Tribes Ascend: The Rise and Fall of The Worlds Fastest Shooter | Death of A Genre

Looks like Hirez is trying to make a new Tribes game in the "Battle Royal" style of game.
smitedatamining... I hope they are they are the type of people to learn their lesson from their first attempt with the series.
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[@austinwilcox9290]

"Created a moba game as they thought that would have a playerbase that's easier to please." That is rich honestly holy shit.

[@zionen01]

I am a software engineer today thanks to Starsiege Tribes, oh man those scripts seemed so hard at the time. Fun times. The best thing about this game series has also been the worst thing, and that is the ridiculous skill ceiling. This is the only game where 3 players could destroy 20 players. It's purely skill based and after years you are still getting better. But it's hell for new players who will be utterly lost.

[@cangrejopendejo4909]

That's exactly how Tribes 2 was. It's hard as hell, but it's so rewarding if you get good at it.

[@entelin]

Oh hell yeah, a good tribes player is absolutely oppressive.

[@Yoshi92]

It ain't the only game where 3 players can destroy 20, but yea, the skill ceiling is insane. :D Oh how I wish it never came out and came out today instead.... Good peripherals, high refreshrate monitor, it would be WAY too much fun. 😢

[@MapsAndCaps]

Skill based matchmaking would solve that problem. I never even heard of Ascend until today but I used to play Tribes 2. I loved it so much.

[@xasx999]

@@Yoshi92 Midair 2 exists on steam and still has daily pick up games via its discord.

[@Roxfox]

Ascend is one of the greatest tragedies I've experienced in gaming... It started out so promising, and for a few months accounted for some of my favorite gaming moments of all time, and then it slowly became clear that the developers simply had no idea what they were doing... I hope someone, Midair or anyone else (Midair's reviews aren't looking great right now), manages to pick the torch back up. Tribes is a series that deserves to have a modern representation close at hand, whether it's official or or not, as long as it's done right. Like Ascend wasn't...

[@Zauchi]

Roxfox a ton of players complained at the beginning because it was too hard to get the flag as you had to first destroy the generator but imo that was part of the fun and got everyone, all skill levels involved. Yes it was freaking hard but it gave the generator more meaning and tried to get teamwork going, as sometimes the generator might only be down for a few seconds so timing was needed. When they got rid of having to destroy the gen for the flag it didn't exactly kill the game but there were too many players that would rather just play deathmatch in the middle doing absolutely nothing to defend the flag and not caring if their team wins or looses, whereas before when they had the generator up for the flag there could have been something for these players to do to help rather then sit in the middle doing nothing. Also there were a ton of moaning peeps in this game which turned off many too. IMO the learning curve turned off many but also the playerbase that took the time to learn were not all so forgiving to new players which turned off many too.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

Ascend was shit. It basically took all the things that made tribes 1 and 2 so great, and either removed them or did them in a shittier fashion (think skiing). If there's a reboot of the series, it better be damn faithful to the originals.

[@Zauchi]

mhotl there is a free to play new (ish) FPSZ called Midair which is like Tribes 1 and 2 but unfortunately was dead on release and similar to Ascend you might only see max 30 players playing. (And I even paid to play it early. lol) Though I know there was a few that didn't like Ascend but I loved it because it was so fast and easy to manoeuvre and look freaking cool. (At least for me. 😂)

[@ganondorf5573]

​@@BlGGESTBROTHER I don't even need it to be "faithful" to the originals.. It needs to take the CORE of what made Tribes 1 and 2 good and do those things. 1) Movement: jumping, jetting, and skiing all need to feel fluid and work well. T:A wasn't absolutely terrible with skiing.. but their collision system and maps sucked so the skiing suffered. 2) Counterplay: In a 1vs1 fight, you should be able to have an intense duel with no bullshit one hit kills or easily aimed hitscan/high rof+high projectile speed death. Tribes shouldn't have snipers that can 1 shot you, "spinfusors" that can one shot you, grenade launchers that can one shot you, or hitscan/high rof+speed machine guns that can kill you regardless of how you're moving. This makes a duel feel more like COD/battlefield with jetpacks than like Tribes. Tribes duels were all about positioning, leading/predicting your opponent, and energy management.. trying to get them to touch down before you. 3) Bases: Bases need to matter.. they need to have things that you care about and actually be worth infiltrating and defending. 4) Deployables/Building: Related to bases.. but you need to be able deploy/build structures and tools. Turrets, inventory stations, shields, walls, traps, generators, ect... not all of these options were available in base Tribes (though many were) to be fair.. but even in base Tribes, you could bolster your defenses and it was valuable to defend your base. 5) Map size and Design: COME ON this is obvious... Tribes is all about fluid movement and having epic battles in the skies and on the ground over a massive rolling terrain. All maps should be fairly large to huge and feature rolling terrain to enable skiing. All games after T2 have failed this except maybe Fallen Empire: Legions. 6) Customization: T1 and T2 didn't have a TON of customization for your loadout.. but it was a core thing that the game tried to have. It was designed based on mech games after all (the starsiege universe is mostly mech games). This is something that all games past T2 fail completely at. They either have no customization or such limited customization that it's less than base Starsiege: Tribes even had. I honestly don't care if the physics of jet packing or skiing are extremely close to T1.. just that they're fluid and a main part of the game and that you don't get fucked over for skiing around the map by 1 shot kills from across the map. What's the point of floating around in the air when everyone is running around with sniper rifles that can instantly kill you from insane distances with no interaction? They just need line of sight. Floating around gives free line of sight. I also care that when I duel someone, that the duels feel engaging like they did in T1. I also care that the bases and maps make me feel like the objectives matter and it's not just a race to cap flags.. but a battle for the ability to get in and out of the enemy base while fighting to prevent them from having the same access to yours.

[@VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]

The amount of hackers in the game was outrageous. That was a huge reason it got so much worse too. And nothing was ever done about them so they just kept piling up and making the game unplayable. Especially for new people. I got sick of being chain gunned from across the entire map and every single shot hit me no matter where I was or how fast I was moving. If your pinky was visible from a mile away you were getting shot non stop. It was obvious they could see through walls to with a wall hack. And any other number of hacks. Seriously it got to insane levels of ridiculous. But never once was the hacking addressed. I loved the game but it got to be to unbearable. If we tried to talk about the bad hacking problem on the official forums they would just delete the thread. You weren't even allowed to talk about it. Also they then released some new grenade that made it impossible to defend against. One of those dropped into the gen room and all of your defense was gone, and you're like blinded and helpless, and the enemy just walks in. What the heck were they thinking. Guess they wanted to make it easy to take out generators, but some of us loved defense, but that aspect was totally ruined too and worthless after that. No point in even trying to defend anything with any kind of tactics.

[@kevo3132]

Tribes and Tribes 2 will forever be my favorite game of all time.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

Agreed. I hated Ascend from the very beginning. It never was able to capture the feeling of the first two games.

[@tequilawhiskey]

@@BlGGESTBROTHER i loved ascend. But i was also like 12 when i had a copy of 2, and i also only had dial up. So basically never played the originals. But by the end of ascend :(

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@tequilawhiskey There's still a bunch of us that play tribes 2 basically every night. You can download the client at www.tribesnext.com/ It is a very hard game to break into if you've never played before; especially now that the entire community is mainly composed of veteran players with 17 years of experience. If you can get past the inevitable beat downs you will receive, I think you'll see that the game will grow on you :D

[@NoelPitoy]

First openworld game that utilizes pure Glide. Still have the Starsiege Tribes soundtracks *nudge nudge*

[@skennyp1434]

I agree, miss the spinfuser

[@Coaltergeist]

I drive by Hi-Rez Studios every day on my way to work (hopefully I didn't just dox myself). Naturally I flip them off every day

[@welfarewalrus597]

Get you and a bunch of fans to protest outside with a "We want Tribes" sign.

[@addieeeson]

My entire family grinded this game hard when it came out. I was the last to consistently play it until it finally died. This game was such a unique and fun experience for me, I hope something like it releases again.

[@refloxi5290]

Did you not watch the video?

[@addieeeson]

@@refloxi5290 You talking about Midair? Tried it, doesn’t feel as good as Tribes Ascend did, but I’ll play it again at launch and give it another shot.

[@xaracen7207]

@@addieeeson any thoughts on tribes 3 rivals?

[@addieeeson]

@@xaracen7207 Actually had no clue this was a thing until I saw your comment. I’m very pumped and definitely playing it at launch, though I do hope they add more headcount’s and larger maps. 5v5 is great and all, but I liked the 32 player maps. Hoping that because it’s in early access, they’ll release multiple modes during the game’s longevity and one of them will be include larger teams.

[@xaracen7207]

@@addieeeson apparently they plan on doing just that, for the cosmetic side of the game, what i hope for is a fleshed out vgs, distinguishable team models, and side dependant announcers. I didnt know how much i missed hearing “The butchers have our flag”

[@enilenis]

Played Tribes 2 for years. There weren't that many games at the time that offered multi-crew vehicles. I used to play mostly as a scout, deploying remote radar beacons and warning the team of flag rushes. Never got good at laser, but spinfusor was totally my thing. I remember showing this game to a friend for the first time, who hasn't seen such style of gameplay and it was inconceivable to him, how good everyone was at predicting trajectories mid air. Due to the delayed nature of the spinfusor disc, it was perfect for annoying enemy snipers, as it allowed you to fire and hide before the projectile hit, leaving the target to wonder where you were. Best moments in the game are of riding the tail of the transport and designating targets for juggernaught mortars. Music was great and is forever embedded in my memory, as well as command chat hotkeys. VGCG!

[@MacGuyver85]

Wonderful summary :) The freedom to do so many diverse things and a lot of just support things for the team is still amazing and unsurpassed in my opinion. Same with the com-system, it allowed for very natural teamplay on public servers. VGS!

[@Sasqmo]

I was there in the original days of Tribes.. when skiing wasn't just an automated thing, part of me really misses those days... back when it came toggled with Starsiege and one day you could play a crazy speedy FPS, and the next a slow stompy mecha sim and they were still in the same universe. Tribes itself had such a rocky life, with every new game splitting the fanbase more and more... I was so psyched for Tribes Ascend back in the day

[@stonec77]

Sasqmo Starsiege was the best, played for probably 10 years on and off. I was so hype for TA then so let down lol only played for a couple months. Probably going to give MidAir a go since it seems the mechanics/play style are similar to Starsiege

[@totallymady42069]

I haven't touched the tribes series for so long, since tribes 2 in fact, and I played that game for so many years (construction mods blew me away, logic packs, power frequencies and ranges *drools*) and I miss it, I really often find myself thinking about it and the amazing times I had (anyone remember Katabatic?)

[@BrandonHilikus]

its still being played by like dedicated 35 players

[@LetustheDragon]

So many things from a person who started in Starsiege....so many problems, for me...it was when Ascend started to feel less like Tribes, and more like Tohou of Duty, which yeah..came down to HiRez sucks at balancing (look at their other FPS reddit that's in now and people would seem to agree.) I hope Midair succeeds. I like its style, due to nostalgia reminding me of Starsiege (and unlike Ascend, it has the Bomber)

[@nepdisc3722]

Hey, I'm from the future. Midair didn't succeed. It fell flat on its face and was basically dead on arrival. It doesn't even have a SINGLE player currently and its all-time highest player count ever recorded is 739 in May of 2018 and unfortunately that didn't last until even the end of that month.

[@satyris410]

I was part of msn chat group we got together from 4chan and that's where I found out about tribes ascend. I played it for a few months as soon as it was released in 2012 but although it was fun, I wasn't very good at it and didn't improve, I went back to BF3 which was fun. the msn group was some of my happiest memories.

[@ashleyhamman]

Tribes Ascend was my first proper FPS, and all my days of gaming since have been a pursuit for the same high as speedily skiing with spinfusors skyward. The closest I've got is War Thunder air battles, but it's still very much not the same.

[@pyromaniac552]

Watching this in 2024 and seeing the hopefulness for Midair hurts. I was bummed it flopped, but the genre is very niche so can't say it wasn't 100% unexpected. We got Tribes 3: Rivals from a spinoff hirez studio as well as a redo of Midair (now Midair 2), both in "early access". Hoping at least one of them hits success because there was truly nothing like going fast in Tribes Ascend.

[@Christophe_L]

It was so amazing. Sometimes I would open Katabatic and just speed around for fun. I still miss it.

[@marscaleb]

I've been lucky enough to play every single entry in the Tribes series, even though I never played them very much. I remember seeing the original Starsiege Tribes in it's oddly long box for sale at just eight bucks. I remember some friends of mine getting really excited for Tribes 2, and playing it with them a little bit. I bought Aerial Assault because I was eager for something I could play online on my PS2, and while it was just a water-downed Tribes 2 where it was hard to communicate with teammates, I still loved playing that game and probably played it more than any other online PS2 game. I saw Tribes Vengeance for sale at a Big Lots of all places; (this series always tends to appear like a budget title.) I loved it so much I bought a second copy for my brother so we could do multiplayer. It's probably my favorite in the series just because I'm more into single player than multiplayer. And I got to play Tribes Ascend when it was still young. Got my *** handed back to me in a couple matches, but never had the time to actually get good. Never found out that it died till years after. I still feel really bad that it didn't go very far before they pulled the plug. Despite the fact that I played so very little of (most) of these games, and certainly never got good at any of them, I still could tell there was something particularly fun about these games, something that always made them stick in my mind. If I saw them making a new title in the series, I'd probably hop on board without a second thought. I'd still suck at it, and would barely play it, but I'm pretty confident that I'd have a great time anyway.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

You sound like a filthy fucking casual.

[@redalertsteve_]

This is the one franchise where I’d like to see a remaster and that’s it. Tribes 1 brought to the modern age. Haven’t been much of a pc player anymore because there’s no FPS-Z games

[@ColonelBlair]

What about this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWjHkphtgKeNirs

[@pammelamoura]

It was a great disappointment to me when I found out that Tribes Ascend would not come with a single player campaign. I'm really a fan of Science Fiction stories, and Tribes Vengeance delivered me everything I like (futuristic weapons, jetpack, planets, ships, ...)

[@snakeyman5560]

Tribes Ascend and Freefall Tournament were my favourite childhood shooters.

[@IHaveACoolName]

bro the 5:32 'that was graceful' has me ded. threw me right back into spamming voice coms lmaoo

[@TheDortmunderJungs]

For anyone interested: Game is still alive and Pick Up Games are happening every day. Check out the Tribes Subreddit for detail!!

[@turboclub7658]

Play again! TribesNext.com 20-30 on weekends 10-20 weekdays Discord PUB - May 2020

[@Sybato]

That Sonic the Hedgehog music at the beginning though

[@ma1ist]

that summer of 2012 was literally one of the most fun gaming summers i've ever had. literally coming from my student job booting up my shitty laptop and playing tribes even at like barely 30fps was a pleasure. i miss the full lobbies and fucking around with the voice commands

[@antsanchez870]

my first tribes was tribes 2....i was like 10, what fun it was...never played another fps that much

[@sokantnevesti603]

Oh man, I loved that game so much, I remember thespeed cap update... Just learned fastest/safest routes on all maps, and they screwed me over 😂

[@neilbradley6571]

Best shooter ever made I still can't play any other shooter to this day it's that feeling of catching someone with a mid air disc

[@regriefing1807]

Neil Bradley the only shooters i can play is titanfall 2,reflex arena,midair,dirty bomb

[@llANNIHILATORll]

What tribes and mod did you play, what was your tag? Starsiege tribes NHOP servers for.me

[@NiksGaming101]

I still talk about this game. Simply incredible. Shazbot

[@ABeans07]

Loved this game. - When they stopped supporting it i couldn't even log in. Broke the shit out of it.

[@vrinnmetagen]

I miss Starsiege

[@HYDRAdude]

What really killed Ascend was the lack of Vengeance's grappling hook.

[@OriginalThisAndThat]

Dislikes = Amount of people that (know the game) never played the game, or just sucked at it. God I loved this game since Starsiege tribes 1998..

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

It died because there was a shit company behind it.... a new indie studio could make a new game inspired by ascend, would probably play... im baffled how people like Fortnite and Apex legends? wtf.. those games seem so dumbed down, not even worth playing....

[@regriefing1807]

Microphunktv I’m baffled on how people can play BR in general It gets boring fucking fast

[@llANNIHILATORll]

It is freaking ridiculous the popularity of those games. That being the case it's clear tribes "could have" been a top player in the world game. Squandered away. I started on starsiege tribes and the basic game got nodded into insane fun, action packed fun. That game made me the gamer I am today. We need to release it. Cod has brought back cod 4 in the ps4 but not quite right. Tribes needs to learn from the most popular mods on starsiege and re release it!!!

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@llANNIHILATORll The truth is that there just isn't much of a market for high skill cap arena shooters anymore.

[@dannymorgan8898]

Tribes came out in a time where weapons and unlockables that were in game were almost forced to be paid for to compensate for the ftp.

[@ziggyciggs5862]

crazy that a came company would be so petty lol. beefing with its own player base

[@cymtk]

HiRez have a habit of abandoning games shortly after the MTX's stop rolling in.

[@Yoshi92]

It was my favorite FPS for quite some time, incredibly sad what happened. I hope someone other than Low-Rez will release something similar. I wish Tribes would come out today and with modern graphics and good shop / dailys / challenges, it could be huge.

[@JebacPresretac101]

Hah, you called them Low-Rez, I didn't hear/use that name in years, thanks for that!

[@Yoshi92]

💀🧠 (LR dev)

[@Dropbare]

I will forever hold a piece of loathing to Lo-Rez for what they've done to this game. They done the same go Global Agenda, too.

[@Equalize1337]

Starsiege Tribes was absolutely incredible, it amazes me that no one has bought it and continued it. it could easily be a top 10 game with a good company behind it.

[@greensonxl577]

I was playing star siege before tribes came out. I never had so much fun, or spent so much time playing a game as indid tribes 1. It will never be the same. IINovaXLII if you see this....ZZZOOIINNTTTT!!!!

[@waoooh]

Tried to log on today to see all the added classes were removed and only 4 people were online. Sad :(

[@OtaconEmmerich]

Hi-Rez was given a golden egg and made a rotting turd.

[@jdavis9381]

Hopefully Tribes 3 ends up being good

[@maerosss]

Whenever I get reminded of Tribes Ascend, I get tears in my eyes. Absolutely beautiful gem of a game. Luckily, there's still some people playing it in the evenings even now, so join in while it lasts. ;-)

[@SpartanChief2277]

Where to download

[@maerosss]

@@SpartanChief2277 It's hidden from steam search, so you either go directly through this link store.steampowered.com/app/17080/Tribes_Ascend/ or search in google for "steam tribes ascend" you should find it there

[@SpartanChief2277]

@@maerosss thanks bro

[@ltmongoose1594]

i cant find Tribes Ascend on steam anymore

[@TheDortmunderJungs]

check out the Tribes subreddit, theres a direct link to the steam download and more information:)

[@basharhamza3548]

if you have played it before you can search it in your library in steam

[@anotheruser8105]

One of my all time favorite games, I to loved being the Flag Heavy Tribes2 was the better one

[@NekoChwen]

well tribes is back, Tribes 3: Rivals

[@avalerionbass]

God I miss this game!!!!!

[@iratepirate3896]

Initial D x Tribes. Thank you.

[@entelin]

Tribes 1 was a blast, the fastest in the series. Also possibly the first? (popular?) game that defaulted controls to WASD, and one of the first shooters to have drivable vehicles. Tribes 2 was more polished and a better game over all, but I did miss the lightning speed you could achieve in Tribes 1. When tribes Ascend came out I was initially hyped, but due to many of the issues described in this video I never bothered playing it, it was clear that it was going to be a lesser game to Tribes 2.

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

I miss Tribes Ascend so much bros.

[@EverIess]

I AM THE GREATES- SHAZBOT

[@viliussmproductions]

Last I checked, the game still had a couple of active servers.

[@necrosteel5013]

It's basically descent deathmatch on legs.

[@pontythython1901]

I played tribes yesterday y’all are tripping. Games still fun af.

[@Q5000]

I remember having already been playing tribes when halo came out and everyone was all excited about it and I was like hah! Plebes! Already got a better game with vehicles!

[@hung8969]

HERE TO SAY tribe 3 play test was the best game I’ve played of 2023 and 2024 release is gonna be AMAZING

[@fuxyplays7332]

once i put an orbital strike on enemy ship (map crossfire ) and killed like 16 guys ...but now it's dead ;(

[@frogery]

i miss him so much 😖

[@Woodland_Adventures]

It looks like someone took halo's online mode(s) and then smashed the class based gameplay of trimping and rocket jumping from team fortress 2 into it.

[@TJ-vj2hc]

How I miss Tribes. It’s really the only franchise I ever played. I knew something was up though when Smite started being promoted more heavily. I recently logged on after about 2 years, itching for a fight. Not a soul online. It’ll be back though one day, in some iteration. I tried Planetside but I got tired of being wasted every time I spawned. SickSinceSunday, out.

[@TJ-vj2hc]

@Umos I'll try again. Most of the time I see empty servers or just two people dueling.

[@PainKillerOverdose]

I miss this game so much. I was trying to play it recently but found out it was discontinued all together. Just wanted to say good job. If I could criticize, I would say next time lower your voice's volume a little and bring up the volume of the background material a little to balance. See you next video.

[@rubenmc1787]

Tribes 1 loved it, Tribes 2 couldn't live without it... Tribes 3{Ascend} total disappointed, that was the end of Tribes...

[@Deukish]

Tribes 3 was Vengeance, unless you count the console exclusive Aerial Assault, now THAT was a disappointment.

[@SignificantOwl]

Tribes: Ascend was an amazing game - for a little while. Even so, not having played the earlier tribes games, T:A remains my favorite ever shooter. Still have not, and will not, forgive Hi-Rez for their handling of it.

[@minakatahizuru]

Lol this sounds like Hilarious series of Hi Rez

[@zeusallfather-xn3rf]

Tribes 3 rivals is really fun

[@jaycid1870]

This game was so much fun

[@HevonCZR]

Movement shooters need to come back!

[@kentgaming3098]

Hopefully some people still playing.

[@ajames]

As a tribes 2 classic player I find ascend basically unplayable.

[@Pulsed101]

I played Starsiege: Tribes many many moons ago and loved it. Don't remember all the fast travel hacks though. Does the most recent game still have a community? I can't find 'Midair' on steam :(

[@MisterBones2910]

My understanding was that the fast movement ("skiing") was originally unintentional. People figured out you could do it by mashing spacebar with the right timing or running a script while you held space. It was so fun that it was made an official feature of future sequels.

[@HawaiiTalks]

I'm hesitant to even come back to this game after what happened with T:A. I was a HoF and they screwed up stuff. Been playing since T1.

[@insomnia695]

Any other speedy games that you guys can recommend?

[@suki_rz]

well, this is 6 years later, midair is shit and dead and Tribes 3 just released, it's 20$ for an early access game that is less that TA which was F2P and devs are already being greedy with paid skins

[@partydean17]

Damn I loved tribes on the ps2

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

*GO GO GALO SENGEN*

[@perennialistperspective]

Thanks for telling me about Middair, never heard of it.

[@graysaltine6035]

And you never will again.

[@ColonelBlair]

Try out the new version - it's called Midair: Community Edition made by a new team. It's been making good strides (in closed beta)

[@peppis3408]

i remember playing it on my 2012 pc and farmed my ass off to get the most expensive sniper of them and the energy cross bow i miss this game actually

[@dreamcastdazia4753]

SA2 music at the start lol

[@crypticmcnuggets754]

Simpsons clips? Annnnnnd Subscribe! Hope you are still making videos! Enjoyed this one! Great work uploader...

[@eduardogallardo11386]

Im currently playing tribes vengeance campaign, i feel quake 3 was faster with rocket jump acceleration, or more harder to handle the speed in those small maps of quake 3.

[@captaincozzywozzy]

Wait hi-rez, make Rogue Company, right?

[@rosskaske6357]

HiRez is an absolute joke of a company

[@LeeAmNiesen]

5:30: LUL DAT DEV DESERVES TO BE SEAN MURRAYD

[@SpaceBrain-1]

Genuinly makes me sad and angry. Playing Tribes since T1 - I just cant find that same gameplay fun/epic/high skill/high reward in any other FPS. It pains me, even MidAir is dead now. The IP needs to be sold to a company that cares, it needs tons of money, proper balancing, no pay to win, no elitist old players pushing newer players away - ranked tiers maybe just like a lot games - SOMEONE please, please let me go fast again before I die.

[@SpaceBrain-1]

R.I.P T1/T2/T:AA/T:V/T:A/Legions/MidAir - I loved you all - yes, even T:V for a while!

[@turboclub7658]

Play again! TribesNext.com 20-30 on weekends 10-20 weekdays Discord PUB - May 2020

[@rgstever]

Tribes ruined the entire *siege universe.

[@adribier]

Are people still playing this?

[@SlavesWereGood]

holy fk i totally forgot about tribes

[@hornyducks4090]

Man I miss this game, this was my favorite game of all time. Just so sad the Devs abandoned it

[@welfarewalrus597]

I know that feeling. Every now and then I just remember that we will likely never get a new Tribes game and it hurts.

[@davydluan5]

I played the shit outta this game without spending 1 cent, got to rank 50 right before people started leaving it... :/ Forever a Juggernaut. :)

[@ironheavenz]

"forever a juggernaut" Well, that says it all, mate

[@timobatana6705]

Being a Juggernaut from this game inspired me to have my gamer tag Guardian. It defines me to this day. I protect the base. Also if i could show you. So many spin fusor mid air shots i am proud of to this day. But ultimately Mortar launcher FTW Juggernaut brother for ever.

[@MandeepSingh-kd8pm]

Good job on not spending a cent, as the meth addict homosexual devs do not deserve any of your money. Towards the end of the life cycle of the game many players were robbed of in game items and skins etc. that they spent real money on.

[@DraconasTenZHG]

@@MandeepSingh-kd8pm Yea, that was a total scam action. The developers planned to ditch T:A and when they did, they released a "buy all items at one price thing". Too bad less than one year after that patch there were no people to play with. They did that on purpose. The game was good but they abandoned it anyway because it wasn't profitable. I am proud to say I grinded my way and I unlocked at least half of the guns in the game around level 40-ish and I never gave them money.

[@SwordTune]

Forever an inflitrator who sticked+backstabbed juggers and sentinels. But at least you're not a brute with their fucking disco grenades.

[@TheUbberman]

Shazbot!

[@cameronwright1082]

Woohoo!

[@LoneBerseker]

[@weasel003gaming7]

Shazbot!

[@Worms_Pro]

Come get some!

[@jedizhawk]

I thought I was watching the video for the first time, but then I saw my like on this post. Still sad

[@TheZephyrsWind]

This was the best shooter I've known. The memory was so deep that I had a vivid dream a month ago, I was playing as a character. I had no idea it was Tribes until now & the memories shoot back. I was actually really good at it, and it was around this time my games went from "normal" to inverted.

[@turboclub7658]

Play again! TribesNext.com 20-30 on weekends 10-20 weekdays Discord PUB - May 2020

[@GamePath]

I don't see what's so hard about staying true to the original and alowing the community to mod it.

[@sir_justinius]

The only shooter I was naturally good at. *SIIIIIIIIGH*

[@Necro_fury]

I feel you on that. I never played tribes but in middle school i played a game called freefall tournament that I was only good at since it had auto aim lol. Smaller arena but everyone had grav boots to slide around on and there was a focus on aerial combat

[@glacier4286]

I think the OOTB patch made things worse more than better. With all the freedom of weight-classes and 3 weapon slots, it lost a lot of the teamplay aspect and became more of a deathmatch game

[@z_t636]

agreed, OOTB was the end of the game for me.

[@SomberSora]

That and the fact that they removed perks and slowed down capping to a crawl, if Hi-Rez released Pre-OOTB T:A right now (just after Midair F2P might I add) they could actually get money off the game along with a playable, more balanced version of the current mess that is T:A and I would even play that over Midair.

[@PixlounMaster]

They did not slow down capping to a crawl actually it is way easier after OOTB

[@DamjanNovakovic]

I stopped play after that total conversion they call Patch. Today, after almost 3 years, i uninstalled it finally.

[@jimothyj2638]

@@DamjanNovakovic wait it was still up a month ago? I thought they shut it down a few years ago

[@joeseabreeze]

It was by far the best multiplayer shooter style ever created. It really is a shame that Hi-Rez Studios had to go and destroy such an amazing series! I'll never buy any of their games!

[@darddeac1055]

i mean technically their games are f2p, you wouldnt be buying them anyways

[@ironheavenz]

I loved every bit of Tribes: Ascend Midair is not it Hate the aesthetics, map and theme, looks like team fortress had a baby with fortnite before fortnite was even born The aesthetics for Tribes Ascend were spot on with the feel of it, which was really great, too bad they kept fucking up every aspect of the game

[@regriefing1807]

IronH3avenZ I personally like midair but i agree it feels weird

[@user-xc4lq1zq2x]

yea i agree but i think gameplay is more important than aesthetics. shame the game died :(

[@Sybato]

It's pretty funny that they're doing similar things with Paladins currently, adding lots of champions and making them a grind to get

[@ThatMans-anAnimal]

Honest question: how else are they going to make money on a free to play game? They aren't making people grind to get them, they are giving them a choice: pay or grind. I am the type of person to grind but obviously I am giving them $0 and not helping to support the game.

[@pacman_pol_pl_polska]

Do you need them all though?

[@Melgaer]

cosmetics that doesnt affect gameplay at all? Like in Dota or Fortnite? No gamechanging mechanics can be bought. All are purely cosmetica. Yet, those games earn a lot of cash.

[@olusegunobasanjo9666]

Who the fuck plays Paladins lol. Just play Overwatch you dumbass.

[@mariuscatalin5982]

its not about the grind itself BUT the grind to get COUNTER WEAPONS basically you need to GRIND to counter something op like a pyro for a spy infested team

[@roan6903]

Even if only seeing the title of this video breaks my heart.

[@TheAdun]

This was one of the best class based shooters every made. You could play pathfinder and capture, defense with doombringer, siege the enemy with juggernaut, etc. So many fun choices. This game had the potential to be huge.

[@ma1ist]

i miss playing pathfinder as a chaser. it was so rewarding to be the guy who would recover ur flag from the enemies flag grabber. the best flag chasers were like freaking ninjas. recover the flag and immediately K out lol

[@dc8836]

Everything Hi-Rez has ever done has been ruined by bad decision-making and what sure seems like a complete lack of a concise design focus going in. Global Agenda had the potential to be pretty amazing - in many respects it was ahead of its time - but they ruined by trying to force in WoW-like open world questing elements to it instead of focusing on the little "dungeons" and PvP that made it interesting. Tribes: Ascend was a mess almost from the start. They didn't know how to make an actual Tribes game (maybe they'd never played it before?) and argued fiercely with the Tribes veterans that, admittedly, were rather hard to please. The game initially launched with automatic, high-capacity hitscan weapons which, for a game like Tribes is... a bad idea. The LMG quickly became the best weapon in the game and trivialized most gameplay. They eventually fixed this by making it a projectile weapon that fired fast (but not hitscan) bullets and MOST people seemed to be happy with this. The real problems came from the apparently random decision to go F2P, and all of the grind-focused gameplay elements that came with it. Tribes was always about picking an armor class and then selecting the goodies you use with it, but Hi-Rez needed ways to "encourage" players to buy their stuff, so they broke it up into discrete classes that you had to grind or pay to unlock, and then doubled down on this retardation by, as the video states, adding in weapons and items that were simply superior versions of the free ones. SMITE also apparently went belly-up not too long after launch. Hi-Rez is just a good example of incompetence in action. They were technically proficient and certainly had some good ideas (like I said, Global Agenda was definitely years ahead of its time), but they clearly lacked people with the experience to make good high-level plans and focus their teams.

[@dirpyturtle69]

They Call Me The Anti-Troll on console maybe

[@DraconasTenZHG]

Hi-Rez said they took inspiration from TF2 while making Paladins (even tho they stole half of the heroes from Overwatch) so I think it might have been the same case for T:A. They thought that 9 dudes from TF2 is more interesting idea so they turned light, medium and heavy into 3/3/3 of those classes and I think it was better. Unfortunately they decided to turn it back into original class system so loadout building got complicated and the classes lost their charm.

[@TotallyOwned45]

Smite player here. The president of the company stepped down and there is a new exec producer who is promising to slow the roll of releasing new "content" (skins and chests with skins in them) at a pace too fast for the dev team to keep up with and instead actually focus on polish and fixing bugs that have been in the game for way too long. Fans everywhere are rejoicing.

[@wisemage0]

Hirez is still updating SMITE regularly and holding tournaments for it, as well. It's easily their biggest cash cow next to Paladins.

[@wrathofthewitchqueen]

@@DraconasTenZHG Id say around 4-5 heroes are like OW, out of the nearly FIFTY CHAMPIONS TO CHOOSE FROM

[@sagewaterdragon]

I always appreciate Tribes: Ascend coverage, but this missed a lot of important beats in the game's history. They didn't *completely* abandon it after Smite came out, and Hi-Rez helped turn its image around on /r/Tribes when the Out Of The Blue update hit. It's still a sad story, but I feel like there isn't a lesson to be learned from this if you don't talk about those last few updates and the death of the eSports community.

[@RedSntDK]

Yup, smite had nothing to do with Tribes Ascend, but T:A's model wasn't perfect enough for mainstream consumption.

[@welfarewalrus597]

It's true that they made a few updates after they released smite but it wasn't for literally years later that we got "out of the Blue" and by that time the game and community was nearly dead. I felt like it wasn't worth putting in due to it not having a long lasting effect on the game and done after the developers decided to drop the game for others.

[@sagewaterdragon]

I understand your meaning, but you simply cannot just decide that two major game-changing updates don't deserve to be talked about. Honestly, "our attempts to revive it failed" is much more telling/compelling than "they just left it to die," especially since this video also could've served as an advertisement for more people to get into Tribes - the servers I traffic have seen some new players since this video dropped.

[@sentry4944]

They left it to die and as it was breathing its last breath, they tried to revive it. It would have been better off not having the Blue update. T:A 1.0 was a joke of a release. Hirez fucked the community around many times over. There was the tournament that they were supposed to give gold as a prize that never got awarded, the game changing patch that happened the day before a major tournament, deleting their player forums and making /r/Tribes the "official forums", etc. And then they released the paid GOTY edition that unlocked everything as one last money grab. I started playing the game in the closed beta and played basically until the Blue patch came out. Once they saw that they couldn't make a ton of money off of it and the playerbase was a bunch of nostalgic players looking for Tribes HD, they put their money on Smite. We had less than a handful of patches after the 1.0 release. The game client we had for years should have never made it out of beta.

[@jaypond4368]

No matter what the devs did it would have never gotten big. Tribes like games and other oldschool shooters like arena shooters are just not popular anymore. They are awesome but not what new gamers want unfortunately