Tribes MMO coming

This is awesome news! I loved Tribes 1 & 2, and I hope the new game will capture the same gameplay feel.
 
Good news, Tribes was one of my favorite multiplayer shooters back in the day.
 
Here is a list of features the devs want to put in it:


* Three Tribes (factions)
* Full clan (agency) support
* First person view (third person for some vehicles)
* Full vehicle support (ground and air)
* Full persistent world with territory control (no instances)
* PvP focused
* Huge outdoor maps (about 10x the area of sonoran desert)
* Large scale fights (100+ players)
* Jetpacks, skiing, lots of weapons, etc

Alpha testing begins in Q1 2011
 
Well, FireFall has the Lead Designer of Tribes 1 and 2, Scott Youngblood.
Good luck to this "real" Tribes MMO. hehe
 
A dev post on the forums says that they do have devs/players on staff from the former tribes games and the staff who hasn't played it is now playing Tribes 2 in studio. Thank God they aren't basing it off of Tribes Vengeance!
 
This might be the first MMO I seriously consider paying for each month! Tribes 2 was my absolute favorite game ever!
 
The spiritual successor to Planetside? I love MMORPGs and typical online FPS play tends to bore me, but Planetside held my attention for ages until the updates stopped and the price remained at $15 monthly... in other words, normal SOE behavior.
 
Wow....Tribes 1 was one of the main reasons I got interested in PC hardware.

I'll be watching this one for sure!
 
"You mean World of Warcraft has 12 million people paying $15 a month, EVERY MONTH? Holy crap we gotta make an MMO!"
- "Hell yeah! I got an idea, lets advertise the crap out of it and make a collectors edition that costs $30 more and hope people buy that, and maybe they'll subscribe for atleast 2 months, that'll really make the bank! It's the new revenue model!"

I did love Starsiege Tribes though. It never got much love, it was around during the Quake / UT99 days, but was so much better.
 
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Excellent. I hope it's almost the same thing as Tribes 2/ Tribes 1. Put it Katabatic as well. That was such an awesome map.
 
Tribes was great fun back in the day, bombarding people from the flying 4 seaters, one person lasing targets and the other firing those large grenade things, was fun.

The skiing elitest stuff was a bit irritating but generally speaking very good. I can see how people think it would be a spiritual successor to Planetside, there is actually a Planetside 2 being made now.
 
I was a god at Tribes 1 but this game will probably be garbage. All the hell they have to do is rerelease Tribes 1 or 2 with improved graphics. They need to go back to the roots and not try and screw with what it was all about.
 
So was Global Agenda any good or should we be expecting a bad game?

I always enjoyed it. In the beginning many people said it kind of felt like tribes. It started with a free portion and a subscription portion. As time went on the developers dropped the subscription model all together in favor of an expansion model like guild wars. They have listened well to the community and added a ton of new content.
So I am very optimistic they can pull it off.
 
I always enjoyed it. In the beginning many people said it kind of felt like tribes. It started with a free portion and a subscription portion. As time went on the developers dropped the subscription model all together in favor of an expansion model like guild wars. They have listened well to the community and added a ton of new content.
So I am very optimistic they can pull it off.

Awesome. At least there is hope that this will turn out well.
 
i wonder if it will require glide this time around. The value of voodoo 2 SLI pairs is about to skyrocket :p
 
Shazbot!

Tribes 2 was indeed fun. It also had an awesome in game interface. News updates, friends lists, private messages, server browser. Also had the official message board built in which apparently got taken down after some time. Anyone know why they did that?
 
So was Global Agenda any good or should we be expecting a bad game?

I wasn't impressed with GA. I am a huge tribes nerd and while this game is entertaining, I don't feel that this company with properly capture the enviroment of Tribes. Only time will tell, I will be looking forward to beta.
 
I'd be happy if they just did a graphics update and kept the game play and mod ability of Tribes one. Really was one of the best multiplayer games ever in my opinion. Wasted soooooo much time with it,
 
Tribes 1 was the shizzz. Tribes 2 not so much. Back in the day, if I wasn't playing Tribes Renegades mod I was playing UT instagib. This MMO will prob suck
 
I was a god at Tribes 1 but this game will probably be garbage. All the hell they have to do is rerelease Tribes 1 or 2 with improved graphics. They need to go back to the roots and not try and screw with what it was all about.

Been saying this for years. Tribes 1 was good 2 had potential to be great but lost support tooo fast. This is good but I'm praying they don't fuck it up trying to make each tribe "unique" keep everything the same upgrade graphics no classes just customised loadouts like before done.
 
I wish they would just release a non mmo kick ass modernized multi player Tribes being that its been years since the last one. Then, build on that to branch off a Tribes MMO. MMO business just has a high chance of failure if your name isn't Blizzard.
 
wow....I hope this isn't lame. I didn't think T:V was too bad.....but nobody really played it.
 
I hope it suceeds too, but I'm pessimistic about the PVP only model which has been rumored (no PVE). Games need that monotonous downtime to get away from PVP, just like PVE games need PVP to get away from.

No this isn't in relationship to WoW at all.
 
The spiritual successor to Planetside? I love MMORPGs and typical online FPS play tends to bore me, but Planetside held my attention for ages until the updates stopped and the price remained at $15 monthly... in other words, normal SOE behavior.
Yeah planetside was the first thing I thought of too.
Rectifying CTF and MMO is a hard thing to do. Was hard to play even on broadband, FIOS should make it better...
 
I was really excited to hear about this, loved tribes, and it was the reason I tried Global Agenda...

Though being an NVIDIA surround user, and with Hi-Rez's refusal to support surround/eyefinity in Global Agenda concerns me.. :-( I wonder if they will stick with their decision to block ultra-wide gameplay in Tribes Universe as well..
 
Been saying this for years. Tribes 1 was good 2 had potential to be great but lost support tooo fast. This is good but I'm praying they don't fuck it up trying to make each tribe "unique" keep everything the same upgrade graphics no classes just customised loadouts like before done.

They patched the heck out of Tribes 2 which made the game excellent.
 
Yeah planetside was the first thing I thought of too.
Rectifying CTF and MMO is a hard thing to do. Was hard to play even on broadband, FIOS should make it better...

I think the reason everyone connects to Planetside is that...Planetside really WAS about 90% of the way there.

Pretty much everything in it would have worked thematically in the Tribes universe...the base captures, 'flag' captures, huge open fields, different classes (that played VERY differently), vehicles, etc.

Only things that really screwed it up from capturing that golden feeling would be:
- No jetpacks. SRSLY FTL!
- MMO-style hitboxes for characters (headshots? What's that? Clipping??? What is this strange language you speak?)
- SOE. The only company capable of turning ANYTHING they touch to poison. Seriously, you had *Everquest*...how could you POSSIBLY have lost the entire market?
- Let's not even talk about BFRs. What a clever and interesting idea, TOTALLY OUT OF PLACE IN THE GAME'S EXISTING THEME AND BALANCE.

Really, everything else they did just about perfectly. The way they handled command roles, clan support, even "leveling" (in an unobtrusive way - as with shooters, your aim is always your aim...you don't "miss" something you had in your sites just because you haven't leveled up the necessary skill. Basically, you just get access to new perks and new skill slots to buy different weapon suites with.)
 
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