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[seerow]

Under New Management




Official Site: www.tribesascend.com
Genre: Multiplayer FPS
Developer: Hi-Rez Studios
Release date: Out now (released April 12 2012)


What is Tribes Ascend?
Tribes Ascend is the fourth game in the Starseige Tribes series, a jet packing leet skills game spun off from the old Starseige mech game. Highlights include zooming about at hundreds of miles per hour in jetpacks, spamming explosives and abusing voice commands until you get kicked.

Unlike the previous two Tribes games this one isn't made by Dynamix who closed 10 years ago, leaving the Tribes licence to be picked up by Hi-Rez, devs of Global Agent and SMITE. While opinions amongst old Tribes players are mixed, the game doesn't completely slaughter the Tribes series so its worth a go. As with other Hi-Rez games, this is free to play with a fairly restrained amount of token grinding to unlock abilities and classes. Luckily you get a class with a spinfusor with your account so you aren't totally gimped.

How can I play?
Post in this thread and ask for a key then download the crappy Hi-Rez layer software here
Everyone with a beta account has 2 friend keys and there are a few going spare so anyone can join in. The launcher is 24MB, the game is 1.6GB and patches are every Thursday and generally on the large side.

Players (as of 08/02/2012)

• Lob/Mush (as LobotomyLobster)
  
• mosimo

Edited by mosi, 12 April 2012 - 10:51 AM.

[Lobotomy Lobster]

Updated main post. As for actual content, here is a weapon damage list (possibly out of date). Right now me and Mush are both having a lot of fun with this and we might actually end up throwing some cash at it for gold. Get in and play

Edited by Lobotomy Lobster, 21 December 2011 - 12:09 AM.

[Lobotomy Lobster]

The big thing on the forums at the moment is momentum inheritance on projectiles, so I'm saving this vid for if it goes 100% as a lot of people want

[mosi]

Game is out as of today. Free to Play and fun. I played the beta a bit with lob and mush and we loved it. Fast paced FPS on skis.

If you've not signed up yet to play: https://account.hire...eferral=1264467 use my referal link so I gets free stuff.