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Okay, so seems the new patch has helped with the single player AI a bit.

Now hard feels easier than pre-patch easy.

 

 

Except two places and one really irritating thing...

 

1) "Escort Nechayev"

 

Fuck everything about this.

I can get the entire start of the mission including escorting him to the big ramp area done and have 25 minutes left on the clock, then my team just disperses to fuck knows where whilst the enemy AI just camps at him meaning at the small stretch between that ramp and the exit I can lose all 25 minutes with the enemy AI just destroying anything that comes close.

 

2) Day 6: Early Launch on the Security campaign.

 

The shitty map design combined with you still having to do all the work is a royal pain in the arse.

This shitty map design I speak of is the way the enemy can barricade the two large entrances at the start meaning you're forced through one of just a few small places where they easily pick you off and then to top it off, your friendly AI does nothing to help here.

 

3) 1-hit downs, especially combined with killing you when you're downed.

 

Not much to say here besides that it's really, really fucking annoying when you're constantly getting downed in one hit and then they walk over and kill you and thus you have to wait through the overly-long spawn time and you have to travel all the way across the map just for an unseen enemy to fire one shot and take you down again.

Combine this with either of the above two mission & AI and it's quite a fun-killing experience.

 

Who knows, maybe one day Splash Damage will be able to forgive those of us that prefer playing solo as they seem to loathe us currently and will actually patch their solo games so as to make them not utterly fucking worthless.

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Okay, so seems the new patch has helped with the single player AI a bit.

Now hard feels easier than pre-patch easy.

 

 

Except two places and one really irritating thing...

 

1) "Escort Nechayev"

 

Fuck everything about this.

I can get the entire start of the mission including escorting him to the big ramp area done and have 25 minutes left on the clock, then my team just disperses to fuck knows where whilst the enemy AI just camps at him meaning at the small stretch between that ramp and the exit I can lose all 25 minutes with the enemy AI just destroying anything that comes close.

 

2) Day 6: Early Launch on the Security campaign.

 

The shitty map design combined with you still having to do all the work is a royal pain in the arse.

This shitty map design I speak of is the way the enemy can barricade the two large entrances at the start meaning you're forced through one of just a few small places where they easily pick you off and then to top it off, your friendly AI does nothing to help here.

 

3) 1-hit downs, especially combined with killing you when you're downed.

 

Not much to say here besides that it's really, really fucking annoying when you're constantly getting downed in one hit and then they walk over and kill you and thus you have to wait through the overly-long spawn time and you have to travel all the way across the map just for an unseen enemy to fire one shot and take you down again.

Combine this with either of the above two mission & AI and it's quite a fun-killing experience.

 

Who knows, maybe one day Splash Damage will be able to forgive those of us that prefer playing solo as they seem to loathe us currently and will actually patch their solo games so as to make them not utterly fucking worthless.

 

I agree 100%. Nechayev was bullshit. It seemed like every person I downed was being watched by 3 medics and when I was downed, ALL of my teammates were at the spawn. You really just have to be lucky. It all matters who's where at the exact point shit's going down. And also, doing this mission as low ranked as possible will make it a lot easier.

 

Good luck!

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So the original reason I'm in the bitching thread...

 

WHY in God's name did they think of making DLC for this garbage?

 

Not only DLC for FREE which you'll grab first thing you do anyway ;)

But also a major tweak patch is rolling out tomorrow.

 

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1188620-an-update-on-brink/page__view__findpost__p__18207943

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But also a major tweak patch is rolling out tomorrow.

 

Haha, all that stuff and playing solo is still like the SAS [enemy AI] versus the contents of the short bus [friendly AI].

 

Really, the AI can be great as shown constantly by the enemy so would it really be such a massive job to edit the friendlies to not be utterly retarded?

 

 

 

Also, what I came back for:

 

Now I think in my eyes this is one of the worst bits of all of this.

Splash Damage keeping their mouths shut, even on the official forums.

Would it kill them to listen to the fans that have criticism rather than apparently only paying attention to their zealous fanboys?

Sure, they have something like 'Community Liaisons' but I don't think I've ever actually see them post anything besides saying there's a new blog or whatever.

 

Just look over there, find a thread that puts Brink in a negative light and from what I seen, chances are that within 2 pages the thread gets locked, even if it's all relatively civil and not attacking Splash Damage with, for example, stuff like, "Splash Damage/Bethesda, you bloody arseholes, why the fuck are you completely ignoring people that enjoy playing solo in games? Are we just not worthy of your attention or are you intentionally leaving your game at nowhere near its full potential for some other reason? Plus it's especially shitty when we put faith into your new IP and SD as developers by buying it on day 1 and you still ignore us."

 

Then you can find threads filled with shit yet they remain open for apparently no other reason than because they like Brink.

 

 

 

Plus an update on that Security Day 6.

Fuck the friendlies and y'know, I held back on this before but screw it, fuck whomever decided to make them retarded.

Up to 70+% on the hack twice and as soon as it hit 60% the AI decided to abandon me.

Then the bastards decide that in the last minute they're going to help. Now I make it to 95% in overtime and what happens? Yet again they all suddenly either vanish or they take a massive drop in accuracy.

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Haha, all that stuff and playing solo is still like the SAS [enemy AI] versus the contents of the short bus [friendly AI].

 

Really, the AI can be great as shown constantly by the enemy so would it really be such a massive job to edit the friendlies to not be utterly retarded?

 

 

 

Also, what I came back for:

 

Now I think in my eyes this is one of the worst bits of all of this.

Splash Damage keeping their mouths shut, even on the official forums.

Would it kill them to listen to the fans that have criticism rather than apparently only paying attention to their zealous fanboys?

Sure, they have something like 'Community Liaisons' but I don't think I've ever actually see them post anything besides saying there's a new blog or whatever.

 

Just look over there, find a thread that puts Brink in a negative light and from what I seen, chances are that within 2 pages the thread gets locked, even if it's all relatively civil and not attacking Splash Damage with, for example, stuff like, "Splash Damage/Bethesda, you bloody arseholes, why the fuck are you completely ignoring people that enjoy playing solo in games? Are we just not worthy of your attention or are you intentionally leaving your game at nowhere near its full potential for some other reason? Plus it's especially shitty when we put faith into your new IP and SD as developers by buying it on day 1 and you still ignore us."

 

Then you can find threads filled with shit yet they remain open for apparently no other reason than because they like Brink.

 

 

 

Plus an update on that Security Day 6.

Fuck the friendlies and y'know, I held back on this before but screw it, fuck whomever decided to make them retarded.

Up to 70+% on the hack twice and as soon as it hit 60% the AI decided to abandon me.

Then the bastards decide that in the last minute they're going to help. Now I make it to 95% in overtime and what happens? Yet again they all suddenly either vanish or they take a massive drop in accuracy.

 

 

That sucks the developer is locking down the heretics. What pissed me off the most with this game, as a day one buyer, was the utter lack of communication on what the real release date of the DLC was.

 

A few days after it released or so was when it was announced. The game's resale value is already pretty much ten bucks, yet what am I supposed to do with this game once the Fall's barrage of online shooters comes? I won't be setting down Rage or Battlefield 3 to play this, which makes it an odd trinket to own.

 

I can see the developers trying to hoodwink people into thinking that this had any sort of campaign, but the putting the "free DLC in June" out there and then shafting it until August is pretty pathetic.

 

Shame, the game had a lot of potential.

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Brad Gallaway of GameCritics.com said, "...there's something very disturbing to me about having a choice between fifty different pieces of upper torso clothing or including an entire gender, and then deciding to go with the clothing. What does such a decision say about the attitude of Brink's developers, and the studio itself?"

 

Critical Kate of CriticalHit! said, "For a company to boast how impressively customizable the characters in their first-person shooter are, only to then exclude half the population from having their character be the same gender as themselves, doesn’t exactly say to female gamers “you are welcome here.”

 

Some great critics taken from the wikipedia, haha.

 

50 pieces of upper torso clothing?

There isn't nearly anything like that and yet they claim there are near endless possibilities of creating a unique character.

 

I got this game 24 hours ago and I've seen it all, what a letdown.

We got the free DLC but did this include the title update because I haven't seen anything that resembles an update for this game along with the DLC.

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I got this game 24 hours ago and I've seen it all, what a letdown.

We got the free DLC but did this include the title update because I haven't seen anything that resembles an update for this game along with the DLC.

 

That's with the patch then if you're connected to Live when you're playing.

 

Heh, maybe now you can understand some of the rants earlier on if that's after a 'major patch/bugfix'.

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That's with the patch then if you're connected to Live when you're playing.

 

Heh, maybe now you can understand some of the rants earlier on if that's after a 'major patch/bugfix'.

 

Yes I do understand now, I was still waiting on improvements..

The AI is so unbalanced overall, retarded on my team, overpowered on the enemy team, doing a solo run on VS for the Tough as nails achievement and I'm getting shot all over the place!

 

Running around the map to objective and there are 2 team AI's standing in a corner giving eachother rimjobs while the entire enemy team is packed in a bundle doing headshots supreme while evading every aim I get on them, all of that on the same time!

 

 

 

Some other facts: Only a handfull of characters for BOTH factions!

I mean they couldn't have done 12vs12 different characters?

That would have made the game a lot better than this beta fest.

 

Clothing options and whatever: This is fucking it?!! That's the offer?

They should have spent less time whoring out preorder packs and cramped this game with more goodies instead and like I said: 12 characters total for both factions, what a joke! They skipped female characters for nothing!

 

Game looks like absolute garbage on the 360, straight down a disgrace on 1080P HD.

Edit: not to mention the website leaderboards and stats tracking.. I'm in your fucking game, why the hell do I need to register and lurk a website to view any stats, lazy bums.

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Only issue I seem to have with this game for the time being is the fact that some of the missions are near impossible on the higher difficulties due to how braindead the allied AI are. Literally you could be like dying and the only medic nearby will just look up in a circle and spin around shooting the ceiling only to get sniped a second later.

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The AI definitely does suck. Sometimes I play a mission 5 times without succes. Then next day I come back to it and AI does everything. I was like damn I got shot now I can't hack that, and when I'm running back there it was all done. It's more confusing than women, and I am a woman. Don't get it :/

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I picked this game up because a few people around the office were playing it and it looked OK enough. It has a lot of promise, but damn is the game unfair.

 

Like many others, I had major problems completing Day 6 as Security. And then, after reading around (here and other places), I realized the game actually punishes you for ranking up and getting "better".

 

That's my biggest gripe with this game. You are rewarded experience to gain levels/ranks and receive ability points to buy new abilities, but the game becomes damn near impossible on some of these maps if you do.

 

I noticed that you could "sell" your abilities and lose a level for doing so, but many people suggested to do this to make the enemy AI less cutthroat.... and it works... which is shit.

 

After I leveled myself back down to zero, I had no trouble finishing Day 6 and the last map for Security (haven't got around to the What Ifs and extra DLC maps yet). I was also able to do the Challenges with ease.

 

Otherwise, the game is OK fun, but punishing the player for gaining levels (and you earn experience for almost everything) just really breaks the whole thing for me.

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I am still stuck on Early Launch. I can hardly find folks to play with online. It's like a ghost town. When I do find somebody its usually 1 person at a time which doesn't quite cut it. I just bought this yesterday and was wondering if any of you fellow gamers had any tips on how to find more players online...kinda confused as to why they made the game like this.

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Never have I been so skeptical to play a game, as always when I go to buy a game I look at reviews, I like to stay away from huge franchises and play non-main stream games but when I saw all the game mechanics for Brink I just had to get it, took me like a week to actually put it on my achievement profile but I decided to about 4hrs ago. It's FUCKING AMAZING! It's got to be in my top 5 Xbox 360 games, all of the problems people were complaining about never happened to me. My teamates did Primary Objectives, Medics picked me up right away when they were by me and online didn't lag. Seriously people get this game! It's hard sometimes because your AI won't do the objective right away so you feel like rambo, but when they do it's objective based fun to the max. Brink is amazing!

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Never have I been so skeptical to play a game, as always when I go to buy a game I look at reviews, I like to stay away from huge franchises and play non-main stream games but when I saw all the game mechanics for Brink I just had to get it, took me like a week to actually put it on my achievement profile but I decided to about 4hrs ago. It's FUCKING AMAZING! It's got to be in my top 5 Xbox 360 games, all of the problems people were complaining about never happened to me. My teamates did Primary Objectives, Medics picked me up right away when they were by me and online didn't lag. Seriously people get this game! It's hard sometimes because your AI won't do the objective right away so you feel like rambo, but when they do it's objective based fun to the max. Brink is amazing!

 

Oh just wait 'til you get to mission 5 with the Security forces. I had no problem up until that point, was enjoying the game like hell, then, shitty (friendly) AI, ho!

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This game was supposed to be completely patched, and when i tried to play it earlier with a friend it wouldn't let me used my maxed out character, even though he set the game settings to allow any level characters.

 

What the hell is the point of my maxed character if I can't use him with friends? I had to use a secondary character that was level six to play with my friend, and it just wasn't fun at all.

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Oh just wait 'til you get to mission 5 with the Security forces. I had no problem up until that point, was enjoying the game like hell, then, shitty (friendly) AI, ho!

 

 

I'm almost done with the game on hard 1 more mission already did Security and then reason I haven't done the last mission is because I had to go, I am having no problem with the AI at all honestly

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I'm almost done with the game on hard 1 more mission already did Security and then reason I haven't done the last mission is because I had to go, I am having no problem with the AI at all honestly

 

Seems I just got there too fast (level-wise). I was having serious trouble with it as the bots would never hang around to help protect me. But as got more levels, the bots really did get smarter and made for a whole new experience. It's the middle that went sour for me.

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Seems I just got there too fast (level-wise). I was having serious trouble with it as the bots would never hang around to help protect me. But as got more levels, the bots really did get smarter and made for a whole new experience. It's the middle that went sour for me.

 

Yeah, good to hear you are having a better experience now, I just lost my gold membership but if you ever wanna play Brink just send me a message and a friend request!

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