Topic: Of Skis and Sworders (Read 3859 times)

Bal · « **Reply #20 on:** March 28, 2012, 02:42:32 PM »

A good first step to balancing it would be making the grenades have to adhere to something before they could be detonated.

Kazz · « **Reply #21 on:** March 28, 2012, 07:10:39 PM »

infiltrator is a very popular dude right now

the sticky grenades are a lot more powerful than i thought they would be, it's like lobbing C4 around

Defenestration · « **Reply #22 on:** March 28, 2012, 07:12:29 PM »

Oh, totally. Sticky grenades are the reason to use the class. They do a straight 3K damage to generators and turrets each. Also, you get a new grenade each pill bottle pickup before perks! If you get looter, it's pretty much MURDER TIME FUN TIME

Defenestration · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2012, 03:25:41 AM »

Jackal damage and knockback while using it as airburst reduced by 50%. I think that's a pretty good compromise.

Ziiro · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:44:33 AM »

Apparently I've been playing Doombringer wrong by not using the Chaingun.

Whoops.

Bal · « **Reply #25 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:56:35 AM »

Yeah, you're supposed to soften them up on the way in and on the way out.

Ziiro · « **Reply #26 on:** March 29, 2012, 09:59:25 AM »

My old deal was body check them then point blank with the crossbow. However a full upgraded chaingun is pure death:

Tribes: Ascend - Crytical's Doombringer Tutorial

A bit dated but it gets the point across.

I also have no sound on this computer so I don't know if it has bad music but I assume it does.

Bal · « **Reply #27 on:** March 29, 2012, 10:08:43 AM »

It actually has voice over. The advice is good, though the perk system is completely outdated. You can still get those perks, but you don't have trees like that anymore. Perks are just purchased from a pool of primary and secondary perks, and once unlocked can be used by any class. Like everything except the cosmetic skins, they can be purchased with gold or exp, and only upgraded with exp.

Classic · « **Reply #28 on:** March 29, 2012, 10:50:34 AM »

The takeaway for me was that a class called "Doom Bringer" is not really good at bringing and instead should stay at home.

Bal · « **Reply #29 on:** March 29, 2012, 11:54:14 AM »

Yeah, he's more of a Doomkeeper, in case you need any Doom, and you're not sure where to look. The other two heavy classes, Juggernaut and Brute probably would have been better choices for names, particularly the former, which ironically has a giant fusion mortar and has raining what could be called doom from on high as his major goal.

Ziiro · « **Reply #30 on:** March 29, 2012, 12:15:00 PM »

I feel like nothing else in the game brings more Doom than the MIRV launcher. They need to switch the names up:

Juggernaut -> Doombringer (Artillery rains doom)
Doombringer -> Brute (For some reason "Brute" better fits the idea of body checking motherfuckers who come in for your flag and using a chaingun)
Brute -> Juggernaut (Unstoppable with Shield pack and heavy spinfusor)

Defenestration · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2012, 12:04:26 AM »

Why I hate playing tech:

Ziiro · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2012, 06:49:52 AM »

Played a game this morning that was incredibly laggy. My ping was fine as was everyone elses but it just seemed to stutter a lot and it was awful. Related to the new patch maybe?

fullmooninu · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2012, 11:37:28 AM »

k, i got my tiny gang to go and try this. always wanted to try the older versions

Can someone make a facebook page for playdates, or something?

Or do you guys just play among the IRC-ers ?

edit: name is SSarah

Bal · « **Reply #34 on:** April 04, 2012, 06:51:01 PM »

This game has a level of excitement, just due to the speed and almost total lack of hit scan that makes for the most "fuck yeah!" moments per round I've seen in a long time. I just played three games in a row, and all of them had some pretty rad moments, but I'll just relate the last one because it was totally clutch.

I can't say exactly everything that was going on around our flag stand, because it was utter fucking chaos. I do know that an orbital strike had been used recently, and there were dirty sandrakers crawling all over the place skirmishing with our defenders. Our flag carrier is coming in for the last cap, and we've just secured our flag when he goes down. The flag bounces just right so I happen to be lined up to jet in and ski through it and into our own flag for the winning cap. On my way to the flag I see an enemy light fucking blasting toward our flag, directly opposite me. In the space of about a second I fired my spinfusor, killed the enemy light, grabbed the enemy flag and made the cap.

I was doing ok during the round, mostly running interference in the mid-field, or defending our generator, but I just happened to be perfectly lined up for that last sequence, and it felt so good.

Smiler · « **Reply #35 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:56:33 PM »

How To Hat

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #36 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:16:47 AM »

Tribes Ascend: Shrike Capping

Smiler · « **Reply #37 on:** April 07, 2012, 10:05:12 AM »

I miss the old Shrike that was fun to fly. The vehicles all handle like shit.

patito · « **Reply #38 on:** April 07, 2012, 12:11:38 PM »

I've actually grown quite fond of the Gravcycle even though it drives like butter. It's probably because I only play the heavy classes and being somewhat fast feels good for a change.

Also running people over is fun.

Smiler · « **Reply #39 on:** April 12, 2012, 09:51:28 PM »

every. single. time.

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