Tribes Ascend Released

[TheGauntman]

2: Low-level players have their own segregated servers. They don't last long, but they exist. Wish the game did a better job of it, though. Maybe 1-5, 6-11, 12-50.

That I didn't know, and should smooth out any advantage from playing beta.

 

[Isalan]

Played a soldier for the first couple of days, mucking about in Team DM. Was ok, but then I found my happy place, nestled between some lovely jugs. Now I'm fusion mortaring the hell outta the whole map and lovin' it Saying that, really got too save for new secondary, having 2 explosive weapons when your being chased down in deathmatch is a pain the ass.

Gonna have to crack on and give CTF a try tomorrow. Anyone on the EU side feel free to add me, handle is Morninglord.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

2: Low-level players have their own segregated servers. They don't last long, but they exist. Wish the game did a better job of it, though. Maybe 1-5, 6-11, 12-50.

That I didn't know, and should smooth out any advantage from playing beta.

To clarify, only the 1-5 servers exist. The 6-11 is only my wishful thinking. It can be a very rough adjustment.

I accidentally joined in on a "newbie game" the other day (I had joined a level 9 friend who had himself joined in on his level 4 friend), and found myself massacring people with my maxed-out doombringer before I realized what was going on. In my defence, that one level five dude was coming at me with a bolt launcher and a LAR.

Once I realized what was going on I just fucked around in a tank. Also, walked the flag across Sunstar with my juggernaut.

 

[brunothepig]

A badge and 10,000 EXP if you were at level 10 on release. 15,000 if you were a VIP (had spent any amount of money on the game), 20,000 if you had an EXP boost running, and 30,000 if you had VIP and an active boost.

I've still got craploads of stuff to unlock, but I'm sitting on my EXP until the doombringer gets some new toys. I figure the brute'll get a class pack next week and the doombie will get new gear in late May; if any other classes get new stuff before those two, I will be a sad heavy. Good-golly-Miss-Molly do I wish I could switch out this saber for anything else.

EDIT: And if you played the game substantially before February, you should have a ton of EXP. Pre-February-patch, the game was way different (read: way worse), and some of the many changes made resulted in a huge influx of EXP for old players. Shame I hadn't really played before then (srsly, the game was pretty weak before the February patch), but... eh. I shall survive.

Super sad now, I stopped playing the beta at level 9. Not because the game was bad, I just started Uni, started playing LoL with some friends, kinda forgot about it. No special badge for me...

Anywhere I can find out about these weapon packs? Only started playing again recently, didn't play the beta for long so I know nothing about their update schedule. Are the packs regularly scheduled? Also, why hate the saber? Admittedly I don't main Doombringer, I usually only switch into him when there's an enemy vehichle around, but I find the saber quite effective in discouraging flying, and I can usually get a few kills with it if I wait until they're high up to start the lock.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

A badge and 10,000 EXP if you were at level 10 on release. 15,000 if you were a VIP (had spent any amount of money on the game), 20,000 if you had an EXP boost running, and 30,000 if you had VIP and an active boost.

I've still got craploads of stuff to unlock, but I'm sitting on my EXP until the doombringer gets some new toys. I figure the brute'll get a class pack next week and the doombie will get new gear in late May; if any other classes get new stuff before those two, I will be a sad heavy. Good-golly-Miss-Molly do I wish I could switch out this saber for anything else.

EDIT: And if you played the game substantially before February, you should have a ton of EXP. Pre-February-patch, the game was way different (read: way worse), and some of the many changes made resulted in a huge influx of EXP for old players. Shame I hadn't really played before then (srsly, the game was pretty weak before the February patch), but... eh. I shall survive.

Super sad now, I stopped playing the beta at level 9. Not because the game was bad, I just started Uni, started playing LoL with some friends, kinda forgot about it. No special badge for me...

Anywhere I can find out about these weapon packs? Only started playing again recently, didn't play the beta for long so I know nothing about their update schedule. Are the packs regularly scheduled? Also, why hate the saber? Admittedly I don't main Doombringer, I usually only switch into him when there's an enemy vehichle around, but I find the saber quite effective in discouraging flying, and I can usually get a few kills with it if I wait until they're high up to start the lock.

The only pack out right now is the infiltrator pack - two skins, a remote-detonated sticky launcher primary, exploding knife secondary, and smoke grenade belt item (mostly used to make infiltrators more viable in arena/TDM). Hi-Rez has said that they want to do packs about once every three weeks or so, and they've hinted that brute (the saddest of the classes) and the doombringer (a class that lives almost entirely on the power of its primary weapon and landmines) will be getting their stuff before any others. If you buy them with gold, don't buy them idividually; there's a separate menu option (promos or something) where you can get some or all of them at a much better rate (for as long as the deal lasts, at least).

As for the saber... it takes no skill to use, it's not much fun to go up against, and it never hits anything that wasn't going to die anyway. Hi-Rez said a while back that they were considering an anti-materiel projectile, essentially a heavier heavy bolt launcher, as a new secondary, but I'd really take anything.

 

[Luca72]

As for the saber... it takes no skill to use, it's not much fun to go up against, and it never hits anything that wasn't going to die anyway. Hi-Rez said a while back that they were considering an anti-materiel projectile, essentially a heavier heavy bolt launcher, as a new secondary, but I'd really take anything.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. I've gotten missile locked a few times, and was ready to try to shoot the thing down, but it never came. How fast/dangerous are they? I watched a tutorial that made them look pretty brutal. And if it does come to shooting them down, how are you supposed to do that if you don't have an AR or pistol? Can you dodge and weave to avoid them?

 

[Terrible Opinions]

As for the saber... it takes no skill to use, it's not much fun to go up against, and it never hits anything that wasn't going to die anyway. Hi-Rez said a while back that they were considering an anti-materiel projectile, essentially a heavier heavy bolt launcher, as a new secondary, but I'd really take anything.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. I've gotten missile locked a few times, and was ready to try to shoot the thing down, but it never came. How fast/dangerous are they? I watched a tutorial that made them look pretty brutal. And if it does come to shooting them down, how are you supposed to do that if you don't have an AR or pistol? Can you dodge and weave to avoid them?

They're dumber than Minsc and a good deal less charming. Putting anything between them and you results in the rocket crashing harmlessly. They move slower than a shrike. They have a long lock-on time (if the doombringer can even get them to lock on to the right frigging target). And they explode if any attack hits them. This is easiest with an automatic or a pistol, but they're big, easy-to-see targets that fly straight, so anything is feasible. I've heard that some pathfinders have trouble hitting them with the shotgun due to a combination of lag and the spread of pellets, but then, good pathfinders can outrun 'em, too. They can, in theory, one-shot a light, though on the odd occasions I actually hit with them (I'll sometimes toss 'em out against a high-flying light that I've got no hope of chaining down), they usually only do partial damage and send the guy flying.

 

[brunothepig]

The only pack out right now is the infiltrator pack - two skins, a remote-detonated sticky launcher primary, exploding knife secondary, and smoke grenade belt item (mostly used to make infiltrators more viable in arena/TDM). Hi-Rez has said that they want to do packs about once every three weeks or so, and they've hinted that brute (the saddest of the classes) and the doombringer (a class that lives almost entirely on the power of its primary weapon and landmines) will be getting their stuff before any others. If you buy them with gold, don't buy them idividually; there's a separate menu option (promos or something) where you can get some or all of them at a much better rate (for as long as the deal lasts, at least).

As for the saber... it takes no skill to use, it's not much fun to go up against, and it never hits anything that wasn't going to die anyway. Hi-Rez said a while back that they were considering an anti-materiel projectile, essentially a heavier heavy bolt launcher, as a new secondary, but I'd really take anything.

Ah yes, I had heard mention of that pack. And came up against it in an arena match, that was painful. Admittedly the guy was also gold rank, but still, a vicious shot with those knives.
Packs would be a cool idea, and I do tend to play Juggernaut the most out of the heavies, so maybe some packs for them would add some veriety to my play.

I'd agree that the saber is skill-less, obviously. That's the way it functions. And I can see how if you used Doombringer frequently it would be annoying to have only the saber to choose. Like I said, I just bring it out for vehichles, for which it performs admirably. Also noobs flying everywhere, because you can easily get two missiles fired off and kill them. An anti-material projectile thing would be great though. And then the Brute can get a heavier version of that! A heavier heavier heavy bolt launcher...

 

[Sangnz]

Tribes = awesome game way ahead of its time
Tribes 2 = awesome game expanded the map sizes but slowed down the gameplay a notch
Tribes: Vengance = steaming pile of poop
Tribes: Ascend = Solid return to the tribes formula with modern day class unlocks etc

 

[NightHawk21]

Ah yes, I had heard mention of that pack. And came up against it in an arena match, that was painful. Admittedly the guy was also gold rank, but still, a vicious shot with those knives.
Packs would be a cool idea, and I do tend to play Juggernaut the most out of the heavies, so maybe some packs for them would add some veriety to my play.

No kidding lol. The jackal is really strong and the knives seem pretty good too, but god do I want the jackal.

 

[paislyabmj]

i got in the beta but couldn't play it because my computer is crap and frame rate troubles in a game as fast as that can really fuck you up.great fun from what I played. I wonder if the release build is a bit better optimized.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Tribes = awesome game way ahead of its time
Tribes 2 = awesome game expanded the map sizes but slowed down the gameplay a notch
Tribes: Vengance = steaming pile of poop
Tribes: Ascend = Solid return to the tribes formula with modern day class unlocks etc

Vengeance had some neat ideas and much better physics than Ascend, but it had... uh... other issues...

I find it odd that Hi-Rez decided to "release" Ascend now. I mean, obviously the game isn't going to be "done" at any point in the foreseeable future since they're relying heavily on making new content for money, but... why now? They don't even have custom servers implemented (and their "preview" servers all have some pretty massive flaws to them).

 

[NightHawk21]

Tribes = awesome game way ahead of its time
Tribes 2 = awesome game expanded the map sizes but slowed down the gameplay a notch
Tribes: Vengance = steaming pile of poop
Tribes: Ascend = Solid return to the tribes formula with modern day class unlocks etc

Vengeance had some neat ideas and much better physics than Ascend, but it had... uh... other issues...

I find it odd that Hi-Rez decided to "release" Ascend now. I mean, obviously the game isn't going to be "done" at any point in the foreseeable future since they're relying heavily on making new content for money, but... why now? They don't even have custom servers implemented (and their "preview" servers all have some pretty massive flaws to them).

If I were to venture a guess I'd say its partly due to them wanting to adopt a LoL-f2p model with regular patches that add content. That in addition, to the fact that it doesn't seem like there are any super large releases coming out right now, and they can't wait much longer or they'd enter the pre-e3 season.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

It is a fun game, I've been playing since they had that free beta code for liking facebook thing a few months ago.

I'm pretty much in agreement with totalbiscuit from his wtf is video, it's just so much fun having some actual speed in an fps game these days, along with the player needing a certain amount of skill to play since the majority of the weapons aren't hitscan based.

Yea this pretty much sums up my experience. I got a beta code from gamespot a few months ago, have had a lot of fun through the updates. Game has gotten quite good.

 

[Baneat]

Newbies:

Don't buy the infiltrator, to make him as good as other classes you need unattainably large amounts of XP if you don't spend any money.

The Raider comes with his best weapons out of the box, definitely consider him

Tech comes reasonably well equipped and is easy to play

SEN comes with a good weapon set but quite hard to use especially if you didn't already figure out he pretty much exclusively shoots cappers and chasers.

Brute comes with his strongest weapons, but he sucks hard as a class - very underpowered compared to the Juggernaut

Doombringer's a good noob-slayer when you get him, but if you want to be effective you're going to need to upgrade his force fields, buy the mines *75K EXP!!* upgrade the armour, chain gun, buy safety third and super heavy and upgrade those fully. If you're not willing to invest that heavily don't buy him.

 

[Elate]

Eh, played it while it was in beta.. wasn't very good in my opinion. As has been previously said, I'm not going to enjoy playing as a class I dislike for long enough to unlock others, and if I don't enjoy playing a game, what's the point?

The pricing is ludicrous, the gameplay is "Meh" at best, functional, moderately entertaining, but I don't understand how people can harp on about skill.. I played for a day or so? and was hitting top of the leader board on most matches, as far as twitch shooters go, it's mediocre, quite tedious in fact.

 

[Hafnium]

Played it for a bit today, damn that was fun. My very first spawn ended up being extremely succesfull, as I stormed across half the map and snagged the enemy flag which had just been dropped, turning around and speeding to our home base. Not knowing where to take their flag I dropped it for an experienced teammate who promptly scored a point.

The connection wasn't too great, but that may be the wireless. I'll try the cable and se if it's improved. My laptop handles is decently on low settings, which isn't all that bad-looking.

 

[pspman45]

I've been playing since Beta
I got really tired of it
the Heavy classes remain freakishly unbalanced, the special weapons cost WAY too much XP (I get that it's a F2P game, but come on!) I hate most of the maps...
I wanted it to be good
I REALLY did

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Just downloaded it and it's asking me for permission to install 'prerequisite programs' which makes me want to press 'no' very quickly.

Anyone actually know what this is? Google failed me and anything with such poorly worded text boxes makes me suspicious.

 

[Luca72]

Just downloaded it and it's asking me for permission to install 'prerequisite programs' which makes me want to press 'no' very quickly.

Anyone actually know what this is? Google failed me and anything with such poorly worded text boxes makes me suspicious.

It's a background installer for the updates. I haven't noticed anything on my pc eating up resources or causing problems since I installed them.