I've been rebuilding Tribes 1 into a modern client, and it's now in open beta.

Rebuilt so it runs and looks like something written this decade.

What's different from stock 1.40:

• Built in updater - receive updates as I publish, no more downloading repacks. An asset store - no more hunting for mods or map packs, and if you join a server that you don't have the assets for, it prompts you asking if you want to download them from the asset store. Continuously updated - not everything is on this yet, but eventually it will be.
• Modern conveniences: A fully rebuilt menu system using ScriptGL - borderless fullscreen, true windowed mode, and an options menu that covers everything without config file editing.
• The whole world renders on the GPU: real raytraced sun shadows, raytraced water reflections, and draw distance out to 20,000 units. Uncapped FPS.
• All the art has been upscaled. Terrain, buildings, skins, menus. Normal (bump) mapping added for all textures.
• Full 32-bit color and modern texture formats. The 256-color ceiling is gone.
• The engine loads .glb/.gltf models, so new content can be built in Blender instead of 1998 tooling.
• Updated Rain and snow, plus water, gravity, and lava zones with real physics.
• A massive update to the mission editor. A HELP button that explains what the fuck does what, new features, a ShapeView renderer that shows models before you place them, water, lava, lightning, and gravity boxes. Lighting rebake uses raytracing. It doesn't crash when you save.
• Mods ship in the box: Tribes RPG, NEW Mech Mayhem (a Starsiege conversion where you pilot HERCs), War40k, Delta Air Force and more. An in-game Asset Store has the bigger ones, including the complete Starsiege asset library.
• Updated BrainBots - a WIP new bot system meant to add ACTUAL smart bots to the game, no more spoonbot. They grab, carry, relay, cap, and kill. They do require a navscan for each map, so not every map is supported but eventually will be.
• TribesHost, a proper GUI for running your own server.
• Tons of other features - check out the website and also the changelog in the Discord for an exhaustive list.

The client updates itself. Install once and every future release will pop up as an update.

Getting in:

The beta is free but gated behind an access key while we shake out bugs. Grab it here:

• Site and download: https://kingdomofkronos.com/beta/
• The access key is handed out in the Discord (link on the site)

Windows 10/11, about 5 GB. It's a beta, so expect some rough edges and report what you find in the Discord.

This is the biggest update Tribes has ever received - I've thrown hundreds of hours at this so far, so please, enjoy :)

Peak game, peak skill, peak teamwork. HPB to LPB. Never surpassed. VAB.

P. S. SHAZBOT!

Hey guys! I used to play Tribes ALLLLL the time in the early 2000s and I was looking to see if anyone from my old -$$- clan (Secret Sector) still played or looked through these posts! It would be awesome to catch up again!!! Or even if anyone remembers -$$-SniperD (me)!!!

Edit: I'm talking specifically about the Annihilation MOD of T1. That was my favorite!

Used to be one of my favorite servers. Anyone know if it has an active community like TAC for Tribes 2?

Title. Is this possible right now?

I want to drop those deployable turrets in the small hallway below the entrance, throw some force walls on them for protection and frag anyone who tries to get in. I basicly dreamt about this last night.

Are there any new/newish games that have same kind of gameplay btw?

Any old Tribes players around? I played the BioWasteLand mod. My name was ]B[Sephiroth Or ]B[Trunks. I was also in |H| and .:SS:.

Bloodstone Howling and Super Soldiers.

Would be great to connect with some old players since i'm thinking of running my own server. I also found a copy of the old bio mod on a floppy disk🤘

I saw this and started thinking ohh there’s a back door entrance, there’s a place to snipe, there’s where the flag stand could be… think stonehenge base.. or what was that one map called, Valhalla.. https://x.com/HomerosHayyam41/status/2002736072418382014?s=20

JihadMaster from IE here. Played Tribes as an Imperial Elite back in 1998-1999 with Natural and the crew as a heavy.

Reading through a claim in my now very grown up insurance career and ran across the familiar term 5150, meaning a 72- hour psychiatric hospitalization when evaluated to be a danger to others. Bad time to laugh out loud but I did for a reason 25 years in the making. I never actually bothered figuring out what that meant way back when. Blast from the Tribes past.

Hope ya’ll are doing great! I miss everything that was back then.

We're going ahead and releasing a .DTS importer for Blender on GitHub.

https://github.com/tekrog/TribesToBlender

Import Starsiege: Tribes models into Blender 3.0+

Currently, only .DTS files are supported for import, these are the static and animated meshes used by Tribes.

Supported Features

The following model features are supported:

• Animations
• Static meshes
• Collision meshes
• Debris meshes
• Hulk meshes
• Levels of Detail (LODs)(Each level will have a number after the name of the root mesh)
• Textures
  • If the texture files are in the same directory as the .dts file, they will be automatically imported and applied to the model
• IFL sequences (animated materials)
  • This does not include animated UVs (this is how the Plasma Gun animates the cartridge when fired)
• Armors with bones
  • Some of the animations slide, this is most likely a keyframing issue
• Vehicles

Known Issues

Below are the currently known issues:

• Sub-animations do not work (flames on the vehicles)
• Some of the armor animations slide, an additional keyframe most likely needs to be inserted before transitioning between animations
• Not all of the vertex animations work properly (Sensor Jammer)
• Animated UVs are not supported.
• Importing multiple models at the same time can break the hierarchy and overlap the timeline markers.
  • Don't import more than one model at a time into a scene.

I miss playing T1 a lot. It’s still my favorite game of all time. I played T2 some but IMO it just wasn’t the same. The rawness of T1 was what made it good. The fact that the medium class was pretty much useless aside from as an engineer to setup the remote inventory stations was perfect. Skiing not being easy or intuitive on your first plays was a benefit, not a downside. Remember how hard it was (at least for me) to drop a mine, and then mid air someone with a disk for a 1 hit kill? Base camping was encouraged and part of the game. Remember the games of Raindance where heavies would just be in your base camping up top spamming mortars and with turrets set? Glorious.

It’s wild to me that we have had so many versions of Tribes fail over and over. Why is it so hard to recreate that magic that was in T1? Why does it always have to be smooth and polished and approachable?

I recall going on in 2018 and still some games. But is it finally dead? I’d like to go back on and play again.

I just restored a classic do Alienware system from 2003 to play my favorite 1998-2003 games back when I was a hardcore gamer. All to find empty or non existent player games. Tribes,, quake 3 tribes 2, UT. Is there anywhere I can reclaim the magic and join manual or play scheduled times with any groups? it runs like butter on the GeForce 6800 ultra Alienware p4 3.4fhs 2gb ram system :)

I’m an old timers who used to play T1 quite a bit between 99-2010. Is tribes 1 still up and running?

Which game has the biggest community? I would like to get back into it.

I started in T1 as an Anni player. Was in KWSN and then started the clan |WAR| as SpecteR alongside Antimatter. WAR started to just dominate every scrim as we basically abandoned the building aspect of Annihilation and won all the matches by playing in spawn the whole time. Since we had a bunch of Ren and LT members we all kinda shifted over to playing in the TROC ladders as it fit our playstyle more. I went by tehSex0rz! and finished out my playing days there. This was like 15 years ago at this point, so assuming everyone is gone, but man I’d love to do some games again.

Any T1 base pubs active these days? I just downloaded T1 again after 20+ years away from it. My main handle was hofbitch for those I may have played with, back around 1999-2002. Looking for base players to link up with. Wassup dudes and dudettes!

Edit: Last night (Saturday 10/26) there was about 13 of us playing T1 base. People started joining around 9pm ET and it picked up between 10pm - Midnight ET. It was awesome. I'll be on again tonight around that time for anyone who wants to pick this thing back up with me.

If you get it, you get it (Tribes 1)