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i stumbled into tribes in my mid 20's completely by accident. t2 was my entire life for several years ... if i wasn't working or sleeping, i was on cinci.rr renegades or houston vehicles ... and yeah, i was that heavy camping your gen.

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Starsiege: Tribes is still my favorite game of all time. And despite the cesspool that was TribalWar, I met some of my best friends through that site. Brothers kyuss and synth who were groomsmen in my wedding. Later got a job working for Rasta. Joined a WoW guild that formed through TW, <STK>, and became friends with Adrenaline. Every FPS since has felt like a bit of a disappointment because Tribes was so far ahead of it's time. Great video, thank you.

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The first day i brought home T1, i spent the next 72 hours playing it; i put several thousand of hours into it... A pain to play on U.S servers on 56.6k from Australia though :D

Tribes 3 exists??

Tribes 1 and the Renegades mod ruled my life in 1999

Omg see I used to play a ton of Paladins back then and when I was looking up what Hi-Rez had done before I saw Trives Ascend. I always asssumed that it was just a caveman MMO/RTS game or something and had no idea until rn that it was like this lol

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About Tribes 1: What happened to Annihilation and Renegades? AFAIK Annihilation was the main mod during the years I played. You talk about it like LT was the only game in town.

I had no idea Tribes 3 existed before this video.

great video! I never had the chance to play online with tribes 1 (my parents wouldn't let me play online at the time lol) I did have a lot of fun flying around and playing alone till I picked up tribes 2. Tribes 2 for me was amazing, I need to go check out Tribes LT it sounds like a blast!

Played the absolute crap out of Tribes in middle school. We put it on all the nice new Dell computers in class. Lol Good times.

Titles that try to tell me things about myself aren't cute, they're annoying. Tribes is a great game I thoroughly enjoyed, welcome to the 'Don't recommend channel' list

I played thousands of hours of tribes. It was awesome and I now realize I’m older than shit

I like to think the inspiration for Tribes was the Quake level Ziggurat Vertigo.

Erez sounds like a typical cokehead CEO that thinks they know best. Very sad.

I literally played Tribes2 Construction mod from 2004 to 2011. I barely played any of these other tribes games because they didnt really flesh out my preferred gameplay; base defence and assault.

I adore TRIBES

No, i played way too much of tribes lol.

Good ol scumy HiRez 😂

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I got in the Tribes with the Tribes 3 playtest, what a thrill to zoom accross a map with a target painted on my back and everyone trying to stop me! But getting in the Discord I saw the writing on the wall, the CEO wasn't going to make this a success, and damn from what this video says he really did as good as predicted at launch lmao. Very sad, mechanically I could tell this was a game I would have put time in to zoom in as a medium armor haha. Extreme power + zooming = dopamine. Disgusting that disk speeds got increased so much after launch, ew. For the record, I absolutely adore the Dino Blasters gamemode in Halo Reach on MCC, the gamemode I love the most is Boomball because my fav Halo weapon is the Reach grenade launcher. I just love leading shots kekw.

I used to play the heck out of this game. Loved it so much. The disk launcher and the laser rifle where just amazing!

I LOVED Tribes! First game I managed to hack into and make my own maps. Loved the multiplayer team based fps!!! Great memories!!!

Ascend when it first came out was actually really good and had a chance to get big. The corporate mismanagement with the pay2win and the ridiculous costs and/or time to grind broken items was it's major downfall. Tribes purists didn't like some of the major design decisions like the regen, etc. but it was actually very balanced IMO, just needed better maps with more line of sight blockers.

@6:05 you said planet sized, whenever i think of tribes i immediately remember planetside

Man I loved Tribes 2. You had awesome maps, tactical classes, multi-crew vehicles, 3D movement, awesome physics - just everything well beyond it's time.

you just unlocked memories in my brain. Thank you for this

Look at the camera when you do those segments

I miss my Mitzi Blast Cannon (cant remember if I spelled that right or not, lol.)

I played so much tribes 1 and 2 and ascend........i did now know there was a tribes 3.

I'll never forget my friend sitting me down at his PC with Tribes. Day turned into night real fast that day. Later on at massive LAN parties playing with maxed out teams a few times was amazing. I was never good at it but it was so much fun.

I would have played it, but I couldn’t get it to run on our computer after getting my mom to buy it at Sams club

it's amazing to see where a lot of other game elements came from. planetside/2's classes and vehicles seem to be lifted almost whole-cloth from Tribes/2. Command and Conquor Renegade's base-management-based multiplayer is from Tribes. the high-speed aerial focused gameplay of Unreal Tournament is pretty much Tribes gameplay but simplified and on smaller maps...

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FINALLY I SEE LEGIONS MENTIONED

I grew up hearing mention of tribes but never really knew what it was about. Lifelong Battlefield player since 42… So yeah Battlefield kind ripped the whole thing off huh?

Very well done video. GG fish.

Thanks so much for making this summary/docu of Tribes' history. I used to love Starsiege Tribes playing against legends like Alpha and Omega and zooming around the map. Later I've played Tribes Ascend but it didn't quite hit the same mark. All by all in terms of both defensive and offensive capabilities and balance I really think Starsiege Tribes nailed it best of all of the entries. And like a lot of other people in the comment section I was very surprised to learn that they have released a Tribes 3 lol

I need an APC pickup. So one of the things you kind of glossed past was "demo recordings" this was a super-minimal file format which effectively replayed the network events of a match, from the scope of a given player (net scoping is a feature of the network code). This allowed people to store, share, and replay matches without video recording, which simply wasn't feasible at the time. (It was also massively useful for debugging, FWIW)

Great to see a vid that covers to much Tribes history

This hit a core memory

Starsiege mfer

I bought the first Tribes game when I was a teen, working my first job. I remember that night installing the game around 7PM, played for a little bit, and then realized it was 4 in the morning... Seriously miss that feeling of just getting absolutely lost in a game.

I played a decent amount of Ascend, and was hugely disappointed when it was abandoned. The skill ceiling of the older games made it difficult for me to transition over to those unfortunately.

Something I recall that I didn't hear mentioned was the ability to record gameplay via a demo mode. That was the first time I had seen that and for me this was definitely what inspired the proliferation of frag videos. It also was when I started reviewing my gameplay regularly and improved a lot as a result. I recall building up quite a library of videos at the time. I'd never seen anything like that before.

The first tribes was the most important pc game I ever played. Such an epic experience.

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