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Jasconius
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Tribes Ascend is excellent.
It's coming out in Q1 2012. It will be free to play, driven by micropurchases. It's currently in "beta", but at the moment ANYONE can play for free by "Like"ing the official Tribes Ascend page on Facebook ... so yeah, if you want to play, do that.
http://www.tribesuniverse.com/
It's being made by Hi-Rez, who created the lukewarm Global Agenda, realized that they were just building a mediocre version of Tribes, and said fuck it and bought the Tribes franchise. This game is way better than GA. And amazingly for a beta it feels better and more stable than GA did even after release.
A quick explanation of Tribes for people who haven't played it.
First of all if you say this looks like a Halo ripoff I will bludgeon you in the face with my own face until you are dead and cannot say these things anymore.
Tribes is a team tactical shooter where you get a jetpack and can slide across the map without friction (skiing). It usually is played on very large, open maps where players can rocket around at very high speeds. High speeds combined with slowish projectile weapons makes for very challenging combat. This makes Tribes less twitchy and more about keen perception and timing. In terms of actual gameplay, Tribes is mostly a Capture the Flag game and has many similarities to Team Fortress 2 in that there are classes, roles, offense and defense, etc. There are also vehicles and base infrastructure that can be upgraded and maintained.
For people who've played Tribes games before
TA is like an extremely faithful port of Tribes 1 that borrows some of the better parts of T2 and TV. The whole thing is a love letter to the franchise and they pretty much nailed it.
Key differences:
- Loadouts are class based now, and classes must be unlocked with XP or money (this is why the game is free)
- No more ditzy field commander stuff from Tribes 1 or 2
- All armor classes have their own varieties of the classic weapons with balance adjustments. This adds a hell of a lot more balance to the armor classes now, so medium armor isn't completely worthless and lights can't rape everything. As a nice touch, some of the varieties of weapons are homages to the older games. The Light spinfusor looks and sounds exactly like the T2 one. The medium one looks like the T1 version. The heavy spinfusor is a new model entirely.
- The speed curve has been flattened to not totally alienate new people. You can go from 0 to max speed more easily, things like disc jumping are still in the game but less effective. There won't be a whole lot of 11 second flag-to-flag caps in TA. Possible but just not as easy anymore.
- You get points (credits) during matches for completing basic objectives (killing people, capping, chasing enemy flag carriers, repairing, making super sweet mid-air shots). You can flip these credits into summoning vehicles or calling air strikes, upgrading turrets, etc.
- Unfortunately, no grappling hook.
- There is a lot less splash damage in general now. They are still working on this in beta, but at the moment missed spinfusor and mortar shots are much much much less forgiving.
- Vehicles suck more than usual. I have yet to see anyone use a vehicle to do anything but dick around and get killed.
VIDEOS
If you haven't seen Tribes before this is a great video just for seeing what skiing is all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBAYt3N2tI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcNnU3D5rHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJrVO-tPDdg
Now just some e-peen videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBunkT6mZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWM2IUMX2E
I'll go find some more later.
I've been playing it as often as I can before my laptop overheats and the ethernet shuts off. It's pretty damn fun.
PLAYER LIST
I don't know if it works off of your HiRez account name, or your player name, so I'll just put both:
Forum | HiRez | Player
Jasconius | Jasconius87 | Jasconius
Romanian My Escutcheon | ??? | ThatJerkRMED
Jerkbot | ??? | Jerkbot
It's coming out in Q1 2012. It will be free to play, driven by micropurchases. It's currently in "beta", but at the moment ANYONE can play for free by "Like"ing the official Tribes Ascend page on Facebook ... so yeah, if you want to play, do that.
http://www.tribesuniverse.com/
It's being made by Hi-Rez, who created the lukewarm Global Agenda, realized that they were just building a mediocre version of Tribes, and said fuck it and bought the Tribes franchise. This game is way better than GA. And amazingly for a beta it feels better and more stable than GA did even after release.
A quick explanation of Tribes for people who haven't played it.
First of all if you say this looks like a Halo ripoff I will bludgeon you in the face with my own face until you are dead and cannot say these things anymore.
Tribes is a team tactical shooter where you get a jetpack and can slide across the map without friction (skiing). It usually is played on very large, open maps where players can rocket around at very high speeds. High speeds combined with slowish projectile weapons makes for very challenging combat. This makes Tribes less twitchy and more about keen perception and timing. In terms of actual gameplay, Tribes is mostly a Capture the Flag game and has many similarities to Team Fortress 2 in that there are classes, roles, offense and defense, etc. There are also vehicles and base infrastructure that can be upgraded and maintained.
For people who've played Tribes games before
TA is like an extremely faithful port of Tribes 1 that borrows some of the better parts of T2 and TV. The whole thing is a love letter to the franchise and they pretty much nailed it.
Key differences:
- Loadouts are class based now, and classes must be unlocked with XP or money (this is why the game is free)
- No more ditzy field commander stuff from Tribes 1 or 2
- All armor classes have their own varieties of the classic weapons with balance adjustments. This adds a hell of a lot more balance to the armor classes now, so medium armor isn't completely worthless and lights can't rape everything. As a nice touch, some of the varieties of weapons are homages to the older games. The Light spinfusor looks and sounds exactly like the T2 one. The medium one looks like the T1 version. The heavy spinfusor is a new model entirely.
- The speed curve has been flattened to not totally alienate new people. You can go from 0 to max speed more easily, things like disc jumping are still in the game but less effective. There won't be a whole lot of 11 second flag-to-flag caps in TA. Possible but just not as easy anymore.
- You get points (credits) during matches for completing basic objectives (killing people, capping, chasing enemy flag carriers, repairing, making super sweet mid-air shots). You can flip these credits into summoning vehicles or calling air strikes, upgrading turrets, etc.
- Unfortunately, no grappling hook.
- There is a lot less splash damage in general now. They are still working on this in beta, but at the moment missed spinfusor and mortar shots are much much much less forgiving.
- Vehicles suck more than usual. I have yet to see anyone use a vehicle to do anything but dick around and get killed.
VIDEOS
If you haven't seen Tribes before this is a great video just for seeing what skiing is all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBAYt3N2tIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcNnU3D5rHchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJrVO-tPDdgNow just some e-peen videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBunkT6mZ0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWM2IUMX2EI'll go find some more later.
I've been playing it as often as I can before my laptop overheats and the ethernet shuts off. It's pretty damn fun.
PLAYER LIST
I don't know if it works off of your HiRez account name, or your player name, so I'll just put both:
Forum | HiRez | Player
Jasconius | Jasconius87 | Jasconius
Romanian My Escutcheon | ??? | ThatJerkRMED
Jerkbot | ??? | Jerkbot
this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
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They've limited the user-generated deployables in the game. Only two classes have deployables
The technician has a single turret he can drop which is quite strong, and there is a Heavy class which has a modest panel force field he can prop up in front of the flag, though it is destroyable.
If you got a bunch of guys to play those classes you could make a nice nest, but because flag stands tend to be in the open, they are hard to defend for a long time.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
every game
Romanian My Escutcheon | ThatJerkRMED
Once people start buying/unlocking more classes the matches will become a little better. Right now with 70% of the players playing as Soldier it's pretty much
Both teams take flag
Skirmish around until someone finally dies
Hope you can cap before your flag gets taken again because your flag carrier is in medium armor
What they REALLY need to do is have a weekly free class (or two) so that new people aren't stuck playing the two most boring classes for a week.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
buildin' turrets
fortifyin' bases
fixin' those gens
My entire huge multiplayer FPS skillset is based around being the dude who is rad with vehicles.
SE++ tribesthread? My dreams have come true.
i'm Jerkbot in-game. Or, i'm pretty sure i am.
Also the splash damage of all weapons in general is poor and that hurts vehicles pretty badly since it's harder to be razor accurate with them.
I think they'll work on it. They're still in reasonably early beta.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
what are the chances of it being mac-friendly
and that too hurts vehicles pretty badly
seriously that missile launcher is awesome
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
It isn't.
I'm playing on a fully loaded current gen Macbook Pro with bootcamp. And it dips below 20 FPS quite a bit. They haven't put "low" detail settings in yet, but I guess when they do it will be much better. Playable right now, but not great.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
i would love to be slinging those things around on the forums, considering that my only friend who plays pc games has decided that this is going to be one of the games he arbitrarily refuses to play, much like he did with League of Legends.
edit: as a clarification, people who pre-ordered to get into beta get invite codes, but people who were invited by others don't. Which is kind of ridiculous, seeing as I got an invite given out in a contest, by hirez before the beta even started.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
it's kinda fun
it would be more fun if you were given access to more than 2 of the bajillion possible loadouts, but i guess they gotta make money somehow
unless there are levels of depth to this that i haven't seen yet, i will probably fuck around with this for a few days and then go back to quake
I suck but it's fun.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
I'm still adjusting to how open the levels are.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Thus the Tribes franchise is RUINED FOREVER yet again.
have no idea what the fuck I'm doing
as for the second one, I'm not sure why I didn't get more into it, I don't really remember
what I can say is that I loved the concept and played the first one whenever possible back then, so I'm really excited for this
it was so good to hear that in the video
this scout ran me down on Frontier, I shot him with a crossbow bolt and ran around a corner
and in that split second, I thought, "he's going to expect me just to book it". and I knew that with my remaining twenty health or so, I was boned unless I did something crazy
so I pulled out my saw, waited a tick, went back around the corner, and there he was
right in front of me
at perfect saw range
one hit, BLAM
the feeling of reading someone like a book and outplaying them perfectly is just so satisfying
I was defending on Zanzibar (the map with the huge rotating structure) and we'd just killed off their team with like 20 seconds left in the round so I knew they'd be respawning outside and charging in for the flag right away. So I ran up to the top of the map to grab the rockets, but just as I got there they rounded the corner in their warthog coming into the base so without having even a moment to think, I twitched a noscope on pure instinct and sniped the driver, stopping their charge and sealing the round.
At the post-game stats I just stared at the screen for like 30 seconds in complete disbelief. I mean, it wasn't skill, it was at least 99% luck - I didn't even have enough time to consider the fact that I was aiming - but goddamn.
Oh, and this:
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Launch your fucking game already!
RUIIIIINNNNED
As a 12 year old I played Tribes 1 a looooong time before it ever came to me. I probably played for 2 months before I figured out "oh you can tap on the spacebar to go fast".
I can only imagine what it's like for a first timer even with the improvements to the game.
The challenge of Tribes is that basic character movement in and of itself is a game, and you have to be able to do that while also using some of the most challenging weapons in any FPS... we're basically talking about Unreal Tournament grade rocket launchers that fire slower.
I would recommend to anyone new to just play Team Deatchmatch or Rabbit until you can really start moving around the terrain and landing shots, then graduate to CTF.
And don't feel like you have to be constantly mid-airing people to be effective. The most economic shot in Tribes is landing a spinfusor on the landing spot of your opponent. Wait to see where he's going to land, and then fire there.
Also, don't undersell the Thumper as a starter weapon. It's got WAY better splash damage than the spinfusor.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Game is fun once you unlock more than Soldier/Ranger, because they are boring as shit.
I was so so bad at skiing. Also couldn't land spinfusor shots for shit. Game still was a blast though
I got an invite to this beta but I am unable to use it due to my hand.
First person to pm for it cam have the code. I'm certain it will work.