Tribes: Ascend

Can't seem to get a game today.

Hellrazer wrote: »

FWIW Dx 11 seems to be working flawlessly since todays patch.No black screen of Zoom anymore

Still dont understand why I get 80+ fps in Dx11 and lucky to get 60 in Dx9.

1680*1050 at High Settings.V-sync off,Smooth frame rates off and Motion Blur off.

Use AllowD3D11=True

where do you change that line m8? which file?

Hellrazer wrote: »

In the .ini file-documents-mygames-tribes ascend--tribes game--config-tribes.ini.Its already there about half way down set at "False"

still getting errors after patch.

If they add these it would make my year. Need to try the new maps right now though.

Hellrazer wrote: »

Unlock the Raider class if you get a chance.

For flag/generator defence it cant be beaten when you have a couple of team mates as doombringer/juggernauts with you even with the default loadout.

Raiders the only class I use now unless your team mates wont defend with you and youre left alone to defend flag/gen in which case Juggernaut does the job.
The fusion mortar can clear a room out in no time

Tech in my opinion is underpowered.Needs a better primary weapon.

Doombringer is great for flag blocking but again you need teammates that will defend with you as juggernauts.

Havent unlocked Sentinel yet.Infiltrator is fun but Im useless at flag attacking.

Dont like the speedy classes for the same reason^^^

Add me ingame and Ill hop on a game with you sometime.
razerirl

Yeah I actually regretted buying the Brute over the Raider pretty much straight away. Brute seems a kind of pointless class when you look at the rest!

I nearly have enough XP for the Raider so will pick him up later hopefully. On the Tech being under powered, I spent the majority of my 800g on the Thumper for him and it made an immense difference. Can really hold my own even against medium/heavy enemies with it.

jayteecork wrote: »

Had a quick game. Seems very random. Also very tough to aim with rifle - does this improve as you level up? And like a rifle hit takes about 5% of opponent's health off.

I'd also like to see the accolade system integrated with steam achievements.

The Rifles seem to really only be for finishing off enemies on low health. Like the soldier is pretty lethal using the Thumper as a main and quick switching to the rifle to finish off when needed.

To get the best out of a Brute I find you have to play it very aggressively, get up close, know that you can take the damage and just clean house going out in a blaze of fractal grenades!

The fractal grenades are an an effective area denial weapon especially indoors that buys time for the rest of you team to get into position and finish off the job (assuming that they are playing as a team) or simply clear out an area to get breathing space.

New players have a hard time with Fractals because they stand around getting zapped rather than pulling back and leaving them fizzle out. It is always good to pull a small train of enemy into their own gen room and fill the place with fractals or pop a line of them along a flag grabbers approach / exit line, it takes them down far enough for a Sent or a lucky shot to nail the flag grabber who has very little hope of changing direction.

Team play is needed to get the best out of the game, you can fart about as a PTH but it gets boring after a while and when you actually meet some clued in players you get mangles fairly quickly. A couple of good Sentinels will have you nailed mid air and will let you grab the flag so that you can be nailed on your exit run.

I found that standing a cloaked raider on the flag with maxed out Super Heavy perk can be entertaining, (Inf is just too light) but a couple of turrets, mines and shields along the approaches can be very satisfying, scope out the routes, look at where grabbers run out of steam and pop a turret there, it can be enough to finish off a flag grabber within sight of their own flag - sweet!

Jugs are a great class, the MIRV is great for indoor clearance work as well as lobbing prezzies in from a distance and when combined with the machine gun for in close work like chopping down circle strafing Soldiers or Pathfinders.

I find that you go through phases of Heavy and light classes, for pure grinding XP I think that the Techie wins hands down. MY pattern tens to be play a class figure out what is the biggest nuisance to that class then play that class using those tactics for a while and repeat!

Grimebox wrote: »

I don't know how they do it but every team I play on has a huge variety in classes. Unlike other games where everyone picks the sniper

Yeah it's something I picked up on early and I love it. From what I can tell so far the reason really is besides the fact all the classes are fun to play in order to have a winning team you really do need a good balance.

If one team has 4 soldiers defending and 4 pathfinders running offence and the other team has a Tech / Doom / Raider / Jugg defending and a mix of offence they have a massive advantage straight away and sometimes that's something you don't get with other games where stacking classes is usually viable. The classes compliment each other really well.

I bought 2k gold last night. I don't mind building up XP at all but the game is so good I actually wanted to give the devs support as they have made an amazing game that I would have been happy to pay for.