When comparing Tribes Ascend vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Tribes Ascend for most people. In the question“What are the best free PC games?” Tribes Ascend is ranked 8th while Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Tribes Ascend is:
A mix of flying and sliding for vast outdoor environments extends the usual indoor running and jumping.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Unique FPS movement type
A mix of flying and sliding for vast outdoor environments extends the usual indoor running and jumping.
Pro Shazbot
Pro Reasonable free-to-play model
Pro Class-based teamwork
Pro Favors skill over reflexes
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Dead
Complaints recently that there are almost no players on the servers.
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.