TRIBES 3 RIVALS - Alpha Play Test - Play or Nay? Can a New Non-Tribes Player Compete with Veterans?

[@YerdT3]

Good video. I’m glad you caught the tribes bug. It’s a wonderful game. One thing to note though is that snipers and the pistol are purposefully weak due snipers being too powerful in previous iterations of tribes and for pistols hitscan weapons have been notoriously strong. I think you made a lot of wonderful points and I hope you come back to play more.

[@SaltyOctopus]

Thanks for checking it out and the comment! Good points about the sniper. Makes a lot of sense.

[@kenpendergrass01]

I came here to say same thing. A cool thing that I noticed that the sniper Zapped Energy, so slowing down the Fast Flag capper would be its main purpose, but pretty sure zapping down fatties as they skiing towards the base will also be fun.

[@YerdT3]

@@kenpendergrass01 The bxt-1 draining energy was a great idea. In the most recent play test they gave it to heavy which made for some interesting heavy duels.

[@leperface]

Shazbot.

[@GeriatricMillenial]

WAIT WHAT! I HAVENT PLAYED TRIBES IN 2+ decades!!!

[@SaltyOctopus]

It's back!

[@jgavpercussion]

Hmm just looking at your footage, I would agree that jetpack needs more energy. I'd like to see steeper hills on the maps as well.

[@VonSlakken]

Thanks for sharing Salty.

[@SaltyOctopus]

You're welcome Von! Thanks for watching.

[@Nadbadass]

Good to see some feedback from someone new to the franchise. I believe I stumbled upon your Midair 2 video this weekend. The announcement of T3 has reignited my passion to find a solid FPZ game, so I signed up for both T3 and Midair 2. I wasn't fortunate enough to get a MA2 key before the test ended, but I did play several T3 matches. Like you, I felt like there were good and bad points to the Alpha state. I'm really hoping that Prophecy takes some time to digest the feedback and comes back with more testing. There's been some chatter that they're planning to release in February which seems to be way too quick of a turn-around. At the minimum I'm hoping for 50-100% more jetpack capacity. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the video.

[@SaltyOctopus]

Thanks for taking the time to watch, comment and provide feedback! I appreciate it very much. I am glad people are excited to see a n00b perspective and not just ripping me a new one. See you around!

[@SecMem]

aah miss those sweet sweet mid airs.., played tribes2 for years then some vengeance and ascend. this one looks promising, hope it succeeds.

[@icyz1ne456]

I love the Tribes series, even though I am so late to the party. Kind of mad I didn't get to play this despite the fact I got a key simply due to technical issues.

[@SaltyOctopus]

Hope you can play next time. Better late than never as they say.

[@PaganPilot]

Even as a complete scrub and first time fps-z game, I had fun running med armor and helped by interdicting opposing team attempts to cross into our part of the map, harassing on theirs, and escorting our flag cappers.

[@LetustheDragon]

Watched both the Midair 2 and this one just now so this is coming off both videos: I think the hard thing to explain is going to be well, the aim. You can understand lead, yeah, easy, but what falls short is understanding your own movement. T2, if you shoot while jetting up, your disk goes up. Going down, it goes down. Left, right? Same deal. So you really need to account for yourself. You're basically a weapon platform instead of a guy with a gun. So in a linear travel trying to hit a standing ground target, you actually will need to aim behind your movement. And then, of course, comes the hitting a moving target once you get that down. WW2 bomber side gunners were thrown a lot of math in videos on this kind of thing, and just like them, you will have to account for targets moving at and around you while keeping yours in mind. But ultimately, and it's sadly something people don't want to hear in modern games, it will come down to practice. For vets, it's like riding a bicycle. We just...start going again and it just happens and just go with the flow. As with survivalist...well wedidn't have a perk. You spawn with a healthkit yeah, and if you used one and killed someone who didn't and run over their ammo kit...well you got another healthkit. I would have to boot the game to remember how much health it restores when used but it wasn't a full one. just enough for one more hit. Oh and yeah, our Chaingun spread was enough to shred the other guy in two seconds at like...5 meters away...yeah a lot of people used it to manage to squeak in that last bit of chip damage to stop a flag capper from across a map...I know I have...but when 1 bullet out of 200 hits...yeah it's called a fluke now. was still hilarious.

[@gecko499]

I've been with Tribes since day 1. Played the whole suite. This one feels a lot like Tribes Assault which I did not care for too much. Tribes is much more than skiing and this just feels like you are skiing every minute of the game. just my two cents but I'm super stoked that it's getting new development.

[@SaltyOctopus]

So for someone who is new, do you mind elaborating on "more than skiing" ? What do you mean exactly?

[@gecko499]

@@SaltyOctopus sure thing. Going back to the original mind you. There were so many battles I recall being fought indoors. Huge structures where you could jetpack even. Covert operations to destroy the enemy generators was a real thing. Also, vehicles were used and were very practical on some maps. I hope this alpha test is just one small piece of the end result. If they just made the original with unreal engine 5 it would be awesome 😄

[@SaltyOctopus]

@@gecko499 awesome. I agree with you. I hope this is just a small taste! Thanks for sharing.

[@colbyboucher6391]

Yep, Tribes is held hostage by it's own hardcore fanbase. What it can't grasp is that the version of it they've built is barely multiplayer, and that's kinda intentional. It's built for flag runners exclusively. And as a flag runner, do you _interact_ with anyone? No, you do your route, try to get the entry speed to stay safe, and if someone shoots you, they shoot you. You could just ski around in SP and it'd be exactly the same. On the flipside as a defender, you're just shooting clay pigeons. Only midfield players are truly interacting with the other team and it's just an eternal open-field deathmatch. It's the same damn thing every time and it gets stale long before most people become even vaguely competent, and so Tribes died.

[@gecko499]

@@colbyboucher6391 100%. I think this could just as well be a mode.

[@gangstaboy9387]

I'm also new to fps-z (tribes games) but I did try Midair 2 just a week or two before this Tribes and to me Tribes does not feel good now when I learned Midair a little bit. It's slower first of all, but the most important difference is the air control and the "flying" in general. It's a double wdges sword cause I feel like I can't really play Midair cause the og players are so good due to all the hours and they can move around so fast that I can't stop them which isn't the case in Tribes because you cn use turrets, shotgun etc etc and play as heavy if you want to. BUT, it doesn't take away the feeling that it hust doesn't feel as satisfying to fly around the map like in Midair. I will follow the production though.

[@SaltyOctopus]

I agree. Tribes feels more casual.

[@666kingdrummer]

This looks like the game Hi-Rez Studios should have given us. The game clearly has some influence from Tribes: Ascend, but my question is how much of that influence is going to be in the final product? Are they going to stay with the classic 3 classes or are they going to add the other 6 from Tribes: Ascend? Are they going to add new weapons or are they sticking with the classics?

[@SaltyOctopus]

Difficult to say. They have a ton of plans tho. but for now I think they're focusing on balance and then they will start adding more content.

[@Phalcon777]

So that is where erez ran off to.

[@Phalcon777]

Here's hoping he doesn't screw over another company like you did with hirez

[@driesvdg8743]

If you think this sniper is bad, try the Tribes vengeance sniper xD

[@SaltyOctopus]

Hit scan?

[@SignificantOwl]

The fact that snipers are still in the game kind of just makes me instantly not care about it. T:A was ruined by snipers.

[@SaltyOctopus]

They feel pretty balanced after the patch today