Tribes: Ascend v2: I went slow once and it was awful - Games

I just realized how P2W this game can actually be. Loads of unlocks make playing the class so much easier. Take the infiltrator. You have to get close to use your explosive, and that's dangerous. And your SMG makes it hard to really do damage out in the open. The stealth spinfusor solves all that. You can more easily do a lot of damage outside, and you can snipe base assets from a mile. Take the Technician. If an infiltrator or raider gets in your gen room, shit, shit, where did they go?(not so much with the raiders case) The thumper solves that! shoot it in a corner, and bam, infiltrator is gone! Fucks sake, alternate weapons should be an ALTERNATE PLAYSTYLE, not buff the class. See, the new inf stuff is GOOD. It's an interesting playstyle. But the thumper and the Stealth spinfusor? Straight. Fucking. Upgrade.

oh yeah, I just had the most one sided game EVER on Sunstar. 0-5. Juggernauts and sentinels spamming everywhere. And when we lost This Fucking egotistical git said "ownage$" Funny thing is, his name was masterchef Second funny thing Is that this same person said that temple ruins was a shit map, because we played it before and we won 5-0, and he was on the losing side. And when I said that it was a one sided rapefest Everyone [VGTA]'ed. Shit im mad

[QUOTE=The golden;35321493]Tribes Ascend is very fun.[/QUOTE] Fixed it for you.

[QUOTE=little.sparrow;35321467]I just realized how P2W this game can actually be. Loads of unlocks make playing the class so much easier. Take the infiltrator. You have to get close to use your explosive, and that's dangerous. And your SMG makes it hard to really do damage out in the open. The stealth spinfusor solves all that. You can more easily do a lot of damage outside, and you can snipe base assets from a mile. Take the Technician. If an infiltrator or raider gets in your gen room, shit, shit, where did they go?(not so much with the raiders case) The thumper solves that! shoot it in a corner, and bam, infiltrator is gone! Fucks sake, alternate weapons should be an ALTERNATE PLAYSTYLE, not buff the class. See, the new inf stuff is GOOD. It's an interesting playstyle. But the thumper and the Stealth spinfusor? Straight. Fucking. Upgrade.[/QUOTE] Bolt launcher is less of an upgrade now that you can't impact nitron with the flag. Now spinfusor is even better for attacking because it has the splash damage to clear the flag stand before you grab, and you can boost yourself farther with it, while bolt launcher is better for chasers because of the additional damage it deals. Also you can unlock all of them with xp which you get fairly quickly when you start out because of badges, so it's not really that pay to win even if they are upgrades.

Jackal for president

About to bitch on the forums about it. Hoping i'm not swarmed by "VGTA" smegheads.

Hnng anybody else in a dilemma? Things I will need: The Jackal - 100k !!! The smoke nade - 42k ! The throwing knives - 75k !! the doombringer mines - 75k !!! the thumper - 100k !! LAR - 100k !! Heavy BL - 100k !!! Prox Nade - 75k Utility Pack - 42k Motion Sensor - 75k Potential Energy - 18k ! Pilot - 18k Super Heavy - 18k !! Wheel Deal 18k It will take years to unlock these+things to come right now with my vip boost only. It looks like I have to either buy a 30 days boost or get the 30$ elite pack. But I don't want to spend so much on a game I have no idea is heading whereto. I also dont want to support their pay2win scheme.

So Bella Omega was deleted forever [img]http://i.imgur.com/Kg2br.png[/img]

Anyone know a profile for crossfire so Tribes actually uses my second card? Currently I lose 15 fps enabling crossfire compared to a single card. Even if I already get 100+fps, I want to use my second card. Then I can force AA with no performance hit.

[QUOTE=little.sparrow;35321467] Take the Technician. If an infiltrator or raider gets in your gen room, shit, shit, where did they go?(not so much with the raiders case) The thumper solves that! shoot it in a corner, and bam, infiltrator is gone! [/QUOTE] Nope, the thumper is not a straight upgrade. There are people who prefer the smg's due to their better DPM and damage at range. As much as I hate technicians with thumpers, it is no different than a soldier with a spinfusor. In fact overall the weapon is worse. The smg is better than the assault's rifle, so I do not see what the big deal is. Sure it may fit the average player play style better, but it is not objectively better.

this skins fells like when they put green link and pink has fuck paints on tf2. they look so out of place

pathfinder theme song [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqivEMIGjko[/media]

[img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/559811256466862812/B50CAD7E5E21CDF2EE7DE53AF95A8905C1803ABC/[/img] FML [editline]27th March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Desuh;35321727]Hnng anybody else in a dilemma? Things I will need: The Jackal - 100k !!! The smoke nade - 42k ! The throwing knives - 75k !! the doombringer mines - 75k !!! the thumper - 100k !! LAR - 100k !! Heavy BL - 100k !!! Prox Nade - 75k Utility Pack - 42k Motion Sensor - 75k Potential Energy - 18k ! Pilot - 18k Super Heavy - 18k !! Wheel Deal 18k It will take years to unlock these+things to come right now with my vip boost only. It looks like I have to either buy a 30 days boost or get the 30$ elite pack. But I don't want to spend so much on a game I have no idea is heading whereto. I also dont want to support their pay2win scheme.[/QUOTE] They aren't forcing you to pay. I'm set out to play F2P, so I won't even have a VIP booster. Stop complaining.

[QUOTE=C4rnage;35322236]this skins fells like when they put green link and pink has fuck paints on tf2. they look so out of place[/QUOTE] I was hoping the skins would be more subtle, like the old character models or something.

[QUOTE=Spearman;35322323] They aren't forcing you to pay. I'm set out to play F2P, so I won't even have a VIP booster. Stop complaining.[/QUOTE] enjoy spending 300+ hours unlocking a class set of alternative weapons

[QUOTE=radiomonster;35322484]enjoy spending 300+ hours unlocking a class set of alternative weapons[/QUOTE] I have less than 100 played, and I've unlocked everything for technician, pathfinder, and juggernaut plus a bunch of extra xp I'm saving up for future patches.

[QUOTE=Spearman;35322323]They aren't forcing you to pay. I'm set out to play F2P, so I won't even have a VIP booster. Stop complaining.[/QUOTE] They may not be forcing us but they're encouraging it like a mother fucker. Right now, the game is in a grey area between Free 2 Play and Pay 2 Win. If they go any further with these class updates, and if they all have the same price ranges, then the game may as well be Pay 2 Win. Because the only people that will be getting new weapons are the ones that keep buying boosters, meanwhile non-VIP boosted and VIP boosted players are going to have to play for months just to get a couple new weapons. On the other hand, boosters will be able to get the weapons at an extremely faster rate and will probably only take them a week or two to get a handful of weapons. Also, this is a genuine Beta. If they want feedback, why are they making the weapons so hard to obtain? They're only hurting themselves in the long run.

[QUOTE=Sharp_Shooter;35322651] Also, this is a genuine Beta. If they want feedback, why are they making the weapons so hard to obtain? They're only hurting themselves in the long run.[/QUOTE] Because progress carries over into release. Chances are if they were to make all weapons easy to get, they would do a softwipe (like WOT).

[QUOTE=Ogopogo;35322794]Because progress carries over into release. Chances are if they were to make all weapons easy to get, they would do a softwipe (like WOT).[/QUOTE] That's when I stopped playing WoT. Without the weekly gold, getting back the stuff that got wiped would take months.

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There's nothing pay2win about expensive weapons as long as they're side-grades. Even if they take 500 hours to unlock they are still just a personal choice thing. The issue is how so many vanilla weapons are blatantly worse than the paid ones, eg. the jackal and stealth sf shit on the rhino smg.

[QUOTE=krail9;35322879]There's nothing pay2win about expensive weapons as long as they're side-grades. Even if they take 500 hours to unlock they are still just a personal choice thing. The issue is how so many vanilla weapons are blatantly worse than the paid ones, eg. the jackal and stealth sf shit on the rhino smg.[/QUOTE] I think they would be better off giving the stealth spinfusor as the default weapon. Not because it is better, but because it is much easier to handle for newer players.

is there anything bad about the bolt launcher compared to the light fusor?

The new infilitrator weapons are fun as hell. I like the knives, they feel like a better version of the Nova Blaster, they move faster like the blaster should. Also the Jackal is awesome for boosting, you can boost 3 times with ego centric. The return of infilitrator capping is here. Also say hello to BF2 style jihad again, cover bike with explosives jumps out bomb. It works for easy 260+ flag grabs on katabatic with just 2 explosives. The nerf to BXT1 range is freaking stupid now, you get dmg falloff to 400 dmg from the top of a ship on crossfire to the nearest hill in the middle. It only does 300 dmg at max range now. Light spinfusor is better now that it has more knockback.

[QUOTE=radiomonster;35322484]enjoy spending 300+ hours unlocking a class set of alternative weapons[/QUOTE] I will, I can see myself playing a fun game for 300+ hours. If I didn't plan on playing it for that long why would I pay for weapon sets?

[QUOTE=radiomonster;35323098]is there anything bad about the bolt launcher compared to the light fusor?[/QUOTE] Worse for using it to propel yourself. In short, light spinfusor for cappers, bolt launchers for chasers

Anyone else ticked off that the Merc doesn't at least have a blue skin when on DS? [editline]27th March 2012[/editline] Anyone else really happy that the Merc has the Falcon Punch?

I don't like any of the skins Female skins would be [img]http://forums.thebestgamers.net/Smileys/fantasticsmileys/cool2.gif[/img] though.

[QUOTE=NanoSquid;35323371]Anyone else ticked off that the Merc doesn't at least have a blue skin when on DS? [editline]27th March 2012[/editline] Anyone else really happy that the Merc has the Falcon Punch?[/QUOTE] I'm sure they'll add team colors with enough bitching, oh and nah dude its not a falcon punch its obviously gief's greenhand.

It's true that the heavy classes can't pilot shrieks anymore?