Standard Equipment

 is provided for all classes and contains the following 5 pieces of equipment:


 * 1) Skis
 * 2) Jetpack
 * 3) Blade
 * 4) Armor
 * 5) Laser targeter

1. Skis
Skis are used to slide on surfaces to montain a user's momentum. The skis in tribes are completely frictionless, which allows users to travel at a much higher speed than standard walking but utilizing the terain. Skiing is an essential skill to master and being unable to ski effectively will allow other players to easily catch up to and defeat you. As a general rule, the player should ski down every slope, and jetpack up every hill. Skiing on flat terrain will not slow the character, but they will also not build up any speed. For this reason try to have momentum before utilizing flat land. There is a full skiing tutorial in the game itself, but primarily this is just something that takes some practice in order to do well.

2. Jetpack
The Jetpack is what allows players to build their momentum in the first place. The jet pack by itself is much faster than walking, and allows access to areas above ground level. Using the jetpack consumes energy, a regenerating resources that comes with the Jetpack. Characters using jetpacks have a great deal of directional control, but are still constained to following momentum. By letting oneself fall from a great hieght, and then applying skis, a player can harness their built-up momentum and apply it to a different direction. This requires a ramp of sufficient inclination. If at any time a player smashes into an object that is not close enough to thier current trajectory, they will take damage (past 50km/ph) Therefore it is important to work with the terain, and find slopes that are suitable for falling and skiing down.

3. Blade
All characters have a short range melee attack utilizing blades on the arms of the wearer. These weapons deal very high damage and can kill lightly armored targets in a single attack. It is uncertain if the user's movement speed allows the blade to deal more damage upon collision, and if in that case the user will not take the normal collision damage.

4. Armor
Armor comes in three types, light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. A player's armor effects their health, defense, and weight.

Light Armor: Reduced health, defense, and weight, user takes no additional damage from armor penetrating weapons.

Medium Armor: Normal health, defense, and weight, user takes some minor additional damage from armor penetrating weapons.

Heavy Armor: Increased health, defense, and weight, user takes significantly more damage from armor penetrating weapons.

Keep in mind that even by taking extra damage from armor penetrating weapons, the heavy armor user will still take less damage than the Light armor user would.

The exact values and percentages regarding damage taken in different armor are unknown.

Note that there is no walking speed difference between the three armor types. Heavy armor users go slower than light armor users because they have drastically more weight, and thus do not accelerate as much from hills and falls. A higher weight is not an entirely bad thing though, a heavier body means less knock-back from other players' fire.

5. Laser Targeter
The Laser Targeter serves to point to enemies and objectives for the team, and, with sufficient credits, can call down orbital bombardments and resupply stations. it would appear that eventually players will be able to call 4 different events with their laser targeter, but for now only these two are available in the beta.

Rhed 20:30, November 13, 2011 (UTC)