Posts tagged cps 
Hands-on with Tabula Rasa's next patch: harder enemies good for the game?
Tabula Rasa is a peculiar game compared to many in that the difficulty of enemy encounters usually isn't measured by enemy strength, but by their numbers and composition. Man to man, your typical AFS soldier is more than a match for even the toughest units the Bane can throw at them. While that ...
Paul Sage gives pep talk on 'elder game'
In a welcome change for Tabula Rasa's Feedback Friday, we got a little pep talk and look at the future from lead designer Paul Sage. The stately Sage ruminated about many common points of interest for Tabula Rasa players, including clan-owned CPs, personal armor units, and multi-squad instances. ...
Tabula Rasa Top 5 tips for assaulting CPs - Part 5
Tip 5: If you need more guys to kill, just knock on the door If you're running around outside a CP and find yourself needing enemies to kill, just plunk one or two shots into the force field covering the gate and you should get a fresh supply of enemies to come out and try and make paste of your ...
Tabula Rasa top 5 tips for assaulting CPs - Part 4
Tip 4: Kite away big targets like bosses, Kael, and Striders While a lot of players (especially Spies) seem to pride themselves in their ability to take down hard targets quickly, it's usually a much wiser decision to kite these guys away from big groups and take them on by yourself or with the ...
Tabula Rasa top 5 tips for assaulting CPs - Part 3
Tip 3: Don't rush to capture that CP One of the rookie mistakes a lot of people make is immediately rushing in and trying to capture a CP when the force field comes down. This rarely works because all it takes is one enemy shot to interrupt the capture process. And there's usually at least one ...
Tabula Rasa top 5 tips for assaulting CPs - Part 2
Tip 2: Turn solitary shield drones against the enemy One of the most loathsome sights in the game is seeing a huge mob of Bane running towards you completely protected by a swarm of shield drones. While shield drones are generally a huge pain in the ass, and fairly high on the hit list, that ...
Tabula Rasa top 5 tips for assaulting CPs - Part 1
Tip 1: Prioritize your targets and take them out with hit and run tactics One of the mistakes that most frequently leads to a player's early demise is rushing in to assault a capture point without properly assessing a situation. Sure it looks like there's only a few lightbenders guarding the gate ...
Tabula Rasa top 5 tips for assaulting CPs
When patch 1.6 hit the live servers, Tabula Rasa's grinding game as we knew it was shaken up. Experience modifiers were bumped up as high as 6x the normal rates and a new system was implemented that allows players to collect universal CP assault and defend tokens in exchange for worthwhile items ...
Patch 1.7 to grace TR some time next week
The Tabula Rasa community team sent out another bulletin this Friday, specifically concerning the changes that should be coming to the public test server some time between now and next week. Among the tweaks they mentioned for patch 1.7 are tweaks to the way enemy spawns and high-level AI is ...
On Tabula Rasa respecs and resolutions
With Tabula Rasa already on the ropes with recent reports of financial failure, the last thing the TR community wanted or needed to have to deal with was the awfully-implemented patch 1.5 that rolled out onto live servers yesterday. Pushed out of testing a scant five days after it was revealed on ...
