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(Really, you could spend all your time keeping enemies out, but who cares if you have to repair an inventory station every once in a while as long as you cap the flag?) So like, for most of the game, all our stations are down, as are our generators. Our base had been thoroughly ransacked as so often happens.

I remember once I had insomnia so I was playing at like 3AM, just me, a quiet city/world, the computer, and Tribes. That and the general lack of support and advertisement from Sierra meant it really wasn't going anywhere. As for Vengeance, I think it was a step closer to the original's gameplay, but marred by the reduction of a lot of stuff, mapsize included.

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While it looked nicer, it just didn't feel as tight or responsive as T1, and to this day I still haven't figured out how to manage heat. 2 just tweaked the physics and atmosphere of the game too much. Speaking of the other games, I was never a fan of Tribes 2, but I did like Vengeance.

I'm sad about the loss of the master server, but I imagine one of the larger Tribes fansites will set a new one up in no time.

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I still have the Tribes 1.0-1.11 patch on my hard drive for whenever I get the urge to reinstall it. It's just such an awesome, simple, rollercoaster of a game that it quite simply never gets old. One time during school I was out sick for a couple days with the flu, and I actually managed to 'extend' that to the end of the week in order to get more Tribes time in. Tribes consumed my life for several solid months when it was relatively new, 33.6 modem, 250 ping and all. Tribes still is one of the best online games of all time. However, the master server was still active after this date. On July 16, 2007, Sierra Entertainment announced that they would cease online support of Tribes starting on August 16th, 2007. The outdoor environments were and still are relatively huge, extending for several kilometers in any direction, but 'jetting' and 'skiing' gave Tribes a fast-paced feel. In general, bases were scattered throughout the map depending on the gametype. Most of the standard maps were outdoors in a variety of climates, from sunshine to snow and hail. Tribes was one of the first online-only games of its kind and sported several multiplayer features that other games have only recently included (32+ player support, 128 players max, troop transport vehicles, several different player classes). It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998.

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It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege.

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I think I'll load Tribes on my linux box just to see if this old sony PC can handle it.Starsiege: Tribes (usually called Tribes or Tribes 1) is a sci-fi first-person shooter (FPS) computer game. Ghost Recon still holds a special place in my heart because my brothers and I LANed that game for many moons. sure, vehicles get you off the ground, but it's just not the same as using a jet pack, disc or mortar launching to get a head of steam for the pure pleasure of 'skiing'. I've tried SOF(2), the battlefield(s) etc.

I've played my share of Quake, Half-Life (and assorted mods) so that when Tribes came along with no single player mode just a tutorial, it was pretty strange, right at first.Īfter playing in some servers online, then eventually figuring out the 'mods' and settling on the Insomniax mod, there really is no going back to an FPS game. That's really one of the biggest reasons why I don't play FPS games anymore is being stuck on the ground like a bug. It's going to be interesting to see how people that have never played Tribes react to the added movements. From the footage it looked just like Tribes to me. I'm still looking forward to seeing how this game plays in a web browser.