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Author Topic: Tribes:Ascend - Free to play FPS with ludicrous speed  (Read 36852 times)

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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #270 on: February 13, 2012, 04:49:08 pm »

I'm enjoying the stealth spinfuser. Not as much damage as the others (even less than the light), but it's great for engaging groups of people indoors. Managed to take out an engineer, his turrets, and three heavies guarding the generator using a combination of sticky grenades and the spinfuser.

Not a big fan of the mines, though. They just don't do enough damage to be worth trading in the sticky grenades. They almost kill a light suit, but light suits aren't really a problem for infils. And stacking them up doesnt work. They're next to useless against the heavy suits, and that's the only thing I'd really want mines for - softening up a heavy so I can quickly finish him off. Sticky grenades work way better for that, and can instantly kill most other folks.

Other folks seem to agree, seeing as I have only seen a grand total of 2 people using mines so far, and neither of them were doing too good with them.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #271 on: February 13, 2012, 05:09:10 pm »

Oh, BTW, if anyone wants to add me or whatever or has seen me in a game before my name is Hiddenling. Just getting that out thar.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #272 on: February 13, 2012, 05:17:19 pm »

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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #273 on: February 13, 2012, 05:27:25 pm »

Also, what's your in-game name? I'm currently trying to collect the in-game names of everyone in this thread. The current list is:

Bdthemag
Dariush
Dastot
Dessard
Naxza
Nilocy
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Zodd

Herryk. Yes I know it wasn't directed at me personally, but it may be more fun playing with some people whose names I actually recognize.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #274 on: February 13, 2012, 05:30:08 pm »

I finally decided to turn this game on.

I'm only good at going fast.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #275 on: February 13, 2012, 05:38:29 pm »

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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #276 on: February 13, 2012, 06:03:25 pm »

One more; AndersonTan
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #277 on: February 13, 2012, 06:07:42 pm »

I finally decided to turn this game on.

I'm only good at going fast.

Oh God I know that feel.

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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #278 on: February 13, 2012, 06:14:47 pm »

Lawl, T:A is actually pretty fun

If you know HOW to have fun.

Try using the infiltrator to sneak into the enemy base. OR the pathfinder to ski-cap.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #279 on: February 13, 2012, 07:12:12 pm »

I'd have to second trying out infiltrator. The infiltrator's sticky grenades are a hell of a lot of fun. Earlier on that map with the two ships as bases (I always forget the map names) I had blown the generator and got out of there, killed a sniper on the roof, then went back by to take it down again as it was being repaired. I went in the center entrance overlooking the gen room from behind, and right as I walked in there I saw a guy coming down from the other entrance. I chucked a sticky grenade and stuck it to him, and I guess he didn't see me because he just ran right into the gen room. I got a quad kill on him and three people I didn't even know were down there, leaving it open for me to destroy it again.

They're good for flag returning too, I've returned my teams flag so many times by meleeing or spinfusoring a passing flag carrier when he ran right by me to avoid people chasing him without knowing I was there. Even once had a guy drop a flag on top of me (instantly returning it) apparently trying to pass it to a teammate that was behind me.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #280 on: February 13, 2012, 07:23:48 pm »

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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #281 on: February 14, 2012, 12:22:22 am »

I've sticky grenaded flag carriers before. Just this morning I got one on a guy right as he was flying by to pick up the flag, he nabbed the flag and got a few feet from the pedestal before exploding midair. You can stand right by the flag pedestal and chuck the grenade right as they fly to it and it isnt that hard to hit them since they're going straight toward you. Sticky grenade kills even give a special merit for sticking them to people, but it only applies if the grenade kills them (so you don't get it if they survive and you finish them off with something else).

You have to be close to them though, their throw range isn't that far and it seems a bit random exactly where it goes as you get farther out.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #282 on: February 14, 2012, 04:22:32 pm »

Oh yeah, I'm BojackSampson ingame.

Still only good at going fast.
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Re: Tribes:Ascend Beta
« Reply #283 on: February 14, 2012, 05:18:18 pm »

Theres 4 hitscan weapons in the game at the moment. The two sniper rifles, and the Eagle pistol the soldier gets and the Sparrow pistol the technician gets.

We have another match against the MightyDiscs tomorrow. Yay.

Edit: MC, we use Hirez's private servers at the moment. You have to be whitelisted to get on them. You can do that by checking out the tamixed channel on quaknet on irc. Or by joining a competitive team. Its where all the comp matches happen.
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« Reply #284 on: February 14, 2012, 06:04:59 pm »

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