Now you merely hold down the jump key to maintain flight momentum when you touch the ground. Skiing has been balanced to more strongly define the mobility distinction between the player classes and ensure that heavy suits aren't as fast on the slopes as they were in the first game. Tribes 2's maps are generally quite large, so heavy suits now have to rely much more on vehicles to go on the offensive and travel to the enemy base. Tribes mods are good for games with fewer players and make the most of Tribes 2's map style. There's often a terrific scrimmage as other players try to grab the flag and make a run back to their bases.
Hunters is reminiscent of the headhunter mods for other multiplayer games.
As players die, they drop flags that can be collected for points at a central location. However, it's with the large team games that Tribes 2 is really impressive. The game's network code is quite good and supports these numbers well on servers with sufficient dedicated bandwidth, but some warping does occur in games containing many more than 60 players. The larger maps easily accommodate this many players and generally feature vehicle pads so that a portion of each team spends its time in the game's six vehicles. It's easy enough to switch roles to do whatever needs to be done to help the team, so casual matches without explicit team planning can still be quite enjoyable.