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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. –eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee– (more…)
So often the bleeding edge of games tech, yet so often fundamentally the same underneath: there’s a reason we can’t get enough of pretend shooting pretend people in their pretend faces. It is a pure test of skill and reflex, a game about movement at least as much as it is about v
Eleven months after Tribes: Ascend unexpectedly received the ‘Out of the Blue’ update , reviving development on the superfast multiplayer FPS, here comes ‘Parting Gifts’. Update 1.4 is now out and seems to be the end for this fleeting reinvigoration. 1.4 is less flashy than some
The brilliantly weird, and largely unintuitive, Tribes: Ascend has endured a chequered past. It s on-off-on again legacy mirrors that of an afternoon soap opera romance having been brought back from the edge of extinction in late December last year via its first update in two yea
Hi-Rez Studios stopped updating Tribes: Ascend in 2013 as they shifted focus to their MOBA Smite , but they have recently returned to the free-to-play jetpacking FPS. Following December’s ‘Out of the Blue’ update and another patch in January, last night Hi-Rez released version 1.
Back in December, the free-to-play FPS Tribes: Ascend was updated for the first time in two years , shortly after which developer Hi-Rez Studios talked to us about how it had screwed up the game, and more importantly, what it was doing to try to bring it back . The December patch
Gameplay Hellfire is now available to play for CTF and Blitz and has been added to all appropriate server map rotations. Votekick percentage increased to 45%, up from 35% Changed votekick message to include player who initiated the votekick. "Vote by : kick ?" Ammo pickups now yi
March NA Draft Information Date & Time The draft will be on March 12th/13th; picking will start at 4PM EDT on the 12th. Group stages will start at ~5PM EDT. For the teams that make it to Day 2 (13th) the games will begin at 5PM EDT. Sign-ups Make sure you confirm your registr
What is a newblood workshop? Teaching new players how to play PUGs (7v7 with coms), run routes, as well as how to fight enemies and so on.There will be Mentors for each specific role. If you are just curious about the event and arent ready to try out the workshop you are more tha
There will be a draft tournament happening on the 27th and 28th of February 2016 Sign up here For more information please go to
Tribes: Ascend is receiving another update this evening. Patch 1.2 will bring sweeping balance changes to the gotta-go-fast jetpack FPS, increasing heavy armour there, reducing blast radii here, making it so pressing ‘Q’ selects your previously held weapon, that sort of thing. Th
We will be upgrading Tribes starting Thursday, January 28th 2016, at 10:00 AM EST(5:00 PM CEST) Expected downtime will be around 3 hours. Skin prices have been reduced to 480 gold per skin. Equipment Changes Heavy Armor Increased mass by 7% Decreased initial jetpack impulse by 25
Draft date: 23-24 January 2016 Signups now open Head over to tribesschedule.com and sign up for the January 2016 Draft Event. Introduction to the website and how to sign up here: done by Flagician the IT magician Check-ins will open Saturday 23 January at 8 am and close at 4pm Ce
Things looked so good for Tribes Ascend when it was released in early 2012. Wonderful, breath-clutching games of chicken happen along the z-axis in Tribes: Ascend, wrote Evan Lahti in our review. We loved it. We played it. But it needed love from its developer, too—bug fixes, new
Hi-Rez Studios gave up on Tribes Ascend for a couple of years, but a few months back made the unexpected announcement that they we working on a big ole update for their F2P jetpacking FPS. And they did release it! The ‘Out of the Blue’ update (or version 1.1, if you have no roman
Hello Tribes fans, and welcome to the patch overview for the Out of the Blue patch. With the new "Out of the Blue" patch, we wanted to bring back classic elements from older Tribes games, while not alienating Tribes: Ascend fans. This patch is a return to form that will better sp
At 5pm EST today, Tribes: Ascend will undergo six hours of downtime as its first patch since March 2013 is applied. It's a substantial overhaul of the free-to-play, physics-defying shooter that has been cooking on the public test servers since September, when Hi-Rez Studios annou
Say, reader dear, do you like the future? Do you like jetpacks? Do you like mechs? Do you like first-person shooters? Do you like multiplayer with vehicles and bases? Do you like classic series which folks grumble go forgotten too often? Do you like skill-based movement exploitin