. Though I also realise that the rest of GAF has not been as lucky.
Weapons lack 'oomph!', level design is cramped and simplistic, the surreal character designs are some of the most repulsive I've ever seen, and the upgrade system that appears deep at first glance quickly feels kind of pointless when I am able to waste anyone and everyone despite only just having started the game. Perhaps worst of all, the on-screen image is drained of colour creating a uniform, grey, washed-out look that I find very unattractive. Oh yes, and the cinematics, as already mentioned in this thread, are completely horrible and made me just want to quit the game before a level had even started.
The basic idea behind the setting is strong, and holds much potential for a more open (maybe free to play) multiplayer FPS, but perhaps Splash Damage have shown that they are not the team to realise that potential.
To finish off, one positive I've taken from this experience is that the game seems stable on my rig, with not a single technical problem rearing its head. Though I also realise that the rest of GAF has not been as lucky.
Shaundakahl
Member
I enjoyed the hell out of my free time with Brink that weekend. I just bought it about an hour ago, so if anyone still plays and is looking for a BF player, hit me up so we can practice on Brink.
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Beat EviLore at pool.
Alex Connolly
Member
I usually have a few rounds of Brink on a Sunday eve, and damn it was terrific tonight. A nice little community is still running about. I can understand a lot of peoples' issues with the game, but damn, if it hasn't spoiled me on other "team" games like Battlefield. At this point, there seems to be a professional understanding of team play and objectives...everyone seems to play their roles incredibly well.
It's not for everyone, but Brink remains my multiplayer go-to game for the shooty-shoot.
It's not for everyone, but Brink remains my multiplayer go-to game for the shooty-shoot.
Phife Dawg
Member
Red Orchestra 2 has replaced it for me but it's a good game and does not deserve the hate it gets on Gaf.Pylon_Trooper said:
Danne-Danger
Member
A lot of the issues can be blamed on the console focus, I get the feeling that they wanted to do a lot more with the movement stuff but didn't think that they could given their main audience. My hope for their next game is that they realize they can go balls out with complexity and depth and still have a successful game, even on consoles.charsace said:
Oh, and another thing. Did people ever figure out more advanced ways to move around? They had systems in there where you'd get more momentum if you timed your jumps after you did a parkour move. Though I never, ever saw anyone use that (even in competitive games).
Yes it does deserve the hate. Its a broken mess. Runs like shit, too much stuff highlighted and pointing TAKE THE COMMAND POST COMMAND POST COMMAND POST COMMAND POST COMMAND POST COMMANDPOST did I say COMMAND POST yet? Let me make sure: STOP THEM BROTHERS!!!!!!Phife Dawg said:
Weapon damage is fine (IE how many bullets it takes to kill people). It took them 2 months to balance the fucking weapons though. Their talk about how fast they can update the files was a giant load of shit. Singleplayer was a giant lie. Its just multiplayer with bots. The game is shit because outside the idea of teamwork everything else is horribly setup.
I rather play wolf:et. Which is what I did.
charsace said:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is still one of my favorite games of all time, so I've tried to be loyal to Splash Damage (despite RtCW being handled by different developers) because Splash Damage seemed to be very intent on continuing RtCW's style of game play. The problem is that no Splash Damage game has matched the quality of RtCW, and each Splash Damage release was less impressive than the last.
I doubt console stopped them from building the game in a way that would take advantage of movement. Mirror's Edge had more advanced movement and Shadowrun has more complicated movement options as well. They didn't build levels that took advantage of the free running, the guns feel off and there are a few more little gripes I have that I won't bother mentioning. This game just felt straight up sloppy to me. I've said it before and I'll say it again; they should give it another try, just don't put the Brink name on the next game.Danne-Danger said:
This. The truth. Every game they've released has gotten worse. And they are basically iterating on the same design. How is it even possible that each iteration is worse?kevinski said:
Danne-Danger
Member
Going through some old interviews with Paul Wedgwood concerning ET: Quake Wars...
*sigh*
On why 12 maps is a good number for ET:QW:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/e...ews/6165848/qanda-paul-wedgwood-on-quake-wars
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/132507/interviews/enemy-territory-quake-wars/?page=4
*sigh*
And why didn't they build more complex maps? When they first thought that they wanted to include a wall-jump I doubt that they had what's in the game at this point in mind. There's pretty much not a single spot where it's useful to jump from more than one wall, even though it's fully possible to do so (there's one spot I know where it's useful to jump twice off the same wall, a couple on Container City). My guess would be that they really wanted the SMART system to work in all cases, adding complexity thus would make the SMART system more and more complicated. There's no reason at all to have or even use the SMART system on PC, that's one thing. Then you have the classes, where the light rules supreme and there's no reason at all to use the mediums or heavies for PC play. Things like that makes me want to see how the game would've been if they had gone for PC first and foremost.charsace said:
Phife Dawg
Member
Eh, it's a disappointment compared to ET and QW but that doesn't mean it's not a good game in its own right. I certainly had more fun with it than with the run-off-the-mill shooters.Deadbeat said:
I don't get the command post stuff. You can chose your own mission objectives. I didn't care about the SP tbh.
charsace said:
It's Splash Damage. That's how it's possible.
This company doesn't CREATE; it TWEAKS. And what it tweaks, it breaks.
Example: Prior to Brink, healing or resupplying involved dropping packs on the ground for others to pick up. In Brink, however, you "use" a teammate and lock onto him, surrendering control of your character's movement while also gaining access to an exploit that I found in about five second of playing. (You can continually stop and start a buff on a lighter body type in order to move at the same speed as that lighter body type, unless this has been patched since I last played.)
In the off chance that Splash Damage manages to create something, that something doesn't work properly.
Example: Going prone in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. For starters, crouching isn't a toggle function. So, why is going prone a toggle function? Also, why is it that you immediately stand up whenever you bump into ANYTHING while prone? Good luck if you want to script your keybinds to cycle through stances, because prone breaks it every single time.
I just wish another company would make a game with objective-style game play that didn't blow.
The_Player
Member
Именно. Pretty much this. I love the hell out of the game, but at the same time I can see lots of unrealized potential. Hope they'll make their next ET game without so much of console orientation. It's killed too many good games already.Danne-Danger said:
I think all platforms would get a better game if design and balance were PC focused, the game releases there first and has some major tournaments for feedback, the console versions are polished up as this goes on and get the tweaks necessary to make the game work but has a deeper experience to offer and the game is promoted as already being a hit.The_Player said:
Has the weapon balance update dropped yet? What I last read is someone(maybe wrongly) asked it it would be released in time for a tournament on the 27th of september and one of the SD guys said maybe. It was a shame that the Ritchie and Sea Eagle were the only guns I liked using after a few weeks.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Honestly don't bother. The game is dead.
Alex Connolly
Member
Heavy's Sandvich said:
Not true. There's always people on. And it's much more popular in Europe than the States, which might help the fellow. I usually play on Sunday eve and, while it's hardly pushing great numbers, I can always jump into a game with folks.
Great fun, but an acquired taste and not perfect. Still far more interesting than the majority of dudebro online shooters.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/Pylon_Trooper said:
Brink is not on the list so that means there are less than 347 people online playing this game at best. At worst, its much much lower. That number is worldwide. So your area will be a fraction of that.
Alex Connolly
Member
Deadbeat said:
Is that right now? As in, a Tuesday morning in my timezone?