I am thoroughly enjoying Brink and it seems to fun fine on my 5770 oddly enough.
What drivers are you using man?
11.4 and 11.5a aren't cutting it on my 5870. Tempted to roll way back.
Yeah, I'm probably going to roll back to my last stable set (11.3) to see how it works. My card is powerful enough (modded 6950->70) to brute force the performance I need to play it, but I'd sure like it to be actually smooth
I read on one of the forums that turning off shadows in the config really helps, I'll be trying that tonight and see how it works. At least until ATI can figure their crap out.
I seem to be running driver versions 8.85 with catalyst 11.5
I already hate steam. It's been updating for 25 minutes and not yet 3/4s done. I haven't even been able to install my game yet, so god knows how long that will take. Ugh.
Is anyone else getting crashes at the start of a new map? It seems to happen when the game tries to load the little movie at the beginning of a map. I was able to join a game in progress no problem, but it crashed as soon as it switched to the next map. It isn't a typical crash, either. The game minimizes and I get what I assume is the console which tells me it couldn't decompress something.
With a birthday coming up, am I correct in assuming that my dear wife could buy this at retail and then I can register said retail copy through Steam?
And I further assume that PC is where it's at with this game?
Yes to your first question as it is a Steamworks game.
Played a little last night in SP and outside of the aforementioned team AI (the medics actually throwing syringes at you was nice) I enjoyed what I played so far. Alot of stuff to look through yet with all the perks/customizations etc.
I already hate steam. It's been updating for 25 minutes and not yet 3/4s done. I haven't even been able to install my game yet, so god knows how long that will take. Ugh.
Hahaha, you'll get it eventually, gramps.
Yeah though, unfortunately a brand-new install of Steam can come with a bunch of update fluff. I do like it as a game-organizer, though. It keeps me from accidentally losing things in a move or reinstall.
Ugh, my boyfriend's copy got delivered already (we ordered from the same place), and here I am sitting at home waiting for fucking Fedex to come deliver it. I work in 2 hours, really hope they bring it within the next hour.
I just wanna shoot mans while doing parkour so badly.
Also, the bots are VERY enthused about secondary objectives. I had an engineer rebuild some stairs. He then proceeded to camp the stairs for the rest of the game. He was always alone, so this meant he'd constantly die and have to go back and rebuild those stairs.
SO what are the chances of me walking into gamestop and asking if they have any extra preorder bonus codes and actually getting one?
I'd say 50/50
It doesn't look like I'm getting my Psycho pack, but maybe I'm sitting on $30 worth of credit? I'll take that over a scarecrow mask any day
I really hope they don't yank my $30 worth of credit, either. I took a screenshot of the credit just in case.
How'd you get to see your credit? I too have gotten multiple emails and no preorder code.
Put a game in your cart and proceed to checkout. On the screen where it shows your order total, it'll show how many credits are applied.
Doesn't apply anything for me. Also, the email mentions you have to spend the credit by 5/31...didn't know that. Boo.
It's 5/31 of 2012, dude. You have a year to use it.
Secondly, you have to get all the way to the END checkout, where you select your shipping speed, confirming your credit card, all that crap. The VERY END. If you got that email then you have at least SOME credit.
Giantbomb doesn't seem to care for the game, but I'm fighting real hard to not hit the buy button on Steam.
GB has two reviews up. One very positive and one very negative.
I've never been a fan of Giantbomb myself.
The reviews Sheep is referencing are fan reviews - not reviews made by GB staff. Gerstmann is putting his review out tomorrow after the day one patch has some time to marinate.
Still waiting for my "release-day delivery" from Amazon (the tracker still shows it "in transit" from the next state over), and to add insult to injury my cable modem has apparently given up the ghost. I am sitting hunched over my netbook in a Starbucks monitoring all these developments.
A lot of the complaints seem to be directed at single-player stuff, which I don't give two shits about. I am more worried about reports of bugs and performance issues (especially as an ATI card owner), but these do not seem to be universal and for all I know will have been patched by the time my home internets have been theoretically fixed tomorrow. In the pro column, what I'm hearing about interesting maps with lots of pathways and angles of attack, tactical combat, and "if you liked TF2 try this," is greatly encouraging.
This thread exploded while I was asleep, so I'm not going to read through 10 pages to see if it's been said already (especially since I'm getting Server Too Busy errors every other click), but
If you're having the 'all graphics are a solid field of blue' issue, disable motion blur, that fixed it for me.
Christ, it's fucking impossible to get a reply to post here. I have to copy+paste my replies in case they get lost in the ether.
Anyways, UPS just dropped off my Amazon 360 preorder. I'm loading to HDD now. I'll do some challenges then jump straight into MP. Will post some thoughts later, which should be interesting as I was called a debbie downer earlier in this thread.
Also, I figured maybe Amazon put a code or something with the physical shipment, even though they usually email you an XBLM code for preorder gubbins. No dice -- just two emails saying I got a $10 credit. Hell, I'll take the $10 over the preorder bs if that's the deal.
How does the game play on consoles? Any glaring issues / bugs that should be known to all? Performance?
I know the game lacks a lobby system, but does have a party system of sorts. Any info would be great to help improve the OP for all Brink players :^:
I've just got finished playing a bit on 360. Actually, let me put that as "playing". The lag in every single game I tried to play, even when most of the teams were filled with bots, was so bad it wasn't even slideshow. It was "Still image-Another Still Image 5 Seconds Later-etc." . I've seen several other people around reporting the same experience. The patch came out and was supposed to help, and sounds like it helped some people, but I am not one of them. Hoping it gets better as it's unplayable at the moment for me.
I, too, am not that worked up over the Amazon pre-order bonus shenanigans. The only pre-order bonus content that actually interested me was the Fallout stuff, but it didn't interest me enough to make me pay more to get the game from Best Buy. I'll definitely take a $10 credit over cosmetic items I don't care about.
That said, for people who really did want the Psycho pack stuff, I can understand the frustration if Amazon really has done a bait-and-switch here. They've been kinda bad about this stuff lately...remember how the $15 credit they were giving on 3DS game pre-orders abruptly changed from being good on anything to only being good on other video game purchases?
I've tried to post 3 times about server stuff but the forums still run like ass. Anyway, the server is being a bitch, there's no knowledge base to work with, I must edit the CFG via FTP and despite turning off server hijacking, the server still got hijacked for campaign mode. I restarted it, it never came back up. I restarted it again and it did in about 10 minutes. I sure am having a good time. Also it seems putting a password on the server makes a lot of people time out for some reason.
I've tried to post 3 times about server stuff but the forums still run like ass. Anyway, the server is being a bitch, there's no knowledge base to work with, I must edit the CFG via FTP and despite turning off server hijacking, the server still got hijacked for campaign mode. I restarted it, it never came back up. I restarted it again and it did in about 10 minutes. I sure am having a good time. Also it seems putting a password on the server makes a lot of people time out for some reason.
Talk and I are having the same issues or annoying colourful variations thereof. At one point mine wouldn't respond to anything but a reinstall +full wipe and I've read similar posts in the game servers forum. I'd blame game servers but I don't think it's limited to them, I'm pretty sure the Brink server software itself is pretty crap and needs a good patching.
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I seem to be running driver versions 8.85 with catalyst 11.5
I guess I never got around to updating them
I'm pretty sure Echo's local currency is ducats.
I'd say 50/50
It doesn't look like I'm getting my Psycho pack, but maybe I'm sitting on $30 worth of credit? I'll take that over a scarecrow mask any day
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I really hope they don't yank my $30 worth of credit, either. I took a screenshot of the credit just in case.
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And I further assume that PC is where it's at with this game?
GB has two reviews up. One very positive and one very negative.
How'd you get to see your credit? I too have gotten multiple emails and no preorder code.
Yes to your first question as it is a Steamworks game.
Played a little last night in SP and outside of the aforementioned team AI (the medics actually throwing syringes at you was nice) I enjoyed what I played so far. Alot of stuff to look through yet with all the perks/customizations etc.
If I could get an invite to the steam group as well, that would be rather sexy.
Yeah though, unfortunately a brand-new install of Steam can come with a bunch of update fluff. I do like it as a game-organizer, though. It keeps me from accidentally losing things in a move or reinstall.
but the framework within which that gameplay is contained upsets me.
Anyone have a link to a competent multiplayer review?
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I've never been a fan of Giantbomb myself.
Put a game in your cart and proceed to checkout. On the screen where it shows your order total, it'll show how many credits are applied.
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Not trying to troll or anything, really just curious as to what you mean. I think I have an idea (regarding objective balance ect)?
Doesn't apply anything for me. Also, the email mentions you have to spend the credit by 5/31...didn't know that. Boo.
I just wanna shoot mans while doing parkour so badly.
He died.
I opted to ignore his plea for a revive.
Also! What's the deal with the Amazon preorder bonus? I got the notice of getting $10, but I don't know where I'm supposed to grab a DLC code...
Fucker really wanted those stairs.
Secondly, you have to get all the way to the END checkout, where you select your shipping speed, confirming your credit card, all that crap. The VERY END. If you got that email then you have at least SOME credit.
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The reviews Sheep is referencing are fan reviews - not reviews made by GB staff. Gerstmann is putting his review out tomorrow after the day one patch has some time to marinate.
How does the game play on consoles? Any glaring issues / bugs that should be known to all? Performance?
I know the game lacks a lobby system, but does have a party system of sorts. Any info would be great to help improve the OP for all Brink players :^:
Seriously?
Or did you mean to say "a review that tells me what I want to hear"
A lot of the complaints seem to be directed at single-player stuff, which I don't give two shits about. I am more worried about reports of bugs and performance issues (especially as an ATI card owner), but these do not seem to be universal and for all I know will have been patched by the time my home internets have been theoretically fixed tomorrow. In the pro column, what I'm hearing about interesting maps with lots of pathways and angles of attack, tactical combat, and "if you liked TF2 try this," is greatly encouraging.
I remain cautiously optimistic.
If you're having the 'all graphics are a solid field of blue' issue, disable motion blur, that fixed it for me.
Anyways, UPS just dropped off my Amazon 360 preorder. I'm loading to HDD now. I'll do some challenges then jump straight into MP. Will post some thoughts later, which should be interesting as I was called a debbie downer earlier in this thread.
Also, I figured maybe Amazon put a code or something with the physical shipment, even though they usually email you an XBLM code for preorder gubbins. No dice -- just two emails saying I got a $10 credit. Hell, I'll take the $10 over the preorder bs if that's the deal.
I've just got finished playing a bit on 360. Actually, let me put that as "playing". The lag in every single game I tried to play, even when most of the teams were filled with bots, was so bad it wasn't even slideshow. It was "Still image-Another Still Image 5 Seconds Later-etc." . I've seen several other people around reporting the same experience. The patch came out and was supposed to help, and sounds like it helped some people, but I am not one of them. Hoping it gets better as it's unplayable at the moment for me.
That said, for people who really did want the Psycho pack stuff, I can understand the frustration if Amazon really has done a bait-and-switch here. They've been kinda bad about this stuff lately...remember how the $15 credit they were giving on 3DS game pre-orders abruptly changed from being good on anything to only being good on other video game purchases?
Talk and I are having the same issues or annoying colourful variations thereof. At one point mine wouldn't respond to anything but a reinstall +full wipe and I've read similar posts in the game servers forum. I'd blame game servers but I don't think it's limited to them, I'm pretty sure the Brink server software itself is pretty crap and needs a good patching.
Oh my god, bear is driving!