What got you into Tribes?

A friend of mine was a junkie and he kept plugging T1. I finally started to play it. It was a year or two old by then. I liked it but never bought T2 until I could for $12 used. I was addicted to it for so long. Now I just bought T:V, we will see how long this one lasts.

My friends and I were drawn by the promise of squad combat; loading up the APC with heavies, crusing over to the enemy base, walking in with shield packs, destroying their generator and vehicle pad, fighting off defenders, walking out with the flag... Of course, most of my friends stopped playing the game after two months.

I was hooked when I realized I could spin around with the targeting laser saying "Dance", kneel in front of players while making heavy breathing sounds, and squat on the Scarabrae mortar turret yelling "Woohoo!"

Either that or I craved the intensity and loved skiing.

I still remember the day i bought T1; it was the last box at the store in the new release rack. I was in 7th grade with extra cash from my birthday, so wth, i bought it. Freshmen in college and still playin Tribes.

saw it in a magazine august 1998, brought the magazine to freshman year of college, one of my friends knew about the game coming out.

we waited and waited all first semester freshman year, no sign of tribes.

finally dec. 1998 rolls around and i buy it on dec. 26th, bring it back to the dorms... give it to iNVAR -- we start IF and get everyone on our floor to play. and that was that.

It's game made specifically for online multiplayer that was free to play once you bought the CD, Thats what made actually buy T1. What kept me playing for years after what the fun and the variety, base, shifter, renegades, C&H. You could take the same basic skill set and have a blast is many many different ways.

Invading a massive base like Blastside repeatedly. It was extremely difficult, but with a good shield pack and speed, you can get to the inventories and blow people up.

In T2, the maps were poorly designed, but the essense was still there. Along with clan strategies that required all 12 people to fulfil their duties, it brought the game to the next level.

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I've only played the demo. Waiting for reviews.

But T:V has buildings of the type "entrance-smallcorridor-room". I expected more complexity for buildings as this was the third revision. Getting the flag and getting to base seems far too easy with little chance that a capper will be chased down before he gets back to base. Plus as I play HO, maps aren't symmetric, which let's one side with HO+shield make it to the enemy base more often than the other.

I don't care for the dual roles of the packs. But they're not bad.

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What brought down T2 was 1) constantly changing physics 2) maps not designed for the current set of physics 3) bugs. I don't think the weapons/packs/controls were any where on the top of the list that needed change. But IR went and changed those extensively.

Base to base is about 15 seconds. Much too short in my opinion with a HO and shield pack. Everyone moves so fast that there isn't a lot of battles during transit, just at the destination.

my roommate WhiteWidoW got me on it.
ya tribes is so badass. with all the positions you could play, trying to learn every map like my own backyard.
and hearing these crazy stories about capping specialists(BlueNose, Natural), and ld specialists(AdreNaLiNe). and Heavy offense. and Roger Wilco. searching the web for scripts and skins all the time.
I used to play tribes two to five times as much as I would work. Good thing rent was cheap.
We actually moved to a different area just to be low ping bastards (because it was unavailable where we were).

Being the first person multiplayer CTF game that allowed you to roam any area of the map and unlike all the deathmatch games of the day it wasnt limited to indoor maps. I know for some you young bucks that seems common today, but when Tribes was first released almost every game was a deathmatch frag fest in mazes, caves or buildings.

No boxed environements where the background was painted on a wall plus the beauty of the jetpack in large terrain and uber netcode.

the reviews and constant mention in PCXL got me to purchase the game. After going through the tutorials (which I think I acutally enjoyed back then - jetpacking was such a radical step in the right direction, as I had just come from Quake RA2). The huge maps, the exhilarating indoors 3d fighting, the depth of stategic loadouts and physics that seemed infinately more real than any other FPS at the time.

I bought the first tribes when I was in 8th grade (Im a sophomore in college now). I was waiting for Team Fortress 2 to come out (still waiting). So when I went to a game store i saw this box that was saying things about team warfare, and No Man is an Island, and thought "what the hell" it might be good. That was the best decision of my life! Tribes is the best fps ever! The immersiveness of the game makes it stand alone. I felt like I was part of this huge war in the distant future and I had to win. I didn't like T2 as much and I still love the first one more than TV. But TV is true to T1 and I effING love it.

I bought it because of a screenshot ad in PC Gamer that came out in consecutive issues before T1 was released. It was just a picture of a big landscape with formations of players and vehicles, but it looked damn fun. Think I actually bought it a week after release.
this is exactly how I got to know of T1 first, friend of mine brought me a copy of PC Gamer when he was over to the US :)

I think I've got hooked by the idea of playing online with other ppl, was the first time I did this and was hooked ever since, was just too much fun.

I still remember my first time playing online, sneaking up behind some spamming heavy on DX and then unleashing a deadly stream of death from the... blaster :/ the guy jetted up and killed me and I was like wtf?

heh, good ol' times :)

Friend of mine who came in to the games store I worked at in Tulsa put it on our network, he was a member of Miles O' Carnage - Miles O' Wasabi was his handle.

Trained me on Tribes and i've been hooked ever since.

Read some good reviews for Tribes: Vengeance, and heck, I just went for it.
I don't know if I've ever played a FPS passing off as having 'strategical elements' with no crouch or lean button; or I am just too confused to notice. It's been pretty good so far.

A guy in my house bought a copy, passed it around (warez ohnoes) and we were all hooked.
same cept was in the office


then waited 6 months for the delayed release of T2, was there on day 1, had to work till 8, made it back from town and reged by 9:15pm

TV will take some getting used to. doesnt seem as complex with fewer weapons and packs, but im sure the more i play it the more it will grow on me.

the reviews and constant mention in PCXL got me to purchase the game.

ditto.

While stationed in alaska a friend kept tryin to get me to leve console games alone and buy a computer ("you can do so much more") finally cave in and order gateway special p3 533 mhz voodoo 3 (which i sadly still hav today) my friends favorite games were starcraft and tribes one. so i was hooked on both of those (as well as napster) In tribes I just loved the team aspect as well as the taunts and stuff plus there were always people better than me so the game is always challenging. but sadly the military base only had 56k avail so i didnt really get into the comp side of t1.

3 years later im out of the military with my highspeed dsl ! and t2 comes out the rest is history.....will be upgrading later this month for T:V

my parents had just gotten a pc..i was like 7 at the time and i was a gamer(started on a sega genesis when i was 4:) ) so i though...why not buy a game for the pc? I ended up buying this game silent called "silent thunder: A-10 tank killer" by sierra.
When i got home i opened the box, inside there was this paper. It was...choose 2 games for the price of one type of thing and get a 10 dollar rebate. There was about 8 games i could choose from, and i choose my 2 games depending on the look of the box cover. I luckily picked half life and tribes 1. A couple of weeks later i got the 2 games...and well...the rest is history :)

Wow... so many of you haven't played what started Tribes :(

I got into it strictly because it was part of the Earthsiege universe, if it wasn't for that I probably would have never touched it.

Came home from college and my brothers were playing it. I got addicted because of the outdoor environments, which up until then FPS's had always been closed, dark hallways.

the challenge and the payoff of the challenge.