Jesus christ...literally, the game hasnt been released and already a video of a player abusing the functions of the game. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv07wUWi9Rk at around 1:37 and 5:47...the dude is spamming the crouch button while shooting. i know someone else posted the video first and props to them, but i wanted to discuss what i saw.

So while hes destroying his aim by having his crosshair move up and down an inch, just aim for his chest and hopefully nail him in the head a few times while hes crouching.

how is he abusing anything...he looks like an idiot but thats it

So crouching rapidly is abuse? He is obviously teabagging the landmines under his feet. duh. :thumbsup:

How is tea-shoting ( ) any different from dolphin diving, drop shoting, or even bunny hopping? its abuse of ingame functions.

and btw, no, he is not tea bagging a mine.

granted, it's annoying, but it's ok because think about drop-shotting. It's cowardly and annoying, but it never works.

Lol what???

This guy is hardly "abusing" anything, in fact he looks pretty damn noob. I would laugh at someone trying to out play anyone good like this. Like drop shot's in COD, on the ground = easy target.

there functions in a game its not messing with his spread so i say let him do it.... ill aim for his lower half...

Dude I was kidding.

He is also standing still to do it, a a good way to get killed in multiplayer, even if its harder to hit your head. Using the same tactic while moving might make you hard to hit, with your movement speed going back and forth and head up and down, but it would also be near impossible to hit a moving target.

Those are AI he is playing against, most likely medium difficulty. This will not be a successful tactic in multiplayer.

This isn't abusing anything, SD put crouching in the game. So he is doing what has been given to him, just a lot more then someone should crouch.

It's only an abuse/exploit if the mechanic is broken (Quickscoping in MW2).
Clearly it is not in BRINK, his reticule grows as much as when he was standing still at 1:35.

I liked to see the fast reload on the Taped Mags.
Also the Aim-Assist didn't kick in at ~2:30 at all, apparently.
The guy sliding at ~4:50 looked nice. The guy climbing at ~7:00 did not, though.
Flashbang at ~8:30?

How is looking like a dumbo abusing game features? As someone said above, if you see someone doing this just aim for the chest and enjoy free headshots.

This was a problem in some games as a lot of long time players automatically aim for the head, not the chest.
In games where every moment counts as you only need 2 or 3 bullets to take out a target, you could get an advantage by crouching the instant the other one takes aim.

It is not a cheat, nor an abuse. It is annoying, yes. But i do not think this tactic will work very well in Brink.
Bigger recticle, no 1 - 3 bullet kills with most weapons(?).

This is something i first came across in CoD but like the other members have said the majority of the time it doesnt work.

Hey, i think this has been blown a bit out of proportion, i just watched it back and that crouching was hardly drop shotting or anything similar. Crouching to get a better aim / tactic has always been a tactic. You don't just run around bolt upright shooting peeps. I admit there is a bit of bouncing going on but it's hardly enough to affect any form of gameplay for others :S

This makes about as much sense to me as it does to crouch rapidly in Halo or Shadowrun. It doesn't do anything, and it actually hinders you (unless you are talking about Reach, where it actually helps for the DMR).

This isn't an exploit. He isn't gaining any advantage, he just looks stupid. I personally would much rather be strafing than rapidly crouching.

Yea rapidly crouching while spraying isnt an exploit. If someone tries it just shoot center mass, or chuck a grenade knock em on their ass then finish em off.

his accuracy is still going to [censored], the aiming reticule is still growing. How is that abusing anything when its not even benefiting him. Obviously he hasnt noticed it and you didnt either when you posted this. watch the reticule it doesnt stay small or steady, it continually enlarges like it would if he was standing

The only physical "exploit" ( i do not personally consider these kind of things exploits ) you would have to worry about or anticapate is dependant on jump height/speed, because halo players (such as myself) will most likely have bumper jumper mapped controls and be hopping around you in circles while we unleash a hail of bullets, game physics permitted of course. However you shouldn't even worry about this, because unless lights are mini spartans athletically, then i doubt the speed and height will be anything near enough to give a player any sort of advantage.

Relax, SD knows what they're doing. The game is balanced, your worries would be better spent on how you're going to keep yourself from going crazy over the next 4 days, instead of looking for potential semi-annoying habits people will have.

(Somewhat related thought, jump crouching in halo is the most redundat/useless strategy ever concieved. I will personally flame the first person on xbox i see trying to incorparate this into brink.)

Actually - All negative people + Comments aside towards the OP for expressing his opinion...Which was valid in some case.

When i watched this video - I Couldnt help but feel almost the same way as EVERYONE above.

Not only is this kid an utter noob and completely useless in the genre off FPS.

But the fact alone at how incompetent & annoying this person was, Wasnt so much the problem.

What got my curiosity - Was How true the game makers were when they says "Staying still - You will die".

The fact alone at how much this idiot died - How useless he was at firing, Not once using AIM down sight, And overall - Not ONE decent maneuver or parkour Run + jump.

Out of the new Vids all being scattered on youtube now day from the idiots who work at game stations and have obviously STOLE there copies - Or have been handed under the desk. ) )

None of them....Use parkour. At all.

No skill - No aim - No fun.

So i wouldnt worry about "here comes an abusive function" - His style is flawed so bad, The amount of times he died spoke for itself.

Thus in theory - His method is [censored] and useless.

+1 :turtle:

+1 more :turtle:

This is true just ask Rahdo.

Crouch shooting was a legitimate tactic in RTCW, but Brink seems too slow for it to be worth the effort. Plus he wasn't even doing it right. Standing in one place and constantly crouching is a terrible strategy against anyone decent.