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Tribes: Ascend Game of the Year Edition [Download]

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3.0 3.0 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
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  • Tribes: Ascend - Game of the Year unlocks all weapons and perks from: the Cloak & Dagger update, Raid & Pillage update, Tartarus update, Staying Alive update, Accelerate update, Stonehenge update, Twinfusor update, Bliz update, Marksman update, Revolution update, plus the new Shocklance.
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"Every Shooter Should Have Jetpacks!"

Tribes: Ascend is the world's fastest shooter - an online multiplayer FPS with jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, and multiple classes.

With Tribes: Ascend - Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed multiplayer shooter of 2012 like never before. This edition packages weapon DLC from ten previous expansions as well new featured content.

Tribes: Ascend - Game of the Year unlocks all weapons and perks from: the Cloak & Dagger update, Raid & Pillage update, Tartarus update, Staying Alive update, Accelerate update, Stonehenge update, Twinfusor update, Bliz update, Marksman update, Revolution update, plus the new Shocklance.

For a single purchase you unlock ALL weapons in the game (over 110), all classes (9), all perks (21), and the new Shocklance weapon.

Key Features:

  • Skiing: A slow soldier is a dead soldier. By holding down space bar you remove friction and build momentum to traverse large maps, hunt down targets, and escape enemy territory at intense speeds.
  • Jetpacks: Total freedom of movement and aerial, dog-fight like combat.
  • Class-Based Combat: Nine classes, each with unique weapon loadouts and abilities.
  • Escalating Intensity: In each match you earn credits for shooting down enemies or supporting your team's objectives. Use these match credits to upgrade base defenses, access vehicles, or call-in tactical strikes. The longer you play, the more chaotic the match becomes.
  • Vehicles: Pilot the powerful Beowulf tank, the speedy two-person Grav Cycle or the versatile flying Shrike.
  • Beautiful, Massive Battlefields: Wage war in a variety of open environments including frozen wastelands, sprawling cities, and jagged mountains.
  • Don't Fight Alone: Friend-list allows you to link up with others and establish supremacy online
  • Spectator Mode: Highly-detailed spectator mode allows you to zoom in on your favorite players, view player data, and switch between action hot spots on the fly.


System Requirements:
  • Supported OS: Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
  • RAM: 2GB (XP), 3GB (Vista, Win7)
  • Hard Disk: 10 GB free
  • Video Card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher).
  • Additional Requirements: Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card Internet connection required Recommended system requirements OS: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU RAM: 4GB Graphics card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 1GB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560+ or ATI Radeon 6950+). Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card Hard drive: 10 GB free

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justjoe
1.0 out of 5 stars I can't tell how much of my life I wasted playing the original Tribes
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2015
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I can't tell how much of my life I wasted playing the original Tribes. You buy the CD, install the game, and play until you puke. You didn't have to pay a dime more. The game servers were supported by individuals while the game was played over IRC servers. If you got good enough, you could customize files in your game to make things interesting.

It's a sign of the times where your success in a computer game greatly depends on how much you spend on accessories. This is what Tribes was reduced to. It's very disappointing and disheartening.

:((
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bLoWsMokE
5.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately the servers aren't up anymore I don't think ;<
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2023
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I wouldn't mind playing this again... even if just through LAN.... but I don't think it's possible anymore... too bad.
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Jerry Segler
3.0 out of 5 stars Dead game but free copy
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2019
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Dead game but free copy
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Bullwinkle
4.0 out of 5 stars MUST go to home page to register before playing
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013
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I almost went nuts trying to register from the registration page/sign-on portal that comes up after I finished downloading the game and opening it. My cursor wouldn't appear in the boxes so I could register.

You have to go to the homepage to register,and then come back and log on. Once you do that things work fine.

I haven't played it yet,just watched some of the classes,so I just hit 4 stars because it seems interesting.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Does not launch, 0 star true rating
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
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Keeps hanging after fresh install and try play , patcher starts and no way to stop it go around it so can even put an IP address as google search tells so to even start it wants to patch ......blah never ran even once. tried over 2 month period to install w same results,,,, patcher hangs about 1/3 way through bar.... dont waste time then to clean all the crud it left since you will want to uninstall a stupid game that dont even launch.
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Chris J. Cowen
5.0 out of 5 stars Tribe: Ascend is the best in class for first person shooters.
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2013
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Tribe: Ascend is a great first person shooter (FPS) game. The best part is that you can jump into the game for free. The level design is very good and the maps are very big as well. The game offers 9 classes for you play around with. Each class has unique weapons and how can you go wrong with a game that has jetpacks? So whether you are flying or driving you will have a good time with Tribes: Ascend.

Thank you for reading my review.
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Reef Blastbody
3.0 out of 5 stars A great initial effort, but now an orphaned title.
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2013
Subscription Term Name: Game of the Year
As a long time FPS gamer (since Wolfenstein 3D and Doom), and a veteran Tribes player (I still have my original Starsiege Tribes and Tribes 2 CDs from the mid 1990's), I was initially delighted that the franchise had made a comeback. Sure, there were a LOT of changes from the original Tribes, but the graphics were good, and they'd nailed the skiing mechanic, and had the jet packs at about 95%. (the original game had much better maneuverability while in flight, Ascend once you're airborne, you're more or less going in a straight arc, and they made some very questionable decisions with the physics model that severely limits acceleration and top speed)

The weapons balance, initially, was also good. The heavy armor classes packed the biggest punch, but were limited in mobility compared to the lights and mediums. I didn't particularly care for them having 3 variations of each armor class (light, medium, heavy), and sure as hell didn't care for the reduction in weapons loadout to a primary and secondary, and a belt item (i.e. a grenade or mine). I know it was an incentive to drive people to cough up real money via micro-transactions to skip the grind of unlocking each classes optional weapons and so forth, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. However, after they started releasing new weapons (well, some were genuinely new, others were variations of the freebie guns that were textured with different colors and with slightly tweaked range/damage/splash radius/whatever) that were MASSIVELY overpowered in some manner, then later "nerfed" (nerfing is a term for reducing something's overall effectiveness.) due to the high volume of complaints from the user base. Examples are the Raider's plasma gun. When it first came out, the range/speed of the projectile, and the relatively massive size of the hit box (the size that the game engine uses to determine how close to the enemy you're shooting at to decide if you hit or not) gave the Raider class (and those who'd whipped out the credit card to buy some Tribes Gold to purchase it) an overwhelming advantage for a couple of weeks, until a patch was pushed out to nerf the plasma gun. This pattern repeated with every single new unique weapon that was released for each class. And some classes never got any new weapons that weren't re-colored variants of their original day one weapons. Mostly the heavy armor classes. Definitely created an atmosphere of "pay to win" on a free to play game.

The lack of a map making tool is also a serious oversight. Hi Rez states that end users lack the necessary "talent" to make maps that pass muster, but I would disagree. Many of my all time favorite maps in online FPS were those created by the community by people who loved the game and knew what worked (and was fun) and what didn't (and wasn't). Hi Rez is a krill larvae of a game company when compared to the blue whales like Electronic Arts, Sony Online or Blizzard, so it's somewhat understandable that since they struggle to get just one game at a time out and update it in a timely fashion (they only have *1* coder, after all), that their judgement would be colored thus, but still a blatant mistake. Does every person playing Tribes have the skills to make a good map in UnrealEdit? No. But all it takes is a handful to invigorate the game with new maps.

Which leads us to the present state of Tribes Ascend: it's pretty well abandonware at this point. Hi Rez has already stated that no further development will be done on Tribes Ascend. This is a nontrivial matter. The game is NOT stable or optimized well. If you have the misfortune of having an internet connection that's more than a couple of hops away from the (over taxed) servers, your gaming experience will be frustrated by high latency (lag) and dropped connections to the server. Cheating is also relatively common, as there are numerous UnrealScript scripts that allow unethical players to exploit programming mistakes left in the game by Hi Rez. One example is the "hitscan impulse" script: most of the bullet type weapons are "hit scan" i.e. wherever your crosshair is pointing when you click the fire button, it instantly hits, instead of the game calculating a simulated projectile path where the target could have moved out of the way by the time the projectile arrives. In Tribes, the force of the impact is given to the server by the game running on the end user's PC. With a hack, the cheater can have the game tell the server that his/her projectile hits it's target with enough force to send the other player flying across the map. Hi Rez has known about this cheat for months, but hasn't (and won't) do anything to fix it.

So, the TL:DR (too long: didn't read) summary of Tribes Ascend: almost, but not quite, and not likely to get fixed by Hi Rez. Play it for free, and if you're really that jazzed by it and willing to accept the risk that Hi Rez may well pull the plug on the Tribes servers at any time in the near future, plunk down the $30 or so (or wait for a promo like the recent $0.01 Game Of The Year deal they offered to Amazon's German customers) and get the Game Of The Year which unlocks all the weapons and skins, and blast away. It's still a fun game, but it almost hurts knowing how much *BETTER* it could be if someone with actual talent had it.
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Adam C
5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best game out there
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014
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There isn't anything else that captures this, but you need to be good to even try to play. Everyone's reflexes are X and Y, this game adds 360° free movement on the z-axis and it is so difficult that 90% of players quit in the first two weeks. It is free to download, and dirt cheap to upgrade so I suggest you download it today and get on the field.
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