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Raibead posted:There is no reason to ever use the saber instead. Counterpoint: Saber kills are hilarious.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 19:35 |
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Countercounterpoint: if you're locking on to someone when the game ends, you keep hearing that same god drat beeping until the new map loads.
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| # ? May 8, 2013 09:58 |
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I have played this game way too much That's 120 hours on Jug alone 
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| # ? May 8, 2013 10:33 |
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A Humble Emperor posted:I have played this game way too much Oh hey, I think I saw (and shot) you in a CTF match on Bella Omega about 30-40 mins ago.
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| # ? May 8, 2013 12:01 |
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I just added up, and I have 126 hours as Pathfinder on my main account. 75 hours on Soldier. Thats about 2/3rds of my total playtime, I think feel free to add my blatant smurf, treesareop  EDIT: smurf day 1. hackusations: 4 even with other blatant smurfs in the game at least I admit that "I've played before" Horizontal Tree fucked around with this message at May 8, 2013 around 22:19 |
| # ? May 8, 2013 12:06 |
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If you're not playing as a Boombringer (Heavy Bolt/Titan, Looter/Quick Draw), you're doing it wrong.
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| # ? May 9, 2013 06:49 |
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Just started using that loadout a few days ago on my main. Its fun, sort of the heavy version of an Honour Soldier Its weird, the only class I miss on the new account is Brute, and I don't even ever find a situation where I'd need it to clear a base or something. Over 10% of my kills are midairs 
Horizontal Tree fucked around with this message at May 9, 2013 around 13:36 |
| # ? May 9, 2013 12:03 |
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A Humble Emperor posted:I have played this game way too much read em and weep https://account.hirezstudios.com/tr...?player=lamebot
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| # ? May 13, 2013 00:07 |
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keep on juggering, juggernauts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb5WNTiR9Cw
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| # ? May 13, 2013 00:18 |
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New account: https://account.hirezstudios.com/tr...ayer=treesareop Already have 1/4 the amount of midairs on the new account that I have on my beta account Just spend an hour teaching a new kid to duel. He's not bad for a brand new rank 7, and he actually wanted to learn. He shows promise. That jugg video is loving impressive. I wish I could aim mortars like that. I've had... 3 cross-map capper kills on the new account, 2 which were right on the stand and stopped the other team from winning, which we then turned around. Easy weapon to spam, hard weapon to truly dominate with
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| # ? May 13, 2013 01:12 |
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Lamebot posted:keep on juggering, juggernauts. Nice to see another Jugg (when I'm not Raider-ing) going with the spinfusor instead of the X-1. For me, it is more fun, even if not as effective as most people would say. From briefly looking at the comments I understand why he would go with the regular spinfusor instead (less self damage for mobility), but I'm still not sure why the regular mortar over the FMD. We just talked about this and most agreed with me that the FMD is the better choice, so maybe it is just his weird preference. I still stand by the Deluxe. Also Lamebot, I find your 2 minutes played as Pathfinder hilarious. And Tree, I wish I had the time to have an extra account and join you, the best I can do is log on my regular one a few times or so a week.
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| # ? May 13, 2013 17:34 |
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I admittedly have way too much free time, since I'm out a job and my healths been poo poo so I haven't been as active as I sometimes try to be. Thus, I've put waaay too many hours into the new account already, cause goin' fast and listening to some music is a good time waster Something I've noticed new players do is that they'll try to fly STRAIGHT at you, but still won't go for midairs. It makes them a super easy target for someone who can aim, and all you have to do is fly straight at them and you instantly have a perfectly lined up midair. I was trying to teach that new player I was teaching to duel not to do this on players that he knows can aim, because it'll get him killed most of the time. I think I'm gonna start putting a bit more time into Juggin' and see if I can get decent with mortars. How much does the Deluxe cost? Is the reduction of radius a tiny amount like the 6% or so you lose with the Dueling Fusor and Thumper DX?
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| # ? May 13, 2013 19:24 |
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If you guys haven't seen it, I like the Wilderzone site alot better for stats. Just click find player in the top left and you get a much better page. Its also got all of the top 100 leaderboards for various stats, classes, and gametypes if you want to see if you're on one of em.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 04:17 |
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12% midairs
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Raibead posted:If you guys haven't seen it, I like the Wilderzone site alot better for stats. Just click find player in the top left and you get a much better page. Its also got all of the top 100 leaderboards for various stats, classes, and gametypes if you want to see if you're on one of em. Goddamn. That site is so much better than the official site for everything. It even lists other players with your clan tag at the bottom. Horizontal Tree posted:12% midairs 15.09% (and on my actual account)
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| # ? May 14, 2013 12:27 |
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I'm just pretty happy that my midair percentage has gradually been going up. Its at about 10% on my main account. I was surprised when I compared to a friend who is pretty even with me skill-wise and only slightly higher rank, but he has only 6% or 7% mas. My K/D has dropped a bit but thats okay, its not that important and I'm happy its even that high. Also, cool to see on the Wilderzone site that I regularly duel the dude with the most kills in the game and sometimes win
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| # ? May 14, 2013 17:43 |
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So after  added the GOTY version, have they basically abandoned this game in favor of Smite because of the current popularity of the Dota-likes genre?
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| # ? May 18, 2013 23:11 |
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pakman posted:So after No that happened last year. Now they just keep the assets around for next year's April fools joke.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 23:21 |
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HiRezKate has talked about two WIP maps and APC teased a few things after the April 1st joke change log but otherwise it has been completely silent. I'm guessing that once the maps are ready we'll get a patch with those maps and whatever changes they decide to make and then that will be it for T:A.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 23:33 |
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I would be okay with that as long as people keep playing. I realize these days most people expect a constant stream of content to stay interested in a game, but I have always found both old and new FPS games to be highly replayable even without updates as long as you have even a small community to play them with online. Of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't want more content, just that I find T:A to be at an acceptable state to continue to be enjoyed for quite some time, even if I do have some opinions about changes and fixes here and there.
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Twenty Four posted:Nice to see another Jugg (when I'm not Raider-ing) going with the spinfusor instead of the X-1. For me, it is more fun, even if not as effective as most people would say. From briefly looking at the comments I understand why he would go with the regular spinfusor instead (less self damage for mobility), but I'm still not sure why the regular mortar over the FMD. We just talked about this and most agreed with me that the FMD is the better choice, so maybe it is just his weird preference. I still stand by the Deluxe. X1 is definitely for big babies and nobody should ever use it and not feel great shame. Jug life is all about suffering and projecting that suffering to others with your mortar. And Mupp might use the regular mortar because he's more accustomed to it. I'm fairly sure the the FMD is a straight up upgrade but the extra projectile range might mess with his aim or something.
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Twenty Four posted:I would be okay with that as long as people keep playing. I realize these days most people expect a constant stream of content to stay interested in a game, but I have always found both old and new FPS games to be highly replayable even without updates as long as you have even a small community to play them with online. Of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't want more content, just that I find T:A to be at an acceptable state to continue to be enjoyed for quite some time, even if I do have some opinions about changes and fixes here and there. It's a free to play game, people will continue to play it. At least until they release Tribes: Ascend 2 next year...
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| # ? May 19, 2013 12:22 |
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If they actually fixed things, I wouldn't have a problem with 'Tribes: Ascend 2: The Ascending' I am kind of afraid that we're never getting any new content, but I really hope we do. I hope at least that will abandon the game with one final update and a nice big announcement of mod support and custom map options, but its more likely we just get no acknowledgement of its deathX1 is pretty shameful, its just too good Duelfinder is a fun-rear end loadout. Bolt Launcher, secondary of choice, explosive nitrons, safety third, quick draw. You are a fast, fragile, killing machine. Like a mini Terminator, with a jetpack If anyone ever wants to duel, let me know, I'm always looking for practice
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I don't have a problem with updates ending as long as everything is solid, but I still think the game could use some balance/gameplay tweaks and optimization. I also think they are massively under-utilizing aesthetic microtransactions and should have had new skins coming out every month after launch.
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| # ? May 19, 2013 23:11 |
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I do want the soldier and path skins... but I don't wanna spend money :|
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| # ? May 19, 2013 23:16 |
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Horizontal Tree posted:I do want the soldier and path skins... but I don't wanna spend money :|
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Steve Jorbs posted:I would spend real United States Dollars for soldier skins and other cosmetic items. As TF2 and DotA 2 have shown even competitive online games are all about the hat-play. Real sloppy show for hi-rez to not hit this trend up more than a couple of odd skins every year. I haven't looked at Smite though, are there any cosmetic purchases to be found there? There's more there than Tribes but the Smite skins are garbage. Most of them are really, really lovely recolors that took like five minutes of work, and a few are obnoxious but at least better skins. For example.
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The lovely recolors can be gained for Favor without real dollars, if you're into that sort of thing. Pirate Sobek meanwhile is pretty allright, and talks like a Pirate. But yes, there is a large gap of quality for the Recolors. On the one hand you have "Made Of Water" Hebo as linked, or swirling rainbow colors for Freya. Then you have Bast and Neith just trading their Gold bikini's for black ones. As much as I've been playing smite lately though, no excuse for HiRez to practically drop this game I was previously playing a lot of.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 22:26 |
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I've suggested reskins in the past, Tribes is so starved for player customization that even being able to select "Mercenary except Red" or "Diamond Sword except Golden" would be great. They would take minutes to whip up on in Photoshop and they could sell them for pennies.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 22:34 |
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Being able to pick a colour palette for your armor and weapons would be a nice addition
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| # ? May 20, 2013 22:57 |
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Children of the Phoenix skins, we need them.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 23:06 |
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We were promised them and they never delivered I'm hankerin' for some arena play, anyone in?
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Fina posted:I've suggested reskins in the past, Tribes is so starved for player customization that even being able to select "Mercenary except Red" or "Diamond Sword except Golden" would be great. They would take minutes to whip up on in Photoshop and they could sell them for pennies.  charm.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 23:30 |
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Why did I ever stop playing this game? I'm having so much fun right now.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 09:31 |
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Shoehead posted:Why did I ever stop playing this game? I'm having so much fun right now. i was cheesing pubs a few rounds to see people squeal. that's always fun.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 10:28 |
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Finally rearranged my computer space, so now I can use my whole mousepad. Instead of sitting rotated 90*, and then having part of my keyboard on it, its now rotated properly and unhindered. Dropped my DPI a little more, and its amazing. I can track targets much smoother than before, since I can go a lot further without lifting my mouse. Played with Valiah* for a while, mostly chatting in an empty arena server in between duels. It was a good time, I wish we could get a goon arena game going sometime *I already forgot what you said your SA name is, sorry! 
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| # ? May 21, 2013 15:32 |
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Just got back in to this game. Last time I played , was I'm sure anyways, well before you could unlock weapon upgrades by using them. First question: was the Doombringer nerfed to drat near absoletion? And second: Is the raider's Dust Devil any different than it's stock ARX buster?
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Tommy 2.0 posted:Just got back in to this game. Last time I played , was I'm sure anyways, well before you could unlock weapon upgrades by using them. First question: was the Doombringer nerfed to drat near absoletion? And second: Is the raider's Dust Devil any different than it's stock ARX buster? Nothing I can think of for DMB. Dust Devil has larger AoE and less direct damage, so easier to use if your not good enough to direct stick someone reliably.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 19:35 |
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Dust Devil is actually better than the Arx in almost every situation. Before shielded base assets, the Arx was better for taking out turrets and sensors. The Dust Devil is better for trying to kill people because the AoE is pretty drat large, and it still does good damage on direct hits. Sticking people with the Arx/DD is pretty tough, even if you're good at midairs. I don't think the Doombringer has ever been nerfed. Its a very powerful class, its just limited to only HoF or stay-at-home D.
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