Tribes: Ascend/Patches/v1.4.2913.0

Tribes: Ascend/Patches/v1.3

Tribes: Ascend/Patches/v1.3

Released

2016-09-28 - 8 years ago

Tribes:Ascend Version 1.4, September 28th, 2016

Notes

• We will be upgrading Tribes starting at 11am Eastern (4PM Central European)
• Expected downtime will be around 2 hours.
• Weapon statistics for Tribes:Ascend 1.4 - Spreadsheet

Gameplay

• Screenshake has been completely removed from the game.
• Ammo/Health pickups
• Lifespan has been reduced to 15s from 60s.
• Health gained from pickup reduced to 300 from 400.

Equipment Changes

• Sidearms and Automatics have been merged into the same category across all classes, renamed to Bullet.
• Light Spinfusor and Light Blinksfusor
  • Direct hit damage increased to 750 from 725.
  • Splash damage increased to 600 from 580.
• Sparrow, Eagle Pistol, and Nova Colt
  • Damage decreased to 80 from 95.
• NJ5 SMG
  • Clip size reduced to 12 from 20.
• Honorfusor added to Medium armor.
  • Provides direct hit damage only, no splash damage.
  • Direct hit damage of 875.
  • Located in the “Specialty” weapon category.
  • Locks Advanced Repair Tool into the third slot.
  • Has 50% inheritance.
• Thumper DX returns to Medium armor.
  • Base damage of 700 with rapid damage falloff to 140.
  • Direct hit damage of 875.
  • Ammo count increased to 26 from 10.
• Thrown Discs
  • Removed from the game.
• Chaingun
  • Damage decreased to 70 from 80.
• Heavy Armor
  • Weapon slots reduced to 3 from 4.

Vehicles

• Grav Cycle
  • Gravity scaling lowered to 1.0 from 1.2.
  • Damage done to other players hit directly by the vehicle reverted to pre-OOTB values.
  • Increased max movement speed to 2750 from 2500.
  • Pilot weapon ammunition lowered to 12 from 24.
  • Pilot weapon damage increased to 180 from 80.
  • Pilot weapon damage radius increased to 200 from 150.
  • Pilot weapon damage versus Beowulf increased to 1.6 from 1.0 (direct hit damage of 360).
• Beowulf
  • Base damage lowered to 1000 from 1250.
  • Minimum splash damage reduced to 25% from 50%.
  • Damage multiplier against Beowulf increased to 3 from 2.
  • Damage multiplier against Grav Cycle lowered to 1.5 from 3.
  • Damage multiplier against base assets increased to 2.5 from 2.0.

Misc.

• Fixed base upgrade messages showing up in certain help suggestions.
• Fixed collision issues on Hellfire.
• Fixed issue allowing players to get out of the playable map space when exiting vehicles in specific locations.
• Fixed issues with the thrust pack not thrusting or thrusting too much. It now thrusts just right.
• Fixed issue with the Elf Projector being able to maintain lock through a wall.
• Fixed the Medium Spinfusor kill icon being incorrect.
• Fixed issue with being able to equip items in Target Practice or Roaming that were supposed to be locked.
• Due to the change in the number of weapons a Heavy can have equipped and the merging of Sidearm and Automatic weapon categories, all weapon loadouts have been reset.
• Addressed deadstop issues in all maps when skiing/jetting along the creativity wall.
• Resolved client performance issues when near the creativity wall.
• The patcher is no longer required to run the game and is completely standalone.
• The in-game web browser has been removed from the game and will no longer install Flash as a prerequisite.