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Op Ed

IncGamers- Why reviewers don't get Brink.
During the lead-up to the Brink reviews going live, Bethesda had organised numerous online play sessions on the 360 to allow reviewers to play together. John handled the Brink 360 review here at IncGamers and I asked him about it a couple of days in. His main comment was that reviewers didn’t really understand the importance of team play and it was incredibly hard to get any sort of rapport going with team members because they were largely unfamiliar with each other. John had indicated that he didn’t think a lot of people would 'get it'. It seems he was right.

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1. Re: Op Ed May 21, 2011, 16:45 Killswitch
 
There seems to be a lack of understanding about Brink's goals. Perhaps some players find it a little complex? With having multiple mission objectives and classes that play a vital role at different stages of the mission and near on-the-fly switching maybe that's a little too complex for some.

The goals listed on the HUD are totally confusing. You may not know what your team has to do if you aren't the appropriate class. The objective may simply be "defend the crane" when you are suppose to be defending the engineer who is trying to repair the crane. On that same map, when the opposing team is building the barricade, your goal is to "defend the barricade" when you should be killing the engineer who is trying to build it.

What would help is if all goals of your team were listed on screen at once. The ones requiring a different class being grayed out, but showing the class icon in it. Also, the current number of people who are the required class should be listed there so you don't have to scan the scoreboard.

This comment was edited on May 21, 2011, 16:54.
 
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