OverCoat Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 OMG http://www.tribesnext.com so yeah, Tribes 2 is now back in business. I guess some geeks made a new master server after Sierra's got shut down about a year ago. This is good news as my absolute favourite FPS is now playable online again. I know some of you guys need something to do so let's play some Tribes 2! NEED A BOMBADIER NEED A TAILGUNNER etc Quote
Jarvi Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Sounds cool. I never got the chance to Play Tribes 2 so I'll prob give it a shot. Quote
EvilHorde Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Holycrap holycrap holycrap...! I've been itching to play this game for years! One of my favorite games ever. (even though T1 was maybe even better) As with every online game, T2 just died back in the day which is sad. I hope people find this and there are enough players so its actually playable. Definitely gonna try this one out! YIPPEE for Tribes2! Quote
Toadofsky Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 If I can get this to run with Linux, I think I'm game. Quote
Meeting_Gman Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 I was just thinking about Tribes the other day, what a great coincidence. Quote
OverCoat Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 Oh man, I love the newbies playing this game that don't quite "get" it. A lot of players seem to just focus on their scores and get pissed off when the inventory station has no power. Spoilers: I'm in ur base, destroyin' ur generators. I can't just go out there and kill shit but I get some pretty good results when I plan on sabotaging stuff hehe Quote
Shadow Wolf Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 WUUUUT? If I hadn't just started my last semester I would be all up on this like white on rice on a paper plate with a glass of milk in a snowstorm. Quote
Jarvi Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Oh man, I love the newbies playing this game that don't quite "get" it. A lot of players seem to just focus on their scores and get pissed off when the inventory station has no power. Spoilers: I'm in ur base, destroyin' ur generators. I can't just go out there and kill shit but I get some pretty good results when I plan on sabotaging stuff hehe I'm one of those noob people atm... I have no idea wtf I'm doin, and I couldn't tell you what an inventory station is if I wanted to lol. Quote
HalcyonSpirit Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I take it this is a good game? I guess I better free up some space on my hard drive. Quote
D-Lux Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I'd like to start playing with people in the OCR community. IRC channel anyone? Quote
Nutritious Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I take it this is a good game?I guess I better free up some space on my hard drive. Yeah, it's an AWESOME game. I used to play multi in its heyday. I'll be looking into this maybe in the next couple weeks. Quote
Azure Prower Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Downloaded and bookmarked. Tribes 2 was the last good game in the tribes series. Loved Tribes 1 a lot too. Despite its dated graphics. Quote
Nutritious Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Downloaded and bookmarked. Tribes 2 was the last good game in the tribes series. Loved Tribes 1 a lot too. Despite its dated graphics. Agreed, Vengeance (were there others? I've been out of it for a while) was fun during the beta, but it lacked some of the feel and fun that T2 had. And seriously, how can you leave out "need a bombadier/tailgunner"? That seriously irritated me back when I played it. Quote
The Derrit Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Downloading as we speak. Yeah someone else said this but we should do this up like they do with TF2, I'd play this regularly if there was a consistent group of people to play, and now I don't have to worry about computer specs since t2 is lol old but still awesome Quote
OverCoat Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 I'm one of those noob people atm... I have no idea wtf I'm doin, and I couldn't tell you what an inventory station is if I wanted to lol. The game is built around teamwork. You get rewarded points for repairing your base [generators, inventory/vehicle stations, turrets, etc] as well as extra points for capturing the flag or defending it. You can rack up a lot of points just doing that. Also, take some time [during a botmatch preferably] to look around the inventory list and experiment with different setups. I'm a heavy mortar and missile spamming kind of guy so I get the ammo pack and lob away, for both offense and defense. Also, the most important thing you can do is learn how to ski. This is the only game I can think of where you can do something like this. All you gotta do is hold jump while going down a hill and it lets you go at incredible speeds. Also, once you hit another hill jump and jetpack to get over it with ease Skiing is fun! Now I don't have to worry about computer specs since t2 is lol old Yeah, back when I first got the game, you were hot shit if you had a NVidia TNT2 I was using some crappy onboard video [5.5 MB, 11 MB by stealing some RAM] at the time so my game looked like shit I actually had a hard time running it. Quote
The Derrit Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 OH ALSO does anyone play/think well of tribes vengeance? i played the demo for a little while and loved it but i didn't hear much about it outside of that Quote
Meeting_Gman Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I'd like to start playing with people in the OCR community. IRC channel anyone? That sounds like a wonderful idea. Maybe someone could make a Steam group or create a sort of "official" thread here like the TF2 one has. I just need to install the game and the patch. Quote
OverCoat Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 Tribes 2 used to have email, buddies, clan management stuff all built into the game [!] but those features disappeared with Sierra, sadly. Tribes 1 still has a built-in IRC app though Quote
Sinewav Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Dude... I effing loved Tribes 2. This is the best (gaming related) news I've heard in a long time. I'd definitely be in if we started playing regularly like with TF2. Quote
D-Lux Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 We can only get games up if we have people to join them. Get downloading! Quote
Jarvi Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 The game is built around teamwork. You get rewarded points for repairing your base [generators, inventory/vehicle stations, turrets, etc] as well as extra points for capturing the flag or defending it. You can rack up a lot of points just doing that. Also, take some time [during a botmatch preferably] to look around the inventory list and experiment with different setups. I'm a heavy mortar and missile spamming kind of guy so I get the ammo pack and lob away, for both offense and defense.Also, the most important thing you can do is learn how to ski. This is the only game I can think of where you can do something like this. All you gotta do is hold jump while going down a hill and it lets you go at incredible speeds. Also, once you hit another hill jump and jetpack to get over it with ease Skiing is fun! Yea, I wasn't sure what to expect when I first played so I just kinda started it up and jumped into a game lol. I got the hang of the jetpack a little bit, and seeing someone barrel over the top of a hill, blow up like three people, grab the flag, and jump down to his waiting vehicle and zoom off, all in the span of about 20 seconds, def makes me want to get into it more lol. Quote
OverCoat Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 Just saw Brycepops playing on the goon server [which is always somehow the most active server] THIS THREAD = WORKING Quote
Brycepops Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Just saw Brycepops playing on the goon server [which is always somehow the most active server]THIS THREAD = WORKING Hehehehehe :3 Quote
OverCoat Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 Lesson of the day: STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MORTAR TURRETS It's like this one turret was targeting me on purpose. It was a friendly turret too :V Quote
Lemon Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Lol, this got me to go download it, I have been wanting to get a good FPS game. Thanks for tipping me off to this. Looks fun (and i dont have to worry about if my computer can handle it or not). Hopefully this doesn't die out anytime soon. Quote
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