Tribes: Ascend

[Dark 0men]

Hey, remember how HiRez decided to buy the Tribes IP and reskin Global Agenda with it? It's going to be LoL-style F2P

Instead of buying champions, Tribes players will be buying loadouts. A loadout determines the characteristics of your character in battle -- specifically, their armor type (light, medium or heavy) which also affects movement (heavy units move slowly, light very quicky), the two weapons they will be carrying, the type of explosive they will wield, and what their pack (which can change the dynamic of a character) does.

As an example, one loadout gave my character medium armor, an explosive-disk-shooting gun, a decent rapid-firing handgun, a set of grenades, and 20% more energy for my standard jetpack.

A different loadout gave me heavy armor, a repair tool to fix structures with, a basic rifle, the ability to throw down mines (instead of grenades), and the ability to drop turrets.

Oh, and there's a trailer that shows ginormous weapon models and people moving kinda fast, but not skiing.

[Stormscion]

cant w8

and f2p <3

[Winged Nazgul]

Game-play footage:

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/06/27/tr ... 16&show=HD

/drool

[Takon Orlani]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YES

[ValorousBob]

Sooooo you're not "paying to win" though right?

[Cerzi]

dayum, that trailer looks surprisingly tribes 2-y (the physics anyway). waant.

[Forever Calzone]

Sooooo you're not "paying to win" though right?

Will have to wait and see but if they really do take the LoL model then it won't be.

Going to be very strange to see how that works in an FPS not entirely sure I would like it. I could actually see myself raging if the loadouts can't be modified in any shape or form. Example: the disc loadout the guy mentioned what about getting the same setup but with a shotgun instead of the smg does that mean buying an entirely new loadout or making alterations to the current one.

Great way of making money, great way of making people rage.

[Dark 0men]

Sooooo you're not "paying to win" though right?

Eh. As far as competitive gaming goes, this model of F2P is... rather limp. For comparison, check out what Valve is doing with Dota 2. Note the obsessive focus on spectating/replays/casting/matchmaking/tournaments. HiRez? Standard minimal wage game studio.

dayum, that trailer looks surprisingly tribes 2-y (the physics anyway). waant.

Maaaaaaybe. Do you notice when the dude lands, he kinda walks along the ground for a bit and then stops? Either this game has no skiing (and jetpacks give you a large speed boost in mid-air), or the player is a massive scrublord.

Not bitter, just skeptical.

[Cerzi]

i would be pretty shocked if they cut skiing out. T:V had it right?

[Fachiri]

i would be pretty shocked if they cut skiing out. T:V had it right?

T:V had the 'push button, receive skiing' stuff, yeah.

[Dogbeast]

I remember playing the first Tribes on a 28.8kbps modem. Was fun.

When this comes out, I'll be all over it.

[Dark 0men]

i would be pretty shocked if they cut skiing out. T:V had it right?

Eh, T:V had a button to put you on imaginary rails. It felt extremely awkward, but I guess that's the best they could do on Unreal engine. Uh-oh I sense a pattern.

[Intigo]

The skiing better not fucking suck.

[El Capitano]

I'm gonna be all over this like a bad rash! Autumn is going to be sweet between this and BF3

[Trindermon]

apparently i am weird cause i think it looks really bad.

[Synapse]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YES

got nothing after this.

[Dark 0men]

HiRez in absolute shit fuckup non-shocker.

[Fitzy]

Any particular reason why this guys opinion equates to an absolute fuck shitup non-shock?

[Dark 0men]

Any particular reason why this guys opinion equates to an absolute fuck shitup non-shock?

No, it's his factual statements that describe an incoming train wreck. Have you ever played any of the Tribes games? I'm not a tribalwar bittervet with a grudge, but HiRez is taking great care to shit on every aspect that made the original games fun.

[Fitzy]

No, it's his factual statements that describe an incoming train wreck. Have you ever played any of the Tribes games? I'm not a tribalwar bittervet with a grudge, but HiRez is taking great care to shit on every aspect that made the original games fun.

I blame tribes 1&2 for my poor maths grades. To my mind, what made the games fun was the large open maps, the jetpacking and skijumping, the mix of classes and weapons and the way they worked together, the vehicles and the different assets that could be destroyed/repaired.

I don't see what the problem is with spawning with your class, works in Bad Company. Same with health regen, still need medics. Assets self-repairing, seems a little gay, but not something I'm going to be upset about, same with skijumping not being as fast as in Tribes 2. Basicly everything he is getting his panties in a knot about is something I would have to see for myself before I was prepared to declare it a clusterfuck.

Also people that just want Tribe 2 with today's graphics, are probably best not even bothering, it's obvious that hirez are going to make changes to the formula if they think it will help make the game a commercial success. T2 was released a decade ago, that's a long time.

e: Also, just watching the video again, I'd like to add that it looks fucking awesome, there are guys flying every where and moving across the ground pretty fast. I've not got much time for people getting sandyvaginitus over certin things not being exactly like T2 if it's fun to play. They can go fuck off.

2nd e: Not accusing Dark Omen or anyone of having sandyvaginitus.