Tribes Vengeance Playable Demo Available 23
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.
A stroll down tribes lane (Score:3, Interesting)
On normal server, the pulsing and fearful gameplay really had you hooked, if you didn't play as part of you team, the other would be able to ply thier way into your base, knocking out power and shields.
The flight mechanics were a little novel, but the terrain system was awesome.
My favourite moment was laser sniping from peak to peak, while a large battle of explosions clouded my view of the opposing snipers!
Did't quite beat a good old game of action quake 2 though...
Funny how games such as Halo have completely been unable to capture 10% of how good these games were.
Gameplay folks, I guess it does exist, it seperates the half lifes from the no lifes
Recent games I played: Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Postal 2.
Postal 2 is just for kicks.
Re:A stroll down tribes lane (Score:3, Informative)
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
Re:A stroll down tribes lane (Score:2)
I agree with you in general though, it's a nice take on the Tribes universe, and I'll be playing this one online a lot.
Re:A stroll down tribes lane (Score:2)
Also, I've seen it used to get a flag, defend, lots of uses. Too young in the game to count it out.
I really miss ammo packs, cant be a good mid-HO without one.
Re:A stroll down tribes lane (Score:2, Informative)
and its great for changing direction mid-route.
Re:A stroll down tribes lane (Score:2)
Thanks for the links - will also try TV single player [I have the demo d/l'd]
Same old maps (Score:1)
Anyway, I kind of wish they would have included more or different maps with the demo instead of the four that they had in the beta. While these maps are fun, they do get old pretty quickly.
HUD mods (Score:3, Informative)
Great game, release date is Oct 5th - no linux (Score:2, Interesting)
Having played the closed beta, open beta, and demo extensively, I can really say this is truely a tribes sequel (even though it takes place before t1 and t2). This is probably the most fun i've had playing an online game in quite awhile.
There are still issues though - there are still bugs in the demo, which is the same code as the 'gold' code. When will developers learn that they need to
Re:Great game, release date is Oct 5th - no linux (Score:2)
Anyway...I don't know...but I definately expected they'd take advantage of the work that's been done.
Re:Great game, release date is Oct 5th - no linux (Score:1)
Time travel? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Time travel? (Score:1)
Re:Time travel? (Score:2)
Actually, I stand behind my original post. The official multi player demo was released on September 29, at least that's the date it was released on filerush.com and the
XP administrator access (Score:2, Informative)
* 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 adm
Re:XP administrator access (Score:1)
Linux root access (Score:1)
I guess this feature explains why it's so hard to port the server to Linux.
(The theory on the TW forums [tribalwar.com] is that it's the cost of another Havok [havok.com] platform license that prevents a port.)
Wasn't Too Impressed (Score:1)
Why Was I Modded Troll? (Score:1)