Tribes-like GarageGames Web Title Revealed by Alpha Video Leak

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• And a duel mod aswell! Dueling was so much fun :) : crisis84
• Oh and put the shock lance back in!! or something similar! That was the funnest/hardest weapon to get use... : crisis84

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  To this day there is still no kill more satisfying than a mid air hit with the disc launcher. : Wombat Woo
  • Idk man.. my mid air shocklances to the back while they are traveling at high speed were pretty nice!!! I... : crisis84
• Wtf did I write. I meant "Most important thing in the tribes universe after the tanks jetpacks me thinks.... : razlebol

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• Me to man :) My room mate found this at IGN and i was the first person he told about it! He was thinki... : crisis84

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  A need a few more "Shazbot!"s. Damn, I miss that game. Rather interesting that they opted to design t... : DrWaffles
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    The browser stuff is mainly the InstantAction stuff, lots of community features, etc, living design which... : timaste
    • Well, sounds great, and good luck. I'm not sure you're able to respond, but how would the delivery of ... : zehh
    • You have no idea how excited I am to hear this, all of it sounds great : d fluke
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      Wow... you just got me really excited for this. I'm glad I'm not the only person out there whose fondest... : Gwyndion
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        It's funny you mention Thunderwalker as it's come up several times in design discussions by our lead game... : timaste
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          Nice... you guys have good taste. :) I'm even more exicted for ths game now. Yeah, I put countless h... : Gwyndion
          • The clips that always stuck in my head were Warf saying "It is a good day to die..." and Kilgore saying "... : munge69
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          Tim aint lyin. Thunderwalker CTF, along with Tribes, harbors my fondest memories as a young FPS player. T... : munge69
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            Thomas your alive! Do you need a ride? : timaste
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              Heh... I wound up getting my flight changed to Sunday. Also, yes. : munge69
              • word I got back into town last night, so just drop me a line whenever, catching up on some games rest of ... : timaste
          • Thunderwalker CTF...my all time Favorite FPS.. FaTF8S] (Thomas' dad!) : munge69
    • Good luck and Godspeed. I've been mourning Tribes for far too long. : Haku-Jin
    • Holy crap Tim, that is music to my ears. I've been waiting so long for someone to take a step back to the... : exile7
  • Enemy Generator Destroyed! : crisis84
• DefendTheNexus! : DM7
• Requesting APC pickup! : timaste
• Enemy Generator Destroyed! : crisis84
• Enemy Generator Destroyed! : crisis84

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  Tribes 3 was called 'Tribes Vengeance', this would be more like Tribes 4. : speckz
  • No one really considers T:V to be Tribes 3... that game was just bad. : crisis84

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  I personally really enjoyed tribes 3, why did everyone hate it? : greh kleh
  • I was a fun scaled down version. It was more of a side game than a sequel in my mind. : Haku-Jin
  • I enjoyed Tribes 3 as well. they did a good job with the single player and the multiplayer, while not hav... : cell9song
  • T:V was awesome. Especially when the Vanilla mod was released. IG screwed up on the vehicles but they ... : mc-fine
  • the story mode was ok but Tribes is not a story game so that's pretty much it. the mp felt like the Unrea... : thebigbeefsandwich
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  We haven't been looking at Vengeance. : timaste
  • T:V didn't exist and never will in my eyes. Been awhile since I've seen your name flying around the we... : Bensam123
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    I'm excited to see a new Tribes-like game in the works :) I must say that I am curious as to why you w... : IrrationalEd
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      It really did not feel like a Tribes game at retail. It felt great in Beta but they slowed it way down a... : melkore
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        Indeed. Without turning this into a huge flame. It was simply IT with jetpacks. : Bensam123
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          UT* *correction* : Bensam123
          • Sorry, but the comment was directed at timaste. : IrrationalEd
  • Praise to the gods!!! : crisis84
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  Tribes Vengance was by far the most fun Tribes game that was ever made IMO. But it never got a chance cau... : Dynotaku
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    This man knoweth of what he speaks. : mc-fine
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      I think you guys are the minority. A lot of people were not very happy with TV in comparison to the first... : poopster17
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        The essence of Tribes is different for many people. Thats why there was a big rift when T2 came out. For ... : mc-fine
        • Good points. I think we all hope for a game that can please all camps of Tribes fans. I personally think ... : poopster17
        • That's an interesting way of putting it, I'd be inclined to agree. It's been a long time since I played... : MrFatalistic
        • The CTF in both of the predecessors was awesome! You could setup turrets,motion sensors, replace your b... : crisis84
• Tribes 3 was great... for about 5 minutes. Then they NEVER patched it. Those bastards let my favorite FPS... : phinn

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  Hehe, we can already destroy & burn out grass from our foliage renderer, and leave scorch marks on terrai... : timaste
  • Get some nukes going and ski in the craters. : djkenohki
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  yes - blow a crater in front of a skiing heavy which sends him flying off course. : g.lee
  • or plop a disc down in front of you in a downhill slope and make a mogul for more air! : galewind

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  Tribes 2 IS my favorite game of all time... nothing has come close (TF2) but nothing takes it place yet. ... : spyrext
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    I agree. Tribes 2 was probably the best FPS ever made. : phinn
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      Why can't they just re-release Tribes 2! Update the graphics engine a bit, thats good enough! : phinn
      • Well the obvious first response is we don't own Tribes 2, Vivendi does. : timaste

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• Come on. Just look at the positive feedback from this forum. It's certainly not hurting Garage Games. It'... : gooblerampling
• well keep in mind that valve is a big company that has a marketing department blah blah blah and prefers ... : kn1fe
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  Something tells me if Garage Games asked Shacknews to stop hosting it, they would stop hosting it. There... : yAak
  • Most definitely. : Nick Breckon
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  "thanks for Shack for emphasizing the leak nature + alpha state" - Tim Aste, GarageGames employee : Chris Remo
  • Yeah we are cool. The video got out to a lot of places, so the shack was very helpful in allowing us to g... : timaste
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  Judging from your post history, you seem to like to jump on Shack for what you perceive as travesties of ... : Chris Remo
  • I knew this was a wink / nudge 'news' item the second I read it. GG had the vids unprotected for a reas... : dumptruck
• if they were fake leaked for free press then they probably would. lol "alpha" : ease one
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  Oh whatever, stop fellatioing around on your high horse. : Athlon7
  • i believe the correct word is 'fellating'. just a heads up for future reference. : exile7

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  Ugh, most of us don't. : wytefang
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    I don't think we know enough about it to have opinions yet. : OmegaRed59
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      Yeah, good point...maybe it's not some lame simplified browser flash game. : wytefang
      • I think it just means the game is launched from a browser, just as TF2 is launched from steam. : OmegaRed59
      • Well it's obviously not Flash, that much is obvious from the trailer : Chris Remo
• I think it's a cool experiment. id is doing something like this with Quake 3 and these guys are now doing... : Sturm08

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• Fluid..Ah yes one big defining difference between the hunk a chunk Unreal 2 engine for TV and the creamy ... : poopster17

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• We are solely listening to our hearts and the holiday spirit. : timaste
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  I'm under the impression that, if people expect the new game <X> to be just like the old game <A>, they'l... : zehh
  • quality post there, zehh : X-Nice
  • Very well articulated, sir. : qtseng
  • Totally my feelings exactly! Great post. : timaste
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  I agree. Trying to be too much like their precess or ends up being bad. Look at quake 4 and UT3. So littl... : razlebol
  • Its just that I 've seen games like this that have a large following end up quickly forgotten due to medi... : cell9song
• Yeah, they might be the only people worse than Fallout fans. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• Yeah, TW.com is a blast from the past. Looks like someone forgot to drain the cesspool... : TheSty
• everyone there is a huge bitch because they didn't get a real sequel to tribes 1 or 2, so yeah it's a mes... : thebigbeefsandwich
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  I'm glad they're putting this thing in a browser because that means by default they are aiming for a gene... : yAak
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    well its not playing "in the browser" per se, just launched from it : hobosapien
    • much like Gunz I expect, which is actually pretty fun. : phokz

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• I meant (only games), as in we are split off from the Web and Tech divisions to do our own thing, but sam... : timaste
• Excellent. Seriously. Oh if someone can do Tribes, at least as good as the first. Good luck. : graceofdragons
• for just an alpha it looks fantastic. actually gave me flashbacks of those days in tribes 1. boy would i ... : hobosapien
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  timaste: prepare for onslaught of tribal angst! seriously tho, i know its a leak so it was unplanne... : greydog
  • I know seriously right? Avoiding my inbox. Well thanks for the kinds words everyone for the quality of st... : timaste
• Looks good for Alpha. Hope to see it well received in the future. :) : DM7
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  Lovely graphics, and the gameplay makes me grin, at least from what I see. I love me some jetpacks. Espec... : Quaunaut
  • It's actually very fun in alpha state, but I guess I'm pretty biased. There are some very talented people... : timaste
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  Damn, I wish I had been able to work on something that cool at my last gig. I tried to bring some Tribes-... : gooblerampling
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    What kind of work? : timaste
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      Always looking for extra art help at GG. I'm using a couple awesome contractors from polycount at the mom... : timaste
      • really, may I apply? I just graduated with a bachelors in computer animation from Full Sail... and am cur... : greh kleh
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      This in particular: http://s93485377.onlinehome.us/images/phylon_level.jpg I was mostly involved in eng... : gooblerampling
      • The link in my user profile shows some more stuff, by the way if you are interested. : gooblerampling
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  Is this TSE or its heir-apparent? : cell9song
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    We are using custom tech based on Torque. : timaste
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      So is there a reason you aren't using the same tech that you sell? Is it not good enough, so you just mak... : jftx19
      • This web-based stuff is obviously pretty new, I don't imagine the stuff they're using is ready to be sold... : Chris Remo
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        No, there is a lot of differences between what we do in the studio and the quality of code they need in t... : timaste
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          Cliffs: We can do code hacks because the product just needs to work efficiently, no one will ever see the... : timaste
          • Also there is a lot of experimental stuff that is developed in-house that hasn't yet made it's way back t... : timaste
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  so this launches straight out of a web browser? It's quite a cool idea. : aeg1x
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    Not entirely new, though. Check this out if you don't mind developing on a mac. Exports to a nice web pla... : gooblerampling
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      Unity3D still requires a plugin download. I might be in the minority, but I think that loses many of the ... : mockery
      • Yeah saw that, I thought that was pretty cool. : timaste
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  Wasn't there a leaked video like a year or two ago of this, only it was just trees and grass? Not so good... : Murdoc.
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    Yeah that was actually my own fault, jumping the gun. We've flirted with this idea for sometime but never... : timaste
    • Oh very cool, it was interesting then, more interesting now with stuff in it, hehehe. : Murdoc.
• it looks fun! i hope it turns out well : smax
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  I want to Alpha test! : dangerdoggie
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    Shack alpha test! : OmegaRed59
    • ^^ IAWTSAT : mockery
• Im not a fan of the Tribe series, but to each his own. Im not exactly clear on the web based nature, b... : latency2

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• If this is an alpha and is going through very prelim testing, I'm fairly certain that they would enable u... : Derringer

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• You are wrong. : d3tached

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  Thanks for the kind words, we really played around a lot with the color palette with the alpha testbox. W... : timaste
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    Wow, I remember Metal Fatigue. That was a pretty fun RTS where you could salvage your enemies parts and ... : melkore
    • oh yeah !! I loved metal fatigue. it was awesome, you build your own custom everything (iirc even planes ... : barichnikov
• yea, the color palette looks much more attractive compared to UT3 : High-g
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  This video was actually recorded on an x1300 I think, if it's the artist I think who recorded it for the ... : timaste
  • I'd love some more details about how it's going to work in-browser e.g. what's the download time like or ... : chazums

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  high five! : timaste
  • o/ : djkenohki

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• It's kinda like Steam, but accessible from pretty much any computer with an internet connection. The game... : Chris Faylor

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  Shhhh.. the you know who has eye and ears all over the internet and will sue anything that remotely looks... : mordaken
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    wait, Voldemort? : Majuju
    • Kevin Siembieda, or however you spell it, he hates everyone. : mordaken

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  I agree. I really like the artistic blend of colors they've got going on. And I really can't wait for... : Nick Breckon
  • Me as well Nick. Jetpacks = awesome. I have been waiting for a new (good) tribes game since the beta/... : OmegaRed59
• Thanks, it's barely alpha. Just hit alpha milestone on Thursday actually. : timaste

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• My guess is browser based means launched from a web browser and running on technology that is connected t... : Porkasaurus

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• Most people are on holiday at the moment (trying to track down the network guy now even). Game isn't quit... : timaste

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• Site isn't launched yet, won't be until (probably very early 2008...). This caught us off guard, sorry ab... : timaste