Tribes: Ascend

Is there any fellow Shazbots around? If so- what class do you usually play, what do you think of the balance in the game so far..?

Personally, I prefer the Infiltrator with Jackal. As long as you don't get noticed, you're gonna cause a trainwreck with that thing as long as you use it smart.
Although the fucking weapon prices are ridiculous.

I played beta since December now with the "official" launch I am playing less and less every day.
Really fun game overall, but I feel the game is going into a bad direction with the unlocks and grinding and money (see infiltrator patch),

I like playing almost everything but usually have to carry games by playing Pathfinder. Which, I'm not even that good at, just that no one bothers attacking properly anymore.

Ill give it a try.

They're adding more weapons next patch, from what I understand. Hopefully they'll fix the ridiculous prices for the weapons too

Fuck having to pay 100000 exp for a weapon

My nerdy game developer side came out. First thing i thought when I saw this was "unreal engine".

I haven't played a Tribes game since Tribes 2. I really should try again.

Played a bit.
It felt too fast for the weapons given, and the scale of the maps. I couldn't hit anyone except with the big explosive weapons.

Lyn, the weapons work perfectly for the gameplay. It's just that you have to actually think when you shoot aside from just aiming.

Onec you get a feel for it, it'll be tons more fun, trust me.

I was raking in kills once I had a tank xDD

Best I've had was 108 kills with Tech/Shrike before the nerfs and changes.

I remember some games when there were only gold level players matching and donig just crazy stuff and I had to calculate my every single move and shot well to not get killed first, now ... I'm just waiting for good custom servers.

Fusion Mortar is still the greatest weapon in the game, properly used you will devastate everyone and everything, combined with LMG and Belt Discs you are a unstoppable killing machine, no other class comes even close. That combined with Survivalist and Safety Third is a never ending killing spree.

Anyways I had about 2 million exp when the biggest patch came in beta with the removal of tokens etc, also my 30 day booster got duplicated in the process giving me 48 days of boost so overall I have pretty much everything unlocked, besides infiltrator stuff and some perks which are useless. That was with about 2 months of really active playing when I was totally addicted, but I can see how daunting the game will become for new players when they continue to add more and more OP weapons to game (which long term player will get with XP, others with gold) and then they go the LoL way aka nerf it after few weeks and crack out some more stuff to spend gold on.

Originally the new weapons were 175k if I remember right, and the sidearm upgrades 100k. So they allready dropped them a hefty amount.

I'm still useless xD

Lyn, you'll get better.
You'll learn weapon speeds and weapontimings as you use them.

Nah, I'll just go back to what I do best. Being mediocre at SMNC and kamikaze caber'ing on low-grav TF2 servers

Oh, for people playing. My handle would be CorprealFale.