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Re:OK Doomer by Vax45 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:11PM (#22221117)
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.

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Re:OK Doomer by lasagnaphil on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:54AM (#22223394)
It'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...
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Re:OK Doomer by bovermyer on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:59AM (#22224128)
Tribes: 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.

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Re:OK Doomer by blaser-waffle on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:17AM (#22224278)
exploding CD's, or going heavy and randomly shooting mortars at an enemy base. fun times.
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Re:OK Doomer by sbarre on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:46AM (#22223357)
Learning 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.

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Re:OK Doomer by alharith on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:54PM (#22221500)
Just to make this technically correct, people still bunny hop in CS all the time, it just doesn't get you anywhere any faster.
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Re:OK Doomer by silvester23 on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:46AM (#22222231)
If 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.
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Re:OK Doomer by levosmetalo on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:10AM (#22222341)
It 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.
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Re:OK Doomer by hnick on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:22AM (#22221873)
Warframe has a similar story. It's covered in the NoClip documentary on YouTube. Never played that game but it was a good watch.
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Re:OK Doomer by willis936 on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:49AM (#22224070)
I 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.
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