Thanks, I'll have to give this a shot tomorrow some time

Mike

I wouldn't mind one either, but I'm sure there's others who'd want one more.

EDIT: Got one from Wolfy, thanks man.

Holy **** everyone is **** at this game.
In one game 5 captures were made. 3 of those were made by me. Half the people are defending our reactor which isn't under attack while the other half is busy looking for kills.

Yeah there are a lot of people who have no idea what they're doing, but in some other lobbies I just get raped playing against seasoned tribes palyers

Forgot to mention the ******* llama grabs.

JackNovius:[VFF]I have the flag! <--- means dont touch their flag
Complete retard grabs the flag at granny speed
JackNovius:*Approaching at 210KM/H* FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Any basic hints for those of us that don't know much about Tribes mythos?

Mike

Keep moving. If you're going slow, there is no other option but dying. Also, dont play Team Deathmatch. Although they did put a neat spin on it. Nevertheless, Tribes and TDM doesn't work. Also, what JD said. But that also goes back to the idea that you cannot be going slow especially when you are trying to pick up the flag

Jumper class is great for CTF. You don't even have to move fast when you grab the flag, as long as you have a good amount of spare energy left.

Sentinel class is going to be completely useless unless they introduce lower mouse sensitivity when zooming in...

Yes, the entire basis of gameplay in Tribes is momentum. If you lose your momentum you will die, fast. Master the skiing mechanism and you'll be a good player fast. Don't focus on killing enemies, focus on scoring with the flag. This can mean repairing/attacking the generator, killing enemy flag bearers, protecting your flag bearer or grabbing the flag yourself.
I find that usually the people with highest kills didn't contribute that much since spawn times are so low anyway.

Wait... How come TDM doesn't fit with tribes?

It's currently the only game mode (well, besides rabbit but whatevs) where you don't have to scream constantly about the following:
-Where's our defense? Our base has at least 3 enemies in it just waiting for the flag!
-Why is everyone in mid field? Do work dammit!
-Where's my ******* escort? I've got the flag!
-Why are you chasing their flagbearer? YOU HAVE THEIR FLAG!

:/

Because I feel like in Tribes the point of the game is to be using teamwork and going fast. In TDM, its an orgy of everyone all clumped in one place moving at snail pace, at least from my experience

Get pathfinder and go immediately for the perk egocentric, reduces damage from your own explosions by 35%. This allows for more disc/nitron/thumper jumps which means greater speed and chasing capability.

You get beta keys when you join the beta?
If that is the case, I have two if anyone still wants.

Could you send me one for a friend?

I would like a key if you have one.

Hey, I got a key as well! I don't really know if I have the time to play anywhere in the near future, but it's pretty cool. Did someone from this forum get me invited (in that case, thanks =D), or is it because I'm already in Hirez' database (from GA)?

Played a bit today, but ended up in crappy 4 player servers >.>

But anyways, can anyone give me a basic rundown about skiing? I think I mostly get it but can't hurt to ask right?

Mike

Hold skiing key when going downhill, feather jets when going above 120 and want to turn, hold jets when wanting to keep speed going up hill. Aim for ramps when descending, etc...

There's a few twists to this when playing as Jumper, as I always do, because of the thruster pack, but there's really nothing more to basic skiing than that.

EDIT:

Folks, start sharing ingame names. I wanna play (well... I'll play once I get a direct connection to my router. My wlan is made of old fish.)

If you've ever played the iPod/iPhone game Tiny Wings, it is just like that, but with the help of a jetpack, lol. If not, just disregard everything I just said.

Also, something someone said that helped me understand it more clearly was that its not really a skiing function, but makes you have no friction with the ground, so use it only when you think no friction will be helpful ie when you have a lot of momentum/speed. I probably just used ie incorrectly

It's like skiing on ice.

You held space bar to do it in Tribes... is it the same in Ascend?

yup

Okay, I've played some more now and I'm liking it, getting the hang on things like skiing(still need more practice, I've noticed I tend to run out of energy then up up a sitting duck with the flag xD), got my first high speed mid-air Spinfusor Direct-hit Kill, which was pretty awesome.

Messed around with the vehicles some....overall meh, the Grav bike's weapons are hard to use against jumping and skiing opponents, Shrike is hard to control and the Beowulf really needs the gunner seat filled to not die to a single guy with a Spinfusor.

Also I'm OrangeKNight in-game.

Mike

Okay now I'm really starting to like this game....I just Roadkilled an Enemy Flag bearer.....IN MID-AIR with the shrike flying thingy.


And then I crashed it! xD

Mike

I like it a lot, except for the maps. They need better ports of previous maps, more mountainous maps, etc. So far there only seems to be 2 variety of maps and they both look the same.

I still dont like the loadout system and worse the 2 weapon limit for heavy..

Does this count as a necro?
Recently got into the beta, big patch was just released. Anyone here have opinions on it? (It cut out classes and redid the cash system. Also, new guns.)