Splash Damage

I have just watched some footage of player movement, a question would be during these "smart" movement moments (which i think look silky smooth much like mirrors edge) can you fire your weapon? or reload your weapon or anything like this?\

@DavidEllis Just pulled off a really cool move where he ran by an enemy, slid by him, and blasted him with shotgun. #BrinkDemo

Yes. Yes you goddamn can.\

Another question i thought of, the sidemissions such as interrogating someone - are these always in the same spot? so you would always know where the guy to interrogate will be? also if you get some intel, how would this help the team? would it act like the radar in etqw and add the enemy positions to the map? also :wink: if you were playing offline and did this interrogation would it do anything for the team? :eek:\

In fact if you just keep checking your mission wheel throughout the game, you'll see the recommended mission keeps changing, based on what the most useful thing you can do for your team at that precise moment. \

All the sidemissions are dynamically generated by the gameplay itself, not pre-scripted. For example, if you got downed by the enemy team, and you decide you'd rather wait for a Medic to revive you than respawn in the next respawn wave, then Medics on your team will get a mission and waypoint to revive you. But enemy Operatives will get a mission to come and interrogate you. Hilarity ensues. \

This brings a whole new gameplay twist, rather than gibbing downed enemies so they can't be revived, you'll be gibbing downed team mates so they can't be interrogated :D\

This brings a whole new gameplay twist, rather than gibbing downed enemies so they can't be revived, you'll be gibbing downed team mates so they can't be interrogated :D\

A little guy doesn't have the psychological advantage of being a scary big brute. I know the philosophy is to let gamers sort it out themselves but surely it's a neat in both the fluff and gameplay to let scary big guys interrogate players faster.\

in the gameplay shown, you use a taser type device to interrogate. I don't believe there is any actual word play\

What I would like to hear about is the connection between character customization and class selection. \

And even then, I don't really care, in the Netherlands we don't give a damn about ratings, my six year old nephew could go out and buy ETQW if he wanted to.\

the theme of cyborg zombies coming to harvest humanity\

Oops, I'm starting it again. Anyway, we'll see how it works out... :) p.s. The most important thing, though, is of course to make a game that's tons of fun to play. :stroggbanana:\

Actually, that info's being held back at the moment to roll out as part of a big story about how our character advancement works. Good questions though! You should know more soon :) Same is true for more info about how abilities like interrogation work...\

gibs from gibbing yes, ragdoll and blood no, I've seen enough real blood to last me a couple lifetimes afaik, A-Team never actually killed anyone, they always surrendered even after having car/truck/building blown to pieces, they only "killed" inanimate objects\

Skip/turn off/mute buttons, please. If I am to be forced to watch something during mapload (other than a progress bar), tactical information is about the only thing that doesn't grate on the nerves.\

...20-minute long codec conversation... NEVER.

ritualistic suicide\

There's another way to use the wheel. You can tap the wheel button instead of hold it. This makes the "most important thing you can be doing at the moment" be the mission you take... the wheel doesn't even come up... the GUI just flashes to tell you what the new objective is. So it's nice for newbs who don't want to have to make decisions about stuff they don't necessarily understand, but it also works for experienced players too. If you're a medic and you're going to revive someone, if you tap the wheel, the person to revive we tell you about will be the nearest teammate who is critical to winning the match (i.e. an incapacitated engineer when the core objective needs to be repaired), saving you the trouble of eyeballing everyone. But again, in the heat of battle, if you see a man down, just go ahead and revive him. No need for the wheel if it slows you down. I tend to think of the wheel as having two uses: --during a "quiet moment" (not that it ever lasts long :) ) when you want to stop and think for a second, get yourself into a hidey hole and bring up the wheel to get a real idea of what's going on in the big picture. --after you've just finished doing something, if there's nothing immediately apparent to you that needs doing, but you want to keep moving, just tap the button and we'll recommend the best thing you can be doing for the team.\

if you're using voice recognition, the game has to understand what you're saying, even in one language you have regional dialects ie: the difference between American English and Irish English is huge, not a job I'd like to undertake\

Ah ok, dialects. Yes this is always going to be an issue with voice recognition, but we're potentially only talking about a few different commands here, so using a trained voice recognition method is a possibility. e.g. "mission" or "vchat" followed by numbers "0-9" is all you'd need to teach it. \