I'm still at a complete loss as to how this is handled, especially on Xbox 360. How are we supposed to group up with friends to play through the game with when theres no preset lobby other than the 'join' them and pray to get on their team which if you have alot of friends may be a pain in the butt to do. They need to release a video explaining their 'lobby' or lack there of system.

Fireteams

Yes, fireteams but again, how do they work, how do you form them, how many people can be in one fireteam, ect. Has fireteams even been confirmed?

Im guesiing Its like your in a lobby by your self invite player they join now start the game.

Q5. When Rahdo recently talked about fireteams, he seems to imply that they are made up of 2 players, by saying things like "you can see either your friend or that player who is really good, and you can click on them and issue them an invite into your fireteam," and "the system is always looking behind the scenes for a map which has two slots." My question is, are 2 players the max limit a fireteam can be, or can it be larger? Also will it be possible to spawn on people from your fireteam like we've seen in other titles?
Fireteams in Brink support up to eight members, so theoretically the entire team could be in the same one. There are several ways to get a fireteam started. If you invite one of your friends to your match, Brink will automatically try to put them in the same fireteam as you. Similarly, if you join a friend on a server via the friends list, the game will try and do the same. You can also invite people who are in your match, or request to be invited to an existing fireteam via the scoreboard.
The biggest advantage of fireteams is that Brink will automatically enable VoIP chat for all of the members in it. Spawning on other members of your fireteam is something we explored early on, but ultimately decided against.

They are in

Yes fireteams have been confirmed. It works by forming it before the game, a friend jumping into your game will be put into your fireteam, and vis versa.

For pc, there the same sort of thing but attached to steam friends list.

Edit DP

As far as I know, the xbox players are playing a somewhat un-patched beta-version of the game. I'm pretty sure it will be corrected to make it easier for players to join parties.

so the only way to 'group' up with friends is to already be in the game? seems kinda painful and tedious to me.

I heard you can start one before you start.

I hope you are right. I hope someone can confirm this. I just fail the see the purpose of no pregame lobby for grouping with friends and such so I'm hoping a place where you can form a team before starting the game exists.

if i had a friend who was security and i was resistance could we join a party and play on seperate teams

I read somewhere that it will put them on your team when its possible.