GWJ Podcast Playdate #2: Tribes 2 (Free Download!)

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Tribes 2

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When: Friday, May 7th at 8PM CST

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Rise of Nations night was a great success! Onto Tribes 2, which is awesome because it's FREE.

To download the game, head to Tribes Next and grab the full game file and the multiplayer patch. Once you have that, it's pretty easy and runs great on Windows 7. We'll pick a server on the night we play and post it in this thread. If anyone wants to man up and host a private server, let us know! Something password protected would be cool.

A GWJ Server

"GWJ - Parsley Server"
Password = goodjer

Ooo! Count me in!

I used to be one heck of a transport pilot back in the day.

I'm in for trying out one of the most beloved online shooters. That time does bump into Friday Night TF2.

I am in.

I'm in! Dloading game now and have Ventrillo ready to go

I'm going to try for a private server but not sure if it will pan out.

Of course, I have some T2 videos to post.

I re-posted these to Youtube a long time ago but I did not author any of these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlAmFPL6xgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBz0746-KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0OOLeJKCs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVGIUqffdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2rLOBJXrtg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiO1rr8YFCA

Again, I did not author any of these videos. Tribes 2 was the first gaming community I really got into and probably part of why I'm interested in creating gaming videos.

I'm so in. Going to need some practice. It's been a long time since I pulled the trigger on a disc launcher.

zomg yes. yes yes yes

Yeah we're either going to need a private or to take over one of the empty publics running vanilla. It's hard enough for me to remember how all this stuff worked WITHOUT the crazy variants.

What, less than a weeks notice!!!!

I'm definitely in later in the evening. Go easy on me, I've never played this game before.

Nooooo the same weekend as the reach beta! How can I chose!

I was a huge Tribes addict, although I never got into Tribes 2 (despite purchasing it near release). I've got it all installed and ready to go for next week though!

I have so many fond memories of this.

One time I was flying the transport/gunship thing. I was either transporting people towards an enemy base or escaping one with the flag carrier onboard I forget. All of the seats were filled except the tailgunner. So this fighter comes along and starts blasting us in the back, and of course none of my passengers can hit him. I don't know what gave me the idea but what I did was hit the thrusters to move us straight up, then I cut the engines. The gunship really flies like a brick, so we skidded to a stop and he kept going. The ship fell straight down and drop-rammed onto the fighter, destroying it instantly. Good times.

Finding a vanilla server might be the hardest part of starting a gaming night for us.

Let's assume that I've never played Tribes, but would like to give it a go. What should I know going in?

Certis wrote:

...it's pretty easy and runs great on Windows 7

Not on mine, it doesn't!

Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit; I've tried installing normally and as administrator. The screen flickers a couple of times, then dumps back to desktop and says:

"Unhandled exception: c0000005
At address: 00000000".

Any ideas?

If I still have my tribes disks (which I do) do I need to download the full thing or just the patch?

My favorite multiplayer FPS ever. I wonder if my fond memories will be destroyed by playing it again?

4dSwissCheese wrote:

Let's assume that I've never played Tribes, but would like to give it a go. What should I know going in?

There hasn't really been a multiplayer experience like it since. You have a jetpack, and you can configure your armor and inventory. There's light, medium and heavy armor and various weapons you can configure. Also deployable turrets. And vehicles. And the maps are so big you actually need to use your jetpack to get around.

Since it's free, just download and pop in a bit to get up to speed. It's just very different, a variation of multiplayer shooters that unfortunately never took off.

ChrisLTD wrote:

My favorite multiplayer FPS ever. I wonder if my fond memories will be destroyed by playing it again?

Actually my memories of Rise of Nations were enhanced by the fact that it still held up really well. I'm hopingTribes is in the same league.

Well I fired it up for the first time in years today. The account system uses a CRAZY complicated encryption method to secure your account. Seriously its like something out of James Bond. I can't imagine why they would need it.

Vehicle controls are just as slippery as I remembered. So much so that the scout fighter is pretty much useless. You can't line up a target worth a damn. The energy bolts it uses as weapons travel so slowly through the air that other aircraft can actually dodge em.

One thing that really throws me off is how limited your jetpack is. Heavy armour guys can jet maybe 15 feet. And thats WITH a full energy bar. Once drained the bar takes a very long time to recharge. I spent almost a whole minute trying to get my guy out of a shallow pit. It was really kind of pathetic. Like a fat cat that can't get up a staircase.

My big tip for the rest of you is to do nothing at first except figure out your mouse sensitivity. Use 30 minutes if you have to. If your not comfortable with it it throws everything off, shooting, jumping, jetpack, vehicles, you won't accomplish anything.

When I was on the only server with more than 30 people was called something like Goon Squad. Its also the only populated server on the list that still uses the Classic ruleset. So I guess thats where we are headed? Having a server of our own doesn't seem very useful unless we can drum up 30 goodjers or more to play on a regular basis.

PyromanFO wrote:
4dSwissCheese wrote:

Let's assume that I've never played Tribes, but would like to give it a go. What should I know going in?

There hasn't really been a multiplayer experience like it since.

Global Agenda is very Tribesish.

Ready to hold space and glide on hills! Weeeeeeee!

It's been so many years since I've played this game.

I played a decent amount of the first Tribes game and I remember having some good times with it. I will be sure to grab this and join you all, though I might benefit from training from the experts in the crowd.

Well there's still the option of putting up a base server. I'm sure we're not going to get more than 20 people anyhow, so a home-based dedicated server may be feasible.

If we get a private server, I'm in. Diving into the custom aquarium with all the sharks doesn't sound too appealing.

Tamren wrote:

I can describe the entire experience with one word. "teflon". Its slippery, the whole world is basically almost frictionless. Strafe 2 feet to the size and you will slip down a mountain. Jump jets are significantly nerfed from what I remember. So combined these 2 problems make it almost impossible to move around until you figure it out. It also breaks the balance of the game. Because movement is frictionless once you get up to speed there is no difference between heavy armour and scout armour. This divides the experienced players into 3 groups:

Ugh, skiing heavies. Easily the worst aspect of the game that way too many people adored.

I didn't mind. But that was back when skiing was hard. You couldn't just start skiing, you had to gather some momentum first and hop to a certain beat. This Classic mod basically makes it like tribes vengeance and I presume, the original which I have never played. In this case all you do is hold the jump button down and surf.

Ruh roh, trouble in paradise.

I did some reading. This "classic" game mode I mentioned is NOT vanilla tribes. The original ruleset is called "base" and no one uses it anymore. "classic" is a remake of tribes 2 that is supposed to recreate the feel of the original game. I hate it.

I can describe the entire experience with one word. "teflon". Its slippery, the whole world is basically almost frictionless. Strafe 2 feet to the side and you will slip down a mountain. Jump jets are significantly nerfed from what I remember. So combined these 2 problems make it almost impossible to move around until you figure it out. It also breaks the balance of the game. Because movement is frictionless once you get up to speed there is no difference between heavy armour and scout armour. This divides the experienced players into 3 groups:

1. Flag carriers who wear scout armour. They don't do much but zip in and out of your base at a speed that sets the carpets on fire.
2. Bobsledders who wear heavy armour. All these guys do is slip and slide around your base and fire mortars at everything and anything. They move so fast that killing them is almost impossible with any weapon other than the sniper laser, and even that can take 5 hits. If you try to fight one they don't even bother to defend themselves, they just... keep going.
3. Teabaggers, these guys are just bobsledders who aren't moving around. They sit in your base and mortar everything. Almost impossible to shift because of the armour. And if you do start to wear them down they just turn into bobsledders again.

90% of all map play is capture the flag with little to no vehicles. sh*t sux. This isn't the tribes I recall fondly

EDIT: The other game modes aren't much better. Most of them are modded to the point of being unrecognizable. Triumph has a lightsaber ffs.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Tamren wrote:

I can describe the entire experience with one word. "teflon". Its slippery, the whole world is basically almost frictionless. Strafe 2 feet to the size and you will slip down a mountain. Jump jets are significantly nerfed from what I remember. So combined these 2 problems make it almost impossible to move around until you figure it out. It also breaks the balance of the game. Because movement is frictionless once you get up to speed there is no difference between heavy armour and scout armour. This divides the experienced players into 3 groups:

Ugh, skiing heavies. Easily the worst aspect of the game that way too many people adored.

They see me rollin' into their base, mortars flying.. They be hatin'..

Yeah the community was always so separated on their individual versions of how they thought the game should work. Base, Base++, Classic, Version 2 were the competitive ones then there were all the crazy mods like Renegades.

I don't care which version we play, I enjoy them all.

spider_j wrote:
Certis wrote:

...it's pretty easy and runs great on Windows 7

Not on mine, it doesn't!

Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit; I've tried installing normally and as administrator. The screen flickers a couple of times, then dumps back to desktop and says:

"Unhandled exception: c0000005
At address: 00000000".

Any ideas?

This probably isn't too helpful but I, too, am running win7 ultimate 64 and I had no problems getting it to run. Although, it did cause my computer to crash when I closed it.

I will attempt to play this on Friday. I have never played it before but have heard people refer to how awesome tribes is in the past. I played a little of the training thing when I installed it but I couldn't use the jetpack well enough to get to the top of the tower that it wanted me to go to so thing should be interesting when I try to play for real.

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