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<blockquote class=p>Traditionally, in a single player/first person shooter, the gamer feels like he is on an assembly line, going from one event to the next in a chronological fashion and always in the shoes of the same character. We wanted to break out from this in Tribes and not only have different personas and different styles of gameplay accompanying those personas, but have a different way of tracking time. The gamer may be following a story but a different chronology.</blockquote><p>This is just a little bit of a review I snagged from a magazine, PCPP. There are four pictures, in the pictures you can read the review and view other pictures. The scans are brought to you by Jaffa from last month's PCPP.
<a href="http://69.73.140.142/jaffa/pcpp1.jpg">Scan 1</a>
<a href="http://69.73.140.142/jaffa/pcpp2.jpg">Scan 2</a>
<a href="http://69.73.140.142/jaffa/pcpp3.jpg">Scan 3</a>
<a href="http://69.73.140.142/jaffa/pcpp4.jpg">Scan 4</a>
 
yeh thats the magazine in i was talking about before, its quite a reliable magazine (the guy flew all the way to singapore for the review)
 
I wonder what the other four new weapons are. Presuming they aren't counting the new plasma/blaster variants as new weapons and merely modfications of the old weapons that is.
 
:|:ArcaneGel said:
that machine on the left of p. 3 looked odd, any idea what it is?
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This one?

heavy.jpg


??

It is a imperial heavy render. Only part of it is textured.
 
Looks like a heavy armor partially colored in to me. You see the rest of its outline on the page if you look closely.

edit: colosus beat me to it.

:|:ArcaneGel said:
that machine on the left of p. 3 looked odd, any idea what it is?
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Ok so:

#1. That writer tries way to hard to use big words. It's nice he has a large vocabularly, but no need to use it quite so fully.

#2. That was the most revealing article yet, set down alot of crap. We now know there are 10-12 weapons, 5 new, a new movement system for walking, a radar thingy in the hud, and alot else I already forgot.

#3. The dude in the cover pic is holding an new weapon, looks like the blaster to me.

#4. Everything I read looks really good for the game overall, but I start to see this game pulling away from "traditional tribes" in a similar way to T2, in that it is going to piss off alot of old schoolers. I say screw them, I hope Irraltional does to.

Still very excited to play the beta.
 
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There's no deformable terrain. Not sure where he got that from. Aside from a few other errors, the article seemed pretty accurate. Especially the part about me being in rough shape that morning. Damn hobbit parties. =(

On a semi-related note, I just saw RoTK...mmm, tasty,
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yeah i remember asking about deformable terrain in one of the early dev q&a's and they said no, not gonna happen...

edit : i also re-scanned them at a higher dpi so anyone who saw them before this post refresh them if you like for a cleaner image :)
 
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