If you are seriously an experienced 10+ years fps player. I mean like, for example,

"I played my first FPS at the age of 7, it was called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament. However, it was the dreamcast version, not the PC version. My cousin had a game called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Operative:_No_One_Lives_Forever; I played this game when I was 8. I played it a few times, but my Uncle was amazing at it, he showed me his strategy, which was called "bunny hopping". Next up was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved, this game was almost like a god send for me. It was one of the first games that the xbox came with and I got it for Christmas of 2001 and it was amazing! I had 4 cousins and we would all play together and always fight over who was the best... I was the best ."

Now, I could bore you with the rest of the story... But only if people actually cared. The point is that I started playing FPS's like a religion almost starting from when I was 7. Here's a list of FPS's I'm highly familiar with.

*1)Unreal Tournament
2)No One Live's Forever
*3) Halo: combat evolved
*4) Metroid Prime Hunters
5) Counter Strike: Source
*6)Halo 3
7)Halo 2
*8) Cod: mw2
*9) Cod: Black ops
*10) Monday Night Combat (Not actually an FPS)
11) The original.... Ghost Recon
*12) L4D
*13) L4D 2

* = Played excessively, without a star it just means I'm somewhat familiar on the game and probobly couldn't give advice off of experiece as much of as what I know about the game.


Now, I get to the point of this Thread!

If you are an experienced gamer like myself, somebody who pretty much has gaming written in their blood from birth, you may be able to help get this game popular fast! Obviously a lot of "Cod" player's won't be too happy for this. Most old school gamer's are the ones that will be able to appreciate this game for what it is. Sadly, most new generation gamer's don't actually have a good appretiation for game's, thus call of duty clones happen. Brink is something that is finally going to change this. However, Brink is pushing the envelope more than you think. The gameplay is entirely different from most things that we have all played. I know that I'm ready to dive head first into this thing and figure out each little juicy detail of it. However, I know that not every player has the motivation to do this. After dying over and over, people will rage. Just look at that little kid that came here and got flamed for complaining about how bad the game was because "basically" he didn't know what the hell to do.

My idea is to have experienced player's like myself help some more "in-experienced" players learn how to play this game correctly. I'm not saying that I have it figured out yet of course... There isn't that many people that have, but I know that there are others like me that can't wait to learn to play this game to the best of our abilities. If your with me post here. What you can do to help this community is post any amazing findings or perhaps, strategies that help "you" have the advantage. This game is going to be balanced and those of you who have been following this game for a while know how insane it is going to be.

Are You Ready to Use These Brothers?

Because these first few days... Are gonna be a http://www.youtube.com/user/SplashDamageLtd#p/u/16/lQ7L6T_gZFc

"Healbot me!"

Honestly one of the more effective things to say to obviously new healers in WoW BGs.

Edit: What I mean is, come up with effectively simple(or simply effective) short strategies. Like checking to see what your team needs, or telling a Soldier to protect Engineers or Medics. Or something.

If you see someone playing it like its CoD tell them to try working as a team instead

I can tell u for sure that no one under 13 will answer u here,there's an age policy in these forums

I started playing games at 12-13 yo and addicted to them ever since.Still i don't consider myself experienced.
They gave me the "escape plan" i wanted i guess,the jungle out there and the beautiful fantasy world in here,not a difficult choice at all

Nice thinking of u nevertheless,but i'm guessing that most experienced guys know already some basic rules that apply to every FPS.
I not,FPS is something i started recently (compare to when i started) so i hope they'll help,even if it seems doubtful,more guys don't care about others,so it's a good thing what u are trying to do.
GL!

Well based on my experience and just reading of the various abilities I'm thinking that in a competitive match of 5 v 5 you will typically see 3/2 sol 1/2 med 1 eng and operative being used the least, unless of course say cortex bomb is like a mininuke and the best strat for clearing a room or point is using the medic invul and just running in a light operative and suicide bombing everyone.

Also probably everyone will use the kevlar + armor piercing rounds as soldier and every eng will have improved weapon buff and double command post health bonus buff. Basically it is very difficult to balance situational utility abilities with the universal buffs to weapon damage and player health. And going to take a guess and say no one good will use combat intuition or sense of perspective since they are both made basically obsolete by skill and teamwork. Medic looks to be the only class where every ability seems potentially useful in high level play.

You're missing Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Quake, Rainbow 6 franchise, Medal of Honor franchise, Battlefield franchise, and the rest of the Ghost Recon franchise.

Not enough games to make you a FPS pro. :teehee:

You started CS on Source?

Nub.

0.6 beta for me;)

Yeppers, been playing FPS's for 13 years.

i started gaming at the age of 4 so i have 20 years of FPS as well as a hundred other game types.

Played all except Quake and Rainbow 6

Only liked the original ghost recon

Battlefield is only good on PC

Goldeneye was amazing! Can't believe i forgot that one...

Perfect dark... Eh, didn't play too much

Medal of honor... Always just plain svcked.

No mention of Wolfenstein 3D yet? Doom? My eyes bled from playing those games.


Maybe I'm getting old, but it seems to me that a lot (not all) of the younger players are not so much inexperienced as they are uninterested in learning beyond running and gunning. At least that is my experience with Bad Company 2. Players with ten times the hours I have put in the game will sometimes show not the least sign of battlefield awareness. I hope (and expect) that Brink, due to the game's design, will attract those players who have affinity for a more tactical playing style. Those inexperienced will learn quickly enough as Brink encourages this.

You sir are rewarded with 1 :turtle:

No Doom, Doom 2, Unreal, Unreal 2, Quake, Quake 2?

Why not just have them get ET-Wolfenstein to bone up on their team based objective gameplay? Another motivator is that if I remember correctly most of the other games that Splash damage has done ranks the player with the most XP first as opposed to strict kills. Maybe the desire to be up on the top of that leader board will instill the fact that if I'm a damn good Engeneer I can top the bord with maybe 10 kills while keeping things repaired and prevent our command posts from being capped and barriers from being blown.

wow you think you are experienced because of that? the avarage game age is 34 if you think your little 10 years of ''experience'' is being experienced you are deeply wrong. you are only experienced if you started out on wolfenstein 3D Duke Nukem and Doom

ive played FPS for quite a while now im up for some power brinkin trying to learn the ins and outs of this game ill be playing it on Xbox :celebration:

No Quake? No credibility. :biggrin:

Goldeneye
Alien Trilogy
Perfect Dark
Medal of honour
Deus ex - sort of counts
Deus ex 2
Team fortress classic
Half life Science and industry
Unreal Tournament
Half life paintball mod
Half life Prisonbreak
Counter Strike
Day of defeat
Timesplitters 1
Tribes 2
Timesplitters 2
Cod
Timesplitters 3
Bond: Night Fire
Halo CE
Halo 2
Cod world at war
Cod mw2
Cod BO
Halo 3
Perfect Dark Zero
Counter Strike CZ
Halo Reach
Halo ODST
Battlefild 1942
Battlefield 2142
Borderlands
Rainbow Six 3
Day of Defeat source
Half Life 2
Left 4 Dead
Operation Flashpoint CWC
Operation Flashpoint DR
Return to castle wolfenstein
Serious Sam
Shadow Run
Swat 3



In no particular order, just off the top of my head. The only game I ever played like cod, was cod. Was the uk halo 2 lan double team champion beating Lethal and la1 (England WCG reps) in the final. Placed in the top 8 European 4 vs 4 from 06' 09' when I quit. Finished halo 2 in the top 12 FFa players in Europe (could never quite get top 8 lol :/). My final tournament placing was on Halo 3, finished 6th best in Europe and 4th best in UK then dropped out of competitive play. I'm looking forward to getting a team of 8 to play brink the way SD meant it to be played.

You Sir,

Have my respect.

0.8B. Is when I started.

Many years have come and brink is really the only thing that I could see changing the FPS scene.
Please.. Please Kill Off The Clones...

I shall do what I can in. Im in.

im well up for getting a team up if anyone is would like me :intergalactic: juts send us a msg

i'm surprised at how few people have play ET or quake wars.

It depends. I played Wolfenstein 3D when it came out, but these days I see players who clock a number of hours well beyond my comprehension. An average of five hours a day, seven days a week for a single game is nothing unusual.

I think it depends much more on how serious and talented a player is.

Half-life mods were the [censored]. I was playing counterstrike when all the weapon models were left handed and there were only two player models for each side. Beta 0.6 was a fond memory, too. The custom modeling community around CS was great as well. Lots of quality work released at places like the Deadlok forums, R.I.P. Memories keep flooding back. The original game was definitely Wolf 3D, but if you say that to anyone FPSers these days you get blank stares because they're all a bunch of kids who don't know anything but the true roots of FPS games.

Wolfenstein ET and the COD CS Mod were awesome back in the day

And u think i can take you seriously? Hating on CoD and its players while u played it like a mad men.

I AM READY!! :toughninja:

OP, I am deeply sorry for the Resistance that came and flamed you ( now to fire who was on duty) but you have a good point. If you see someone doing it wrong :banghead: , send them a nice message saying to use teamworks, don't yell in their face(s). :whisper: