I am not 100 percent sure about all the INFO this game has but will there be some kind of persistent feature where we can see online or in the game who's winning the war, the resistance or the security - sort of like planet sides map?

Also is there some kind of third faction because I could of swore BRINK had a trailer of some guy finding an Alien atrifact ..perhaps it's a different game.

What type of crack are you on?
Cause I think I want some...

There's definitely only two factions, I'm not sure where you saw the second one... :unsure:

as for the first bit; I don't know if there will be, but it should be fairly obvious as one side will be completing objectives while the other won't

What.

It's a linear story, not a territory grab.

There is no feature like that like in Chromehounds or other games. It was a dirty bomb they found not an alien artifact, or it could be a vaccine, or a rusty pistol and some leaflets.

Resistance and Security have campaigns then free mode. They aren't fighting some overarching war online for the Ark, however now that I think about it would have been cool.

Yeah, I was thinking about how cool it would be to add some sort of territorial grab of certain sections or maps that we will most likely play a million times to which it would give a temporary tactical advantage, I guess that is something for BRINK 2, lol.

maybe what he is trying to say is will they keep track of every game and who wins, and kind of put it into a bigger picture and based off what faction wins more games they move closer to getting off the ark or killing all of the terrorists.

It was tracked in MAG. Never really did anything though.... all it did was reinforce people's arguments that various faction's maps were overpowered. Since you couldn't switch from one faction to the other until you hit max rank, it was the same group of people playing all 3 modes... but certain factions with good defensive maps would DOMINATE some modes with others with terrible defensive maps would get crushed. SVER had the best domination map while raven had the worst, but raven had the best aquisition map, and valor had the best sabotage map. The game got WAY more balanced once the faction maps rotated.

Honestly I don't think this game needs it since we can switch back and forth, and most people will. When SVER's win % went way up in MAG, over 20% of the entire non SVER population went to their side... which meant HORRENDUS wait times on their side at certain times during the day.

Yeah i figured that's what he meant, though I'm assuming it won't be set up like that as you can play the maps in whatever order you'd like. This makes it extremely difficult to show the faction control of the map

couldn't they have a week long/month long contest of who wins most. Winner getting something small like a certain enemy weapon for 1 day (week if it was a month long contest), each week/month rotating to some new weapon or something). Not only would incentive to say I am a winner be there, but a small bonus of sorts, but nothing game changing really.

Wouldnt matter the order that we play the maps in. They just keep track of of the wins losses and that would just move the ticker from ark--------x--------escaping the ark.



I like this idea alot.

Hmm yeah, I see what you mean - I don't know if it would add all that much to the value though

also sorry for calling you it - that was a typo

That is proper weird. You know it's a linear story, right? In those matches, people will be finishing campaigns and progressing in story. This would make it a bit confusing, wouldn't it?

I do not think it would be that strange. Easy to write it in.
"Blah has been winning a large number of fight over the last week and found this cache to use. May not make sense for you, but if the security is winning more fights then it would make sense that more security are advancing forward through the story. Hence actually making the contest true overall for the cvomnunity.

Sorry wrote that on my phone. I see punctuation and spacing is poor. Droid seems to be missing edit button.

But it's individual. There will be some people winning as the Resistance, and some people winning as the Security in their teams. It's not am MMO.

I think this is waaaay too deep into faction-thinking.

As I've said numerous times before, The Resistance and The Security are like TF141/Navy Seals and Spetznas/OpFor from Call of Duty.
Unlike in CoD, you can play a campaign for both sides, but depending on the campaign your faction will win (or sort of fail in the What If missions).

Giving people the idea of fighting for one faction winning a contest could lead to serious balancing issues when 90% of the people in one game want to be Resistance and leave if they can not be.

The fact that you can choose both sides for every character kind of mkaes it a bit redundant. You'd probably get a lot of people switching over to the winning side, making balanced games hard to find, the only way they could do it wouuld be to force you to choose a faction that you couldn't change when creatging a character.

It'd be great of there was a tracker somewhere that monitored which faction had won the most battles on each console, but as it's been said, the numbers would be skewed by people team-swapping. (If team-swapping is allowed in the servers)

lol nice reference

I'm pretty sure they will have kills collaborated in the stats menu, like
Resistance Total Kills: 38,045,785
Security Total Kills: 32,984,574

Or something like that

that is what I am hoping for I would love that.

That and who are the top killers for whatever faction.

I'm sure it won't be hard to tell. If the security is closing in on the final objective of that particular map and the resistance forces are dwindling I think we know who's gonna win that.

On the same token if the security is still at objective 2 with a minute left and resistance coming at them from all sides..

I don't think their should be much of a of a concentration on who's winning, I don't want all you resistance players too feel even worse after I kick all you're butt's