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Tribes: Ascend
Nielk1
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So, apparently I've had a beta key for this damn thing forever and only just now activated it. I got a referral link that I think lets other people get the beta too, though by now it may already be in open beta. In any case, I am going to give out the link because I feel a high speed FPS like this needs a bunch of players and apparently I get a benefit for referrals. Who knows, maybe you do too.
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Mainly, the things that need fixing are the obvious ones, like class imbalances and inefficiencies causing slow-downs. Surprisingly, the beta is actually rather bug-free, at least nothing obvious (maybe some shots not doing damage here and there, but that may be my imagination). No, what I think needs the most balancing aside from those, is the pricing of unlocks.
Now, if anyone has played League of Legends, you know that they have a Free-To-Play system where you can unlock helpful things like new champions and runes with currency acquired through in-game play, and you can pay real money to speed it all up or buy skins for your champions. Tribes: Ascend has a near-identical model, but the problem is that everything, except classes and upgrades, are way overpriced. For in-game XP, you get around 1000-2000 a match (if you're doing well), and most of the unlockable weapons in the game cost 100,000 XP! Playing 50+ hours to get a single unlock is quite a slog.
The caveat here is that, if you think that you would like to skip said slog and go right to the weapons, you can pay with "Tribes Gold," the paid-for currency of the game, but that's quite overpriced as well. Last I checked, it's about $1 USD per 100 Gold, and those 100,000 XP weapon unlocks cost 780 Gold apiece. Skins themselves cost somewhere near $25 USD as well, meaning that you could buy half a full-price game for a single unlock.
I mostly agree with what is said in TotalBiscuit's "Cloak and Dagger Update" coverage video, which mentions the above and more:
This thread is now about Tribes names. Mine's Steeveeo (like always).
I c wat u did thar.
Lt.Brandon or LtBrandon should be one of those, if not then I dunno.
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