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>3 level 50 heavies with the same clan tag camping our generator
oh, right, I forgot what this game was like
What the fuck are you waiting for then? Grab your fractal grenades and join the fun.
>>320241280
Heavy nerf soonprobably
I recently downloaded the game and have a question.Why is light classes "sniper" rifle so shit. Like seriously what the fuck.
>>320241280
And this is a problem how?
>I cant kill 3 heavies stuck in a tiny room
Kill yourself
>>320246559
It would be too effective against flag runners if it was easy to use.
Everyone would be a hill-squattimg sniper, and that would ruin a game designed around going fast.
Same thing. Was excited to get back, realized that the game is full of 50 lvls who play so much better than me. Worse, they're abusing the shit out of cheesy tactics.
gitfractals
That's three opposing players that are wasting their time on your generator room. If you can't kill them, go help your team cap the flag or fuck up THEIR generator room
>Spinfusor
>Assault Rifle
>Flak Cannon
>just go fast and shoot dudes
it's ok
inb4 butthurt anti-chain sandrakers
Right now it's way too easy to go slow, fatties move way too fast and make mid classes nearly obsolete, lights are good for capping and that's it
Bring back disco parties and maybe I'll download it.
>Want to go fast
>Make a pathfinder class
>go fast
>flag has 4+ heavies sitting on, turrets, walls, jammers
Why do people play Tribes to sit around afk?
>>320246559
a sniper goes against what tribes is all about, I'd rather see it removed altogether
>>320248920
yeah no medium is the best duelist still
>>320249163
Did you even play the other games? They all had snipers.
>>320241280
>unironically playing this abandonware game
>still trying to shill
Time to let it go, anon.
>>320249141
fucking this
the turtling hasn't gone anywhere, it's still just gen parties and 5 heavies stacked on the flag
>>320246559
>>320248083
Not even just flag runners, I mean anybody not in a base typically has zero cover and the map is wide open. A strong hitscan sniper weapon would be too OP.
>>320241280
>enter game
>realize that the only people who are still playing it are people who are ridiculously good in the game and you don't stand a chance against anyone
Fuck that shit. There is no mid or lower skill play now. It's only high skill player and you can't get good because you die faster than you can respawn.
>spawn
>full charged sniper hits you almost instantly
>try moving
>another hit
>finally come somewhere where you can start going faster
>final hit and dead
>have flag
>go 300 sanics
>direct air hit from a heavy spinfuser out of the blue
>>320249141
>why do people use strategies that win the war
Tribes isn't about going fast. It's about knowing when to go fast and when to laugh at lights hitting you at 400 sanics and dying instantly.
>>320251024
You either got unlucky, or tried it in the first few hours after the patch came out. Plenty of people of all skill levels have come back to the game over the last few days, and at peak hours there's like five times more full servers. Even the Steam stats say as much http://steamcharts.com/app/17080.Not that it's necessarily going to last.
>>320251579
>You either got unlucky, or tried it in the first few hours after the patch came out.
I went back the moment the unofficial patch was posted on twitter. Probably the reason. Only those really loving Tribes went back then.
>>320251710
>unofficial patch
I mean pre-release patch.
>not fractaling and mortaring them to death
GIT GUD
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>>320241280
>not annihilating them with MIRV launcher
>>320246559
Just get yourself a trigger-bot and join the ranks of all the other "skilled" snipers.
>cant play more than one round because of the adrenaline making my hands ice cold
s-shazbot
>>320252846
Stop being a fag, or play HOF.
where's all the OC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M
>>320253351
HIGH
SPEED
ZOMBIE
>>320252846
I got incredibly rusty after years of not playing and now every time I fuck something up I quit the server in shame.
>>320253892
I just dedicated myself to only playing a basic medium loadout to get the hang of things again
>>320254098
>Used to play Infiltrator
>Jackal can't kill mediums with three stickies now
>Can't meele+sticky nade combo heavies anymore
>Only two sticky grenades and no throw speed perk
>Stealth reveal at 100 speed
>"Fuck it, I'll see if the Raider can maybe do base destruction half as wel as-"
>Suddenly turn into a base raping machine with the ARX
Jesus fuck was this thing this strong before the patch? Why did I never try it?
>>320254476
thx for sharing
>>320246559
Good snipers used to be able to damn near shut down competitive games if their position was defended. They smother a lot of flag routes unless the flagrunner is really diligent about staying in the valleys.
>>320249365
>tribes is about standing really far away and killing someone with a bullet
>>320254476
They made Infiltrator completely useless.
Jackal was nerfed to hell and back. The "stealth" spinfuser is as stealthy as a fractal grenade.
Stickies and melee combo is useless.
Stealth is useless since you now need an hour and a half to enter the enemy's base undetected since going over 100 sanics makes you an easy target.
All you can do now is stand in the middle of the map invisible and hoping the flag carrier will pass so that you have a chance of doing something useful.
>>320248868
This
Tdm only
>>320251024
There's beginner servers and while people can obviously smurf they're still your best bet
>>320254883
Infiltrating isn't useless, it's only completely negated by how powerful Heavies are now.
>>320241280
Haven't touched this game since 2012, how is it? What's changed since then, and how big the current player population? It's tempting to reinstall and play it again.
>>320254476
Raider has always been impossible to scrape out of the base. He just wasn't as glamorous as the stealth class.
I'm glad Infiltrator is dead. That stupid fucking Jackal was the beginning of the end as far as I'm concerned.
>>320255058
>infiltrator isn't useless
>he's just completely negated
>>320255078
Got its first update since 2013.
Read it yourself.
http://www.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/home/latest-news/view/tribes-ascend-blog/2015/12/10/out-of-the-blue-tribes-ascend-version-1.1-december-10th-2015
Still haven't fixed team stacking. Other than that its worse than before. Balance wise anyway. Hey at least there's full servers for a week! Thanks for pushing out the patch way too fuckimg early! Its like its really release again!
>>320255020
I'm not a beginner. I'm level 40 soemthing. I just didn't play since the Plasma gun was introduced while the people I played against obviously never stopped playing.
I'm not a beginner but the skill level difference was just too much to actually do anything.
>>320255145
I said infiltrating, not infiltrator. There are no more classes.
And what's so confusing about what I said?
>>320255078
Literally 100% changed
Instead of nine classes you just choose between light, medium, and heavy armor and have a bunch of loadouts you can customize
Inflitrators are dead, long live infiltrators
Heavies are the new meta, along with 2 tanks per side doing defense
Taking out base assets (mostly generator and vehicle pad) is more important than ever because it's the only way to stop the iron tide
>>320255350
If it's completely negated, then it's useless. I know there are no more classes. But you know what I meant when I said infiltrator. I meant the layout you could get with his weapons.
>>320255350
You seriously can't see how
>Infiltrating isn't useless
and
>It's just completely negated
are a complete contradiction?
Are you stupid? Do you have brain problems?
>>320255332
I'm only 20something on my first account and I can compete pretty well despite also having pretty much not played since around the plasma update
You just need some practice
>>320250745
both rifles were op and it did kill the momentum of the game and then they decided to change how momentum work so it was near impossible to go fast on most maps, so then the game died
>>320255534
I played it before the patch was officially out. HiRez posted a link a long time ago to the pre-release. At that time I was the only one who wasn't level 50 in any game I tried. Shit was insane. I might try it out now since the patch was released to the wider masses and not just those who are hardcore Tribes players.
>>320255498
>>320255509
As in, you can infiltrate the enemy base and do your job like you're supposed to. You're not useless, you're just less effective than a Heavy partying in the gen room shutting down the entire enemy base by himself.
>useless =/= suboptimal
>>>/vg/125335679
join our sparkling community of GOING FAST at /vg/!
>>320254821
This.
>but the other games had snipers too!
Doesn't mean it's a good design choice. Snipers don't fit tribes.
>>320255606
I can shazbot again?
>>320255828
At least don't make them hitscan
>>320255606
AR and LAR are still OP. The bullets are so fast and the drop off is so weak that they might as well make them hit scan. People going fast can't make sharp turns. As long as you have basic hand to eye coordination and you know how to ski you will hit with 90% of all your bullets.
>>320255820
>/vg/
Circlejerks are inevitable or already around probably, no thanks
>>320249141
that's why you decoy at least 3 runners while shooting them to destroy walls, etc.
the ace will go in and take the flag once clear
>>320255741
But suboptimal is useless. I don't have any use for a quasi infiltrator if I can do the job a million times more efficiently with a heavy.
>>320256007
>muh circlejerk
good, we don't want you there anyway retard
>>320249141
>Everyone wants to be he flag cap hero.
Why don't you be useful and clear the flag stand by harassing the heavies?
Your team doesn't need 20 cappers.
>>320256196
Thanks for proving me right retard
>>320256154
But you play to have fun, don't you?
>>320251196
How do you guys even reach those speeds
Best I can do is like 150
fuck
>>320256238
>I parrot buzzwords look at me mom
typical /v/ cancer, really though thanks for staying away
>>320255741
>you can infiltrate the enemy base and do your job like you're supposed to
Except you can't.
The Infiltrator's best weapon against base defenses was the Sticky Grenade, which they now have two of at max- they could carry three before, and additionally had the option of calling in inventory stations for resupply.
Their primary defensive ability (being fucking invisible) was nerfed to hell and back- as they can't move at a decent pace while stealthed now there's no way from them to approach and enter a base unseen without someone either seeing them approach and knowing they're going into the base or seeing them enter.
Their ability to harrass the enemy with Jackal Traps is now entirely removed as they can no longer kill a medium armored foe with three jackal shots even at point-blank or literally attached to said enemy.
They can no longer deal with stationary heavy base defenders because their ability to melee-sticky them was removed.
In short, the Infiltrator, which was meant to A. Destroy base assets, B. Harrass and opportunistically kill predictable medium classes (usually technicians repairing a destroyed asset or buying a vehicle) and C. Remove stationary heavy defenders now has strictly limited options for A, and virtually no tools to effectively do B and C.
The Light class in general is now capable only of capping, chasing, and dueling with other lights; the infiltrator archetype has no actual support. Attempting to perform the role of an infiltrator makes you useless.
>>320256282
You can't anymore ever since the speed nerf.
>>320256282
some maps are big enough to go round in perfect loops over and over, some people do a couple laps to reach speeds of 400+
on the giant lava map ive seen people grab at 500+ before - of course it takes them a few minutes to set up though
>>320256463
>I parrot things I have no clue about
>>320256282
Use terrain, abuse your bombs and/or spinfuser to catapult yourself into the air and land properly while skiing down a hill. You need to train on maps to find your optimal path. Well I say your, but you don't have much choice since most maps have 2-4 sanic paths.
>>320256268
Yes. Which is why I say that the infiltrator class is useless. I can have fun with a class that does the same job but a million times better.
>>320256282
>Best I can do is like 150
look at the ground
shoot at your feet
congratulations you are now going moderately fast
>>320256463
but that's false
>>320256554
>infiltrator class
there are no classes
555-come-on-now
>>320256707
Read the replay chain mongrel. I already explained what I mean when I say infiltrator class. It's the layout you make based around infiltration weapons and ability.
>>320256557
Thanks now I go negative sanics
>>320256802
>infiltrator class
you did it again
>>320256926
>le pretending to be retarded
>>320257068
what is this from
>>320257212
Papa Bones and the magic maids
>>320257212
Overlord
>>320257343
>Papa Bones and the magic maids
was actually able to find it with this. i'll take it
>>320257613
>its real
How fucked am I if I try this game at level 1?
>>320257838
Major assravaging in the first hours but you should eventually manage
There's novice servers too
>>320257838
In terms of equipment, not much. In terms of skill, very. Stick to novice servers and prepare your butt.
>tfw these are the two games I play the most
VGS
>>320241280
>[NIGR] Guy1, [NIGR] Guy2, and [NIGR] Guy3 have joined the game
>>320257343
>mfw first result in google when searching that is Overlord
Are autos a necessary evil?
Id like to imagine how wonderful the game would be with nothing but calculated, well-aimed, punishing, skill-based projectiles.
Is there just no better way to counter lights who are airborne 90% of the time?
>>320259924
Common strategy is 2 shots from a spinfuser then finish with an auto. Extremely common I should say. Nearly everyone does it.
>>320260438
Yeah but now you finish with flak
I played a bit yesterday but the stacked teams are too much.
Why does it seem like 80% of rank 50s are try hard faggots who always join the same team?
The thumper is fucking useless now, why even use it anymore when the spinfusor is easier to use, holds more ammo, has much longer range, has a faster rof and the only drawback is a slightly smaller radius.
Maybe after a few more updates it'll be better, I'm not lacking for games to play right now.
>>320256229
>Why do you want to go fast in game whose main gimmick is going fast
If I wanted to be slow I'd be playing a generic cod clone.
>>320251196
>why do people use strategies that win the war
It's as competitive as TF2. don't be ridiculous.
>>320259924
Autos should be removed.
>>320259924
I'm still salty about them but they feel okay now, I haven't really met one of those auto only fags yet
>mfw playing tribes again after a week of rainbow 6
You guys are lucky, I cant even launch the game. I get some weird error... is it as good as it used to be?
>>320246559
Snipers completely broke the game for most of its life.
Now it rewards chasing snipers so the good ones are affected by the dropoff and other changes but are still fully capable.
does the game still insist on that annoying hi-res launcher?
- last time i played tribes that annoying software just installed itself on my games only drive in a cluster of folders as if it were on the OS drive
Changes that need to be made:
>generator removed from game
>respawn delay is inversely proportional to distance from your base when you died
>decrease mass for light armor
>remove rage
>remove flag drag
There, perfect.
>>320264336
>>respawn delay is inversely proportional to distance from your base when you died
That's a great fucking idea.
>>320256347
>le we're above /v/ maymay
News flash, you're not. /vg/ is still a cesspool of circle jerking, you can only talk about a game for so long
>>320241280
>complaining about offense
get fucked, everyone stacks defense like animals
gen is useless anyway
>>320241280
use the grenade launcher you dimwit.
You don't even have to see where they are to be able to kill them.
ATM grenade launcher is so OP I hope they don't nerf it
>>320262243
better
>>320264732
>gen is useless anyway
>>320246559
It's still heavily capable of taking down flag carriers if flag defenders manage to do some sort of damage to the flag capper. I got 25+ kills with a sniper just because of that.
If I download the game from Steam, will I play through my HiRez account or my Steam account? I remember downloading it from Steam a long time ago and it wasn't my HiRez account that I played with (lvl 1 account, nothing bought, nothing unlocked, etc.).
>>320249141
This is exactly the reason why I stopped playing.
Too many faggot autists that have forgotten how to have fun.
>>320269379
HiRez account, you login in the game client.
>>320264706
some are containment threads
some actually discuss the game
it would help if you knew what the fuck you were talking about
/v/ is literally the cesspool of 4chan, only second to /b/
Why are people playing this again?
Did something happen?
>>320271373
New patch got released for the first time in almost three years.
>>320249141
Holy shit are you fucking kidding me. Before all you fast faggots were whining about the speed cap saying "OH WHY DON'T YOU JUST DEFEND THE BASE" and now you're all complaining about - wait for it - people actually defending their base?
you people are fucking insane. you don't know what you want. you just want to complain. you want to play a single player game that involves you skiiing around the map for 5 minutes and then capping in 10 seconds flat. fuck off. yes I'm mad
>any tribes game after starsiege: tribes
>good
lol
>>320272017
>implying tribes 2 wasn't good
>>320247820
Being steam-rolled isn't fun. When this happens, only one side is allowed to actually play the game, the other side are just targets.
>>320242840
They nerfed them pretty hard. My mind agrees with this change but my heart says no
