Per iniziare visitate battle.brinkthegame.com ed inserite il vostro codice di accesso unico che trovate nel menu principale di Brink sotto la voce Online Stats.

Se invete vi siete già registrati potete creare subito il vostro clan e iniziare a sfidare i vari clan.
Per celebrare l’avvenimento si potrà giocare una partita free su steam dalle 10 AM PST di oggi fino alle 10 AM PST di Lunedì. Tutti quelli che giocheranno potranno poi acquistare il gioco con uno scontro del 75%.

Potete trovare altre informazioni in inglese qui e qui.

Forse sono arrivati un po tardi perchè il gioco ha perso molti giocatori e sicuramente era meglio aggiungere queste modifiche pochi mesi dopo il rilascio del gioco, però rimane comunque un ottimo aggiornamento per i pochi che sono rimasti o per quelli che ogni tanto tornano.

Potete trovare diverse informazioni in inglese qui sotto:

We’re close to releasing a comprehensive update for Brink, bringing full clan support, ladders and tournaments to all versions of the game. This update is currently in the final stages of testing and will be pushed out to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the PC version of Brink as soon as that is complete.

Since there’s a whole bunch of new stuff headed your way, we thought we’d give you a sneak peek of the goodness that awaits you:

Clans & Tournaments Beta Site

The centerpiece of Brink’s clan features will be the launch of the beta site for clans and tournaments at http://battle.brinkthegame.com, featuring several new sections and shiny new functionality.

Create a Clan

First and foremost, you’ll now be able to create and manage your own Brink Clan right on the website. Once you’ve selected a name for your Clan and registered it, it’ll get a dedicated profile page displaying its members as well as a breakdown of clan statistics like its current ranking, wins and losses, and upcoming Clan matches. From there, you’ll also be able to invite others to join your squad, toggle your Clan’s recruitment status, review applications of players applying for membership, and manage the privileges available to each of your Clan members.

Global Clan Ladder

Clan support is great, but we thought it’d be even better if you could challenge other clans and organize clan matches, too. For this purpose, we’ve got the Global Clan Ladder. It’ll display all of the Clans in Brink arranged by their current ranking and make it easy to find other Clans at similar skill levels.

From there, Clan leaders will be able to challenge other Clans to Clan Matches. Once a time for a match has been agreed, Brink will automatically create a match at the appropriate time and issue invites to all participating players. And if you happen to be playing Brink, you’ll be reminded of any upcoming matches that you’re scheduled to play.

The outcome of the match will affect the ranking of both participating clans. The winning team will see its ranking increased, while the losing outfit will drop a few points.

All matches on the Global Clan Ladder will be 5 vs. 5 and utilize Brink’s full map pool.

Event Ladders

In addition to the Ladder, we’ll also be able to run tournaments via the website, referred to as Event Ladders. These events will often have customized rule sets, such as smaller team sizes and very specific map pools. You’ll be able to register your Clan for these right on the site and, much like regular Clan Matches, Brink will create game sessions for each match automatically and send invites to the players. Winning an Event Ladder is no small feat, and if you make it all the way to the end, you’ll net a trophy to show off on your Clan’s profile page.

No Brink Website Account Yet? Register Now!

To take advantage of all this cool new functionality once the update goes live, including creating clans and playing in tournaments, you’ll first need to have an account on the Brink site. To do this, you will need your unique access code, which you can find within the main menu for Brink, under Online Stats. The code will link your player account to the site, which will feed information like your clan status and upcoming matches back into Brink. You’ll also get access to all the other great features already available on the site right now, including detailed statistics for your characters, summaries of your most recent matches, and much more. In short, if you haven’t made an account yet, now’s most definitely the time!

Game Updates

Finally, we’ll also be releasing game updates for all three versions of Brink alongside the Clans & Tournaments update. We’ll have more information on what’s in these very soon, so keep checking back!

Sono stati risolti diversi bug e sono state aggiunte nuove funzionalità che serviranno per il nuovo sito delle statistiche.

Come per tutte le altre patch la potete scaricare da steam per la versione PC e sulle console come sempre.

Potete trovare la lista completa dei cambiamenti qui sotto:

PC

Changes

• Implemented Clans & Tournaments support
• Re-enabled recordNetDemo, stopNetDemo and playNetDemo commands
• Removed cheat protection from the incap command
• Removed cheat protection from the following variables
• r_skipHaloRendering
• g_interactionUpdate (defaults to 200ms)
• g_interactionForecolor
• g_interactionBackcolor
• g_interactionSelectedBack
• g_interactionSelectedFore
• Disabled notification pop-up during intro videos
• Fixed lighting issues on the 2nd half of Resort
• Fixed players sometimes not being able to chat at the end-game review screen
• Fixed spectators not seeing hack objective progress
• Fixed player names sometimes disappearing for spectators

Weapon Tweaks

• Global
• Reduced spread on most weapons by 15% on average (except when knocked/downed)
• Reduced damage on most weapons by 5% on average
• Ironsighting is now slightly more accurate across the board
• Stationary/crouched is slightly more accurate across the board
• Pistols
• Reduced recoil/kick on Revolvers
• Reduced kick on Tokmak
• Reduced spread further on Kalt
• SMGs
• Increased spread rate on Galactic
• ARs
• Reduced spread rate on Gerund
• Improved accuracy on Rokstedi
• Increased recoil on Rokstedi
• Increased spread recovery rate on FRKN-3K
• Shotguns
• Reduced spread and damage further on the Shotguns
• HMGs
• Reduced recoil/kick on Maximus

Xbox 360

• Implemented Clans & Tournaments support
• Added objective HUD information for spectators
• Added player faction colors for spectator mode
• Added support for showing player health bars for spectators when looking the player
• Fixed potential crash in getting respawn length
• Fixed issue with physics commands not being synced to all clients
• Added clan name tags to all fireteam vote prompts and to the in game chat
• Disabled rendering and updating of notifications when the character selection screen is active
• Fixed Medics being able to spot disguised operatives by their orange health bars
• Fixed crash if adding player to fireteam before player object has been created
• Fixed not saving objectives completed and objective times after host migration
• Fixed signing in/out of system profile creating a new Hydra profile
• Fixed Notifications and Online Stats being greyed out on Main Menu
• Change to scoreboards so that players can view their own profiles
• Force a refresh of the notifications screen each time it is activated
• Set focus to default (first) list item each time the notifications screen is activated
• Disabled rendering and updating of notifications when the character selection screen is active
• Fix for accept button prompt not appearing in the notifications screen
• Fixed multiple clicking sounds when jumping during a match.
• Disabled notification pop-ups appearing during the intro videos

PlayStation 3

• Implemented Clans & Tournaments support
• Added objective HUD information for spectators
• Added player faction colors for spectator mode
• Added support for showing player health bars for spectators when looking the player
• Fixed potential crash in getting respawn length
• Fixed issue with physics commands not being synced to all clients
• Added clan name tags to all fireteam vote prompts and to the in game chat
• Disabled rendering and updating of notifications when the character selection screen is active
• Fixed Medics being able to spot disguised operatives by their orange health bars
• Fixed crash if adding player to fireteam before player object has been created
• Fixed not saving objectives completed and objective times after host migration
• Fixed signing in/out of system profile creating a new Hydra profile
• Fixed Notifications and Online Stats being greyed out on Main Menu
• Change to scoreboards so that players can view their own profiles
• Force a refresh of the notifications screen each time it is activated
• Set focus to default (first) list item each time the notifications screen is activated
• Disabled rendering and updating of notifications when the character selection screen is active
• Fix for accept button prompt not appearing in the notifications screen
• Fixed multiple clicking sounds when jumping during a match.
• Disabled notification pop-ups appearing during the intro videos

Solo una breve nota per farvi sapere che il prossimo aggiornamento per Brink (che inserirà la funzionalità dei clan e le modifiche alle armi per la versione PC) è nelle fasi finali di test / certificazione / etc.

L’aggiornamento è molto grande e presenta una serie di nuove caratteristiche che si inseriranno sul sito delle stats, è per questo che la fase di test è complicata.

Anche se sono rimasti pochi giocatori su Brink continuiamo il supporto e avremo più informazioni nei prossimi giorni.

Su Steam potete trovare due pacchetti con due Pre-Order bonus per solo 1.49 euro, come avevamo già annunciato sembra che la Bethesda non rilascerà nuovi DLC.

“Anyway, Brink’s full dev cycle was just shy of three years, though the first half of it was with a very small team, and the 2nd half of it was with a small team, compared to how big most modern shooter teams are. And for question #2, that’s up to Bethesda. If they want to pay for it to be developed (it costs hundreds of thousands of pounds to do this), then we want to make it…”

La Splash Damage è gia al lavoro su un nuovo Fps sempre basato sul multiplayer e stanno cercando anche nuovi sviluppatori per coprire i vari posti che mancavano su Brink.

La community richiede sempre l’SDK per creare nuove mappe e mod, ma anche il rilascio di questo programma dipende dalla Bethesda.

Sicuramente noi con Fpsitalia continueremo a seguire anche il nuovo titolo della Splash Damage, cercando di migliorare il nostro supporto che abbiamo dato su Brink con Brinkitalia e tutte le nostre news sperando in un gioco migliore.

Potete trovare altre informazioni e immagini su Brinkitalia.it

In particolare, la squadra in difesa nella modalità cronometro avrà un aumento di 10 secondi su tutti gli spawn ( è possibile personalizzare il tempo degli spawn dalla cfg),un nuovo HUD per gli spettatori con un segnale che mostra il progresso del obbiettivo, i colori della squadre e le barre della salute su ogni giocatore che faciliterà le telecronache. C’è anche un cambiamento notevole sui bilanciamenti in questo aggiornamento, con una diminuzione del “de-hacking” del 33%.

Come in precedenza, tutto ciò che dovete fare per scaricare questo aggiornamento è entrare nel vostro client di Steam.

Accanto all’aggiornamento per il client, abbiamo anche nuovi file per i server dedicati, che consentono l’impostazione di messaggi di benvenuto personalizzati ed alcune altre informazioni per i giocatori che si connettono al server.

È possibile trovare il changelog completo qui sotto:

• Balancing: Lowered Hacker terminal disarm rate to 0.6 (from 0.9)
• Spectator mode: Added new HUD displaying objective information
• Server Browser: Added dedicated/listen server type filter
• Added server information to map loading screens in multiplayer. Server admins can customise this via the following cvars:
  • si_website
  • si_adminName
  • si_email
  • si_irc
  • si_motd_1
  • si_motd_2
  • si_motd_3
  • si_motd_4
• Spectator mode: Added faction colors to player names
• Spectator mode: Health bars now visible when looking directly at players
• Stopwatch mode: Added 10 seconds to each defending team’s spawn time
• Stopwatch mode: Added support for custom defence respawn timer adjustments via g_stopWatchDefenceRespawnTimerAdjust
• Stopwatch mode: Added objective timing information to Stopwatch review screen
• Added support for listing players steam id’s via the listSteamIds cvar
• UI: Added automatic scrolling when typing in chat boxes
• UI: Stop context menus receiving focus when they are disabled and inactive
• UI: Game now forces a refresh of the notifications screen each time it is activated
• UI: Set focus to default (first) list item each time the notifications screen is activated
• UI: Updated two text strings for German and Italian, as “Game mode” and “Play mode” incorrectly used the same word
• Fixed player nametags disappearing despite not being affected by Flashbang
• Fixed boat shaking for clients in CCity and Shipyard opening cinematics
• Fixed Aquarium only ever logging one objective being completed
• Fixed having your weapon stuck in iron-sights for the entire refire duration when needing to perform an auto-reload
• Fixed issue with caltrop models not always being updated properly

C’è anche una versione aggiornata del server dedicato, che si può trovare nella scheda Strumenti di Steam. Se hai un server di Brink, ti consiglio di aggiornare il prima possibile cosi giocatori potranno tornare a giocare sul tuo server.

Nelle prossime settimane arriverrano anche informazioni sul DLC e sul torneo.