Just pre-ordered this with ~8 hours to go on steam after quite a while of being on the fence. When I first saw the previews for brink I was quite blown away with the whole art style, SMART system, and assumed it would also be a great FPS. My hype lived for a while as time went on but slowly deteriorated for other things, mainly GW2. I didn't get a chance to play while at pax east, line was long as hell and I was with people that didn't care for it much. So I just took a few to watch the others play for a bit, this is when things started going south for me.

It just looked like another fps. I didn't see any use of the free running, and to be honest, I'm scared to try new fps games anymore. After attending pax, Brink just started to look like a new CoD/TF2 etc... The class system that seems to closely resemble TF2 and the seemingly run and gun game play just made me go into this "meh" state. I really don't like what FPS is out there atm and have my arguments, but that's another discussion.

My boredom and the close release date, however, drove me to going back to the old Brink trailers and videos that made me so hyped about a year ago. I can't say its the same thing now, but hell worth a shot I guess. Also the fact that I bought mortal kombat for ps3 and haven't been able to go online (which is why i bought it) once yet. QQ! I truly hope this game delivers though, and is not just another yknow...

Anyways, I have a question. Is there going to be a way, if anybody knows, to turn off those little xp blips that float in your face whenever you do something? I like the ranking system in FPS games usually, but I cannot stand seeing that I got 10xp in my face every time I got a kill. Showing me at the end of the fight is nice, but I don't need to know I got this much xp for killing a guy when I've got two more coming for me. Its distracting as hell! So yeah, is there a way to just tell it to go away?

Those XP blips were only there for demo purposes. It's accumulated in a meter on the side of your screen in the retail version.

And congrats on your buy.

Link a video of what you mean.


And Gratz on purchase!

As far as i know u don't get XP for the kill but for every shoot u hit,so thats the reason,and i'm not sure if there's an option to turn them off.
In the end of every much there is a kind of Leaderboard but by XP and i love the fact that mostly Medics are 1st in the gameplay videos that i've seen.

I agree with the fact that most FPS have nothing interesting/new to offer but i'm hoping that what i've heard from the Devs,their philosophy,is delivered in action also.
We have over hyped this game,i don't expect it to be something different in general but the team-oriented attidute/SMART/no leaderboards/protected spawn/no airstrikes are exactly what i'm looking for at least.

So i just expect to play another FPS but from a different Devs perspective and i love their ideas in theory for the moment,13th will show for me

The game is pretty good, I know I made one mistake and that was not reading one of the formus, but now I know you can't always go for what other people say about the game, but I also ordered the game from Gamestop, I read all about it watched videos, so far its a pretty badass game but, don't let other people say how the game is and go on their side, cause say if one of your friends get the game and you decided not to get it because one of your friends said the game svcked and then your at his house watching him play it, and he is having so much fun and he is also frustrated cause he keeps getting killed, but you will regret not getting the game if its a really great one..

As a quick example, I mean from the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T--G56pv-3U&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dcontainer%2Bcity%2Bpart%2B2%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1 preview. It might be old, but I'm pretty sure there's been other instances I've seen.

Anyways, If its not floating in mid air like that, then I will be much more satisfied and be able to get much more immersed into what I'm doing and finishing team based objectives. I know they give xp to lol.

Its not. Like I said, that was only to demo the game. In the retail version, it counts up on the right side of your screen like an odometer.

Well in that case, I'm quite glad and ty.

If you are talking about the exp that FLYSS out of the person they took that out. It comes up over the enemies health bar now, then goes to the total match exp on the side of the screen.

No problemo compadre.