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Senic
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MinoMino
Norway1103 Posts
On April 30 2012 06:20 Release wrote: when it says +20% against armored: what does it mean by armored? All vehicles but the shrike are armored, and also generators and turrets. They do not take damage from non-explosive weapons, but some weapons have that extra damage instead. EDIT: Worded it wrong. | ||
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Khalum
Austria831 Posts
On April 30 2012 06:31 MinoMino wrote: All vehicles but the shrike, generators and turrets. They do not take damage from non-explosive weapons, but some weapons have that extra damage instead. The shrike takes damage from non-explosive weapons. | ||
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MinoMino
Norway1103 Posts
On April 30 2012 06:34 Khalum wrote: The shrike takes damage from non-explosive weapons. Yeah, I worded that wrong. I love it when shrikes come for me when I'm playing JUG. The X1 LMG is amazing against shrikes. | ||
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Ethenielle
Norway1006 Posts
MKD was sad times. Then I got my LMG, and I could actually kill people who came to me. Then I got discs, and I could kill multiple people at the same time quite reliably. Together with watching the flagstand explode in numbers, this makes for one hell of an experience. I am on my way through Quick Draw/Safety Third now, and it's so damn fun. Although it's probably the most XP heavy role to unlock, it's such a refreshing change from... everything else. I'm still not sure if jugg or raider has the best longevity/shelling power balance, but I do feel a lot more useful as jugg. If I have to clean out the stand as raider I usually end up sacrificing my life, and getting that one timing right in a pub is pretty much impossible. I'm glad the plasma nerf came so fast, the game is so very fun(when balanced.. :p) | ||
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G2Wolf
United States261 Posts
![[image loading]](http://cyber-sports.net/media/imagecache/446x273/launchcup_site3.png) The Cyber Sports Network and Hi-Rez Studios is excited to announce the first major Tribes: Ascend Tournament for North America. The Tribes: Ascend Launch Cup will feature 7 man teams battling it out for a $2500 prize pool, with $1050 going to the first place team. Along with the cash prizes, Tt eSPORTS will provide a Saphira mouse and Dasher mousepad to each member of the winning team. Matches will start on May 5th and 6th and conclude on the weekend of May 12th and 13th. Each day of competition will take place from 7pm to Midnight EDT. The Cyber Sports Network values true and open competition and we will continue to reinforce that with the Tribes: Ascend community. The Launch Cup will be available for any team that can field a 7 man roster. The competition will also be best of 3 maps and double elimination as an attempt to make sure that the best Tribe can take the top prize. “We’re very encouraged with the rapid growth of the Tribes: Ascend competitive scene”, says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios Chief Operating Officer. “There has been high player demand for professionally administered tournaments and we’re pleased to partner with Cyber Sports Network to kickoff this first North American event” The matches will be casted by Bart ‘HiRezBart’ Koenigsberg from Hi-Rez Studios and Ben ‘Fishstix’ Goldhaber live on the Cyber Sports Network Stream. If you are an first person shooter fan and feel like you have what it takes to take home the top prize be sure to sign your team up on Cyber Sports Network immediately. If you have yet to play the free-to-play Tribes: Ascend, you can download it at https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/. + Show Spoiler [Press Release] + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ll0Fo.jpg) Tournament Format: 32 teams, double elimination. May 5-6, May 12-13 Matches will be between 7pm - midnight EDT on all four days. Prizes: $2500 total 1st - $1050 + 7 Tt eSPORTS Saphira mouse and Dasher mousepad 2nd - $700 3rd - $420 4th - $280 ![[image loading]](http://esporteye.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CSN_TL_info_banner.png) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Tepfp.png) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/caqjH.png) | ||
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AnarchyAo
United States5 Posts
http://www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/comments ... ight_0430/ *TLDR: Contest of randomizing people viewing my channel and following my channel @ www.twitch.tv/AnarchyAo *The winner will receive a fresh, newly created T:A account with $150 worth of Tribes Gold unlocks paid for (all unlocks, skins and bundles currently available within the game). *You do not necessarily have to be at your computer at the time of the contest so long as you are both following my stream prior to the contest start time and you are logged into twitch.tv chat and viewing my channel page (If you aren't then your name won't show up in the list of viewers in the chat, this is the list I use to pull the winner from). Intro- I'll be holding a contest and the winner will receive a fully unlocked Tribes: Ascend account that has had $150 worth of purchased Tribes Gold that was spent on all of the unlocks, skins and bundles currently available within the game. The account is rank 1 and has never entered a single game. No promotional codes have been redeemed on this account. Aside from having all unlocks, skins and bundles purchased the account is a blank slate. And don't worry, there's enough Tribes Gold on the account to allow for a name change. The contest will happen like this: 1) I log into twitch.tv and view my channel page at www.twitch.tv/AnarchyAo and copy the entire list of viewers shown that are currently logged into the chat and viewing my stream. 2) I'll paste this list into: http://www.random.org/lists/ and randomize it. This will spit out a long list where each viewer of my stream is assigned a number. 3) Then I'll go to http://www.random.org/ and specify a range of 1 - whatever the final numbered person is in the list of viewers I previously randomized. Whatever number it spits out, the person in the randomized list that is assigned this number will be the winner. 4) I will check this person's twitch page to ensure they are currently following my channel, and if they are following my channel then they will be ultimate tribal ascend winner account winner. Here's what you'll need to do this: 1) Register an account at www.twitch.tv and log in. 2) Visit my channel page at www.twitch.tv/AnarchyAo and click the blue "Follow" button above the video player with a picture of the beautiful man with cornrows. 3) When the contest begins at 7:00pm EST then you must be following my channel and be logged into twitch.tv and viewing my channel so that you show up in the chat's viewer list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update on this...HiRez limits the amount of gold/transactions you can make in a 24hr period, because of this I was unable to unlock two items on the account:  oombringer Heavy Bolt Launcher *Brute Heavy Shield PackThese are the only two items on the account that will not be unlocked. Sorry about the trouble. Also the value of the account is much higher than originally posted. $230 has been spent to unlock everything on this account except the two above mentioned items. If you have friends, friends of friends then you may want to let them know about the contest tonight. Anyone can participate, new and old players alike. It's 9:55am EST right now, so the contest begins in about 9 hours. Good luck to everyone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update #2. The account also has 209 days of boost. Screenshots of account: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10376041/contestaccount1.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10376041/contestaccount2.png | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
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Ethenielle
Norway1006 Posts
Some people are so fucking stupid it seriously burns my mind. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
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JosephAM
Canada131 Posts
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Scalepad
Sweden366 Posts
On May 01 2012 06:04 JosephAM wrote: Any advice on sniping? It's so hard to hit a small speck moving so fast. And I used to think Counter Strike aiming was hard. >_> Practice! I've become a pretty decent sniper (after a warm-up game or two before I'm decent again), but to get there you just have to practice, and learn to anticipate their movements. If you want to hit really far away targets, what I did was to just shoot, reload and repeat until I hit. Then I got the hang of it, and now it's easier to hit far away targets. Though, the best thing to do when sniping far away targets is to chase them as best you can, and get up on a hill or something. Also experiment with mouse sensitivity, what works for SLD/PTH etc might not be optimal for SEN. Of course, sniping 300+ targets on Temple is fucking impossible. | ||
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Alakabon
Canada111 Posts
On May 01 2012 06:32 Scalepad wrote: Practice! I've become a pretty decent sniper (after a warm-up game or two before I'm decent again), but to get there you just have to practice, and learn to anticipate their movements. If you want to hit really far away targets, what I did was to just shoot, reload and repeat until I hit. Then I got the hang of it, and now it's easier to hit far away targets. Though, the best thing to do when sniping far away targets is to chase them as best you can, and get up on a hill or something. Also experiment with mouse sensitivity, what works for SLD/PTH etc might not be optimal for SEN. Of course, sniping 300+ targets on Temple is fucking impossible. This man speaks the truth. Keep in mind that your position affects the difficulty of your shots, so you have to balance a high perch with terrible angles vs a decent spot with an easy shot. You might want to watch a few VODs of comp matches and see the different sniper's spots to give you an idea. If you are just starting out I would recommend you spend some time in tdm instead of ctf to get used to shooting people at different angles/speeds faster. If you practice your aim don't worry so much about the ''charge'' of your shot just shoot everyone you see and your hands will get a feel for what hits and what misses. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
Doesn't work on a server with good enemies though as they will usually shoot the stand before caps and someone will pressure you off the tower top because it's just too exposed. But if you are still on a low enough level, that works fine. Next time you roll raindance, maybe give it a try  | ||
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Scalepad
Sweden366 Posts
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frd
France164 Posts
On May 01 2012 06:04 JosephAM wrote: Any advice on sniping? It's so hard to hit a small speck moving so fast. And I used to think Counter Strike aiming was hard. >_> Whenever you're shooting at someone moving the x axis (left-right) relative to you, try strafing to compensate for their movement, it helps. I also find that I get better results when I give myself a second to track the target's movement to get in its "groove" before firing. Or just go "fuck it" and reap easy kills with the | ||
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Muey
Finland149 Posts
On April 28 2012 09:20 Greth wrote: The Jackal was fixed in 24 hours. The Plasma in a couple of days because they were trying to include some other bugfixes before they went through the whole thing. The jackal is still a stupidly ridiculous weapon (constant 1500 burst damage on a stealth class - lol), and plasma was only nerfed to the point that terribad's can't score free kills with it. If you're halfway decent it's still just as much of a rapecannon as it was before as the DPS and projectile speed remain unchanged. | ||
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Khalum
Austria831 Posts
On May 02 2012 01:34 Muey wrote: The jackal is still a stupidly ridiculous weapon (constant 1500 burst damage on a stealth class - lol), and plasma was only nerfed to the point that terribad's can't score free kills with it. If you're halfway decent it's still just as much of a rapecannon as it was before as the DPS and projectile speed remain unchanged. I don't see your point. Do you want HiRez to release crap weapons and charge money for them? As a light armored class that's supposed to fight indoors you need good burst out of stealth in order to be able to kill anything before you get taken down. Neither the jackal nor the plasma gun seem really imbalanced to me, and I've seen way more people complain about chainguns and/or thumpers (post nerf). People cry about thumpers since beta actually. Or, to use a different example, while I as a Sentinel would make the class look completely useless, other people are able to make players ragequit because they never seem to miss.. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
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Issor
United States870 Posts
On May 02 2012 01:45 Khalum wrote: I don't see your point. Do you want HiRez to release crap weapons and charge money for them? As a light armored class that's supposed to fight indoors you need good burst out of stealth in order to be able to kill anything before you get taken down. Neither the jackal nor the plasma gun seem really imbalanced to me, and I've seen way more people complain about chainguns and/or thumpers (post nerf). People cry about thumpers since beta actually. Or, to use a different example, while I as a Sentinel would make the class look completely useless, other people are able to make players ragequit because they never seem to miss.. inf was fine before jackal, and is fine without - no class needs an "nearly instantly kill 6/9 classes in the game" weapon. not one. it also has the added value of stopping ANY CAPPER. plasma gun is sort of ok now, it was bugged before and absolutely was stupidly overpowered. | ||
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