Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUv0MoP5Qs and the the Compendium we are learning more about the abilities in Brink. We still don't have a complete list but know there will be over 50, some estimates puts it at 58 or so.

PS Kudos to H0RSE because lots of the info is coming from the http://www.fragworld.org/frag/brink/the-fragworld-brink-compendium.html that he created

Abilities can be purchased when you level up be we now know they are based on rank, which is different from level.

There are 5 ranks:

R1: lvl 1-4
R2: lvl 5-9
R3: lvl 10-14
R4: lvl 15-19
R5: lvl 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUv0MoP5Qs Shows that many abilities can only be unlocked at higher ranks. For example the medic self revive (debatably OP) is rank 4, so you will at minimum have to be level 15.

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/3277/universalabilities.png

8 of the 10 known universal abilities. The others being silent running and unknown.

Noted all except downed fire are rank 1 abilities. Meaning that you can gain them early one and since they are universal they are active no matter which class you are playing.

Engineer abilities: Shown at 42 secs on the new vid.

Rank 1.

Standard Engineer kit: Ability to repair objectives and buff teammate weapons. (Also looks like they may gets mines with the kit)

Rank 2.

Kevlar plate: increased armor (armor with upward arrows)

Gearhead (unknown ability)

Nerves of Steel: Quicker disarms (the hands)

Turret 1; First turret (the turret obviously)

Rank 3.

Upgrade command post: doubles command posts effect for team (computer with upward arrows)

Turret 2: Second more powerful turret ( slightly bigger turret)

Rank 4.

Increased mine capacity (mine with plus on it)

Improved weapon buff (gun with upward arrows) interesting you can't use the improved buff on yourself

Rank 5.

Gattling turret: level 3 turret and most powerful (biggest turret)

Medic abilities: Shown at 1:01 in the new vid (looks like lots of new buffs, pity we aren't shown what is what)

Rank 1.

Standard medic kit: ability to buff teammates health and toss revive syringes.

Rank 2.

Adrenaline: temporary invincibility buff, but you take all damage at the end. can't self apply

Transfer supplies: gives one of your supplies to a teammate

Supplies buff: makes your supplies regen quicker (unconfirmed)

Rank 3.

Fleet of Foot: boosts sprint speed (running man)

Rank 4.

Improved life buff, cannot be used on yourself

Self Resurrection: revive yourself when incapacitated with long cool down

Rank 5.

Lazarus grenade: AOE revive grenade

Operative abilities: Shown at 24 secs and 52 sec (because apparently everyone loves operatives :ninja: )

Rank 1.

Standard Operatives kit: Allows you to hack and disguise yourself.

Rank 2:

Firewall: allows you to firewall CP's which makes it harder for enemies to take it back.

Comms Hack: gain intel from downed enemies, makes enemies appear on teams radar for a short time (binoculars)

Sticky nade: A grenade that sticks to the enemy and they only get 5 secs to get a teammate to remove it or boom, replaces standard nade (spiked grenade)

Rank 3.

Smoke grenade: Releases smoke and caltrops that will damage any enemy that attempts to move through it (round grenade)

Hack turret: reprograms turret to be friendly, more effective when done from behind :spotted owl: (turret wit operative mask)

Rank 4.

Control turret: allows you to take control of friendly turret and use it in a first person mode (remote control)

Cortex bomb: allows you to self destruct when incapacitated (exploding head)

Rank 5.

EMP grenade: slows HE charge, disables turrets (EMP nade)

Soldier abilities: seen at 10 secs (lots of unknowns as well)

Rank 1.

Standard Solider Kit: uses HE charge, resupply ammo, and access to molotov

Rank 2.

Armor piecing ammo (possibly): ammo supplied is more damaging (shield with bullets)

Flashbang grenade: temporarily will blind the enemy

Scavenger: allows you to resupply supplies from dead enemies (bird claw)

Rank 3.

Kelvar armor: self armor buff

Incendiary ammo: Hand out incendiary ammo to teammates

Rank 4:

Increased explosive range (possibly)

Increased explosive damage (possibly)

Rank 5.

Satchel charge: Like c4 can deploy up to 3 charges that can be remotely detonated.

Well ladies and gentlemen that is my anolysis of the most recent info granted to us by our gracious overlords at SD. Feel free to help comment and speculate.

Great list wraith, its interesting that downed fire isn't unlocked until the last rank - guess that won't make it as much of a factor as I originally thought

Nice list Wraith. Hopefully I'll be able to write up a thread/list for when we get more mission info to go along with this thread.

And @ Jessome: Yeah..... same.

It's too bad they don't sticky these things, it'd probably prevent a lot of repeated topics

Story of my life here, but the mods make the rules and we follow them.

Well, if after release threads don't get stickied at all, then I might move on to another forum.
There should end up being a thread entitled "Consolidated List of Guides" at least.

Edit: @Wraith... sadface....



I'm so used to big open forums with lots of sections...

You got all of that from like a 2 minute video? My gosh man, you're a genius! Makes all the classes look very tempting. Do I want Healing, Turrets, Explosions or Sabotage?

Actually, a lot of info came from H0RSE's Compendium.

and blessed be his name

Indeed plus my own rather considerable knowledge, also I give credit to H0RSE at the top. Credit where credit is due.

No doubt Wraith has done a considerable amount of work himself helping out others with things as well.
I kind of blame myself for not knowing about Brink earlier or I would have had plenty of time last year to do the same.


Really want this game to succeed. And a fun, sizable, active community is where its at.




- :flame:

Awesome, can't wait til we find out the rest of the abilities if only they release the Strategy Guide a month early like they did a few other games lol

it satisfied my lust for knowledge thanks Wraith

I'm gonna be dissapoint if I have to choose between Downed fire and the laz nade.

Granted, when a heavy can have medium weapons as a secondary, that's a really powerful ability.

Thanks for the information bro. :foodndrink:
I will choose the medium soldier class for some fun, support the teammates and always find a good cover to engaged with the enemies.
I will definitely use the flash-bang to work with the teammates, "breach & clear". :rock:

P.S. Looks like the hip fire accuracy is more reasonable than the last trailer, which it will not become too "counter strike".

http://i.imgur.com/Dtsuq.jpg warning: large image

A few observations:

The soldier and engineer have two unknown icons with a kevlar vest, but the engineer icon has the 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_(insignia) in it and the soldier's doesnt. I suspect the engineer has an armor buff for teammates, and soldier has something else.

Soldier's rank 5 ability interests me. At first glance it looks like c4. If it is, it doesn't look the same as the bomb we see soldiers planting on objectives in the videos. The explosive charge planted on objectives has a keypad and handles on it, whereas the charge in the icon has what looks like an antenna and the bomb sitting on a block of something, as well as a tag hanging off of it. Remote bombs? Kill-by-mail fun pack? It could also be an equipment pack, it's hard to tell.

One more thing on soldier, taken from the almighty compendium:

Pretty likely that's the shield with bullets on it.

The shield has been removed from the game, they couldn't make it work well.

I really don't see the Medic-Self-Revive to be OP at all. You can just finish him off, making him unable to use it.

Yeah, i think a Heavy Shield and Medic would be annoying to see.

@ Revo, yeah think thats smart that they put that in, i always aim to try finish off people. I agree, its not OP.

Heavy medic/Heavy soldier pairs are probably what put a big hole in the shield ability. Cant imagine it would be too easy to take them down when all the damage goes to the soldier while the medic can just heal/revive as necessary. Not to mention that they would both be using the biggest guns in the game, with the solider handing out plenty of ammo.

is it true downed fire comes at the penalty of having less incapacitated health or did i just make that up?

This is true.

It appears the compendium is out of date then. [heresy] H0RSE's compendium must be a bad source of information. [/heresy]

Let's revolt against the compendium!!!

Im the Security of Horse's Vision!

Die Resistance!

Damn it. There always has to be Security oppressors EVERYWHERE!!!