Definitely worth a look, especially if you're bored with formulaic CoD releases.
Playing the beta atm and it's pretty good fun, i never played the original or any Quake-esque games so haven't much to compare it to. Also it's gonna be f2p, but you only get 2 of the classes and have to buy the others.
Out of keys afraid.
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Played a bit at pax and liked what I saw. Felt much better than the last attempt at tribes and much closer to tribes 1/2. As always though it's going to have a small player base due to the huge learning curve and skillsets needed to succeed. Nice to see they picked up a F2P model so that might just make the difference in getting people to pick up and put the time into getting better.
This is developed by HiRez, the makers of Global Agenda.
They have a talent for taking a good concept and ruining it with silly priorities. I wonder if they learned any lessons from GA's "success".
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Graze on, graze on, submissive nation! / You will not wake to honor's call. Why offer herds their liberation? / For them are shears or slaughter-stall, Their heritage each generation / The yoke with jingles, and the gall. - A.S.Pushkin
I played loads of Tribes 1 and 2, this looks cool but the F2P idea turns me off. I rather pay for a game than pay to have an advantage over others.
Though i agree with your point, this isn't pay2win.
Way it works is the game's free, you get 2 classes soldier (spinfusor) and ranger (hitscan assault rifle, presumably to be newbie friendly). The further 10 classes can be unlocked either by tribes gold (which you can buy) or tokens, which are like xp you get from winning games/kills etc. You can also buy boosters which double your token income for a certain time i think.
It doesn't seem much like an advantage, the soldier and ranger classes are plenty capable and the others are just different. Kinda like TF2/CoD/BF classes i guess, but less balance issues since they're actively changing weapon stats throughout the beta.
You can get everything in the game just by playing, paying only unlocks stuff faster.
As jaden said, the F2P is gonna really help the numbers.
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They just removed all Hit-Scan from the game, listening to a wide community consensus.
Everything is a projectile and can be dodged.
F2P or not doesn't matter as long as they keep the actual minimum price low enough to go for subscribers and not just a money grab for fans.
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Graze on, graze on, submissive nation! / You will not wake to honor's call. Why offer herds their liberation? / For them are shears or slaughter-stall, Their heritage each generation / The yoke with jingles, and the gall. - A.S.Pushkin
I just received a key over the mail for some reason, dont even know how they got my mail. I"ll check it out and if i have any more keys with it they're yours.
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dkp wrote:
Also, they should take Snikk to do some voice work on future trailers. His voice bears the might of 100 vikings with a Shakespearean articulation.
Played it for a bit today. Everyone's just using the launchers because the guns don't do enough damage compared to launchers. Game seems like its the kind of game thats fun for an hour on an end max.
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dkp wrote:
Also, they should take Snikk to do some voice work on future trailers. His voice bears the might of 100 vikings with a Shakespearean articulation.
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