Step back for a moment and evaluate yourself. Your play style, preferences (weapon loadouts, armour, so on) and all the various factors in other games. Consider the games you play and how they relate to the whole brink experience. Don't APPLY it to Brink or assume anything. But look at it as going from one career to another. Also give everyone a little history about yourself. Gaming experience. Mannerisms so on.

My style as I've learned is I like to gel with those I play with. I'll play follow the leader following the players that seem to know what they are doing until I get the hang of the situation. I never go off on my own. I always like to play medic or engineer. People tend to add me to their friends though I don't always accept the invitation as I'm picky about who I play with on a consistant basis. Though it's more about how much I like you then how good you are. I'm effective with longer range assault rifles and shotguns in most games and like to either flank up close or provide pin down distractions for my team. I'm the guy that doesn't rush things but instead tries to methodically and consistantly sweep the map. I never get the most kills. I usually get the least or second least. But I'm going for solid tactics and team support. I prefer quake wars, battlefield and gears of war over the frenzy of call of duty and similar titles. I've sharpened my reflexes on games like rainbow six vegas 1+2 and enjoy halo from time to time as well.

I'm a military guy 28, EMT and my name IS Jess. I play on xbox live. Gamertag: Jess Alon (If I don't add you don't worry I take awhile because I'm just super picky. I currently have 5 friends on there.)

I think I will bring a lot to the table in Brink. I'll be pretty practical and look to fill whatever role needs to be filled. Even if it's not the popular one. I'm openminded to constructive criticism and I want to continue to improve as a gamer. I'm definitely fun to play with as I keep my cool and always look for a way to reach the goal instead of becoming flustered against overwhelming odds. I'm no pushover though. In the face of adversity I'm downright cruel to my enemy. But I don't snipe, camp, or any of those other things. I like to see you in front of me when I kill you. And I want you to know who did it. Without having to check the readout.

I have almost 25 years of console experience and have been playing shooters since counterstrike debuted. I enjoy strategy and team work. Furthermore I'm one of the more professional gamers you'll ever play with mic on or off.

Thanks

go getter i guess, when there's respawning i'm always going to rush at enemy positions, or if i don't know any enemy positions yet: the objective. when there is no respawning i might take it carefully, checking hidingspots, turning around every 5seconds, if there's a minimap i'd keep an eye on it to find roughly where the enemy is hold up.
but no matter what, i will always do my best to fulfill the objective and do it as fast as i can. kills are an added bonus, not the objective

Started out in halo, halo 2 was my first online multiplayer game, then moved on to free FPS games, played most of the popular free games out there, most recently Crossfire. Moved on to TF2 a month or two back. Could be a learned style from Halo, or just the fact that I'm impatient, but I love rushing, and hate staying in one spot for any length of time. Never been concerned with KDR in any game, if i took pride in any of my stats, it would be my win %, More than willing to take a death if it means giving my team an advantage. Shotguns are my favorite gun to play with, a nice mix of fun and challenge. I can use pretty much any weapon with some success, though I'm not very good with snipers. Any weapon will do when your main strategy is flanking and getting behind the enemy, after rushing around for a good position.

Ive played competitively with friends/clans in most of the games I've been on, and will listen to team strategies in that environment, but more than one of my clans has let me just try to get behind the enemy at the start of most games, in game modes that only offer one life per round, its pretty effective. As long as i take down at least one person, teams are even, anything on top of that gives my team an advantage.

I don't often try hard in games though, unless the other team is actually good. If I'm better than the opposing players, I will often give myself a handicap, such as trying to use only my pistol. I get more fun out of focusing on challenging myself, rather than focusing on getting a good score.

I started gaming around 1999- So like when i was 5. I started with the NES, playing games like Mario and such. Bought Starcraft around 2001. Played that for many years. Same year the original xbox came out (If im not mistaken) and i played Halo CE, and played that until Halo 2. Only got to play online when you got one of those 'free month' cards, because i couldnt afford it at such a young age. I only got into serious gaming once the Xbox 360 came out. When i say 'serious gaming' i mean frequent gaming.

Games i normally play consist of: Halo, BFBC2, CoD 4 (None of the other Cod's because they're all terrible after 4 imo), GTA4.

When im gaming, I try and find unique ways of playing the game. In Halo Reach i did only Assassinations. BFBC2 only knifing. CoD 4 i did some HLG. GTA4 i only played Free mode and messed around with my friends, hitting jumps, doing parkour from building to building, and so on. I never tend to play the game to win, or get a good K/D or anything. I know that tends to upset my teammates, that's why i usually go into a game with friends who also only want to goof around.

I used to own Mirror's Edge, because i love parkour, as i parkour in real life as well. Only reason i sold it, was because of the linearity of the whole game. Which goes against all that is parkour. Parkour is all about expressing yourself, and doing it how you want. Which also really relates to the way i play other games, i like to express myself, and play the game the way i want to play it. Mirror's Edge was very repetitive and restricting that way.

Now with all of that said, don't think of me as a gamer who doesn't care, and is a nooobish player. If i want to play competitively i can hold my own against fairly good players. Nearly all of my K/D's in games are positive, (not that it matters to me, or anyone else here for that matter) Im just pointing it out.

I know you said not to post anything relating to Brink, but as a bonus ill post it anyways.

To be straight up honest, you may think i won't bring much to Brink, because i like to goof off occasionally. But because i play my games the way i want to play, that makes me a stronger player in my opinion. With Brink i will probably play as an Operative, because i don't want to be the guy healing/reviving everyone, or the guy that escorts the bot, or the guy that blows up the wall. I want to the someone who gets up in the face of the enemy without them knowing im even there because Im disguised. I want to be the one free running over the wall, and exploring new areas when and how i want to. I want to hurt the enemy with my own methods, not the typical ones.

That was pretty long winded, but its all relevant to my gaming experience/life. Thanks for reading :celebration:

Started gaming on the Nintendo 64 with Goldeneye. Then played random shooters on the PS1 and PS2. Fell in love with Halo CE and have been on Xbox ever since. My gaming style hit a turning point in late 2008-09, up to that point I was a selfish player, only playing Free for all and team deathmatch where the only objective was to kill, I was average at best. Then I played Bad Company 1 on Xbox 360, played mostly Assult with my same selfish playstyle. Then it turned around, while playing Team Fortress 2 on Xbox 360 I encountered a player unlike anyone I ever encountered before, he was screaming orders into the mic for a medic to heal him. He was getting angry so I said screw it and switched to medic to heal him... 2 minutes later the enemy was pushed back and we won. It was the first time I realised that such an unatractive, unexciting role was so important, it felt good to win when you work for it. Ever since I try hard for the win and usually only play support roles.

My story. My name is Ryan, I live in Ireland, I heal you when you got wounds.

My first gaming experience was on Atari 5200. I used to play games like Joust, Choplifter and Vanguard after I would come home from school. I can safely say that ever since my first video game experience, I have absolutely loved gaming and played them frequently. I moved on to other Atari models and didn't get an NES until it had already been out for awhile. Then I moved on to Genesis and SNES, and then finally I found my true love - PC gaming. I remember the first time I saw DOOM - I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. During my high school years is when I really got into PC games, and then after I graduated, I pretty much exclusively played on the PC. Some PC games I was really into were DOOM, Duke Nukem, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, UT, TF2, Half Life, Age of Empires, Starcraft, Dawn of War, Elder Scrolls, NWN, Warcraft 2, Diablo 2, WoW, and City of Heroes, among many others. It wasn't until I played RTCW for the first time online that I absolutely fell in love with MP gaming.

Before that, the only online shooters I played, were Quake 3 and UT. RTCW was my first foray into class-based, team objective gaming - and I was in love. This was the game that really got me into playing MP and getting good at it. It was the first game I started joining clans for, and is my favorite shooter to this day. I started out playing Engineer a lot, but eventually wanted to try playing a Medic - I'm glad I did. Ever since, I pretty much play Medic in any shooter that offers it, and I consider myself a very good player with the class. This is where I found my calling, and what was so intriguing to me about class-based shooters.

In every shooter up until RTCW, the main or only goal, was to either kill badguys and win the map or capture a flag. When I was introduced to RTCW MP, I discovered that a player could not only work as a team to accomplish a goal, but could choose from different classes and contribute significantly to the team, without even killing a single player - this was mind blowing to me, and fit me perfectly. I played this game A LOT, and eventually I moved onto W:ET. Taking my skills form RTCW, I fine tuned them W:ET. This is the game I joined an actual competitive clan for, with vent meetings, and planning strategies and league registration, and all the things that come with joining a "legitimate" clan. That was back around 2003-2004, and since then, I still play FPS, but I just play for fun now. I also went through a huge RPG/MMO kick, where I pretty much only played WOW and COH everyday, for months and months. I will always be a PC gamer at heart, but I play a lot of console games now, since all my friends play console, and because I haven't had the money to build my new gaming rig.

So what have my 25+ years of gaming told me? That I am a team player. I always prefer to play with others rather than against them. I was never one for being in the spotlight, and instead enjoyed contributing from the sideline or "behind the scenes." In the same respect, I do enjy being in the spotlight from the sidelines, meaning, I not only playing Medic, but take pride in it and like being the best medic. I enjoy playing support roles, whether it be a Medic in a class based shooter, A Healer in Wow, or a Defender or Controller in COH, I love being able to help my team in ways other than directly dealing damage and/or killing - It's what I enjoy and what I excel at.

I'm really glad I started this thread. It's letting me get to know you guys better. And you all rule.

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For me, I've started playing shooters at 8 years old. I had that little anoying voice on the mic trying to get clues from older person to get better and no body ever answered me so then, I did what they did. I like to follow who gives the order ( if that leader's good otherwise I don't). It depend how I feel, I used to play as a tactic assault, rushing people by getting behind them. When I face to enemies, I usely kill the one who's looking at me before the other one who's staring at nowhere (Sometime I got pwnd, but I still try) anyway. I won't be the one who's top score player by killing but maybe the one who gets the most teamplayer score. I can heal you if you ask me to, I'll do what you order, but don't be mad if I fail my mission a couple of time, I'm doing my best. I can snipe, I'm kinda good. I've played a lot of Counter-Strike(1.6/ point zero / Source) and been in many clans, but not only because I am good or useful player, but also because I'm nice to play and chat with. Other French-Canadian will yell and say stupidity on all other english people, but not me, I'll try to get friend with them.

So that's how my story goes.

Have a good time playing and Happy New Year

I started gaming back in NES and SNES/Sega days. I was still pretty young but I was able to beat the first level of Donkey Kong Country when I was around 6 or 7. Or that’s what I’ve been told anyways. I played all the donkey kong and sonic games as a kid and then the 64 and Dreamcast came around. I never played Golden Eye but I feel bad I didn’t cus everyone said it was the best video game ever at the time. The N64 was only used when friends came over but my dream cast was my baby. I played “Phantasy Star Online” offline because I couldn’t get the network connection to work. Lets skip to where online gaming started, the PS2.

I started my “hardcoe” online gaming with Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and my clan was 1st in the world at one point. It was a small community but we didn’t care it was still cool to be the best. I was one of the guys they brought it when the big boys came to play. [W@R]Dragin and [SS]Dragin were my tags. Around the time of MoH was out SOCOM 2 came along and I picked that up for awhile. I’ve played mostly on consoles since I haven’t had a gaming rig but I plan on upgrading mine this month just for Brink. I played the call of duty games back before the modern warfare days and still continue to, although I can only handle so much call of duty in a session. About 5 games in I’m bored and stop playing. Was a huge Halo fan. Friends and I did system links with the first Halo. Since then it’s all been history.

Online gaming really took over when I played WoW. I played a night elf rogue, level 60 and 70. A human paladin, level 60 and 70. And a night elf druid, level 70 and 80. I had a lot of alts but none worth mentioning. That game consumed a lot of my time but I think that’s the point of a good hobby. Did a lot of PvE and PvP and was usually high up in both. Never world ranked or anything but still highly valued. I played a healer toward the end of my career and loved it. I was the guy our guild would send people with question on my class. “You don’t know what to do? Go talk to Dragin.” After 4 years on and off and over 150 days played on all my characters(probably more) I quit because the game became redundant and I didn’t like the way Blizzard was handling itself.

My play style stems from me being paranoid IRL. I turn around A LOT when I play shooters. If I hear a noise in my headset I spaz out and turn around usually to find nothing there, but I keep my pace and never lose a step. Every once in awhile there will be a sneaky sneaky character trying to gut me from behind. I’m also a distance player. I know Brink is all about being up close but I like to use tactics and positioning to out gun people. High ground is usually where I’ll be. Although I am a fan of shotguns and close range brawls. I’m usually not a medium distance guy and the first thing I go for in any game is the sniper. I don’t care what anyone says there’s just something deadly about a player who can drop people without them even knowing where it came from. I also like precision weapons but I decide what I’m playing in a game when it releases.

I will however be playing a medic. Shadowcat pretty much solidified that idea for me. I was a healer in WoW and I’ve always been attracted by being the guy who keeps everyone alive. Being good at a healing class to me lets other people worry less about their health and more about their objective. At least this was the case in WoW. So in Brink I’ll be the guy throwing syringes at everyone "softening up",as the developers say, anyone and everyone with a short rifle. I have no problem being a support player and racking up the assists. As long as my team wins I don't care how well I did.

Edit: I've also always liked the idea of no HUD. There are some things you need to know in shooters but I feel a good player knows how many shots he's got left in his clip without the game displaying it. Plus a cluttered HUD takes away from the ambience.

I started gaming at around 8, playing 2D games like the old Mario and LF2. Later on, I watched my older brothers play Counter Strike, and learned a bit of the game before playing it. I trained my reflexes by playing CS. I defend near the main objective when defending, and attack via flanking and sometimes cover team mates. I also played RTS (real time strategy) games like C&C Red Alert 2, but wasn't very good at it. Then my friends introduced me to GUNZ, an online third person shooter game, I liked the shooting and killing, but hated when the other players use annoying hacks or take advantage by using keyboard breaking techniques. Shooting straight down a busy corridor was my best way of getting kills.
Because I live in China, the ping is always a problem so I don't play online games usually. Plus, when buying games here, all of them are fake CDs (or most of them). So those FPS like Crysis, COD, Battle Field and so on, I can only play the single player. Which to me gets boring easily since I'd love to play with other people. At least I can play Alien Swarm. Tactical shooters are also fun, so instead of just rushing and killing, I have to think about how to be more effective in it.

Through Brink, I think my style will be a light operative, high but over-viewing the battlefield and seeing what needs to be done to give my side the best advantage. It will also seem fun to play it by dodging bullets using SMART and going up-close for the kill, like how I play Mirror's Edge. Or by flanking the enemy and hit them from the side of the back. The more challenging the more fun it gets.

I started gaming when I was 7 years old. I mainly played pokemon back then, because everyone did that. When I was about twelve, I got a ps2 and played mostly sports games and Rpg's.

The interesting part happened that same year. I met a friend, who is still my best friend and he played cod 1. He was ridiculously good: 300 kills - 2 deaths in a certain game. That's when I bought Cod2: big red one for the ps2. I really svcked, but I completed te game nevertheless.

One year later, another friend showed me wolfenstein Et. Since it was a shooter on pc, i gave it try for the first time in my lIfe, at the age of 13. For the next three years I only played ET, averaging 2 hours a day when I had school, up to 6 hours during the weekend.

During these years I learned different tactics. At first I camped from different spots, picking off people. Then I got into the action as bunnyhopper, but I didn't like it and it was pretty uneffective. I switched over to dropshotting, but that didn't work against decent players. I started watchin other players and noticed they did 4 things: circle strafe in combat, trickjump to get everywhere way faster, always aim for the head and they were always ready to head in combat (health, ammo, reloaded, full sprint). I started circle strafing which automatically resulted in better aim. For each kill, I did 2 headshots with an average of 45 % accuracy. I really had to practice trickjumping, but it really paid off. And the last of the four things I mastered by playing a lot.

About my playstyle: I'm the guy that's always in or near the action. I play light medic as main class. I hang around with soldiers and engineers who are trying to breach an enemy strongpoint, I am the one that gives them covering fire while they reload. When they are down, I revive them and then start shooting again. I am the one who sacrifies himself to keep the objective completer alive.
When things are going bad I rather regroup and do a push with the entire team.
I will also be play as heavy medic, playing on the frontlines and defending objective completers with a lot of firepower and high accuracy. I prefer squishy characters with a lot of speed though.

I will also play engineer a lot. Objective completee? I'll be on my way to the next one. I try to play more alone, trying to sneak around and complete objectives located in the enemies' back. I tend to team up with an operative when playong engi. As engineer I'll probably play as medium, to have a bit of speed, enough pips and some health.
When on defense, I'll be a light engineer. I need the speed to quickly get to the explosives of the enemy team and defuse them. I'll be capturing terminals and placing mines near them and other objectives. I'm not the turret guy. I will also give weapon buffs ofcourse.

Typing all this really gets me pumped
Edit: I could tell a lot more but then my post would be gigantic xD

I started like most with Pokemon and Age of Empires at the age of too young, from where I moved on to other RTS games and more importantly Unreal Tournament. I played with a group of Dutch, British and Belgian guys who were all much older and much better than me to begin with. However, seeing as I was only around 10 at the time, I was an immensely quick learner, and by the age of 13 I was among the top players in that game, especially when it came to Bombing Run. In that gamemode I'd be the so-called ball-catcher, which basically meant that you'd use your translocator, shoot a device into the air and into the ball's current trajectory, catch it, and the go onto the offensive. On top of that, the best players would also produce combos in which they'd bounce the ball off the wall, translocate near a wall, slide down the wall and then dodge off the wall itself, into the ball and fly straight into the goal. This type of gameplay forced the players to register multiple elements on the screen in the matter of a split-second, look away, and then interact with them without even seeing them.

I spent most of my time in UT, scoring the goals, and not killing, however, when I progressed onto CoD2 and Joint Operations, where things became more objective- and kill-focused, I started developing my taste for blood. I didn't do too well in any of the games to begin with, as I tried to maintain the pace from UT - which basically meant rushing all the time. I died, and died some more, but eventually started to get a feel for the games. I learned how to utilize my reflexes and my ability to scan my surroundings, which I'd gained from Unreal, and I started developing more of a survival-instinct, moreso than a killer-instinct. Once I learned the maps, I'd work on getting up close to people, but I wouldn't try and kill everyone, but rather to keep alive by all means necessary, and I realized that by prioritizing cover over kills I didn't die and I as many, if not more kills. I think this is mainly because I'm not desperate to get the "guy who I saw run past outside", because if you follow those easy kills blindly, you don't watch your surroundings. I loved both those games, but although the CoD mechanics were awesome, Joint Operations will always have a special place in my heart because the maps were huge, which meant the time between kills was mostly long, and because of all the planning and getting wherever you needed to, anything you completed felt so satisfying.

I think Joint Operations was the game that sparked my interest for MAG. I played this game for half a year as a medic/commando. Because of my previous experiences, I quickly became very good at this game, and quite often I'd rack up scores in which I had more kills than my squad combined (7 other people), and twice their total exp - because unlike them, I was able to handle more things than just camping, healing, flanking. I'd do everything, I'd be sort of a lone-wolf who'd help his teammates, mainly for the purpose of keeping myself alive - which meant using them as a decoy sometimes, and then ressing them again. On top of that I'd also use items that I saw nobody else use, such as smoke grenades, which allowed me to take down clusters of 10+ people without much difficulty. But also with this game I'd never focus on the kills, but rather the objective and my own survival.

Hi everyone! First time posting here and I'm really excited for Brink. Sorry if this is too long.

The first game I played was Total Annihilation in 1997, when I was 5 years old. It's a game that defined today's RTS genre and a game which I still play to this day. A year later, my brothers bought Starcraft so I, too, played it. Like TA, I still play a lot of Starcraft 12 years later. I started out playing Protoss but have since switched to Terran, usually getting the early game marine/medic combo to destroy my enemies. Of course, if that fails, I tech up to siege tanks mid-game.

However, I never truly got into gaming until about 2002. I started playing my first RPG, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. I became totally addicted to the game and would spend hours upon hours simply getting the perfect build. I pretty much stuck to sorceresses and paladins (generally the fastest of the characters), usually having a few sorceress builds for player vs. player and a main paladin for rushing (bringing people through the quests). I realized by 8th grade that I was spending too much time on video games and not on what I really cared about (music, social life, school) and, with the help of angry parents (thanks!), quit. I plan on playing Diablo III, but I will be in college and more mature by the time it comes out so I will have other things on my mind.

It was only after I quit Diablo that I got into my FPS phase. I mainly played CoD 4 and 6, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Counterstrike: Source (in order of time spent). I am generally a sniper in CoD. Not a campy one by any means, but a quick-scoping , in-your-face kind of sniper. I know it goes completely against everything snipers stand for, but it actually works in CoD and, quite frankly, it's a lot more rewarding than playing snipers how they're supposed to be played. However, lately I've been using a lot of the SMGs and rushing. In either case, I'm usually the first into battle and don't like to be left behind in boring gameplay. It took me a long time to switch from CoD and Counterstrike to being able to play Battlefield. The gameplay is immensely different with far more strategy to it. One man cannot win a Battlefield game, whereas one good player with killstreaks can dominate a CoD game.

Recently, I have been playing a lot of different style games. I started playing Team Fortress 2 and absolutely love it. I played through mirrors edge (this and Tf2 got me interested in Brink). I am currently playing through the Half Life series. I also play a lot of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (a japanese arcade game)

Throughout my gaming history, I realize that I am a really fast-paced person. I enjoy rushing in StarCraft and getting the early-game advantage. In Diablo, I would teleport around quickly, hitting my enemy from multiple directions. In CoD, I love the feeling of quickly zooming in, and sliding the scope on top of enemies before they can react. BlazBlue is no different; you have to react quickly to attacks with blocking, look for openings, and hit the opponent with combos. I even speed-cubed (rubiks cube, not exactly a computer game ) for a few years and cut my time down to average just above 20 seconds, which was not as good as a lot of people but wasn't bad for sure. I expect this to show in my Brink play style.

Thanks for reading, sorry it's so long and drawn out >.<

Probably started gaming on the N64 with mario and goldeneye the golden oldies. Moved onto Playstation with gta and tony hawk. With the PS2 I would have to say Timesplitters was the perfect game for me with my friends. and when the 3rd one came out online with a map maker i was in heaven! Then ratchet & clank came out so much fun. But with online games I learned if you don't have a mic don't expect to get much done (well with console anyway at least wtih PC you get text chat). I also figure when playing online with people especially a fps i tend to be the distraction, running out and pretty much getting in the enemies way so people can get stuff done ... It makes people rage sometime

You guys are really saying everything on your mind aren't you. I like being the class with the most health or using lmgs and lumbering around tearing everything apart, but when doing objectives I either defend with supressing fire or sneak in and plant the bomb when nobody is looking. (CoD4, MoH, Transforners War for Cybertron, Halo). I'm only gonna be a security heavy with the biggest armor walking around with lmgs (I don't like miniguns) as a soldier, defending the little guys.

Seems like theres also an HMG you can use if you like, Patrick

Completely impractical for infantry IRL, but so is a minigun

My number on priority is to complete the objective by being the best team player I can be. Kills and deaths are not really that important to me. Scouting is my biggest strength.