Because it's an objective based game. Killing people doesn't matter in Brink. Also, quit trying to relate this to Call of Duty. Call of Duty is trash and has a learning curve steeper than Mt. Rushmore, and the fact that everybody here always bashes that game even when I'm directly using Halo as my example is annoying and frankly pisses me off. Brink still looks like it takes 5-6 shots to kill with the exact same weapons that are in CoD, so in essence it has the same play style as CoD, but with longer health bars. Say whatever you want, nothing is gonna change that.

And no, I wasn't saying the tactics don't apply unless it's TDM, you pulled that out of thin air. I was saying TDM isn't a mindless fragfest after you claimed it was. Sure, there are ways you can use basic teamwork in Brink, but nothing that's as revolutionary that would make Brink more played competitively like you claim. Whether you like it or not, Team Deathmatch is the most popular game mode in any shooter and a game that relies purely on objective based gameplay is going to alienate the majority of people who compete in clans. The closest the average person has gone to an objective based game in a clan war is Capture the Flag. And don't give me more of your bull "Call of Duty CTF doesn't even rely on having your team covering you" BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE ABOUT FREAKIN CALL OF DUTY!

The objectives in Brink don't look like they require all that much teamwork. If a guy is low on ammo, you give him ammo. If a guy is planting a bomb, you shoot anyone that tries to stop him. You don't even need a mic to do that. Also, the only games where TDM is mindless is Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Crysis, Homefront, and all of the other clones. Other games (Halo, specifically, since that's the one I mainly play) requires far more teamwork to just get a higher kill count. I can have a sword, distracting a guy away from watching his radar, and tell my friend to circle around and assassinate him. I can throw down some grenades at a guy and tell a friend his shields are down and to rush in for a melee. I can grab a power weapon (Read: Sniper rifle) to a more skill teammate so he can shoot the other team down. I can jump down in armor lock, have my friend throw a grenade at my feet, and watch as all the guys waiting for me to come out of armor lock explode. The only "Teamwork" in Brink so far looks like it consists of just protecting a teammate while he's planting a bomb/hacking, replenishing health/ammo, and getting several people together to simultaneously rush and overwhelm an objective.

I never said Brinks customization is deeper.
And you basically pulled the same card in your earlier posts, stating that we shouldn't "Praise" the game and think it's 100x better than it will be because the game's not out yet.

Its funny how you downplay the importance of bullet damage in shooters and say its just like CoD but with less bullet damage. Bullet damage is a very important thing in a shooter because the lower the bullet damage usually take much more skill to play (Killzone2, Halo, MAG). So yeah, the gun play can be exactly like CoD but have low bullet damage and that alone makes the gun play better.
I fail to see what TDM being the most popular game mode have to do with it being required for competitive clan battles. So what most clans would be alienated by lack of TDM, so would most players in general, this game is not for casual gamers in case you haven't noticed.
Killing does matter in objective-based games, how else are you going to take the objectives? The enemy isn't just going to hand the objectives to you.

yes that's if you tell your teammate to do so and even so in Halo it is a lone "wolf" type of game just like mainly every fps out there thats what Brink may be like is Bad Company with the classes and all.Its just not as open field and no vehicles in it and also the games exp rewards you for staying on objective and not trying and just mindlessly killing everything in your sight.And with the body types teamwork will be essential on planning the next attack on a objective or taking out a enemy.

It seems to be a general consensus that Brink's customization is very deep in this game, and that it separates itself from the pack with it. Or am I completely wrong in saying that?

And yes, I did pull the same card. The difference is, I'm not the one talking about how great a game that hasn't been released yet is, and you are. Or do you not think that, either?

The heavy can do everything a light cab do but wall jump, but he can equip all these super heavy weapons

the side objectives is what makes the game less teamwork oriented when the game is only 8v8, and the engineer, soldier, and Operative are far nothing out of the ordinary that you wouldn't expect.

TreISGod, if you think Halo is so great then go play it and stop complaining that brink has nearly no teamwork, it has plenty of teamwork, and if you read more about brink and seen videos you'll know that body types ARE balanced, that's why they took a year off to BALANCE!!

The heavy has limited parkour capabilitys, if i remember correctly heavys can only jump over things as high as there waist, there slides dont last as long as the lights, and i think recently they announced that ALL body types have the same amount of pips.

Players dont HAVE to do the side objectives but its not like if they do them it just gives them some XP, it helps to the main objective, such as a operative interrogating, which shows all enemy players for x amount of time. the side missions help towards the main objective, it doesn't lessen the teamwork, it make it better.

Less players going to one objective doesn't mean less teamwork if both objectives help with ultimately get the job done. In MAG for example, a player equiped with a sensor jammer (stealth equipment) may try to go off on his own to destroy an enemy anti-air battery so that his team's squad leaders and platoon leaders may call their air-strikes. In Killzone 3 the tactician class goes off to capture Tactical Spawn Areas to let his team spawn closer to the objectives. Secondary objectives work.
Technically you don't have to kill anyone to get to an objective, but do you seriously expect not to encounter enemies on the way or defending the objectives?

Less players going to one objective doesn't mean less teamwork if both objectives help with ultimately get the job done. In MAG for example, a player equiped with a sensor jammer (stealth equipment) may try to go off on his own to destroy an enemy anti-air battery so that his team's squad leaders and platoon leaders may call their air-strikes. In Killzone 3 the tactician class goes off to capture Tactical Spawn Areas to let his team spawn closer to the objectives. Secondary objectives work.
Technically you don't have to kill anyone to get to an objective, but do you seriously expect not to encounter enemies on the way or defending the objectives?

I expect the side objectives to be like the Container City video walkthrough, where the guy went to do an objective, saw ONE guy there, meleed him (Only knocking him down), and carried out the objective unharmed on his lonesome.

Do people even play MAG anymore? My friend was desperate to get me to buy that game a couple weeks ago and then he suddenly told me to forget it because practically nobody is online in that game.

I expect the side objectives to be like the Container City video walkthrough, where the guy went to do an objective, saw ONE guy there, meleed him (Only knocking him down), and carried out the objective unharmed on his lonesome.

Do people even play MAG anymore? My friend was desperate to get me to buy that game a couple weeks ago and then he suddenly told me to forget it because practically nobody is online in that game.

I expect the side objectives to be like the Container City video walkthrough, where the guy went to do an objective, saw ONE guy there, meleed him (Only knocking him down), and carried out the objective unharmed on his lonesome.

Wasn't there a part cut out after he knocked the guy down and before he went to the Command Post I think it was?

People still play it. I play it with my girlfriend regularly. It may take a couple minutes to get into a game though since it requires so many people, but yeah its very much alive, just not in the best shape. The game does a bad job of explaining things, so I strongly suggest your friend join an experienced clan to teach him, its a complex game and way too tactical for the mainstream audience. He can find clans, as well as advice on the MAG forums.
The graphics of MAG svcks, so if your friend is a shallow gamer than he will instantly hate it. I hated MAG at first because it was so hard, but its addictive, and I now have over 400 hours on it.

Experienced clans don't tend to accept newbs. That's probably why he didn't even try. I don't think he minded the graphics too much, as he wanted me to get the game only after he'd played it.

Experienced clans don't tend to accept newbs. That's probably why he didn't even try. I don't think he minded the graphics too much, as he wanted me to get the game only after he'd played it.

I doubt it. Without Team Deathmatch this game is pretty much shot competitively. Also, from what I've seen, some maps favor one side over the other, which won't fly very well in the clan realm.