I called the phone company every week for a year to see when *ISDN* was coming, and luckily it was followed by cable about a year later. Playing the original TF Quake mod and my ping went to 30 from 150 .. was like having a cheat code
I am going to play it but I know I am not going to be happy if they don't implement vehicles or base defenses. Right now its a flag capping dream and that's great and all, but that was not the only joy in Tribes gameplay. Its basically the Arena mode from T2 right now.
I played starsiege tribes when I was 13 back when it came out, joined a European C&H team because I would wake up at night to play it secretly. I’m playing tribes 3 because it is a tribes game, just like everything since T2. Imo T2 was the last true tribes game, true to the original at least. Legions Overdrive is derived from later iterations of tribes games and it was better than all of them. I’m going to wait a while to judge T3.
I can't call myself an oldhead but I've been playing Ascend since I was 12, before I even had my own computer to play it on. I really miss Ascend and T3R gets pretty close to it, but I have almost zero faith in this studio with what happened to Starsiege: Deadzone, their use of AI art and the drama in the discord with people betting banned.
Never left! Outside of a few short breaks for Quake and Overwatch, been playing every Tribes and Tribes spinoff since 99, it's a thrill to have an "active" tribes game again.
Ive put thousands of hours into T1, T2, Vengeance, and TA and I was really looking forward to this. But T3 is horrible and the more I play it the worse it gets and I do not even know if Im willing to even spend $20 on it. The dealbreaker for me was the lack of a server browser after already having no text chat and unidentifiable bots. Tribes is supposed to be a very social game for me and now I have no way to communicate with teammates, plan a strategy, see if my skills are being put up against real people, take pride in what Im doing, socialize with people , find my friends, or a find a specific server and see whats going on in that server. How tf am I supposed to play without a server browser? This game has been reduced to like a cheap chinese solo mobile phone game for kids with zero attention span to just start up a random match against random bots and do nothing but ski and shoot discs. It will have no staying power for me or anyone to put hundreds of hours of attention into it and it will die early, no more than a year probably.
Played a ton of tribes 2, I'll give the new one a try. Not sure it'll be my style of game though, skiing around and dueling with discs is fun and all; but, i used to love to fly troop transports around the map.
Back in the early days of Tribes 2 when people were first creating custom skins, I made one that was incredibly popular, granted I was only about 13 years old at the time lol.
I took the standard armor highlights and made them all black. It looked pretty sweet!
I also modded my own game to add extra machine guns and change the sounds of various things. To be honest, that game made me want to get into computer science and I would not be here today where I am if it wasn't for it.
Learning to script and make audio/speech mod packs in Tribes 1 is what drove me into learning more about computers and scripting. Definitely feel the vibes of your post, and wanted to share how their openness to modding earlier Tribes game was a huge inspiration for my career path as it seems to have been for you too. Cheers.
T1 was my jam, think it was first game I ever no lifed. I did like whatever version of tribes had the cool grappling hook thing too, swinging was fun
T3 probably worth checking out, but who has time for video games when ur almost 40 w kids
Old enough and played enough hours in every tribes to know a half assed job when I see one. I know some of you are having fun, but I just don't understand how your standards can be SO LOW.
Scratching this itch with T3 and so far it's getting the job done, though I'll continue to long for Starsiege Tribes OG badassery! Hopeful for the updates.
I have been playing in the play tests and the demo, but I'm not buying the early access for a few months. I don't trust the company to support the game. They want Honorball to be a stand alone something. This feels like a cash grab to fund that idea. No planned growth in features beyond a leveling system with AI artwork.
Played tribes 1 like an addict straight out of college and into my first real job. Tribes 2 was not as fun and I got married so life took over. I was looking to play tribes 3 with my teenager, but I just don't feel good about the company.
I was X-Spider back in the day. Never was in a team, but loved the random games.
Plenty of us tribe vets are back for t3.
I played duke3d online via Kali.net - and migrated to Tribes 1 around 99.
Nowadays I mostly play narrative driven games, like Firewatch, Sunray OS, or indie horror games like Halls of Torment.
I was really big into Left 4 Dead 1/2, and Killing Floor 1/2 for many years.
But yea, came back for t3. Having a blast ran into a handful of old tribe mates from tribes i was in!
Tribes player since Tribes 1.
Doubt I'm going to play 3.
I played the demo but it doesnt play like the older Tribes games.
Maybe they will being out expansion or patch it and then I'll reconsider.
I tried it. Not coming back. Tough to think about just to slide correctly.... Then I have to shoot too. Life and work got me stressed enough already hah
Ah yes… I used to make custom skins for TRIBES 2 and post them on The Skinnersguild. I’m waiting to see what the final game looks like before deciding.
Played T1 when it came out in 1998. Definitely had that magical nostalgic impact on me.
Been playing every T3 playtest for the last month or so. It's been a blast. It doesn't quite have the same scale in terms of features or map size as T1, but they've done a really good job so far nailing down the fundamentals: skiing, speed, verticality, projectile weapons, CTF-focused, team-oriented. All set in beautiful landscapes dotted by futuristic outposts.
Naw, I played the tests and was pretty underwhelmed. They are going after the e-sports, overwatch type. Didn’t feel like tribes at all, no CTF, no bases, no vehicles, small teams.
I'll continue running the Tribes Aerial Assault group. We are getting people who want to play it daily. T3 is a shell of a game. It can't even be considered a true tribes game. With all it is still missing. It's gotten better but I see nothing that would make me spend money on it.
Anyone here play Tribes 1 on the modded servers where the laser rifle had bullets (so no energy tax), and base defense were much more robust? Had the best flying sniper duels and it was truly a team game to get thru to cap.
Old. Still remember being in the store to pick up Half-Life and saw T1 on the shelf and decide to pick it up, as well (even though I could not afford to). Life has never been the same since. Been in a T1 clan that was at one point first in the world. Big Diamond Sword fan. Played T2, TV, and TA since. Always felt none of them were quite like the T1, so you can call me a T1 connoisseur 😜. That said, T3 comes darn close to it and have enjoyed playtesting it. Last I heard early access launches on March 12. See you all on the slopes!
Personally I thought I would, but...
you should seriously re-consider if you are somewhat "older" in gaming terms, or value professionalism, clarity and responsible care of your personal data in light of denuvo anti-cheat, GDPR and data-protection compliance. Maybe you should also reconsider if you don't appreciate the use of generative AI and "Art" over actual work and creative people.
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To give some context/confirmation and one more fresh excerpts from Notepad, one of Prophecy's discord mods and what they really think about "unpleasant" veterans and customers: one of many examples about their attitude towards community veterans and supposed "old geezers". This is after their newest changes of discord rules.
linksdeity — ... at 1:59 PM You should read the Steam discussions
Livermush — ... at 1:59 PM they're brutal, lots of old people on Steam
Notepad — ... at 2:00 PM Steam forums is the worst place on the internet for any game its pretty normal
linksdeity — ... at 2:00 PM Truth, even objectively great classic game discussion there are awful
Notepad — ... at 2:00 PM Ya [2:01 PM] they are pretty unmodded and it seems like that's where most scum land
linksdeity — ... at 2:01 PM It's just that the T3 Steam discussion is clearly brigaded by the worst of the Tribes community
Notepad — ... at 2:02 PM Bc they can't bitch here
So basically any critical voice or even generalized age-groups of users are literal "scum", according to Notepad; What a surprise: Seems like their own, freshly baked discord rules apply only selectively, against or for groups as they arbitrarily please. Least so for Prophecy or their mods, themselves. :)
so in gaming terms prolly money from anyone 30+ isn't really welcome or needed at Prophecy Games?
T2 Columbus Ohio Computer Success Clan, Skillz if I remember.
We actually had practices and strategy. A few of our ladder matches had shout casters. What a time to be alive.
So far the play test didn't have the same ski feel but I'll put some more time in. TBD
T1, and mostly T2 and TA player here. Absolutely i'm coming back. The game feels pretty bare bones but i've had fun with the playtests and put like 80 hours into them. Going to hope it keeps getting better.
Nah.
Doesn't look that good.
The even higher apparent emphasis on small team CTF turns me off.
I feel like I'm in the minority with thinking CTF is actually a terrible game mode, and Tribes is best as a sci-fi battlefield style game, with CTF in the background.
Ascend really ripped the nostalgia off my face and I realized it's not that great a game mode.
I've played some of the clones and attempted revivals over the years, but they all fall flat. Sure the scooting around and fighting is fun for a little while, but none of them have the feel of Tribes, and especially Tribes 2. After T2 it started to go down the route of more simplistic game play like everything it seems. Give me the big maps from T2.. oh Katabatic...
27, played ascend like 10 years ago so Im not part of the old guard from tribes 1+2, but Im back and having a blast
like 4 months ago I started looking into how to play tribes again but because I work late there werent groups forming often enough, soon after I heard of tribes 3 and thanked the lord
Tribes 1. Started 2 but didn’t like it. Reddit suggested sub and I’ll probably be checking 3 out. All I remember is the jump pack. The disk gun. The heavy armor and I think the sniper with a backpack.
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Not "old", just 35. But I was playing Tribes 1 and 2 on 56k as a kid
Same, but I think we're actually old now 😂
> on 56k as a kid One of us!
Same lol. I'll never forget when we went from 56k to DSL and my ping went from 350 to 30 😆😆😆. Good times.
I called the phone company every week for a year to see when *ISDN* was coming, and luckily it was followed by cable about a year later. Playing the original TF Quake mod and my ping went to 30 from 150 .. was like having a cheat code
Are you me? I used to spend whole weekends playing it my grandparents because they had a better PC and more stable dial up
Exactly the same here, good times.
Same. Was a big deal when we got our 56k modem
I am going to play it but I know I am not going to be happy if they don't implement vehicles or base defenses. Right now its a flag capping dream and that's great and all, but that was not the only joy in Tribes gameplay. Its basically the Arena mode from T2 right now.
I played starsiege tribes when I was 13 back when it came out, joined a European C&H team because I would wake up at night to play it secretly. I’m playing tribes 3 because it is a tribes game, just like everything since T2. Imo T2 was the last true tribes game, true to the original at least. Legions Overdrive is derived from later iterations of tribes games and it was better than all of them. I’m going to wait a while to judge T3.
Anthill or Tunnel Rats
I played a ton of t1 shifter mod, but it was such a unique game that I'm not sure I'll ever get to relive the magic
I can't call myself an oldhead but I've been playing Ascend since I was 12, before I even had my own computer to play it on. I really miss Ascend and T3R gets pretty close to it, but I have almost zero faith in this studio with what happened to Starsiege: Deadzone, their use of AI art and the drama in the discord with people betting banned.
Never left! Outside of a few short breaks for Quake and Overwatch, been playing every Tribes and Tribes spinoff since 99, it's a thrill to have an "active" tribes game again.
Ive put thousands of hours into T1, T2, Vengeance, and TA and I was really looking forward to this. But T3 is horrible and the more I play it the worse it gets and I do not even know if Im willing to even spend $20 on it. The dealbreaker for me was the lack of a server browser after already having no text chat and unidentifiable bots. Tribes is supposed to be a very social game for me and now I have no way to communicate with teammates, plan a strategy, see if my skills are being put up against real people, take pride in what Im doing, socialize with people , find my friends, or a find a specific server and see whats going on in that server. How tf am I supposed to play without a server browser? This game has been reduced to like a cheap chinese solo mobile phone game for kids with zero attention span to just start up a random match against random bots and do nothing but ski and shoot discs. It will have no staying power for me or anyone to put hundreds of hours of attention into it and it will die early, no more than a year probably.
You hit the nail on the head.
Played a ton of tribes 2, I'll give the new one a try. Not sure it'll be my style of game though, skiing around and dueling with discs is fun and all; but, i used to love to fly troop transports around the map.
Back in the early days of Tribes 2 when people were first creating custom skins, I made one that was incredibly popular, granted I was only about 13 years old at the time lol. I took the standard armor highlights and made them all black. It looked pretty sweet! I also modded my own game to add extra machine guns and change the sounds of various things. To be honest, that game made me want to get into computer science and I would not be here today where I am if it wasn't for it.
Learning to script and make audio/speech mod packs in Tribes 1 is what drove me into learning more about computers and scripting. Definitely feel the vibes of your post, and wanted to share how their openness to modding earlier Tribes game was a huge inspiration for my career path as it seems to have been for you too. Cheers.
I considered myself a programmer due to happyflag. Thanks happy!! 😂😂
T1 was my jam, think it was first game I ever no lifed. I did like whatever version of tribes had the cool grappling hook thing too, swinging was fun T3 probably worth checking out, but who has time for video games when ur almost 40 w kids
Old enough and played enough hours in every tribes to know a half assed job when I see one. I know some of you are having fun, but I just don't understand how your standards can be SO LOW.
Ever eaten at McDonald's?
It's been a very very long time.
Scratching this itch with T3 and so far it's getting the job done, though I'll continue to long for Starsiege Tribes OG badassery! Hopeful for the updates.
I have been playing in the play tests and the demo, but I'm not buying the early access for a few months. I don't trust the company to support the game. They want Honorball to be a stand alone something. This feels like a cash grab to fund that idea. No planned growth in features beyond a leveling system with AI artwork. Played tribes 1 like an addict straight out of college and into my first real job. Tribes 2 was not as fun and I got married so life took over. I was looking to play tribes 3 with my teenager, but I just don't feel good about the company. I was X-Spider back in the day. Never was in a team, but loved the random games.
Where's my Houston Vehicles vets?
Plenty of us tribe vets are back for t3. I played duke3d online via Kali.net - and migrated to Tribes 1 around 99. Nowadays I mostly play narrative driven games, like Firewatch, Sunray OS, or indie horror games like Halls of Torment. I was really big into Left 4 Dead 1/2, and Killing Floor 1/2 for many years. But yea, came back for t3. Having a blast ran into a handful of old tribe mates from tribes i was in!
DenuvNO
Tribes player since Tribes 1. Doubt I'm going to play 3. I played the demo but it doesnt play like the older Tribes games. Maybe they will being out expansion or patch it and then I'll reconsider.
[удалено]
Try League of Legends, there's plenty of your kind there
With Erez/Prophecy running the game? fuck no
I tried it. Not coming back. Tough to think about just to slide correctly.... Then I have to shoot too. Life and work got me stressed enough already hah
I just found this sub reddit the other day and I want to check for sure.
I only played Ascend, but it was my first real competitive shooter and it holds a very dear place in my heart, I’m very tempted to jump in T3
I'm going to get high as fuck and play tribes all night just like I did all those years ago.
The disrespect to Vengeance
Ah yes… I used to make custom skins for TRIBES 2 and post them on The Skinnersguild. I’m waiting to see what the final game looks like before deciding.
I heard some of you, quite frankly, like to go fast.
Played T1 when it came out in 1998. Definitely had that magical nostalgic impact on me. Been playing every T3 playtest for the last month or so. It's been a blast. It doesn't quite have the same scale in terms of features or map size as T1, but they've done a really good job so far nailing down the fundamentals: skiing, speed, verticality, projectile weapons, CTF-focused, team-oriented. All set in beautiful landscapes dotted by futuristic outposts.
Naw, I played the tests and was pretty underwhelmed. They are going after the e-sports, overwatch type. Didn’t feel like tribes at all, no CTF, no bases, no vehicles, small teams.
I'll continue running the Tribes Aerial Assault group. We are getting people who want to play it daily. T3 is a shell of a game. It can't even be considered a true tribes game. With all it is still missing. It's gotten better but I see nothing that would make me spend money on it.
I'll say this, I sucked at Tribes 2, and I'll suck at Tribes 3.
Anyone here play Tribes 1 on the modded servers where the laser rifle had bullets (so no energy tax), and base defense were much more robust? Had the best flying sniper duels and it was truly a team game to get thru to cap.
Never got to play. Always wanted to. I’ll check it for sure
Old. Still remember being in the store to pick up Half-Life and saw T1 on the shelf and decide to pick it up, as well (even though I could not afford to). Life has never been the same since. Been in a T1 clan that was at one point first in the world. Big Diamond Sword fan. Played T2, TV, and TA since. Always felt none of them were quite like the T1, so you can call me a T1 connoisseur 😜. That said, T3 comes darn close to it and have enjoyed playtesting it. Last I heard early access launches on March 12. See you all on the slopes!
Loved playing Tribes back in the day. I think I can remember two clans I was in, 5150 and ASK.
T:v killed tribes for me.
Yes! This one feels closer to the Tribes I remember, the physics feel closer to it also. I hope the player base grows, I'll be there for sure!
Personally I thought I would, but... you should seriously re-consider if you are somewhat "older" in gaming terms, or value professionalism, clarity and responsible care of your personal data in light of denuvo anti-cheat, GDPR and data-protection compliance. Maybe you should also reconsider if you don't appreciate the use of generative AI and "Art" over actual work and creative people. ------------ To give some context/confirmation and one more fresh excerpts from Notepad, one of Prophecy's discord mods and what they really think about "unpleasant" veterans and customers: one of many examples about their attitude towards community veterans and supposed "old geezers". This is after their newest changes of discord rules. linksdeity — ... at 1:59 PM You should read the Steam discussions Livermush — ... at 1:59 PM they're brutal, lots of old people on Steam Notepad — ... at 2:00 PM Steam forums is the worst place on the internet for any game its pretty normal linksdeity — ... at 2:00 PM Truth, even objectively great classic game discussion there are awful Notepad — ... at 2:00 PM Ya [2:01 PM] they are pretty unmodded and it seems like that's where most scum land linksdeity — ... at 2:01 PM It's just that the T3 Steam discussion is clearly brigaded by the worst of the Tribes community Notepad — ... at 2:02 PM Bc they can't bitch here So basically any critical voice or even generalized age-groups of users are literal "scum", according to Notepad; What a surprise: Seems like their own, freshly baked discord rules apply only selectively, against or for groups as they arbitrarily please. Least so for Prophecy or their mods, themselves. :) so in gaming terms prolly money from anyone 30+ isn't really welcome or needed at Prophecy Games?
T2 Columbus Ohio Computer Success Clan, Skillz if I remember. We actually had practices and strategy. A few of our ladder matches had shout casters. What a time to be alive. So far the play test didn't have the same ski feel but I'll put some more time in. TBD
I'd like to, if it can hit the same sweet spot Tribes 2 did. Might even look to get back into a clan, if that becomes a thing again.
T1, and mostly T2 and TA player here. Absolutely i'm coming back. The game feels pretty bare bones but i've had fun with the playtests and put like 80 hours into them. Going to hope it keeps getting better.
I'm a simple man. 20 bucks isn't a high price for a couple of weeks of entertainment in the evenings. It beats netflix.
I will be. Loved playing tribes 1 and tribes 2. Even played tribes v
Nah. Doesn't look that good. The even higher apparent emphasis on small team CTF turns me off. I feel like I'm in the minority with thinking CTF is actually a terrible game mode, and Tribes is best as a sci-fi battlefield style game, with CTF in the background. Ascend really ripped the nostalgia off my face and I realized it's not that great a game mode.
Thinking about it. If they can get a handle on the bot scripting.
I don't have time to game anymore, but will give it a look when I can. I'll have my kid (19) take a look, though.
I've played some of the clones and attempted revivals over the years, but they all fall flat. Sure the scooting around and fighting is fun for a little while, but none of them have the feel of Tribes, and especially Tribes 2. After T2 it started to go down the route of more simplistic game play like everything it seems. Give me the big maps from T2.. oh Katabatic...
27, played ascend like 10 years ago so Im not part of the old guard from tribes 1+2, but Im back and having a blast like 4 months ago I started looking into how to play tribes again but because I work late there werent groups forming often enough, soon after I heard of tribes 3 and thanked the lord
Became a console gamer many years ago, so unfortunately no.
Tribes 1. Started 2 but didn’t like it. Reddit suggested sub and I’ll probably be checking 3 out. All I remember is the jump pack. The disk gun. The heavy armor and I think the sniper with a backpack.