Tribes: Ascend has launched

[imaheadcase]

Nerfed the plasma rifle today thank goodness. Much easier to kill.

 

[KaOTiK]

Well after looking and seeing I've spent around 38 hours playing the game so far, I broke down and bought the $30 pack. Figured I already got my monies worth out of it and have been enjoying the game. Juggernaut is my fav class by far though I'm having a hard time deciding which perks to go with, one will be the capacitor for the 10 extra energy, not sure on the other.

Oh, got the MIRV (with the new gold I bought ), that thing is pretty sick. Just had to adjust my timings a bit because it takes longer to blow up compared to the fusion mortar.

Does anyone else find them selves to be an exp whore? Besides upgrading nearly everything on the jugg, buying the doombringer, and doing some upgrades for the pathfinder I always find myself to be scared to spend it for some reason lol. Now with the vip and bonus exp I'm up to like 220k.

 

[Karstein]

Plasma is still a bit too easy... I can average about 5 MAs a game currently. And people are still MAD when you use it.

On the subject of XP - I always have a massive bank left too, although I blew a lot on the raider when their new gear came out.

 

[KaOTiK]

I agree, the plasma is still a bit OP. It rips apart heavies too quickly and it is damn hard for them to miss with the giant size of the heavies and the box for the plasma. I think 5 shots can kill a jugg straight out.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I agree, the plasma is still a bit OP. It rips apart heavies too quickly and it is damn hard for them to miss with the giant size of the heavies and the box for the plasma. I think 5 shots can kill a jugg straight out.

Plasma does 500 damage a pop, and fully leveled Juggs and Brutes have 2600 damage, so it will take six shots. Although Doombringers are still 2500 and thus 5 will do them in.

Its an OK weapon, just on the wrong class. It would have been fine on say the Brute, who is in desperate need of weapons/equipment/whatever to make them viable again.

Raiders are just too mobile and durable to be given a weapon as efficiently powerful as the Plasma

 

[special33]

i tried it and really did not like tribes,
i really tried to like it but i think i am more of a COD fanboy, i dont know tribes was kind of boring to me.

 

[KaOTiK]

Plasma does 500 damage a pop, and fully leveled Juggs and Brutes have 2600 damage, so it will take six shots. Although Doombringers are still 2500 and thus 5 will do them in.

Its an OK weapon, just on the wrong class. It would have been fine on say the Brute, who is in desperate need of weapons/equipment/whatever to make them viable again.

Raiders are just too mobile and durable to be given a weapon as efficiently powerful as the Plasma

On a Brute it would have been fine. But yeah, on a highly mobile class it is just silly.

 

[ApexBoost]

i tried it and really did not like tribes,
i really tried to like it but i think i am more of a COD fanboy, i dont know tribes was kind of boring to me.

At least you can admit it.

I've been playing for a few days now and am in love with it. The pathfinder is definitely my class of choice so far. I'll probably be buying a gold pack within the coming weeks, both for unlocks and to support the developers for making a quality game.

 

[JamesV]

Finally tried it out last night. I put hundreds of hours in Starsiege (the mech game), then thousands and thousands into Tribes, hundreds into T2, and maybe a hundred hours into Vengeance.

Having to upgrade sucks a bit, especially the low energy you start with. First things I upgraded were the Pathfinder energy recharge and suit for more energy. After that it felt like I was back in Tribes, returning 10 or so flags the first match I tried to play LD.

It still feels slow compared to Tribes, maybe closer to T2, but not bad. My biggest gripe atm is that I cannot turn off the hints (' does nothing to hide them).

 

[Markbnj]

At least you can admit it.

I've been playing for a few days now and am in love with it. The pathfinder is definitely my class of choice so far. I'll probably be buying a gold pack within the coming weeks, both for unlocks and to support the developers for making a quality game.

Definitely the first MP shooter I've been addicted to since UT3. Damage is probably too high, carnage reigns, and people who have been playing since beta are hard as hell to beat, but still it's loads of fun. I just love the whole low-grav dynamic, swooping around leading targets and gibbing people is what I remember most fondly from low-grav insta-gib CTF in UT. It's a blast. I also like the build up of exp and looking forward to unlocking the next item that will make me a little more powerful. That's a plus for me, as it was in BF. I like working towards a goal while I'm getting splattered all over the grass in Raindance.

 

[zerocool84]

Downloaded this last night and will try it tonight.

 

[imaheadcase]

Well it was fun while it lasted. The aimbotting is just terrible now i get maybe 1 game out of 10 that is cheat free. Pretty much the only way to play against cheaters is defend gen room with mortars. lol

 

[Markbnj]

Well it was fun while it lasted. The aimbotting is just terrible now i get maybe 1 game out of 10 that is cheat free. Pretty much the only way to play against cheaters is defend gen room with mortars. lol

I haven't seen anything like that amount of cheating. I'm not sure I've seen any cheating, actually. I get killed maybe once per game in a situation where I think "damn, that was too good a shot," but the chance of those being actual cheaters is pretty low, I think.

 

[Visaoni]

I haven't seen anything like that amount of cheating. I'm not sure I've seen any cheating, actually. I get killed maybe once per game in a situation where I think "damn, that was too good a shot," but the chance of those being actual cheaters is pretty low, I think.

I'm with you here. I really find it pretty rare that I get hit with really difficult shots. Sometimes I dish them out too, but honestly, I'm often surprised when I make those shots. If I have the ammo, and the reload isn't going to cause me to miss them landing or some such, I'll take the shot, just in case. Sometimes it works. Usually it doesn't.

 

[gorcorps]

I haven't seen anything like that amount of cheating. I'm not sure I've seen any cheating, actually. I get killed maybe once per game in a situation where I think "damn, that was too good a shot," but the chance of those being actual cheaters is pretty low, I think.

Same here. There's been a couple times where I've been skeptical of certain snipers, but I'm not exactly flying across the map when they tag me and it didn't happen consistently.

Nothing too bad yet.

 

[Markbnj]

I'm with you here. I really find it pretty rare that I get hit with really difficult shots. Sometimes I dish them out too, but honestly, I'm often surprised when I make those shots. If I have the ammo, and the reload isn't going to cause me to miss them landing or some such, I'll take the shot, just in case. Sometimes it works. Usually it doesn't.

I mid-aired a guy last night with the light spinfusor just as he was swooping down to cap our flag. Total luck, but I'm sure he was thinking "aimbotter!"

 

[imaheadcase]

Last game was not even funny. Guy standing at flag was just shooting light assault rifle nonstop and killing anyone who got into range. I wish they would change it so vote kick did not apply to the team the guy was on. :/

 

[-Slacker-]

If he could kill any cappers with an ar near the flag, then something is wrong. Fortunately for me, I don't play CTF, just TDM and arena, where stuff like over powered weapons or hacking doesn't mater. I just kill everything with a red arrow on top of it, simple as that

 

[mingsoup]

I don't know whether to spend any money. That spinfuser is a long ways away at 42000 xp.

It's disheartening to know though, that opening up the full game would probably take quite a bit more than 60$. The game is great fun, but it feels more like a 35$ game total, and yet somehow via the F2P they can effectively charge $100's edit 180$ for it. http://www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/comments/pnspu/tables_upgrade_gpxp_cost_analysis/ I don't understand it. I'm more a one time payment or no payment at all. The nickels and dimes.....eh.
I don't know if 10$ could even outfit one class.

I would gladly support the dev's if they just came out and sold it for 40$ or less and then supported it. But this 10$ for X points and micro-transaction stuff.....I don't like it. I don't much support the nickel and dime approach. I feel a developer needs to develop a product and then sell it outright. Then stand behind it and support it. Fantastic game, but I cannot support their business practice. I don't believe in it. This is simply my opinion.

 

[GideonP]

I don't know whether to spend any money. That spinfuser is a long ways away at 42000 xp.

If you like the game, please support the developers. You got a free game! You also get VIP status if you spend any money. It gives you 1.5x XP I believe for life.

 

[gorcorps]

I don't know whether to spend any money. That spinfuser is a long ways away at 42000 xp.

It's disheartening to know though, that opening up the full game would probably take quite a bit more than 60$. The game is great fun, but it feels more like a 35$ game total, and yet somehow via the F2P they can effectively charge $100's edit 180$ for it. http://www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/comments/pnspu/tables_upgrade_gpxp_cost_analysis/ I don't understand it. I'm more a one time payment or no payment at all. The nickels and dimes.....eh.
I don't know if 10$ could even outfit one class.

I would gladly support the dev's if they just came out and sold it for 40$ or less and then supported it. But this 10$ for X points and micro-transaction stuff.....I don't like it. I don't much support the nickel and dime approach. In my mind its just a ploy to scam more money out of a person in the long haul through illusion. I feel a developer needs to develop a product and then sell it outright. Then stand behind it and support it. Fantastic game, but I cannot support their business practice. I don't believe in it.

I paid $30 and am glad I did. Did it unlock everything? No, but I got some 100000XP guns for the classes I like and the boost in XP helps get other things quickly. I'm not a fan of their model either because of what I spent yet have a long way to go, but only the 100000 weapons seem unreasonable. 42000 isn't that tough to get in CTF.

 

[mingsoup]

I was going to retract my statement, I don't want to flame, but its okay. Its pretty mild. I think I'm going to go read the reddit thread. I'm still iffy on the whole F2P thing, but maybe I'm just thinking about it wrong. Its probably control issues. I like to spend money and then own something, well kinda anyway barring DRM etc. This seems least like that. Isn't a 100k XP gun a 10$ gun. Isn't that kinda outlandish? But then again, I paid 60$ for BF3 and I was *still* locked out of everything......and still am 6 months later. :| What's better, I don't know.

 

[KaOTiK]

This is the first F2P game I've enjoyed and actually spent money on. IMO the $30 pack is great. Only use the gold for those 100k items, you can get exp real quick with this pack because you get a 30 day booster that doubles your exp and since you made a purchase you become a VIP as well and get 50% more exp as too before the booster doubles what you earned from the match.

The 42k items become much easier to get like this and it keeps the gold safe for when something new comes along and if it cost a lot in exp you can just get it with the gold instead.

 

[-Slacker-]

I don't know whether to spend any money. That spinfuser is a long ways away at 42000 xp.

It's disheartening to know though, that opening up the full game would probably take quite a bit more than 60$. The game is great fun, but it feels more like a 35$ game total, and yet somehow via the F2P they can effectively charge $100's edit 180$ for it. http://www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/comments/pnspu/tables_upgrade_gpxp_cost_analysis/ I don't understand it. I'm more a one time payment or no payment at all. The nickels and dimes.....eh.
I don't know if 10$ could even outfit one class.

I would gladly support the dev's if they just came out and sold it for 40$ or less and then supported it. But this 10$ for X points and micro-transaction stuff.....I don't like it. I don't much support the nickel and dime approach. I feel a developer needs to develop a product and then sell it outright. Then stand behind it and support it. Fantastic game, but I cannot support their business practice. I don't believe in it. This is simply my opinion.

If you're a soldier class, you might still be eligible for the promotion on Destructoid where they unlock the soldier's spinfusor for free.

 

[gorcorps]

I was going to retract my statement, I don't want to flame, but its okay. Its pretty mild. I think I'm going to go read the reddit thread. I'm still iffy on the whole F2P thing, but maybe I'm just thinking about it wrong. Its probably control issues. I like to spend money and then own something, well kinda anyway barring DRM etc. This seems least like that. Isn't a 100k XP gun a 10$ gun. Isn't that kinda outlandish? But then again, I paid 60$ for BF3 and I was *still* locked out of everything......and still am 6 months later. :| What's better, I don't know.

Well, first you can't really say that X gold is X dollars because depending on which pack you buy the dollar/gold ratio changes. Obviously to reward those spending a lot.

That said, I had the same thought process. I think part of it is how many really cheap games I've gotten over the years through steam... so spending any more than $15 on a game these days sounds crazy. Especially one that I can already play, and you're really just paying to get stuff quicker. HOWEVER, once I got over it and spent $30 (which is still cheaper than a new game) I felt good about it. IMO now I'm gaining XP like I think I should, but that's because of a VIP AND new buyer boost. Without those I could see getting a little frustrated.