Brink DLC out early July

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 24 June, 2011

Title update coming to console versions.

The free Brink downloadable content Agents of Change will launch in early July, Bethesda has announced.

It had been due out this month.

Agents of Change, which includes two new environments, five new player abilities, two new outfits and two new weapon attachments, will be free for two weeks on the PlayStation Network, Steam and Xbox Live. It is currently in submission at Microsoft and Sony.

Also in the works is a "major" title update, set to bring online optimization, AI enhancements and weapon balance tweaks based on player feedback.

This will launch for PS3 and Xbox 360 alongside Agents of Change. A separate, incremental update is now available on PC.

Eurogamer's Brink review fired an 8/10. "Brink is an exceptional team shooter, smart, supremely well balanced and with a unique, exciting art style," reviewer Simon Parkin wrote.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • AcidSnake #1 11 months ago

    I believe this game's dead anyway...In its first week my whole friends list played this...Now I only ever see one person playing it...
    The horrible connection issues on launch have murdered it...
    Edited by AcidSnake at 24/06/11 @ 15:59

  • PixelPirate #2 11 months ago

    People are still playing this?

    It went to £25 quid odd in Tesco 2 weeks after it was out, which basically means nobody is buying it at all.

  • carlitoswagon #3 11 months ago

    Simon Parkin was either playing a different game, getting a blow job or insanely drunk (or all 3) when he reviewed Brink and scored it 8/10.

    Everyones opinion is different and everyone is entitled to form & voice their own, but to be so far off the mark means you are full of shit.

  • spudsbuckley #4 11 months ago

    I rented it a couple of weeks ago. It's dead as a doornail, the human players were outnumbered by bots in every single game i joined and it was laggy as fuck most of the time. Sad thing is, it's not a bad game at all when it does work.

    As much as i hate script-kiddie speak, this game was an Epic Fail.

  • Bravestinsane #5 11 months ago

    @PixelPirate

    I bought it for £25 on day 1 from Asda

    Mind you that was a PC version i don't know if your on about console or pc

  • jonbwfc #6 11 months ago

    If you log in you do still see a lot of people playing it yes. I've been in pretty full games every time I've been on this week on PSN.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #7 11 months ago

    God i wish the graphics looks like those screenshots, im guessing there from the PC version as the HUD is different for not having to access stuff through the Dpad.

    But have to say ive been playing it last week and actually quite enjoying it when you get decent amount of human players, not noticed any lag either so hopefully thats fixed, but it is hard to find a room with a decent amount of human players.

    Was thinking about trading in after i get the last few trophies but might wait to see what this DLC is like first as its free.

  • asphaltcowboy #8 11 months ago

    Well, I haven't played it in a little while, but I'm looking forward to all this new content!

  • Vortex808 #9 11 months ago

    I'm looking forward to the new maps, it'll be nice to have a few extra maps to play and some hopefully interesting new abilities to invest in. I think I'll probably fire this up tonight actually, it's been a while since I played it.

    I've had no lag issues apart from the odd spike when players connect/disconnect since the last major update, so I really don't know why so many people are having such issues with it.

    Each to their own, but I can't understand where a lot of the hate for this comes from. It had a bad start due to laggy online admittedly, but lots of major releases have had that too. The game is great fun and well balanced IMO.

  • lordofthedunce #10 11 months ago

    still playing and enjoying this, glad I had stuck with it. Though the problems I had seemed quite minor compared to some of what I was reading.

    Some DLC will be welcome.

  • KDR_11k #11 11 months ago

    Only free for two weeks? Considering how little content it shipped with they should make the DLC free forever, as a reparation for charging such an outrageous price for it.

    I attribute the 8/10 to the reviewer rating his imagination of what a properly conducted team game would look like instead of what he actually played.

    The hate for the game comes mostly from objective locations turning into total clusterfucks as 20 players try to fight in a small room over a single point.
    Edited by KDR_11k at 24/06/11 @ 16:22

  • NunianVonFuch #12 11 months ago

    Only started playing this properly this week, not enough human people in my couple of games yesterday (max of 4, mostly 3 though) but I'll give it another chance. Getting 20e or so for it is very tempting though, spend it on a game that's fun rather than a slog to play =D

    Team Fortress going Free 2 Play today is surely a big nail in it's coffin though

  • DefendoCroc #13 11 months ago

    Shamefully crap netcode on consoles killed this game before it even had a chance to get going, way to go SD, epic fail indeed :(

  • azazel76 #14 11 months ago

    if ever there was a case of giving a good review score for site advertising money this was it...........8/10 my arse

  • asphaltcowboy #15 11 months ago

    @guillotine - When it works, it's properly good. Patches seem to have fixed most, if not all the lag issues. As others have said, you get a little when people join as it has to sync all their stats/load up their specific character configuration.

  • Tryhard #16 11 months ago

    It is £20 brand new in my local Morrisons.I stopped and looked at it for 5 seconds,then went and bought some crusty rolls.

  • vmanb #17 11 months ago

    Got this but quickly returned to gamestation for a full refund although that £20 deal at morrisons is tempting. Wasn't worth 40 but for 20 notes might be worth another look. Had it on the 360 but as many have mentioned the online problems, does anybody know if the ps3 version is any better?

  • collateral89 #18 11 months ago

    ye i qwite liked this game at first but it started gettin boring fast

  • cw- #19 11 months ago

    Is this game less than £9.99 and on Steam yet?

  • Retro_ #20 11 months ago

    It's a decent online game, offline needs a few AI tweaks though.

  • KDR_11k #21 11 months ago

    It's still full launch price on Steam, not even remotely a good deal.

    I think the netcode is decent, the real problem is hosting on residential connections which aren't designed for that (and often not even allowed to). Obviously there will be lag if you expect random dudes to run servers for 16 people. At least it allows you to point at enemies to shoot at them instead of guessing where they will be a second from now as the Unreal Engine 3 expects you to.

  • kinky_mong #22 11 months ago

    Two new outfits and two new attachments? Sweet, the five people who are still playing this can make some new barely visible changes to their baggy clothed, Easter-Island-Head mongoloid character, and further weaken the pathetic pea-shooters that pass for guns in the game.

  • metalangel #23 11 months ago

    At least you'll have some new scenery while you plow through the achievements.

  • Amazing_Scenes #24 11 months ago

    They should have released this dlc way way earlier if they wanted this game to have a long-term life span. The 2nd piece of dlc should be about to be released. Instead its dead on arrival.