Ranked matches, too, are still awaiting kick-off, though that's just impatience talking. Team Deathmatch mode is nice enough, livened up with round arenas that lead to processions of players chasing each other, but it's simply irrelevant next to the magnificence of CTF. A mode that pits smaller teams against each other five-on-five is fun for a knockabout with mates but isn't really what this is about.
Capture and Hold is a Domination game type which, by its nature, removes much of the speed and is that much less thrilling. None of this matters, or detracts from Tribes Ascend. It is a game designed to create a specific kind of fast-paced CTF match, and it does so with aplomb. Perhaps the defining thing about Tribes Ascend is that winning matters.
In recent years most shooters have seemed in thrall to the depth and intricacy of their levelling systems: endless treadmills designed to make every player feel like a special snowflake while unlocking the same gear.
Tribes Ascend has levelling and unlocks, but the game itself is what matters - winning the match you are playing at this very second. The overall result says whether you played well or poorly, just like the XP you receive. It's closer to a team sport than a video game shooter. I don't even think it's accurate to call Tribes Ascend a shooter, inevitable as that is; imagine if Rugby was called Rucks. Hi-Rez has taken the fundamentals of Tribes and polished them until they shine, but this is no mere rehash.
The class designs change Capture the Flag utterly, transforming it into a masterpiece of high-speed tactical manoeuvring that has a niche for every kind of play-style.
Tribes Ascend only really does one thing, but does it pretty much perfectly. The best games never die, remember? And sometimes, they evolve. Buy Tribes Ascend from Amazon [? We want to make Eurogamer better, and that means better for our readers - not for algorithms.
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Showing 1 - 13 of 13 comments. Last edited by DariusOne ; 22 Jul, am. Wako View Profile View Posts. I've been playing an hour or so every other day for nearly 18 months now.
I remember you could also buy booster packs but they only affected your "purchasing" XP, not your rank XP. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 5 Jul, pm. Posts: 9. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. This game is absolutely incredible. The thing is that I knew, I knew - that this was something special when I began. The flow and calming delicacy of skiing around as a capper is something more people need to experience.
When did you tell me that Hi-Rez? But now what? But how the hell are people supposed to know what classes are useful for each role? How in the hell was I supposed to know that only CTF mattered?
Where the thing that keeps people playing is a skill based matching system - alongside your exp level you are also given a skill level, your 7v7 CTF gives you an actual number relative to who you have defeated. For example if the average skill level on my team was 20 with the other team being 30, but we still manage to win, my players gain a few points the their players lose a few points respectively. Imagine how much of a competitive sense you would drive into new players if they were challenged to defeat players of similar skill levels alongside 4 of their buddies and a couple of randoms.
It would actually give some structure and urge to win not gen camp to a their everyday games. Something that this would require, but should have already been implemented, is in-game voice support so that people can talk to one another.
With this mode there is no skill number but only a leaderboard rank, which changes depending on who you play. In essence the thing that will keep people playing is if you bring competition into the fundamentals of the game.
Do you know why I decided to play this game? Because it was one of the highest rated games in a very long time. Do you know how much money similarly rated games are making? You have unequivocally failed to give this game to the people, despite designing one of the best games for them.
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