Tribes: Ascend

[zokudu]

The Pathfinder and Juggernaut classes are now priced at half their previous price. Players that have previously unlocked these classes will be refunded the difference between the original purchase price and the new purchase price.

I like it they are by far and away the best classes in their respective armor classes.

 

[Wekiva]

I have to say "Thank You" for allowing us to play practice rounds in the maps to get to know them. I use to think this feature was obvious but after playing (and wandering) in BF3 I now realize this is a FEATURE that we won't automatically get anymore.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

oh heck yeah. Gonna get me the pathfinder. There's this video on youtube of this guying doing some sick jumps with the class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bsU_rtS7Mc

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Penny Arcade giving away 2500 beta keys
http://penny-arcade.com/static/tribes-ascend

edit: oops all gone now. eh I should have posted earlier lol. Was playing tribes...

 

[n7]

I finally got it a couple days ago.

I did not play the older Tribes like some of my friends did heavily.
One of my friends who played a ton does not like this at all, apparently not at all as good as the older ones.

I love the concept of the game, but i suck horribly.

It's good to see a fast paced game, but after getting destroyed for a couple hours, i think i'd honestly just prefer to go play UT2k4, which i am actually good at, or maybe retry Quack Live.

I don't know if i have the patience to spend 200 hours Tribes: AssEnd to get good enough to enjoy it

 

[Karstein]

You should at least play until you get a good deal of perks on some of the classes. Those such as additional energy help so much.

 

[CottonRabbit]

Unlocks appear to come way too slowly. I don't feel like grinding a week just to test a loadout I might like. At the very least, they need to divide it up into smaller pieces or give free trials. LoL has the carrot on the stick formula right.

Also, was I the only one who liked Tribes Vengeance? Vehicles were actually fun in that.

 

[Karstein]

Unlocks appear to come way too slowly. I don't feel like grinding a week just to test a loadout I might like.

You can try out all loadouts in the training maps. They also just reduced the cost to buy loadouts with tokens to 9800.

 

[Karstein]

New patch today:

Tribes Closed Beta Version 0.1.619.0

Server downtime: The Tribes Servers are expected to be down for several hours on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011 while the patch is deployed. Watch the Server Status in Hi-Command for latest availability information.

Major Highlights

• Converted all fully automatic hitscan weapons to use projectiles. This includes the Ranger’s Assault Rifle, Technician’s TCN4, and Infiltrator’s Rhino SMG.
• Significantly improved projectile inheritance.
• A votekick option has been added. Open the console and type &#8220;/votekick <playername>&#8221; to initiate a vote to kick another player.
• Significant improvements have been made to spectator functionality (see below). Further improvements are planned for future updates.
• Added new accolades to reward flag grabs based on speed, e-grabs, vehicle destruction, flag defense, and generator defense.

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Full Notes.


Hitscan is getting the treatment, finally!

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[SunnyD]

Finally managed to get it installed yesterday after a couple of hiccups and wasted bandwidth cap hits.

While it looks like tribes... it definitely ISN'T tribes.

And the maps are far too big.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

god i hope they fixed the way the vehicles handle. I can usually get the world war achievement, which is like 15 or 20+ vehicle kills but they have horrible controls.

Actually the plane I always crash after like 10 seconds and the motorcycle I've only used like 2 times, but the tank...

I think the hit scan weapons could have stayed in the game, they just needed recoil a la counter-strike. Q3A has a hit scan machine gun and it works in that game also but it's extremely weak since it's your base weapon.

 

[DesiPower]

@SunnyD - Not sure what you mean by its not Tribes, the game play is exactly the same IMHO. I agree that the maps are freakin BIG, but some maps in Tribes2 were also equally big, I guess 1 way to put it is, it doesn't have the smaller maps yet.

Secondly, how the hell do I get the vehicles? I said I didnt have something... so do i need to pay up? if that's true, it would suck, I am a BIG Tribes2 fan but I am not committing to paying 10 - 15 dollar a month to play it... It great game but not that great...

lastly, I wish there was a minimap... its difficult to strategies ones gamepay without know where shits are and where I am wrt the map...

 

[SunnyD]

@SunnyD - Not sure what you mean by its not Tribes, the game play is exactly the same IMHO. I agree that the maps are freakin BIG, but some maps in Tribes2 were also equally big, I guess 1 way to put it is, it doesn't have the smaller maps yet.

Secondly, how the hell do I get the vehicles? I said I didnt have something... so do i need to pay up? if that's true, it would suck, I am a BIG Tribes2 fan but I am not committing to paying 10 - 15 dollar a month to play it... It great game but not that great...

lastly, I wish there was a minimap... its difficult to strategies ones gamepay without know where shits are and where I am wrt the map...

I mean it's not Tribes. It doesn't feel like tribes. The gameplay vaguely looks like tribes, but it's not. And I'm not talking about the crap that was Tribes 2 or Tribes 3... I'm talking about the original tribes. The gameplay feels exceedingly different, the weapons don't feel remotely the same.

I'm giving HiRez the benefit of the doubt by attributing a lot of this feel to the crappy maps. But honestly, it feels more like Unreal Tournament on a low gravity map than it does tribes.

 

[DesiPower]

I don't know, tribes and tribes2 were pretty similar and equally enjoyable IMO, vengeance was an utter POS I agree. I am liking Ascend but I am getting more and more skeptical about there pricing thing...

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

There's a usually a station near/in your base where you get the vehicles. It looks like a resupply station. Once you stand on in you'll get a menu and you can select, which vehicle to buy. Just make sure you don't hop into the portal area where the vehicle spawns otherwise you'll get telefragged lol.

Vehicles are still kind of buggy. One time I flipped mine upside down and fell through the ground.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I don't know, tribes and tribes2 were pretty similar and equally enjoyable IMO, vengeance was an utter POS I agree. I am liking Ascend but I am getting more and more skeptical about there pricing thing...

I forgot what the costs were but I think each class is like $5 separately or you can unlock the class after 27 gameplay hours using tokens. This was based on the old token costs though.

I just looked at the class prices.
You're telling me that most of the classes are 9800 and I get 150-ish for winning a game?

The two main other ones, juggernaut and pathfinder, cost a combined 2700 tokens. 2700 / 150 is 18, which means that depending on how many first wins of the days you get, you'll play anywhere from 17 to 30 games in order to unlock one of each armor type.
Besides the Juggernaut, pathfinder, and soldier/ranger, the only major thing you get out of the other classes are weapons and deployables.
With 2700 credits, you can play almost every role besides base repair, Heavy on Flag, flag capper, flag chaser, medium defense, baserape / harass.

There's a decent subreddit for the game. I can't remember where I saw the costs for the classes though. Might not have been on the reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/

 

[DesiPower]

There's a usually a station near/in your base where you get the vehicles. It looks like a resupply station. Once you stand on in you'll get a menu and you can select, which vehicle to buy. Just make sure you don't hop into the portal area where the vehicle spawns otherwise you'll get telefragged lol.

Vehicles are still kind of buggy. One time I flipped mine upside down and fell through the ground.

I found it and I got the menu, but when i tried to select one, I kept getting something like - you don't have enough something... I though I needed to get gold or something or play long enough to earn a vehicle driver status? I did not see anyone else driving any vehicles either. I will try again.

 

[Karstein]

You spend credits that you earn in a game on vehicles (as you would upgrading base fixtures and sending in drops/strikes).

As I touched upon a bit earlier, I think the main problem with T:A for new players is that the classes can be a little bit gimped in the beginning; some of the perks that you earn make the game considerably more playable (and fun), particularly those that give additional energy.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Finally managed to get it installed yesterday after a couple of hiccups and wasted bandwidth cap hits.

While it looks like tribes... it definitely ISN'T tribes.

And the maps are far too big.

I mean it's not Tribes. It doesn't feel like tribes. The gameplay vaguely looks like tribes, but it's not. And I'm not talking about the crap that was Tribes 2 or Tribes 3... I'm talking about the original tribes. The gameplay feels exceedingly different, the weapons don't feel remotely the same.

I'm giving HiRez the benefit of the doubt by attributing a lot of this feel to the crappy maps. But honestly, it feels more like Unreal Tournament on a low gravity map than it does tribes.

I think you're a huge victim of nostalgia, because most Tribes vets feel that the maps are too small and that the overall feel of the game has been an excellent compromise of all the previous versions

 

[DesiPower]

Spend some time on this last weekend, went into one of those training servers, was able to get into vehicles and everything... it was fun.

BTW, how do i save my control configuration? every time I exit it goes back to defaults, it sucks.

 

[tedrodai]

I should have thought about this earlier. They sent me a key on the 16th, but I don't have time to get into another game at the moment. So...anyone want my key? If so, I'll give it to the 1st person to send me a PM about it, and I'll update this post when I hand it out. Would hate to see it wasted.

Update: Someone has claimed it.

 

[SunnyD]

Beta key available. I already have one, so this second one is redundant. First person to profess their love of me publicly gets it.

 

[Mem]

I received a closed beta key invite from the developers via email.
I have just got to find time to install and the play the game,is it worth the effort I ask myself?

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have been selected to be one of the first people to play and give feedback on Tribes: Ascend, the fast-paced action shooter from Hi-Rez Studios.

This e-mail contains an activation key that you may use to get started as a member of the Tribes: Ascend Early Testing Program.

YOUR ACTIVATION KEY:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

It's really fun and the developers definitely listen to feedback. Just look at the switch from hitscan weapons.

 

[Mem]

It's really fun and the developers definitely listen to feedback. Just look at the switch from hitscan weapons.

Ok I bite,downloading now .