EPTTribes: Ascend - FPS announced by Hi-Rez Studios. - Page 30
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
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Teddyman
Finland362 Posts
On December 02 2011 10:27 Thereisnosaurus wrote: Patch is out. surprise reduction in class token costs as well, will update when I've seen what the new costs are. 9800 full price, 4900 for the discounted classes. | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
I had a game where I got 3/5 caps and still only made 48 tokens. So even with that significant of a performance I'd need 100 games like that to get a discounted class. It wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't stick you with 2 medium classes off the bat. The game is growing on me as I learn routes. My initial impression was it blows (which it does because of F2P stuff...), but once you get the +5 energy and start skiing a bit better it at least has some feeling of momentum being important. Oddly enough I think it's HARDER to skii in this game than Tribes 2. Sure the ski button is handy and good (as is the speed meter), but the hills are so spaced out on the maps. I don't see why they aren't monetizing stuff like voice packs, player icons, unique armor looks, etc. and make the classes more affordable. | ||
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Teddyman
Finland362 Posts
The gameplay still has pretty much the same issues, disc jump giving like 20km/h extra speed, raider can pretty much park himself anywhere and kill everyone coming towards him, going into a base is like diving into a pool of hitscan death. The projectile inheritance is really awkward at 20%, I'd rather even have 0% to hit stationary targets. 20% just means you need to do some high-level math in your head to chase someone and makes turret defenses really hard to do anything about unless you stop in the midfield to pick them off. | ||
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Coriolis
United States1152 Posts
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xAPOCALYPSEx
1418 Posts
Man, imo that thing is annoying as shit. Anyways, I'm having a hell of a lot of fun with the game, even with only 3 maps so far :D :D | ||
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Westerhound
Finland69 Posts
On December 02 2011 10:48 Logo wrote: Even the discounted classes seem very expensive. The gold coin cost is alright... but the token cost is kinda nuts. I know it's tough because they don't have ALL that much that's locked away, but really? I had a game where I got 3/5 caps and still only made 48 tokens. So even with that significant of a performance I'd need 100 games like that to get a discounted class. The amount of tokens you get is based only on playtime (maybe even only time spent alive) rather than caps or kills. Think they said you needed 62.5h to unlock a more expensive class at some point, but dunno how much you need now. Ive got 3k tokens after 5 days of playing so its not that bad | ||
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Bloodash
Netherlands1384 Posts
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
T1104-2C44D-67204-F4E8D-67903 T1E16-99237-97694-FF4BD-F12FC T176E-F183C-4CE14-E4F9F-57EEB Post if you use em. edit: also, game is so much better with small weapons. Small weap+ wide FoV feels fantastic. Brute grenades are also sexy. Kind of like a persistent daisycutter mine, throw it, it levitates after a second or so and sprays the area around it with lasers for about 5 seconds, really brutal zone denial tool inside and good for controlling duels or breaking lines outside. | ||
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henery
Canada89 Posts
Thanks Thereisnosaurus. I just hopped into this thread to see if I could find a key and you were my hero. You guys are awesome. | ||
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Coriolis
United States1152 Posts
On December 02 2011 22:56 Thereisnosaurus wrote: Got another round of keys, gave one to a guy who missed last time, three left for first come first served: T1104-2C44D-67204-F4E8D-67903 T1E16-99237-97694-FF4BD-F12FC T176E-F183C-4CE14-E4F9F-57EEB Post if you use em. edit: also, game is so much better with small weapons. Small weap+ wide FoV feels fantastic. Brute grenades are also sexy. Kind of like a persistent daisycutter mine, throw it, it levitates after a second or so and sprays the area around it with lasers for about 5 seconds, really brutal zone denial tool inside and good for controlling duels or breaking lines outside. Turn off bloom in the ini file for extra sexiness. And fractal grenades are dumb when thrown on the flag stand, if any capper comes in the next 5 seconds you can't do anything about it because you're flying really high due to the grenade. | ||
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QuasiQubit
Canada4 Posts
Thank you so much Thereisnosaurus; I've been looking forward for this game for a long time. | ||
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TSBspartacus
England1046 Posts
last one used Thanks man, loved playing Tribes when I grew up, can't wait to play this! | ||
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Percutio
United States1672 Posts
Death match is the most hilarious game of who gets a lucky shot first. CTF has higher skilled players for sure and I've seen some really sick flag runners already. | ||
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
On December 03 2011 00:13 Percutio wrote: Server should be shutting off for maintenance soon, but I've had a lot of fun with it since I got in yesterday. I never played tribes before but it definitely seems like most people haven't either. Death match is the most hilarious game of who gets a lucky shot first. CTF has higher skilled players for sure and I've seen some really sick flag runners already. It'll be that way forever too most likely. Tribes has always been a CTF game, similar to how Counter Strike is a bomb planting/defusing game. I thought about hopping into a TDM yesterday but I couldn't wrap my head around how that would function in Tribes since I'm so used to CTF. | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
On December 03 2011 00:17 Charger wrote: It'll be that way forever too most likely. Tribes has always been a CTF game, similar to how Counter Strike is a bomb planting/defusing game. I thought about hopping into a TDM yesterday but I couldn't wrap my head around how that would function in Tribes since I'm so used to CTF. Well Rabbit is a really good game mode too, or at least I really enjoyed it in Tribes 2. It's kinda amazing how much better CTF is in Tribes than like any other FPS around. Even TF2 works better with the other map types over CTF. CTF in Tribes doesn't even feel like the same game mode as CTF in any other FPS. | ||
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ProjectVirtue
Canada360 Posts
remember to let others know which one you used! ^^ T14E8-081F4-55C14-70985-81B15 T1F09-9D61A-83C84-627BE-8DFB1 T113F-ED6F8-9C624-8FF9B-CFF1C T1FF8-188FC-DFBE4-43D8E-E7670 | ||
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Riking
Netherlands8 Posts
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BearSandwich
United States44 Posts
On December 03 2011 03:57 ProjectVirtue wrote: i got 4 more this time around for those who want to use them =] remember to let others know which one you used! ^^ T14E8-081F4-55C14-70985-81B15 T1F09-9D61A-83C84-627BE-8DFB1 T113F-ED6F8-9C624-8FF9B-CFF1C T1FF8-188FC-DFBE4-43D8E-E7670 Used the 3rd, thank you very much. If I get any keys I will be sure to post them. | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
 There are so many things that minimize the roles of iconic positions in past games. Base disrupter - Lol, who cares about the generators. Base defender - Lol, who cares about the generators. Flag defense - It's hard enough for flag defenders to worry about the offense clearing the flag stand, now the actual capper can just do a tactical strike every single time and clear it out. The loadout system has become extremely boring, seems like capping and flag chasing is by far the best way to help your team and change the outcome of the game. There needs to be customization, and not spawning in loadout. Some of the classes are so useless. Oh yea, and SMGs, great idea in a game with 0 cover. | ||
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