and as far as this whole lasthope killed tribes deal.
I realize there has been a lot of shady shit that has gone down with lasthope and bypasses. But to me, I'd rather a minority cheat than the majority. Because to me the beauty of tribes is the guessing game. you take out the guessing game and you are left with who has the best aim. You guys are literally saying you want no anticheat so it's possible to have the combination of best possible player prediction along with knowing exactly where everyone is on the map. How much fun would that be? Snow and Rtcll are on the same team playing D..how are you going to cap on them? Is there a point in running routes? It basically becomes team arena with some dudes trying to work a flag down the middle of the map. Don't you think this style of play would have killed tribes as well? No? Tell my why. Because people wouldn't have to download the latest version of an anticheat to play? Not because when they came back and tried to run their old favorite routes, they had a really hard time grabbing the flag and hiding with it.
The ability to hide in tribes is what levels the playing field. It's what helps the cappers who aren't the best killers become great players. Were darkforce/thorin/fett on the same killing ability of dutch and chump? How much would they enjoy playing against dutch when he knew exactly where they were at? This is what I'm talking about. I don't care if a large number of players had bypasses. You don't know if they were bypassing just to terp or had HM as well. But the point is, they weren't openly cheating. Which means they had to hide it and not play like everyone else was cheating. There is a huge difference between trying to hide cheats and openly cheating. Dare knows what it's like to openly do it and how much it changes the game. You can still be really sick when you're trying to hide it, it really depends on how much you know the game. Fedz was terrible at hiding it. Sleepy was pretty good at hiding it. I've never joined a server with cheats on. Not even togglable. My pov is based on my thought process while playing tribes and thinking how I'd play if I knew incoming route directions.
Tribes would be dead either way 1.11 or 1.30. I appreciate 1.41 because I'm used to the stutter of lasthope or would rather play against a majority of clean players. If there are people with 1.41 bypasses, unless its rtcll/repbot/sleepy/fis/dare, I don't really care. The rest don't even know how to make cheats effective. Exactly who stopped playing when 1.41 was released? drg0n and xtasy. Who started playing tribes again when sleepy released the public hm? drg0n and xtasy. If either one of them want to come in here and defend themselves I will laugh hysterically. If they want to call me a skinny nerd who has no life and is out to witch hunt people in a dead video, I will still be laughing. I'm not the one cheating in a dead video game.