Saren is Bad
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divisionbyzorro
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Any good Brink videos I can download (YT works as well with the downloader)? I've got a 24-hour flight ahead of me and I'm working on buffering up some content to keep me occupied.
Genesis Knight
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Have some good news from the 360 front. I've had the least lag with Stopwatch Standard as recommended by a gaffer earlier in this thread.
Also had a really fun fight on Container City. I'd just equipped a drum on my Galactic SMG with a front grip and red dot; we were defending so I rushed up to the first gate and slid under, then held down the trigger. Which leads to a big problem you guys need to watch for on that map - if you don't get that charge planted in the first 20 seconds you are officially fucked.
I gunned down three or four guys, threw my molotovs, and by then the whole team was in place and the attackers never got past their spawn for 15 minutes. I felt pretty bad about it and tried to hang back, but damn - make sure you get that plant first and fast!
Also had a really fun fight on Container City. I'd just equipped a drum on my Galactic SMG with a front grip and red dot; we were defending so I rushed up to the first gate and slid under, then held down the trigger. Which leads to a big problem you guys need to watch for on that map - if you don't get that charge planted in the first 20 seconds you are officially fucked.
I gunned down three or four guys, threw my molotovs, and by then the whole team was in place and the attackers never got past their spawn for 15 minutes. I felt pretty bad about it and tried to hang back, but damn - make sure you get that plant first and fast!
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Deleted member 81567
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I actually played another campaign mission and multiplayer and still have mixed thoughts on the game. Will play some more multiplayer tomorrow.
samus4ever
Banned
Multiplayer has been running lag free for me on the 360 since around 10pm last night for me. Played the last few Resistance campaigns on mutli just now and it ran smooth.
Uno Venova
Banned
Or play the single player, get a feel for the SMART system and weapons so you won't get your ass handed to you as hard once PSN is back up. That's what I'm doing.Shearie said:
Genesis Knight
Member
Guess we underestimated the bots. They are crazy hard once you get up to Rank 3 and 4.
So I think a free MP map is in order for those of us having to endure all the glitches and performance issues. Make it so Splash Damage............or Bethesda.........or Zenimax.
PLZZZZZZZ
I will admit that on more than one occasion the bots have pinned me and my team at a choke point for long periods of time. Bots don't mess around when it comes to killing. :/
PLZZZZZZZ
Genesis Knight said:
I will admit that on more than one occasion the bots have pinned me and my team at a choke point for long periods of time. Bots don't mess around when it comes to killing. :/
bluedeviltron
Member
It's not worth playing for me at this point. The performance and texture gridding is just too awful (HD4870).
This game can be hilariously frustrating when your team refuses to share their buffs, medics refuse to revive, and your team is incapable of pushing out of the spawn on Container City. Hooray for randoms on the GAF server who play this like CoD and die repeatedly without contributing shit.
Stripper13
Member
Genesis Knight said:
The issue is not so much that they get harder... I don't think there was ever a rational statement that the enemy AI was trash or easy. It's the fact that your allies AI is truly awful. They'd cut it in a straight TDM match - but as an objective game mode... the general consensus is that they don't do much to help. Furthermore, when they decide to go for an objective/revive etc they tend to do it with a suicidal tendency.
Functionally, I've found the AI to be pretty good so far. There's certainly issues, but I've yet to have the rage/rant inducing moments that many seem to have had so far. Although I'm doing the challenges ASAP to prevent rank 3+ frustration.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Stripper13 said:
So when I pop this in on Saturday, I should jump straight into the challenges before doing anything else?
bluedeviltron said:
Turn off AO and its a little more bearable...but yeah im more ticked that with that card I know I can get 60 fps at least. The grid glitch is worse than the performance issues of course.
Really hope we get word on that from someone soon, since its only 4800 series.
Honestly, would performance increasing patches even be possible at this point...after a decent amount of company mishaps this gen...i'm still optimistic, but im slowly running out of said optimism. I'm sure we'll get a grid fix, but weary about performance increasing patches.
You could download some brinktv matches in the justintv archive.divisionbyzorro said:
http://www.justin.tv/brinktv/videos
zoner said:
The map before Container City, Crooked Rain and I were doing our best to complete the main objective of opening a safe.
MEANWHILE in random land...
The rest of the team spent half of the time limit fighting for a Command Post. It was hilarious and sad at the same time.
Damn thread jumped 10 pages.
Game finally arrived, played on 360 for a bit. A friend asked me to tell him what he thought, and it's telling that I spent 10 minutes complaining about this and that. I don't know if it says the game is good and it could be better, or if it says it's bad and I'm still playing it for the wrong reasons, but that's that.
My favorite part of the game is messing around with class abilities. I've now deleveled to respec three times now, and it's not hard to spec yourself for two, or even three classes even around level 10. Each class has some essentials that you need, but a majority of the abilities are useful for certain weight classes or gun set ups.
I don't want to list my complaints though. It's a long list.
The thing on my mind the most right now is the gunplay. I didn't realize just how much I disliked this type of gunplay, despite my allergy to all things CoD. I'm dealing with it, but I'm also finding it bullshit that the larger class guns have such crazy inaccuracy unless you iron sight, and even that doesn't help much. SMGs feel like the best guns in the game. And despite a Heavy's health bar, the extra damage for shooting the head can still drop you as if you were playing CoD. And the computer on hard and online hard (which feels like an expert difficulty) have vicious aim.
Basically, the lightest classes focus on the guns with the most accuracy despite them being the hardest people to hit. The damage differences between the guns and the health differences between the weight classes aren't enough to make a huge dent in kill times unless you start at relatively close range and fire at the same time. And then the SMGs have some of the smallest amount of recoil in the game. I think only pistols have it better. Maybe.
tl;dr I find the classes to be excellent to play with, but the gunplay turns me off in a huge way. I may have been spoiled by TF2.
Game finally arrived, played on 360 for a bit. A friend asked me to tell him what he thought, and it's telling that I spent 10 minutes complaining about this and that. I don't know if it says the game is good and it could be better, or if it says it's bad and I'm still playing it for the wrong reasons, but that's that.
My favorite part of the game is messing around with class abilities. I've now deleveled to respec three times now, and it's not hard to spec yourself for two, or even three classes even around level 10. Each class has some essentials that you need, but a majority of the abilities are useful for certain weight classes or gun set ups.
I don't want to list my complaints though. It's a long list.
The thing on my mind the most right now is the gunplay. I didn't realize just how much I disliked this type of gunplay, despite my allergy to all things CoD. I'm dealing with it, but I'm also finding it bullshit that the larger class guns have such crazy inaccuracy unless you iron sight, and even that doesn't help much. SMGs feel like the best guns in the game. And despite a Heavy's health bar, the extra damage for shooting the head can still drop you as if you were playing CoD. And the computer on hard and online hard (which feels like an expert difficulty) have vicious aim.
Basically, the lightest classes focus on the guns with the most accuracy despite them being the hardest people to hit. The damage differences between the guns and the health differences between the weight classes aren't enough to make a huge dent in kill times unless you start at relatively close range and fire at the same time. And then the SMGs have some of the smallest amount of recoil in the game. I think only pistols have it better. Maybe.
tl;dr I find the classes to be excellent to play with, but the gunplay turns me off in a huge way. I may have been spoiled by TF2.
Genesis Knight
Member
Proven: try forward grip + hip fire on Galactic SMG with drum.
Princess Carl
Member
ANyone on the 360 version?
GT: Lead Based Pain
GT: Lead Based Pain
CrookedRain
Member
The problem is that the majority of the time you select the escort objective, the person you are escorting doesn't even go for the objective. To be fair though, this game does a poor job of explaining your objectives. When you first start playing, you will notice there are times where your main objective says to guard something, but then you find out after you lose at the end of the round that someone was supposed to hack or repair something and you were supposed to be guarding the objective while they do it.Teknoman said:
I think the Galactic was the SMG I used the most before I started messing around with Heavies and Lights. I never did customize it though. Thanks for the tip.Genesis Knight said:
If you play online co-op on normal, the computer feel like they're on hard. If you play online co-op on hard, the computer feel like they're on expert. And this is from rank 2. I finally started getting used to them before hitting rank 3 and suddenly feeling I needed to break for the night.Genesis Knight said:
Freakinchair
Member
Game is fun - but I won't play it until the sound dropping bug on PC is fixed. I'm not going to play the game with no sound!
Played PC version and had a blast on there too. My ATI card worked just dandy and I don't think I noticed ANY pop in or weird "creamy" textures like you see on 360 even when it does load in everything. Game felt a little awkward for me on keyboard and mouse in just feeling comfortable with doing SMART naturally like I was on the 360 pad. I'll definitely be able to get the hang of it more with time I'm sure. Had no lag issues on PC whatsoever, but I did have a hard time joining games that I kept trying to get into. Not sure if that's a common problem or not.
As for the 360 I played more of that as well. Finally had a streak of bad laggy games where I had to just keep quitting out and looking for another until I found a smooth one. I hit level 19 and finally did a skill reset to put myself at 18 so I could spread it out to exactly what I want so once I'm 20 I'm raring to go.
Splash needs to hurry up with a patch for the net code, because I still feel word of mouth plus some good online deals could keep this games community large for a couple of months before the big multiplayer games start releasing this year.
As for the 360 I played more of that as well. Finally had a streak of bad laggy games where I had to just keep quitting out and looking for another until I found a smooth one. I hit level 19 and finally did a skill reset to put myself at 18 so I could spread it out to exactly what I want so once I'm 20 I'm raring to go.
Splash needs to hurry up with a patch for the net code, because I still feel word of mouth plus some good online deals could keep this games community large for a couple of months before the big multiplayer games start releasing this year.
walbertsmith
Member
Genesis Knight said:
It was good this afternoon, but it got laggy again at night so I switched to 5v5 (with great success).
I'm about 10 down/3 up.
SirButterstick
Banned
What's the secret to using Assault Rifles correctly? I rock it with SMGs and MGs, but have a hard time with the ARs. Are they basically worthless?
thezerofire
Banned
I couldn't get into a match with people at all tonight. Just bots =\
Stripper13
Member
divisionbyzorro said:
Absolutely.
The challenges are easier as the Bots 'scale' with your rank/level. So if you are high enough to use Heavy body types - expect lots of Heavies. If you can place turrets, expect turrets everywhere.
I did the 2 star challenges (3 star for parkour challenge) in about an hour without much issue (Be Objective is difficult) and the worst I encountered was:
-Heavies
-Spawn Point right next to objective to Hack
-Light Body Types sprinting around and placing mines near my command post
These are all minor difficulties in most situations so it was a breeze - I never had to retry a challenge except for Parkour III.
Anyway, still trying to get used to the game but all I know is that every shooter from now on needs to have Muzzle Flash customization (awesome idea) and some type of sprint/ledge/parkour system to keep movement fluid and visceral (like this and Crysis 2).
Stripper13
Member
SirButterstick said:
I've found the AR's have painfully small clips or maximum ammo capacity versus the SMG's. My suggestion (from a newb) is run with scavenger and/or extended mag to make it a little more flexible. Damage and accuracy wise I can't fault them so far - I'd much prefer the AR's to the SMG's so far - provided the ammo was there.
Anerythristic
Member
Had some really good games tonight, hit 15000 Exp as a medic on a match in Resort which was a personal best.
Held out with four guys in a room for a good 8 minutes, nothing like sliding across the floor for a teammate res like an action hero.
Held out with four guys in a room for a good 8 minutes, nothing like sliding across the floor for a teammate res like an action hero.
BloodySinner
Banned
Why the fuck doesn't this game remember my FOV settings? I always have to change it each time I run it.