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Sevnn
Candy Cane King
Joined: 22 Mar 2003
Posts: 7711
Location: Kyrat
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Brules, if you had seen there first attempt at an in-game menu system, you would understand why I say it was the worst/most confusing menu system I've seen in any game, EVAR. I played maybe 5-10 minutes of it in the previous menu system and wanted to stab myself with a blunt object repeatedly to take away the pain. It was worse than getting your fingernails removed by someone with tweezers while being waterboarded with battery acid.
That said, i did try it again lately and it was WORLDS different. I could understand what options I was supposed to choose, what was happening in-game, and could do what I wanted within seconds rather than minutes. The class system is a big change from Tribes 1/2 and I'm not sure what that means for old school Tribes guys, but I think it will make the game much easier for "average" gamers. Tribes 1/2 was pretty confusing for most players who didn't spend enough time in the game to "get" it. Tribes Vengence had the Ascend approach and that helped the game to grab a bigger piece of market share but ended up being a short lived game because of other games that were out at the same time, and it was not built as an easy to mod game like Tribes 1/2. I'm very excited about this game, I just hope that it doesn't require $ to be able to be competitive.
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:43 pm
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Drix
SEAT #ASS 10
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 1773
Location: Norman
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Brules wrote: Is this out yet?
If you'd given enough of a care to watch the whole video you'd know the answer to that question. It's a little bit of a complex one, so I'll try to sum up.
Yes and no. It's in semi-open Beta. Like it on facebook to get a beta key.
It's going to use the Team Forteress 2, Free to play model. As it you can buy stuff or earn it in gameplay experience... upgrades to any items or kits are strictly experience. Buying, using Tribes Gold, only opens up initial items and base kits. You can also buy boosters to double experience. A 30 day booster and a decent chunk of gold to get you started are included in the Pre-order, as well as "you bought the game"/VIP server priority.
Also, everytime they've done a major revision of the kits and loudouts, they've refunded the gold and all experience earned so far, so you can re-unlock things as you want, immediately, under the new setup.
From the look of things, they're getting pretty darn close to releasing it. It's starting to really look good and work well in all aspects of gameplay. It definitely feels and works like a "Tribes" game. _________________ Advocating the end of the world since July 1995.
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:29 pm
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