Just had the most painful winning round of Tribes ever. Joined the game when it was 1-2 (game goes to 5), playing flag defence. Got my mines going, got my forcefield up. Splattering attackers left and right. We tie the game up. Keep splattering attackers. Eventually one of them manages to get the flag off the stand, but dies in a very defensible spot. Great! Just leave the flag there, I say. So of course someone comes and returns it.
Grumble back to my stand. Forcefield's down, but I don't have time to replace it.
ing asshole technicians keep stealing my ammo drops, so I can never replace my landmines. Another heavy shows up and throws down a terribly placed forcefield, but he changes class soon enough. Game goes to 3-3. Flag gets knocked into an even MORE defensible area; corner of a tiny-ass corridor sitting between a landmine and a turret. I'm sitting there keeping my chaingun revved. Tell the teammates not to move it. Twenty seconds later, someone returns it. It's promptly grabbed and capped. 3-4.
A pair of attackers come at me, and I splatter one of them, but the other makes it out with the flag. He gets right up to his stand before our offense takes him down, returns it, and steals their flag. Equalizing cap came with only a couple minutes to go. Base is getting pounded by mortars, but my teammates ignore it. They get our flag, but our ofence takes theirs. Our carrier dies, but I kill the guy that was on him and take the flag. Enemy medium; kill him. Another one, a light armour, this time he uses a concussion grenade to make me drop the flag. Kill him and pick it back up. I'm almost dead. Enemy heavy with a spinfusor (rocket launcher type thing) comes at me; no teammates around, we're
ed. Jetpacking backwards, plinking away at him - it takes a century to kill a heavy with the chaingun. Duck underneath the support columns of a nearby aqueduct. Lose him momentarily. Get a bunch of free hits. His dying blow connects, and I drop the flag. In the post-mortem, I see a flying V of teammates coming to grab the flag.
Our offense forces a flag return. I get back to my stand. Forcefield goes up.
ing dropping mines non-stop. Enemies keep flying into me, their bodies shattering on contact. The mortars resume; nothing I can do. Why the
haven't we made the final cap yet? It takes a couple seconds to build enough energy to jet to the flagstand. First wave of attackers broken; second wave starts tearing in to me. Getting bounced god damn everywhere, but the landmines are doing their job. Flag carrier finally gets to the stand, but eats a mortar. Enemy gets a grab but eats a landmine. Our flag is back. Tech grabs their flag and caps.
We won, but I hated my teammates for damn near every single moment of it.