The most recent patches for Tribes: Ascend came out of seemingly nowhere following over two years without updates. Now, not only is it getting a 1.3 update, that update also contains a brand new map.
The new map, Hellfire, is available for CTF and Blitz and has been added to the appropriate rotations. The map, as you might expect, is brown and gray and ashy and rocky and features what look like volcanoes. The full patch notes are way over my head as someone who has played a whole 30 minutes of Tribes: Ascend, but they bring a variety of balance changes and bug fixes.
It’s weird to see the game getting substantial support after so many years of inaction, but it’s certainly not unwelcome. It seemed that Tribes had been all but abandoned once Hi-Rez moved on to their MOBA, Smite.
