After playing Brink for a while, I noticed that, when taking a command post and at the beginning of boards, my character does not look like my character. What I mean is, that after I have customized my character, when the view switches to 3rd person, my character does not have any of the custom features that I have set in place. My character looks nothing like what he should look like. This is very frustrating coupled with the fact that the "near limitless" customization as advertised is anything but "near limitless". In fact, the character customization is very limited which I found to be irritating. A word of wisdom to the program developers, don't promise what you can't give. It will always hurt you in the end. Hopefully the patches and free DLC will fix this.

I have the same problems and i made tons of threads and post about it here and on SP's forum too. My character usually doesn't show up until a few matches in,which really defeats the purpose of the customization. The voices do the same thing.

Yeah not seeing you character in his proper gear is really annoying. I hope SP will correct it with a patch. i dont get wy 50% of the time it shows it properly and the other 50% its just some random guy

I have had the very same issue. But that doesn't bug me as much as the voices. I mean, it definitely bugs me that my character doesn't actually decide to look like he should until a couple of matches in but what really annoys me is the fact that on one of my characters, I gave him the African accent but instead, he has the freaking british accent. Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but little things like that are really starting to annoy me.

i noticed this too. i was looking forward to a patch because i thought this game really had potential to fill the space the last few major FPS games have left, but it really didnt. this game is a disappointment in my opinion.

well that has only happened to me when i join in mid game but next game it is fine

I will love this game alot more than I already do when they patch up little and big problems that some times occur.

This. And it usually fixes itself after a few minutes.

I think that what happens is, to get you into a game as fast as possible, Brink doesn't even bother loading or syncing your character. It just puts you in the match, and then it loads and syncs your appearance in the background as you play. When that process is done, you (and others) will start seeing your proper appearance.

Are you sure that you haven't been playing resistance with a character only customized for security or vice versa?

Stop exploding, Genius.

Let me explain what's going on, so those of you that are not technically inclined can understand what's going on.

When you connect to a game, you're character's skin and model are not on the Host's cached content that is passed between the host and the clients (everyone else on the P2P network)

In order to avoid the lag of downloading, caching, and uploading the models of players constantly joining and leaving games, a new player is given the skin of the host.

Once the next match loads, all of the new players will be properly skinned in their own customization. That way all the lag happens before a match, not during it.



On a side note: If it bothers you so much, remove Sense of Perspective, it's much better to be able to dodge bullets instead by being able to move... just MHO.