Right now the main focus really seems to be on the lights in this game. Almost everyone wants to be a ninja, especially with SMART. I believe, though, that the smallest portion of the playerbase will eventually be lights, because it will be extremely difficult to play well - or at least I hope it will. Now, I will contribute my thoughts once I have seen some of your guys' posts, but right now I want to know:

- What do you think a player will need to have, in order to be a succesful light?

Many players clearly don't have what it takes to be the swift commando on the battlefield, and I base this off of MAG, where you find 50% of the playerbase using heavy armor, 35% using medium, and 15% using light. And only a small portion of those lights make it onto the MVP leaderboard.

Uh, not to burst your bubble, but a lot of that has already passed about obsession with lights and most people have gotten the thought of not being a ninja through your head. However, a lot of talk has gone on about heavies vs lights which will seem pretty exciting, because both have their pros and cons. A light would easily be able to take down others, I think it mainly depends on the player [him/her]self. If [he/she] knows how to play their class well, with all the combo of their weapon and skills, and use the speed and SMART advantage in a way to help them stay alive.

Sorry to burst yours, but do you believe that the majority of the people that will get Brink are on these forums?

Anyone who plays the Scout from TF2 will have a general idea of what it is to play a light. You are fast and agile but one mistake and you are dead. I do agree that some of the light ninja crowd has diminished, but it will return when the games comes out. People would want to be and try a commando knifer and soon realize that it isn't a viable except to the most skilled, These people will come and go quickly when it isn't a viable opinion.

Lights will be very useful to their teams.

What you need to realize that your speed is your life. Hit and run tactics are your modus operandi. You don't have the firepower or the HP for any kind of sustained firefight. Lights will not only have speed but manueverability. This combined with the SMART system gives the light far more options in how to reach objectives, teammates, enemies etc,

I could go on but this is the basic points.

Its about how you play.

Agree.

I actually don't think that TF2 will help you that much, in terms of one mistake = death, yes, but as a scout in that game you had unrealistic speed and you'd avoid your enemies just by double-jumping, you didn't really use cover -that- much. Nor will TF2 help you in terms of aiming, since it was very much no-scope all the way.

What I think that players need to be, in order to excel at playing a light:

- Extremely good reflexes
- Awareness of when to retreat
- The ability to think in sequences
- Strong sense of his/her surroundings

isn't that good for anybody?

I'd say they need to use SMART a lot to make them a difficult target.

This would apply to most players, not just lights...

-Being able to see clever ways up to get around
-first instinct when getting shot at is to run and get on the roofs,
then maybe getting over them and shooting the up close before they notice you.

- using your speed and mobility to your advantage, rather than charging in head first
- taking into account your low health and playing accordingly
- realizing that Heavies are much better and changing your body type

Know your maps. being a light you have access to the whole map. Knowing how to get around them will make the light a hero.

This is by far the best tip.

Remember that when you guys are late to the party.

A good light is one that does not run headfirst into battle, but does not "camp" or hide. They support the heavies, and quickly flank the enemy and stab em in the back. If there is a timed objective, like an engineer needs to defuse a bomb, then a light will able to take the fastest route, and these types shoud focus on the objective whilst the others try and get to the objective, and defend it when they get there (or attack given the circumstances).

Light Operatives will be useful because they will be able to flank and get the team radar quickly. Though i think light engineer and medic will be the best classes for light as tmedics need to get to the battlefield and the engineer can put turrets on vantage points and defuse the bombs.

I sorta went off trail there, but in summary a light needs to be helping the team and getting radars and using their high manueverability to their advantage.

Damn Right!!!! As a matter of fact, i don't think we should even invite you anymore

We might be late, but the party doesn't even start until we show up. Until then, it's just a bunch of Light's standing around with their thumbs up their butt.

that sounds like a party to me

What about the mediums?

They pick up after everyone leaves.

We're fashionably late.

And since nobody remembers my manly man guide, I'll have to state again that it is the manliest way to fight by walking really slow with the biggest guns mowing down anything that moves.

Or completing objective while heavies are huffing and puffing and on the way.

We're only huffing and puffing, because we are busy keeping you alive.

make sure that you dont look at that awsome explosion behind you as you walk away in slow motion

Or the cheapest. Real men like us lights take them on with the weakest weapons and still kick [censored]. You guys need to be really girly and hide behind massive health bars and nooby spraying weapons. We are full on speed lightning offense who deals with things in the manliest ways.

whatever guys. Heavies and lights are both badass.