Release November 8, Date Added June 8, Operating Systems. Total Downloads , Downloads Last Week 4. Report Software. Related Software. Engage enemies in multiple attack sites across the globe.
Call of Duty 2 demo Free to try. Immerse yourself in the glorious chaos of all-out war. Call of Duty: World at War Free. Update your instance of Call of Duty: World at War v1. Fans of Tribes, which is touted as the "world's fastest shooter," can download the PC versions of Earthsiege , Earthsiege 2 , Starsiege , Starsiege: Tribes , Tribes 2 and Tribes Vengeance as freeware from the series' website.
While the revelation that the entire Tribes series was now free to download made the rounds on Reddit and other sites this week, Hi-Rez president Stew Chisam said the games have been available for free for months now. We also just saw it as a fun use of the TribesUniverse. Our predecessors at previous studios created a rich universe and an amazing set of games. When you arrive at the enemy flag, one of three things will happen: A. Start taking the flag back home. As you do this, check if 1 your team's flag is still at home, or 2 if the other team also got a grab.
You won't make it home every time. Sometimes you'll die and drop the flag mid-field, and the other team will leave the flag there. When this happens your job is to 'force' the other team to return the flag. To do this, you simply head to the flag in midfield and try to kill the defender s who are defending it and re-grab the flag. The best way to force the flag is kind of tricky and knowing whether to just try to grab it or kill the defenders will come with experience.
Notes on Camping: Whenever your teammate grabs the flag and begins his return route, now is the time to get in position to camp. During a standoff, don't venture off too far in pursuit of the enemy Capper. If their flag is returned and you are out of position they will most likely cap. The browser is merely adequate - one big downfall is the lack of a "player search" function to find your friends. Hopefully standalone server browsers will start supporting tribes so that we can enjoy the more advanced features offered by those packages.
Communication between players outside of gameplay is handled via standard IRC, again built into the game. The network code itself, once you are in the game, is also pretty good. Lag is a problem as always, but it rarely provides you with a disadvantage in fire fights.
I was able to stay competitive with pings up to ms. The problem presents itself as periods of server lag, where nobody can really do much.
Fortunately, these laggy periods seem to be the exception rather than the rule. Once you find a server and get into the game, you start in observer mode and are automatically assigned to one of the competing tribes - there are usually two tribes but multi-tribe levels, where three or four tribes compete, are also available.
Aside from the 3D first person view, there are two other screens of importance: the objectives screen and the commander screen. The former provides an overview of the situation including score, time remaining and the current objectives, and the latter displays an overhead map of the area and locations of other players and objects.
The commander screen is a very important concept, and as far as I know the first time something like this has been implemented in a multiplayer game twiddling my thumbs while waiting for that email to tell me how wrong I am.
More about this in a litte bit. The graphics are functional, but nothing to write home about. The animations of the players are realistic, the fog effect, which is present in software mode as well, is neat and the hilly terrain is nice to look at.
A very nice touch is that not only a players armor and weapon is visible, but their back pack unit as well - so you can tell whether a teammate is handling the repairs or on his way to deploy a turret.
Various levels of zoom are available, assisting snipers and scouts. The software mode looks pretty decent for a change, which should help those of us without 3dfx cards, as the program only supports Glide right now. A patch is in the works that will provide Open GL support. On the audio front, the game supports "team radio", an idea first seen in various Quake 2 mods, where you can choose the messages you want to deliver to your team from a series of menus.
After about three key presses, your message is delivered in audio, as well as in text. It really makes it easier in the heat of combat. What do you do upon entering the game? The answer is not simple, there are many choices. It's not simply a case of "Are there enough people on defense? If yes, go offense, if not, defend the base"as in CTF, or "What classes would be useful to the team on this map? There are many, many different approaches you can take, which is the game's greatest strength, and can also be its downfall Otherwise, you'll need to find an inventory station and equip, choosing from three different armor types, a wider selection of weapons, backpacks of various functions, misc devices such as mines, grenades and beacons, and deployable turrets, sensors and remote stations.
Your choice of armor is dictated either by game's imposed limitations snipers and pilots have to be in light armor, mortar artillery requires heavy armor and deploying turrets and stations requires at least medium armor or your personal style: if you are going to go for the enemy objectives, or decide to play the repairman, you will want the fast but weak light armor.
For defensive purposes such as guarding entrances or objectives a heavy armor may be better and base sabotage will usually call for medium armor. A unique aspect of Tribes is that all the sensors within the game world are actually linked as a network. Sensors tell you where the enemy is, and are therefore critical to success. You have your wide area pulse sensors that can be jammed by sensor jammer packs, motion sensors that can't be jammed but have limited range and can only detect moving objects and cameras that even let you take control of them and take a look around - too bad they only have a 90 degrees field of view.
And finally, all players have sensors built into their suits - which means if you see something, so can all your tribe members. Tribes is possibly the only game where scouting is a real job. Repairing, supplementing and generally making proper use of the sensor network is a key aspect of the game. The Tribes environment is mostly outdoors, with individual bases and other buildings littered across a fairly large for walking anyway area.
To make getting from A to B easier, some levels provide vehicle pads, from which fast and armed one-man scout flyers or 3 or 5 men flying APCs can be launched. While in transit via APC, you can still look around and shoot at targets of opportunity - four heavy armored soldiers launching mortar shells from an APC is a sight to behold. Vehicles are not the only objects you can control: some levels have command stations, which you can access to take control of turrets. Control of plasma turrets are better left to the computer AI, but it doesn't use the mortar turrets at all and homing rocket turrets can be used to fire at extreme ranges that the computer doesn't bother to engage targets at.
The firefights in Tribes would be pretty much run of the mill stuff, if it weren't for the jetpacks. If you are engaging in combat outside, chances are you are in light armor which makes the jetpack your sole means of survival at medium to close ranges. For heavier armor types, jetpack is used to gain some mobility, but the light armor can literally blast off into orbit using these puppies.
The modeling of the jetpack physics is also rather impressive and felt very, very real in perfect harmony with my two and a half years of jetpack training at the academy. The weapons themselves are rather well done as well - there isn't a single "useless" weapon as is too common with other games of this type. By the way, during the course of a few weeks, I occasionally ran into a problem where my mouse would be "read" by the program about once every two seconds instead of several times per second resulting in some jerky motions and total loss of control.
The only fix was to quit and restart Tribes. At least one other person confirmed the bug online, but it's not frequent enough to be a major concern.
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