What got you into Tribes?

Funny... some guys brought it to school 5 years ago and installed it on all the computers. At the time I was more into strategy and slower paced thinking games, and Tribes without skiing was just that... plus the freedom of movement. Nothing like playing hide and seek in the enemy base on Scarabrae with a repair pack and a scout ready on the roof.


I actually wasted 2 or 3 years of play like that until I learned to ski (props go to JakFrost and his tactical demos :bigthumb: ).

I actually started playing Tribes due to the promise of "combat on an Epic scale!" Being a Quakehead I had seen Starsiege Tribes on GSpy stats and I always thought it was RTS or something. Then after the gazzillion screenshots released for T2 I realized it was an FPS and the idea of classes and open spaces intrigued me.

Got excited picked up T2 on day one. Good game, good vision but spoiled by too much automated weapons causing imbalance. Played for a little while and then quit. Heard the promise of T:V and kept an eye open for it checking back at TW every now and then.

Now T:V is here and captures most of the enjoyable parts of my Tribes experience.

something about c&h just captivated me. aside from that t1 was a great break from corridor fragging monotony

It's my brother's fault. I was playing the UT99 demo and thinking of getting the game, then he said, "hey, you've got to check out Tribes". After playing the demo for a couple of months, I decided to get a decent 3D card (Voodoo2), then I thought the game was really cool and bought it and played it and T2 for almost four years total. I did get into UT99 eventually, and UT2k3 (which pretty much put a damper on my T2 playing).

As far as T:V goes, we'll see - maybe next year :shrug: I'm having too many problems right now to really have fun and find the change from T2 pretty significant (which is good and bad, but mostly strange right now).

i still remember the first time i saw tribes. I was just WOWED by EVERYTHING. The awsome graphics, the jetpacks, the huge bases, the idea of CTF (effing sweet) but MOST OF ALL: the repair pack. I thought it was too cool for words, going, raping their base, than repairing yourself after killing off anyone trying to kill you. sweet shazbot :D

cause it said Starsiege

my english teacher installed it on the computers in school, it was great.

Freedom of movment, and it ran great on my 56k connect, those 2 reasons kept me playing long enough to find many other aspects that I liked.

friend of mine from school told me to download the demo (it was like in late '98). I was hooked from the moment I loaded Raindance in software mode.

Miles of Scrolling Terrain in a FPS, it was a first for the Genre and I love it :D

I saw a review for the game in January '99, and it looked incredibly cool. Computer at the time was too shazbotty to play the game (at least I figured it was) so I didn't buy it.

That was my freshman year at college, got new computer, so when the demo came out I was all over it. After experiencing the jetpacks and sensation of speed, I knew I was hooked for life :D

My math teacher in 7th grade had it installed on the computers in his room and he usually let us play about 2 times a week after he finished lecturing, i remember being the newb of the class and in less than a month even my teacher(which at first i though was really good) had trouble dueling me. I liked the disc launcher and MAing people.

Jetpacks make me horny.

My cousin-in-law showed tribes to me at a xmas party in 99. Been playing ever since.

A couple kids and I chipped in to buy T1 back in freshman year '99, made a couple bootlegs, then returned it for store credit. We played it across our school's closed network for a while, but that was before skiing and MAs were realized. Had alot of fun with it, but we couldn't get a whole lot of people into it. CS took over shortly after.

Bought T2 the week it came out and stuck with it through the highs and lows (mostly lows in T2's case). I've played the field since, but I've always come back to T2. To this day I honestly think it's one of the toughest games to master. I'm not saying I've ever mastered it, but those who have seem especially skillful in my opinion.