It recently came to my attention that Tofu does not know what Apocalypse Ponies are. Worse—he’s not a gushing fan of said ponies. And I thought, ‘What if other snappers are in the same boat?’ We could have some kind of boat-based party, or we could try education! Choose!!
How many of you have been wondering what HiRez have been up to? You’ve forgotten who HiRez are? They made Global Agenda. You haven’t thought about them at all? Well then you’ll be pleased to know that they have beta access up and running for Tribes Ascend. It’s an FPS with very fast skiing downhill. Free to play (not just in beta, free to play at launch), so it’s full of boosters and paid upgrades. We should really call this model free to pay I think.
Here’s a jazzed up trailer:
Anyway, I tried the beta and even played DM. It’s surprisingly easy to pick up. There was also a flag moving around. I don’t know how that works in deathmatch, but given the jetpacks and skiing and a rough grasp of physics attained playing minigolf in formative years, you can blam right in the sweet spot with ease. That’s the spot where the jumping, skiing crowd are going to land. Even I scored 5 kills! And no deaths! (haha, the UI doesn’t list deaths, win!!) That makes my ratio 5/0 which is undefined!
You can get a beta key by pressing ‘like’ on facebook.
SummerSmash is 11 February 2012. It’s also my birthday, if one celebrates birthdays every 6 months instead of once a year. Which I don’t really. So the bit about my birthday was a lie, but the bit about SummerSmash was true. Anyone interested? TF2 3v3 Arena is on offer. I dunno about everyone else, but my TF2 is pretty rusty…
dse were all out in the city store I visited, and everybody else only had posters and the actual games were diablo II! Can’t trick a spiii like that, I can count up to ‘iii’
II% … is that 2% or 11%?
zomg ‘invalid card number’ if you type spaces in. honestly, who designs online payment forms. I bet I could do it better! ~:)
dse were all out in the city store I visited, and everybody else only had posters and the actual games were diablo II! Can’t trick a spiii like that, I can count up to ‘iii’
Gonna have to hit the downloads ~:]
woot!
Yeah I tried the beta and it was alright. Just needed more snappers to make it funner! http://clansnap.com/2012/02/22/tribes-ascend/
Jetpack is only half the fun, the rest is skiing!
well, the good news is, they didn’t make you wait until 2011
I’d ask what game it is, but if it’s worse than Global Agenda I might be safer not knowing ~:)
20 rounds down!
Kinda makes you wanna go 40 rounds in moxxi’s underdome, doesn’t
looking cool! shame the preorder deal is only for the PCDVD version and not digital download (yet?)
has anyone NOT played the original Borderlands yet? Coz I have a GOTY edition sitting in my steam inventory just saying “give me away!”