Your air control is effectively nill. They've removed the ability to jump, and are selling your boost pool back to you for hard cash money.

There's a significant amount of the game and fun locked behind their paywall as well, rendering the title to be a pay to win abomination.

Add to this their idolization of Tribe's mechanics with none of its emphasis on being interesting, clever, or fun. Level design is a trajedy of insufficient movement lines, and renders base mechanics completely irrelevant at every turn.

And the worst thing of the whole shebang. Exactly the thing that rendered Tribes Ascend dead to me is present. Cloaked ♥♥♥♥♥ with the equivalent of the thumper one-shotting people in their own base. You can just fire from a cloaked state with no repurcussions. A mechanic which has been demonstrably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ for * at least* a decade at this point.

TL;DR: Midair doesn't understand why it's doing what it's doing. It doesn't understand why Tribes was ever good in the first place. It doesn't understand how to make a microtransaction model that doesn't wholly destabilize its gameplay, and it doesn't understand what killed Tribes Ascend.

Maybe they'll overhaul the entire ordeal with patches, but until then you should give this a hard pass and reinstall Tribes Next.

Your air control is effectively nill. They've removed the ability to jump, and are selling your boost pool back to you for hard cash money. There's a significant amount of the game and fun locked behind their paywall as well, rendering the title to be a pay to win abomination. Add to this their idolization of Tribe's mechanics with none of its emphasis on being interesting, clever, or fun. Level design is a trajedy of insufficient movement lines, and renders base mechanics completely irrelevant at every turn. And the worst thing of the whole shebang. Exactly the thing that rendered Tribes Ascend dead to me is present. Cloaked fucks with the equivalent of the thumper one-shotting people in their own base. You can just fire from a cloaked state with no repurcussions. A mechanic which has been demonstrably shitty for * at least* a decade at this point. TL;DR: Midair doesn't understand why it's doing what it's doing. It doesn't understand why Tribes was ever good in the first place. It doesn't understand how to make a microtransaction model that doesn't wholly destabilize its gameplay, and it doesn't understand what killed Tribes Ascend. Maybe they'll overhaul the entire ordeal with patches, but until then you should give this a hard pass and reinstall Tribes Next.