TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

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Massively reports that Global Agenda developer Hi-Rez Studios has acquired the rights to the TRIBES franchise, which is still beloved for its innovative first-person jetpack-powered teamplay. They point to an announcement about this on the Global Agenda Forums revealing development of a project called Tribes Universe, though registration is required just to view the post. Here's word:

While working through the design we kept coming back to one old and loved game that represented many of the concepts we where incorporating into the new game (Jetpacks, vehicles, large open space, three armor types, futuristic weapons, etc). Many of you will know this game as Tribes, the original on-line multiplayer shooter. As of now, HiRez Studios is the proud new owner of the Tribes franchise.

We now have two groups in the studio, one working on continuing to build Global Agenda and a new group working on the Tribes Universe project. We are also moving to a new larger office space in another month that will help us accommodate our growth.

I’m sure many of you have questions, so here are a few quick highlights for Tribes Universe:

* Three Tribes (factions)
* Full clan (agency) support
* First person view (third person for some vehicles)
* Full vehicle support (ground and air)
* Full persistent world with territory control (no instances)
* PvP focused
* Huge outdoor maps (about 10x the area of sonoran desert)
* Large scale fights (100+ players)
* Jetpacks, skiing, lots of weapons, etc

Alpha testing will begin at the start of the year (about 3 months from now) and Global Agenda players with level 50 characters will have priority in entering Alpha and Beta testing

Thanks for your support

Erez.

P.S. More information on Tribes Universe will be coming in the near future along with an Alpha/Beta registration web site."

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 20:11

ColoradoHoudini

Hump wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 18:40: I hope TribalWar.com stays far far away from these guys. That site has been the single biggest threat to the demise of the franchise. What's wrong with Tribalwar? I seriously don't know.

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Oct 24, 2010, 20:07

starmonkey

Nate wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 18:10: Having played Global Agenda, I'm not holding out high hopes for this Tribes remake. The poor game design choices made in GA aren't a good sign. Can you list examples of poor design choices? I played GA briefly now that it's partially F2P and didn't mind it. I never played T1, played a lot of T2 and found it rather amazing for its time.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 19:50

ShadyPete

YYYYEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 19:22

Steele Johnson

I agree. Tribes 2 and T.V. were both fun, but nothing compares to the original Starsiege: Tribes. I hope the people making this game have all played the original. There's no way it will work with just the name. Here's hoping they don't f&%$ this up!

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 19:13

Muscular Beaver

ColoradoHoudini wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 15:23:
I hope they pull it off.. but let's be honest, those of us that are old school Tribes vets (Western Alliance!) are going to be very nitpicky about this title and very hard to please.

I just want Tribes 1 gameplay with better graphics. T2 and T3 were far too slow (though T3 beta looked very good, but was slowed down in release).
Is that so much to ask for?




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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 18:43

Jerykk

The biggest threat to the franchise was the desire to appeal to a broader audience. That resulted in the dumbed down crap that was Tribes: Vengeance and to a lesser extent, Tribes 2. If T:U is going to be an MMO, there's no doubt that they'll try to dumb it down further to appeal to more players.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 18:40

Hump

I hope TribalWar.com stays far far away from these guys. That site has been the single biggest threat to the demise of the franchise.




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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 18:32

Jerykk

At first I was like, yay, a new Tribes game! Then I read that it was going to be an MMO from the guys who made GA and I was like

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 18:12

Jackplug

ohno, Hi-Rez.. Oh please they are shit. Ive got very low expectations for this now as all you have to read is the 100+ player games, talk about boring. It sounds like wow already, I rather not want to think about it. I bought Tribes 1 back in 1998/99 and it was the best thing since sliced bread, now i feel its gonna get a wow touch which bores the crap out of me already..

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 18:10

Nate

Having played Global Agenda, I'm not holding out high hopes for this Tribes remake. The poor game design choices made in GA aren't a good sign.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 17:54

Steele Johnson

They better not give Tribes a bad name! I'm really hoping this becomes what I can imagine.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:59

ColoradoHoudini

I'd like to see XMP get another look.. that game was very, very good.. but on a pig of an engine for that time. If Hi Rez looks at Eve and says "okay, we can make it deep, tough to master and still make a very successful game" copies their philosophy, then I'll be happy.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:43

ViRGE

All I wanted was for Garage Games to finish the Tribes 1.4 patch; was that too much to ask for?

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:19

KilrathiAce

Considering how awful joke Global Agenda is, just spam spam spam rush, nothing else to it, I have low expectations for this tribes game. I know they gonna do mmo with it because they need money income but at the same time mmo means the game will never be close to skill depth as original tribes was. But hey maybe we can still hope...




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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:16

UConnBBall

TRIBES 1 was great TRIBES 2 meh big time No game will ever be like that. Battlefield 2 was only other game I can think of that had a high learning curve. How about Tribes 1 is open sourced and we can play again Or how about Tribes on gog.com or steam. That is our only chance to play a game that has a steep learning curve and is fun to play.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:03

Warskull

Overon wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 16:00: Warskull wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 15:37: Sepharo wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 14:09: The Global Agenda guys must be doing well to buy the Tribes IP. Pretty damn ambitious list of features there too. I really hope they pull it off but the realist in me says they won't. The studio is backed by someone who has a ton of money to burn. Global Agenda is a horrible game and the developers don't have the talent to pull something like Tribes off. Even if they had the talent, tribes is complex with a high learning curve and that is the antithesis to a successful mmo. That is true, which sadly makes me believe this game will essentially be Global Agenda 2 with a paint job designed to trick people into thinking it is something else.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 16:00

Overon

Warskull wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 15:37: Sepharo wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 14:09: The Global Agenda guys must be doing well to buy the Tribes IP. Pretty damn ambitious list of features there too. I really hope they pull it off but the realist in me says they won't. The studio is backed by someone who has a ton of money to burn. Global Agenda is a horrible game and the developers don't have the talent to pull something like Tribes off. Even if they had the talent, tribes is complex with a high learning curve and that is the antithesis to a successful mmo.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 15:37

Warskull

Sepharo wrote on Oct 24, 2010, 14:09: The Global Agenda guys must be doing well to buy the Tribes IP. Pretty damn ambitious list of features there too. I really hope they pull it off but the realist in me says they won't. The studio is backed by someone who has a ton of money to burn. Global Agenda is a horrible game and the developers don't have the talent to pull something like Tribes off. This comment was edited on Oct 24, 2010, 15:44.

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Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 15:23

ColoradoHoudini

I hope they pull it off.. but let's be honest, those of us that are old school Tribes vets (Western Alliance!) are going to be very nitpicky about this title and very hard to please.

Re: TRIBES Acquired, Tribes Universe Announced

Oct 24, 2010, 15:16

Kobalt

please be good please be good FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BE GOOD

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