So apparently Tribes recently got patched and it rebalanced the game.
Can it be good again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY4zZzi1gRg
All hope is lost.
Yeah, it's pretty good right now, but it needs a consistent playerbase to keep going and I don't know if it can make up those losses
>>321309137
still pretty consistent, got about 10+ full servers every night.
No they fucked up the golden ticket.
It will never be popular or good ever again because of how they fucked their own game over and how they fucked their playerbase over a few years ago.
They fucked up, it's their fault as well, the fucking idiots.
Just because you haven't let go for some reason doesn't mean you should go around making threads in desperation for someone to play the game and give it a hopeless try one more time.
No one cares about this game anymore.
>>321309137
>>321309279
I would play it, but I just bought CoD.
>>321309526
Dont speak for everyone you utter faggot
>duhh i dont wanna play its dead they abandoned it ;_;
>update it, people are playing
>uuuuuhhhh its still dead it will always be dead ;_;
this board really sucks
I played it 200 hours 3 years ago, started playing again when the update hit, holy shit this game is so fun and comfy.
>>321309703
It's worse than it was pre-patch for everything except the removal of strikes. If you like it know you would have liked it before, but a lot of people left the game anyway because it was popular to hate on hirez rather than because they weren't having fun.
In other news, Midair just went to Steam Greenlight. Help vote the true tribes game get on steam you shazbots.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=436320913&insideModal=0&requirelogin=1
>>321310003
you just whine about the game being dead but give no effort to actually playing it when they do something. typical /v/.
>>321310270
I wasn't the one you were talking to. You're just angry and I noticed that.
>>321309703
It's just the truth. No one cares because of how they fucked the game up.
And it's always obvious when desperate fuckheads are trying to get people interested again.
I won't even say it's a dev, they are too fucking lazy and stupid to advertise it, so these threads are full of desperate players who can't let go and are forcing themselves to play it.
Enjoy your game.
>>321310423
I love how you're so confident in your ignorance. A true /v/irgin.
>>321309703
Massive understatement.
It will never be as big as it was or have the massive possibilities it had, but i think it's fixed the game enough for it to have a stable playerbase for a long time.
>vehicles are free now
>every single match has 2 shrikes and 2 tanks up 24/7
no thank you
also bad maps like temple ruins and tartarus are still in the game
>>321308428
>max 2 shrikes per team of 14
>every weapon does full damage to vehicles, letting anyone to just chip them down
>missile launcher has FOURTEEN ammo, a single heavy with missile can shut down two shrike players for 2 minutes
Let me know when it actually becomes a vehicle based game.
>>321312134
Why would it be a vehicle based game?
>>321312134
>Let me know when it actually becomes a vehicle based game.
vehicles are literally the worst thing about the game
>>321312317
I guess you're one of those people who never played Tribes 2.
That game had three more kinds of vehicles, including an MPB, bomber and transport, with a limit of about 4 shrikes, 2 bombers and 2 transports(ie. 4 times as many air vehicles at the game). Of course, back then maps weren't this pathetic small either, so heavies actually had to rely on transports to get them into the enemy base since walking across the map took minutes.
>>321312602
Because they are fucking badly implemented.
>>321312694
Come up with a vehicle that could be well implemented to Tribes.
>>321312776
Tribes 2 had great vehicles. They should have just copied them.
>>321313025
eh, the bread and butter of the game is in the infantry
vehicles were always nothing but easily accessible solutions for those who couldn't bother to learn to do the same thing on legs
>>321313219
T2 Shrike didn't have exploding ammo and you actually had to score direct hits to do damage. It used to take a fuckload more skill than just chaingunning people down on foot. As I said, vehicles were much better in that game.
Also maps were way larger, so you NEEDED vehicles. Some maps had 1.5-2kms between bases, and you needed transports to get juggernauts there for base rape. And then you needed shrikes to escort them, so they don't get shot down.
>>321313649
Yes, maps were a lot bigger and had a lot more in-depth mechanics and strategies but lets face it, today that just wouldn't fly. Too many gamers used to instant gratification for every action they do.
>>321313771
I doubt that. Battlefield works, and it has fairly large maps, at least for crossing on foot.
>>321313967
Yes but there are no such things as escorts or real teamwork required since everything can be equipped to deal with anything.
Also you can't go 300km/h on foot in Battlefield.
>>321308428
We know. Nothing that was fundamentally wrong was fixed. More autos than ever before. STILL haven't fixed team stacking.
Let her sleep, Anon.
is there still a speed limit?
>>321312612
I guess you're one of those faggots who keeps trying to turn ta into t2, get back to reddit, you're why shrieks are worse than before.
>>321314438
>still
what do you mean? there has never been a speed limit
>>321314556
Good, they should nerf Shrikes even more.
>>321314680
No. They're worse. As in they're more effective and game breaking than they have been.
>>321314746
I dunno, 600 kph shrike grabs were pretty broken
>>321314556
I guess you're one of those faggots who wants to remove vehicles from the series that literally invented mixing vehicles into FPS combat.
>>321314557
you were just too shitty to get cap
>Nobody defends me when I have the enemy flag for an hour waiting for ours to be returned
>Idiots bodyblocking me to take enemy flags at a 10th of my speed
>3 idiots on each time spamming mortars not hitting anything
>I AM T3H SN1P3R OF D00M AND 1M HELPIGN
Yep this is just like when I played it. I kind of miss the 9 class system, though
>>321314831
That's not even close to the problem. They're just devastating chasers/defenders with a competent player. Noticeable more than in previous patches.
>>321314836
Nope.
>>321314994
Competent FCs always carry a Shocklance to 1HKO any Shrike that tries to run them over.
The splash damage on the projectiles though, fuck that shit.
>>321315070
That's barely even viable. Even a full speed roadkill won't kill any player from full health.
speaking of vehicles
>typical tank shitter on the enemy team
>advanced repair tool, the whole nine yards
>just bully him with saber and mortar
>eventually blow him up
>for the entire remainder of the match AND the following match, he's chasing me
>doesn't manage to kill me once
Page 10 resurrection
Why does Tribes have to die like this...
>>321318594
Nothing good can last forever
Also jews
>>321318594
post tribes images
where were you when reddit was BTFO by a furry, a BR with 200 ping, and some random /v/irgins?
>>321318713
It's not fair. Tribes is one of the more imaginative and ambitious game series there is. Starsiege Tribes was about huge team battles, there nothing else like this in 1998. Then came the "skiing" glitch and later it was actually incorporated in the game as a real mechanic. How can these games not be more popular?
can't even enjoy the update cause faggots just team stack every match.
>>321310003
>>>/reddit/
>>321319153
It WAS popular, but not as popular as Hi-Rez wanted since they were trying to get into the e-sports scene. Then they dumped it for their new baby SMITE which was thoroughly mediocre even fore an ASSFAGGOTS.
>>321308428
Supposedly the story is that they have taken some of their profits from Smite and investing it into Tribes with the goal of fixing it up, stabilizing and creating longevity, and just leaving it to live on its own with no further support.
I've gotten back into it this past week (wasn't anything other than a casual at the game). While there are some full servers, I've found more fun in the lower-leveled servers (ie. 1-10). Me and my buddy end up joining 4v4s or 8v8s where everyone is still mediocre. For the first time in a long time I'm playing a game and feeling that I'm becoming better at it with each game.
Skiing each of the maps over and over, trying out new routes and getting better at fast capping. Feels phenomenal.
Also somehow sitting on like 100k XP, so i can buy anything I want for any class.
Hopefully more people get back on and it grows a bit more.
>>321319679
If they wanted to create longevity and get it to live on its own with no further support they'd release dedicated server software, map tools, and bots.
From the looks of things none of those 3 features will ever be considered.
>>321319869
Ignorant question here: Are there any modern FPS that offer all three of those features?
I know there's CS:GO, which has stuck to his guns since its inception on HL1.
I thought Tribes has dedicated servers that you can rent and tweak? Or are you talking servers that host custom mods and such?
Map tools would be amazing.
>>321320194
If you pay a regular fee you can "rent" a server for Tribes Ascend, but that's it. Hirez also teased releasing the map tools years ago and still haven't done jack shit about it.
I have a lot of friends who could easily get behing Tribes, but with this game not having proper dedicated servers or bot support none of us can justify playing it very much. Pubs are awful.
>>321320194
TF2 still counts I think
>>321319869
I won't fault HiRez for not releasing bots, AI is a whole other kettle of fish. Even though that really would save the game.
Dedicated server client and map tools are no-brainers though. The game should be as modular as possible.
>>321319302
I just had a pretty even game.
