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HiRezAPC Hi-Rez Team Member Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:28 pm Posts: 427	Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition Tribes Patch Notes - Game of the Year Edition Major Highlights All weapons, classes, perks and loadouts can now be purchased for a single price. The “Tribes: Ascend Game of the Year” package can be purchased in-game, on Steam, or through the Tribes: Ascend Web Store, and will immediately unlock all gameplay impacting items, which includes over 100 weapons, all 9 classes and all 21 perks. As a special bonus, players that are current Tribes: Ascend VIP’s can purchase the Game of the Year package for 50% off by visiting the Tribes: Ascend Web Store and logging in with their VIP account credentials. (Note that VIP status will no longer be awarded to future players of the game, although current VIPs will remain VIPs and will keep the VIP XP and other bonuses). Three new CTF and Blitz maps available! CTF Bella Omega CTF Blueshift CTF Canyon Crusade Revival Three new Arena maps available! Arena Fraytown Arena Undercroft Arena Whiteout Four Rabbit maps have been added to the queue: Inferno Nightabatic Outskirts Sulfer Cove New weapon available on all classes: Shocklance New Skins available: Juggernaut’s Forlorn skin. Doombringer’s Executioner skin. Base Turrets and Radar Stations are now shielded. Shields will absorb damage and regenerate very quickly. Shields are powered by the generator, and will drop when the generator is down. Grenades now have a glow around them to help with their visibility. Other Weapon/Balance Items All weapons have been rebalanced against shielded base assets. Some weapons, such as Mortar Launchers, Arx Busters, and Grenades are very effective vs shielded assets, and deal enough damage to blast directly through the shields. Weapons such as Spinfusors do not deal enough damage to push through shields before they recharge, and as such require multiple players shooting at the same time to cause damage. Base Turrets and Radar stations no longer gain more health when upgraded by players. Turrets gain a faster rate of fire, and Radar stations increase their range. (Both still provide score bonus to players who upgrade them). Raider’s White Out grenade has been changed, and no longer causes blindness. It now disables HUD icons on players, and disables Turrets for 5s to 6.25s depending on upgrade. If the turret is shielded, is also drops its shield making it more vulnerable. Raider’s White Out has been renamed to Black Out. Mortars now explode on contact with shielded base assets (base turrets and base radar). This change affects the Juggernaut’s Mortar Launcher and the Juggernaut’s LR1 Mortar Launcher. With the Mechanic perk equipped, Repair tools will damage enemy base turrets and sensors “through” their shielding. Mines now have a soft “edge glow” around them, to make them more visible. Sentinel's BXT rifles have been made more effective when not in scope, damage raised to 125. (Scope still charges for higher damage). Additional Items Fixed an issue where shotguns could get into a state where they only fired one bullet. Fixed issues where damage from explosions weren’t reliable when the explosion occurred beneath the target on a steep slope or vertical asset. See the dev blog post for more information: viewtopic.php?f=345&t=96745 Addressed an issue where certain grenades, such as Nitrons, were exploding unreliably when thrown near the feet of your own player. Fixed an issue where the SkiFallVelocityTransfer physics preset was being controlled by JetForwardAccelPercent. Fixed an issue with the Infiltrator’s Jackal where if friendly fire was enabled, the projectiles would detonate without damaging targets fully. Removed an incorrect welcome message from the chat console. Base Sensors stop spinning when blown up and resume spinning when they are functionally repaired. Added the following player physics properties: ImpulseMassLight (Was simply ImpulseMass before) ImpulseMassMedium ImpulseMassHeavy JetpackEnergyCost FlagThrowSpeed FlagInheritSpeed FlagBounceDamping FlagFallingMomentumDamping FlagDamageMass FlagFriction FlagNumBouncesBeforeSlide RockBounceFullSpeedThreshold RockBounceGraceAngle RockBounceFalloffAngle Added a shorthand command for setting player physics. /SetPhysicsProperty also works as /SPP. Added log verification when a physics property successfully changes. Added a batch entry solution for setting physics properties: /SetBatchPhysicsProperty <PropertyName1>=<Value1>,<PropertyName2>=<Value2>, etc. will parse bulk property changes for easy preset testing. /PrintPhysicsReport now places a batch command for the current state of all physics properties to the end of the clipboard copy so that players can easily re-enter a saved text profile. Fixed an issue where passenger meshes were being distance-culled after leaving a vehicle. Fixed an issue where game would crash when switching between server browser tabs Fixed an issue where game would crash when filtering game modes.. Fixed a crash that would occur when logging in after being kicked for being idle. Fixed an issue where announcer messages would cut off.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:03 pm

VirTW Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:09 am Posts: 1382	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition HiRezAPC wrote: []Fixed an issue where game would crash when switching between server browser tabs []Fixed an issue where game would crash when filtering game modes.. [*]Fixed a crash that would occur when logging in after being kicked for being idle. The game is starting to get attention today if only we could get this part right now! _________________ \|5150\|Vir
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:09 pm

Nark51 Joined: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:54 pm Posts: 855 Location: United Kingdom	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition Please add a small weapon model for the Shocklance before the patch goes live, otherwise I know we'll be stuck with the XBOX HUEG one for months just like with the Brute's Nova Colt. _________________ Important things: Possible solutions to D-stacking and ways to incentivize O Nark, certified #1 Chaser & #1 Scrambler Capper in Europe. Also #1 in Rabbit.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:10 pm

Gierling Joined: Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:56 am Posts: 1391	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition You have my sincere thanks for the new Blitz maps.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:12 pm

Spinebuster Joined: Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:28 pm Posts: 397	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition More physics options available on custom servers now?
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:34 pm

LumensAquilae Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:04 am Posts: 277	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition Still no Soldier skin? You're killing me.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:48 pm

CreativeConstraints Joined: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:17 am Posts: 1198	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition I see no fix for the "pings only update at match start" -issue. I guess that means it's a feature working as intended? ("relax guys, nothing wrong with our servers!1, see? your ping is normal, all that lag and stuttering is just your imagination")
Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:56 pm

Melanious Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:22 pm Posts: 2007 Location: NA West	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition Patch certainly looking super sexy. +1 to everything except.. -1 DMB skin over SLD... </3 _________________ Unstoppable Mid Air Disks - NA West
Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:11 pm

ShawnJr Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:21 pm Posts: 980	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition This is pretty awesome. good work. hopefully the patch hits early morning so i can start playing on with new things asap. i love how everyone goes "please sneak in blahblahblah tiny fix in this patch else we'll be stuck with it for another 2 months" _________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/ShawnJr0 Tribes: Ascend Funny Moments [youtube series] Infiltrator Tips and Tricks [youtube series]
Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:21 pm

pushbiscuitdeath Joined: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:25 pm Posts: 723	Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition Patch is glorious. Best patch since fish patch and in the spirit of that one of these may or may not be a new skin. http://i.imgur.com/tf8wPR4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TBWwFn5.png http://i.imgur.com/UN78FTm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZHDEZAx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Ov0rEtd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xx1SzU9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QzHCXUQ.jpg http://www.nofrag.com/images/0068f3.jpg http://www.nofrag.com/images/0068f2.jpg _________________ T:A Soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAC1B18024809938&feature=view_all Tribes channel: http://www.youtube.com/tribesmovies555
Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:23 pm

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Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

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HiRezAPC

Hi-Rez Team Member

Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:28 pm
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Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

Tribes Patch Notes - Game of the Year Edition

Major Highlights

All weapons, classes, perks and loadouts can now be purchased for a single price. The “Tribes: Ascend Game of the Year” package can be purchased in-game, on Steam, or through the Tribes: Ascend Web Store, and will immediately unlock all gameplay impacting items, which includes over 100 weapons, all 9 classes and all 21 perks. As a special bonus, players that are current Tribes: Ascend VIP’s can purchase the Game of the Year package for 50% off by visiting the Tribes: Ascend Web Store and logging in with their VIP account credentials. (Note that VIP status will no longer be awarded to future players of the game, although current VIPs will remain VIPs and will keep the VIP XP and other bonuses).

Three new CTF and Blitz maps available!
- CTF Bella Omega
- CTF Blueshift
- CTF Canyon Crusade Revival

Three new Arena maps available!
- Arena Fraytown
- Arena Undercroft
- Arena Whiteout

Four Rabbit maps have been added to the queue:
- Inferno
- Nightabatic
- Outskirts
- Sulfer Cove

New weapon available on all classes: Shocklance

New Skins available:
- Juggernaut’s Forlorn skin.
- Doombringer’s Executioner skin.

Base Turrets and Radar Stations are now shielded. Shields will absorb damage and regenerate very quickly. Shields are powered by the generator, and will drop when the generator is down.

Grenades now have a glow around them to help with their visibility.

Other Weapon/Balance Items

All weapons have been rebalanced against shielded base assets. Some weapons, such as Mortar Launchers, Arx Busters, and Grenades are very effective vs shielded assets, and deal enough damage to blast directly through the shields. Weapons such as Spinfusors do not deal enough damage to push through shields before they recharge, and as such require multiple players shooting at the same time to cause damage.
Base Turrets and Radar stations no longer gain more health when upgraded by players. Turrets gain a faster rate of fire, and Radar stations increase their range. (Both still provide score bonus to players who upgrade them).
Raider’s White Out grenade has been changed, and no longer causes blindness. It now disables HUD icons on players, and disables Turrets for 5s to 6.25s depending on upgrade. If the turret is shielded, is also drops its shield making it more vulnerable.
Raider’s White Out has been renamed to Black Out.
Mortars now explode on contact with shielded base assets (base turrets and base radar). This change affects the Juggernaut’s Mortar Launcher and the Juggernaut’s LR1 Mortar Launcher.
With the Mechanic perk equipped, Repair tools will damage enemy base turrets and sensors “through” their shielding.
Mines now have a soft “edge glow” around them, to make them more visible.
Sentinel's BXT rifles have been made more effective when not in scope, damage raised to 125. (Scope still charges for higher damage).

Additional Items

Fixed an issue where shotguns could get into a state where they only fired one bullet.
Fixed issues where damage from explosions weren’t reliable when the explosion occurred beneath the target on a steep slope or vertical asset. See the dev blog post for more information: viewtopic.php?f=345&t=96745
Addressed an issue where certain grenades, such as Nitrons, were exploding unreliably when thrown near the feet of your own player.
Fixed an issue where the SkiFallVelocityTransfer physics preset was being controlled by JetForwardAccelPercent.
Fixed an issue with the Infiltrator’s Jackal where if friendly fire was enabled, the projectiles would detonate without damaging targets fully.
Removed an incorrect welcome message from the chat console.
Base Sensors stop spinning when blown up and resume spinning when they are functionally repaired.
Added the following player physics properties:
- ImpulseMassLight (Was simply ImpulseMass before)
- ImpulseMassMedium
- ImpulseMassHeavy
- JetpackEnergyCost
- FlagThrowSpeed
- FlagInheritSpeed
- FlagBounceDamping
- FlagFallingMomentumDamping
- FlagDamageMass
- FlagFriction
- FlagNumBouncesBeforeSlide
- RockBounceFullSpeedThreshold
- RockBounceGraceAngle
- RockBounceFalloffAngle

Added a shorthand command for setting player physics. /SetPhysicsProperty also works as /SPP.
Added log verification when a physics property successfully changes.
Added a batch entry solution for setting physics properties:
/SetBatchPhysicsProperty <PropertyName1>=<Value1>,<PropertyName2>=<Value2>, etc. will parse bulk property changes for easy preset testing.
/PrintPhysicsReport now places a batch command for the current state of all physics properties to the end of the clipboard copy so that players can easily re-enter a saved text profile.
Fixed an issue where passenger meshes were being distance-culled after leaving a vehicle.
Fixed an issue where game would crash when switching between server browser tabs
Fixed an issue where game would crash when filtering game modes..
Fixed a crash that would occur when logging in after being kicked for being idle.
Fixed an issue where announcer messages would cut off.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:03 pm

VirTW

Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:09 am
Posts: 1382

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

HiRezAPC wrote:

[*]Fixed an issue where game would crash when switching between server browser tabs
[*]Fixed an issue where game would crash when filtering game modes..
[*]Fixed a crash that would occur when logging in after being kicked for being idle.

The game is starting to get attention today if only we could get this part right now!

_________________
|5150|Vir

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:09 pm

Nark51

Joined: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:54 pm
Posts: 855
Location: United Kingdom

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

Please add a small weapon model for the Shocklance before the patch goes live, otherwise I know we'll be stuck with the XBOX HUEG one for months just like with the Brute's Nova Colt.

_________________
Important things:
Possible solutions to D-stacking and ways to incentivize O

Nark, certified #1 Chaser & #1 Scrambler Capper in Europe. Also #1 in Rabbit.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:10 pm

Gierling

Joined: Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:56 am
Posts: 1391

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

You have my sincere thanks for the new Blitz maps.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:12 pm

Spinebuster

Joined: Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:28 pm
Posts: 397

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

More physics options available on custom servers now?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:34 pm

LumensAquilae

Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:04 am
Posts: 277

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

Still no Soldier skin? You're killing me.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:48 pm

CreativeConstraints

Joined: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:17 am
Posts: 1198

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

I see no fix for the "pings only update at match start" -issue.

I guess that means it's a feature working as intended?

("relax guys, nothing wrong with our servers!1, see? your ping is normal, all that lag and stuttering is just your imagination")

Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:56 pm

Melanious

Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:22 pm
Posts: 2007
Location: NA West

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

Patch certainly looking super sexy. +1 to everything except..

-1 DMB skin over SLD... </3 :cry:

_________________

Unstoppable Mid Air Disks - NA West

Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:11 pm

ShawnJr

Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:21 pm
Posts: 980

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

This is pretty awesome. good work. hopefully the patch hits early morning so i can start playing on with new things asap.

i love how everyone goes "please sneak in blahblahblah tiny fix in this patch else we'll be stuck with it for another 2 months" :lol:

_________________
http://www.youtube.com/user/ShawnJr0
Tribes: Ascend Funny Moments [youtube series]
Infiltrator Tips and Tricks [youtube series]

Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:21 pm

pushbiscuitdeath

Joined: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:25 pm
Posts: 723

Re: Preliminary Patch Notes: Game of the Year Edition

Patch is glorious. Best patch since fish patch and in the spirit of that one of these may or may not be a new skin.

http://i.imgur.com/tf8wPR4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TBWwFn5.png
http://i.imgur.com/UN78FTm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZHDEZAx.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ov0rEtd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xx1SzU9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QzHCXUQ.jpg
http://www.nofrag.com/images/0068f3.jpg
http://www.nofrag.com/images/0068f2.jpg

_________________
T:A Soundtrack:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAC1B18024809938&feature=view_all
Tribes channel: http://www.youtube.com/tribesmovies555

Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:23 pm

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