Splash damage has recently broken the rather extended and eerily silent lack of news regarding their Spring FPS release, Brink. With varying community driven interviews and Q&A Sessions, much more information has come to light regarding some of the particular details surrounding the highly anticipated title. The information was given by Lead Creative Director Richard Ham and Lead Game Designer Neil Alphonso

Most notably, more information has been spilled regarding the gametypes involved and how they tie into the over-arching “Narrative” themed multiplayer.

It would appear that the floods of heaven have opened up to the PC gaming community. To think, a developer with any form of plans or support for the underdog of the gaming platforms exists! We anxiously look forward to further news and updates concerning the SDK and modding tools/support to be available.

While most notably, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had varying issues and problems for the PC platform, no one could deny that it was easily competitive with great focus towards small and medium sized teams to be able to compete and cooperate easily across the board. It would seem that Splash Damage is aiming for much the same goals with Brink, dedicating the game to being able to be played with varying amounts of teammates on each team.

“We’re planning on including options to play Brink with less than eight players on a team. We’re mindful of the fact that competitive gaming gets more difficult from an organizational standpoint with team sizes greater than six, and we’re happy to say that Brink still plays great with fewer combatants as long as there’s good teamwork.”

Along with this, Splash Damage has given even more assurance that they plan to further interact with and propel the competitive gaming community with the Brink release.

“We’ve always enjoyed supporting all manner of community events, including online and LAN tournaments (some of you might remember that we even participated in an Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars exhibition match against Team Dignitas at Multiplay’s i-series!). We can’t wait to continue that with Brink, and Bethesda will be our partner in these efforts.”

Going along with the above info, Splash Damage assures,

“The release of a Beta for Brink is something that is still being discussed, but no decision has been made one way or the other at this stage. At the very least, we’ll be doing a ‘family and friends’ closed Beta with Bethesda and id.

However, exploits and bugs are potential problems we’re very conscious of, and we approach some of our in-house testing with this specifically in mind. Anything goes in our playtests, so if anything is a candidate for abuse, it gets noticed fairly quickly. We also have a full time production testing team here at the office, paying special attention to exploits and griefing opportunities.”

Semper Cognatio have published an update on Brink from gathering information from the community, Q&A's and interviews:



Here's a few paragraphs from the article:



See the full article over at http://www.sempercog.com/?p=1396

“The release of a Beta for Brink is something that is still being discussed, but no decision has been made one way or the other at this stage. At the very least, we’ll be doing a ‘family and friends’ closed Beta with Bethesda and id.

So i guess that means average ammo used to get a takedown, i.e in reality it would be like 8 shots?
Hard to say :X

It depends on the place you aim. If it's a bit like their previous game, you can take out anyone on short range with 4-5 shots (Missed shots inclusive). 3-4 of these shots then have to be headshots.
Anyway, it's unclear at this point how it's going to work out in Brink. Let's hope someone is brave enough to leak :foodndrink:

lmao, and get sued? Nah, no ones gonna do that, not in their right mind. Why would they put themselves in danger when they get to play the game anyway?

Heh i've signed many NDA's over the years, and broken a few (never go out drinking after a day of playing on a beta). What we need is a massive outcry along the lines of 'WTF no PC/X360 beta, not buying it now!!!!'

Yeah, as someone who knows how to write a bug report I'd happily test (been checking my inbox) even if the PS3 needs the most help (its is by far the hardest console to code for), testing on many platforms is more useful, even with something like consoles as you never know how the game will react to the many net connections out there, then there is the modded ones (my X360 doesn't even look like one anymore) you can never have enough testing.

Also the public always seems to think of things that paid testers don't.