Splash Damage

just what I was hoping for, you guys can read people's thoughts! :stroggbanana:

Awesome! It's great to see the videos in fullscreen without any quality loss and flash player lags.

Looks nice in HD. :)

in case some missed this on that page, here's it injected into ur eyes :D

There is NO GFWL, as mentioned several times

Thinking about it Joe is quite cryptic.\

sometimes things are as simple as they are: it's a picture of the first official box art, and it hasn't been on any news yet, so i thought i'd share :D

well, that's not really 'official' box art. the bethesda marketing guys are experimenting with lot of different box art concepts. that's one of about half a dozen that i've seen floating around so far. where'd you get it, joe? also, the rating at the beginning of the hi res trailers is actually a rating for the trailers themselves. the full game won't have a rating for quite awhile...

From the link below i believe, it's at the right hand side in the latest screenshots section [url]http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/51825/Seventeen-Minutes-Of-HD-Gameplay-From-Splash-Damages-Brink[/url] EDIT: Joe wins... go to bed already!

it says GFW, it's not quite the same as GFWL imo :)

sometimes things are as simple as they are: it's a picture of the first official box art, and it hasn't been on any news yet, so i thought i'd share :D\

Aren't I glad I didn't move onto discussing the implications of him wearing only one shoe. That would be embarrassing. :o

in case some missed this on that page, here's it injected into ur eyes :D [image cut] \

Speaking of that image, I noticed that in the e3 trailers the only dodge locki ever does is a slide. Are there [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqvYioc658&feature=related"]other dodges[/URL] being considered like that depicted in the concept box art?

I must say that is some of the best box art I have ever seen. Eye catching yet remains aesthetically pleasing.\

Are you serious? I thought it was a joke photoshopped by someone and put on the internet. That poor guy looks like he has been starving for weeks and running with sandals is never a good idea. I like the blue color and the whatdoyoucallit tower in the background though.

You can download an HD version of the Brink gameplay videos here: [URL="http://www.gametrailers.com/game/brink/11373"]http://www.gametrailers.com/game/brink/11373[/URL]. Choose to watch the video in hd and then click the download button below the video, then choose the format (.mov/.wmv)

I must say that is some of the best box art I have ever seen. Eye catching yet remains aesthetically pleasing. I really hope they opt for something like this over the generic action man pose on black. Oh and what not to do: \

Couldn't agree more. That artwork is brilliant. No other game has that. And yes ME2 is terrible. Cliché'd and ugly.

Slide is our main one. We talked about doing more, but in the end, a lot of them just end up being fancy gun ballet for it's own sake, since they don't actually help you that much in game. Whereas a slide is very powerful by making you half as tall while still moving full speed and having full aiming and shooting. A skinny body type player who's master sliding is very dangerous :)\

Aw not even a tiny wall-jump? In games like UT3 (or even back to 2003) it's brilliant to get away from a wall and avoid the splash damage from explosives that way.

How does that slide thing work anyway? Is it possible to spam all the way through a map?

How does that slide thing work anyway? Is it possible to spam all the way through a map?\

At one point in test, yes :D. People used it almost exclusively. You saw how long people were sliding in the video? Yeah. That's not going to happen unless they accrue velocity some other way. Now it's toned down a bit so that overall, there's not much benefit on the flat (though it's useful for carrying velocity over medium length obstacles, after a vault) and is much more about ducking out of the way of fire or ramming up next to an obfuscating wall if you see trouble coming (note, we don't do magnetic wall stuff). Still definitely useful - just not game breakingly so. Also, there's a little bit of perpendicular acceleration available in the slide (same sort of amount you get in air), so although you can't accelerate faster during the move, you still feel a bit more in control, or you can slow down to break out of the move faster (though you have to commit to the move for a minimum amount of time).

Slide is basically hitting the crouch button while sprinting. You can spam them like crazy, but on the whole, you'll end up being a little slower that just sprinting normally. It's really there as a defensive maneuver (smaller low target), to get under low things, and as a melee attack...

Slide is basically hitting the crouch button while sprinting. You can spam them like crazy, but on the whole, you'll end up being a little slower that just sprinting normally. It's really there as a defensive maneuver (smaller low target), to get under low things, and as a melee attack...\

Oh god no..... Please if you ever listen to me about anything please listen to this. DO NOT MAKE SLIDING A MELEE ATTACK. And if you do, not a one hit kill. If so it becomes the prefered weapon of choice, and can even be game breaking. Look to the Fear 2 multiplayer for an example. Honestly when playing that game a soldier with heavy armor, max med packs and NO weapons is the best class. The slide out powers nearly every gun in that game. Personally I think the inclusion of it as a melee attcak is rediculous to begin with. I mean honestly what kind of idiot is going to slide tackle some one in the midst of a battle. Perhaps allowing it to blur the enemies vision but cause no damage would be acceptable, but the fact is it should not be the beastly one hit kill of FEAR 2. *shudders*

don't worry. it does no damage at all, and i don't think anyone would complain of it being overpowered. :) it's part of the broader melee package that's i'm not supposed to talk about but which has a very different approach than the standard shooter fare. i imagine there'll be stuff revealed about it in the new year.

i imagine there'll be stuff revealed about it in the new year.\

Fine. I can go in hibernation then. :(

Slide is basically hitting the crouch button while sprinting. You can spam them like crazy, but on the whole, you'll end up being a little slower that just sprinting normally. It's really there as a defensive maneuver (smaller low target), to get under low things, and as a melee attack...\

Not sure whether this has been asked before Rahdo... Is there any significant speed increase sprinting, if a player switches from their main weapon, to a lighter gun?

I wonder if somebody asked that already, but anyway. Can I slide under the table and hide there? :D\

Yes, provided you'd be able to crouch and waddle under the table as well. If you've read any of Paul's previous interviews, we're all about running over tables, not under!

Not sure whether this has been asked before Rahdo... Is there any significant speed increase sprinting, if a player switches from their main weapon, to a lighter gun?\

Currently we're not doing that old Counterstrike "run with a knife to the battlefront" chestnut.

Currently we're not doing that old Counterstrike "run with a knife to the battlefront" chestnut.\

Never played CS, but I know it was definitely a feature on QW and something that the Heavy Soldiers had to master. In Brink I guess it would make sense not to include it - to give the athletic / skinny guys that distinct agility advantage. Thanks for the reply.

can we see this on the next Brink movie release? An enemy sliding to see how hard it is to hit him. And, can you ask Locki to show us some crouch+shoot moves, it will be great to see. THX in advance :D\

You can see one slide in part 1 of the containercity gameplay at 2:56. Fluffy_gIMp comes sliding in and gets shot down before he stands up.

In the playtest today, I was charging a guy and he was firing back, had me dead to rights, but I slid, he shot over my head, and I kept firing while I was sliding, and dropped him like a bad habit. It was beyond awesome!

Currently we're not doing that old Counterstrike "run with a knife to the battlefront" chestnut.\

Interesting. That makes me think, what about an option to unequip everything so you gain a slight speed/SMART boost (both hands free after all) at the cost of not being able to do anything else? Then again, that would just mean yet another option and I don't think the game controllers have that many buttons.

Interesting. That makes me think, what about an option to unequip everything so you gain a slight speed/SMART boost (both hands free after all) at the cost of not being able to do anything else? Then again, that would just mean yet another option and I don't think the game controllers have that many buttons.\

Oh I wouldn't be too sure about that: PS4 FTW! :tongue: lol :D

PC usually (everyone's got one on their desk... not everyone has console dev kits :) )

Closed beta normally means behind closed doors, could be one now and people in it aren't allowed to say they are a part of it due to NDAs. People think best way to get in is to brown nose your way in like tokomat has been trying to do since he signed up on these here forums.

Yeah you guys got me, I've been preparing this for years trying to be as active as possible in the Quake Wars forums and all, just for that month of getting to play a malfunctioning version of a game I'll be buying anyway. Seriously, if you think I'm here to brown nose developers you've it wrong. The beta will probably distributed through planetspy or whatever that site is called just like with QW and I'm not going to pay a subscription to be part of that. I'm here because speculating about game mechanics fascinates me.

I remember Locki said that there will be a closed beta open to family and friends... tokamak, i don't like him... but... i will give him my vote for beta or forum moderator in the blink of an eye