Originally posted by Gryphon
Didn't think it was that impressive. 
T2 put the game back to the way the devs originally wanted T1 to be like. When T1 first came out, maps were huge and vehicles were used, then people learned to ski and mine disk and similar crap and maps became small and vehicles became useless. Obviously this is not what the devs wanted and they changed that for T2, and a lot of what is in T2 is what the community asked for while they were playing T1.
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Half the T1 devs weren't a part of the T2 team.
Here's the problem. Tribes 1 matured and the gameplay changed with time. This is how Tribes 1 was identified. So when making a sequel why undo all the maturation that's taken place over 3 years and take away the aspects of the game that the hardcore people love, which keeps them hooked, which made the sequel possible in the first place?
Doesn't make much sense to me. That's where base++ and later Classic, which is officially sanctioned by sierra came from. That's why the base competition nearly disapeared with the introduction of classic. That's why so much of this community you speak of started out from day to change Tribes 2.
I don't think the T1 community ever asked for more powerfull, more accurate, and more numerous turrets. They didn't ask to make the elf a weapon that could suffocate all offense. They didn't ask for vehicles to dominiate the game. They wanted a game they were familiar with some more depth and some prettier graphics.
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