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"Schrodinger" <youllhavetoask@meforit.com> wrote in message
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> "ajc" <bah_meh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:414e4bf9$0$23897$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> >
> > "Bryan Lee" <bjlee@rcn.com> wrote in message
> > news:414a73a0$0$2656$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
> >> I went on today and I only saw 600 people playing on their today.
That's
> >> down from a high of 1800 last week.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > All the counterstrikers have realised they cant camp, wallhack or snipe
> > from
> > hidden locations - so have given it up... and half of the tribes2
veterans
> > who didn't instantly own it up have left too (to return later when their
> > egos return).
> >
>
> Bollocks. It is too much of a console game now. As it happens, within a
> couple of hours I was capping flags on every game regularly and generally
> owning as you would expect on a server largely full of noobs.
>
> So much so that I changed my default loadout to the heavy assault - which
I
> never played in T2 or T1 as I was a sitting duck in these games - because
I
> could still win most flags and dogfights without really trying.
>
> It lacks the subtleties of T2 and, most of all, T1 to be a good game in my
> opinion.
>
> I expect some Tribes followers will like it - they are bound to - but it
> isn't for me certainly and it has nothing to do with "ego".
>
Playing on servers full of noobs yes. Try picking a server where the
players hang. You will have to grab your ass to save it, and the action can
be very intense and very fast. Play it with real tribes players, and the
game very much will be a tribes experience.
Quixote
-~<
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