Tribes: Ascend Patch 1.4 - Parting Gifts

There's something so nostalgic about you nerfing one piece of equipment (NJ5) into oblivion and removing another (thrown discs) entirely on the last patch ever. It exemplifies the clumsy, extreme approach hi rez has always had with updating. It would have been better if you just made more of the equipment viable rather than remove some content from the game forever, and trivialize more of the remaining equipment, forever. Now there are less alternate loadouts worth using than ever. I'm not ungrateful for the extra bit of work put into the game, but the net effect has been in large to just ruin so many of the classes and concepts at the behest of the biggest complainers in the community. The butthurt was so fierce on stealth that they broke that immediately. The removal of the set classes in favor of "customization" led to even fewer viable options. Every medium became a soldier, every heavy a juggerbrute. In the end, while I'm very grateful for the effort, the OOTB updates have made this game neither tribes ascend nor tribes classic. Just a very genercized deathmatch shooter with exploding discs

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