Tribes: Ascend Catch All

Open beta this Friday. New game type, new maps, etc.

You know you're doing something right when half of the enemy team is raging like CoD kiddies, and the other half hate you, but admit you're kicking ass.

Really, I can't wait for private servers, just hoping I have the spare funds handy to run a GWJ server. It was fun and doing that in T1 and T2 kept a pretty stable group of awesome pubbies from outside the group that appreciated the teamwork. (And vicious banhammer on anyone using racial/gender/sexual orientation slurs.)

silentsod wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Must have missed the crowd. You guys finished the group off early.

Played a couple of TDM matches. Think these other codes they've released to broaden the beta population has made the game easier for the last couple of nights. Either than, or I'm getting the hang of things a bit better.

Still probably suck, but not as much.

The game really rewards the time that you put into it. I've gotten far, far better than I was when I first started playing.

Learning the Raider class, specifically the Arx Buster, is tough though. Usually any new role I step into involves me doing mediocre for a while.

ETA: I will say that people saying "how much did you pay to win?" in games got on my nerves. If you get crushed by a player over and over who is topping the charts it's because he put the time in to learn how to use the classes and tools he has.

I've definitely gotten "Nice pay account" a few times, to which I generally respond with a non-sarcastic "thanks!". I don't understand why it's an issue if you enjoy a game you throw some cash the developer's way. I received this as a gift from PXA for Christmas but I've put more hours into this than BF3 at this point, and I really liked BF3!

I played some TF2 the other night, had a momentary brainfart when I realized my soldier wasn't skiing while I held the spacebar.

Its difficult to describe the level of glee I feel when an enemy smashes into my force field like a bug on a windshield.

Good games last night. Here's to many more!

Looks like the patch it out, or something is at least. I was hoping to get home and play real quick but it's downloading about 900 MB.

Yep, patch day, new maps, some mechanic tweaks...

ahhh...for some reason I thought it was coming out Friday, hence my confusion.

Looks like the pre-order $30 package is gone from the website, too. I've been going back and forth about buying $10 worth of gold or the $30 pack for a few days. Guess that's an easier call now

EDIT: Now that I do the math, I think the deal now is possibly better for $30:

3000 gold
10 day booster (worth 640 gold)
VIP

So this is in effect 3640 gold in value. You could buy a 1200 gold 30 day pack to go to 40 days of boost, and still have 1800 gold left.

More than the original deal:
800 gold
30 day boost (worth 1200 gold)
VIP

So 2000 gold in value.

EDIT 2:
That was the original deal with 800 gold. The more recent preorder had 3000 gold. The link to it still works, but I'm not sure how long it will last.

So I'm browsing the Tribes subreddit and I catch a video of a guy making two melee kills in one swipe. Then a surprise!

Stylez wrote:

So I'm browsing the Tribes subreddit and I catch a video of a guy making two melee kills in one swipe. Then a surprise!

You sir are internet famous! Also not being stabbed to death like the other two would be flag cappers is a big plus.

Arovin wrote:
Stylez wrote:

So I'm browsing the Tribes subreddit and I catch a video of a guy making two melee kills in one swipe. Then a surprise!

You sir are internet famous! Also not being stabbed to death like the other two would be flag cappers is a big plus.

Yes absolutely. No shame in going fast. Lots of shame in melee sloppy seconds.

Haha, nice job, Stylez!

In celebration of tonight's open beta, and the glee of killing new players, those who can, hop in game and Vent around 9 EST. See you then!

cyrax wrote:

Haha, nice job, Stylez!

In celebration of tonight's open beta, and the glee of killing new players, those who can, hop in game and Vent around 9 EST. See you then!

I've got a crapload of work to do over the weekend, but I'll try and jump in for a few rounds at least. I hope we have a decent turnout!

I'll be around, probably.

This is supposed to be in open beta now, right? Their website appears to be down.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

This is supposed to be in open beta now, right? Their website appears to be down.

They posted on twitter not long ago they were having network issues.

cyrax wrote:

Haha, nice job, Stylez!

In celebration of tonight's open beta, and the glee of killing new players, those who can, hop in game and Vent around 9 EST. See you then!

I'll be at work. Sorry that I can't make it.

Edit: Haha, just kidding. Turns out there was a schedule change that I was unaware of.

Servers are DOWN! Oh no!

Hypatian wrote:

Servers are DOWN! Oh no!

They just tweeted that they're coming back up.

Yup! They're up! Let my sucking commence! Jumping on vent.

I'm in. Hook a brother up to the steam group!

It was great to see so many people show up. Good games and great times. Besides myself, my favorite moment of the night was seeing Arovin snipe someone (I think the flag carrier?) that was just in front of me. I called out good snipe in Vent and Arovin said it was him, nice!

cyrax wrote:

It was great to see so many people show up. Good games and great times. Besides myself, my favorite moment of the night was seeing Arovin snipe someone (I think the flag carrier?) that was just in front of me. I called out good snipe in Vent and Arovin said it was him, nice!

I like to shoot things, things with flags

Man. It's too bad the Steam group name is already set, because "Gamers With Flags" would have been pretty good.

There's a bug in this version that won't let me cut off all the voice message spam

I still can't get to the website to download this.

Can I get an invite to the Steam group?

I don't know if anyone else watches T:A scrims, but RedSpider of team ZFZ popped into a game and won it for the other team tonight. He even VGY VGH to my "the redspider?"

silentsod wrote:

I don't know if anyone else watches T:A scrims, but RedSpider of team ZFZ popped into a game and won it for the other team tonight. He even VGY VGH to my "the redspider?"

You just had to remind me that TA scrims exist. Great, now I'll spend a good portion of my weekend watching them.

Here's one site: http://www.tribescast.com/

I'm having a blast with this. I'm absolutely terrible, but it's still a lot of fun.

I've been in games several times with Nasa1 (NASAfromNYC in Tribes). Just got out of one. He's a reasonably large youtube guy (and on the spawn trap podcast) just getting into Tribes.