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Skills: The Hardest Job In Tribes Ascend
Capturing the flag in an online FPS is a skill, there’s no doubt about it. And of course, it requires a skilled team to support a capper. In Tribes Ascend, a game with unique movement mechanics, flag cappers have to premeditate skiing routes to get in and out of an enemy base at great speed. But there’s a job even harder — when a flag is capped, up steps the flag chaser.
Tribes: Ascend Breaks One Million Downloads In Its First Month
Hi-Rez’s free-to-play shooter Tribes: Ascend is doing quite well — it has been downloaded 1.2 million times in its first month, with 110,000 people joining through the game’s friend-referral system.
So, What’s The Deal With Tribes: Ascend In Australia?
I spotted a thread about Tribes: Ascend over on Reddit claiming that “there are barely any players” in Australia and that the game was “full all the time” just two weeks ago. As I write this, the thread has over 250 comments, though many are not from our neck of the woods. It then occurred to me there’s a very easy way to get a health check on the local Tribes: Ascend scene. You’re reading it right now.
Tribes: Ascend’s ‘Llama Island’ Trailer Is Heartbreakingly Familiar
Tribes: Ascend officially launches on April 12, a day when llamas will rain from the sky, filling multiplayer maps with fresh corpses until they’re nothing but islands of dead… oh! See what they did there?
Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta Set For November 4
A Starsiege: Tribes player from way back (when it was in the hands of Sierra and Dynamix) I’ve been closely following the development of Hi-Rez Studios’ Tribes: Ascend. While I’m wary of the class-based gameplay and the gun models taking up uncomfortable amounts of screen real estate, I am prepared to give it a chance.
Tribes: Ascend Makes Its Playable Debut At QuakeCon 2011
Fans eager to see what Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios is doing to the Tribes franchise should head for QuakeCon in Dallas August 4 through 7, where Tribes: Ascend will be available in playable form, with closed beta keys up for grabs.
Finally, Some Gameplay Footage Of The Free-To-Play Tribes Ascend
The next Tribes game, Hi-Rez Studios’ Tribes Ascend, will be free. It’s the loadouts in this online PC shooter that will cost you.
What The Sharp-Dressed Heavy Will Be Wearing In Tribes: Ascend
Strap On A Jetpack, It’s Time To Look At The New Tribes Game
