Renegades Preview Comment!
12/13/04 11:13 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
The first preview of Renegades, a mod for Tribes: Vengeance, has bene released. The preview includes both information and media images and can be seen at www.renwerx.com. RenWerX will be hosting a public chat on Sunday, December 19th, from 8-10pm EST on irc.dynamix.com channel: #RenWerX
Starsiege: 2845 Looking for Staff Comment!
12/12/04 20:28 PST | Starsiege | Gryphon
The SS:2845 development team has a need for additional coders and skinners right now, though anyone from map makers and modelers could be useful. You can find out more at www.igda.org.
2845 ATAEM-V Badger Comment!
12/7/04 10:55 PST | Starsiege | Gryphon
The Starsiege: 2845 team has released some info on a nice little toy for their upcoming Tribes: Vengeance mod.
The Badger series of trucks are all-terrain, all-environment multipurpose utility vehicles designed to carry passengers and infantry supplies despite the worst Mercurial heat, Venusian acid, Martian dust, and outer system cold. Badgers can be outfitted for a variety of missions, but increasingly popular is the fast attack vehicle configuration with 40mm autocannon. In this configuration, designated FAV-9, the Badger is ideally suited to armed reconnaissance missions, since the autocannon’s coaxial camera can double as a short periscope. Even more important in the eyes of the infantry, though, the autocannon gives Badger drivers the firepower necessary to deliver critical supplies to men and women in the very midst of combat.
Amazon.com great deal on T:V 4 Comments
12/3/04 10:53 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Tribalbob
-ca.shock has left word that Amazon.com has Tribes: Vengeance for $25.49, with FREE Super Saver shipping.
So seriously, it's pretty cheap now. buy copies for all your friends and families this Christmas, or Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, or Saturnalia, or Festival of the Winter Solstice. it's all good.
Vengeance Tools Comment!
12/1/04 15:14 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
guy.welch posted on the official forums some tools for Tribes: Vengeance.
World Machines, a procedural landscape generator, was used to create the terrains in Tribes: Vengeance.
We've recently released the World Machine data files used in the in the creation of some (but not all) Tribes: Vengeance maps.
Download the World Machine data files here. They have also released documentation for the Mojo Cut Scene Editor.
Irrational has sent along documentation for Mojo, the tool used to create cut-scenes in Tribes: Vengeance. Mojo shipped with the game but these guidelines are new. Check em out!
Tribes Vengeance Files Launched Comment!
11/29/04 18:33 PST | Starsiege : TRIBES
| Notman
Jamie at Tribes Vengeance Files, sends word of their new site. They are hosting Tribes: Vengeance related files, including demo, media files, and mods. Take a click over to http://tribesvengeance.filefront.com and see what they have to offer. This may be a great source to get your mod files hosted ;)
Basically if you had ever played UtraXL for tribes 2 and liked it you may like this one so come check it out if you have a chance.
Instructions for playing and installing are located in the UltraVL forums. If you get lost just use the batch file in the UltraVL directory for running the game and joining the servers.
Community Orbs course pack Comment!
11/29/04 7:22 PST | Torque Engine | Rifter
It's been a little while since we had some Torque news. It seems that http://www.orbzonline.com/ has a link to the new course pack for Orbz. It features 8 new courses, bringing the total up to 28 courses. You can go here for more information from the Garage Games website.
If you cast your mind back five years you may remember the low-key entrance of the game Tribes into the world of the First Person Shooter (FPS). Released in the wake of Doom 3 , Tribes Vengeance may well be facing stiff competition in the genre when it comes to the new wave of DirectX 9 powered shooters, but it certainly manages to hold its own. It is the 12 th game set in a sci-fi universe previously known as Metaltech , Earthsiege , and Starsiege . The single player side of the game is played out through the eyes of multiple characters (you experience missions as an Imperial Royal, a Phoenix tribesman and a cyborg assassin amongst others) in a story of two princesses – a mother making choices that effect the entire universe, and her daughter, twenty years later, dealing with the repercussions of those decisions.
Tribes: Vengeance Now $29.99 4 Comments
11/16/04 12:43 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Tribalbob
guy.welch over at Tribalwar (they get all the interesting news) has posted to let people know that Tribes: Vengeance is running for just $29.99 at the VU Games Store.
All of those out there waiting for the price drop, here it is. Go. Buy. Enjoy.
Irritant releases a map Comment!
11/15/04 18:20 PST | Community | Notman
IrritAnt from Irrational Games has released a map that he made personally. It is for the multiplayer version of Tribes Vengeance and it's named Gigant. This beta map includes a version for CTF and Fuel.
MP-Gigant BETA
by Andrew "IrritAnt" Orman
Imperial troops and Blood Eagle warriors face off against one another across a blasted and desolate wasteland. Once home to many and varied forms of life, this paradise has been reduced to a barren no-man's land through constant warfare.
You can read more about it and get the download here. Also note: THIS MAP IS NOT ENDORSED OR SUPPORTED BY IRRATIONAL GAMES OR VIVENDI UNIVERSAL GAMES IN ANY WAY!
Vengeance Review Comment!
11/15/04 8:40 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
Christ Centered Games has released their review of Tribes: Vengeance.
One word describes this game’s sound: beautiful. The dialogue occasionally sounded just a little awkward, as though some of the voice actors needed a little more practice, but that’s the exception. And the in game sound is magnificent. From the buzz of a spinfusor disc, to the whistle and massive explosion of a mortar shell, to the squeal of tires on a rover or the rumbling engine of a jump tank, to the mechanical whir of a “heavy”, the sound is just as I would imagine it. The soundtrack is mainly rather forgettable techno type music, but it does make a good fighting background.
GrappleWorks Launches Comment!
11/12/04 15:40 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
Team Grapple has launched GrappleWorks.com, and Tribes: Vengeance resource site. Their primary offering at the moment is a great web based hud builder.
GrappleWorks is a premier Tribes Vengeance resource center. Right now our main feature is our Hudworks product (Formerly Hud Builder). This will build a hud package on the fly based upon the choices you select. Click on the Hudworks link above to trick out your T:V interface.
Hudworks empowers you to choose various hud elements from chat backgrounds, quickchat mods, radar displays, reticle packs, sound mods and much more! Want a module included ? Please give us your feedback and suggestions!
Starsiege: 2845 Dev Diary Comment!
11/12/04 8:52 PST | Starsiege | Gryphon
The second developer diary for Starsiege: 2845 has been posted at the Junkyard.
So it’s November already. With our projected/promised ATR date just 2.5 months away the whole team is working as hard as possible to surmount the assorted milestones needed before that can happen. The major hurdles are, as always, with the coding team. The art department is going full bore into level design and asset production. Things like buildings, spawn pads, generators, and the other assorted errata that are needed to populate a map, and turn it from just terrain into a real environment. Personally I’m working on multiple fronts: finishing up some textures for some cybrid units, animating and setting up hercs for in game use, modeling version 2 of several cybrid units, coordinating my work with the coding team, and helping out the level object artists where needed.
You can find the rest of the diary at www.junkyard.net. You can find the first diary here.
December Vengeance Patch 4 Comments
11/12/04 8:44 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
A patch will be made available for Tribes: Vengeance next month.
The *Tribes: Vengeance 1.2 Update* is under development and is slated for a December release. The update will include fixes to known map "holes," implementation of PunkBuster Online Countermeasures and several other fixes.
A full change log will be available with the release of the update.
Vengeance packs more wallop in less space and with fewer maps (currently) than before, and has new weapons, tools, vehicles and aircraft; more bang for your buck, Burner, Buckler, Blaster, etc.
Read the rest at www.ageofplay.com
Snippet from the Gamehelper review:
Since the beginning of development Sierra was selling the product as the first Tribes game in the series to sport a full-fledged single-player storyline. Not only was the story well told the first time around, playing further into it I can say that it only gets better. I don’t want to give anything away, but after playing through a good few hours of some solid character development, you’re then switched to a new character who has been hired to assassinate one of the main protagonists. Add some interesting plot twists like that and new cut-scenes that have been edited (from what we saw in the preview code) to flow better as the story progresses, you just might find yourself glued to the screen as I was in order to discover the most recent event.
PTgamers Tribes Review Comment!
11/4/04 13:43 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
Rui Parreira sent in news that they have put up a review at PTgamers. You can read the review at www.ptgamers.com, and if you can't (lol), they have a ton of screenshots.
Gamers With Jobs Review Comment!
11/4/04 9:32 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
Gamers With Jobs has put up their review of Tribes: Vengeance.
If I had to describe the singleplayer gameplay of Tribes: Vengeance in one word I'd say “varied”. The missions jump back and forth from base defense, to sniping and infiltration, capturing territories and even some “running the gauntlet” style missions. One of the more memorable missions had you defending a base yet another good mission had you fighting in zero gravity. Several had you face off against bots in an arena playing the various multiplayer gametypes. If there's anything you can do in Tribes multiplayer, there's a singleplayer mission designed around it.
Several times this left me with the “elaborate tutorial” feeling, there were missions obviously designed to teach you how to use a certain weapon like the grappling hook, and help text constantly popped up on the screen to show you how to use your weapons. Still I can't hold that against them, as these missions were so much more than simple tutorials. They would teach you how to do something, then give you plenty of practice just playing the level and having a blast. Frankly, they were just too damn fun to simply call them tutorials. You may have spent half the level learning how to use the grappling hook, but you were learning while swinging through sewers sniping Imperial guards. I just realized I had fun in the sewer level, which speaks for itself.
Vengeance Trailer #2 Comment!
10/22/04 8:37 PST | TRIBES: Vengeance | Gryphon
The second Tribes: Vengeance trailer has been released, you can download it at www.tribesvengeance.com in the Media section, or you can download it from ftp.sierra.com: 384k.WMV, 384k.MOV, 1300k.WMV, 1300k.MOV.
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