OK so i finally got brink yay day early for UK release. Its feeling like it could be a real good fun game to play with friends, im liking the weapons, im liking the maps and i like bouncing around with parkour!

they have probably been brought up quite a bit but if we bring it up hopefully the devs will patch it, there are some minor problems.

- so this graphic stuff people have been talking about with textures not loading, i dont really notice it while playing but i can see what they mean in cut scenes =\ doesnt bother me though
- online versus is very laggy if you have more than 3 - 4 people, co op challenges and campaign seem to be fine, this needs to be patched soon
- you need to have an option to remove bots from online versus, it makes it feel so cluttered and chaotic because they run around in open spamming grenades and constantly shooting rather than helping, i like to know im only playing humans
- challenge mode is actually pretty cool and you should convert those maps into mini versus games 4v4, though i am struggling like mad on the first challenge in co op. it says we have 3 bots on our team but we dont =\
- a pre lobby for parties would be a good idea though i just invite during load screen to successfully meet up with my friends in game

to me honestly, this should have been tested a bit more and there could have been a few less bugs. when i played brink last year it felt awsome playing 8v8 knowing they were all people and not bots, the game played so much better. Bots make the game feel cheap =\ BUT even with these problems that in my opinion can easily be patched in week or so. It is a fun game!

anyway im off back to getting my ass kicked in challenge mode, apparently its easier to play solo ^.^

Voted yes and then no on bots. Think the bots are necessary to fill in when people are absent. I don't think they clutter things up, even if they play like they're drunk sometimes. Think the only challenge map that'd be worth a damn for vs would be the Objective one (Let's be Objective??) The others are too small imo. The escort one might be doable, but the matches wouldn't really last all that long.

Certain game modes don't allow bots, i believe competitive and old school.

indeed objective one was one i mainly thought would work but if they expanded the defense tower one it could work, just gives people option for small competitive matches or the proper longer ones.

it should just be an option when creating a game to remove bots, that way those who like them can keep them. Though you would have to wait in game for enough people before starting


competitive doesnt have bots? really? i might go check this ^.^

I don't understand the "remove bots in versus". A friend of mine and I played a "versus" where we were the only players on our team (1 v 1) although the setup was for 8 v 8. No bots at all.

what do you mean? if you set up an 8v8 private or public it will be with bots unless you wait for it to populate. in game press start then scoreboard and u can check both teams, if they have latency colour coded bar they are real. ive never seen a game without bots yet


the bots in challenge are starting to piss me off =\ its just luck if they dont come towards you while hacking >.< their aim is superior

Nos? What happened to yes when you put challenges into mini verus?! I mean come on people

On the PC I've played on a few servers with bots disabled. Wasn't very fun at all being on a 16-player map with only a fraction of that actually playing though. As dumb as the bots are sometimes, I do think they are necessary so that classes are balanced out and the action is kept at a good pace.