
The juggernaut class possesses heavy weapons, making them ideal for defensive roles.This one instance, I recall an individual accusing me of hacking because I was able to continuously hold him off, long enough to keep our team’s generator safe and prevent their players from reaching our base. While I occasionally go out of my way to get flag captures, my preferred role is to engage those who target my team’s generator, repair damaged generators for my team and destroy generators for the enemy team.The sniper rifles do change that somewhat, but they have limited zoom and make take a few good hits to down an enemy. the rounds won’t reach them), encouraging chaotic close quarters battles.

The mechanics in Tribes: Ascend mean that engaging other opponents at long ranges are impractical (i.e. I’ve maxed out my starting weapons for the soldier and unlocked the Sentinel class so I could snipe.

As a free-to-play game, money can be used to immediately unlock things, but other than that, players with a bit of persistence can and will probably unlock everything over time.

I’ve only put in around seven hours at the time of writing, but I’ve found the game to be a brilliant shooter for allowing players to challenge one another in a science-fiction environment. Aspects from previous Tribes games such as jetpacks and skiing are featured in the game. Perhaps it bears testament to how far computer games have come since their humbler days as console cabinets, when we consider that Tribes: Ascend could not even be reasonably run on my old Dell XPS 420 (requiring 4 GB of RAM), despite being a free-to-play online multiplayer first person shooter. A part of the Tribes franchise, Tribes: Ascend was developed by Hi-Rez Studios and is currently available as a download for Microsoft Windows.
