Tribes: Ascend - Now with Clan Support!

[Scaramunga]

Originally Posted by RnR

I'm only an average skier who have only just recently found the Joy of Spinfusor Jumping

Try using a nitron grenade.

I think a lot of old school fps gamers in general will find it easy to adapt to the skiing mechanics as we had to use strafe jumping, ramp jumping, rocket jumping etc to stay competitive. I know in action quake 2, you never walked/ran anywhere, we used to strafe and ramp jump our way around the maps. I think that game has helped me with judgement of how to land to gain max speed etc. If you land a bit hard in aq2, you broke your legs and had to bandage.. most of the time, that meant death.

[FiShy]

Originally Posted by Scaramunga

Try using a nitron grenade.

I think a lot of old school fps gamers in general will find it easy to adapt to the skiing mechanics as we had to use strafe jumping, ramp jumping, rocket jumping etc to stay competitive. I know in action quake 2, you never walked/ran anywhere, we used to strafe and ramp jump our way around the maps. I think that game has helped me with judgement of how to land to gain max speed etc. If you land a bit hard in aq2, you broke your legs and had to bandage.. most of the time, that meant death.

Dont forget binding taunt to your forward key so you grabbed your balls midair while M4ing everyone in the face while making grunt noises and spamming radio binds.

Best game ever (tribes2 a close second)

[Scaramunga]

Originally Posted by FiShy

Dont forget binding taunt to your forward key so you grabbed your balls midair while M4ing everyone in the face while making grunt noises and spamming radio binds.

Best game ever (tribes2 a close second)

hahahahah great game, so many funny moments. I used to RCON bind Alb's taunt keys to either kill himself or exit the game

[boron boy]

Just grabbed this the other day been having a blast. One thing that would be cool, I reckon your "skiis" should leave tracks. Perhaps burnt patches of ground. The maps would start out pristine and then be a scoured mess by the end. Apart from looking cool, strategically it would give a visual indication of the most travelled routes.

[xhanatos]

Originally Posted by FiShy

Dont forget binding taunt to your forward key so you grabbed your balls midair while M4ing everyone in the face while making grunt noises and spamming radio binds.

Best game ever (tribes2 a close second)

hah that brings back memories.

hand cannon, knives and stealth slippers

[RnR]

HiRez responds to the plasma'ed fury of the players;

Originally Posted by HiRezStew

We are planning on a patch soon that will make a few balance changes. We will likely adjust the Plasma Gun some with that patch, as well as a few other changes. The Plasma Gun will still be plenty fun and full of awesome, but we do feel it's a little OP right now in the right hands and probably does need to be adjusted some.

[cbwolf]

lol there you go with the nerf.

[Clippit]

Do they test, at all? There are a NUMBER of things that are clearly out of balance at the moment that should really have been sorted out in pre release testing.

Ski tracks however would be cool. They don't have to be too persistent (they would be decals and decals always seem to murder frame rates) but would be a fun addition.

Also I think the movement sounds in general could use a tweak. Been playing tribes vengeance (sp, ok) recently and the suits all sound a lot more mechanical.

[flinchy]

Originally Posted by cbwolf

Medium capping can be fun in pub but will get your raped in competitive play.

Practice your pathfinder capping. 250+ minimum. 300+ preferred although I've seen some exceptionally good cappers grabbing at around 440.

440 grabs seriously? youtube vids seem to show the realistic absolute 100% maximum sustainable in T:A to be about 300-350 maybe

[xhanatos]

it was fun playing capture and hold yesterday with oppressa

ok, going in now as raider. might as well max my airmails before the nerf

[Oppressa]

Had some great rounds of all game types today thanks to being off work due to 4 wisdom teeth being extracted.

Great rounds with Xhanatos and islandthursday as well

[Darkness']

I just joined crossfire half way through, ended up coming 1st with16K thanks to a quatrakill!

[walker_2003]

I think all u people capturing video footage should work together and make a collage of tribes ascend showing how good of a game it is

[RnR]

Older Cows Server

Public CTF server.
Standard rules.
1 sentinel per team
No Temple Ruins
No Sunstar
Gentlemen's agreement - no plasma gun.

Would have liked to ban the Raider, but that server option doesn't work.

About the name - I am member of two communities, each of which don't have the critical mass to keep a custom server usefully occupied. However I think there are enough players from both communities to have the occasional casual 'b' grade scrim. The other community is The Older Gamers where most of the players have jobs, kids, partners and are allround nice blokes. Kinda like here

The server is only up for another 8 days. It was a brief attempt in providing relief from plasma hitboxes. I've spent the gold, maybe we can get a session or two out of it.

Friday night scrim? Saturday night. Sunday arvo? Preferences? Any interest? Skill level irrelevant


If you are interested and you haven't gotten access to the OCAU Tribes Mumble server, please PM laidlow for access. Server details can be seen in the OP of this thread.

Edit: Tonight: 9:30pm and onwards. Number of interested folk so far: 10

[cbwolf]

Originally Posted by RnR

Older Cows Server

Public CTF server.
Standard rules.
1 sentinel per team
No Temple Ruins
No Sunstar
Gentlemen's agreement - no plasma gun.

Would have liked to ban the Raider, but that server option doesn't work.

About the name - I am member of two communities, each of which don't have the critical mass to keep a custom server usefully occupied. However I think there are enough players from both communities to have the occasional casual 'b' grade scrim. The other community is The Older Gamers where most of the players have jobs, kids, partners and are allround nice blokes. Kinda like here

The server is only up for another 8 days. It was a brief attempt in providing relief from plasma hitboxes. I've spent the gold, maybe we can get a session or two out of it.

Friday night scrim? Saturday night. Sunday arvo? Preferences? Any interest? Skill level irrelevant

I'll be in tonight for sure