These were the golden gaming days. Something inherently cool was about games of that era and people who played them. Things are different now and online gaming is different. It's saturated with mainstream implementations, aimed at attracting more players and making more money for the devs. Online players are different too - wanna be somethings, less cool, less skilled even and with short attention spans. I really miss the early 2000 gaming era. I can't experience the online part of it again but can only play old single player games with great nostalgia.
Remember when people would BS and have fun? Remember when you could trust people to switch teams to even the odds for a better fight? Remember when you used to get a GG or nice shot comment?
It's so nice to hear someone see the complexity that goes into these matches. Just the tiny scope I was in -- two capping groups, each 1 bomber/3 shrikes attacking from opposite sides. After the bombing run, shrikes dive-bomb the flag, whoever survives to grab it, all the other shrikes become escorts to ward off the enemy shrikes or scout-chasers. Not to mention the base rapers - who build a base, in your base! Defenders, repairmen, pilots, saboteurs, commanders, support. Love it! Miss it!
It makes me glad that you still like my video. It took a lot of work, and turned out pretty well. Gosh it was amazing, shame there will never be another game as epic in scale (96v96!!!), strategy, skill, teamwork, complexity, and combat. Just, whew... good times, good memories. I'm currently into CS:GO, Killing Floor, and Battlefield 3. If you play any of those, we can join up for more good times!
It's amazing all the teamwork that is happening in that first cap, more than just the awesome shrike pass. The juggie throwing flares for you right after the grab, the air support, the bomber moving to block, the laser that misses you by inches, when that flag was grabbed nothing else mattered for both teams.
Yeah, these were truly massive events. I remember The Ladder - we had several trainings before every match and thought about new ways to protect our flag and capture the one of the enemy team. Each (friendly) skirmish taught us new tricks. Getting 16 vs 16 players in sync at the start of the match was quite a struggle. And every one of them had a specific task which they sticked to during the battles. There was no room for solo fighters. Nowadays you can be happy when your BF squad of four does not consist of only snipers :D :D :D
Okay, this is an old post buuut I'm feeling a bit sentimental, so... awesome video, I miss this game so much. I mean, first off like you say the community, and the awesome teams you'd build. I wasn't all that serious, but I still managed to make friends, mostly in the Renegade groups, and it was all about seeing the same people log on now and then. I'm out of Europe and I still remember asking someone what time it was, and realizing I'd played with them until 5AM my time. This girl
i miss these days.. i miss being a bomber pilot, flying in at 5-10k metres above the enemy base and just dive bombing with mortars and bombs while using a jammer pack
Nice Job nice to see a tribes2 video that is not just anouther collection of MA's and shows a bit more of what the game is about. I miss Friday nights a lot, i still hope on a for a couple maps about once a week but it's not quite the same. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to replace tribes2, I've played other games and nothing comes close.
Thanks for the post, I'm glad you enjoyed my video. Renegades was tons of fun, hop in, meet friendly players, if you don't what you're doing they'll gladly teach you, make new friends, good times That last clip at the end with Elgy's disc-jump-suicide, was filmed at 4AM with three of us just messing around with missile dodging and talking. For the the past nine years, I've found the bee's knees of gaming in LAN parties. Console or PC, pizza/soda/good friends, a great combo. Have a good one!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. So much nostalgia. I hope that one day a video game will make me feel as involved, engaged, thrilled and part of a community the way that this one did.
@ProzacStylings In T2, shrikes are almost necessary for capping on large maps, and they are actually very weak. The standard process of battle in T2 was - Build up defense using automated turrets, sensors, and setting up mobile point bases (with heavy turrets attached) -> preparing for bombing raids that break the defense -> when defense is broken by bombers and base rapers, cappers go in -> chase the cappers -> rebuild and repeat. For every successful cap, I probably lost about 8-15 planes.
I too am bummed that Friday Night Fights is dead, it seems like TribesNext is now the only way to play decent-sized T2 matches, though with the absence of how in-depth FNFs were (Ventrilo, major communication and teamwork, active admins). I've moved on to Team Fortress 2 now, namely the nom-nom-nom server, as well as Left 4 Dead 2. I'm glad you liked the video, if you could, give it a rating =)
As a note, even in the video at 3:38 I died in the run shortly after the mid-air collision, but I have footage of the full match where the flag was carried off from me and made a successful capture. You're right, the defense in most of the caps is weak, since an opportunity for me to get in and out without being heavily damaged requires either an inept team, or more commonly their entire base being bombed and raped by juggernauts. I hope it was semi-entertaining though.
@GKFC All of the runs I put in the video were full runs, meaning I get the flag and bring it all the way home, or I enter an enemy base to retrieve a flag from turtling. There are far, far, more failed runs where I die after going 300 feet, and my capping teammates pick the flag off me and the others as they die on the way back to base. These are the more fortunate and easier runs that allowed me to have full-length footage. Most matches had nowhere near this level of success as a capper.
@helpful123456789 That was a single file shrike cap from one direction, I was point. I hopped out going max speed, fired a disc to separate the heavies, and went through to get the flag. I fell to the floor and ramped off a hill, my rear guard was protecting me, and hopped out of his shrike, popped flares (for missiles), and I hopped in. I dodge-weaved to make the chaser's shots harder, ejected because of damage, they tried to mid-air ram me, I used a health kit while falling, and capped.
That's some fantastic footage, pretty jaw dropping precision in some of those tricks! I was really impressed with the seamless Shrike switch in the second clip. As much as I'm enjoying Tribes: Ascend, it makes me sad that many of the things like this aren't really possible (or, at least, feasible) with its simplified, "modernized" gameplay.
ELgY, ArataEnka, and I were really bored one night at the Rebels Reloaded server. ELgY tried that suicide grenade over 15 times, so I told him he had four more before I stopped filming and went to bed. That clip is the footage of the last try. If you look at the end, you can see his says Woohoo a lot. Wish I could find ELgY again to show him the video.
@BlackwingDragon I'm going to take it you've never played Tribes 2? For our 30vs30 matches, everyone is divided into squads and are constantly chatting on mics. I was always with the cappers, and the three-five of us would do specific patterns on entry (single-file, opposite sides, point to suicide break the defense), and we would co-ordinate with bombers before we go in. Then there are the base-rapers, who help keep the defense down while we snag the flag. It's fast paced and adapting strategy.
Favorite part was 1:59 because I too have so many memories when sleuthing solo and remember parking my vehicle in a secluded spot, planning my escape route. When the other team began to swarm me I remember racing to my vehicle thinking "So close, home free home free!"
@TheFri13 You're correct, base/classic is the most pure form of Tribes 2. Many servers adopted v2 to make the game more playable, and in many ways more like Tribes 1. By pure, I suppose the best way to say it is, "v2 makes Tribes 2 what it is supposed to be", fast, mobile, rapid-strategy and more fluid in terms of speed limits, acceleration, weapon stats. So yes, base is the most pure literal definition, v2 makes Tribes 2 pure in maintaining the Starsiege: Tribes gameplay it is based on,
Heh, thanks for the thanks, I had a lot of fun making this video, and am glad it has become as popular as it has. Tribes 2 still lives, on life-support on a new master-server called TribesNext. I shouldn't say lives - more like refuses to die, as a shadow of what Tribes 2 community servers once were. If you want Tribes, go get Tribes Ascend. Spend $5-10 for credits, and have some fun. It's as close as you'll get what Tribes should be, it's able to get a capper's heart pounding again =]
@Un1uckyGh0st13 Yes, it's called Tribes: Ascension. Sounds exciting. As long as they don't dumb it down for the masses, and keep the high player counts and strategy, it might turn out well.
I feel you right there, nothing has every come close to the scale, depth, and amazing communities as Tribes 2 in it's prime, maybe Team Fortress 2 in it's heyday. Some of my students at church are wowed at 16x16 CTF games, or Fortnites Battle Royale with 100x players. T2 had 96v96 CTF on a 4 square mile map back in 2004, with just completely unreal game modes. Heck, I remember a mode with the entire map being lava, and running 64v64 players on heavy transports in a flying team-deathmath all out battle. Almost like a naval battle, in the air, with rocket launchers, jetpacks, and those darn kamakazis who would jetpack from transport to transport sticking C4 satchels to them, jumping off and blowing you to smitherines. When out of C4, jumping onto a final transport, executing the pilot, hopping in his seat, and plunging the transport and the players still on it straight down into the lava. If your felt really gutsy, ram it into another enemy transport -- 2 for 1. Crazy times, good people, lots of good memories, thanks for sharing!
Those of us who did it know. T2 was a brilliant spectacle when all the gaming planets aligned perfectly. Best community, even casual play was a blast. There won't be another one. Game design, tech & gamers & dev/mod communities - everything was more dedicated then. A pioneer & also high water mark for online gaming.
I reinstalled this game from tribes next. My old login handle still works!!! I cant believe i remembered the password. All the servers are bots now. Game still runs and feels amazing. I must say its a weird kind of nostalgia skiing the lonely slopes as if I'm the last player on earth. Remembering old friends long gone, and all the old adventures we had. Other than graphics its better than most games out there to be honest. Beats Call of Shit Duty and the abomination that Battlefields become over the years. I miss the golden years of fps gaming. Feels like all the innovation and creativity has just been sucked out of pc gaming. They make games for the lowest common denominator now. Games used to be made for pc now there made for shitty consoles. Your right we will never see another tribes again #SAD.
@QuackMasterDan Oh yeah also in Ascend you can actually do the vehicle jumps like in this video because they seem to launch you out at full speed. Narrowly grabbed our flag back from a capture and saved my team from losing by jumping out of a grav cycle and it launched me at full speed :D
@oscard Heh, glad someone else noticed it. That shocklance at 5:17 is my favorite part of the whole video. And true, this isn't really very amazing teamwork, essentially, because all these clips are captured from the view of one person, who has teammates assist him to get home. The best teamwork involves having the flag swap persons and vehicles with great organization, but I didn't have the tools to capture that footage. It all had to be in one solid run for this video. Thanks for the comment.
@chasefilming I don't think you're aware of how important Ventrilo is in Tribes 2. The game does have a voice function built into it, however this was when microphone chat in-game was very new, and sounded terrible. In all servers, players either communicate through text, or voice chat on private TeamSpeak of Ventrilo servers, a voice server per game server. You are correct that many servers host bots, try playing at nighttime, especially on Fridays and Saturday, when real players are often on.
What the fuck? 96 vs 96?? And it's free?? And it has a high skill ceiling?? I'm fucking loving Tribes: Ascend, but I have a feeling I'd love this even more. Time to download. I only hope a decent amount of people still play it.
You can blame PJ's Script counter. Tribes 2 has a terrible democam, just rewinding crashes it, no markers whatsoever. A democam records match movements, not video like FRAPS, so you get a 15MB file for an hour instead of 2GB for a 2 min AVI. PJ's Movie Scripts screentshotted my demos one frame at a time, despite the fact that Tribes considered game time live. Just look at the clock itself. I was rendering at about 0.2 fps, hence the massive lag and time changes (those are minutes, not seconds).
Thanks for the kind words, good times indeed! A new Tribes-like game is currently in beta if you're interested: Midair Community Edition, it's 5v5 with no vehicles, but still lots of fun!
I played this when I was a kid and have been searching for it ever since. I want to download and play it but I don't know if I can handle the nostalgia.
Dude!! I am not the only one that listens to chemical brothers and this type of music while playing tribes. Like, exclusively. This makes me very happy
@rkt739 I hope that didn't sound too pissed off, I'm not mad. Just for a current example of what Tribes 2 was like, look at Team Fortress 2 today. Lots of fun, friendly players, tons of maps and public and clan servers, very, very lively. That's what T2 used to be. For the time being, TF2 is where community PC gaming is at, I hope some new titles that instill that sense of fun come around in the future.
Dan, was I in any of those videos? I used to do a ton of that stuff with the flag capping, I was pro at jumping out of a shrike and having the capper get in. I played on EWO too, under SilverAce and was in EWO and Mafia
@ProzacStylings No offense taken. In T1 vehicle capping is practically non-existent. In T2, it's considered standard, and for the vast majority of players, vehicular gameplay is considered a positive aspect. Though I'm just using a fighter for capping, there are also bombers for breaking defense, transports for carrying heavy troops, and mobile bases (that can shoot down planes =] ). Some servers removed vehicles, but that was uncommon. For the most part, vehicles in T2 are value-adding.
@SOSTacoJohnson From my understanding, yes. When Dynamix closed, the developers bought the license to the engine for Tribes 2, and created a company called GarageGames. They made their money by selling the engine, rebranded Torque, to independent game developers. They then had some venture capital invested into their new company, HiRez, and this time they bought the license to the Tribes branding and property. Now they are producing Ascend.
I was in there! Unfortunately one of my blunders... getting smacked by a missile! We have Goon Haven now... but classic will never replace the good times in base servers MV and then EWO trying to keep it up.
@AgentSliderZero Ahhh, many good times, more of you hunting down and killing me as I escape with the flag than me capping it, though it was always good to be on the same team as you ;-D. You still play in Goon Haven? I visited a couple times last month and just went nuts with how "one-man-army" the server is. I play TF2 and L4D2 now, if you've got steam, add me to your friends list, User - QuackMasterDan. Hope you liked the video =)
That should be an option in your menu, actually. There's a graphics setting for whether your character is rendered along with your equipment. It's been far too long for me to say which one, but if you dig a little you should find it! Happy to hear that people are still discovering my favourite game, though. :)
There still a group of us that play almost every night. 8-14 players on most week days up to 36 player games on Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights. Download at tribesnext.com and come join the fun!
Someone actually messaged me with this, I finally figured it out! Thanks though! I like being able to see my feet, it makes standing on precarious ledges seem a little easier to me ;) And yus, it is quite an awesome game.
Dude, I feel exactly the same. . . Tribes 2 had an amazing generation of PC Gamers. I think that we've lost that generation though. Be it to other games or just to adulthood and responsibilities.
I can't believe that I saw people I used to know from Tribes 2 in this video, if you are still in contact with Helbourne or know if he plays T:A let me know. I'm curious if it's the same guy I played with back in the day.
Lol Man With No Name - Teleport, wasn't expecting to hear that song. I knew I had that song at the end on my computer, so I went searching for it. When I finally found it I saw it in your end description :s.
@Adroidable You're right, I don't think it's possible for another multi-player game to match how awesome T2 was. Team Fortress 2 is able to fill the void though, with some really amazing communities and great gameplay. I hang out in the nom-nom-nom . us server, search up "nomtage" on UA-cam to see what it's like in there (the nomtages are clips of the funniest stuff over the past month). Or lookup "prophunt' for a really unique kind of community server.
Ascend is a completely different game, designed for much smaller numbers of players. Ascend past 10v10 just feels crowded and clunky, whereas huge games of tribes 2 were quite playable.
@jackoneill45 Heh, to pester you a bit more, if you're interested, here is a video from HotIce (he was my capping training) who I played with every Friday. You can hear some of the radio chatter we had every night and see just how much micro-management went on. Note though, that there were ~10 channels to split up the users (cappers, bombers, base-rapers, defenders, etc) (You wouldn't hear me because cappers are in a separate channel), but it's just an idea of what it was like. ?v=uibkAeR0quM
I just got into Tribes 2, so as a total noob I am sooo impressed with this video (and some others too). Insane what you can do with the tools this game gives you. Sad how this is still ahead of modern shooters in a lot of ways... Also, I'm confused, I see videos with alterations so you can see your legs and you actually have hands that hold the gun. Is that a script? Where can I get that?
@Demo1233 All the songs are listed in the credits. The very first song is Spaniard by Infected Mushroom (for the credits), the second song for the opening shrike flyby is Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix) by The Prodigy.
@AGamerVids Heh, it's good times. It's weird, with T:A, I'm actually having fun. I haven't truly had fun in a video game since TF2 in it's glory days of 2007-2009. Going at 220kph with flag, multiple chasers, heart pounding, there is nothing else like a Tribes rush. Hi-Rez could make a TON of money renting out servers, and if they do or custom-servers become possible, I'll be hooked for the next few years. To anyone who wants to go fast in T:A, I have multiple beta keys to hand out.
=] I signed up early during the beta, still playing nearly every day. Nothing like the rush of grabbing at 270kph and watching a team shift its defense to kill you, and only you, and still managing to blow through it all. Feel free to add me in-game, or on Steam so we can chat and join up in TeamSpeak or something. On both services I go by QuackMasterDan. With buddies, either I'll jugg our flag while they cap, or the reverse to mix things up.
Nice vid. It's a shame they don't make sandbox games like these anymore that require skills. Every game today is made to be so damn easy and user friendly just so the companies can get their player bases up. Problem is, this completely ruins it for the skilled players. I miss when video gaming wasn't so main stream. Games were much more of a challenge.
@jackoneill45 Actually.... Though Tribes 2 is dead, and Tribes:Ascend is fun (but only 32 players with no community servers =\), Tribes 1 is still alive and kicking. Only the hardcore vets play anymore, so expect to get stomped on for your first couple weeks. A custom master-server has been setup (what TribesNext is for T2), and it's a) Free to download/play, b) On Friday nights has a few quality servers packed with vets, c) A ton of fun!
The comparison isn't far off. The regenerating health, prevalence of Modern Warfare style weapons, and a credit system that's effectively a killstreak reward? T:A took a lot of cues from CoD, and it isn't better for it. The automatic and sniper weapons in particular are game breaking once a certain skill level is reached.
@chasefilming I'll add on that in every clip recorded in this video, there was non-stop voice chatter organizing strategies on our EwO TeamSpeak server. You'll need to find a server you want to play on, the biggest one is Goon Haven, though its filled with hackers and jerks. The only good places are the clan servers, like Rebels or EwO (which is basically dead =( ). Wait for a Friday night, find a server with a lot of real players on (16-40), have fun, and find out their schedule.
Makes sense. I like the social aspect of the Tribes 2 community, but I was talking more about gameplay-wise when it comes to my enjoyment of Tribes: Ascend.
Both Tribes and Tribes 2 are still alive, and are free! Google TribesNext and you will find Tribes 2 with the community patch to enable you to see the community server list, since Dynamix nor their master servers exist any longer. Google Tribes0, and you will find a full .zip with Starsiege: Tribes, with included 1.11 and 1.30 patches, as well as the windows7/vista fix. Bring back the classics!!!!!
These were the golden gaming days. Something inherently cool was about games of that era and people who played them. Things are different now and online gaming is different. It's saturated with mainstream implementations, aimed at attracting more players and making more money for the devs. Online players are different too - wanna be somethings, less cool, less skilled even and with short attention spans.
I really miss the early 2000 gaming era. I can't experience the online part of it again but can only play old single player games with great nostalgia.
I keep coming back to this video and I'm still getting goosebumps watching it. Very matching music of that same era.
This is exactly how I feel for Tribes 2 and Battlefield 1942. Such.. Great... Games...
I wonder what map the first one is
I can't play anymore. My cards are mining crypto.
Remember when people would BS and have fun? Remember when you could trust people to switch teams to even the odds for a better fight? Remember when you used to get a GG or nice shot comment?
It's so nice to hear someone see the complexity that goes into these matches. Just the tiny scope I was in -- two capping groups, each 1 bomber/3 shrikes attacking from opposite sides. After the bombing run, shrikes dive-bomb the flag, whoever survives to grab it, all the other shrikes become escorts to ward off the enemy shrikes or scout-chasers. Not to mention the base rapers - who build a base, in your base! Defenders, repairmen, pilots, saboteurs, commanders, support. Love it! Miss it!
It makes me glad that you still like my video. It took a lot of work, and turned out pretty well. Gosh it was amazing, shame there will never be another game as epic in scale (96v96!!!), strategy, skill, teamwork, complexity, and combat. Just, whew... good times, good memories. I'm currently into CS:GO, Killing Floor, and Battlefield 3. If you play any of those, we can join up for more good times!
I remember being so pro at this game. Good Times. [VGCG] Tribes 2
IKR Tribes NEXT. Was good times. Might see if the old girl still works. I was MAD at the shrike. xD
I got mad while playing this game xD but anyway we'll keep in our hearts those good times.
It's amazing all the teamwork that is happening in that first cap, more than just the awesome shrike pass. The juggie throwing flares for you right after the grab, the air support, the bomber moving to block, the laser that misses you by inches, when that flag was grabbed nothing else mattered for both teams.
Yeah, these were truly massive events. I remember The Ladder - we had several trainings before every match and thought about new ways to protect our flag and capture the one of the enemy team. Each (friendly) skirmish taught us new tricks. Getting 16 vs 16 players in sync at the start of the match was quite a struggle. And every one of them had a specific task which they sticked to during the battles. There was no room for solo fighters. Nowadays you can be happy when your BF squad of four does not consist of only snipers :D :D :D
This game and UT2K4 Onslaught were some of the best times I ever had in online gaming.
Okay, this is an old post buuut I'm feeling a bit sentimental, so... awesome video, I miss this game so much. I mean, first off like you say the community, and the awesome teams you'd build. I wasn't all that serious, but I still managed to make friends, mostly in the Renegade groups, and it was all about seeing the same people log on now and then.
I'm out of Europe and I still remember asking someone what time it was, and realizing I'd played with them until 5AM my time. This girl
Goosebumps! I miss this game and its game/teamplay! Good times...
i miss these days.. i miss being a bomber pilot, flying in at 5-10k metres above the enemy base and just dive bombing with mortars and bombs while using a jammer pack
Nice Job nice to see a tribes2 video that is not just anouther collection of MA's and shows a bit more of what the game is about.
I miss Friday nights a lot, i still hope on a for a couple maps about once a week but it's not quite the same. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to replace tribes2, I've played other games and nothing comes close.
Thanks for the post, I'm glad you enjoyed my video. Renegades was tons of fun, hop in, meet friendly players, if you don't what you're doing they'll gladly teach you, make new friends, good times
That last clip at the end with Elgy's disc-jump-suicide, was filmed at 4AM with three of us just messing around with missile dodging and talking.
For the the past nine years, I've found the bee's knees of gaming in LAN parties. Console or PC, pizza/soda/good friends, a great combo. Have a good one!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. So much nostalgia. I hope that one day a video game will make me feel as involved, engaged, thrilled and part of a community the way that this one did.
@ProzacStylings
In T2, shrikes are almost necessary for capping on large maps, and they are actually very weak. The standard process of battle in T2 was - Build up defense using automated turrets, sensors, and setting up mobile point bases (with heavy turrets attached) -> preparing for bombing raids that break the defense -> when defense is broken by bombers and base rapers, cappers go in -> chase the cappers -> rebuild and repeat. For every successful cap, I probably lost about 8-15 planes.
I too am bummed that Friday Night Fights is dead, it seems like TribesNext is now the only way to play decent-sized T2 matches, though with the absence of how in-depth FNFs were (Ventrilo, major communication and teamwork, active admins). I've moved on to Team Fortress 2 now, namely the nom-nom-nom server, as well as Left 4 Dead 2. I'm glad you liked the video, if you could, give it a rating =)
That first smash and grab was SO minty-fresh!! LOVED how well-put together that exfil was!!
BEST GAME EVER!!!!! GOD I MISS PLAYIN IT
Thanks for putting this out there, these were some beautiful caps.
extremely awesome :D
This is like the best i've seen in any video game evvar!!!!!
its sad that we may never see a true sequel to tribes 2
@facetiousCA That "friendly player that gives up his ride" required a lot of coordination. I was impressed.
Tribes ascend has some updated graphics, but other than that, the gameplay, physics, vehicles, vehicle physics etc is just so much better in tribes 2.
This...is the most insanely awesome thing...I think I have ever seen. Just the plane hopping is epic, but there's even MORE!!!
Good video, good music, perfect game :)
TribesNext
T2 is alive, come and play
As a note, even in the video at 3:38 I died in the run shortly after the mid-air collision, but I have footage of the full match where the flag was carried off from me and made a successful capture. You're right, the defense in most of the caps is weak, since an opportunity for me to get in and out without being heavily damaged requires either an inept team, or more commonly their entire base being bombed and raped by juggernauts. I hope it was semi-entertaining though.
one minute in and holy shit! that bit where your teammate jumped out of the plane and you jumped in.. un-be-leivable
@GKFC
All of the runs I put in the video were full runs, meaning I get the flag and bring it all the way home, or I enter an enemy base to retrieve a flag from turtling. There are far, far, more failed runs where I die after going 300 feet, and my capping teammates pick the flag off me and the others as they die on the way back to base. These are the more fortunate and easier runs that allowed me to have full-length footage. Most matches had nowhere near this level of success as a capper.
@helpful123456789
That was a single file shrike cap from one direction, I was point. I hopped out going max speed, fired a disc to separate the heavies, and went through to get the flag. I fell to the floor and ramped off a hill, my rear guard was protecting me, and hopped out of his shrike, popped flares (for missiles), and I hopped in. I dodge-weaved to make the chaser's shots harder, ejected because of damage, they tried to mid-air ram me, I used a health kit while falling, and capped.
That's some fantastic footage, pretty jaw dropping precision in some of those tricks! I was really impressed with the seamless Shrike switch in the second clip.
As much as I'm enjoying Tribes: Ascend, it makes me sad that many of the things like this aren't really possible (or, at least, feasible) with its simplified, "modernized" gameplay.
ELgY, ArataEnka, and I were really bored one night at the Rebels Reloaded server. ELgY tried that suicide grenade over 15 times, so I told him he had four more before I stopped filming and went to bed. That clip is the footage of the last try. If you look at the end, you can see his says Woohoo a lot.
Wish I could find ELgY again to show him the video.
@BlackwingDragon
I'm going to take it you've never played Tribes 2? For our 30vs30 matches, everyone is divided into squads and are constantly chatting on mics. I was always with the cappers, and the three-five of us would do specific patterns on entry (single-file, opposite sides, point to suicide break the defense), and we would co-ordinate with bombers before we go in. Then there are the base-rapers, who help keep the defense down while we snag the flag. It's fast paced and adapting strategy.
Favorite part was 1:59
because I too have so many memories when sleuthing solo and remember parking my vehicle in a secluded spot, planning my escape route. When the other team began to swarm me I remember racing to my vehicle thinking "So close, home free home free!"
@TheFri13
You're correct, base/classic is the most pure form of Tribes 2. Many servers adopted v2 to make the game more playable, and in many ways more like Tribes 1. By pure, I suppose the best way to say it is, "v2 makes Tribes 2 what it is supposed to be", fast, mobile, rapid-strategy and more fluid in terms of speed limits, acceleration, weapon stats. So yes, base is the most pure literal definition, v2 makes Tribes 2 pure in maintaining the Starsiege: Tribes gameplay it is based on,
Wow, i just found this game again, i played this like 7-8 years ago..
Heh, thanks for the thanks, I had a lot of fun making this video, and am glad it has become as popular as it has.
Tribes 2 still lives, on life-support on a new master-server called TribesNext. I shouldn't say lives - more like refuses to die, as a shadow of what Tribes 2 community servers once were.
If you want Tribes, go get Tribes Ascend. Spend $5-10 for credits, and have some fun. It's as close as you'll get what Tribes should be, it's able to get a capper's heart pounding again =]
@Un1uckyGh0st13
Yes, it's called Tribes: Ascension. Sounds exciting. As long as they don't dumb it down for the masses, and keep the high player counts and strategy, it might turn out well.
Best gaming days of my life. Best game ever dont know what else to say.
I feel you right there, nothing has every come close to the scale, depth, and amazing communities as Tribes 2 in it's prime, maybe Team Fortress 2 in it's heyday. Some of my students at church are wowed at 16x16 CTF games, or Fortnites Battle Royale with 100x players. T2 had 96v96 CTF on a 4 square mile map back in 2004, with just completely unreal game modes. Heck, I remember a mode with the entire map being lava, and running 64v64 players on heavy transports in a flying team-deathmath all out battle. Almost like a naval battle, in the air, with rocket launchers, jetpacks, and those darn kamakazis who would jetpack from transport to transport sticking C4 satchels to them, jumping off and blowing you to smitherines. When out of C4, jumping onto a final transport, executing the pilot, hopping in his seat, and plunging the transport and the players still on it straight down into the lava. If your felt really gutsy, ram it into another enemy transport -- 2 for 1. Crazy times, good people, lots of good memories, thanks for sharing!
Those of us who did it know. T2 was a brilliant spectacle when all the gaming planets aligned perfectly. Best community, even casual play was a blast. There won't be another one. Game design, tech & gamers & dev/mod communities - everything was more dedicated then. A pioneer & also high water mark for online gaming.
I reinstalled this game from tribes next. My old login handle still works!!! I cant believe i remembered the password. All the servers are bots now. Game still runs and feels amazing. I must say its a weird kind of nostalgia skiing the lonely slopes as if I'm the last player on earth. Remembering old friends long gone, and all the old adventures we had. Other than graphics its better than most games out there to be honest. Beats Call of Shit Duty and the abomination that Battlefields become over the years. I miss the golden years of fps gaming. Feels like all the innovation and creativity has just been sucked out of pc gaming. They make games for the lowest common denominator now. Games used to be made for pc now there made for shitty consoles. Your right we will never see another tribes again #SAD.
@QuackMasterDan Oh yeah also in Ascend you can actually do the vehicle jumps like in this video because they seem to launch you out at full speed. Narrowly grabbed our flag back from a capture and saved my team from losing by jumping out of a grav cycle and it launched me at full speed :D
Really cool video! GG!
I only played this offline. Capture the flag was great and the artificial intelligence for this game is quite remarkable.
@oscard
Heh, glad someone else noticed it. That shocklance at 5:17 is my favorite part of the whole video.
And true, this isn't really very amazing teamwork, essentially, because all these clips are captured from the view of one person, who has teammates assist him to get home. The best teamwork involves having the flag swap persons and vehicles with great organization, but I didn't have the tools to capture that footage. It all had to be in one solid run for this video. Thanks for the comment.
@chasefilming I don't think you're aware of how important Ventrilo is in Tribes 2. The game does have a voice function built into it, however this was when microphone chat in-game was very new, and sounded terrible. In all servers, players either communicate through text, or voice chat on private TeamSpeak of Ventrilo servers, a voice server per game server.
You are correct that many servers host bots, try playing at nighttime, especially on Fridays and Saturday, when real players are often on.
We used to play it with the Quake 2 music soundtrack...brilliant times!
i remember 7 years ago i played tribe and it was the best game i ever played.....until my dad said i couldnt play it anymore :D
What the fuck? 96 vs 96?? And it's free?? And it has a high skill ceiling??
I'm fucking loving Tribes: Ascend, but I have a feeling I'd love this even more.
Time to download. I only hope a decent amount of people still play it.
First scene owns.
Awesome vid!
I miss the ole FNF battles!
Thanks to this video, I started using shrikes sometimes to launch myself in Ascend for caps and it works quite well
I've never played this game, but that was the most intense thing I've ever seen.
@DeathCoreGamer You can download both the game and the patch that lets you play online at the TribesNext site
Sad thing - games with that high skill celling will never be popular again.
You can blame PJ's Script counter. Tribes 2 has a terrible democam, just rewinding crashes it, no markers whatsoever. A democam records match movements, not video like FRAPS, so you get a 15MB file for an hour instead of 2GB for a 2 min AVI. PJ's Movie Scripts screentshotted my demos one frame at a time, despite the fact that Tribes considered game time live. Just look at the clock itself. I was rendering at about 0.2 fps, hence the massive lag and time changes (those are minutes, not seconds).
Awesome gameplay, good times!
Thanks for the kind words, good times indeed! A new Tribes-like game is currently in beta if you're interested: Midair Community Edition, it's 5v5 with no vehicles, but still lots of fun!
I played this when I was a kid and have been searching for it ever since. I want to download and play it but I don't know if I can handle the nostalgia.
Dude!! I am not the only one that listens to chemical brothers and this type of music while playing tribes. Like, exclusively. This makes me very happy
I miss this game so bad :(.
new TRIBES INCOMMING WOOT
god i loved this game brings back some good memorys.
@rkt739
I hope that didn't sound too pissed off, I'm not mad. Just for a current example of what Tribes 2 was like, look at Team Fortress 2 today. Lots of fun, friendly players, tons of maps and public and clan servers, very, very lively. That's what T2 used to be. For the time being, TF2 is where community PC gaming is at, I hope some new titles that instill that sense of fun come around in the future.
Dan, was I in any of those videos? I used to do a ton of that stuff with the flag capping, I was pro at jumping out of a shrike and having the capper get in. I played on EWO too, under SilverAce and was in EWO and Mafia
@ProzacStylings
No offense taken. In T1 vehicle capping is practically non-existent. In T2, it's considered standard, and for the vast majority of players, vehicular gameplay is considered a positive aspect. Though I'm just using a fighter for capping, there are also bombers for breaking defense, transports for carrying heavy troops, and mobile bases (that can shoot down planes =] ). Some servers removed vehicles, but that was uncommon. For the most part, vehicles in T2 are value-adding.
@SOSTacoJohnson
From my understanding, yes. When Dynamix closed, the developers bought the license to the engine for Tribes 2, and created a company called GarageGames. They made their money by selling the engine, rebranded Torque, to independent game developers. They then had some venture capital invested into their new company, HiRez, and this time they bought the license to the Tribes branding and property. Now they are producing Ascend.
I was in there! Unfortunately one of my blunders... getting smacked by a missile! We have Goon Haven now... but classic will never replace the good times in base servers MV and then EWO trying to keep it up.
@AgentSliderZero
Ahhh, many good times, more of you hunting down and killing me as I escape with the flag than me capping it, though it was always good to be on the same team as you ;-D. You still play in Goon Haven? I visited a couple times last month and just went nuts with how "one-man-army" the server is. I play TF2 and L4D2 now, if you've got steam, add me to your friends list, User - QuackMasterDan. Hope you liked the video =)
That should be an option in your menu, actually. There's a graphics setting for whether your character is rendered along with your equipment. It's been far too long for me to say which one, but if you dig a little you should find it!
Happy to hear that people are still discovering my favourite game, though. :)
Tribes Aerial Assualt is the best Playsation exclusive game of ALL TIME.
There still a group of us that play almost every night. 8-14 players on most week days up to 36 player games on Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights. Download at tribesnext.com and come join the fun!
Someone actually messaged me with this, I finally figured it out! Thanks though! I like being able to see my feet, it makes standing on precarious ledges seem a little easier to me ;)
And yus, it is quite an awesome game.
Dude, I feel exactly the same. . . Tribes 2 had an amazing generation of PC Gamers. I think that we've lost that generation though. Be it to other games or just to adulthood and responsibilities.
LOL, i had just paused my Prodigy playlist before watching this video and got really confused >.
I can't believe that I saw people I used to know from Tribes 2 in this video, if you are still in contact with Helbourne or know if he plays T:A let me know. I'm curious if it's the same guy I played with back in the day.
Lol Man With No Name - Teleport, wasn't expecting to hear that song. I knew I had that song at the end on my computer, so I went searching for it. When I finally found it I saw it in your end description :s.
Fucking excellent caps. Love seeing an old favorite!
@Adroidable You're right, I don't think it's possible for another multi-player game to match how awesome T2 was. Team Fortress 2 is able to fill the void though, with some really amazing communities and great gameplay. I hang out in the nom-nom-nom . us server, search up "nomtage" on UA-cam to see what it's like in there (the nomtages are clips of the funniest stuff over the past month). Or lookup "prophunt' for a really unique kind of community server.
This game had vipers!
I miss this shit so bad :(
Good video mate !
Ascend is a completely different game, designed for much smaller numbers of players. Ascend past 10v10 just feels crowded and clunky, whereas huge games of tribes 2 were quite playable.
i wish i was in those times (when games like this one were popular) but then i was just a kid...
@jackoneill45
Heh, to pester you a bit more, if you're interested, here is a video from HotIce (he was my capping training) who I played with every Friday. You can hear some of the radio chatter we had every night and see just how much micro-management went on. Note though, that there were ~10 channels to split up the users (cappers, bombers, base-rapers, defenders, etc) (You wouldn't hear me because cappers are in a separate channel), but it's just an idea of what it was like.
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I just got into Tribes 2, so as a total noob I am sooo impressed with this video (and some others too). Insane what you can do with the tools this game gives you. Sad how this is still ahead of modern shooters in a lot of ways...
Also, I'm confused, I see videos with alterations so you can see your legs and you actually have hands that hold the gun. Is that a script? Where can I get that?
@Demo1233
All the songs are listed in the credits. The very first song is Spaniard by Infected Mushroom (for the credits), the second song for the opening shrike flyby is Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix) by The Prodigy.
@AGamerVids
Heh, it's good times. It's weird, with T:A, I'm actually having fun. I haven't truly had fun in a video game since TF2 in it's glory days of 2007-2009. Going at 220kph with flag, multiple chasers, heart pounding, there is nothing else like a Tribes rush.
Hi-Rez could make a TON of money renting out servers, and if they do or custom-servers become possible, I'll be hooked for the next few years.
To anyone who wants to go fast in T:A, I have multiple beta keys to hand out.
=]
I signed up early during the beta, still playing nearly every day. Nothing like the rush of grabbing at 270kph and watching a team shift its defense to kill you, and only you, and still managing to blow through it all.
Feel free to add me in-game, or on Steam so we can chat and join up in TeamSpeak or something. On both services I go by QuackMasterDan. With buddies, either I'll jugg our flag while they cap, or the reverse to mix things up.
Nice vid. It's a shame they don't make sandbox games like these anymore that require skills. Every game today is made to be so damn easy and user friendly just so the companies can get their player bases up. Problem is, this completely ruins it for the skilled players. I miss when video gaming wasn't so main stream. Games were much more of a challenge.
@IDRUNKANGELI Yeah well I just heard about tribes two weeks ago on a gaming podcast. So I just started playing ascend last week which is great
TRIBES 2. BEST ONLINE EXP YOU CAN GET!! -Angred Species- will be back!!
@jackoneill45
Actually.... Though Tribes 2 is dead, and Tribes:Ascend is fun (but only 32 players with no community servers =\), Tribes 1 is still alive and kicking. Only the hardcore vets play anymore, so expect to get stomped on for your first couple weeks. A custom master-server has been setup (what TribesNext is for T2), and it's a) Free to download/play, b) On Friday nights has a few quality servers packed with vets, c) A ton of fun!
The comparison isn't far off. The regenerating health, prevalence of Modern Warfare style weapons, and a credit system that's effectively a killstreak reward? T:A took a lot of cues from CoD, and it isn't better for it. The automatic and sniper weapons in particular are game breaking once a certain skill level is reached.
Planetside 2 will be out soon enough... just wait.... just wait...
lol @ last scene xD
@chasefilming I'll add on that in every clip recorded in this video, there was non-stop voice chatter organizing strategies on our EwO TeamSpeak server. You'll need to find a server you want to play on, the biggest one is Goon Haven, though its filled with hackers and jerks. The only good places are the clan servers, like Rebels or EwO (which is basically dead =( ). Wait for a Friday night, find a server with a lot of real players on (16-40), have fun, and find out their schedule.
shazbot
Nice to see pro teamwork. Miss that game so bad :( Anyone know why they closed the online servers?
Makes sense. I like the social aspect of the Tribes 2 community, but I was talking more about gameplay-wise when it comes to my enjoyment of Tribes: Ascend.
I heard a rumor half-life and tribes will make a huge return in the near future
I...AM....hi!
Both Tribes and Tribes 2 are still alive, and are free! Google TribesNext and you will find Tribes 2 with the community patch to enable you to see the community server list, since Dynamix nor their master servers exist any longer. Google Tribes0, and you will find a full .zip with Starsiege: Tribes, with included 1.11 and 1.30 patches, as well as the windows7/vista fix. Bring back the classics!!!!!
I know that feel.
You speak my thoughts exactly about Tribes 2.
Subscribing in case you ever find the glory again. I want in.
god i miss playing Tribes LoveTrooper
BEST DAMN GAME EVER!!!!!! Love the ending!
cool vid.