how many people still play? I'm starting to get back into it..
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how many people still play? I'm starting to get back into it..
Haven't touched it since The Void closed shop.
I was playing for half an hour one day....the game still sucks
Playing with NR and Badwill on Riven.
Jackle
POST DEMOS!
actually, Tribes 2 Classic is quite nice. Me and Severity(another ex-aYg guy) have been playing it.
Classic killed the game for me. Not directly, but the long delay in rolling it out caused my interests to head elsewhere.
Personally, I think the Classic patch/mod sucks. I prefer Base++ which I think was perfect.
I still have the game on my hard drive, but I haven't played in months. I just can't bear to uninstall it after countless hours practicing, setting up a Game Commander profile, etc. :)
I don't want to burst anyones bubble, but you gotta let the game go. it's a done deal, a cooked turkey, a Atari 2600 memory! Sierra really did a dumb thing by killing Dynamix and making this game slip away like it has. Just do the uninstall and remember all the good times :-)
(buy Medal of Honor and the Spearhead exp!!!)
Its not even on my hard drive anymore.
My CD has been assigned to "coaster duty", and now resides under a bottle of Ommegang Belgian ale.
Tribes 2 was a great game, and there is a huge community out there still playing it.
That being said I think the players have been fractured amongst the various mods.
Hopped on two weeks ago just to play with a couple friends, but that's it....
I think making all the different mods killed the game....
I was playing a little bit - mostly Siege - up until the latest patch. The patch nerfed half my scripts, and the new soccer-type game didnt' look like Tribes at all. I got BF1942 that same week, and it wasn't hard to switch. I've thought about trying it again, but then I think about learning yet another rule set and messing with all the scripts again. So far, there's always been something more interesting than learning Tribes for the sixth time.
I agree with the comments about mods. I've always hated them, because they dissipate the player base. I also hate the way they keep messing with the game with each patch. The point of a game is that everybody plays the same game. That way, everyone can zoom in on one set of rules and raise the play to a high level of skill. I don't really care what the rules are, just so long as they're stable.
I tried playing Siege on the pub servers, but it seems like the attacking team always wins in 10 seconds, and I never had any time to figure out the maps. :rolleyes:
Yeah, Siege is rough. To learn the maps, you have to either 1) load them offline and just look around, or 2) spend a round ignoring the game and just look around. As you say, option 2 is hard if the map ends quickly. Most of the maps last for 10 minutes or so, unless the teams are mismatched.
But Siege is really cool once you learn the maps. There's none of the confusion between O and D that you have in CTF. And there's lots of shocklancing.
Hey, I play Tribes 2 (Renegades mod) every day and love it. Things are a bit unsettled right now due to the interim beta patch, and another one due out RSN. But the Ren guys are great. Plus it's fun to play with the same 300 or so die hards because you make a lot of friends. A lot of them are in the Columbus, Ohio area too. So many that there are a couple LAN parties a year in Ohio with mostly Ren players.