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posted June 16, 2012 01:03 AM |
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Yeah... the new rifles often have higher DPS at a start, but lower or equal sustained DPS after reload times, but we all now that sustained damage isn't as important since the target may very well be dead before that and that one can actually just switch weapon and wait for the 3s off hand reload.
Then there's the tech SMG, which is clearly a mistake.
And the mystery why the NJ-5 wasn't nerfed... now wait! That's not a mystery at all! I said it as soon as the NJ5 was released! They're trying to phase out the high RoF weapons for lower RoF weapons, like the NJ5... or so I thought.
Personally I just like to think that the variants is a set of experiments Hi-Rez are running, and that most of them will be removed or severely nerfed. Like if the new Arx will actually let people use it in comp for flag clearing, and stuff like that.
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posted June 16, 2012 02:07 AM |
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I sincerely hope that Hirez will "fix" the 0% inheritance on proxy grenades soon. I say fix because I really hope it's not intended.
Half the time I damage myself when I MA with them because I catch up with them due to no inheritance...
Thanks for the vid btw, damn the impulse on that thing is pretty rad. Must be pretty frightening for a PTH to suddenly have a chaingun HoF chasing him ^^
EDIT:
I illustrate my frustration.
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posted June 16, 2012 08:35 PM |
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I know your pain... But... when you stand there: mortars and grenade launchers rain death upon you, as infs try to pick you off and more raiders dueling you as they just spam autos and EMPs on the stand... and then you manage to get that shot off on the capper regardless is so very satisfying.
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posted June 16, 2012 08:38 PM |
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With my new badass computer I'm going to give this game another try, (probably going to play it with a controller, I'm a little out of touch with fps games with the mouse)
Anyone be a dear and provide me with a download link?
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posted June 16, 2012 08:43 PM |
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Tribes Ascend 
Is it even possible to play with a controller? Me thinks you'll get raped.
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posted June 16, 2012 08:48 PM |
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Yes it is. And maybe 
Edit: does the game have an inbuilt chat system?
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posted June 16, 2012 09:38 PM |
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Not a voice chat no, but text and VGS.
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posted June 16, 2012 10:36 PM |
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Had this hilarious game where people just fooled around making silly VGS command combinations...
INCOMING SHAZBOT
HOLD THAT SHAZBOT I'M AWESOME
NO RETRIEVE OUR SHAZBOT
I'M THE SHAZBOT
NO YOU NO SHAZBOT
TARGET THE ENEMY SHAZBOT
ACKNOWLEDGED, NEED COVERING SHAZBOT
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posted June 17, 2012 06:40 PM |
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Okay I tried the game out, got an 6/0 start as a juggernaut by launching missiles across the map (got an accolade for it) also I really thing the assault rifle is useless. Had to reconfigure some of the controls to make it more comfortable.
Another game:
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posted June 17, 2012 08:06 PM |
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As soon as you get enough aim to hit stuff in the air the Assault Rifle is superior to the spinfusor, since you can side the AR with the thumper... this means that the "easy to use"-build (Spinfusor/Eagle) is only available for people who bough gold or has been playing for a while the build used on the pro-scene is available from start... hmm... It's kind of odd, especially since the soldier supposedly is the starting-out class.
Wow... I just keep coming back to this little complaint.
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posted June 17, 2012 08:08 PM |
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But... you can't KAZHING with AR/Thumper... that fact alone makes it inferior.
@Ivor:
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posted June 19, 2012 01:48 AM |
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What with me actually having upgraded my computer and what-not I've decided to actually set up a proper stream with actual quality and activiy, since it won't really overheat my graphics card if I stream T:A for more than an hour or so (while still having all of my applications running) and I actually have the HDD space to record a bit of video now, and since I moved a while ago I've actually gotten a really nice internet connection, so now I have the speed for that as well.
Anyways, I'll be streaming a lot here, probably somewhere around 19-24 GMT (British time, so +/- 0 hours).
Anyways, apart from my selfpromotion I played Unhandled Exception (again) this evening, and I was reminded of why I hate the autos in T:A: I'm good at dueling with explosives, ok? I've got a rather great aim with that heavy bolt launcher and I usually get the most air mails even when playing on a competetive level against top ten teams in the world. Yet, even if I land every shot, any auto in the game will pretty much have a higher damage output, except for lights (because I can one-shot them), but still the autos are more reliable and easier to use at any distance. I like using the explosive weapons and I feel satisfied when I kill with the HBL... not as much so when I do it with the chaingun... so it really drives me crazy that my HBL is holding me back.
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posted June 21, 2012 09:47 PM |
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This guy makes such awesome videos.
If you wanna be the greatest, there's a good place to start.
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted June 21, 2012 09:59 PM |
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I like how that one Finnish guy just keeps raping him in the end.
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posted June 22, 2012 11:03 AM |
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Oooh new patch.
Stonehenge... another classic map? Well Raindance is my favourite map currently so... yay moar classics please.
Rage got another major boost... not sure if chasing will ever be truly fixed.
Rockwind SMG got nerfed, it was needed.
LAR can auto-fire now... not bad. Kinda want the same thing for my Eagle pistol... depending on how fast you click it's pretty much already an auto-pistol.
RDRs can actually throw EMPs a fair distance now? Sounds nice.
NEW RAINDANCE GENERATOR ENTRANCE? WOOHOO. My favourite map just got better.
All in all sounds like an awesome patch. Downloading now.
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posted June 23, 2012 04:54 PM |
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Glad to see that Hirez learnt their lesson with Raindance and easily campable genrooms... Stonehenge is... wow it sucks so hard.
- Make it way bigger, I can reach the flag in 3 seconds ffs, all you need is 16 PTHs cowboy capping 24/7 on this map. There's no time to set up defences before the next wave comes in.
- Forcefields. Why won't you realize that force fields are good? Put two of them on the side to side to make things interesting.
- The genroom... god you can only fit 1 person through the entrances... it's the worst genroom yet.
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posted June 23, 2012 05:55 PM |
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Ok, I just got home from midsummers celebrations and I was just checking out the new patch notes. First off I notice that they added a new CTF map, but just to the custom servers. That is just great! It adds a beta period for maps (and we all know that that is much needed) and it promotes the custom servers (which is also needed). They buffed rock routes (basing it on the angle), fixed the rage bug and buffed it, buffed spotting, added first person spectating, nerfed white-outs... it's really nice to see that they are starting to listen to the actually knowledgeable, skilled and experienced, though it's obvious that they also try to tend to the more... "ragey" players, as they nerfed the rockwind. Sure, 120 damage is a lot, especially considering the high RoF as well, but the DPS (both burst and sustained) is pretty much the same. If anything the Rockwind only showed us how powerful the TCN4 actually has been all along.
Then there are some things that are just pure (bug) fixes or good riddance, like the long range repair gun, phase reticule, XP when leaving and stuff like that, and the only thing I really find questionable, and wonder why they went through with, is the shrike damage rework. I found the rockets rather balanced against ground targets and would've understood a pure buff to armoured damage, or if they made it even more skillful (smaller splash mostly, but maybe with higher projectile speed or something like that) or if they made it more susceptible to chainfire (especially since most auto have been nerfed, especially over any ammount of distance). I'm sure most pilots will be able to make it very useful still, as most kills were rams anyways.
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posted June 23, 2012 06:42 PM |
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Titan Launcher made me start playing DMB.
Very effective anti-capper tool, I love it.
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posted June 30, 2012 11:18 PM |
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Seen this yet? Especially this part:
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That said, Demo is no longer on the road-map. Per some previous posts it was an internal goal originally. We wanted it. We had a programmer begin r&d on it, but he uncovered technical complexities that would make it a prohibitively long and nasty project. We don't want to get sucked into a single black hole Tribes feature when there are other improvements we can continue to make. I wish that wan't the case. But that is the case. If it changes and we have some Demo breakthru in the future, we'll let you know.
Where HiRezTodd pretty much says that we will not be getting a demo function in any foreseeable future. The comp forums then proclaimed T:A dead as an e-sports... not sure if I agree, just yet.
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posted July 18, 2012 06:41 PM |
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Ok, ok... some updates on T:A, since I feel like there's been some stuff going on. I'll just start with a bit of bragging and such.
My team, Clutch EU, is now top 5 EU (woop, woop) and as such has a shot at getting sponsors, provided we get some publicity. Now, as much as I dislike promoting myself (I really hate it), getting a sponsorship would be pretty sweet, so I'll just plug myself and the main people of the team and would be rather grateful if anybody plugged us further... so here are our streams and stuff.
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ClutchEU are starting to stream our scrims/games! Starting with a scrim against Pomf (formerly known as /v/ tribes) at 20CET. Now finished, to catch regular POV streams, check out: [done, and done]
http://www.twitch.tv/s1n0n for LO.
http://www.twitch.tv/blindlad for roaming defence.
http://www.twitch.tv/jpwai# for Inf LO
http://www.twitch.tv/fleurdelysta for capping.
http://www.twitch.tv/shaeress42 for on stand defence. [that's me!]
http://www.twitch.tv/samao123 for sniping.
http://www.twitch.tv/fr0sz for fr0sz (shriking/LO/Chasing).
More streams coming soon,
check out http://www.youtube.com/user/CogsandInk for the vod of the cast.
Further, the NASL Grand Finals are now done and finished, meaning that the biggest tribes event ever is now completed. Rather great matches (creds to Vir for being awesome), with HiRezBart and Fishstix doing some adequate casting, but with very much lacking preparation (no overlays until the third game) and since there were a LOT of SC2 viewers watching (it was NASL grand finals, after all) so it got rather basic at times and the pace was rather high... I wonder how many of the SC2 people got startled by the amount of it all, and it really showed that the casting/spectator features of T:A are lacking.
Not interested in comp or anything like that? Well... these preliminary patchnotes are looking rather awesome. Buffs to several explosive weapons; fixed LAR (well...); nerfed chaingun and TCN4 (and variants); buffed dmb nades; fractal nerf; huge buffs to stealthy, safefall and ; more inf belt ammo (not stickies); sonic punch buff and even a nerf to nitron knockback (not explosive nitrons) and the jackal... but those are the minor things! 20% increase on all explosive knockback (WOOP!), bigger explosive hitboxes and they've added twinfusors! Holy snow is this patch favouring explosives! There's supposedly a group join system to implemented, clan tags, extended news system and TWO NEW CTF maps!
There are also a bunch of new skins and the addition of purchasable voicepacks and some other stuff.
Just another patch or two like this and T:A might be ready for release!
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Hang on a tad!
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