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A Quick Tease of Tribes: Ascend

Get ready to grab your spin fusor, go skiing, and yell "shazbot!" a lot.

Jul. 18 2011

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

Tribes Ascend

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Not more Tribes? 
 
Edit: okay that looks better than I remember. 

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I remember playing the first tribes. It was fun :)

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Looks like Halo but not?

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Edited By Thor_Molecules

As someone who hasn't played tribes, I think it looks pretty awesome. 
Looks like a mixture between UT2004 and Halo 3.

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Couldn't agree more, might as well be Halo.

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That was a really weak stringer.

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Furious that the first response wasn't "Shazbot!"

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I can't wait for the release and inevitable "A Quest Called Tribes" GB quest. I'll start refreshing the jetpack page now.

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sold

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Looks very last generation.

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They've taken our SHAZBOT!

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@mrmortisland said:

Furious that the first response wasn't "Shazbot!"

@louiedog said:

I can't wait for the release and inevitable "A Quest Called Tribes" GB quest. I'll start refreshing the jetpack page now.

So so excited. Tribes was so rad.

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Looks good. And no, this is not Halo. UT is a much better comparison, but with anti-grav boots and jet backs.

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Looks like Halo aka. crap.

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Edited By M16MoJo

SWEET!  I loved this game!!!  I hope it has all the same modes, and some new ones!

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looks dope

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@louiedog said:
I can't wait for the release and inevitable "A Quest Called Tribes" GB quest. I'll start refreshing the jetpack page now.
Fuck yes.
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Always want more tribes such a fun game

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Pretty sure I saw that trailer a month ago.

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D: What's up with everyone calling it halo?
 
Tribes came before Halo. Halo was even inspired by Tribes. Halo doesn't have skiing which no other game has, and is what makes Tribes Tribes.

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I remember how in the original Tribes, so few people had good internet connections that jetpacking over the whole map might as well've been godmode. Looking at the first two games though, man were they eyesores. Here's to hoping this one can bring back that flying magic!

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@Roros said:
D: What's up with everyone calling it halo?   Tribes came before Halo. Halo was even inspired by Tribes. Halo doesn't have skiing which no other game has, and is what makes Tribes Tribes.
Agreed. Sometimes when I read these comments it makes me feel like im really on youtube!
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@EpicReflex said:
Looks very last generation.
Free to play... hello?
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I hope it will be just like Tribes 2.

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Was this still coming out on the consoles? The gameplay seems a bit too fast far that, at least for my poor ole worn down reflexes.

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Wow, I swore this looks exactly like Halo. no?

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Sweet.

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Every time someone refers to Tribes as "like Halo" I die a little inside. Tribes and Tribes 2 were such great multiplayer experiences that were ahead of their time. I think we've finally caught up to that time, however.

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Wow, Halo really looks a lot like Tribes!

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@Ghost_Cat: I hope so too. No need to fix what's not broken. The only problem is if there is no modding tools, Hi-Rez  studios has their work cut out for them including all those mods people had grown used to. 
 
If this is like tribes 2 i hope there is classic mode as well.
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I NEED an APC pickup!

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Looks better than I thought it would. I was expecting Section 8 graphics but these seem better.
I would get this if it comes out on PSN or XBLA.

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Since it's free to play, I'll definitely give it a shot.  Looks like it could be cool.

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I'm pretty sure there were two Tribes games before the first Halo was released, so... yeah...

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Guys. Halo looks like Tribes, not the other way around. 
 
It 's the Warhammer vs Warcraft thing all over again...

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love how they don't even bother being subtle with the X cross hair thing ;P

You know when you are hitting someone =P

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No mods. 
No dedicated servers. 
No user-made maps. 
2-weapon limit. 
No custom loadouts. 
 
:(

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I would have thought that was Halo in low gravity mode if there was no title. Not a bad thing. I like Halo.

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"pew pew" goes the gun

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Not a big multiplayer or PC guy but I played some of Tribes 2 back in the day. I remember it being fun because Jetpacks.

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Reminds me of halo, although tribes was out long before halo.

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about 2 weeks ago i would have been excited by this but no XBLA version sort of rules me out unless they include a laptop graphics mode.

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This looks awesome, interesting that they went F2P.

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aww man i can't wait for this to come out i loved all of the tribes games

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Do need this, i squeezed the juices out of the first one... and licked it all up!

Remembering playing the servers with the Renegade mod with my friends over LAN, teaming up online. Taking the defensive role was pretty much the most fun, building shit loads of shield walls defending the core and flag in the base, and those awesome/horrible tiny sniping laser turrets. I guess mods like that wont get back, but I'll settle with some back to the roots Tribes any day.
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That spinfusor does not sound like the spinfusor I remember. Therefore, it is not a spinfusor.

Actually, all those weapons in the trailer don't sound very great...

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@Rappelsiini said:
Looks like Halo but not?
Other way around
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looks very cool. i think a lot of people don't seem to notice the flow and speed that you can get as a player in the video. the art style is also fresh. i like me some vibrant COLORS.

only thing that's buggin' me right now: i know how shitty it is to shoot at enemies in the air AND to get shot in the air where you cannot move.

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Free Halo, if it's still shooting little plastic toy story figures, i'm out

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HALO: Online Combat Evolved!