/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10078975
>>Tribes
>Lol

Objectively the best multiplayer shooter of the period. Killer app for the PC.
If you disagree, post your 3x3 of favorite games and I will make jest of your shit taste.

>>4218052
Capture and hold is about capturing a remote base and holding it against the enemy. UT calls it uplink or something like that. It's how most Battlefield games run their multiplayer.

It wasn't popular in Tribes, but it's one of the most popular game types lately.

>>4218167
I played T1 and Ascend quite a bit.

Ascend was a bad Tribes game. I would concede it was a good shooter for its time, and I think the devs really cared about balance in their own way, but I don't agree with choices they made. They had to cater to the modern gamer and economy. They made it free 2 play/pay 2 win, and had to develop it as a UT game because everything is a UT game now.

The Tribes feel is so specific to large maps and large player counts that you can't do it right on UT. The maps weren't big enough.

As a balance choice, they really wanted to make the classes equal-ish, but felt that the mediums and heavies should dominate lights in a fight. This is really hard to do in tribes because being able to completely dodge an attack with skill is so much more important than tanking hits. It felt like the devs were really set against the light class. They kept nerfing the light/buffing the heavies until it was almost impossible to play as light doing anything except capping or sniping.

The whole classes thing was fucked and it was just so they could do their pay 2 win thing. You weren't just 'light' armor like you were in t1/t2 you had to say you were a 'scout' or 'infiltrator' or something. There was like 3 different lights, 3 different mediums, 3 different heavies, and each one restricted the weapons you could use to their own special set. In T1/T2 the only restrictions were you needed to be heavy to use a mortar launcher or missile launcher, and light to use a laser rifle.

>>2834536
Tribes has been free for some time.
Seriously though
>Iji
>Cavestory
>La Mulana
>Dwarf Fortress
Are all fantastic examples. You are retarded.
If you haven't heard of them it doesn't make them bad, it means there's new awesome games for you to play.