Tribes Vengeance Playable Demo Available

JimLynch writes "There's a playable demo of Tribes Vengeance available (single and multiplayer)." Gamespot recently took another look at the Vengeance Multiplayer experience, and Tycho has thoughts on playing the demo over at Penny Arcade.

HUD mods

[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

For those of you who don't like the default head's-up display, this is moddable, just like the original Tribes. I came across this [tribalwar.com] HUD, which is a lot more like Tribes 1. (I play using the "high-res" version, even though I'm running at medium resolution, because doing so makes the map extra big.)

Re:A stroll down tribes lane

[BrookHarty]

Tribes beauty was how simple and elegant it was. You had skiing and simple easy to understand weapons. Tribes2 had a horrible launch due to the lack of 3dfx support, and numerous bugs (Sierra forced the launch). Now, T2 is a rather good game.

Both Tribes1 and Tribes2 are free now, go download them off Fileplanet.

Tribes Vengeance skiing is weird, you actually just hover, so it¦s a lot of change. Lag is a little worse, and since it uses the Unreal 2004 engine, unreal hacks work on the game. Servers already have speed hackers. Sad really.

Things I don¦t like about TV, no ammo pack, skiing, speed pack hacks, lag issues, no mine-discing, sniper kills on Light is too easy, ammo on sniper rifle, HO¦s are a little too powerful in a base, no beacons, no way pointer.

Things I do like about TV, great gfx (unreal 2004 engine), Models for each class is very highly detailed, weapons are almost true to tribes, new Grappling hook is amazing (Quake CTF anyone?), repair pack is more automated, fast action.

I played Tribes1 way too much, playing in clan¦s and going to Tribescon1, T2 and T3. First place team at T1, 2nd at T2. So I¦m a little picky on what I like about new tribes games.

Single player of TV is rather fun, and MP needs a little tuning. They did a nice job bringing back Tribes.

-IronWolve

Re:A stroll down tribes lane

[ShaggusMacHaggis]

try grappling the ground....then pressing the 'walk backwards' key...then let go of the grappler and press forward at the same time...it gives you a huge boost.

and its great for changing direction mid-route.

XP administrator access

[Lust]

Following up on a spat of /. posts complaining that people should _never_ run XP as Administrator unless performing administerial duties, let me quote the TribesV readme.txt:

* Installing under "Windows XP Limited user account" causes failed installation and non-progression.

* Game cannot be started by user who lacks Administrator access in Windows XP.

I'm not slagging Tribes, but rather emphasizing that running XP without full privs is virtually impossible. How much longer before we can truly separate admin and limited users under XP?