I just wanted to post this as a heads up for SD just in case they don't check brinkthegame.com as often as here.

'why am i lagging so much???? Did they not put the patch out? I'm hard wired to my xbox with fibre op i should not be lagging???'

'Same issue. Two humans, a hundred bots, and an unplayable game. '

'Played 4 games, and all lagged horribly. My internet is good too, and just for good measure I restarted it. First game I got into and I couldn't even move.'

'yea this game is goin to the garbage if somethin doesnt change within the next couple days i feel like they robbed me, promised all this good stuff and they cant even keep there game from lagging out, bunch of crooks '

'Not coming here to complain, just give feedback so hopefully they can be resolved.

First up, obviously, the Lag. Some matches are better than others, some are okay for parts of the match, but the lag is pretty bad.

Textures staying extremely low quality until you are right up on them. Im guessing they arent loading as quickly as they should be.

The enemy team's skins are not loading, i find myself fighting against blacked out generic characters with red outlines on them.


Obviously these post worry me as i'm getting Brink on the 360. Like i said just a heads up of the problems reported thus far for the xbox version.

Totally agree, the game is virtually unplayable online, I'm really pissed off now.

You make a good point about the textures staying low quality. I couldn't believe how awful the game looked. I just keep thinking, this is nothing like all the video's I have watched. Not only can I not move more than a step without freezing for a few seconds due to lag. The game looks like crap right now. I'm not always the greatest FPS guy out there. I'm too old to keep up with the kids, but because the lag is so bad, I rarely have a chance to even fire at someone. By the time I finally get my gun up to look down the sights, I am either frozen again, or the person is gone.

Ok kids every launch has more lag then normal due to getting serves up to speed. If you can't understand this go play something else and come back in a day or two. Also the bad lag stopped for me around 5pm eastern.

when PSN comes back up the lag will die down as well..everyone from there is on xbox live as well..

I don't understand where this is coming from. I think the game looks fine if not great. What do you mean by low quality?

This needs to be addressed. I played coop campaign and challenge rooms for roughly 11 hours today with my friends, not a single instance of any lag.. not even a slight hiccup in 11 hours, it felt like singleplayer. Then we went online and battled with lag through around 10 different games in the open mission mode until we decided to let it go for a while.

This game needs xbox 360 stabalization and a lobby system for all platforms.

I'm sure its been said 100 times but I feel like I need to say something after what Brink put me through.

The lag is TERRIBLE I would say out of all the matches I've played online, both campaign and freeplay or whatever its called about 75-80% are so laggy its unplayable. The only time its worked fairly well is when I go to a game mode NO ONE plays in and I host a server to invite friends into and then randomly people will trickle in, but even then its laggy for them sometimes, granted not as bad as normal. When I do get in a good server on standard I just tend to stay in it until it dies.

I cant play with any of my friends unless they join me because my rank is higher than theirs, and with the way lag is if they find a good server I cant join it because of my rank, but if I happen to find it, its fine.

The bots are useless, or overpowered, its never an in between. They can do nothing one time, and another time do a 180 and instant HS me from a ways away. Its also no substitute for actually playing with people. I'd prefer a server of people and no bots, doesnt even have to be a full server.

Single player is a JOKE its just multiplayer with bots....there is no singleplayer, why even TRY to make it look like there is. I dont mind that theres no singleplayer but I expect not to be told there is, and I would hope for a more polished MP if it were MP only.

As for the graphics I really dont see the issue, reminds me a lot of gears technology or maybe mass effect, the way textures blur out. Same with the cut scenes, so I really see no issue with it. Besides what does it matter if the textures arent crisp? They seem to emphasize moving a lot in this game rather than "camping" or stopping to admire the wall/window/door/floor.


Now I suppose I should add some good things.

Character creation is really good, I enjoy making my characters and I do put some effort into them. I also like trying out different guns with different attachments to try and find the right fit, and so far I've found some really good combos.

When you do get in a good server with actual people and not full of lame/hacking bots its really quite fun. You can get some awesome firefights going at choke points with medics reviving the fallen, people throwing grenades at the bodies to thwart medics, engineers laying down mines and turrets in choke points and other people flanking around behind.

So I guess I'm saying there are some GLARING mistakes in this game that I'm truly surprised they released it with, but overall I see this game being very fun when they fix it, and I hope that brink 2 will do away with the bad and add some more good. I'm not giving up hope yet, but it all depends on how they manage the mistakes they made in this game.

Posts like these make me happy that I'm a PC gamer.

Anyways, it still is barely 24 hours after launch, Im sure that alot of the problems will be fixed within the next week.

The console versions doesn't use servers.

Play in the Competition area instead of standard. Way less lag. I'm playing in that setting until the patch comes out.

the lag on 360 is crazy, i cant even complete one match without glitching through walls and all over the map.... very not cool bethesda.... but par for the course with games you people launch.... new vegas has been out 7 months and its still not fixed.... i guess its my own fault for believing u would get your ish together.... oh well
and no lobbies? really? i guess none of u developers have friends u want to play with.... well some of us do and its impossibly hard to play a game with friends.... very disappointed.