*** The Official Tribes: Ascend Thread! ***

lolz,i was just wondering what a shazbot was and just found this :p :

Shazbot

What's it mean? ****. Robin Williams popularized this quirky curse word in the series Mork and Mindy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and its stuck around a few decades, eventually being embraced by the creators of the Tribes videogames.

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Who'd have thought it? Go mork and mindy! :cool:

Buff
 
Also, with regard to private servers, how does that work? Can you set up tribes on any linux based server or does it have to be done through Hirez/tribes?

I wish, unfortunately HiRez are against giving out dedicated servers due to their free to play model, nothing I'd love more than a Linux server client. :(

You buy servers with Gold, costs 2000 Gold for 90 Days, 4000 Gold costs £21. So £21 for 180 days, not too bad.
 
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I wish, unfortunately HiRez are against giving out dedicated servers due to their free to play model, nothing i've love more than a Linux server client. :(

You buy servers with Gold, costs 2000 Gold for 90 Days, 4000 Gold costs £21. So £21 for 180 days, not too bad.

Thats good. I currently pay 20 euros (approx £16) a month for a dedicated Q3 server based in NL. So £21 for approx 6 months is a steal! Something I may consider if I get into it deep enough. Certainly means clan servers for practice/scrims become a whole lot more economical on the wallet :)

Cheers

Buff
 
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Speaking of practice, dueling was fun last night. I would like to do some O practice while Brad is capping on pubs if anyone is up for it. Are you gius going to be around tonight / Sat?
 
Speaking of practice, dueling was fun last night. I would like to do some O practice while Brad is capping on pubs if anyone is up for it. Are you gius going to be around tonight / Sat?

I should hopefully be on for a few hours tonight and tomorrow afternoon.

Hopefully on Sunday I will be available all day and evening :D I am hoping to get a mammoth sesh in whilst the missus is out of the way :cool:

Buff
 
I'm not the best player in the world, quite the opposite in fact, so when I finally hit the 250K/H mark it's an achievement in it's self. this time I'm headed, uncontested, directly at the flag...


only for a heavy to WALK up to it and take it from me.


I hate this game sometimes.
 
For those of you unaware how NASL went, here is some feedback:

- The games maintained 20,000+ viewers, by the end of the event we had ~23,500 viewers.
- The crowd was getting into it, cheering when a team capped, cheering when someone made a good play.
- Chat at first was 'What is this, this is horrible to watch, what is happening?', 'I'm confused' but eventually turned positive, people saying they will download the game, even comments on how good the maps look and it being fun to watch.

The camera work could have been better, but despite the pretty rough camera work.. people still managed to enjoyed it.

Overall a very positive event, people seemed to enjoy it despite most of the crowd being SC2 fans, players. It's certainly looks likely we'll see an NASL season two, rumours are already flying round IRC, that there are talks of one.

Who would have thought two years ago that a TRIBES GAME would get 20,000+ viewers and room full of people cheering, pretty unbelievable if you ask me. ;)
 
I was in the stream too for a while and I saw the same kind of initial response from people; they weren't sure what they were watching. Thankfully Bart was briefly explaining certain aspects of the game as they happened (punting, e-grab, etc) and all of sudden people both in the chat and at the event were catching on quickly and getting really enthusiastic.

Do have to agree with you on the camera work, though. It would have been great if they had multiple cameras covering bases, cappers, the midfield, etc, and then having someone switch between them as the action takes place in different areas.

Hopefully the Season Two rumors are true, and it'll be even better next time :D
 
All we need is some billionare Tribes player to invest the funds required to get some of these add-ons that we have requested, demo support, enhance spectator support, better menu system, stats support, better community support etc etc.

Thank god there is nothing massively wrong with the gameplay itself, unlike every other FPS game currently out!
 
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