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Starsiege: Tribes 16 years on

Submitted by: EvanVolm @ 04:32 PM | Monday, December 1, 2014 | (url: http://www.fps-z....)

Tribes will be celebrating its 16th birthday today, though celebrating may be a bit of an overstatement. Unlike other popular PC games of the mid-to-late 90s such as Starcraft, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, and of course Counter Strike, the original Tribes has unfortunately been unable to retain much of its player base. While there was a time when the game had over 100,000 players and a plethora of servers and mods to choose from, those days have long since passed.

Those remaining today are the die-hards. The ones who know the game from the inside out, and absolutely slaughter the rare newcomers who dare to step -or fly- in front of their Spinfusor. Online activity typically peaks later into the evenings, with just two servers managing to attract between 12 and 18 players each, 20 on a good day. In total there are roughly 5 active servers, none of which feature the vanilla game itself anymore. Popular mods such as Annihilation and LT (Light Tribes or Light Training, depending on who you ask) have taken over the original game that launched in 1998.


12-01-14 - 04:37 PM
rip
12-01-14 - 04:40 PM
wait there are still original vanilla Unreal Tournament servers? and Half-Live 1 servers?
12-01-14 - 04:50 PM
ya i play half-life deathmatch every night im king of gauss gun pew pew
12-01-14 - 05:02 PM
I play T/A every night, it's close enough to T1 for me and I enjoy it. When T/A servers shut down, I will go back to T2 and occasionally T1 or TV. I like em all, T1 is just too boring these days with pretty much just LT maps. I do miss the days when someone would breakout a new map every once in a while. I really Miss Ultrarenegades XIV
12-01-14 - 05:58 PM
happy birthday tribes!!

Play Tribes HD!

good article fix.
12-01-14 - 06:49 PM
light training

what

edit: altho this is really well-written gfg
12-01-14 - 06:57 PM
lets play t1
12-01-14 - 07:00 PM
I miss it so much. Fuck. There was a time when 4 of my good H.S. friends and I all played. Everyone sort of drifted apart and Tribes died too. Boo.
12-01-14 - 07:01 PM
i thought LT stood for a time when pretty much everyone had 'Left Tribes'
12-01-14 - 07:03 PM
It actually stands 4 large tits cuz that's how good it is
12-01-14 - 07:07 PM
i dont like large tits they're all floppy and low hanging and will be horrible when she gets older

slim and fit ftw
12-01-14 - 07:16 PM
Those remaining today are the die-hards. The ones who know the game from the inside out, and absolutely slaughter the rare newcomers who dare to step -or fly- in front of their Spinfusor.

haha!

as it should be.

tribes was more of a transient work of art, only worth experiencing in its prime. it's not that newcomers aren't encouraged to play, it's that they're not allowed to experience the greatness of the game now that its time has passed. there was one brilliant, shining moment like a galaxy of supernovas, and now that it's over, it's over.
12-01-14 - 07:23 PM
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12-01-14 - 10:27 PM
There was no "mid 1990's" just late, not until 97-98 was there any kind of gaming community, pre 97 there was only dial and only 1 vs 1 on a sLowmodem.

/oldskul
12-01-14 - 10:40 PM
fuk u i played Tradewars 2002 vs many ppl on 2400 baud in 90s
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