Brink (FPS)

[rajputwarrior]

wish the game had better graphic options. i would love to be able to turn of shadows on my macbook please....

[Lexcyn]

Oh man I can't believe I wasted money on this garbage. They need to patch this like yesterday.

[Argi]

Oh man I can't believe I wasted money on this garbage. They need to patch this like yesterday.

So it's similar to BC2 at launch then?

[Lexcyn]

So it's similar to BC2 at launch then?

Not sure, never played BC2 at launch... :p

But let's see ... can't join servers, keep getting a time-out. Single player is ... just TERIBAD. AI doesn't help at all ... graphics are super choppy even on lowest settings. Maybe I am just tired but this game should have been delayed to fix these problems.

[Argi]

Not sure, never played BC2 at launch... :p

But let's see ... can't join servers, keep getting a time-out. Single player is ... just TERIBAD. AI doesn't help at all ... graphics are super choppy even on lowest settings. Maybe I am just tired but this game should have been delayed to fix these problems.

Is this PC or console? I can imagine there'd be net issues on consoles because of P2P.

[Holey]

almost all reviews so far are for console

[dead.cell]

Really hope this game takes off well... I'd really like to see more team oriented FPS games out on the market.

Speaking as a veteran of RTCW: Enemy Territory. :heart:

[EvilSeph]

For those of you with ATI cards, there's apparently an issue with performance in Brink which the new Catalyst 11.5a supposedly fixes. If you're considering updating, here's my experience:

I just updated due to the Brink performance increase supposedly in 11.5a. Big mistake. Overdrive is completely broken. You turn it on and you'll be experiencing epilepsy soon after, especially if you scroll a lot. Oh and, this is besides the fact that updating immediately caused my system to BSOD, and upon a restart my display driver appeared to have disappeared... Brink better be worth it.

This is a known issue that ATI is looking into... hopefully we get a hotfix for this.

[TheLegendOfMart]

Where do you get the key in D2D UK, if i click download it wants me to download 6Gb client?

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/10/brink-review/

Ouch. Can't say I'm surprised, though.

Ouch indeed, have had some people really hyped on my twitter, so I assumed this was looking great. I personally haven't been following it.

[Reacon]

Honestly, I enjoy it - and that is all I care about. It should be all you care about, too. Not what some review site thinks of it.

Despite all the FPS problems, I've been genuinely having a fun time.

[TheLegendOfMart]

Getting annoyed now, trying to login to Gamespy Comrade and it just sits there. I dont want to download i only want the damn key.

[trag3dy]

I'm enjoying it as well. Maxed out graphics and it runs fine, the gun handling took a bit to get used to though. I did some challenges, which were easy enough and unlocked every weapon and the big body type within 2 hours.

Also I created my own single player game, made it open to anyone, and within minutes people were joining. It works just fine and was quite fun.

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

Seem's another game has docked at the console port.

[rajputwarrior]

my initial impressions are it's a fun game. but it needs work still. random FPS drops. reeks of console port everywhere. dumbest AI in years... server time outs. and isn't this game opengl? i had to reinstall directx9 to get my sound working... it's fun. but needs work. they iron the bugs out this game will be awesome.

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

maybe they should've used the unreal engine instead of a modified id one. I remember quake 4 on the pc sucked, sucked even on newer hardware. I think they should get rid of multi platform games, because only the console version's get the best optimization, the pc releases are ALWAYS an after thought. "we'll patch it later", just wait for it to sell loads on the console, release some rip off DLC and then we will release one crappy patch for the pc scum, I mean players.

At least that's how I think the devs treat us pc games when it comes to multi platform games. Sick of crappy releases. I'm sure there's a list of console ports somewhere and it's growing...day, by day. I wouldn't mind if they didn't make it so obvious a game was / is a port, like bc2 you see console icons come up sometimes when you use vehicles and there was some other game that even had the controller button pics left in that came up on screen while playing on the pc.

You know you're in for some bad gaming when you find out all you can do is adjust the brightness.....

[Dotdot]

Sucks cant get to play it till Firday here in UK

[Pupik]

So happy that I skipped this. Tempted a few times to pre-order this on PC, but "fail" was just written all over this game for me.

[Dotdot]

I wouldnt read the joystiq review apparently the reviewer has spent as little as a couple of hours on the game, and not completed any of the campaigns.

So far ....

IncGamers - 8.8/10

GamingNexus - B+

CVG - 8/10

EuroGamer - 8/10

VideoGamer - 8/10

Destructoid - 7.5/10

1Up - D

IGN - 6/10

Joystiq - 2/5

Seems to be getting not bad scores so I,ll still be picking this up :)

[WastedJoker]

That 1P review has me worried but I'll wait and see how it plays first.

[Singh400]

I've no interest in console reviews only PC MP.

Where do you get the key in D2D UK, if i click download it wants me to download 6Gb client?

Click the download button and scroll to the bottom of the page. Then whack the key into Steam.

[WastedJoker]

Well the major issues appear to be map design - that's not gonna change between console and PC.

Sounds a lot like what ruined Killzone 2 - too many or too easily reached chokepoints

[TheLegendOfMart]

I've no interest in console reviews only PC MP.

Click the download button and scroll to the bottom of the page. Then whack the key into Steam.

Thanks but there is no key on that page.

A. Download

B. Install

then

"If you do not use our Game Manager you will need to:"

And thats it i cant see any key anywhere in my account or the download page?

[trag3dy]

To change the fov in the pc version do this in game:

ctrl+alt+~

then type g_fov ##

I've read that some servers might have a setting to over ride this though but it works for me right now. Also we can have an autoexec.cfg file, but I have no idea where to put it as of yet.

[+virtorio MVC]

Just watched the Giant Bomb quick look. That was enough to let me know that this game isn't for me.