So I fire up Brink this morning, and queue up a freeplay Big Teams match. I get dropped into a game already in progress on Security in SecTow. There are 7 other human players on my team, so as I usually do, I go to scoreboard to see if there are other users on the other team (If there's only 1-3 people, I usually back out because I find no fun in outnumbering other players). To my surprise, the other team was packed...8 human users. When I dropped in they were already in Warden's Office, and a few minutes later one of my boys jumped into the game with me. So we had a full 8v8 match going, users vs users. And let me tell you, it had to be the best series of matches I've played to date on Brink. We ended playing 5 matches before the teams eventually dispersed, but hooooooooooooh boy where these matches white knuckle battles. Neither side dominated, and when one side actually did complete an objective it was by the skin of their teeth. I know this was a VERY rare occurrence that probably won't happen again anytime soon, which is why I had to post it here. Maybe inspire a few people to link up and make it happen themselves, because for me it was completely a stroke of randomness.

When you get those games is where brink really stands out... it is a white knuckle brawl as you said... and it is fun to have that sort of intensity...

brink is the [censored], but the community is just [censored]... i keep my fingers crossed for the day that this is not a rare occurrence

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This thread is further evidence that BRINK NEEDS MATCHMAKING.

If I could say "Public Freeplay, Faction Preference Resistance, search" I honestly wouldn't mind a few minutes waiting for a full match.

big teams is where its at !!

I usually get into full games at night using the chatroom workaround ,otherwise i would've put this game on the shelf a while ago......brink needs a matchmaking system, lobby , or server lists so that the community can connect properly and let the game show its true ability.

Amen. If the game at the LEAST had a lobby system, I'd be willing to look past all of the other stuff it's thin on. Still love the game to death, but it could be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. I can only hope that after the next update coming with the DLC, they're working on adding a lobby feature for MP. *crosses fingers*