Hello. I have been following this game for almost a year now and am pretty excited to hear the release date of May something. There is a large group of friends and I who are eagerly awaiting the next challenging addicting game to take on competitively. That being said I had a few questions. Is Brink for PC going to be a newly developed game, or is it going to be a port from the console version. Newer games like CoD: Black Ops, and Ut3, were huge disappointments due to their lack of PC development. This is a huge factor as to whether I will be purchasing the game or not, I know a few of my friends have already pre-ordered it.

Being as we are huge LAN gamers, my next question is pertaining to LAN. Will there be LAN support? Or strictly Online? Will there be an ingame friend system? If not that's what we use xfire and ventrilo for anyways..

Final question, the release date is in May, is that for PC as well, can you confirm this?

Thanks in advance for the information

The company behind this game, Splash Damage, makes primarily PC games. Brink is made as a PC game so you do not have to worry. Check out Splash Damage's older games made primarily for PC (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Quake Wars) and you'll understand.

To answer your other question, yes, the release date is May 17th, 2011 for PC. Remember, Brink is PC first haha

Superb! And I've played a ton of their games and never really put two and two together and realize they are in the same state as me. (Perhaps I'll apply for a job if I ever stop being a systems admin where i work )

However, they developed all version seperately, to ensure maximum use of each platform.

I think the way Splash Damage handle this is: They create the rough code for the game on a PC or Mac (obviously) and then hand this code to their sub-teams which adjust it for the respective system.

Don't know about the way of handling in SD, but I'm pretty sure that they said that they didn't really port the game over.

Right, that's what they said and I hope that's what they do. I just put down my imagination of how they do it.

Unlike other teams which are like "Oh yeah, we don't port from one platform to other systems, no no we don't do that." and then offer you three pre-defined graphic-settings on the PC.

which is exactly the answer I wanted to hear. Thanks for clarifying

Did Valve port TF2 from PC?

They ported it to the Xbox 360. EA ported it to PS3.

Its a good thing that they are developing it for each system. Ports are generally terrible.