I said you will "probably" be able to.

SD has been balancing Brink for 6 months to a year at this point, and you are worried about half-hearted balancing?

"Over-emphasis" is a possible risk if you don't agree with what SD wants the game to be like, but I would find it hard to call the balancing half-hearted no matter how the game ends up. They delayed the game a full year from the original release date, mostly to have more time to balance.

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Exactly.

For me If I am shotting someone in an fps game its ADS and almost never hip fire. I just think that If im ADS and standing still it should me much more accurate then someone hip-firing while jumping around and sliding. But from what ive seen from videos its not the case

lol. if you stand still in a SD game, you die

Being from a CoD background, I only hip fire when I'm caught off guard. Even in Halo, when using the BR and DMR, I prefer ADS. Will I be outgunned in CQB if I choose to ADS against someone hip firing?

You forgot about Steady Aim with an MP5. Oh god.

Anyways, I'm still glad both tactics will be viable for use.

Hip Firing is just more reliable to use then in most games. It's not better than ADS, but like Nail said if you stand still you will die. So SD wanted to make Hip Firing better than most games so you wouldn't die because you were standing still.

From what I've seen, that doesn't seem necessarily true, as long as you're standing in an intelligent spot.

As for my opinion on the topic: With all the emphasis Brink will have on close-range fighting, I think ADS should be the undisputed king of long range firefights, considering fights at such ranges seem that they will be in the minority. That, coupled with the fact that the whole reason sights exist in the first place is to improve the shooter's accuracy, it just seems logical to me.

I just think that it should be balanced in a way where its necessary to utilize BOTH methods if you want to be the best. That way there's a reward for ADS users to adapt to hip firing, and vice versa.

Amen to that.

Not everyone tries to do it your way and stand in the wide open with a waving red flag having "SHOOT HERE" written on it!

There isn't an emphasis on hip fire. Either hip or iron sights are equally effective. Obviously if you're using some longer-range weapons, you'll use iron sights more, if you're using a close quarters weapon, it'll probably be depending on the range.

He was talking about standing still and shooting with iron sights, you will die if you do that, crouching on the other hand will make you a smaller tatget and a steadier platform, of course if you're hiding behind a wall, you can stand around all you want but you won't be able to shoot anyone. You stand still and I'm going to headshot you everytime

Who stands still when using sights?

Also trying to figure out which games are included in the ' useless ' hip firing. Battlefield? No. Bad Company? No. Call of Duty? No. Killzone? No. Every FPS I have played has had hip firing perfectly viable in close range with an auto / semi auto weapon. The last game I played that had almost zero ADS ( outside of sniper rifles ) was Delta Force Land Warrior.

I guess some people just want to hip fire on people 50 yards away so that they can strafe at 100% speed.

For the record.. I always use sights unless I stumble on an enemy when turning a corner.

GameInformer just did a whole thing on aiming. it should be on their website

In most games I reserve hipfire only for when I'm in EXTREMELY CQC or going up against more than one opponent. If I lock onto a single enemy, it's become insinctual to just ADS and burst at their neck area... though I can't remember if headshots give you a damage bonus in this game.
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They do

WOOOOO NECK-SPRAYING TIEM :woot:

CoD didn't have useless hip firing, but it was pretty crappy which made it practically useless. <_<

Yup, even more so with duel weild weapons like double pistols which only worked at very close range (blackops)

Useless at any range, anyway. It's meant to be realistic, in that if you're gonna fire at something when you're in the military, you're gonna aim first.

Even with steady aim and a grip, hip firing was only useful at knifing ranges. I could empty a clip at someone from a grip-equipped AK74u and miss every shot from 3m, while they could spend another 2 seconds fiddling with an ACOG sight and hit me straight in the face first try.

I think that ADS in a fast paced game like Brink should be purely for the zoom function of the sights, rather than being much more accurate. Long range should require ADS though. I trust SD to balance.

Well, either that or personal preference. I prefer iron sights.