Great Tribal War Pickup tonight 7PM EST
Join us for the new an improved GTW v1.51 released today on the MaxOGC - Great Tribal War server at 7PM EST till whenever we feel like it! Join us an hour early for a quick training session on how the game is played and basic game concepts.
Be sure you download the client files at http://hosted.tribesnext.com/gtw before joining. You'll need the map and shape files to join us. Drop the GTW.Vl2 in your gamedata/base folder, delete your DSO files and that's it!
What is Great Tribal War?
GTW is a mod for Tribes 2, (obviously!). The game basically plays exactly as normal tribes as you know it. You have all the same vehicles and weapons and tools at your disposal. The differences are these:
Sound fun? Join us tonight and see what the hype is all about!
GokouZWAR
Be sure you download the client files at http://hosted.tribesnext.com/gtw before joining. You'll need the map and shape files to join us. Drop the GTW.Vl2 in your gamedata/base folder, delete your DSO files and that's it!
What is Great Tribal War?
GTW is a mod for Tribes 2, (obviously!). The game basically plays exactly as normal tribes as you know it. You have all the same vehicles and weapons and tools at your disposal. The differences are these:
- The maps are 100km2 (10km x 10km maps) beautifully rendered based off real world areas.
- The primary objective is to build your own base and defend your teams Global Position Targeter (GPT, looks like the capture and hold switch) while attempting to destroy your enemy's GPT. The trick is, where are they?!
- You and your enemy can move the GPT ANYWHERE YOU WANT on the map. There are hardened structures to help you defend your GPT or you can set it somewhere in the field and attempt to hide it in an obscure place somewhere in the hopes the enemy can't find it.
- You can build your own base! Design the setup anyway you want it. From base turret placement to the location of your Inventory stations all the way down to the placement of your sentry turrets.
- Get to the front lines quicker by building a forward field base! Setup a quick base with some power and an inventory station and setup yourself with a teleporter pad to bring your friends to the front line quicker!
- Don't forget the power! All base items require power to operate. Bring along a Solar pack to keep everything powered up within 50 meters of that panel. You can also use multiple power sources to as backup power to keep key items running. Also as long as the GPT has power, it cannot be destroyed.
- What happens when I destroy the enemy's GPT? The enemy can no longer spawn in the map! The remaining players on that team must regroup and make one last stand against the enemy. Once all the enemies are killed then the last team standing wins. If BOTH GPTs are destroyed, whoever is last standing wins. Keep in mind when you are moving your GPT to it's new home or trying to survive, that your team won't be able to spawn until you deploy it at its new location.
Sound fun? Join us tonight and see what the hype is all about!
GokouZWAR
Comments
It is a Saturday though, so hopefully some people will still be on later and we can do some late-night GTWing
If the GTW gets more popular, it might be worth investigating how much larger populations would affect gameplay such as one team sending out an army of shrikes scouting before they move the switch, causing the game to end within 10 minutes, run on sentence, run on sentence.
*(imagines an all out shrike war of 24 people)
Also, we've had 3 on 3 shrike wars already, just look at the youTube video that was from one of the earlier pickups. Shrike wars are hard since they're a lot faster to fly in GTW. I had to up the missile speeds to be able to keep up with shrikes. I saw from last night I need to make them even faster. :P
Probably wouldn't hurt to up the havoc and thundersword speeds as well just a shade.
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BTW< I've decided we're going to have another pickup this saturday at 7pm EST - 11pm EST. So come join the MaxOGC - Great Tribal War server and we'll have some fun with the all new GTW 1.52 version I just released today which fixes the deconstructor weapon issue. You can now properly cycle thru all the weapons and it'll also cycle thru the deconstructor as well.
Thanks to Eolk and RedShifter for the help on that fix!
Come play, and bring a friend or 5. ;D Last weeks response was about 20 - 30 players, I want 40 in the server this week!
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