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By chaining together jetpack flights and downward slides, players could gain immense speed and blast across the map on flag runs at a fraction of the time of what was previously possible. While jetpacking over a hill, well-timed taping of the jump button as you slid down a slope allowed you to gain momentum.

Early on in the game’s life, players discovered an exploit of sorts with the game’s physics engine. It’s hard to imagine all of these features in one game when modern games hardly feature a fraction of them.Ī defining feature of Starsiege: Tribes was something that wasn’t meant to be a feature at all. A hail of gunfire and a trip down the slopesĪ typical run in Starsiege: Tribes would involve grabbing a weapon loadout, flying via jetpack to breakneck speeds-then ascending 100 feet, firing explosives from the apex of your flight, landing in a tank with another teammate, driving to the enemy’s flag tower, blasting turrets and radars with the main cannon, jumping out and nabbing the flag, then flying back to your base while skiing up and over the hills in between avoiding laser blasts and explosions from the enemies flying all around you, to finally cap in a hail of gunfire and chaos. The game was exclusively multiplayer and offered 40 massive open maps, jetpacks, 32-player games, multiple player classes, three different armor weight classes, vehicles, custom mod/skin/script support-the list goes on and on, and the gameplay was unlike anything else on the PC at the time. The original Starsiege: Tribes game was released in 1998, and it introduced almost every single feature found standard in FPSes today. Tribes: Ascend is a revitalization of an absolute classic. Tribes: Ascend, a free-to-play FPS by Hi-Rez Studios, is defined by the first thing that people notice when they see it in action- raw speed. Patrick’s Day community event to play a few rounds of Tribes, and Andy’s astute reaction was one of many from curious onlookers as I skied across the slopes of alien worlds. I had decided to take a quick break from the frantic shenanigans of Icrontic’s yearly St. “ Bloody hell that’s fast!” my friend Andy exclaimed as he caught a glimpse of me playing Tribes: Ascend.