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HiRezStew Hi-Rez Team Member Joined: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:42 pm Posts: 3144 Steam Gamer Name: HirezStew	Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 A patch is planned to be deployed on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The notes are below. URL: http://www.egmnow.com/tribesascend/trib ... -1-0-1185/ Major Highlights Owners of Custom Servers can now ban individual weapons or perks on their server. Under Gameplay Settings, use the Ban Equipment menu option. Improved memory usage and management. Some users with 32-bit operating systems were crashing after running out of memory, which should now be resolved. Added a safe mode option which runs the game with default settings and lowest texture quality. To access safe mode, open the Tribes: Ascend Launcher, click the settings icon, and enable “run game in safe mode.” Added a system to adjust core player physics values on Custom Servers, and in local roaming maps. This system is designed to give control to advanced players who want to tweak player movement variables. We will work with the community to organize a series of presets that can be applied to custom servers and focused playtests experimenting with physics changes. For more information and instructions on how to change settings, visit the Tribes: Ascend Dev Blog: viewtopic.php?f=345&t=96589 Weapon/Balance Items Fixed an issue where the Brute’s Light Sticky Grenade would not explode if the grenade was primed when the owning player died. Increased Sentinel’s Drop Jammer radius by 50%. Reduced Raider’s White Out grenade radius by 10%. Reduced Technician’s TCNG Quick-Fuse damage by 12.5% and radius by 4%. Reduced Technician’s TCNG damage by 10% and radius by 6%. Reduced Infiltrator’s Sticky XL damage by 20% and radius by 14%. Reduced Infiltrator’s Sticky Grenade damage by 16% and radius by 16%. Reduced duration of Brute’s Fractal Grenade and Extended Fractal both by 1s. Reduced knockback on each individual beam substantially. Change the time between shots on Infiltrator’s Jackal from .25s to .35s. Reduced Brute’s Plasma Cannon hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 8. Reduced Raider’s Plasma Gun hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 6. Reduced Raider’s NJ5 SMG damage by 10% to be more in line with other Raider SMG options. Reduced Doombringer’s Mine detonation range by 10%. Reduced Soldier’s Short-Fuse Frag damage by 20% and radius by 16%. Reduced Soldier’s Grenade XL damage by 9%. Reduced Soldier's AP Grenade damage by roughly 8% and radius by 4%. Reduced range of the Sonic Punch perk by 36%. Increased radius of Raider’s Jammer Pack by 42%. Increased damage falloff on Sentinel’s SAP20 and Phase Rifle to be more similar to BXT1. (This is a nerf). Decreased damage on Pathfinder’s Holdout Shotgun by roughly 5%. Increased falloff on Pathfinder’s Shotgun and Holdout Shotgun by 10% (a nerf). Increased falloff on Brute’s Automatic Shotgun and The Hammer by 10% (a nerf). Additional Items Fixed a bug where players could launch themselves off a vehicle by a collision exploit. Added the ability to filter the server browser list by ruleset (Official and Custom right now)
Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:35 pm

ScorchMechanic Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:37 am Posts: 406 Steam Gamer Name: Mr. Sedgewick	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 Looking forward to the balance changes. The nerfs to the Brute's plasma cannon intrigue me, but I'll reserve judgement for now. Especially happy to see the nerf to the SAP20. Just want to note here that every time you developer folks make a patch, or do dev discussion, or anything really, it renews my interest in the game. Even if you're not adding "content" or weapons or whatever. It means you still care, and as a result I still care. Looking forward to these changes. _________________ HiRezKate wrote: Soon.™ Galileus wrote: Great post, pal. Now I look like a very charming and nice guy by comparison. Keep up the good work!
Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:41 pm

dhmrs Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:03 pm Posts: 42	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 Are you going to fix the bug where SAP20 does not give sniping accolades? Edit: viewtopic.php?f=314&t=96684 _________________ Last edited by dhmrs on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:45 pm

Cyberlink Community Agent Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:27 pm Posts: 3066 Location: Dallas, TX USA Steam Gamer Name: Cyberlink119	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 ScorchMechanic wrote: Just want to note here that every time you developer folks make a patch, or do dev discussion, or anything really, it renews my interest in the game. Even if you're not adding "content" or weapons or whatever. It means you still care, and as a result I still care.. _________________ I am a community volunteer. I am not a Hi-Rez employee. Views expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Hi-Rez Studios or its affiliates. Issues? Please see The BIG FIX Post -OR- Open a support ticket Play, learn, chat with others? ts6.gameservers.com:9148
Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:57 pm

fac3nade Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:15 am Posts: 1145	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 installs tribes ascend =D _________________
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:04 pm

Alpherior Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:01 pm Posts: 266 Location: Ontario, Canada	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 Great work with the additional server functionality, and not much to comment on regarding the balance adjustments seeing as a truckload of nerfs isn't exactly that exci- Quote: - Increased falloff on Brute’s Automatic Shotgun and The Hammer by 10% (a nerf). - Reduced Brute’s Plasma Cannon hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 8. - Reduced duration of Brute’s Fractal Grenade and Extended Fractal both by 1s. - Reduced knockback on each individual beam substantially. Whoa whoa whoa, excuse me? A Brute shotgun nerf? Is this a joke? It's already much less used than his other secondary weapon counterparts, along with already having short range. Plasma Cannon hitbox reduction? Honestly, at first I actually agreed with this, then I realized it's a heavy class that is allowed to have large projectile weapons. Like clip size even mattered, too, yet apparently it needs a nerf or something. Oh, look, yet another "please the whining rank 1-10s" blanket nerf to an already situational, not-overpowered grenade. Come ON people, it's not that hard to avoid. I don't care what you are, or what you're doing, or what gamemode you're playing, Fractals are pretty competent-player proof for the most part, going off my own experience and observing how enemies behave with them. It's irritating knowing horrible players dictate how balance adjustments are done. Is 1 second going to really make a difference? Not necessarily, but this doesn't look like the end of unneeded Fractal nerfs seeing as they've been nerfed like, 4 times. Reduced knockback? Okay, sure, maybe it was a b**** (for the people who actually get hit by Fractals lol) but doesn't this mean you could end up actually doing even more damage because you're not knocking them out of the AOE, not to mention, wasn't the whole point of Fractals to be area denial? Don't get me wrong, though -- It's good to see there even IS balance adjustments, as the first post mentioned, it you care. Attention is no issue, and custom servers are definitely getting what they deserve, but I still question the methods of determining balancing. _________________ Main Class: Brute (Devestator Spinfusor/Plasma Cannon/Extended Fractal/Safety Third/Potential Energy/Survival Pack) Last edited by Alpherior on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:06 pm

DauntlessDS Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:20 pm Posts: 169	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 A LOT of nerfs, buta Safe Mode which is great for us that still use a Laptop from time to time. Let's hope these are going to help because I don't see anything of interest really... Maybe I just need to go play Hawken for a while until something new is added. EDIT: So Extended Fractal is now just Fractal? LOL Area denial for what?.. maybe 2 seconds now. Hi-Rez is the new Apple of patches. "Let's lower Both Fractal Grenades by 1 second and call the old regular fractal grenade "Compact Fractal" and call the nerfed extended fractal "Fractal Classic"! It's GENIUS!" _________________ Last edited by DauntlessDS on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:07 pm

Galileus Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:49 am Posts: 1250	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 Alpherior wrote: Plasma Cannon hitbox reduction? Honestly, at first I actually agreed with this, then I realized it's a heavy class that is allowed to have large projectile weapons. Like clip size even mattered, too, yet apparently it needs a nerf or something. WHUT? _________________
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:09 pm

Horridius Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:30 pm Posts: 745	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 DauntlessDS wrote: A LOT of nerfs, buta Safe Mode which is great for us that still use a Laptop from time to time. Let's hope these are going to help because I don't see anything of interest really... Maybe I just need to go play Hawken for a while until something new is added. Really? Freakin physics parameter? Not much?! Not even talking about the maps and asset shielding coming in the next patch.
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:09 pm

Alpherior Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:01 pm Posts: 266 Location: Ontario, Canada	Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185 Galileus wrote: Alpherior wrote: Plasma Cannon hitbox reduction? Honestly, at first I actually agreed with this, then I realized it's a heavy class that is allowed to have large projectile weapons. Like clip size even mattered, too, yet apparently it needs a nerf or something. WHUT? My thoughts exactly.
Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:10 pm

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Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

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HiRezStew

Hi-Rez Team Member

Joined: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:42 pm
Posts: 3144
Steam Gamer Name: HirezStew

Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

A patch is planned to be deployed on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The notes are below.

URL: http://www.egmnow.com/tribesascend/trib ... -1-0-1185/

Major Highlights

Owners of Custom Servers can now ban individual weapons or perks on their server. Under Gameplay Settings, use the Ban Equipment menu option.

Improved memory usage and management. Some users with 32-bit operating systems were crashing after running out of memory, which should now be resolved.

Added a safe mode option which runs the game with default settings and lowest texture quality. To access safe mode, open the Tribes: Ascend Launcher, click the settings icon, and enable “run game in safe mode.”

Added a system to adjust core player physics values on Custom Servers, and in local roaming maps. This system is designed to give control to advanced players who want to tweak player movement variables. We will work with the community to organize a series of presets that can be applied to custom servers and focused playtests experimenting with physics changes. For more information and instructions on how to change settings, visit the Tribes: Ascend Dev Blog:
viewtopic.php?f=345&t=96589

Weapon/Balance Items

Fixed an issue where the Brute’s Light Sticky Grenade would not explode if the grenade was primed when the owning player died.

Increased Sentinel’s Drop Jammer radius by 50%.

Reduced Raider’s White Out grenade radius by 10%.

Reduced Technician’s TCNG Quick-Fuse damage by 12.5% and radius by 4%.

Reduced Technician’s TCNG damage by 10% and radius by 6%.

Reduced Infiltrator’s Sticky XL damage by 20% and radius by 14%.

Reduced Infiltrator’s Sticky Grenade damage by 16% and radius by 16%.

Reduced duration of Brute’s Fractal Grenade and Extended Fractal both by 1s. Reduced knockback on each individual beam substantially.

Change the time between shots on Infiltrator’s Jackal from .25s to .35s.

Reduced Brute’s Plasma Cannon hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 8.

Reduced Raider’s Plasma Gun hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 6.

Reduced Raider’s NJ5 SMG damage by 10% to be more in line with other Raider SMG options.

Reduced Doombringer’s Mine detonation range by 10%.

Reduced Soldier’s Short-Fuse Frag damage by 20% and radius by 16%.

Reduced Soldier’s Grenade XL damage by 9%.

Reduced Soldier's AP Grenade damage by roughly 8% and radius by 4%.

Reduced range of the Sonic Punch perk by 36%.

Increased radius of Raider’s Jammer Pack by 42%.

Increased damage falloff on Sentinel’s SAP20 and Phase Rifle to be more similar to BXT1. (This is a nerf).

Decreased damage on Pathfinder’s Holdout Shotgun by roughly 5%.

Increased falloff on Pathfinder’s Shotgun and Holdout Shotgun by 10% (a nerf).

Increased falloff on Brute’s Automatic Shotgun and The Hammer by 10% (a nerf).

Additional Items

Fixed a bug where players could launch themselves off a vehicle by a collision exploit.

Added the ability to filter the server browser list by ruleset (Official and Custom right now)

Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:35 pm

ScorchMechanic

Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:37 am
Posts: 406
Steam Gamer Name: Mr. Sedgewick

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

Looking forward to the balance changes. The nerfs to the Brute's plasma cannon intrigue me, but I'll reserve judgement for now. Especially happy to see the nerf to the SAP20.

Just want to note here that every time you developer folks make a patch, or do dev discussion, or anything really, it renews my interest in the game. Even if you're not adding "content" or weapons or whatever. It means you still care, and as a result I still care.

Looking forward to these changes.

_________________

HiRezKate wrote:

Soon.™

Galileus wrote:

Great post, pal. Now I look like a very charming and nice guy by comparison. Keep up the good work!

Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:41 pm

dhmrs

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:03 pm
Posts: 42

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

Are you going to fix the bug where SAP20 does not give sniping accolades?

Edit: viewtopic.php?f=314&t=96684

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Last edited by dhmrs on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:45 pm

Cyberlink

Community Agent

Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:27 pm
Posts: 3066
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Steam Gamer Name: Cyberlink119

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

ScorchMechanic wrote:

Just want to note here that every time you developer folks make a patch, or do dev discussion, or anything really, it renews my interest in the game. Even if you're not adding "content" or weapons or whatever. It means you still care, and as a result I still care..

_________________

I am a community volunteer. I am not a Hi-Rez employee. Views expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Hi-Rez Studios or its affiliates.

Issues? Please see The BIG FIX Post -OR- Open a support ticket

Play, learn, chat with others? ts6.gameservers.com:9148

Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:57 pm

fac3nade

Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:15 am
Posts: 1145

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

*installs tribes ascend*
=D

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Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:04 pm

Alpherior

Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:01 pm
Posts: 266
Location: Ontario, Canada

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

Great work with the additional server functionality, and not much to comment on regarding the balance adjustments seeing as a truckload of nerfs isn't exactly that exci-

Quote:

- Increased falloff on Brute’s Automatic Shotgun and The Hammer by 10% (a nerf).
- Reduced Brute’s Plasma Cannon hit-box size by 28% and reduced starting clip size from 10 to 8.
- Reduced duration of Brute’s Fractal Grenade and Extended Fractal both by 1s.
- Reduced knockback on each individual beam substantially.

Whoa whoa whoa, excuse me?

A Brute shotgun nerf? Is this a joke? It's already much less used than his other secondary weapon counterparts, along with already having short range.

Plasma Cannon hitbox reduction? Honestly, at first I actually agreed with this, then I realized it's a heavy class that is allowed to have large projectile weapons. Like clip size even mattered, too, yet apparently it needs a nerf or something.

Oh, look, yet another "please the whining rank 1-10s" blanket nerf to an already situational, not-overpowered grenade. Come ON people, it's not that hard to avoid. I don't care what you are, or what you're doing, or what gamemode you're playing, Fractals are pretty competent-player proof for the most part, going off my own experience and observing how enemies behave with them. It's irritating knowing horrible players dictate how balance adjustments are done. Is 1 second going to really make a difference? Not necessarily, but this doesn't look like the end of unneeded Fractal nerfs seeing as they've been nerfed like, 4 times.

Reduced knockback? Okay, sure, maybe it was a b**** (for the people who actually get hit by Fractals lol) but doesn't this mean you could end up actually doing even more damage because you're not knocking them out of the AOE, not to mention, wasn't the whole point of Fractals to be area denial?

Don't get me wrong, though -- It's good to see there even IS balance adjustments, as the first post mentioned, it you care. Attention is no issue, and custom servers are definitely getting what they deserve, but I still question the methods of determining balancing.

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Main Class: Brute
(Devestator Spinfusor/Plasma Cannon/Extended Fractal/Safety Third/Potential Energy/Survival Pack)

Last edited by Alpherior on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:06 pm

DauntlessDS

Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:20 pm
Posts: 169

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

A LOT of nerfs, buta Safe Mode which is great for us that still use a Laptop from time to time. Let's hope these are going to help because I don't see anything of interest really... Maybe I just need to go play Hawken for a while until something new is added.

EDIT: So Extended Fractal is now just Fractal? LOL Area denial for what?.. maybe 2 seconds now.
Hi-Rez is the new Apple of patches. "Let's lower Both Fractal Grenades by 1 second and call the old regular fractal grenade "Compact Fractal" and call the nerfed extended fractal "Fractal Classic"! It's GENIUS!"

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Last edited by DauntlessDS on Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:07 pm

Galileus

Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:49 am
Posts: 1250

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

Alpherior wrote:

Plasma Cannon hitbox reduction? Honestly, at first I actually agreed with this, then I realized it's a heavy class that is allowed to have large projectile weapons. Like clip size even mattered, too, yet apparently it needs a nerf or something.

WHUT?

_________________

Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:09 pm

Horridius

Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:30 pm
Posts: 745

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

DauntlessDS wrote:

Really? Freakin physics parameter? Not much?! Not even talking about the maps and asset shielding coming in the next patch.

Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:09 pm

Alpherior

Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:01 pm
Posts: 266
Location: Ontario, Canada

Re: Dec 6, 2012: Tribes Ascend Version 1.0.1185

Galileus wrote:

Alpherior wrote:

WHUT?

My thoughts exactly.

Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:10 pm