As a chaotic team-based FPS, Tribes 3: Rivals will require every player to know the different roles and how to play them.

Playing a defensive role that stays at the base requires a very different playstyle than the flag-stealing Cappers, for example!

To make things a tad simpler for you, we’ll go over all of the competitive roles in the game and break down the basics of playing them.

How to Play Every Role | Roles Guide

There are 5 roles you can play in Tribe 3: Rivals, all of them defined by how you help your team out. They are Flag Defense, Chaser, Midfield, Clearer, and Capper.

Which role you have to play in your team is something you have to define with your teammates. Of course, if you’re playing casually with randos you should just switch according to the situation.

Now, let us give you an overview of all the 5 roles and how to play them.

Flag Defense

In the role of Flag Defense, your goal is to stay in your team’s base protecting the flag. The name says it all, after all!

You’ll try to minimize how much you get out of the base, trying to only go out whenever you’re helping an allied Capper or when chasing any enemies that run off with the flag.

Ideally, you should stick to either Medium or Heavy Armors in this role. You’ll need the extra defenses and firepower, but you have no use for the Light Armor’s speed.

As a Medium Armor, you should try to hide near the flag and watch out for incoming enemies. Once you spot them, attack them before they can make off with the flag.

You should equip the Impact Nitron for its ability to force flag drops and the Shield Pack for extra defenses.

If you pick Heavy Armor instead, you’ll ideally try to stay on top of the flag yourself. You can physically block enemy Cappers from stealing the flag by just standing there!

For your Heavy Armor loadout, make sure to pick the Stormslicer for its damage and the Mine for their area denial potential.

Overall, this is a relatively simple role but also one of the most important! Be a credit to your team by never letting the enemies make off with the flag.

Chaser

This role is all about returning your flag to your base. But, unlike the Flag Defense role, you won’t focus on prevention! You’ll focus on reaction.

That means that you will, as the name implies, chase down enemy Cappers that make off with your flag.

Since speed is so important for this role, you’ll want to stick to either the Light or Medium Armors.

Light is faster, but most players prefer Medium for its better survivability.

No matter which Armor you pick, make sure to bring two things in your loadout: Impact Nitron in your Belt, and the Chaser Perk.

Impact Nitron, as we mentioned before, can be used to force enemy Cappers to drop the flag. It can make getting the flag back a lot easier!

As for the Chaser Perk, it’ll give you extra damage against any enemy carrying your flag.

Additionally, you’ll get extra Energy and Energy Regeneration. It also prevents self-damage once, which means you get a free Disc Jump!

Disc Jumps are when you shoot an explosive disc weapon, like the Spinfusor, toward the ground and jump at the same time. It’s similar to good ol’ explosive jumping in other games.

Other than these two must-haves, you can pick whichever weapons you want for either Armor loadout.

Ultimately, this role is also quite simple, as you just need to hunt down enemy Cappers once they run away with your flag. Rush them down before they make it to their base!

Midfielder

This is one of the odder roles right now, as you will basically act as a sort of scout by staying somewhere between both bases.

Try to spot enemies that are approaching your base and let your team know about them before they’re too close! Give your Flag Defenders and Chasers some time to prepare against enemy attacks.

Aside from just calling out enemy positions, though, you should also be trying to intercept and kill enemies before they come close to your base.

Your loadout here is, frankly, going to be whatever you feel most comfortable using. That said, you’ll need to stay on the move pretty often, so Light and Medium Armors are recommended.

Survivalist Perk might also be the best Perk for this role, as it enhances the effects of Health Packs. It’s fantastic for staying alive out in the middle of the map!

In summary, your goal as a Midfielder is to call out enemy positions and intercept them before they can reach your base. It’s a very open-ended role, so you’ll be constantly switching between offense and defense!

Clearer

The Clearer is a vanguard for the Capper. Your sole goal in this role is to distract and kill enemy Flag Defenders and Chasers, as well as any Midfielders that show up to ruin your party.

Kill as many of the enemies as possible, or at the very least keep them distracted.

Also make sure to shoot and remove any Mines you spot, and try to get Heavy Flag Defenders to stop camping atop the flag.

Basically, you’re setting things up for your Capper to come in and swoop the flag with as little trouble as possible!

You’ll also need to take care of all base assets, such as turrets and sensors. It’s absolutely vital that you take as many of them out as possible before your team’s Capper reaches the enemy base!

As a Clearer, you’ll be drawing a lot of enemy fire toward you, so you should stay as Medium or Heavy Armors for their survivability.

However, your loadout is very open-ended. The only recommendation we do have is the Gladiator if you pick the Heavy Armor. It’s an absolute beast at wrecking enemy base assets!

Ultimately, you just have to do what your name implies and clear the enemy base of hostiles before your Capper comes in to steal the flag. Any enemy you can’t kill, you should at least keep distracted.

Capper

Last but not least, the role of Capper has one single goal in mind: steal the enemy flag and take it to your team’s base.

You’ll have to work in tandem with your allies, particularly anyone in the role of Clearer, to make taking the flag easier.

Since you’ll need to be quick, you’ll want to pick either the Light or Medium Armors for your loadout.

As always, Light has extra mobility but Medium has superior survivability. Pick whichever one fits you best!

Your equipment loadout is very open-ended in this role, with the exception of your Perk. Make sure to pick the Capper Perk whenever you’re in this role!

It increases the range for flag and Health drop pickups and also disables speed limits while holding the flag.

A unique challenge for Cappers is that you should try to develop a route across every map since you need to maximize your speed.

This is something you’re going to have to master with practice but just try to have routes where it’s easy for you to speed through and stay away from enemies.

Bring the enemy flag back to your team as fast as possible, and focus primarily on movement! You should avoid fighting enemies head-on if possible, letting your teammates take care of them instead.

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Tribes 3: Rivals is the latest entry in the classic competitive series bringing in a lot of new players, so we made an ultimate beginner’s guide to help ya’ll get started!

There are a lot of unique mechanics and systems in Tribes 3: Rivals, such as how movement works and what game mode it focuses on.

If you’re eager to start boosting your way to victory and stealing your enemy’s flag in this Jetpack-equipped FPS, read on!

Ultimate Beginner’s Guide | Tips and Tricks for New Players

It’s All About Capturing The Flag

The first thing to know about Tribes 3: Rivals is that the game is primarily focused on Capture The Flag gameplay.

Each team has a flag, and the only way to score points is to capture the enemy’s flag and bring it to your base. It’s a game mode as old as time itself, now with jetpacks!

This means that you should primarily focus on working toward raiding the enemy base to steal their flag. Just killing enemies over and over won’t earn you points, if you don’t even try to steal the flag.

This isn’t a deathmatch game, so you’ll have to actually coordinate with your teammates to complete the objective.

By the same token, you and your team have to make sure to defend your own flag and keep your enemies from stealing it!

In summary, just understand that this game revolves almost entirely around defending and capturing flags.

Get a Heads Up!

If you want to get into Tribes 3: Rivals as a new player, you have to understand the Heads-Up Display (HUD). It has all the information you need to be aware of at a moment’s notice.

Here’s a description of every important aspect of the HUD, based on the image above:

1. Bottom Left – Your current and maximum Health.
2. Center Left and Center Right – Inclination meter and your current speed.
3. Top Left – A radar of the current map, showing allies in blue and enemies in red. Also shows the flags using the same coloring scheme.
4. Top Center – Current match info. Tells you how many points each team has, if a flag has been captured, and how much time remains for the match to end.
5. Top Right – The kill log, shows when players kill each other. It also shows when a player steals a flag.
6. Bottom Right – Your current weapons and ammo.
7. Bottom Center – Shows your current Energy as a blue gauge that turns red when critical. Also shows your current Belt and Pack Utilities, plus notifies you if you have Skiing enabled or disabled.

The HUD is fairly straightforward, but it’s very important that you get familiar with it right away as a new player.

Select Your Armor

There are three Armor types for you to choose from, each one with its own strengths and weaknesses. Which one you pick will greatly affect your available weapons and overall playstyle!

Here’s a short breakdown of each Armor type:

• Light Armor – The speediest of them all, but also the one with the least firepower and defense. Primarily used to steal flags, or to chase down enemies who stole your team’s flag.
• Medium Armor – Middle of the road, boasting a perfect balance of mobility, firepower, and defense. Medium Armor characters can do everything well, making them a solid jack-of-all-trades choice.
• Heavy Armor – Sacrifices mobility compared to the other Armor types for overwhelming firepower and powerful defense. Great for attacking enemy bases and protecting your own team’s flag.

Every Armor type also has a bunch of unique weapons, gadgets, and perks at their disposal. Select whichever ones you like the most to fully define your own playstyle!

Understand Your Role

Since we just covered the Armor types and their playstyles, it’d be a good idea to also give a brief mention of roles. Understanding what your role is in the team will be vital, after all!

There are 5 distinct roles defined by the players:

• Flag Defense – Flag Defense players, also known as Flag Defenders, are those who stay in their team base and fight off any incoming enemies.
• Chaser – Similar to Flag Defense players, Chasers mostly stay near their own base. However, their focus is more on chasing down flag-stealing enemies than fending off incoming enemies.
• Midfield – A somewhat odd and unique role that stays in the middle of the map, between both bases. Provides recon for their team, pinging incoming enemies but also helping with offense and defense.
• Clearer – Players who invade enemy bases shortly before a Capper arrives. They kill or distract enemies to make it easier for Cappers to capture the flag.
• Capper – Speedsters who focus entirely on stealing the enemy’s flag. Very simple on paper, but being a good Capper requires a lot of practice and map knowledge.

Of course, that’s just a very basic overview of what each role does. For much more detailed information, feel free to check out our roles guide!

Master Your Jetpack and Skiing

The thing that makes a Tribes game truly “Tribes” is the Jetpack. As such, you should do well to start practicing using it as soon as you start the game!

You can activate your Jetpack and boost by holding down the Right Mouse Button by default, which will rapidly deplete your Energy. It will give you some nice air time for a brief moment.

However, that’s just the very basic use. More importantly, you should learn to combine the Jetpack with the Skiing function.

To start Skiing, hold the Ski keybind, which should be Space by default. Release it to stop Skiing.

The trick here is to use Skiing as you go downhill to gain a massive boost of speed, then use your Jetpack as you go uphill to propel yourself further.

If you do it right, you will be basically flying across the map!

To keep your momentum, try to hold the Skiing key while in the air and aim to fall on slopes going downhill. Do it right and you’ll keep your speed, and maybe even gain some.

Mastering these movement tricks is absolutely crucial to success in Tribes 3: Rivals, though you’ll also need to keep a steady aim to shoot enemies while moving around.

But, that’s the end of this guide. Hopefully, this helps you get started in this frantic retro-styled competitive FPS. We hope to see you out boosting all over the battlefield. with your Jetpack!

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The fast-paced flag-capturing FPS series Tribes will return from the dead once again next week with the early access launch of Tribes 3: Rivals. Over the weekend, developers Prophecy Games announced March 12th is the date, with the full launch to follow after up to a year. Prophecy are spun off from Hi-Rez Studios, the folks who who made Tribes: Ascend, which officially shut down a few years back. I hear this next one's pretty fun.

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Prophecy Games has announced that TRIBES 3 Rivals will hit Steam Early Access on March 12th. In addition, the developers shared the game’s official PC system requirements which you can find below. TRIBES 3: Rivals is a team-based first person shooter that elevates the genre with jetpacks, skiing, and class-based warfare. Its core game mode … Continue reading TRIBES 3: Rivals hits Steam Early Access on March 12th, gets official PC system requirements →

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I’m so thankful for Tribes 3 Rivals. Developer Prophecy Games has brought back the fastest multiplayer shooter on PC, eight years on from the final update to Tribes Ascend, and it’s already seen a positive reception, becoming the most played FPS game during the recent Steam Next Fest. Now, we have a release date for the official early access launch, and it’s surprisingly soon. Outpacing the likes of Call of Duty, Halo, and Counter-Strike 2, and even zooming past the high speeds of Titanfall 2 or classic Doom and Quake multiplayer, it’s time to get ready for Tribes 3 Rivals.

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