Tribes: Ascend - New F2P Tribes game comes out this Fall

sNeaksieGarrett on 28/6/2011 at 01:20

(http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/27/tribes-ascend-will-be-free-to-play-first-gameplay-footage/)

Looks pretty good. Despite how bad I sucked at Tribes 2, I thought it was a fantastic game. Hope this turns out to be a decent game, and it's free to play as well.

henke on 28/6/2011 at 09:43

I never played any of the Tribes games but stories of their jetpacking-goodness always interested me. If this plays as good as it looks like it plays then I will play this when it comes out.

Briareos H on 28/6/2011 at 09:55

Chance of game being mildly fun during a few hours: ~50%
Chance of game being balanced and interesting in the long term: 0%

F2P games with gamebalance-impacting "microtransactions"... I'm lovin' them!

henke on 28/6/2011 at 12:23

I haven't bought any for-realbux-content in APB:R, yet I'm regularly near the top of the scoreboards anyway. :cool: So I'd say making balanced microtransaction-stuff is possible. But then again APB:R is only in Beta yet so maybe it's too early to say. Once it's properly released the developers might well start introducing some overpowered stuff if the regular for-sale-content ain't bringing in enough moolah. :erg:

EvaUnit02 on 28/6/2011 at 13:53

Yeah... the tidal currents often change once F2P games come out of beta. Just look at World of Tanks, I've been told that you can't get beyond a certain point (where F2P equipment/hardware/etc aren't competitive any more) and thus progression grinds to a halt if you don't pay real monies.

negativeliberty on 28/6/2011 at 23:31

I hope that's not going to be the case, at any rate I'm sure to be trying this out, having played all Tribes games to exhaustion. From the looks of things it seems a bit slower-paced, but moreover I hope the strategic/tactical/sandbox elements remain, like building/securing a base/whatever/landmark with forcefields and turrets and whatnot. Still, the video looks better than I'd expected, although it's only action gameplay the map looks suitably large and open. I do wonder if F2P won't mess up the balance, this is one of those MP games where it's immensely rewarding to win based on skill rather than an active credit card history (but then I suppose most are).

EvaUnit02 on 29/6/2011 at 14:13

this game is doomed to failure if they don't include hats

N'Al on 29/6/2011 at 14:52

TRIBAL HATS

Matthew on 30/6/2011 at 09:05

JETPACK HATS

dexterward on 30/6/2011 at 12:19

Everyone seems to be (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13973145) jumping on the "free" bandwagon. And you`d think WoW has enough subscribers as it is....