First Brink thoughts
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14 May 2011, 22:00
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So, I got back home from my vacation with the nice package from Amazon waiting on my door, 2 copies of Brink! (one for the missus). A quick download later and away we go into what is hopefully a new and exciting game...
I had read some positive comments here on CF, Shewie inparticular gave me real hope that there was potential in the game then I get in game and I'm wondering what the heck he was smoking.
What am I doing wrong that the game seems so confusing and without a point to it. The objectives you're supposed to complete are something of a mystery and it takes forever to get to them with the odd movement in the game.
I get the engine is weak, but I mean aiming is all over the shop, bullets dont register in the areas you're hitting at times it seems there is no discernable difference between shooting someone in the toe and shooting them center mass. There are HUGE lag issues, I played on two UK servers both repeating the issues.
I REALLY want to like Brink, there hasn't been a good FPS since COD4 - Are there things I can do to improve this game clientside?
I had read some positive comments here on CF, Shewie inparticular gave me real hope that there was potential in the game then I get in game and I'm wondering what the heck he was smoking.
What am I doing wrong that the game seems so confusing and without a point to it. The objectives you're supposed to complete are something of a mystery and it takes forever to get to them with the odd movement in the game.
I get the engine is weak, but I mean aiming is all over the shop, bullets dont register in the areas you're hitting at times it seems there is no discernable difference between shooting someone in the toe and shooting them center mass. There are HUGE lag issues, I played on two UK servers both repeating the issues.
I REALLY want to like Brink, there hasn't been a good FPS since COD4 - Are there things I can do to improve this game clientside?
That will help you change some of the CFG settings. I turned everything off, or down low and that has helped massively on my awful computer.
If you guys are planning to play together as a team or as a community, I'd like to be part of it since I don't like being "FOREVER ALONE" while playing online games :p
are there hitsounds ?
possible to sprint and shoot at the same time ?
ironsight - needed ? can i disable it ?
if i aim on the head, do i make a headshot or do i have to aim ccs-like on the ground to make a hs ?
price?
You don't need to use iron sights if you don't want to but at distance it helps
You can sprint and shoot i believe never really paid attention to it
You can interupt the reload animation by shooting which is epic
are the tj (strafe) part of et is gone though?
depends on weapon, buffs etc.
are there hitsounds ?
no, but when you hit someone, a little hit indicator flashes around your crosshair.
sounds distracting, but it isnt.
possible to sprint and shoot at the same time ?
no
ironsight - needed ? can i disable it ?
on long range they are surely helping, on medium and short i dont use them at all.
just unbind the key lal
if i aim on the head, do i make a headshot or do i have to aim ccs-like on the ground to make a hs ?
herpderp, even et has spread
price?
look for yourself
for the aiming: cant say how it feels on the pc.. ye its a bit odd on the xbox360 but thats with every shooter on console :S
overall i like the game alot. With light body you can run everywhere rly fast and do some nice jumps and movements. you can strafe while shooting and with red-dot the ironsight isnt even that annoying. Playing with heavy-body is really boring tho.
actually i can imagine it to be a really nice game for competition. There is alot of potential in the "smart" movement. atleast on the xbox360 it gives you a real advantage during the infight if you can use it properly :P
@edit:
waiting for some performance patch and if it would run fine on my laptop i will even buy the pc version.
@edit2:
or maybe someone can borrow me a cd-key / steam accouint so i can try it out :)
E: OH, SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES SUCK BALLS. 3 MINUTES TO HACK PRETTY MUCH LAWL.
Someone who plays ET for the first time has the same thoughts, you just need to play a bit more and learn the objectives. You can also press mousewheel to update the objectives you are supposed to do.
The movement is exactly the same like it is in CoD as far as I know, just tap sprint when you're not shooting and you will move pretty fast. For the space & slide thing, you'll just have to get used to it like you will have to get used to the objectives-system. If you think the game is too slow then you could higher your fov a bit, since it's on a very low standard value, the command is g_fov.
I personally really like the engine and most of the people I've talked with have the same feeling. If you think the bullets don't register where you are aiming then you should learn how the spreadsystem works for a start. Besides that, they do hit right where you are aiming. Without trying to flame you, you have never been world's best aimer and with your allways fully loaded schedule I can only imagine it got a lot worse.
For the lag issues, I haven't experienced any at all, except for one short spike where the entire server lagged out for a couple of seconds. I've played numerous hours today so I can live with that statistic.
As far as changing things client-side would help you, I can only suggest to tweak your config until it's perfect for you, most likely that would be a very low detailed config.
or add the command line which is : +com_allowconsole 1 , you can add the line by rightclicking on Brink in steam, and going to start up options (or something like that).
As for the game's objectives, there is indeed a massive learning curve to experience but, in reality, it's just doc runs, hacks, destroys and escort missions - something we're all familiar with here. The map layouts are pretty shoddy, though.
ET still alive, 7 years and counting
Unlike ETQW and Wolfenstein, this game isn't broken at the core (the engine). The gameplay needs some tweaking and modding, just like vanilla ET to etpro.
But I can't see many ET players moving to Brink. I think it's going to generate a mix of players from other games and a few from ET.
Basically, i believe this game has huge potential and with some tweaks, could be a great competitive game. Finally a game where you dont get xp/awards for ramboing.
But game is still unfinished:
map have some bugs,
smart button has bugs
and the gameplay should be changed because it's just one big mess atm.
and indoor bulletproof windows are together with the aimbot medic revive stuff one of the biggest joke ever(you can add the obj wallhack there). Who ever invented this shouldn't touch a computer anymore. Same goes with this reviving stuff: enemy has about 5 seconds to gib: medic needs to switch weapon(oh wait.... lazy press f and walk auto in same speed towards him?) you receive the needle, injecting takes about 3 secs? and in 5 seconds most weapons shoot about 30 bullets. This makes sure all maps are like Oasis in ET: run run run run run spot enemy - die - run run run run run run spot enemy - etc. Only this is destroying the fast gameplay. And proberly it's implented so ppl actually start to revive, good for public maybe. But for "matches" it's a big NO (didn't check if it's also in matches tbh :D)
for more whine, ask pinkyy
Cause its something new with much potential!
W8 for promod and everything will be fine!
Then I played it...
OMG OMG OMG 20 FPS?! What the fuck?! My cfg is dirty yet!
Hmm... Gonna play ET!
:3
If you're getting poor performance , you might wanna make your own config and update your video drivers :)
But yeah overall there's still some polishing to be done
not my 5 cents,still nerding sc2!
I think that football would be fucking boring if everybody could do same things as Ronaldo or Messi. Don't you think?
However, the bugs and lack of balance in few situations are a bit problematic.
Also r_shadows 0 seems to be a really magic command.
e: oh, and I've actually enjoyed playing it 8 hours in a row, even though I haven't played any PC game for few months
The biggest issue I see for competition play is the slow objective build times, and for that mostly the engineer and covert hack objectives simply take way to long to complete. Unfortunately I do not think we can modify the build times without mod tools.
some screenshots
- With a config; both player and server modified config (SW mode etc)
sample server config
- sample modified server.cfg