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Also, screw review sites. :winky:
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\5810931\22350\local\base
Copy the brinkconfig.cfg file, and rename it autoexec.cfg
Lots of options in here, but I may have found a winning combination that will hopefully benefit your game as much as has mine. Won't make the game super pretty, but it should be much more playable for now.
Delete the contents of your newly renamed autoexec.cfg file, and paste this in there.
Also included are a few extra commands that should improve your mouse movement and turn off VOIP. If you're still having somewhat poor performance, you can also increase your "image_lodbias "0". Higher values will make textures look muddier, but if your graphics card is low on texture memory, it may help (try 1 or 2).
YMMV of course, and if anyone has any additional settings that improve performance, please feel free to share them and or let me know. I'll go ahead and post this in the OP once it's been confirmed that it does help people.
Steam: CarbonFire MWO, Planetside 2, Origin: Carb0nFire
Some tips I found for 2starring the Objective map is to grab an AR with a Drum Magazine, wait for them to have a fresh rezz wave, then try to down them all without killing them. Bring a revolver too if you can to finish them off once you unload your entire drum clip in them. If you can kill the medics they will still wait around for a good while before they release giving you time to hack the machine. Also you don't have to stand there to finish the hack, you can move away a bit its just slower the farther from the machine you get.
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The single player is you versus bots. I would pass on purchasing this just for the single player. It is primarily a multiplayer game, and it will be lacking a LOT in only single player.
Ah. Thanks for the heads up. Borderlands has spoiled the crap out of me. When mp gets streamlined I might jump into this eventually.
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Doesn't fix the lag though, the host system thats in place is CRAP and even if a vastly superior host enters into a lobby it won't migrate till the old host leaves. Also it doesn't fix the lack of a party system and lack of party matchmaking system.
Lets seee.....Team based multiplayer game...
Checklist:
1) Make sure game has multiplayer
2) Make sure game has way for TEAMS to enter into the TEAM BASED MULTIPLAYER
Fuck you brink, fuck you so hard.
Its like the devs thought that everyone loves playing with random people and they would never ever EVER in a million years enjoy playing with people they know in groups. Halo 2 matchmaking? We never heard of that, here try our cobbled together piece of shit system for finding games.
Soooo glad I got to try this before buying it on the 360, unless the price drops down to $30 in the next week or they patch the game to include a party system and fix the lag/host selection issues I am not buying this.
I don't want to do private games against people I know, I want to take a group of people I know and slap them up against a group of randomly selected humans be them in a party together or a bunch of pubbies slapped together. If the game lacks this feature I do not wish to own it, and don't even start with that halfassed "fireteam" system thats in there.
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It'd lead people to believe that the devs let these guys play one game and then Teehee'd a totally different game onto store shelves
It appears that there were no review copies for the PC version.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/why-were-not-review-brink-and-why-you-shouldnt-buy-it-yet.ars
The stuttering might have been network latency... but it kinda felt the same when I tried solo to test that theory.
I know my PC is top notch. Kinda reminds me of battlefield games at first... except its only been a day and I dont think there was any patch. Oh well, its playing fantastic now and after doing lots of the objective challenges the game is becoming pretty addictive.
There are so many little balance tweaks I'm noticing too with how great the supply system works for abilities. Playing medic doesn't feel overpowered, but it still provides a great deal of support. Can't just infinitely heal and carry a team, but can still heal other smart players who dont go try to soak up every bullet in sight.
The only real con I'm seeing in this game now is the story and campaign... its just weird and disjoined. Of course very few FPS have a story that worth a fuck anyway. Its very similar the Bad Company's single player campaign as just a longer tutorial to the multiplayer.... except without the humor that made Bad Company's rather fun.
The server browser is still laggy as fuck though. No idea why.
I was only able to favorite tag the PA servers by searching for servers that I had friends playing on
I still might not even have all of them tagged
It isn't, not by a long shot. It took them several months and a bunch of patches later just to get the fucking ping to show up correctly.
It still doesn't show up correctly sometimes even now.
You should be able to check by right clicking the game in steam, going to properties, updates tab, view brink update history. I can't as I cant get into the properties page as the game isn't unlocked for me but you should be able to.
Edit: Edit: I'm some what curious to see what the PC gaming specific mags say about the game. Currently waiting on PC Gamer to do a review. They haven’t yet so I assume they either dont have a copy yet or are in the process of doing it.
I had fun, would pewpewpewlazors again.
So would you say that installing Brink to HD is a must?
I installed on my Xbox and had minimal texture pop (apparently it's bad if you don't install). Now if they would just fix the sad excuse for a lobby. I also had problems connecting to a friend's game. Took me 6-7 tries to get in, while another got in right away.
From what I played last night, so far it's just ok. I unlocked the light body type and loved bouncing off walls and finding new places to go that other body types couldn't get to. The shooting feels somewhat sluggish to me and I couldn't do anything with grenades. I feel like there's a good game in here somewhere.
It seems smaller in scope than Quake Wars, more focused. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but it did get me to reinstall Quake Wars last night.
How big is the install? I'm reaching the limit on my HD.
I'll put up a new thread Brink thread in a little while, assuming we reach the limit by then (which it looks like we will).
Steam: CarbonFire MWO, Planetside 2, Origin: Carb0nFire
Just make sure that page 100 post says "Brink on the 360 can suck a big floppy donkey dick" and we're good to go.
I'm still just baffled at how they can make a team based game and then neglect to include any "get a team together and go into games" support into it.
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I'm on the [BRINK] of tracking down and sodomizing the X360 devs
Here are some questions though:
1. I thought there was a way to change weapon skins? Am I missing it somewhere? I know that the skin changes when you switch factions, but is there another way?
2. I can't tell if I'm impacted by performance issues or not; I'm running two 6870's in CrossFireX and it's very playable, but I was expecting closer to 60 frames, but I thought someone said it's locked at 30? Truth to that?
3. Does anyone know if you can kind just keypad enter? I tried it... but it only registers if I use the actual enter key. Anyone know of an config file changes for this?
Finally, how does the "friends only" VOIP work? Well? Or do we need Vent?
Online, it's butter smooth as long as you don't have janky hardware problems like many people have had.
I'll check on the install tonight after work but I think it might have been around the 4-5gig territory.
And not being able to form up as a team before looking for a vs match = unacceptable. I really want to enjoy this game, but with how long some matches last, my eyes just glaze over. I'm going to try running as a pure medic and see if I enjoy the game more than playing as a soldier.
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That challenge is a lot easier once you unlock the heavy body type; choose that + kevlar + an MG... you'll do it easily.
I'm not talking about the anal-raping objective challenge, I'm talking the last mission of the game for Security. I try to stay with the group, but they all seem to be lone-wolfing it to secure side-objectives while no one gives a damn about the primary. Of course, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong. Should I be trying to cap supply points and leave the bots to finish the primary?
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It was basically a total crapshoot once it came down to cutting open the safe and stealing the key.
Cutting open the safe was bad enough with the enemies camping that room and the allied bots doing nothing useful, carrying the key back was basically a crapshoot of "Can I kill 3+ people on my way over to the key, and then run it out without running into any opposition"
Took so many tries. And that was on Easy. I can't even imagine doing harder difficulties without human co-op.
I would like to request that this be carried forward to the next OP, when this game hits Europe this thread will be gone!