Tribes: Ascend

[Dark 0men]

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.

Well, let's see. Assets that can be destroyed? Haha who cares, you spawn in a loadout already. Ignore your own base, free dudes up to kill shit.

Large open maps worked well when you could cover all engagement ranges with disk+grenade launcher+chaingun. Take away two of them. Now how do you kill someone?

Skiing? The video didn't show any. Probably not implemented yet.

Jetpacking? Not very far, or pistols and shotguns would be completely pointless.

Mix of classes? Heavy is going to need some _serious_ affirmative action to make up for being a fat piece of shit with no disk jumping (because he took mortar instead because otherwise why would you pick heavy).

As for health regen and medics... Are you sure we are talking about the same Tribes? They'll have to slow the fuck out of this game for healing to become viable.

[Intigo]

Never really had high hopes for this shit anyway.

Fucking retarded companies all following the same trashy game-design now.

[Samp]

As for health regen and medics... Are you sure we are talking about the same Tribes? They'll have to slow the fuck out of this game for healing to become viable.

Cruising round in transports machine gunning each other and reppacking over the ridge? I used to love the drive buy action.

Will it be terrible? Well everything is ofc. And it's on console. But they talk the tlak, the trailer talks about freedom of movement, and in my Feb 2000 review (which I can't belive I still have) the sence of freedom of movment was the number one thing which impressed me about Tribes, the feeling of being in control - not the feeling of driving a man shaped tank like you get in COD or whatever.

I can't say maybe they won't fuck it up becasue they always fuck everyhting up, parhapse we can hope they will be as dissapointed as we will be, and be at least a little ashamed.

[Intigo]

Cruising round in transports machine gunning each other and reppacking over the ridge? I used to love the drive buy action.

What the bleeding fuck are you talking about? What kind of scrubby cunt were you in Tribes?

[Samp]

Didn't you ever play that mod where you coudln't touch the ground?

[Intigo]

I played Tribes 1, not Renegade or the other trashy mods.

The only good mod was Team Rabbit - that shit was hardcore with midair flag passes.

[Dark 0men]

I played Tribes 1, not Renegade or the other trashy mods

No need to get mad. Total Air Combat was a hilarious gimmick. Nothing to do with the core Tribes gameplay, of course.

[Samp]

Yeah that was it - it forced teamplay, no bollocks where some hotdog spends half the game complining the team is shit because he didn't get all the caps himself - you have to work together to setup the plays.

[Fitzy]

Well, let's see. Assets that can be destroyed? Haha who cares, you spawn in a loadout already. Ignore your own base, free dudes up to kill shit.

Large open maps worked well when you could cover all engagement ranges with disk+grenade launcher+chaingun. Take away two of them. Now how do you kill someone?

Skiing? The video didn't show any. Probably not implemented yet.

Jetpacking? Not very far, or pistols and shotguns would be completely pointless.

Mix of classes? Heavy is going to need some _serious_ affirmative action to make up for being a fat piece of shit with no disk jumping (because he took mortar instead because otherwise why would you pick heavy).

As for health regen and medics... Are you sure we are talking about the same Tribes? They'll have to slow the fuck out of this game for healing to become viable.

Did Tribes not have healing? Fuck I can't remember I was consuming a lot of weed at that stage.

Anyway, my point stands, the game in the video looks fun and is clearly inspired by Tribes. If you're expecting any more than that, like for exampled Tribes 2 with modern graphics, you're going to be disappointed without doubt.

[El Capitano]

Tribes didn't have self-regen, but you could repair teammates much like you could repair other equipment. As for spawning with loadouts, is there anywhere where it's explicitly said that's what will happen? I was under the impression that you simply had access to the loadouts but still needed a station to actually equip it.

[Cerzi]

Sounds like the awesome base stuff, like taking out the generator, might not feature?

>:-o

[Intigo]

Sounds like the GAME WILL SUCK. Durrr.

[Cerzi]

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looking pretty awesome. skiing is in, physics look really good, base generators are there.. hmm.. please be good.

[Intigo]

That guy is gaining speed while going backwards without doing ANY skiing. It looks like the artificial bullshit skiing in T:V

There was also a point where he was gaining speed just moving forward on a completely flat surface.

THAT IS NOT SKIING.

[Takon Orlani]

Indigo being bitter, nbs.

[Dark 0men]

Halo on rails? I guess there won't be much of a skill curve, aside from abusing the plethora of hitscan weapons with one's youthful reflexes.

[Gix Tyrionn]

Free online shooter, if it isn't grossly pay to win then its probably worth a download. Especially with it being a fast paced game.

One can only play quake online so many times before wishing modern games would be fast.

[Xiang Jiao]

I haven't had as much fun with a shooter as I had in college with the Shifter mod of SS:Tribes. Holy shit, it was all I played for a year (aside from Diablo 2). The only other Tribes I played was Vengence and that was pretty meh.

  Spoiler:

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[Intigo]

Xiang, that looks pretty terrible, m8

Indigo being bitter, nbs.

So sorry for wanting a good game.

[Fitzy]

So sorry for wanting a good game.

That video looked like a good game, you appear to want Tribes 1 with a graphics update.