Brink is Free to play now, for some reason. - Sensationalist Headlines

[url]http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/345883-remember-game-brink-now-free-play-steam[/url] [QUOTE]Of all the strange announcements one could concoct on any given day, I'm not sure even the most outlandish saw this one coming, and that's probably because they forgot the game existed. But, here it is anyway: Brink, Splash Damage and Bethesda's parkour shooter from 2011, is now free-to-play on Steam. It was a markedly unceremonious occasion, coming from Steam's official Twitter account, linking to a two-sentence announcement, one of which was describing what the game is. Neither the game's developer, Splash Damage, nor its publisher, Bethesda, had any similar announcement on Twitter, seemingly highlighting how out-of-left-field and potentially irrelevant this announcement is.[/QUOTE] download it here: [url]http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/BRINK/[/url] no one knows why it went free to play, no announcements, they didnt change anything about the game, it just is.

There's never been a better time to jump in!

Great, when are they gonna controller support?

Well I think I'll grab myself a copy now. Don't know much about this, or if it's permanent. But, YOINK!

[QUOTE=Wii60;52601861]no one knows why it went free to play, no announcements, they didnt change anything about the game, it just is.[/QUOTE] Which still means that without specific dedicated server options, the game's also still at a 30FPS lock and crappy FOV, it's still almost unplayable solo after a certain point due to how the game scales AI difficulty and makes allies incompetent at handling primary objectives, and also invalidates the point of me getting the game for my birthday six years ago. v:v:v

TF2 killer. Wait...

yo wtf I paid money for this where's my refund! /s

Law Breakers has some tough competition.

[QUOTE=simzboy;52601898]Law Breakers has some tough competition.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CkGp3wK.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LJOzRtb.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Wii60;52601914][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CkGp3wK.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LJOzRtb.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] This is funny but damn do I feel bad for devs, since the core concept and gameplay look great.

[QUOTE=CruelAddict;52601924]This is funny but damn do I feel bad for devs, since the core concept and gameplay look great.[/QUOTE] I admit, I fell for it. I remember having the pc and console version as well. The console version was rather unplayable for me for some reason. Like 15 fps in any combat areas.

[QUOTE=CruelAddict;52601924]This is funny but damn do I feel bad for devs, since the core concept and gameplay look great.[/QUOTE] I feel sorry that the devs probably knew it would fade into nothing due to having to compete with tf2 and overwatch and on such late notice but the executives wanted lawbreakers. So... lawbreakers!

Brink was a good game Shame it was marketed so poorly, people didn't know what they were getting into. I loved it, unironically, unabashedly. It was a good game let down by a player base who didn't understand the game and devs who didn't know how to sell or keep updating it

Brink had an amazing art style and world. It was a shame Bethesda had to rush it's development. If they worked a few more months on it we'd be talking about a success rather than a failure.

My experience with brink was totalbiscuit gave it high praise so I bought it early on release. I haven't trusted his opinion since.

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;52602159]My experience with brink was totalbiscuit gave it high praise so I bought it early on release. I haven't trusted his opinion since.[/QUOTE] If Brink was released the way it was today, he'd be much, much harsher on it altogether now as he's barred down hard on crappy ports.

I liked brink :c

I Steam-one-time-use cancelled my Crysis 2 preorder and got Brink instead. That's three mistakes I wish I never made, all with the same $60.

Isn't Dirty Bomb basically Brink now?

[QUOTE=Breastigator;52602228]Isn't Dirty Bomb basically Brink now?[/QUOTE] All I know about Dirty bomb is that grenade spamming is a core mechanic and its awful.

When this game came out I hear of it, thought it was cool, then immediately forgot about it an never heard of it from others.

I remember when I first tried brink, I thought it had a lot of potential at first but that it felt like a rushed game in the end. The game they had envisioned would have been pretty fuckin cool but I bet a TON of features they wanted to add got dropped in favor of time/money.

I actually use "Brink" as a joke everytime there's nothing to play.

Honestly its not a bad game if you enjoy it for what it is. I never followed it, never was into the hype, and totally ignorant of everything cut or dropped, I still don't know what was cut or dropped besides "everything". Its a fun shooter, cool art-style, decent mechanics and an interesting though sparse story told via audio logs. I would buy it for 5, I would play it for free.

Brink was a legitimately good game, I had a lot of fun with it, but it was marketed like ass, ran like fucking shit on ATI/AMD, wasn't ever updated, and the complex mechanics left a lot of people who bought it thinking it was a normal shooter confused since it wasn't basic CoD controls. I'm definitely going to be playing it now, I just hope they update it hoping to cultivate some kind of community rather than just throwing it out there like Valve did with Alien Swarm...

[QUOTE=Feuver;52602243]All I know about Dirty bomb is that grenade spamming is a core mechanic and its awful.[/QUOTE] At the very least you can spam right back. The game is built around cheap kills. Right now with Javelin being released the only counter is going Javelin yourself or going Proxy and detmine-ing at their feet.

Since they made it F2P here's hoping for some added support and maybe even new stuff?

[QUOTE=SuperDuprKyle;52602596]Since they made it F2P here's hoping for some added support and maybe even new stuff?[/QUOTE] I doubt it. They couldn't even be bothered to announce it going free to play.

One word of advice: Don't rely on your teammates to know how to use each class' abilities. A lot of people pick soldier or medic and have a hard time filling the role.

I just started playing it again and wow, if any game deserved a sequel to expand and realize the potential of the first game's core concepts, Brink was it.