Capture the flag (CTF) - Each team (up to eight, normally less than three on any given mission) has one or more bases and a single flag.There are five distinct 'default' gametypes: The outdoor environments can extend for several kilometers. In general, bases are scattered throughout the map depending on the gametype. Most of the standard maps are outdoors environments in a variety of climates, from sunshine to snow and hail. The battles take place on one of 40 maps. The player assumes the role of a warrior loyal to one of the four major tribes battling in the front lines of the conflict. The Diamond Sword and Starwolf are secondary, with innumerable other splinter tribes constantly fighting for territory. The second is a force of imperial knights originally sent from the Empire to subdue them who have gone 'tribal' over time. The first and largest descends from people isolated from the Great Human Empire during the jumpgate dispora. Conflict has broken out between several factions of humans, the four largest of which are the Children of the Phoenix, Blood Eagle, Diamond Sword, and Starwolf. The story is set in the 40th century, after humanity has settled across the galaxies via jumpgates. Tribes is a squad-based multiplayer online game with no single-player campaign it is similar in this respect to the Team Fortress and Enemy Territory games. The company released Tribes: Ascend in April of 2012. On October 23, 2010, it was announced that Hi-Rez Studios were the new owners of the Tribes franchise, thus canceling development on PlayTribes. PlayTribes was available for play during the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo at InstantAction's display in the expo hall. In March 2009, GarageGames announced they had purchased the Intellectual property and source code for Starsiege: Tribes and would be releasing it at through an update on their browser-based game service, InstantAction. As of November 2007, the Sierra Master Server is no longer active, and has been replaced by multiple community-run Master Servers. On July 16, 2007, Sierra Entertainment announced that they would cease online support of Tribes starting on August 16, 2007. Vivendi Universal released Tribes and Tribes 2 for free on on a DVD-ROM with Computer Gaming World magazine and on FilePlanet, in order to promote the release Tribes: Vengeance. Sierra licensed the franchise to Irrational Games for a third installment, Tribes: Vengeance, which was released in October 2004. A sequel, Tribes 2, was released in March 2001.

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