here's the link to the post.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/05/11/brink-%E2%80%93-an-update-from-splash-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-199758

Matthew Downham wrote on May 11th, 2011

I’m afraid this “zero hour” patch you implemented hasn’t fixed any of the problems on the 360 version of the game. Even though I ripped the disc to the hard drive, the game still takes several seconds to load textures in at all times. If I make a 90 degree turn and then turn back, all textures had disappeared and needs to take another 10 seconds to load. This happens at a consistent pace.

The game is still heavily aliased and blurry. Buildings & characters in the distance are so blurry and jaggy that it (no exaggeration) looks like an original Xbox title. The skybox and textures in the entire game are so heavily artifacted and suffer from so much banding it looks like it wasn’t put through QC at all. The quality of the art design is so high, and the character models in the menus look great- why does it render down to an Xbox quality display once I’m in-engine? It really looks like something is wrong, like something is seriously broken. This game does not display or run like a game on a modern console is intended to.

To be quite honest, the game looks, runs and feels like it’s playing below 480p and getting up-res’d to 720p on my television. Everything is just so low quality it’s hard to believe anyone even looked or playtested the 360 version prior to launch.

And these are just the graphical issues, which admittedly, are the tip of the iceberg. Myself and five of my friends were unable to play online at any point last night due to extreme lag. And I’m not talking about small lag, I’m talking “I can’t even move forward without getting rubber banded 20ft in every direction” lag. For a multiplayer game, this is an unprecedented cockup, and once again, looks like it was never even playtested.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, I’m a big fan of Bethesda and have enjoyed Splash Damage’s previous titles, but the heinous condition of Brink on the Xbox 360 is something you should be ashamed of. I’d love any of the SD/Bethesda team to see how this game runs for us, in our home conditions, and honestly confess that they’re proud of their work.

I believe they were so hyped about the game and the success it will bring and they forgot to fix things and only focused on the success it will bring from the community.

i cant believe they actually said the game was ready a week before the released primary date its absurd.

There is a great game here it's just unfinished. If this was a beta test where there was incentive to fix problems before retail it would be one thing but honestly they don't have any reason to fix the game at this point. If someone is thinking about purchasing this game I would wait and see if the issues are dealt with first. All the talk of a "Day one patch that fixed everything!" is obviously a bulwark against negative reviews.

Thumbs up for this post. It tells everything i would have told them ... (Excuse me bad english)

I haven't had any of the issues you are talking about (besides the lag). I believe it was play tested and it is in reality a problem with your T.Vs or X-Box's. The lag can be explained to simple P2P bad connections, although with that being said there is more they could have done. Keep in mind, they tested the online in an ideal environment, and they probably all run there consoles at home in ideal environments. I doubt they experience most of this because they have top of the line equipment. I am sorry to hear this is happening to you, but on that same token there is evidence that this isn't happening to most of the populus within the game.

I have never had an issue with any other game on my xbox or ps3 on the tv that i've been using for the past year. And I just bought the new xbox, talked to several different friends on xbox playing brink all with different setups, having different issues

I'm glad you aren't having any problems but this is happening to most of the folks playing this game on xbox.

Got a link to said evidence? :rolleyes:

I would encourage people to buy the game. Some lag is expected when playing p2p, and it should be expected. Some of the stuff I have read of others experience with the game is "Unbelievably" amazing to me. The lag at least for me is not that serious. I would just encourage people to buy the game. It is a great multiplayer and then some. I mean, I wished someone, anyone would have spoke this badly about HomeFront!!! Because that game was an utter piece of crap!!! But Brink is popping and refreshing from what we are use to in multiplaayers. I would like more interaction with the team I play with if I could change anything. there seems to be no communitcation and this game screams for it and is vital to game play!!!

your 100% wrong there. Its happening to EVERYBODY

I'm sick of people that aren't having issues telling others that there's no problem. If you don't have the issues, that's great, but many of us are, and we'd like to have them addressed.