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Tribes - FREE FPS GAME
#8150019 - 03/15/08 03:42 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Anyone play this game?
It's basically the best FPS game ever. Except it's unique from every other FPS game ever made, because of one mechanic in the game:
Skiing. Basically.. everyone has a jet pack. Your jet pack has a certain amount of energy then it needs to recharge. You can fly up into the air and then use a downhill slope of the terrain to "ski" down it... once you reach an incline you hit your jet packs and you go flying. This allows you to reach insane levels of speed that is unobtainable in any other FPS game and requires quite a bit of skill and precision to do correctly. Noobs you can clearly tell who's a noob. And skilled players are hard as fuck to kill. This is one game, that you can never truly master.. no matter how good you think you are.
It also is basically a capture the flag game. The two teams have bases, you capture the other teams flag and bring it back to yours.
So in addition to being able to shoot well.. you also have this added mechanic of flying and skiing.. which adds a whole other dynamic to the game. As such it is probably the one game I've played that has the steepest skill curve out of any game. It's probably the best designed FPS game I've ever played, but it never won any awards.. probably because it was never super popular like CS or anything.
It's a pretty old game, but a lot of people still play it. They made a Tribes 2 and a Tribes 3, but they ruined the game and they sucked. Tribes 1 is now available for free. http://www.download.com/Starsiege-Tribes-full-install/3000-7453_4-10294998.html
Here's some video:
Video of a flag capper in a tournament game.. good example of skilled skiing:
Anyway, if anyone plays or decides to start playing.. I'm usually playing on the server shithole.
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back in highschool, we played every afternoon
i never could get tribes 2 to load correctly, though, so dunno how good/bad it was
i used to be a master sniper and rocket/plasma defense and generator destroyer
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Re: Tribes [Re: demiu5]
#8150044 - 03/15/08 03:50 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah I played it back in high school too. I was never SUPER AMAZING GOOD but my friend was.. he had a clan that apparently was the top tribes clan in the world.. the Pink Fairy Princesses of Nala Nala I believe he called their tribe. That way when they owned the best clans in the world, they would have to say they got beat by the Pink Fairy Princesses. 
Tribes 2 sucked though. They completely ruined skiing.
But I just got bored recently and discovered it's available for free now and a ton of people still play it. I lost a lot of my skill though.. I kind of suck now. I used to at least be pretty good and could maintain at least a 2 to 1 kill to death ratio. Now I'm hovering around 1 to 3 kill to death ratio, heh.
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yea i used to play that game 24/7 back in ..uh junior high i think? i dunno. was a long time ago? when did that come out? i think i remember playing it around 99/2000
anyway.. that game absolutely RULED. though it isn't the same anymore with the mods that ppl play now. nobody seems to play the base game anymore. i like it more. there are 2030445 different classes or whatever.
though.. i'll play now i guess if anyone on here wants to play. someone should host a dedicated shroomery server. thatd be sweet.
im gunna go DL this game now.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150295 - 03/15/08 05:11 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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My brother plays that game to this day( I stopped somewhere in the 90's) He posts on tribal war too. Names daredevil. Ps I loved team rabbit.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: DeathCompany]
#8150318 - 03/15/08 05:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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The original is the only good version. My bro wont play anything but that. Does anyone remember playing TAC or the ski maps. Damn those were awesome. 5150 west all the way
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: DeathCompany]
#8150328 - 03/15/08 05:17 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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DeathCompany said: Does anyone remember playing TAC or the ski maps. Damn those were awesome. 5150 west all the way
5150 FTW. I still play the ski maps. And yeah... the original is the only thing I will play. I won't go anywhere near Tribes 2.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150335 - 03/15/08 05:19 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Are you talking about ski maps as maps with the obstacle courses or just normal maps where you ski(which I thought was all?)
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Quote:
Shroomism said: Yeah I played it back in high school too. I was never SUPER AMAZING GOOD but my friend was.. he had a clan that apparently was the top tribes clan in the world.. the Pink Fairy Princesses of Nala Nala I believe he called their tribe. That way when they owned the best clans in the world, they would have to say they got beat by the Pink Fairy Princesses. 
Tribes 2 sucked though. They completely ruined skiing.
But I just got bored recently and discovered it's available for free now and a ton of people still play it. I lost a lot of my skill though.. I kind of suck now. I used to at least be pretty good and could maintain at least a 2 to 1 kill to death ratio. Now I'm hovering around 1 to 3 kill to death ratio, heh.
we only had the demo at school, unfortunately. i'd play for 30-60 minutes once the day was over before my ride came to get me. so by "master sniper..." i really mean in my group of friends and other people that would play. i played the actual game online a few times and always had my ass handed to me
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: DeathCompany]
#8150355 - 03/15/08 05:23 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Talking about ski maps with he obstacle courses. But yeah.. most people play on the modded maps now. I still love base the most though.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150359 - 03/15/08 05:23 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I love Tribes. Best game ever
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Re: Tribes [Re: demiu5]
#8150361 - 03/15/08 05:23 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I remember my brother used to have fatty tribes lan party's at my house. Good 30-40 ppl. Those were the days
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150384 - 03/15/08 05:28 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Talking about ski maps with he obstacle courses. But yeah.. most people play on the modded maps now. I still love base the most though.
yea i hate almost all the mods. just TOO MUCH shit. all cluttered.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: JonTable]
#8150389 - 03/15/08 05:28 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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woops
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: DeathCompany]
#8150448 - 03/15/08 05:41 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm hopping on shithole server right now.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150486 - 03/15/08 05:50 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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mann.. the install wont work. it seems to install correctly. then it's done.. but i can't find it anywhere. no icon on desktop or in the start menu...
plus, it isn't giving me a choice on where to install it to. where does it install to by default? i cant find it.
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: JonTable]
#8150496 - 03/15/08 05:53 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I dunno.. maybe the link is broken.. not sure.. I got the install from a friend
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150544 - 03/15/08 06:02 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: Shroomism]
#8150592 - 03/15/08 06:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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i got it installed alright.. gunna patch to 1.30
crap.. i forgot what site it said to get the patch..
losthope? lasthope?
i want to get on that shithole server cuz it had a lot of ppl. lol
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Re: Tribes - FREE FPS GAME [Re: JonTable]
#8150633 - 03/15/08 06:27 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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OK.. where do i download the LT maps.. lol.. ive tried lookin around.. cant find them
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