Tribes: Ascend Getting Update Soon

The Tribes: Ascend Steam store page has been updated, showing that there are big changes coming to Hi-Rez's FPS. We can only assume it's related to the fact that SMITE is headed to Steam soon.

There will be a Public Test Server going live within the next week, and Hi-Rez had this to say:

We need your help! Prior to release on the live servers, this release will be made available for general public testing on a test server. The purpose of this server is to allow us to gain end-user feedback and bug testing on the release before we fully finalize the release. In order to make this release as good as we can, we need the Tribe’s community to help us test and to give feedback!
We currently expect the release to be placed onto the Public Test Server on or before September 14, 2015. Once the release is made available on PTS, we will publish installation and test instructions.

You can find out more on the Tribes subreddit, including a link to the patch notes.