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On the opposite spectrum of simple exploits by jumping, we have Tribes. In the original game, people quickly realized you can exploit the physics engine by jum
by Vax45 7y ago
On the opposite spectrum of simple exploits by jumping, we have Tribes. In the original game, people quickly realized you can exploit the physics engine by jumping, allowing you to quickly traverse the terrain. It became known as "skiing".
The devs, rather than patching it, incorporated skiing into Tribes 2 and has been a staple ever since. And also, while Counter Strike has become a massive success and has thousands of players today. Tribes (while it was successful at the time) has become a niche game that quickly weeds out newcomers and hardly anyone plays it anymore.
Not saying that there's a correlation, I just find it amusing.
- alharith 7y agoJust to make this technically correct, people still bunny hop in CS all the time, it just doesn't get you anywhere any faster.
- silvester23 7y agoIf done right, it gives you a modest speed-up but it's only possible for a short time and also requires some luck without hacks.
- levosmetalo 7y agoIt doesn't make you slower either. And shooting at a jumping target is still a bit more difficult than shoot at the linearly moving target.
- hnick 7y agoWarframe has a similar story. It's covered in the NoClip documentary on YouTube. Never played that game but it was a good watch.
- willis936 7y agoI clocked in over a thousand hours in warframe. I can only imagine that the video talks about coptering. Honestly coptering removal is one of the reasons I left. It just took joy out of the game.
- sbarre 7y agoLearning to ski well in Tribes was one of the most satisfying things to learn in an FPS back in the day. If you knew how to really ski well, and had the map mastery to apply it well, it almost felt like cheating sometimes because new players had almost no hope of keeping up. I'm sure in today's world it would get patched out.
- lasagnaphil 7y agoIt's just a bummer that Tribes: Ascend (the last installment of Tribes) went downhill quickly and became dead. No other FPS game can match the sheer joy of shooting other players with projectile weapons while skiing midair at 200km/h...
- bovermyer 7y agoTribes: Ascend was really good. It was a labor of love for the developers who worked on it. Sadly, it was abandoned and taken over by cheaters. Also, it was never as moddable as the original Tribes was, and since there were no private servers, there was no way for the community to pick up the slack after Hi Rez abandoned it.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoexploding CD's, or going heavy and randomly shooting mortars at an enemy base. fun times.