Just joined the closed beta, but I played the original Tribes 2.
Patch 0.1.742.0 is running right now, which will change a lot, like finally adding some customizability back to the classes. It is by no means as in-depth as the original Tribes 2, but I guess it should attract a pretty solid player base.
This was before the update that turned the halfway skill-based game into a casal game, where you can spam grenades, trip-mines, land-mines and the new sentinal-sniper.
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