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I might have been out of the loop but apparently there is a Tribes 3 in the works: https://www.ign.com/articles/tribes-3-rivals-fully-revealed-screenshots-and-gameplay-shown https://store.steampowered.com/app/2687970/TRIBES_3_Rivals/ I got into the playtest and played a few matches. Still buggy and needs a lot of polish but the gameplay is fantastic it. The mid-airs feel just as good as back in the day.
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Tribes should reign over esports. Wasn’t there a free to play attempt a few years ago? I hope this one takes off. …as long as they keep the feature (bug?) where your gun continues shooting if you die while firing.
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Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station! Hurry up with that station!
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Dinosaurs! posted:Tribes should reign over esports. Wasn’t there a free to play attempt a few years ago? I hope this one takes off. Yeah, Tribes: Ascend. It was pretty good but Hi-Rez pulled the plug after a while. This one's made by a subsidiary of Hi-Rez so I wouldn't be surprised if they're building off of Ascend's source code.
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Holy moly. I am beyond excited for this. Tribes is easily my favorite game of all time; the amount of time I put into it and T2 is ridiculous. Playing on the TWL ladder were some of the best times of my gaming life. I've always wondered why the franchise hadn't had a resurgence in the new age of e-sports. The game has everything needed - fast gameplay, high skill expression, easy to cast. My 52 year old hands aren't like they used to be, but I'm drat sure gonna be mid-airing some fools. VGW
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Arzachel posted:Yeah, Tribes: Ascend. It was pretty good but Hi-Rez pulled the plug after a while. This one's made by a subsidiary of Hi-Rez so I wouldn't be surprised if they're building off of Ascend's source code. Supposedly it was a subsidiary of Hirez that split off and formed a new independent studio. Also supposedly this has only really been an idea for like a couple months. It looks like they're reusing a lot of old assets, but it's all on Unreal Engine 5 now. I only heard about this the other day but I got into the playtest too. I've been enjoying getting flag captures, returns, and blue plate specials again like a coke fiend diving into a pile of coke. About the same spiking of adrenaline going on. The jets and air-control feel pretty anemic, and there's this weird effect where you feel magnetized to the surface a lot. Lots of features including key binds, Something I found interesting is that they're now enclosing the maps into more deliberate arenas, with curved corners at each end, and a vague implication of an audience in skyboxes just behind them. The minimap looks like a hockey rink. I'm looking forward to finally playing some more Tribes after Midair fell off a cliff. Hopefully both today as the playtest plays out its remainder, and after it successfully launches as a complete game. There's probably something with the physics they need to fix, but it mostly feels like they just need to tweak things and add more content and polish on the already pretty promising core. Edit: Loadouts seem to be working as expected now. Jehde fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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I played a bunch during the play test and while there are some issues that need to be ironed out I think the bones of the game are fantastic. I had a lot of fun playing and played a lot more than I thought I would.
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I loved Tribes and even Ascend. I look forward to this. It just scratches a certain itch that no other game can.
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I remember being 8 years old playing a football map entitled way too much for the original starsiege tribes. Assuming this isn't a dumpster fire like ascend was, I'll give it a shot.
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By the end of the play test my muscle memory was really wanting to reflexively use the Voice Game System, to announce flag grabs, congratulate shots, everything. It really started to tap back into that lizard brain I forgot I had.
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DeathSandwich posted:I remember being 8 years old playing a football map entitled way too much for the original starsiege tribes. The one Tribes 1 map/mod I remember was this big MMO kind of thing that was completely inscrutable to a young me. Mordja fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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I'm assuming there won't be client side scripting, because while that helped make T1/T2 so great it's also what eventually killed them. I only have one question for the people ITT- Are you a Blood Eagle, or a *barf* Diamond Sword?
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isaboo posted:I'm assuming there won't be client side scripting, because while that helped make T1/T2 so great it's also what eventually killed them. Diamond Sword has objectively better aesthetics but IIRC they're also space cops? So I sadly cannot rep them anymore. Bring back Bioderms.
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oh hell yea Bioderms were cool lol. 20 years later I still have my T2 installation folder with all my scripts and recordings and whatnot. I copy it to every new build or OS and refuse to ever delete it. Until a couple of years ago I still had the original T1 disc
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Orv posted:Diamond Sword has objectively better aesthetics but IIRC they're also space cops? So I sadly cannot rep them anymore. Blood Eagles are directly descended from the Imperial Knights of Starsiege.
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Both BE and DS seemed like a bunch of dorks. I have no idea what the other tribes are like though, as an Ascend baby.
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Mordja posted:The one Tribes 1 map/mod I remember was this big MMO kind of thing that was completely inscrutable to a young me. I think my favorite mod in T1 was TAC, it was a lot of fun.
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slandergoose posted:I think my favorite mod in T1 was TAC, it was a lot of fun. All I did in that mod was pilot APCs and fly the sides of them into the hills, which would kill any passengers because technically they touched the ground. I would still do that if people still played TAC.
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Hopefully they bring back 64vs64 or do 128vs 128. Any oldschoolers remember having the goon pirate battle parties?
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Next playtest starts tomorrow evening/night. Signup here: https://www.tribes3rivals.com/ They also talked to PCGamer about the monetization for Tribes Ascend https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-tribes-game-is-coming-next-year-and-its-not-free-to-play-we-made-some-mistakes-in-how-we-monetized-ascend/ Obligatory hype video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNPPoo6Ah6Y Tribes still good Chopstix posted:Hopefully they bring back 64vs64 or do 128vs 128. They mentioned 64 player servers, nothing above that, yet.
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Echoing "best gaming times of my life" and "got into the playtest" posts. Extremely excited, and watching the gameplay videos skiing seems just easy and floaty enough. No subsequent games really got the feel of skiing right, I thought. I've been playing basically nothing but Hunt: Showdown lately, and while I love it and it's great, I wish I had something more kinetic with lower stakes. More kinetic than typical movement shooter, too. I want to fly bitches
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lagidnam posted:Next playtest starts tomorrow evening/night. Signup here: I kinda remember trying Tribes Ascend. I recall how utterly unwelcome I felt, It was like I turned up at the wrong party and everyone was sneering at me. Not to mention that every single weapon or class was locked behind some kind of paywall, the overall experience was like I had some kind of labor camp guard yelling "BUY THIS, BUY THIS NOW, WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THIS IF HAVENT BOUGHT ANYTHING". Not the best onboarding experience to say the least, I uninstalled it soon after.
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The biggest problem with Tribes Ascend was that the disc launcher wasn't the best weapon in the game from the get.
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Mr. Crow posted:i thought this was going to be some 5v5 garbage arena shooter was that just a poorly worded tweet or something and they're actually doing big maps and vehicles ??? 32v32 CTF is the current upper plan
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Current playtest is 5v5 or 12v12, NA/EU It’s pretty fun but you can’t shazbot. 0/10 skasion fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Tombot posted:I kinda remember trying Tribes Ascend. I recall how utterly unwelcome I felt, It was like I turned up at the wrong party and everyone was sneering at me. Not to mention that every single weapon or class was locked behind some kind of paywall, the overall experience was like I had some kind of labor camp guard yelling "BUY THIS, BUY THIS NOW, WHY ARE YOU PLAYING THIS IF HAVENT BOUGHT ANYTHING". Not the best onboarding experience to say the least, I uninstalled it soon after. not just classes but even upgrades, once you were playing a class you were still playing a worse version of it with weaker armor, weaker secondary gadgets, fewer and weaker grenades, alternate primary weapons and perks locked out etc until you went through a really long grind to get all that stuff (or bought it) e: worse guns too! i forgot that. even the primary weapons needed to be upgraded for things like more ammo, less reload time, better explosion radius. if it was just for unlocking alternate weapons and perks like cod4 it could've been ok i guess but the rest of that upgrade system sucked despite all that I still miss it, the skiing was really fun. lookin forward to 32v32 mode. shame modern gaming hardware just can't handle the raw technical power of 256 players, maybe some day we'll have advanced enough pcs for that RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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My demands for the new Tribes game is to please include every weapon, pack, vehicle, grenade, base equipment ect ect from Tribes 2. Thank you in advance.
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It looks good and I miss Tribes 2, but if this is an enclosed space and you can't just gently caress off to a remote spot to build a mini-base then it's not really Tribes however good the guns and skiing are. 
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How's Gelatinous Prime
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:not just classes but even upgrades, once you were playing a class you were still playing a worse version of it with weaker armor, weaker secondary gadgets, fewer and weaker grenades, alternate primary weapons and perks locked out etc until you went through a really long grind to get all that stuff (or bought it) For all that Ascend got wrong the skiing felt great and it handled the technical side really well. That is about all I can give it though. As for 256 players, while I definitely agree we could probably stand to go past 64 these days, I’m not sure I’d want to play a game at the speed of Tribes with half the people on the server on WiFi and with hundreds of projectiles to track at once.
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All those hours playing Tiny Wings on the phone has kept my ski game sufficient. Game is good.
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Hopping into 12v12 matches and just jumping right into a cap/chase game has been really really good this playtest. Give me separate jump and jet binds, bring back loadouts, maybe add vehicles, and I'm good.
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I kinda wish Tribes Vengeance cought on, I loved the design of everything in that game. Now whenever I see another tribes game regardless of what it is, I always compare it to that. Only in graphics mind you, I bought it when it was new but I could never really play it online due to how choppy the netcode was.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:My demands for the new Tribes game is to please include every weapon, pack, vehicle, grenade, base equipment ect ect from Tribes 2. Thank you in advance. Just license and modernize torque for a tribes 2 remake imhotbqh
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