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I didnt know that something like this works.....
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dawn-of-brink/702947

It works, it looks pretty good as well. It's not something revolutionary though and only time will tell if it actually works as well as they want it to.

It does look very promising as a movement system. One of the recent videos (might be your link, didn't actually watch it) has a good amount of footage of someone jumping around with it to show off some things you can do, and it didn't look bad. The first time I saw anything about the game Mirrors Edge was definitely the first thing that came to mind.

The actual gameplay seems a little weak as far as FPS' go, but the movement system itself will probably be pretty solid.

Yeah, it was the gameplay videos that reminded me of Mirrors Edge. I didn't know about the game when the first bit of media came out, so the first video I ended up seeing was a very short clip of the S.M.A.R.T system. Basically a first person view of the player running at something, vaulting up and over it, and then doing the almost iconic Mirrors Edge style slide underneath a large pipe object all in one fluid motion.

I'm somewhat interested in seeing an extended video of other players using the movement system in unique ways during multiplayer instead of basically always seeing things from the first person view.

WallyWorld wrote:Basically a first person view of the player running at something, vaulting up and over it, and then doing the almost iconic Mirrors Edge style slide underneath a large pipe object all in one fluid motion.

Yeah the slidey thing was what did it for me. It's like they literally took that animation out of Mirror's Edge.

WallyWorld wrote:I'm somewhat interested in seeing an extended video of other players using the movement system in unique ways during multiplayer instead of basically always seeing things from the first person view.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. If the animations look as cool and fluid in 3rd person I'd be very impressed. Until then I'll take it with a pinch of salt. Sometimes things being hyped can turn out badly. I'm optimistic though.

Actually, the graphics reminds me of borderlands... Without all the outlines.

Ugh, I say, ugh.

It looks like they got Mirror's Edge, took out the stuff that I liked, then added everything I hate about mainstream FPSs.

No thanks.

Also, "Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain button" is an irritating and pretentious term.

Zhukov wrote:Ugh, I say, ugh.

It looks like they got Mirror's Edge, took out the stuff that I liked, then added everything I hate about mainstream FPSs.

No thanks.

Also, "Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain button" is an irritating and pretentious term.

They could work it out similarly to Modern warfare 2's controls of being able to climb up certain surfaces... But this is more of a random terrain so yeah...

Maybe not ONE button but a few more for those who thinks they don't need to mash that button to climb up.

Maybe climbing related actions are done by holding jump. Ground level and lower based action are done by holding that action button.

That would be similar to how Mirror's Edge did it, with an up and down button for the jumps and slides (basically). Probably a better way of doing it if there is a little more control needed. They probably chose to use only one button for Brink because they wanted to be able to use all the other buttons for various other FPS game uses. Of course this then makes me think it is just going to be a console game, likely ported to the PC without much if any work done to convert it.

The Brink S.M.A.R.T. button is a one button does all action button for movement throughout the environment. Instead of the separate up and down action buttons like Mirror's Edge, they have the camera determine whether or not the player wants to slide or jump. Slide by pointing the camera below the middle, jump by having it above. But thats Brink.