Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday

[Feb 22, 2012, 11:28 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Hi-Rez Studios announces that the closed beta testing of Tribes: Ascend will be opened to all comers on Friday, offering the chance for anyone who is interested to check out the upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter. Players will be able to create accounts on the Tribes Ascend Website on Friday at 17:00 GMT and download and play the game at that time with no beta key, and they are gearing up for new players with expanded capacity in North America, Europe, and Australia, and new local servers in Brazil and Asia. A new patch for the game is going live this week with the following changes:

New gametype, Arena Deathmatch, with two initial maps
New Capture The Flag map, Temple Ruins
New Team Deathmatch map, Inferno
Two new unlockable items for the Soldier class: Proximity Grenade and Utility Pack
New default suits for Doombringer and Brute
Ability to view either Blood Eagle or Diamond Sword skins from Class menu
Service supporting Name Change
Large number of bug-fixes and balance adjustments.

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Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday

Feb 22, 2012, 19:44

shihonage

@PHJF: Yep I filed a beta report detailing some of that stuff. In Tribes, generators and turrets had PRESENCE, indoor areas were HONORED. They felt different from outdoors, they had a purpose and provided incentive to go inside. Why? Because TURRETS MATTERED. The team's ability to make VEHICLES MATTERED. Vehicles had a purpose, and they were awesome. Tribes with ShifterX had probably the most fun FPS gameplay I've ever seen, because of all the creative stuff you could do. Yes, you could sometimes go Rambo by your lonesome, but it required creativity, timing, strategy. You could set teleport points behind enemy base, defend generator within a web of forcefields, and repairing stuff was both necessary and fun. And, as I recall, the flag wasn't always waving like a dick in the wind, outdoors, free to take by any light armor that swings by. Too few people seem to realize that the only part of code that advanced since the days of yore is the RENDERER. Underlying gameplay mechanics in games such as Mechwarrior2/Battlezone/I76, Fallout1/2, X-Com 1/2, were far superior in complexity and ingenious in design than what is powering most modern "games". To a degree, that was true for Tribes as well. It had an unmistakable feel, and some ingenious mods made it reach its true potential.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Feb 22, 10:44	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	MattyC
	2.	Feb 22, 10:48	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Dr.Hamstring
	5.	Feb 22, 11:08	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Jackplug
	6.	Feb 22, 11:56	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Cutter
	8.	Feb 22, 16:56	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Flatline
	3.	Feb 22, 10:59	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Esoteric
	4.	Feb 22, 11:00	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Lokust
	7.	Feb 22, 16:11	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	DangerDog
	9.	Feb 22, 17:01	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	shihonage
	10.	Feb 22, 18:42	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	PHJF
>>	13.	Feb 22, 19:44	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	shihonage
	14.	Feb 22, 19:54	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Orogogus
	15.	Feb 22, 20:04	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	shihonage
	11.	Feb 22, 18:57	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Mr. Anisotonic
	12.	Feb 22, 19:37	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	shihonage
	16.	Feb 22, 20:10	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	SimplyMonk
	17.	Feb 22, 20:53	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Ant
	18.	Feb 22, 20:58	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	shihonage
	20.	Feb 23, 00:42	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Jerykk
	21.	Feb 23, 07:39	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Shataan
	19.	Feb 23, 00:36	Re: Tribes: Ascend Beta Opens Friday	Steele Johnson