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Tribes: Ascend

Free to Play
Release Date:
Metacritic:
86
Developer:
Hi-Rez Studios
Publisher:
Hi-Rez Studios
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

Tribes: Ascend is the world’s fastest shooter - a high-adrenaline, online multiplayer FPS with jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, and multiple classes. The classic shooter franchise Tribes has been played by well over 1 million people. With Tribes: Ascend, the franchise is reborn – fast-paced, vertical, acrobatic combat combined with class-based teamwork and stunning sci-fi visuals.

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: Unlock up to nine distinct classes, each with unique weapon loadouts and abilities.
  • Player Progression: As you play a class you gain experience which is used to unlock class-specific skills and perks. You can also share the xp gained while playing a favorite class to progress other classes.
  • 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
  • Free To Play... but not pay to win: All items affecting game play can be earned by playing the game itself. Players can purchase optional Tribes Gold to unlock classes more quickly and/or skills more quickly. Players will also be able to purchase cosmetic skins with Tribes Gold.
  • 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.

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User Reviews

Mixed
60 user reviews
62%
Positive
61 hrs at review
Not Recommended

There was a point where I'd recommend this game. It honestly pains me to see what has happened to it. I'd like to say I actually stopped playing Tribes for a long while. I heard they were updating it again, ignored it. Tried playing it again this January. I have a few words as a tl;dr I'll post here in the beginning and elaborate further down. tl;dr: "What the fuck was Hi-Rez thinking? This game is a fucking dying corpse of what it was!" Now let me elaborate. I'll start with some immediate key changes to the game that I personally do not understand why they changed. [h1]The Classes[/h1] God just... what the fuck were they even doing. This isn't neccessarily a 100% bad change but it's not good either. Before this game was changed a lot, you had three basic classes, each had three sub-classes of it. You have the light, medium, and heavy. For light you had the Pathfinder, the Sentinel, and the Infiltrator. Medium you had the Soldier, Raider, and Technician. Heavy the Juggernaut, Doo...

76 helpful 1 funny
158 hrs at review
Not Recommended

As said in many other comments and reviews before my own, this game has lost it's touch. I used to play it everyday because of the incredible adrenaline rush I would get from dueling it out with spinfusors in the sky or skiing down slobes at 300km/h only to jump and ride the next slope. The update changed it in such a way that most of those feelings are dulled. Nothing feels as impressive as it used too and there's no reason to go back for more playtime.

21 helpful
18 hrs at review
Recommended

Good Game... untill you realize its dead for 2 years. edit: 4 years.... and private servers are now a thing... yah. ps: mfw this "dead" game still has more players than midair.

14 helpful 6 funny
866 hrs at review
Not Recommended

This was my favorite game for the longest time. My PC never ran it very well, even on low settings. But I loved it. It's so depressing what happened to it. HiRez essentially disowned it and left it for dead. After that, the community plummeted and now there aren't many people playing it at all. ;( It was a very unique game when it was thriving. I had a lot of fun learing the classes, and perfecting my play style. I would love to see them make yet another Tribes game rather than trying to revive this one. They patched it(out of the blue), and obviously didn't find the community worth continuing with updates. In closing, I would've recommended this game when if was first released(as well as the first 2 years of it's lifetime). 100% However, after the amount of active players started to decline, it wasn't worth playing any longer. So I cannot recommend this game in it's current state.

13 helpful 1 funny
2 hrs at review
Recommended

Thsi game, which was made in 2012, is better than any FPS I've played in 2016-17! A bit underpopulated, but that can change if you get it too! 11/10, FPS needs more skiing.

12 helpful 6 funny
26 hrs at review
Not Recommended

I remember using the separate launcher away from Steam, and logging in so many hours into this game. It's a shell of its former self now, however, with the removal of classes, removed base upgrades, the credit equips, bizarre weapon rebalancing, and now the inability to make a new account. Despite the last bouts of updates, Hi-Rez seems to have already abandoned this game a while back to focus on their more recents projects like Smite and Paladins. One can only hope that either a new Tribes game or the upcoming title Midair can recapture that wonderful, extremely fast-paced action I experienced several years ago.

11 helpful 2 funny
13 hrs at review
Recommended

This Game IS So Fluid.

4 helpful 2 funny
2 hrs at review
Recommended

This game makes you feel SO awesome. You can run, then jetpack all the way up into the air, then ski super fast when you hit the ground. In Capture The Flag, when you capture it, the music changes to make you feel like a TOTAL bada##. Get it.

4 helpful 1 funny
126 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Lemon loves this game, but I say he's is wrong. He constantly wants me to play this game again, and you know what I say to that. I say thee nay. I SAY THEE NAY. This game is all but the whole stinking pile of garbage corrupted mana from narnia. If I had 3 bits for every nasty thought of this pile of goo goo boo boo poo poo doo doo, I would be the bittiest man on the face of this global man thing called earth shattered pickles. You sir, are not correct in your assessment of the things of your face. You are however... A lime.

4 helpful 11 funny
23 min at review
Not Recommended

I would love to play this game, but I have Windows 10.

2 helpful 6 funny

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FAQ

How much does Tribes: Ascend cost?

Tribes: Ascend is completely FREE to play. You can download and play it without any purchase.

What are the system requirements for Tribes: Ascend?

System requirements are not available for Tribes: Ascend.

What platforms is Tribes: Ascend available on?

Tribes: Ascend is available on Windows PC.

Is Tribes: Ascend worth buying?

Tribes: Ascend has 62% positive reviews from 60 players. Metacritic score: 86/100.

When was Tribes: Ascend released?

Tribes: Ascend was released on Jun 27, 2012.

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