@WarAuthority Agreed, support classes just don't have the same impact anymore. Logistics are severely undervalued with the exception of games like Foxhole.
My brother and I were in a Tribe for Tribes 1 that was pretty committed. We were selected by the Devs of Tribes 2 to be part of the Beta testing, which was literally sent to us in the mail on a burned disk that had Tribes 2 Beta written on it with a sharpie. We were included in the Credits for the game for our efforts.
welcome to the club former top clan here our team won many leagues - had the beta Tribes 2 CD. nothing topped Tribes 1, skill tactics, ski routes, everything was born there. it was so advanced for its time, radars, portable inventories, different type of games, capture and hold, ctf. great maps and customs. I have a wet dream, a dev like Respawn who could bring back to the roots of tribes. The 2nd tribes was slower, and too cluttered, vengeance was unbalanced and ascend felt a bit clumsy and stuck between two styles of games, with simplified gameplay.
That's awesome! I actually work in video game QA and it blew my mind when I heard they used to pass out new burned disks to every tester/developer/etc who was in development for every update. Talk about a lot of time and effort..
@@omgitsfishstix Nah, viral succes either happens or it doesn't, you can't prepare for that. Show the game to 10 people, and if you're not Nr.1 concurrent on steam and twitch 2 weeks in, burn it and move on.
the real legacy of tribes is their multiplayer networking architecture white paper which provided a blueprint for making large scale, fast-paced multiplayer games even with slow, unpredictable connections. tribes 2 could handle 128 players at a time when most players had dial-up level internet speeds, which is insanely good. The tribes white paper was the foundation for Halo's networking model and even Unreal Engine took inspiration from it.
This game got me into game development. I was so smitten by it I showed up at Dynamix headquarters uninvited and asked for an interview. They actually gave me an interview and offered a job, but closed down soon after, so I ended up working for a different developer.
Got me into development too. I was in middle school and wanted to start a Tribes clan and all the cool ones had online signup forms, so I taught myself Perl and CGI and HTML and 25+ years later still a professional developer (though now actually in sims/serious games and not web!).
@@Noubers I went kind of the opposite way. I started off in game/engine development and ended up leaving to go work in finance. It's not as rewarding but I got paid a ton more money for a lot less work and stress which was important to me at the time. If I had a choice now I'd probably get back into some form of game or graphics development.
@rinner2801nah the industry is filled to the brim with people who are only in it for the money, and the industry is in the worst place it’s been in history.
@@omgitsfishstix I was going to ask if I should go for T1 or T2, the visuals of the two reminded me of C&C Renegade graphics as the thumbnail gave me a feeling of familiarity to the C&C Renegade Refinery building, and that has grabbed my interest.
@@lmaogottem5984 I read SHAZZBOT and immediately had a flood of memories - sounds, the desk I sat at, the smell of dinner being done and my mom yelling "dinner time! get off the game!" Oh man... ❤
The team at Broadside was brought together by what happened to Tribes 3. Our goal is not simply to 'make tribes' again, but to try and move the genre forward. And part of that will be introducing people to the ideas of the genre, who are again ahead of their time. It'll take more than jets, skiing and a flag; and we're preparing for that.
@@Charles-m7jI truly think this might be something. We need insane speeds. We need to go so fast it consistently breaks the game and then build around that
@@that_rat_kismet that was an amazing experience! The engineers were/are the best! I knew we had something special when he held our first lan battle and you could hear folks yelling across the building when someone got 'blowed-up"!
My favorite tribes memory is by far sitting next to my dad at our glass-and-metal desktop using the ball-mouse, hearing distant explosions as he logs into the server. Oh my god, and that tinny little zap when you successfully login to a match. And that drumroll trumpet fanfare when someone captures a flag. I was maybe 7 then, I’m 29 now. This was an amazing essay, I loved how organized it was. I hadn’t been following the Tribes franchise AT ALL since the original, and you took me through rollercoasters. You’ve earned a sub through talent and nostalgia.
The Tribes2 client to this date is the most feature full client I have ever seen. As you mentioned, the mIRC, forums,Tmail features really pulled the community together. Well done here sir well done. I will die knowing I played Tribes2 at its peak, a joy that others, sadly, will never know.
That kind of scope creep was also likely the reason the game was so buggy on release. They reinvented about 10 wheels all while also wanting larger player counts, a bunch of different vehicles, etc. in the game. Dave Georgeson, who directed T2, eventually went on to make Planetside, which, based on that gameplay, was basically his vision for Tribes 2. He really didn't allow much room for input from the T1 community and was obviously not a T1 diehard. The game he put out was basically modded into a really fun title after a few months through begging and effort. The T1 community was already pretty actively entrenched in using 3rd party apps and sites to communicate, Tribalwar for forums and demo sharing, mIRC for chatting, e-mail and even early voice comm software (RogerWilco, Ventrilo, Teamspeak).
Tribes ascend absolutely blew me away as a teenager, and I could not understand why none of my friends seemed interested in a genre so fantastic. I went and played tribes 2 and was blown away all over again, its insane how foundational this series was to all of FPS, great video.
Tribes was really the only online FPS multiplayer that’s truly and deeply grabbed me. Thanks for helping me see why it’s so special. And why it never caught on as a franchise, despite influencing EVERYTHING!
me too. It was my first online FPS and every FPS i tried after that was just boring. The speed, the vastness, the freedom and so many more aspects made the franchise so unique that when you start with Tribes everything else is just child's play.
UT player here too, never got into Tribes either, and I too feel like we're 'kindred' to them through the similar history of both series and our respective passions for these games.
@@BluecedorI loved the dystopian sports theme those games had. It felt like me and my friends were having our own Superbowl party when the adults would send us to the other room 😂
I remember hearing about Tribes from some clan mates I played Starcraft with. I downloaded the demo, and my first experience was Raindance. The rain, the terrain and the base all so familiar to me now was such an eye opening experience. I played the demo countless hours and was hooked. One day shopping with my dad, I saw the full version sitting in a bargain bin at London Drugs for $16. I convinced my dad to buy it for me, and the rest is history. Played it countless hours upon hours, from 2000 to 2010. Sitting there at the queue for the 5150 base server on a friday night, using an auto join script that spammed the full server until finally someone had left. I would play on that server until the early hours of the next day, not regretting any of the time I spent on it. No other game ever held me the way Tribes did, and never will with all the old vets getting older and having families at 40 years old lol. I love the fact that you are putting content out FishStix, keep it up :) - Rosco
The Tribes Lore has been officially added, great job FishStix! I bet that developer who did their best to make good on the roadmap that was released really appreciates you and the rest of the community more than any of you will ever know.
You just administered me a lethal dose of nostalgia! I remember playing this when I was small. But those memories were buried deep! Cracking video bud, keep up the good work : )
As one of the longest playing current players of Tribes Vengeance to date, this video was awesome. We still play and it is insanely fun even today. Would greatly suggest joining.
Vengeance is great! I just wish the physics were a bit more flexible without having to use the grappler. I feel like I have no air control when moving fast in that game.
@@omgitsfishstix I suppose we sacrificed the air control for the enhance movement/dirrection changes using grapple. That being said, there have been many T:V players (myself included) who have enjoyed bouts of LT play. It's still very possible and fun in T:V maps. I also *somewhat* disagree with the idea that harsh turns/corners in the map end up with high fall damage/loss of speed etc. I have primarily been a capper at a high level in TV for a long time and I can pull this off in T:V in light, medium and heavy. Takes a lot of map knowledge though. But yes, it's not to the same degree as other games in the series that's for darn sure
I was one of the people who played T1 without buying it. I was in jr high and a friend loaned UT from me, and when he returned it, he had a copy of the T1 disk in the jewel case with it. I got hooked on it, I got into T1 RPG (although didn't stick with it too long, because shortly afterwards I got into Everquest), but also I just about lived on the Nappy Mod server "Nappy's House of Porn". Larger server, all the base building the mods added, was so much damn fun. I keep wishing that era of gameplay still existed, I get the itch for that regularly.
Tribes 1 was one of my all-time favorite games to have worked on and it's SO COOL seeing how much of a community there still is all these years later!!! Great video man.
@@omgitsfishstix Awesome! Yeah, I was the art director of the IP (or production designer I think Jeff T called it) so got to do all the fun stuff (concept art and setting the overall theme). Still in touch with some of the old crew but particulalry Mark Frohnmayer.
What an awesome documentary and chronology of Tribes! Nice job Fishy, it really captured everything about what made this game so special for all of us and why we're so passionate about it. For me, T1 will still and always be the pinnacle of gaming, and competitive gaming in particular, though I have a huge amount of fond memories of T2, TA and T3. I think the community has always been the heart of the game, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to be part of it. Hats off to you mate, thanks for capturing the legacy!
Probably a very unpopular opinion, but the reason Tribes has never really found its footing was the intense focus on the "competitive" play. Tribes 2 has the best DNA to attract most gamers. Large maps, lots of vehicles, lots of different roles to play. You didn't need to be a speed spinfusor god to still have a good time just messing around like in Battlefield games. The shift into focus largely around speed capping and small teams never really let the game find an audience that weren't competitive players.
I agree. While I appreciate the long time fans love and skill, comments in the video like "Why did they add a dedicated button for flag passing? That was never needed before, new players should just learn how to do it". Does that new mechanic really hurt competitive play at all? The creator of the video even agreed that it didn't. So why bring it up? It indicates that a lot of these long term fans, and maybe rightfully so, cling to the sweaty, competitive, and super high skill ceiling of the series past. Halo and Titanfall have these very same issues right now. With long term fans stomping on newcomers and continually requesting the "purest" stripped down form of the game. In Halo for example: BR starts, no vehicles, CTF only, and no motion tracker. I first played Tribes in Ascend and really had fun with it, albeit while being fairly average at the game. I had no clue Tribes III actually released, and may try picking it up or Tribes II.
Excellent video! Expected nothing less from one of the game's greats. Was a pleasure sharing the slopes with you. To know TRIBES is to know video game history itself and what a ride it's been.
I remember working with the Engineer how he introduced Z-sorting… that was some serious math! Basically the artists were able to Shove buildings into the terrain and therefore the indoor and outdoor sorting worked perfectly. BSP nodes
I’ve never played Tribes and probably wouldn’t even have the skill to pull off most of the core game maneuvers, but I still thought this was a really cool documentary. I like learning about video game history and this is a piece of it I never really knew existed.
hey, congratulations on your first longform video essay thing. you did great, this is a really nice summary of all the cool things Tribes does.. and all the corporate mistakes. the way T3 went was disappointing but those playtests were some of the most fun i've had in a multiplayer game (i was actually on your team in the draft tournament). it's good to see people finding the older games through it, at least. thanks for making this, it'll be my go-to for when someone asks why this series is worth getting into
I was on his draft tourney too! Got a lot of fun out of T3.....Even before it hit early access, it was pretty clear to me things were about to go downhill fast. I was crossing my fingers, hoping to get a solid year of fun with some cool people...and I got *almost* that. I started with the playtests in Dec 24, and last played around October - before I finally hit the bricks. It could have been so much more....but I'm glad to atleast get to play a new tribes game again after decades (I only played T1, and Legions overdrive)
@@omgitsfishstix I do hope so. I have been trying to get word out there for people to give it a try and maybe even start playing. I've been playing since T1 demo and then moved into the actual game back in '98-'99 and have been in love with this game ever since. T3 is nice and I really like it, but it's not like the original. But yes, thank you for this.
Your combination of wholesome nerdiness and excitability for spastic-fun games took me RIGHT back to some of the funnest days of my youth with the boys. Excellent vid!
All the LT 5v5 comp memories (submitting demos for match review),mIRC debates, ascend beermania events, and discord discussions..the tribes journey has been a labor of love for a lot of people! great video!
This game changed my life. You did it's history justice with this video. Tribes doesn't always have to be fast though. Through mods it can be anything. Tribes 1 annihilation mod is more like Rust in terms of constantly evolving base building metas than anything else. And it's just as deep if not deeper in technique.
I hope someone doing a revival reads this comment. The thing that brought so many players to the original 2 tribes games was their vibrant modding scene. The hardcore players played for speed, the rest of us played to the varied gameplay, and the mods did a great job slowing the game down so the rest of us could play.
I think I have a box with every MOD on burned CDs with all the different extra voice extras and personal graphics mods I made myself. It’s an entire CD holder stack lol.😂 Yeah, I had a lot of fun wishing sometimes the AI was better back then to because I was modding it so much and had a really crappy connection.
For litteral YEARS I have been looking for the name of this game franchise. I was only 4 years old when I played it at my Uncle Richards Internet Cafe back in the early 2000s. Sadly, he shortly passed away due to an overdose but this is one of my only memories of him that I LOVED playing whenever me and my dad went to his store. I wish he was still around to see what the gaming industry has become and essays like yours around such a cool game.
Ive never heard anything about this game or your channel but im so excited to learn more about both, excellent work fron what ive seen so far!! I cant wait to see more!
I'm about 30 minutes in and I wanna say this is an incredibly beautiful video and I tend to sort of do things while I watch but I found myself going "no he really cares about this and you're not paying attention" then making sure I understood what happened I don't know this game but it's clear that it's loved, the community stepped in time and time again to try and ensure this game was never forgotten. thank you for an incredible introduction to this series!
Dude I just saw your post in the subreddit, and then 10 minutes later RUclips is feeding me your Tribes vid in the recommendations. Hell yeah. Can't wait to watch! Tribes 1 stays installed on every PC I own.
My best friend's brother gave me burned copies of Starsiege and Tribes when I was ... I dunno, 7? 8? It changed my life and I've been chasing the high ever since. I'll never forget staying up all night playing on modded servers with people in like 2000. Absolute lightning in a bottle.
Thanks for the video. I was on QA for Star Siege and Played Tribes with the Dev team in the Dynamix building. Glad there are people like you working to keep Tribes(FPS-z) games alive! Tribes changed gaming for me and will always be in my core. There is nothing like skiing in any other games.
@@HiggsDragon I've always wanted to meet him one day just to get him to yell "GLORY TO GOD AND FREE MARS" or "MFAC is reeeeed and hot! Ready to waste some lice."
I think you overlooked a few very important aspects for T:A. 1. The rockbounce bug becoming a supported and integral feature for capping (some vikatikki footage here would show how this could be taken to an almost inhuman extreme). This is probably my favorite feature of the game, and one I’ve never seen anywhere else. 2. The OOTB patches, which came in late 2015-2016, completely overhauling the game with controversial changes (way too many to list) such as replacing the 9 classes with just the 3 armor types. I personally liked OOTB much more, but I think the long term effect was to alienate the top level players that had grown accustomed to GOTY. 3. The already tiny T:A community lost a big chunk of its players to T3 (myself included), and they never came back. This is killed what little was left of the T:A community. Mixers can still happen every few weeks, but they’re nowhere near the size and frequency of just a year prior. You said you don’t follow T:A too closely so it’s understandable. Great video anyway!
Yeah 9 classes was very cool and at a time when Team Fortress 1 was basically doing the same but I can see how reducing it to armour-equipment combinations allows greater player flexibility and customisation whilst also reducing initial complexity
still really sad how T:A went in the end, first the official servers went down out of nowhere then T3 took the few remaining on the community servers. I sat and watched as the player base went from a few server, with one rookie only server, to just 1 or 2 CTF servers and a DM server, to just one CTF server left. Then even that last server went from always full, to only at peak hours, then only on weekends, to just 4 or 5 of us playing on our own. I really like that pick up games happen, but nothing will ever replace just casual pubbing, never cared for the comp side of these games.
I had never played the early Tribes games before, but I am blown away by how much Tribes 2 in particular looks like Planetside 1. I wonder if that game inspired Planetside in some form.
Thank you for sharing this passion project with us. Tribes was my first online shooter and remember fondly those matches. Shared it with my 16yr old gamer son and I was telling him how great 5150 was. He was asking good questions so I knew he was into the video. Wildcard/Sentrosi- Ghostbears
Tribes Ultra Renegades was the most fun I ever had in a videogame. Everyone had god mode, except you weren't unkillable. Weapons had infinite ammo, and fired like 100x as many rounds per minute, including the big weapons like disc launcher, mortar, and sniper rifle. It dialed the frenetic up to 11.
Ultra Renegades was the shit. It was like ultra-fast jetpack dogfights. It was one of my favorite FPS experiences ever. I don't remember even playing the base game :D
Fallen Empire: Legions players represent! That was my introduction to the Tribes franchise, and I loved it so much that when InstantAction Arcade got shutdown and I stumbled upon Tribes: Vengeance in a 2nd hand shop, I picked it up (literally not knowing that Tribes was a thing at the time)
man i miss going online and playing Tribes 1, it was so different than other FPS games and was just so much fun to play with 64 other people. also learning how to jetpack ski was alot of fun.
The box art and game description was literally all I needed, I read it in a Best Buy and told my parents that was my pick. My brother and I used to play it for hours. Modding it was so fun too. We also used to use the level editor that worked over the network to do really weird stuff. I would build my brother capital ships and move them around during the game while we were playing to give him cool stuff to react to. Not the intended purpose of it, but was such a fun way to use it!
Haven't played since Tribes 1, so it was good to see everything that happened since with the series. Still my favourite FPS after all these years. If it came out today with updated graphics, I'd be all over it. Great video.
This is probably the best possible time for Tribes to make a comeback, Souls games, Elden Ring, Space Marine 2, Path of Exile 2, even Factorio, these games and more are teaching the industry two crucial things: Proper, carefully crafted difficulty is essential, and trumps mindless accessibility every time, even in terms of popularity and profit. And second, playing and knowing their own games in-depth is a part of a developers job. From what i've gathered Tribes has always lacked in one crucial area that would lead to success, here's hoping someone comes along that finally has all their bases covered.
I could see a Battlebit-esque remake of Tribes 2 doing well.. do Tribes 2 but add modern QoL features, maybe make it a bit bigger, and make it fun to play with friends (vehicles or other mechanics that require a couple buddies). I don't think it could ever truly be massive, but I could see it having its moment on the steamcharts and maintaining thousands if not tens of thousands of concurrent players, if done right.
I was absolutely in love with Tribes Ascend and I wish someone can bring back the same level of details, comfort and fun gameplay, while allowing us to fly around with disc guns
Our ancestors fought the Cybrids in the last Earthsiege. Our great-great-great-great-grandfathers were among the first who jumped. Our fathers died three jumpgates back, killed by the Blood Eagle. We were born 15 jumpgates back, on a world we left to the soft ones, Imperial lackeys. Now we're on Septa Scarabae IV, and we bear the dragon marks of manhood. The Starwolf and the Diamond Sword got here first. Settled their ships, dug in. This is a good world, a lush planet. We'll take it for our people.
Just started the video, but I feel old. I played the hell out of Tribes 2: Aerial Assault daily in middle school for many months. Was an amazing game. Edit: Great video! I never knew what happened to the franchise. I knew of ascend and tribes 2. I wasnt aware of any of the stuff after it!
Tribes 1 absolutely influenced so many of the games I love and play today and over the last 20+ years. I see it constantly. Was such an awesome experience playing this at a LAN setup at a gaming store in my youth.
This was my first online game and it's still with me today, my fondest memory was when a player asked me if I wanted to join their clan. I didn't exactly know what that meant being I was 12 and said I'd have to ask my mom 😂
Tribes 2 was my first FPS and I had forgotten about it. I now see it's influence in a ton of games. Notably the Planetside series which has been my go to for decades now.
Shazbot!! This was a really good documentary, great work FishStix. This actually made me want to revisit Tribes 1, pretty incredible that there's an active community so many years later! I'm also gonna give Midair 2 playtest a go. Thank you!
This was amazing! Thank you FishStix for this momentous effort. We appreciate being included :) We are aiming for Early Access on Steam in 2025 and will be sure to shout from the rooftops once we've confirmed a release date. See you on the slopes!
When I first played midair's beta right around the time I finished highschool, I didn't know anything about Tribes but I loved the experience midair gave me. Thank you for filling in the blanks for me. Fascinating!
The hype for Tribes 2 was high. Even with the technical problems at release the player base was huge at first. Dynamix getting closed started the downhill for the franchise.
LOVE THIS! I was an original player! Never good enough for tournament tho! Great memories! Favorite memory was playing with my brother and camp sniping the other team as they emerged from their base! TWO SYNCED SHOTS... INSTAKILLS! HAHA
maybe sounds a bit over the top but such games are part of mankind's history. in the future they will look back and say "this is how it began" P.S. awesome video 👍👍😎
Ive never heard of tribes before but just watched this whole thing. It might be just what my group is looking for. It looks excellent and im excited to try it. Im also surprised by your low sub count, you make an excellent and well informed video. Should I hear about a new tribes game, ill cross my fingers for you and your community.
Tribes Is so good, why is it treated like its so evil. Love this series, it gave me a fresh perspective on my life and lifelong friends. Thanks Tribes, no thank to you EREZ :(
Erez at least brought us all together one more (last?!) time :') but yeah. researching for this video made me realize just how cursed this franchise is. It's not just the Hirez Era, it's basically every game in the franchise.
@@omgitsfishstix T1 and 2 were only mildly cursed, Dynamix possessed some of the most talented engineers in gaming, ever. They had a strong foundation for growth due to community good will, but were struck down only by bad luck as you pointed out. After T:V which had good ideas and bad ideas, it was nothing but mismanagement going forward.
I never tried Tribes, I don't even know much about it, but this is a real good video. It explains everything well enough that I understand it, and I love getting to share in some second-hand enthusiasm. Make more videos like this, please. On like any topic.
Fantastic video, I played Ascend for a few weeks a long time ago with some friends. I remember it fondly, will definitely be checking out the other entries after this.
Quake any Enemy Territory came close. Also loved Overwatch for a time, as it's the closest thing to a modern popular Arena Shooter. But nothing will ever touch Tribes for me.
Tribes is still the benchmark for gaming for me, adrenaline, tactics and a learning curve that never seemed to end, as much as I'd love to see a great successor, I'd settle for a remaster of the original - including privately hosted servers, imo public matchmaking takes away so much of what attracted me to early multiplayer games - a sense of community and the option to ban players for unacceptable behaviour
I remember being a little kid, finding Tribes Vengeance in a bargain bin of a local drug store of a town I was visiting. One of my favorite games of all time, I hope one day it gets a true sequel that the community deserves.
Thanks for the detailed history! I was a T2 kid for years, all through highschool. Mostly played Construction mod because my dial-up was too bad to enjoy a proper match. I believe I remember your name from TW! I too still have a tiny hope of a proper revival, but I'm not holding my breath.
Gosh dang hearing that music was a blast from the past, staying up late with my neighbor playing Ninja+ on Tribes 2. I was hoping that T3 would be the return we all hoped for but dang.. was it not great. Here's hoping it gets a proper comeback!
This will probably be my go-to video to share with people that I know about the series for the foreseeable future. Really well made, comprehensive, but you also managed to keep the video under an hour. I do think that slamming Erez is something that was needed to be said in a comprehensive history of the series. Actual clown decision making in the recent entries. Lovingly, one of the banned in the purge.
I was specifically talking about you as one of the hardcore fans who was banned. Dude really shot his own investment in the foot, over and over. Glad you liked it!
@@omgitsfishstix That is Hi-Rez in a nutshell. They start off decent and then empty the magazine into their lower appendages, repeatedly and with prejudice. It's sad to watch every time. The only exception is SMITE, to which they cling with everything they have.
Still one of my most loved gaming-series, at least the first 2 games. The amount of time i spent in these 2 games had to have cost my parents quite a hefty dial-up tab....
It's crazy that the PC gaming landscape of the early 2000s was so unpredictable and fast-moving that pretty much everyone's "favorite game" would be a landmark title that birthed a new genre and is still the best said genre. You'd be hard pressed to find a team-based tactical mobility shooter better than Tribes 2. My favorite game, Morrowind, is STILL one of the best RPG worlds ever created. AvP2 does asymmetrical PvP as good or better than any game made since. Deus Ex does stuff that no other ImSim has even attempted. Diablo 2 is the only ARPG anyone even has a positive opinion of.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY ALL TRIBES GAMES: www.reddit.com/r/Tribes/comments/cjgze1/how_to_play_tribes_all_games/
i was lucky enough to try a demo and was loving it but could not find the game anywhere.
Played 1-2 exclusively. Was a combat engineer setting up forward or behind the lines bases. I miss that aspect of gaming in modern fps's.
I wish I could get into Fortnight the way I was in Starfiled : Tribes but I just dont have the reflexes to keep up anymore.
@WarAuthority Agreed, support classes just don't have the same impact anymore. Logistics are severely undervalued with the exception of games like Foxhole.
homie 🙏🏽 TBS clean represent 💪🏽
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30 years later i still want T1 days back
My brother and I were in a Tribe for Tribes 1 that was pretty committed. We were selected by the Devs of Tribes 2 to be part of the Beta testing, which was literally sent to us in the mail on a burned disk that had Tribes 2 Beta written on it with a sharpie.
We were included in the Credits for the game for our efforts.
That is awesome
welcome to the club former top clan here our team won many leagues - had the beta Tribes 2 CD. nothing topped Tribes 1, skill tactics, ski routes, everything was born there. it was so advanced for its time, radars, portable inventories, different type of games, capture and hold, ctf. great maps and customs. I have a wet dream, a dev like Respawn who could bring back to the roots of tribes.
The 2nd tribes was slower, and too cluttered, vengeance was unbalanced and ascend felt a bit clumsy and stuck between two styles of games, with simplified gameplay.
I hope you kept that disc
Thank you for your service! T2 made me in to who I am today in a crazy round about way. Integral to me in my younger years
That's awesome! I actually work in video game QA and it blew my mind when I heard they used to pass out new burned disks to every tester/developer/etc who was in development for every update. Talk about a lot of time and effort..
This video was the greatest marketing effort of all time in Tribes' franchise
Thanks, FishStix! This video is awesome
Prophecy should have hired me for tribes 3!
@@omgitsfishstix For sure!
@@omgitsfishstix Nah, viral succes either happens or it doesn't, you can't prepare for that. Show the game to 10 people, and if you're not Nr.1 concurrent on steam and twitch 2 weeks in, burn it and move on.
*only marketing effort lol Such a good game and it's so rare that I ever see anyone mention it.
the real legacy of tribes is their multiplayer networking architecture white paper which provided a blueprint for making large scale, fast-paced multiplayer games even with slow, unpredictable connections. tribes 2 could handle 128 players at a time when most players had dial-up level internet speeds, which is insanely good. The tribes white paper was the foundation for Halo's networking model and even Unreal Engine took inspiration from it.
Yep. Tribes netcode is nothing short of black sorcery and is still amazing to witness today.
YES!! THIS! Why did we have to regress in every game since? 😭😭😭
As someone who had a modem connection then, this is the fps that I would often default to playing just for this reason.
Tribes 1 had 256 player support 😅. Noob
And there were community servers that had way, way more than 128 players.
What an odd way to find out Tribes 3 exists.
😬😬😬😬🥲
Yeah I had no idea and I really enjoyed tribes ascend.
This is f'ing painful to read for anyone who enjoyed Tribes 3
Same...
Same 💀
This game got me into game development. I was so smitten by it I showed up at Dynamix headquarters uninvited and asked for an interview. They actually gave me an interview and offered a job, but closed down soon after, so I ended up working for a different developer.
Got me into development too. I was in middle school and wanted to start a Tribes clan and all the cool ones had online signup forms, so I taught myself Perl and CGI and HTML and 25+ years later still a professional developer (though now actually in sims/serious games and not web!).
@@Noubers I went kind of the opposite way. I started off in game/engine development and ended up leaving to go work in finance. It's not as rewarding but I got paid a ton more money for a lot less work and stress which was important to me at the time. If I had a choice now I'd probably get back into some form of game or graphics development.
@rinner2801nah the industry is filled
to the brim with people who are only in it for the money, and the industry is in the worst place it’s been in history.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
Tribes may not ever hit mainstream popularity again, but it will always hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for the nostalgia trip
The new Official History of Tribes.
♥️🙏🫶
Tribes 2 made my childhood, I'd kill to find again those sensations and team play! And that soundtrack! SHAZZBOT!
T2 still has pubs nightly and on weekends giant 20v20 pickup games!
@@omgitsfishstix I was going to ask if I should go for T1 or T2, the visuals of the two reminded me of C&C Renegade graphics as the thumbnail gave me a feeling of familiarity to the C&C Renegade Refinery building, and that has grabbed my interest.
Yess dude! Instant nostalgia overload. That disc launcher and dial up online multiplayer oh boy.
i havent paid attention to tribes since 2013, but seeing the word SHAZZBOT uncovered memories i havent thought about since then.
@@lmaogottem5984 I read SHAZZBOT and immediately had a flood of memories - sounds, the desk I sat at, the smell of dinner being done and my mom yelling "dinner time! get off the game!" Oh man... ❤
The team at Broadside was brought together by what happened to Tribes 3. Our goal is not simply to 'make tribes' again, but to try and move the genre forward. And part of that will be introducing people to the ideas of the genre, who are again ahead of their time. It'll take more than jets, skiing and a flag; and we're preparing for that.
Fuck yeah! Big ass maps. I think I know someone who makes those...
The nutty party in my opinion is how much of what made tribes such a game changer was emergent behaviours
I want to see huge ass maps. Like, entire spherical planets, where with enough speed one can shoot into orbit.
@@Charles-m7jI truly think this might be something. We need insane speeds. We need to go so fast it consistently breaks the game and then build around that
Nah man just make Tribes again pls. Don't try and innovate, T1 was perfect, we just want to see it in prettier graphics
man playing tribes in the late 90s was probably the best days of my life
Playing Starsiege (the mech game) were some of my favorite gaming days
What you said. Absolutely super chill and fun.
I was the Art Director. Great times and the best game ever.. except for FPS Football and A10- Tank Killer!❤
Wow, thank you so much for making Tribes a visual spectacle! I absolutely love its visuals even to this day.
I loved tribes and Silent thunder!
It was a big part of my childhood. My first online FPS. Thank you sir.
Graced by royalty here, wow! Thank you so much for making literally one of my top 5 games ever!
@@that_rat_kismet that was an amazing experience! The engineers were/are the best! I knew we had something special when he held our first lan battle and you could hear folks yelling across the building when someone got 'blowed-up"!
My favorite tribes memory is by far sitting next to my dad at our glass-and-metal desktop using the ball-mouse, hearing distant explosions as he logs into the server. Oh my god, and that tinny little zap when you successfully login to a match. And that drumroll trumpet fanfare when someone captures a flag. I was maybe 7 then, I’m 29 now. This was an amazing essay, I loved how organized it was. I hadn’t been following the Tribes franchise AT ALL since the original, and you took me through rollercoasters. You’ve earned a sub through talent and nostalgia.
The Tribes2 client to this date is the most feature full client I have ever seen. As you mentioned, the mIRC, forums,Tmail features really pulled the community together. Well done here sir well done. I will die knowing I played Tribes2 at its peak, a joy that others, sadly, will never know.
Too bad the lau h got delayed so much. That’s all I can remember er from pre ordering it back then.
That kind of scope creep was also likely the reason the game was so buggy on release. They reinvented about 10 wheels all while also wanting larger player counts, a bunch of different vehicles, etc. in the game. Dave Georgeson, who directed T2, eventually went on to make Planetside, which, based on that gameplay, was basically his vision for Tribes 2. He really didn't allow much room for input from the T1 community and was obviously not a T1 diehard. The game he put out was basically modded into a really fun title after a few months through begging and effort. The T1 community was already pretty actively entrenched in using 3rd party apps and sites to communicate, Tribalwar for forums and demo sharing, mIRC for chatting, e-mail and even early voice comm software (RogerWilco, Ventrilo, Teamspeak).
Tribes ascend absolutely blew me away as a teenager, and I could not understand why none of my friends seemed interested in a genre so fantastic. I went and played tribes 2 and was blown away all over again, its insane how foundational this series was to all of FPS, great video.
Tribes was really the only online FPS multiplayer that’s truly and deeply grabbed me. Thanks for helping me see why it’s so special. And why it never caught on as a franchise, despite influencing EVERYTHING!
It did not catch on cuz our director did not copy protect it.
Did you ever play Command and Conquer renegade? I loved that as a fps multiplayer game
me too. It was my first online FPS and every FPS i tried after that was just boring. The speed, the vastness, the freedom and so many more aspects made the franchise so unique that when you start with Tribes everything else is just child's play.
Despite the fact that I never got to play any Tribes game, I can sympathize with you guys. Coming from a Unreal Tournament player.
UT player here too, never got into Tribes either, and I too feel like we're 'kindred' to them through the similar history of both series and our respective passions for these games.
I was a UT player, too. I thought UT 2003/4 had real chops but apparently the rest of the industry didn't.
@@BluecedorI loved the dystopian sports theme those games had. It felt like me and my friends were having our own Superbowl party when the adults would send us to the other room 😂
I remember hearing about Tribes from some clan mates I played Starcraft with. I downloaded the demo, and my first experience was Raindance. The rain, the terrain and the base all so familiar to me now was such an eye opening experience. I played the demo countless hours and was hooked. One day shopping with my dad, I saw the full version sitting in a bargain bin at London Drugs for $16. I convinced my dad to buy it for me, and the rest is history. Played it countless hours upon hours, from 2000 to 2010. Sitting there at the queue for the 5150 base server on a friday night, using an auto join script that spammed the full server until finally someone had left. I would play on that server until the early hours of the next day, not regretting any of the time I spent on it. No other game ever held me the way Tribes did, and never will with all the old vets getting older and having families at 40 years old lol.
I love the fact that you are putting content out FishStix, keep it up :)
- Rosco
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27:41 hey that's me! I casted that! Great video fishstix. Played 1 all through midair now. This is definitive as a history of tribes
The Tribes Lore has been officially added, great job FishStix!
I bet that developer who did their best to make good on the roadmap that was released really appreciates you and the rest of the community more than any of you will ever know.
You're the best, Drizz
You're one of us now!🤓
Enormous thanks drizzle, may your phase shots always be true 🫡
You just administered me a lethal dose of nostalgia! I remember playing this when I was small. But those memories were buried deep!
Cracking video bud, keep up the good work : )
As one of the longest playing current players of Tribes Vengeance to date, this video was awesome. We still play and it is insanely fun even today. Would greatly suggest joining.
Vengeance is great! I just wish the physics were a bit more flexible without having to use the grappler. I feel like I have no air control when moving fast in that game.
how?
@@omgitsfishstix I suppose we sacrificed the air control for the enhance movement/dirrection changes using grapple. That being said, there have been many T:V players (myself included) who have enjoyed bouts of LT play. It's still very possible and fun in T:V maps.
I also *somewhat* disagree with the idea that harsh turns/corners in the map end up with high fall damage/loss of speed etc. I have primarily been a capper at a high level in TV for a long time and I can pull this off in T:V in light, medium and heavy. Takes a lot of map knowledge though. But yes, it's not to the same degree as other games in the series that's for darn sure
X TO DOUBT.🙄
I was one of the people who played T1 without buying it. I was in jr high and a friend loaned UT from me, and when he returned it, he had a copy of the T1 disk in the jewel case with it. I got hooked on it, I got into T1 RPG (although didn't stick with it too long, because shortly afterwards I got into Everquest), but also I just about lived on the Nappy Mod server "Nappy's House of Porn". Larger server, all the base building the mods added, was so much damn fun. I keep wishing that era of gameplay still existed, I get the itch for that regularly.
Tribes 1 was one of my all-time favorite games to have worked on and it's SO COOL seeing how much of a community there still is all these years later!!! Great video man.
Oh man, thank you for helping to build Tribes 1! That game absolutely, 100% changed the course of my life. I love Tribes.
@@omgitsfishstix Awesome! Yeah, I was the art director of the IP (or production designer I think Jeff T called it) so got to do all the fun stuff (concept art and setting the overall theme). Still in touch with some of the old crew but particulalry Mark Frohnmayer.
Grew up playing Starsiege Tribes, thanks for working on it!
@@MaJoRJayjay And thanks for making me feel old :)
@ShawnESharp1 Hehe sorry!
Awesome video, thanks for making this! T1 just might be my favorite game of all time. I’m so grateful to have experienced it back in the day 🍻
What an awesome documentary and chronology of Tribes! Nice job Fishy, it really captured everything about what made this game so special for all of us and why we're so passionate about it.
For me, T1 will still and always be the pinnacle of gaming, and competitive gaming in particular, though I have a huge amount of fond memories of T2, TA and T3.
I think the community has always been the heart of the game, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to be part of it.
Hats off to you mate, thanks for capturing the legacy!
💯 it's always about the community!
Probably a very unpopular opinion, but the reason Tribes has never really found its footing was the intense focus on the "competitive" play.
Tribes 2 has the best DNA to attract most gamers. Large maps, lots of vehicles, lots of different roles to play. You didn't need to be a speed spinfusor god to still have a good time just messing around like in Battlefield games. The shift into focus largely around speed capping and small teams never really let the game find an audience that weren't competitive players.
Agreed, Halo in a way did what Tribes didn't do
I agree. While I appreciate the long time fans love and skill, comments in the video like "Why did they add a dedicated button for flag passing? That was never needed before, new players should just learn how to do it".
Does that new mechanic really hurt competitive play at all? The creator of the video even agreed that it didn't. So why bring it up?
It indicates that a lot of these long term fans, and maybe rightfully so, cling to the sweaty, competitive, and super high skill ceiling of the series past.
Halo and Titanfall have these very same issues right now. With long term fans stomping on newcomers and continually requesting the "purest" stripped down form of the game. In Halo for example: BR starts, no vehicles, CTF only, and no motion tracker.
I first played Tribes in Ascend and really had fun with it, albeit while being fairly average at the game. I had no clue Tribes III actually released, and may try picking it up or Tribes II.
Excellent video! Expected nothing less from one of the game's greats. Was a pleasure sharing the slopes with you. To know TRIBES is to know video game history itself and what a ride it's been.
Ty for this....I've been wracking my brain for around 4 years trying to remember what that old game was called that we used to zoom around in.
I remember working with the Engineer how he introduced Z-sorting… that was some serious math! Basically the artists were able to Shove buildings into the terrain and therefore the indoor and outdoor sorting worked perfectly. BSP nodes
I remember being able to glitch under the bases on some maps. Fun times
I’ve never played Tribes and probably wouldn’t even have the skill to pull off most of the core game maneuvers, but I still thought this was a really cool documentary. I like learning about video game history and this is a piece of it I never really knew existed.
this is the best tribes video ive ever seen
thank you!
hey, congratulations on your first longform video essay thing. you did great, this is a really nice summary of all the cool things Tribes does.. and all the corporate mistakes.
the way T3 went was disappointing but those playtests were some of the most fun i've had in a multiplayer game (i was actually on your team in the draft tournament). it's good to see people finding the older games through it, at least. thanks for making this, it'll be my go-to for when someone asks why this series is worth getting into
I was on his draft tourney too! Got a lot of fun out of T3.....Even before it hit early access, it was pretty clear to me things were about to go downhill fast. I was crossing my fingers, hoping to get a solid year of fun with some cool people...and I got *almost* that. I started with the playtests in Dec 24, and last played around October - before I finally hit the bricks. It could have been so much more....but I'm glad to atleast get to play a new tribes game again after decades (I only played T1, and Legions overdrive)
This is the most nostalgic video I've ever stumbled across. Thank you!!!
Glad it brought back good memories. I hope this video inspires some folks to try out Tribes.
@@omgitsfishstix I do hope so. I have been trying to get word out there for people to give it a try and maybe even start playing. I've been playing since T1 demo and then moved into the actual game back in '98-'99 and have been in love with this game ever since. T3 is nice and I really like it, but it's not like the original. But yes, thank you for this.
Your combination of wholesome nerdiness and excitability for spastic-fun games took me RIGHT back to some of the funnest days of my youth with the boys. Excellent vid!
All the LT 5v5 comp memories (submitting demos for match review),mIRC debates, ascend beermania events, and discord discussions..the tribes journey has been a labor of love for a lot of people!
great video!
Miss Ascend, was sad watching that go down.
Tribes 2 forever.
Nice to see the genre is still getting love, great vid.
This game changed my life. You did it's history justice with this video. Tribes doesn't always have to be fast though. Through mods it can be anything. Tribes 1 annihilation mod is more like Rust in terms of constantly evolving base building metas than anything else. And it's just as deep if not deeper in technique.
100%, Tribes changed my life in deep and meaningful ways
I hope someone doing a revival reads this comment. The thing that brought so many players to the original 2 tribes games was their vibrant modding scene. The hardcore players played for speed, the rest of us played to the varied gameplay, and the mods did a great job slowing the game down so the rest of us could play.
I think I have a box with every MOD on burned CDs with all the different extra voice extras and personal graphics mods I made myself. It’s an entire CD holder stack lol.😂
Yeah, I had a lot of fun wishing sometimes the AI was better back then to because I was modding it so much and had a really crappy connection.
@@brown2889 Yep. Spoonbot was the best AI I ever had running and while they had maddeningly good aim they didn't really get movement with skiing.
For litteral YEARS I have been looking for the name of this game franchise. I was only 4 years old when I played it at my Uncle Richards Internet Cafe back in the early 2000s. Sadly, he shortly passed away due to an overdose but this is one of my only memories of him that I LOVED playing whenever me and my dad went to his store. I wish he was still around to see what the gaming industry has become and essays like yours around such a cool game.
Ive never heard anything about this game or your channel but im so excited to learn more about both, excellent work fron what ive seen so far!! I cant wait to see more!
I'm about 30 minutes in and I wanna say this is an incredibly beautiful video and I tend to sort of do things while I watch but I found myself going "no he really cares about this and you're not paying attention" then making sure I understood what happened
I don't know this game but it's clear that it's loved, the community stepped in time and time again to try and ensure this game was never forgotten.
thank you for an incredible introduction to this series!
Highschool class of 99. So many memories. It was about the only game of its type that was half way decent on a good 56k connection.
Dude I just saw your post in the subreddit, and then 10 minutes later RUclips is feeding me your Tribes vid in the recommendations. Hell yeah. Can't wait to watch! Tribes 1 stays installed on every PC I own.
I need to create more legacy tribes content. 90% of my videos are tribes 3 arm 😅
@@FishStix1 Shooot i'll watch anything Tribes related lol. Already subscribed :P
I remember playing Tribes 2 way back when! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Well made video. I wish you the best of luck on your RUclips journey.
I swear tribes 2 had single player missions. The enemy scared me when i was 10
My best friend's brother gave me burned copies of Starsiege and Tribes when I was ... I dunno, 7? 8? It changed my life and I've been chasing the high ever since. I'll never forget staying up all night playing on modded servers with people in like 2000. Absolute lightning in a bottle.
Thanks for the video. I was on QA for Star Siege and Played Tribes with the Dev team in the Dynamix building. Glad there are people like you working to keep Tribes(FPS-z) games alive! Tribes changed gaming for me and will always be in my core. There is nothing like skiing in any other games.
i still cant believe that mark hamill voiced harabec
@@jownbeyIKR I was a little shocked we got him on the title! Made my day when I found out.
@@HiggsDragon I've always wanted to meet him one day just to get him to yell "GLORY TO GOD AND FREE MARS" or "MFAC is reeeeed and hot! Ready to waste some lice."
I think you overlooked a few very important aspects for T:A.
1. The rockbounce bug becoming a supported and integral feature for capping (some vikatikki footage here would show how this could be taken to an almost inhuman extreme). This is probably my favorite feature of the game, and one I’ve never seen anywhere else.
2. The OOTB patches, which came in late 2015-2016, completely overhauling the game with controversial changes (way too many to list) such as replacing the 9 classes with just the 3 armor types. I personally liked OOTB much more, but I think the long term effect was to alienate the top level players that had grown accustomed to GOTY.
3. The already tiny T:A community lost a big chunk of its players to T3 (myself included), and they never came back. This is killed what little was left of the T:A community. Mixers can still happen every few weeks, but they’re nowhere near the size and frequency of just a year prior.
You said you don’t follow T:A too closely so it’s understandable. Great video anyway!
Yeah 9 classes was very cool and at a time when Team Fortress 1 was basically doing the same but I can see how reducing it to armour-equipment combinations allows greater player flexibility and customisation whilst also reducing initial complexity
still really sad how T:A went in the end, first the official servers went down out of nowhere then T3 took the few remaining on the community servers. I sat and watched as the player base went from a few server, with one rookie only server, to just 1 or 2 CTF servers and a DM server, to just one CTF server left. Then even that last server went from always full, to only at peak hours, then only on weekends, to just 4 or 5 of us playing on our own.
I really like that pick up games happen, but nothing will ever replace just casual pubbing, never cared for the comp side of these games.
I had never played the early Tribes games before, but I am blown away by how much Tribes 2 in particular looks like Planetside 1. I wonder if that game inspired Planetside in some form.
Thank you for sharing this passion project with us. Tribes was my first online shooter and remember fondly those matches. Shared it with my 16yr old gamer son and I was telling him how great 5150 was. He was asking good questions so I knew he was into the video.
Wildcard/Sentrosi- Ghostbears
OH How I miss you Tribes... So many days playing Tribes 2 and Starsiege. We may never get anything else like it.
Starsiege and Earthseige are so buried in gaming history. Starsiege online multiplayer was years ahead of its time.
Tribes Ultra Renegades was the most fun I ever had in a videogame. Everyone had god mode, except you weren't unkillable. Weapons had infinite ammo, and fired like 100x as many rounds per minute, including the big weapons like disc launcher, mortar, and sniper rifle. It dialed the frenetic up to 11.
This mod was wild lmao
Ultra Renegades was the shit. It was like ultra-fast jetpack dogfights.
It was one of my favorite FPS experiences ever. I don't remember even playing the base game :D
Haha loved hopping on once a week for 10 minutes. It was therapeutic in a way.
Fallen Empire: Legions players represent!
That was my introduction to the Tribes franchise, and I loved it so much that when InstantAction Arcade got shutdown and I stumbled upon Tribes: Vengeance in a 2nd hand shop, I picked it up (literally not knowing that Tribes was a thing at the time)
This was really enjoyable to watch, a real trip down memory lane. Great work Fishstix, thanks for putting this together!
It was a blast to make!
So glad I got to grow up playing Tribes and Tribes 2, truly unique games with tons of passion and features.
man i miss going online and playing Tribes 1, it was so different than other FPS games and was just so much fun to play with 64 other people. also learning how to jetpack ski was alot of fun.
The box art and game description was literally all I needed, I read it in a Best Buy and told my parents that was my pick. My brother and I used to play it for hours. Modding it was so fun too. We also used to use the level editor that worked over the network to do really weird stuff. I would build my brother capital ships and move them around during the game while we were playing to give him cool stuff to react to. Not the intended purpose of it, but was such a fun way to use it!
Oh also, Diamond Sword for life.
Oh! I remember moving stuff around with players in the server too now that you mention it haha. Good times.
I love Tribes and we will prevail! See you all (40 people) in T3 community servers soon! (edit: Tune in to the T3 Draft Tourney on Saturday!)
hi glem
When I said T3 has strong community leaders, I was talking about you bud! Keep it going!
@@omgitsfishstix
@@peebeeoh3210 hello nike
Haven't played since Tribes 1, so it was good to see everything that happened since with the series. Still my favourite FPS after all these years. If it came out today with updated graphics, I'd be all over it. Great video.
Honestly a modernized Tribes 2 could do well in today's market, I think
This is probably the best possible time for Tribes to make a comeback, Souls games, Elden Ring, Space Marine 2, Path of Exile 2, even Factorio, these games and more are teaching the industry two crucial things: Proper, carefully crafted difficulty is essential, and trumps mindless accessibility every time, even in terms of popularity and profit. And second, playing and knowing their own games in-depth is a part of a developers job. From what i've gathered Tribes has always lacked in one crucial area that would lead to success, here's hoping someone comes along that finally has all their bases covered.
You say Elden Ring has no accessibility when Spirit Ashes exist that can solo any boss in the game.
I could see a Battlebit-esque remake of Tribes 2 doing well.. do Tribes 2 but add modern QoL features, maybe make it a bit bigger, and make it fun to play with friends (vehicles or other mechanics that require a couple buddies). I don't think it could ever truly be massive, but I could see it having its moment on the steamcharts and maintaining thousands if not tens of thousands of concurrent players, if done right.
I was absolutely in love with Tribes Ascend and I wish someone can bring back the same level of details, comfort and fun gameplay, while allowing us to fly around with disc guns
Our ancestors fought the Cybrids in the last Earthsiege. Our great-great-great-great-grandfathers were among the first who jumped. Our fathers died three jumpgates back, killed by the Blood Eagle. We were born 15 jumpgates back, on a world we left to the soft ones, Imperial lackeys.
Now we're on Septa Scarabae IV, and we bear the dragon marks of manhood. The Starwolf and the Diamond Sword got here first. Settled their ships, dug in. This is a good world, a lush planet.
We'll take it for our people.
I played Tribes a great deal. I was a member of INH and we played in OGL. Good times. Thanks for the ski down memory lane!
Just started the video, but I feel old. I played the hell out of Tribes 2: Aerial Assault daily in middle school for many months. Was an amazing game.
Edit: Great video! I never knew what happened to the franchise. I knew of ascend and tribes 2. I wasnt aware of any of the stuff after it!
Tribes 1 absolutely influenced so many of the games I love and play today and over the last 20+ years. I see it constantly. Was such an awesome experience playing this at a LAN setup at a gaming store in my youth.
This was my first online game and it's still with me today, my fondest memory was when a player asked me if I wanted to join their clan. I didn't exactly know what that meant being I was 12 and said I'd have to ask my mom 😂
Tribes 2 was my first FPS and I had forgotten about it. I now see it's influence in a ton of games. Notably the Planetside series which has been my go to for decades now.
Shazbot!! This was a really good documentary, great work FishStix. This actually made me want to revisit Tribes 1, pretty incredible that there's an active community so many years later! I'm also gonna give Midair 2 playtest a go. Thank you!
This was amazing! Thank you FishStix for this momentous effort. We appreciate being included :) We are aiming for Early Access on Steam in 2025 and will be sure to shout from the rooftops once we've confirmed a release date. See you on the slopes!
Excellent summary of Tribes history! Well done FishStix
When I first played midair's beta right around the time I finished highschool, I didn't know anything about Tribes but I loved the experience midair gave me. Thank you for filling in the blanks for me. Fascinating!
The hype for Tribes 2 was high. Even with the technical problems at release the player base was huge at first. Dynamix getting closed started the downhill for the franchise.
despite having a lot of good times with the later games, it's really been disaster after disaster since the moment Dynamix was shut down
LOVE THIS! I was an original player! Never good enough for tournament tho! Great memories!
Favorite memory was playing with my brother and camp sniping the other team as they emerged from their base! TWO SYNCED SHOTS... INSTAKILLS! HAHA
as a 13 year old Tribes 2 on release taught me the meaning of “unhandled exception”
lmao, good times
8:55 I absolutely love passionate video game casting. Brought a tear to my eye.
The Dev team.. AKA The Sofa Kings never lost a match!
I was Sofaking Cranky❤
You seem to forget that one time when we invited Thresh and Kornelia to play at the office.
didnt imperial elite beat SK pretty handily? they beat us for #2 in the tribes con tourny in santa clara. 5150 represent
maybe sounds a bit over the top but such games are part of mankind's history. in the future they will look back and say "this is how it began"
P.S. awesome video 👍👍😎
I'm with you. It's an art form.
Ive never heard of tribes before but just watched this whole thing. It might be just what my group is looking for. It looks excellent and im excited to try it. Im also surprised by your low sub count, you make an excellent and well informed video. Should I hear about a new tribes game, ill cross my fingers for you and your community.
Thank you! This is the first video of this kind that I've ever made, but I'm inspired to consider what else I can do along this vein in the future
Oh my God oh my God
I love tribes dearly, it was my first online fps. Played it bc it was free to play back in 07.
Played tons of tribes rpg too ❤
Amazing long-form record of the Tribes series.
thank you, it was a labor of love
Thank you for making this video. Tribes 1 was my first FPS and my first experience with online game play. It will always be a special game.
Thanks for the mention. Great video.
It feels nice having played these games before they were killed
Tribes Is so good, why is it treated like its so evil. Love this series, it gave me a fresh perspective on my life and lifelong friends. Thanks Tribes, no thank to you EREZ :(
Erez at least brought us all together one more (last?!) time :')
but yeah. researching for this video made me realize just how cursed this franchise is. It's not just the Hirez Era, it's basically every game in the franchise.
@@omgitsfishstix T1 and 2 were only mildly cursed, Dynamix possessed some of the most talented engineers in gaming, ever. They had a strong foundation for growth due to community good will, but were struck down only by bad luck as you pointed out. After T:V which had good ideas and bad ideas, it was nothing but mismanagement going forward.
I never tried Tribes, I don't even know much about it, but this is a real good video. It explains everything well enough that I understand it, and I love getting to share in some second-hand enthusiasm. Make more videos like this, please. On like any topic.
I too, like this game.
same
Best thing on my recommended in the past 2 months
Great vid Stix. Hopeful for the future of tribes, as long as HiRez will let it go
Fantastic video, I played Ascend for a few weeks a long time ago with some friends. I remember it fondly, will definitely be checking out the other entries after this.
Awesome! Tribes 2 and Tribes 3 I'd say are the best entry points these days. But you can't go wrong with whichever you choose.
What a beautiful tribute to a game that has ruined all other FPS for me. Great work Fishstix!
Quake any Enemy Territory came close. Also loved Overwatch for a time, as it's the closest thing to a modern popular Arena Shooter. But nothing will ever touch Tribes for me.
Great video FishStix! Loved the Midair 2 appreciation 😁
Tribes is still the benchmark for gaming for me, adrenaline, tactics and a learning curve that never seemed to end, as much as I'd love to see a great successor, I'd settle for a remaster of the original - including privately hosted servers, imo public matchmaking takes away so much of what attracted me to early multiplayer games - a sense of community and the option to ban players for unacceptable behaviour
The sense of community found in a server browser was pretty unique. Matchmaking could never.
Absolutely.
Great Tribal War and a number of other remarkable mods for this game really deserve some attention.
I miss server based shooters
I remember being a little kid, finding Tribes Vengeance in a bargain bin of a local drug store of a town I was visiting. One of my favorite games of all time, I hope one day it gets a true sequel that the community deserves.
Tribes glided so Titanfall could wallrun
I hope after typing that you stood up proud of what you just said on the Internet
Thanks for the detailed history! I was a T2 kid for years, all through highschool. Mostly played Construction mod because my dial-up was too bad to enjoy a proper match. I believe I remember your name from TW! I too still have a tiny hope of a proper revival, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well MADE! +9999999 I kinda wanna play again..... but marvel rivals with jagle and PoE 2.....
thanks Olosed
Gosh dang hearing that music was a blast from the past, staying up late with my neighbor playing Ninja+ on Tribes 2. I was hoping that T3 would be the return we all hoped for but dang.. was it not great. Here's hoping it gets a proper comeback!
This will probably be my go-to video to share with people that I know about the series for the foreseeable future. Really well made, comprehensive, but you also managed to keep the video under an hour.
I do think that slamming Erez is something that was needed to be said in a comprehensive history of the series. Actual clown decision making in the recent entries.
Lovingly, one of the banned in the purge.
I was specifically talking about you as one of the hardcore fans who was banned. Dude really shot his own investment in the foot, over and over. Glad you liked it!
@@omgitsfishstix That is Hi-Rez in a nutshell. They start off decent and then empty the magazine into their lower appendages, repeatedly and with prejudice. It's sad to watch every time. The only exception is SMITE, to which they cling with everything they have.
Still one of my most loved gaming-series, at least the first 2 games. The amount of time i spent in these 2 games had to have cost my parents quite a hefty dial-up tab....
It's crazy that the PC gaming landscape of the early 2000s was so unpredictable and fast-moving that pretty much everyone's "favorite game" would be a landmark title that birthed a new genre and is still the best said genre. You'd be hard pressed to find a team-based tactical mobility shooter better than Tribes 2. My favorite game, Morrowind, is STILL one of the best RPG worlds ever created. AvP2 does asymmetrical PvP as good or better than any game made since. Deus Ex does stuff that no other ImSim has even attempted. Diablo 2 is the only ARPG anyone even has a positive opinion of.