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Is anyone else finding either medium armor to be too fast, or light armor to be too slow?

It appears to me that there is very little reason to play a light mid (which was my preferred role in T2), simply because mediums have nearly identical foot and air speed when compared to lights. One of the main advantages lights had in the mid was the ability to bleed momentum, and quickly regain it due to a high running speed; without that loitering in the center is much more difficult.

This further extends to making mediums better flag cappers, because the extra armor outweighs the slight reduction in speed.

I'm also not a fan of lights and mediums using different versions of the disc launcher, but I suspect that's more an issue with the speed parity than anything else.

Lights have superior acceleration and top speed, but its hard to get to that top speed. Ive seen people capping the flag in pathfinder armor at almost 400mph.

The real reason to take lights is they have access to boost grenades and such that can help you quickly change direction and lose your chasers.
But yeah, as a medium its easier to survive the actual grabbing of the flag, with a light its easier to get away with it.

I've seen mediums ski at ~370.

As it stands the only advantage to light is the "boost pack".

To me it reads as an inversion of T2, where light is useless, and heavy/medium run the game.

I've finished downloading, yay. Gonna try it out.

Tried it, runs fine... No texture or color... Everything is just silhouettes. Damn computer, IF A GAME WON'T RUN THEN WHY LET ME INSTALL IT?!

DeadlySquirrel wrote:Tried it, runs fine... No texture or color... Everything is just silhouettes. Damn computer, IF A GAME WON'T RUN THEN WHY LET ME INSTALL IT?!

Because it hates you, obviously.

Huh. I had some graphics problems too but switching the quality around a bit worked for me.

DeadlySquirrel wrote:Tried it, runs fine... No texture or color... Everything is just silhouettes. Damn computer, IF A GAME WON'T RUN THEN WHY LET ME INSTALL IT?!

turn off AA and bloom dude ;P

Tried that. Everything was set to either off or Very Low, and all I get are silhouettes.

It keeps messing up now and again, but that's probably just my laptop being a chump.
I'm finding it pretty enjoyable so far, have to say.

For whatever reason unless Ascend is the first thing I open after a restart, it crashes.

It's a fun game, but it takes FOOOOOREEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEER to unlock anything.

Melissia wrote:It's a fun game, but it takes FOOOOOREEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEER to unlock anything.

if you have never purchased anything you get exp at 1/2 the VIP rate (similar to TF2), if you have a booster it is double the vip rate.

so yeah, the unlock system is a little punishing.

I unlocked the technician class FINALLY, having quite a bit of fun defending the flag in my time before class.

Working on upgrading my turret now.

once you have youre 2nd turret save up for the thumper, unless you become a hurricane of death with the smg it turns you from a turret/repair monkey to an actual legitimate threat.

also remember that your individual performance does not effect your xp so dont worry about optional things like repair rate that will give you more credits as a workaround to get more xp.

I plan on it, I can't stand the SMG. I get more knife kills than SMG kills.

Same thing with the soldier really.

I ran out of bullets and grenades at one point whilst in the enemy base, so I was chasing their heavies around with a sword.

It was fun.

I kept doing the same thing to infiltrators going after my team's generator.

I don't know what's happening with mine, it worked fine yesterday, but now, when I try to launch it, I get:

Tribes Ascend Open Beta 0.1.789.3 is downloading - 0.0MB remaining (0.0% complete)

I can't find anything on thw web about it. Has anyone else had this problem? Is it working for everyone else ATM?

RaptorsTallon wrote:I don't know what's happening with mine, it worked fine yesterday, but now, when I try to launch it, I get:

Tribes Ascend Open Beta 0.1.789.3 is downloading - 0.0MB remaining (0.0% complete)

I can't find anything on thw web about it. Has anyone else had this problem? Is it working for everyone else ATM?

there's a rebuild option somewhere in the launcher, whenever you run into an issue just use it, its a beta remember

Grundz wrote:

RaptorsTallon wrote:I don't know what's happening with mine, it worked fine yesterday, but now, when I try to launch it, I get:

Tribes Ascend Open Beta 0.1.789.3 is downloading - 0.0MB remaining (0.0% complete)

I can't find anything on thw web about it. Has anyone else had this problem? Is it working for everyone else ATM?

there's a rebuild option somewhere in the launcher, whenever you run into an issue just use it, its a beta remember

I have tried Validate/Repair several times, to no avail, and I don't want to click 'Reinstall' because it says it will start a full download, something which took almost 4hrs the first time I did it.



EDIT: As I said before, is it just me or has anyone else had this problem? I can't find any mention of a 0.1.789.2 patch let alone 0.1.789.3

EDIT 2: Just found this, it seems a lot of people have the same issue: http://forum.hirezstudios.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=234&t=61195&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=20


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It works!

For no apparent reason, it is now fixed.

I had a great game where I managed to use orbital strike twice, killing the enemy's entire team the first time (which got me the points to get the second time).

I have 7600 exp, and I am wondering what to do with it.
Do I:
Improve my pathfinder
Unlock Sentinel
Unlock Technician


What do you think?

Sentinel is very good if you are very good with it, Ive pretty much single handedly crippled teams by murdering their flag carrier at long range as he escaped with our flag.

However it can be very frustrating if you can't aim it properly, you'll be commonly firing at people at your maximium (or near max) viewable range and need to be able to hit them often, even lights need 2-3 shots at full power to go down.

laser rifle isn't worth it unless you are /VERY/ good and you really need both capacitors and the energy pack to use it, other upgrades aren't useful so you are pigeonholed into sniping.

Tech is very new player friendly since you can help out your team and gather tons of points repairing stuff, deploying turrets and generally helping out. and tech has access to the fullsize thumper, and its awesome.

Grundz wrote:
laser rifle isn't worth it unless you are /VERY/ good and you really need both capacitors and the energy pack to use it, other upgrades aren't useful so you are pigeonholed into sniping.

The laser rifle is a fantastic MA weapon, though you're right it takes a lot of skill to use.

Right now I'm missing my plasma gun more than anything, that and the ELF.

I have many fond memories of jamming people on duel servers, then ELFing them to death.

Also, "bombing runs" with the plasma.

I have been playing Sentinel, and I am quite enjoying it, but my aiming is quite bad. But i'm getting better.

However, I do agree with Mel that the unlocks are really slow. Even the soldiers spinfusor is 42000exp, and that is supposed to be the classic tribes weapon.

The bullet rifle is just as good at MAing, the lazers primary bonus is fast target acquisition without charging up, while chasing I can drop from the sky on purpose, take falling damage to recharge my energy via perk, and then cap the person I am chasing.
The bullet rifle's charge time is based on move speed so it is less effective for chasing.

It is /very/ hard to hit a moving target at 2000+m while you yourself are moving, lol.

Yeah, I noticed that so have ended up sitting on top of a building/hill next to a drop jammer just sniping at anyone who comes close enough.