-Single player: very sad arcade with orrible storyline plus useless bots
-Multiplayer: any server i join is laggy as hell, impossible to play everywhere
-Coop: not working i can't join any friend same for them

40+ Euros for this Beta (you can't call it game) it's a true scam... shame on you SD guys. Sadly the concept is very cool but the online management it's the worst i've seen in my gaming experience.
Fix the issues fast or this game will go down faster and deeper than the Titanic...

Not everyone is having those issues. Well, okay. The bots are horrendous in single-player, that's for sure. I've not had much issue with lag with most servers I've joined, but then I typically find servers with under 50 ms latency. But I agree these issues need some work as there certainly are other people in the same boat as you. I just don't happen to work for SD to help them find solutions to the problems. Best I can do is to try and offer advice on these forums.

bro i join servers with 20 ping (included my clan private one) but it's the same everywere for me and the others people that are playng with me.
We have very good computers belive me so the problem is this game.
But basically i'm bored from this kind of people that sell games in beta stage. 1 week is gone from NA release and the situation it's the same... They told us "brink is ready we going for early release" and this is the results. i can't belive this people was not knowing the issues, they just scammed us.

I completely agree with OP. Some servers are perfect and I won't lag or get a movement glitch, but the majority are horrible and my ping bar will always be green. The person who designed the AI did a terrible job.

@ExeQtoR

I totally agree with you, this is ridicules, i bought this game so i can play it, not to have lag bugs or any other issues.

The game must be perfect for all people not just some, so we can all enjoy it.

Shame on you SD. I never thought i will say this to you one day........

Hold on, let me shed some.... (....) there you go.
Bots svck, yes.
Rest of the game works fine for me and all my buds, woop. Sry bud, you should look for a work around until they patch any issues and improve stability.

yes you are probably doin pvp with bots :clap:

LOL, Thanks for the assumption, you are most welcome to being even more wrong in the future. I spent all day 2 days ago optimizing for my pc, and everyone... EVERYONE should be doing this for every new game, this "I have badass pc BS I should be able to run it", EVERY NEW pc game is going to have it's faults, any ONE pc gamer should know this unless you take no time to understand your pc and configuration, congratulations on being just like everyone else who thinks every PC game should run perfectly month one, no way... even better, day one. Woot to you friend, I wanna be more like you.

By the way, I sell giraffes, you're welcome to one if you'd like.

LMAO... I have 59 games of all kinds for my PC... Never have i changed or configured any setting to play any one of those games... and guess what... Brink is the only one that has chugging lag.... sound problems... CTD's, saying you and your friends can play fine = bs unless possibly u have mostly bots... Every server i have joined from 25 - 100 ping has the same crappy lag on movement on firing... and when i ask (or usually dont have to b4 some1 else starts complaining about it) everyone on the server says yes or wtf at this.... or wtf @no sound etc etc... so you sound like a really devoted fan tbh claiming all works when it really doesnt, and by "devoted" i mean guess what word was changed.... Betheseda/SD protecting the Fan....Boys i see. They the only people that will defend them.

Odd bug fine... Game wrecking crap that clearly needed more testing... Robbed tbh.

No, it truly is working for a lot of people. I've logged numerous hours in servers with up to 16 players, no bots, only minor lag. The only sound issues I get are those caused by the Refuel map which is bugged. That's not to say there aren't problems. There are times it seems to lag far more than it should given a certain latency. Just because other people are having an experience with the game that is different from yours doesn't mean they're lying or don't know what they're talking about.

I have 5 hours gameplay. I can play for 2+ hrs but i can also CTD after 20mins for no reason randomley at any time.... and everyserver is getting the lag severe or minor its there and every1 knows it... he says the game runs fine... which is bs. Just goto any server and the majority will say they are chugging.... shooting can be fine but the movement is still odd and not smooth. The game has a problem blaming every1 else's pc and claiming your master pc works fine is annoying as hell.

Also with lower numbers of players the lag crap is gone also i havent crashed once while offline... also odd... so ya no not my pc.

Well you pre-order a game you get punished i guess... never again... will wait for reviews from now on especially anything involving bethesda or SD and judging from brinks reviews they had better hope the majority pre-ordered and bought it on release.

Also unrelated note.... The punishment for TKing is a joke fix plz doesnt deter those idiots from team killing at all....

Ok so please let's start to explain us about what you have done for two days to prepare your system. i have encountered issues only in multiplayer, but not for bad graphic performance but for spike lag that make impossible to play the game decently. So the problem here it's how the multiplayer connection gestion was created.
btw talkin about "new games that need more time to works fine" i don't agree with you because the money they have taken from me and other persons it's good and working well from the first moment they received it lol, so i want the same thing regarding the game. The only 8vs8 server where i don't find lag are server populated by bots.
i will stop preorders for games and ill start to preorder only giraffes

Everyone's argument that this game was released in anything resembling a finished state as automatically undermined by the simple fact that a large group of people, even with the patches provided, STILL CAN'T RUN THE [censored] GAME. So thank you developers for trying to clean up the [censored] show that is this game, it's actually rather admirable. Still doesn't change the fact that I paid you $50 to allow me the privileged of downloading digitized hunk of unplayable [censored].

I still can't play. It runs so bad on ATI you should have left ATI off the box under system requirements

Chalk me up as another soul who bought the game, loves it, but is getting abysmal performance. I've tried every trick that I've found on the net, and nothing has worked. Oh, and since I installed that so called 11.5a "hotfix" the game CTD every time I try to go back to the main menu from the server browser. THat's better than what it was doing before, which was that it would CTD upon launch after the 11.5a hotfix was installed. This new patch has done absolutely NOTHING for the majority of the ATI and gaming population as a whole. I'm severely disappointed not only because the game runs like garbage when I know that it shouldn't, but because I pre-ordered it on Steam and I most likely will not be able to get a refund for this "game".

Specs:
Q8300 @ 2.5GHZ, 4 CPUs
8GB DDR2
ATI Radeon HD 6850
Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium
Acer 23" 1080P LCD

^^^ Those are my system specs, and they are well above the minimum requirements. Hell, this computer is obsolete with the CPU, RAM, and Motherboard and yet I can still get good performance out of other games.

I also find it interesting that not a single Bethesda employee or forum moderator has responded to this thread, to either silence the complaints or to reassure us that a fix is coming. Either way, I'm sorely disappointed with what could have been a truly great game and the companies behind it. Had the game actually been thoroughly tested (much less tested on a PC at all) most of if not all of the issues that are on the forums would have been found and fixed before release. If not, they could have and should have delayed the game until it was actually ready to be released as a polished title.

-sigh- I have logged several hours vs bots and vs players, why does it matter, if I want to level quickly, I vs bots, if I want a more challenging game with unpredictability, I'll play online, why must people such as those whom assume I must ONLY play with bots because I hadn't experienced much. Ok FINE here it is, and ZOMG for the love of gaming, get a grip on your spoiled kiester, pc games on release and for a while after have about a 50/50 change of functioning to it's fullest on EVERY single hardware/driver configuration, so your argument is invalid, void. Fine, if YOU can't deal with the possibility of having issues day 1 and there after for a while and won't take the time to FIGURE something out for your system then don't buy the game day 1.

MY SYSTEM, it's a little old, yet, you should ask yourself what I've done to get it to work to my liking, it isn't the greatest, but I can at least enjoy it vs bots, where it would actually have a greater hit on FPS because now not only does your pc need to take you as the player into account, it also has to take AI mechanics, scripting, animations (all the time anyways) and much more that drive the bots, where as it's just net coding, hit detection ammo, animations and player location on the map that needs to be called up and sent. BTW EVEN graphics can cause lag via internet, even if your system SHOULD be able to handle it, the game isn't optimized fully for your configuration so therefor your pc has to work much harder, you might say, well, if that was the case, then even SP would be [censored], not all the time, there are cases where net code and transmitting stuff and calling up info while your pc is also trying to pull up your graphics and everything taxes it all even more, if lets say every one wasn't having issues with graphics, then I would say it is net code, don't get me wrong, Brink needs optimizing all around, but try turning everything off, I guarantee it should to the least bit run a little smoother.

MY SYSTEM
Intel Core Duo 2.5
4 gigs ram 800mhz
500 gig HD Sata 8mg cache
PNY NVidia GTS 250
Windows Vista Prem 64bit

I spent an entire day in the brink CFG messing with stuff, I spent time trying to recreate CTD's and figuring out work around so it doesn't CTD, I managed to find out when and how it would crash. Disabled Triple Buffering, Added a few lines of command to the autoexec.cfg. After a while I finally got Container city in the most open part of the map which was the most taxing map in the entire game to run at 50 fps constant. Yes I run with almost everything off except texture quality on high and running in windowed mode with 1600x900 or FS with 1920x1080. So, after my optimizing because NOT every part of the game is optimized to it's fullest, take Post Processing and motion blur, it caused blue fog, or shadows on, which on his system shouldn't be an issue at all, but he had to turn it off, bam high FPS (and my friends rig is god compared to mine). You just need to look around and get off your horse and stop thinking things need to be hand fed to you. That is what we are here for, to help you with issues. Yes, maybe your problem lies with MP lag, did it occur to you to try lowering graphical settings to try to free up some of your possibly over taxed pc power, or maybe messing with a bit of your pc configuration, at least figure out what the issue is on your end to report it to SD so that they can make a fix for your and other similar configurations?

I have lost faith for my giraffe.

#1 The SP portion of BRINK is there only as a warm-up to multiplayer and honestly I think it's mostly there so that they could charge full price for the game and give the console people without internet a game to play. Yes the bots svck, but if you are playing BRINK and or bought BRINK for the SP experience you're a moron.

#2 I join servers with pings up to 100 and rarely do I ever experience lag while playing.

#3 COOP works, you need to open a certain port but it most certainly works.

LOL I forgot about Port Forwarding on the Router, my bad... LMFAO, I should have told him that in the first place. I love this game, building a new pc hopefully... it will not give me much trouble for Brink, lmfao, although mainly it's being built for BF3, lol.

Yes, anyone with issues NOT being able to connect, insure that you are port forwarding 27015 - 27016 and 8766, I enabled them for both UDP/TCP lol. And... for the love of giraffes everywhere, make sure you've given your pc a static ip via router/pc network config so it works.