I hope I'm not necro'ing this topic but thought I should just say for all of the haters,
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tribes-ascend
Ascend has a meta score of
87 (8.3 user score) , which for comparison BF3 has a score of
89 (7.3 user score) and MW3 has a score of
78 (2.2 user score).
(Not that I credit Meta critic to being gospel truth.)
This game has received many a rave review. So before everyone goes ahead and blasts out their personal opinion without any actual reasoning; food for thought.
I have played the game and the graphics are actually quite good for the engine it runs on and I believe the game-play to be great. I would actually pay for this hack, provided I wasn't already subscribed to the mater package (But I guess that means I inadvertently would be if it was made?).
But then again, hacks like these would ruin an amazing game like this.