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interbutt

So I just played Tribes for the first time. Wow, that rocket pack control design is shit.

Yeah, I had the controls explained to me and I can maneuver just fine now. But the design of the controls are still terrible. It was explained to me like "If you use your rockets to move you forward then they can't push you up with the same force." This would be true of a rocket pack with no steering rockets attached to it. The fact that they made such a single-rocket style pack makes me want to punch an engineer. Sure the game was mildly fun but I just cannot get past what a terrible design that was. Makes me glad I never bothered with this game back in the day and stuck with Quake.

/rant

Posted Sep 22, 2010, 9:33 PM UTC

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lonmoer•

yea if you're not skiing i can see how you would be frustrated playing tribes. trust me though back in the day when this game was popping it was THE shit. so many custom maps and mods

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dx40sh•

Look into Firefall, it's acclaimed to be the successor to Tribes. Even though it's not out yet.

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interbuttOP•

I've seen those videos and it looks awesome. I'll be giving it a shot for sure.

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dx40sh•

Btw, if you've registered on the Firefall forums, you're automatically entered into the beta, or at least have a chance to get into it when it opens.

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wrathofg0d•

its the pve-centered item shop successor to tribes

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Bonghitter•

Did you try it online? Were there people actually still playing this? I loved tribes, the jet pack was awesome.

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interbuttOP•

Lan game with coworkers and it was fun when I wasn't pissed at the rocket pack controls. I enjoyed how fast the movement was.

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hkhooj•

You may not be doing it right. see: see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhohLr45Z5o

Tribes1 out of the box is not tribes1 after learning to ski. It's not intuitive. If my assumption that you're new to the game is wrong, i apologize. I seriously doubt it though as Tribes1 scripted, and learned, is one of the pinnacles of gaming. I am not exaggeration.

10sec of searching on google (no time to get a good video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lqx2NKTmaw

Message me if you would like to see more. I suggest you look at Fallen Empires: Legions videos on YouTube. It is a browser based game that is a stripped down Tribes1, on a newer engine. It is currently unavailable until InstantAction releases their new site. Skiiing has been simplified (and the maps are much more forgiving), so it's much easier to play than tribes1.

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wrathofg0d•

I played Tribes 1 alot and never learned how to ski. I also played two mods exclusively (shifter and then biohazard, which was based on shifter).

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wrathofg0d•

if a new tribes game were released today you can be assured that there would be steering rockets on the models; im sure the only reason that this wasnt added before was because it looked awkward as fuck with the t1/t2 engines

the t1/t2 engines are fucking genius and its silly to think that no one considered it during development. it's incredibly likely the decision to not have steering rockets on the sides was due to a combination of how dumb it would look and no one who played the game really giving a fuck.

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