anyone want to teach me how to play tribes

[geckojohn]

Great game!

 

[slightlyhuman]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: 40Hands
I have never played tribes. If I were to pick up a copy, what one should I get?

Original one, free download from Sierra.

See Wikipedia entry for DL link, I'm too lazy to fish out a full one.

- M4H

http://www.tribalwar.com/files/TribesFTW_v1.exe
http://www.tribesftw.com/files/tribesftw_multipatch.exe

jumpjet fix and 1280 res
space = ski script

 

[ShotgunSteven]

TRIBES

Shifter_v1 and its successors were the only mods I liked.

 

[fLum0x]

disc jumping + skiing = mad capper!! that stuff was so fun for a while.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: fLum0x
disc jumping + skiing = mad capper!! that stuff was so fun for a while.

Still is for me. I have never really found a multiplayer FPS that I enjoyed as much. I keep meaning to try UT2K4 or whatever the most recent one is to see how it compares.

 

[uhohs]

base and insomniax were what i played.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: clamum
You gotta try out the Shifter mod... so many enhancements, the game is never the same without it once you've played it.

As for how to play, if you want to be offensive you can capture the flag. Or play defense. Or snipe. Or fight.... which if you do I'd recommend an energy pack and get good with the jetpack/disc launcher/plasma combo. Well you should be good with that regardless of the position you play.

Shifter mod was the one all the HF servers were running, right?

I'm not sure which servers played it. IIRC there weren't too many... I'd just sort by game type or mod type or whatever it was.

And it didn't play well on someone's 800 MHz?! Jesus... did you have a 1 MB video card?

If there's still players I need to get this again. Especially if there's a Shifter server runnin.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i never got into that game because earthsiege was so awful it turned me off from the whole series.

that was one of the 1st games i played when i got my 486

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: clamum
You gotta try out the Shifter mod... so many enhancements, the game is never the same without it once you've played it.

As for how to play, if you want to be offensive you can capture the flag. Or play defense. Or snipe. Or fight.... which if you do I'd recommend an energy pack and get good with the jetpack/disc launcher/plasma combo. Well you should be good with that regardless of the position you play.

Shifter mod was the one all the HF servers were running, right?

I'm not sure which servers played it. IIRC there weren't too many... I'd just sort by game type or mod type or whatever it was.

And it didn't play well on someone's 800 MHz?! Jesus... did you have a 1 MB video card?

If there's still players I need to get this again. Especially if there's a Shifter server runnin.

If someone would answer my question about

Estimated bandwidth required to run a 16-man Tribes server?

we could see if it's plausible to have an ATOT Tribes Server to go beside the Battle.Net one.

- M4H

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: clamum
You gotta try out the Shifter mod... so many enhancements, the game is never the same without it once you've played it.

As for how to play, if you want to be offensive you can capture the flag. Or play defense. Or snipe. Or fight.... which if you do I'd recommend an energy pack and get good with the jetpack/disc launcher/plasma combo. Well you should be good with that regardless of the position you play.

Shifter mod was the one all the HF servers were running, right?

I think it was HaVoC that had the programmable missile launcher ... that was fun. Different warheads had different speeds, so you had to factor distance, flight time, etc into the firing sequence. Harder it hits, the slower it travels. Made for good strategy. Give me my LR Turret Buster setup (Heavy - Heavy - EMP - Medium - EMP) and I'll strip the outside of an enemy base before they even have time to react. The first EMP comes in a little early, the second EMP passes the Heavies just before impact, and the Medium splits the two for a photo-finish.

M4H: *fires salvo from afar*
Turret: *fritz*
Base defender: WTF was that?
Turret: *fritzWHAMPOWKABLOOEY*
M4H: *firing salvo 2*
Base defender: Where the hell did that come from?
Turret #2: *fritz*
Base defender: Aw, sh!t.

- M4H

That game was so fun. I loved filling practically a whole Broadside base with defenses... force fields, blast walls, turrets, those annoying ass laser turrents.

Another fun thing to do was getting one of those portable bases (emplacement?) over close to the enemy base but hidden, setup some quick defense and radar, switch to heavy and stock up with mortar, commence destruction.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: clamum
You gotta try out the Shifter mod... so many enhancements, the game is never the same without it once you've played it.

As for how to play, if you want to be offensive you can capture the flag. Or play defense. Or snipe. Or fight.... which if you do I'd recommend an energy pack and get good with the jetpack/disc launcher/plasma combo. Well you should be good with that regardless of the position you play.

Shifter mod was the one all the HF servers were running, right?

I'm not sure which servers played it. IIRC there weren't too many... I'd just sort by game type or mod type or whatever it was.

And it didn't play well on someone's 800 MHz?! Jesus... did you have a 1 MB video card?

If there's still players I need to get this again. Especially if there's a Shifter server runnin.

If someone would answer my question about

Estimated bandwidth required to run a 16-man Tribes server?

we could see if it's plausible to have an ATOT Tribes Server to go beside the Battle.Net one.

- M4H

That would be awesome. I'd pitch in for that if it wasn't too much.

 

[uhohs]

i use to play tribes on a 300a@450 and 56k.

 

[Ophir]

Originally posted by: PrelateBishop
Tribes 1 is possibly my favorite game of all time. I preferred "base" games over all of the mods (most were too silly for me...I enjoyed the purity of the default).

My favorite map was called Snowblind. It was soooooooooo much fun to ski a Heavy over to the enemy base and mortar the hell out of it (especially the spawn points). More often then not tho, I stayed busy capping the flag and laying waste to others with the spinfuser.

I enjoyed that game so much that I honestly thought I had a gaming problem for a while. I am of the opinion that no other game has come close to being as fun with regards to constant action and overall simplicity in gameplay, but allowing for solid tactics. Most new games try to do too much and fail. Heck, Tribes 2 wasn't as good because of that. If the developers had simply redone Tribes 1 with better graphics and new maps to supplement the old ones, it would have been awesome.

In all my gaming days, nothing has been as satisfying as drilling someone midflight with a disc. I really miss playing Tribes.

 

[glen]

That game was so addictive and so much fun.
I can actually feel my heart race looking at the old grphics.
Greatest video game of all time.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: clamum
You gotta try out the Shifter mod... so many enhancements, the game is never the same without it once you've played it.

As for how to play, if you want to be offensive you can capture the flag. Or play defense. Or snipe. Or fight.... which if you do I'd recommend an energy pack and get good with the jetpack/disc launcher/plasma combo. Well you should be good with that regardless of the position you play.

Shifter mod was the one all the HF servers were running, right?

I think it was HaVoC that had the programmable missile launcher ... that was fun. Different warheads had different speeds, so you had to factor distance, flight time, etc into the firing sequence. Harder it hits, the slower it travels. Made for good strategy. Give me my LR Turret Buster setup (Heavy - Heavy - EMP - Medium - EMP) and I'll strip the outside of an enemy base before they even have time to react. The first EMP comes in a little early, the second EMP passes the Heavies just before impact, and the Medium splits the two for a photo-finish.

M4H: *fires salvo from afar*
Turret: *fritz*
Base defender: WTF was that?
Turret: *fritzWHAMPOWKABLOOEY*
M4H: *firing salvo 2*
Base defender: Where the hell did that come from?
Turret #2: *fritz*
Base defender: Aw, sh!t.

- M4H

That game was so fun. I loved filling practically a whole Broadside base with defenses... force fields, blast walls, turrets, those annoying ass laser turrents.

Another fun thing to do was getting one of those portable bases (emplacement?) over close to the enemy base but hidden, setup some quick defense and radar, switch to heavy and stock up with mortar, commence destruction.

There were ground emplacements, but also portable air bases. Maetryx and I used to get in an APC and fly up as high as the map would let us above the enemy base. Then we would deploy the air base, put a teleport pad there, then people could get into Heavy and drop down from above. Emergency shields would save you from dying due to the drop, even though the base was so high it couldn't be seen from below.

Once you're down, commence with the nukes and mortars.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

Once I saw an outdoor ashtray which looked liek a health from Quake2, and I started walking towards it quickly, before I realised what I was doing.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

Once I saw an outdoor ashtray which looked liek a health from Quake2, and I started walking towards it quickly, before I realised what I was doing.

LOL. I heard of someone, don't remember who, swerving to avoid a piece of debris that dropped out of a truck in front of them that looked like one of the mines in TRIBES. I loved leading someone on a chase and just dropping a mine for them to run over.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but if you want to play this, be sure to have a script running for skiing, which is like a constant jump that turns into smooth motion. Compare it to digital signals being used to convert into an analog signal

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

Once I saw an outdoor ashtray which looked liek a health from Quake2, and I started walking towards it quickly, before I realised what I was doing.

LOL. I heard of someone, don't remember who, swerving to avoid a piece of debris that dropped out of a truck in front of them that looked like one of the mines in TRIBES. I loved leading someone on a chase and just dropping a mine for them to run over.

lmao

these stories are sad, funny and cool at the same time

 

[OulOat]

http://www.elitewarriorsonline.com/news.php runs a server for T2 that is pretty packed at night. Recently, the server's been maxing out at 90 for Friday Night Fights.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

Once I saw an outdoor ashtray which looked liek a health from Quake2, and I started walking towards it quickly, before I realised what I was doing.

LOL. I heard of someone, don't remember who, swerving to avoid a piece of debris that dropped out of a truck in front of them that looked like one of the mines in TRIBES. I loved leading someone on a chase and just dropping a mine for them to run over.

lmao

these stories are sad, funny and cool at the same time

Awesome.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Oh yeah, got to throw in my old TRIBES addiction story for good measure. I played TRIBES so much that once when I was working at my computer, I spilled hot chocolate on my hand and burned myself. I reflexively hit the "H" key for the health pack, even though I wasn't playing TRIBES at the time.

lol, that's amazing, tribes is really one hell of a game, I spent tons of time with that game... the good old days