@@chriskotzenberg1261 Playable doesn't mean it has a huge player base nor does it mean all of those players are good. It simply means if you want to play tribes in 2021 you can.
Did Vengeance have good community support like the first one? I was poor so the only ones I was able to play was starsiege tribes and ascend. There was a lot of modding in the first one.
@@maxmorrill3808 not quite as much as T1. There were some servers with unique mods like the Crash Nuts server. But for the most part, the game was taken and modified slightly to give it a better feel, balanced, and otherwise. TV was abandoned by the devs before the first patch as they went on to make bioshock.
I remember the days of Tribes 2, and cannot believe it came to this. From literally a milestone in gaming history, to some piece of shit from a D grade company
Loved the Tribes games, I remember going through this. I bought Ascend it when it first came out and I had a good time. Yes lots of crapy things from HiRez, yet I still enjoyed the game itself a lot. Makes me so angry at HiRez for what they did the Tribes.
Valuable and well made video. Interesting to see the actual timeframe of the game's life and updates. When I was playing it back in 2012, everything felt like it lasted so much longer.
Tribes was one of my all time favorite PC game series'. I'd even say that Tribes 2 was a bit ahead of it's time. The early days of Ascend were fun and showed a lot of promise but....well, we all know what happened. I'd love to see a proper return of the series and the familiar factions but I think it's gone for good.
Man I played so much Tribes... I started off loving the disc launcher then found out how to go fast and I was a flag carrier ever since. I'd usually put on some music and just zone the F out and collect flags without ever really taking part in any fighting. The only threat was snipers until we made new routes that kept us hidden from snipers and we were back to yeeting ourselves at the flag and if we didn't get it we'd just suicide and go again hoping that someone'd cleared the flag place by the time we got there. The rage when newbies would casually walk up to flags and grab them from us just before we zoomed by at 600km/h was priceless! xD I miss that game.
I played though most of this period but asides from a couple of unpopular maps wasn't aware of the drama. I never found the unlocking a chore as I started with the essentials i needed to play 'classic' tribes. I never got why the playercount dropped cos I still thought it was a great competitive team game.
Ascend was the last time I was ever properly hooked by a multiplayer game, the whole experience has just massively burned me from engaging in any game that tries to nickel & dime me - which seems to be just about every multiplayer game these days. They can't just sell you the game once, they want to sell you the game forever, and have no gripes about ruining the game to do it. I still can't believe they never implemented a functional spectator mode & couldn't be bothered hiring an actual programmer to make one. It's an Esport; it lives & dies on the spectator experience! - unless you're watching the livestreams of individual players there's no way of communicating the skill of what they're doing & it's like watching a swarm of floating ants. The "out of the blue" patch was way overdue & was the first step to redemption Tribes should've taken "before" it lost its piayerbase - not after. The absolute zenith of Capture the Flag, ruined & lost forever. The only hope I have for FPS-Z right now is if Halo Infinite's Forge & custom game settings allow for a Tribes-like experience. But it's a thin hope at best.
Tribes:Ascend with no speedcap was the most fun ive ever had in any shooter. if you put aside the weapon balancing the core game loop was siiiiiiiiick. I was an infiltrator main of course xD
Tribes was my instant favourite when I started playing during the open beta for ascend. It ruined most other games for me. I had high hopes of it being an esport that would last years and years... Then it died. Then my PC died, and no other games were as awesome as Tribes, so this whole thing actually kinda lead me to going off gaming as a whole. The funnest shit I ever played had died. Nothing else would ever be as good. Why get a PC ever again? Maybe I'm dramatic, lol. But yeah, I haven't PC gamed since 2014
You're not alone. I play a little of everything, even the hottest competitive fps games right now leave me still thinking in the back of my head "but.. this is still nowhere near as fun as tribes". So I put it down, try something else and it repeats. It's like some of us tribes players that put thousands of hours into the series are broken now, we've experienced the pinnacle and everything else is sub par. I'm astounded no one has tackled it again. It can't possibly be more work than a battle royale.
@@Shoxpyre Ahhh, thanks for the comment! That's exactly the feeling I had when I couldn't get my Tribe on anymore. Get bored, try another game, get bored again... Dammit. I'd puy a decent PC again if Tribes ever came back with some real popularity. Competitive scene is too intense for me - I miss feeling proficient in pubs lol.
@@ThatGuyYouArent2 Right on! I've thought of trying revengence, about a year ago someone referred me to it there was a decent community then maybe there still is. Fingers crossed for sure for a comeback, I'm still shocked at what happened all this time later, ascend was so BIG at it's peak and on the cover of pcgamer, the whole nine. Devs are passing up a goldmine.
Just came back to revisit some Tribes nostalgia. Funny story.. Hirez bart used to play on Tribes 2 just prior to the Ascend launch. He wasn't good at the game, I used to shit all over him in Tribes 2. He seemed very bratty and condescending. Seeing his comments on your video is exactly how I remember the dude. At the time, on Hi rez's forums, they had ruled out including certain features in Ascend that made Tribes popular in the first place. I talked to him in game chat on Tribes 2 and explained to him that Hi rez was making a big mistake and the game will be a flop. Well, after watching your video I've come to realize that Bart and the hi rez team were even more incompetent that I gave them credit for. How does this guy still have a job in the game industry? Tribes couldve been an absolute cash cow, but they ran the franchise into the ground and sadly probably wont give up the rights to the game. Probably out of spite for the player base.
Correction: Starsiege tribes did not have a ski mechanic with press of a button. Instead you had to be jumping manually, which required quite some skill to perform correctly.
Anyone remember that old game Septerra Core? no? well doesn't matter point is it was heralded as a "classic JRPG designed by a western studio".... Hirez is like a Chinese studio wearing the skin of a western developer. They killed GA, they killed Tribes, they killed RR and the "funny" part is they were all GOOD ... for a lower and lower amount of time. Like "this is great, maybe a liiiiitle tweak of the lever to the right?" -> "A Gorilla starts wildly tugging the lever back and forth untill eventually breaking it and using it pick it's ass, all under the horrified screams of onlookers begging it to stop" -> "well, we don't know why but our game is loosing players, lets milk it's dying breath thill it's teets fall off them gently shoot it between the eyes".
I wonder how much these past controversies have spurred the decision to make a separate studio for Tribes 3. At the very least, I appreciate that the older titles are free to download and play
I really liked those games too but they had the same huge problem , pay2win upgrades that changed from patch to patch so as a new player you had to buy a ton of stuff to be competitive and not get obliterated or grind like a maniac lose hundreds of games just to gather enough currency and skill to be able to actually compete with others and enjoy the game. And the core community was elitist AF, i still remember the forum posts of people telling new players to stop crying and farm like they did to earn their armor/weapons and git gud, well most new players just straight up quit and they ended up with a dead game gg. I raise a big middle finger to the elitists a i laugh at their sorry asses now that their favourite game are dead.
I wish i made this video. After ascend i swore to never touch a hi-rez game again. My time with the game from beta to launch were some of my favorite experiences in the fps genre.
I was extremely good in this game(may not be a pro)... And got banned I put too many hours into it, and all the appeals went to waste. I loved this game quite a lot..
Worked at Activision in 1999 and we used to play Tribes against the LucasArts guys some Friday nights. Honestly thought it was a Beta if theirs that never got released cuz I never heard if it again til right now 😄
This was a game that had so much potential, but HiRez shit all over it. It was like 75% of the way to having the kind of longevity that you only see from like team fortress 2 and counter strike. I loved the original tribes game, and tribes 2 was fun as well. I'm so bummed that nothing ever came of this game.
Great vid, I had high hopes for Midair but well that didn't really work out. I could've sworn I saw game set on the moon or something that looked good but I forgot the name of it.
Tribes 2 was one of my favorite games on pc. But when I had to move it got left behind, couldn't find a copy to save my life and the scrappy computers I had couldn't run anything after a while (everything got covered black with geometry lines and textures going in and out) so I went back to console games. The only thing that could have made tribes 2 better is if it had a story mod. I garnered (if the story was decent) that series would have taken off like halo.... Or a somebody skiing off a slope into the heavens with your flag lol
And now they are turning Tribes into a Dark and Darker clone but sci-fi against poor quality AI cybrids...wtf is going on at Hi-Rez (Starsiege: Deadzone)
I remember the 1000 page inheritance thread at the top of general for like 6 months that didn't receive a single dev post. Hi-Rez have always been so full of shit.
I never managed to properly get into Tribes Ascend during its hayday, since at the time when the game was at its prime, the PC I had at the time was complete and absolute garbage and I could barely play it at all. When I finally built a proper rig in order to play PC games, the game was dead in the water. BUT!!!! New game coming out. Let us see if it's going to be a dumpster fire or not.
Good video. I forgot about half the shit they pulled. However I take issue with the ending, as you are clearly uninformed that Midair is getting a re-release by passionate members of the community called Midair: Community Edition. There are lots of changes which are shown in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c01A-vpGDpQ.html and is in closed beta with release next year.
this is just talking about Smite itself but in another game that no longer exists, I play Smite actually at the moment, and the game is so unstable that most games have to be cancelled after 30 seconds because some players cant join the match, and also, most of the playerbase seems like they are totally oblivious because they dont want to see all the flaws that the game has and just think its fine, tjhere is no problem, game works fine... sure, and that also encourages the developer team to think their game has no mistake nor flaw. They even censor posts on Reddit if you show a bug, glitch, someone cheating or images that show how broken the game is.
Well there's a new tribes game. Hi-Rez have admitted they fucked up the monetization and the new game will be a flat 20 bucks for all mechanical items, with microtransactions for skins.
Well, we now have a new Tribes game announced, being developed by Prophecy Games instead. Never heard of them, but I don't know how they could be worse than Hi-Rez.
Prophecy Games was created under the umbrella of Hi-Rez and split off to do their own thing. (they were also the original devs of Tribes: Ascend) I've played the closed beta personally and it feels almost exactly like Ascend and it's amazing, minus a bunch of missing stuff since it's still being made but it's still absolutely amazing.
@@melon_ Im glad to hear that, I have no doubt that the game itself will be good gameplay-wise (we will ahve to see when it comes to microtransaction implementaton later on tho). Ive signed up for the beta, hopefully I get let in soon, rlly wanna re-live the days of Tribes Ascend. I also really hope they learnt their lesson about treating their community like trash.
@@ArtistiqueMusic honestly, if anything, it wasn't the devs fault for the community being treated like trash, it was Hi-Rez stealing the devs from the game to work on Smite and or being forced to change things about the game, like how they were forced to push a final update as essentially a PR stunt.
@@ArtistiqueMusic afaik anyone who was from hi-rez at Prophecy were devs on the original. It's unlikely that it'll be treated anywhere near the same as Ascend was, it's already insanely different with a ton of transparency from the devs and listening to the community.
play the old one called Tribes 2. its free people have all the files, patch, and map packs for it. pretty easy installation only issue is that its only active during certain times of day, mostly on weekends.
I've played tribes since i was a kid. And ever since the IP has been acquired by hi-rez it's just gone down hills from there. Just look at the 3 new """games""" they annouced after literar 10 fucking years of complete radio silence. One is a battle royale that makes the beta testers on twich depressed , the other is a corridor pvp shooter with next to zero movement that takes places completely indoors??? and the third is a remake of the original Star Siege: Tribes (aka the first game in the series) which is BOUND to be dogshit aswell considering the way they handled ascend. This IP is is just lost in the hands of incompentent idiots who have no idea what they are doing. Just like 99% of the entire industry nowadays anyway...
Reasons Ascend died: 1. No one in pubs played any objective in a game that requires it even in pubs. 2. Objectives were basically none existent like attacking a gen meant nothing. 3. Weapons like the mortar cannon felt neutered 4. Speed cap I guess. All I know is at one point I remember playing and noticing I couldn’t go any faster no matter what I did. 5. Therefore…no one played. So even if I wanted to play out of desperation, no one played the game at one point.
I cant stand the pay to win bs that exists in gaming these days. Pay for the fcking game and play it. Greed has destroyed so many would be great games.
