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Tribes 1 And Tribes 2 Free Downloads Available
James Cho writes "Starsiege: TRIBES (typically known as "Tribes 1") and Tribes 2 for the PC have been released for free download via FilePlanet by Vivendi Universal Games [also try the Tribes 2 BitTorrent link]. The two games stand as pioneers of the outdoor combat sub-genre of first person shooters and of all multiplayer games, influencing Halo and UT2004 among other games. Tribes 1 was the first multiplayer-only shooter, whereas Tribes 2 extended the core unique elements of its predecessor to a greater scale and depth. With this [previously mentioned on Slashdot] free release, VUG is stirring up anticipation for the release of the third Tribes game, Tribes: Vengeance." You'll need to enter a form to get a CD key to play Tribes 2 online.
You know it might not be cutting edge graphics or anything but these two games are good. I remember playing Tribes a long time ago and it was such a unique style of play that drew me in. I haven't found a game quite like it yet and I still don't mind playing the original Tribes every now and then.
Tribes 2 of course had some problems at the beginning, but it's pretty solid now. The game is still fun, supports up to 64 players on a server, and if you like using a lot of vehicles this game is pretty awsome.
I would definetely suggest downloading either or both of these games and try it out, very fun.
Not many. But like you, I also paid (10.00 bucks at BestBuy, I believe) money for Tribes 2.
I was almost exited about downloading it, but then I realized it just wasnt refined enough for me. Not with UT2k4 out..
I'm not bashing Tribes 2, it was awesome. I just moved on to better things.
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Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
what's with the cynicism? Isn't this exactly what gamers want? The whole abandonware scene is based on the premise that companies aren't making money on a product anymore, therefore freely trading it doesn't impact the company. In this case it's officially sanctioned freeware (which is a not-in-anyway-subtle marketing campaign for the next in the series).
apparently, companies can't win, even when they give stuff away for free.
Lost my Tribes 1 CD several years ago, and Tribes 2 was just never the same (even w/o considering bugs). Tribes 1 has such clean, refined gameplay, and I love the way you can drop into a game and instantly be a contributing member of the team. I'm sure other games must have that, too, but now that I can play Tribes again, I don't care!
I know Loki made the Linux version of Tribes 2 and they are out of business now and a quick scan didn't show any free Linux client downloads. Since all the game data should be the same does anyone know of a free binary for Linux?
My Hello World is 512 bytes. But it's also a valid Fat12 boot sector, Fat12 file reader, and Pmode routine.
For tribes2, I recommend getting some updated scripts to help things out. Panama Jack has some good scripts for T1/T2. I use Writers also.
Also not sure if they removed the cd check, but I used the no-cd patch tfc_t2v24834. I would figure they would, but I actually bought 2 copies of tribes2 for lan parties back in the day. Bot play is still fun, and on 2ghz+ machines, large bot matches with AA/AF turned on is smooth.
See you on a server soon!
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Not so much a dupe, since the release hadn't actually happened at the time of that previous story. I'll update this story to reference the old one and then everyone will be happy bunnies, hm?
They can win. I was just expecting it to take a bit longer than 3 years for a full game to become free.
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Here's one discussed here a while ago:
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A most excellent game, I must say.
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Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
Tribes2 is the game that actually burned me enough (Thanks Sierra), I never buy games on release date anymore. I pre-ordered 2 copies for a lan party release date, only to find out it wouldnt run on most of my computers. About 6 months later, I was finally able to play, also had to drop my voodoo5 for a geforce3.
Yes, its nice that Sierra released the game, but they screwed the pooch on this release. Basically it came down to money, they released knowing it was crippled, and had bugs. They fired developers, they really treated employees and gamers like shit. If it wasnt for the developers working on their own time, and working on weekends to fix this, it would of been even worse.
Sierra killed the Tribes market, a 3rd party developer had to show an almost finished product to get Sierra to release a new game.
So yes, people can be a little pissed about the whole Sierra Tribes experience.
I agree; when I first bought the game, I had a P3-1GHz with 512 megs of RAM (which was pretty good at the time) -- and I believe a GeForce2. The game ran like crap, and lagged horribly. Wasn't nearly as fun as the first one. And if you ever did get it running smoothly, the tiny bugs here and there would damper your fun (setting up an inventory load out, and then receiving something totally different, for example.)
Tribes: Vengence or whatever doesn't spark my interest in the slightest. Adding havok physics to a game does not make it awesome.
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Sounds like gamespy...why oh why do game developers give lamespy these files to distribute....thank you for the non-gamespy mirrors
Tribes 2 was the first game where I saw vehicular combat combined with the regular 1st-person combat style. Anyone who's a fan of Unreal Tournament 2004 should enjoy this one, and why not? It's something you don't have to shell out 40 bucks for!
Not to be dense, but is there a way to get an online key other than waiting in line at fileplanet? They usually don't give you a key unless you run their installer these days.
I downloaded the stuff from one of the mirrors right away, but can't play online without a key I assume.
I filled in the form on fileplanet, but didn't get an email within half an hour, so I don't know if they are emailing me one or if it will require the FP installer.
I don't know about T1, but T2 definitely had a version for Linux that I've been trying to find for about a year now. I've looked through these links and can't find anything relating to a download of it--has anyone else seen if there's a Linux download?
I bought tribes2 back in the day and I loved it, unfortunately as time goes on the ammount of good servers goes down.
Hopefully this will reintroduce a lot of players to the game and get those servers back up there!
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For some odd reason you have to use a seperate link to actually get your Tribes 2 CD Key.
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The link for generating the key is http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes2_cgw/
And yes, you do have to veryify your email address on your Fileplanet account BEFORE you go to that page.
Maybe today is a good day to frag noobs ^_^
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This is Vivendi Universal here. The same people that shutdown OSS projects like bnetd by using bogus DMCA lawsuits. I won't touch any of their shit, even if they give it away. They are without honor.
Darn, it seems the mac version and 'nix versions aren't available to us. Either that or I am really wrong. Some one correct me please.
I'd say more, but my guild is raiding.
Apparently Tuxgames is sold out of the letfover Linux versions from Loki's firesale, and there's nothing on ebay. Looks like T2 won't work in WineX as well.
Sometimes you just don't get a break being a Linux gamer. Maybe if every third Linux gamer hadn't pirated the Linux version in the first place (since everything in Linux has to be "free", right?) things would be different. But there's so much legal detritus floating around, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to see a free Linux version.
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However many disagree, I don't really feel like I need to give my own opinions since they match another in an older post by somebody else.
Wow, this is great, now all my friends can re-enjoy one of the best games ever. It will be just like before they fscked it up. Only if I could find the necessary stuff to run a tribes 2 linux server in classic mode. Anyone know where to get it from and what the newest version is???
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Forgive the stupid question but, does BF:1942 run on a Tribes2 derived engine?
I enjoyed Tribes2 but never had the computing muscle to enjoy a jitter-free game. So I went back to Q3A.
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The best free game I've played was Betrayal at Krondor when Sierra decided to give it away to promote Betrayal in Antara. I also would have never discovered Red Baron had Sierra not also given that away to promote, eh, Red Baron 2.
Just wondering -
I never played Tribes 1 or 2. How/why was it better than other FPSs? Could you give me some ideas? My last final is this friday and I dont start working for the summer for a while, so I have a lot of gaming to catch up on. Just wondering if this is worth my time...
Tribes 2 for some reason had a problem gaining a great following. Many of the old fanboys of Tribes complained they weren't the same game (*sings* Cry Me a River *sings*). But to be honest the game modes, maps, and graphics made Tribes 2 a great game at the time. It is one of the few games to appropriately combine normal combat with vehicle combat. (Battlefield and UT 2004 being the others)
I still play Tribes 2 a lot and no matter how much they change the game I will buy Tribes: Vengeance. I think some fanboys need to take the opportunity that these free games provide to see how good Tribes 2 really was/is and they may just see that the changes to Tribes were well worth it.
We will see more changes from Tribes: Vengeance (Dynamix *RIP). However, a game on the UT engine which already has a lot of the vehicle physics in place should make for another great Tribes game and I cannot wait to see it.
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I remember back in the day I bought Tribes II for 240 NIS (4.5NIS=$1)...how many years ago was that...hm...two months, yup that's right, I bought Tribes II two months ago and now they're deciding to release it for free, well atleast now I'll have people to play with :)
I dunno what the fuss is all about the free downloads. Now that unreal 2004 is out in the market, it is definitely a superior game in all shape way or form than tribes 1 + 2.
Gimme that troll -5 flamebait, but considering how much I used to play tribes... this publicity stunt is a little late.
I think it is funny that this is an "old game". I still go back and play on fully populated 32 player servers. guess there will be more now. The graphics don't look too dated for a DX7/OGL game, very nice textures. Infinite size levels are cool (I hate running into the invisible wall in UT2k4). I wish UTOnslaught had T2's bomber as well. Or the HAVOC. 5 Juggernaughts jumpjeting from a Havoc troop carrier amid a rain of Fusion Mortars is still a sublime pleasure for me...
Anyways,
Tribes 2 was a "must upgrade" game for me and required a pretty cutting edge machine to run well at the time it was being patched into completion ('nuff said). It "made" me go from 128MB to 256MB (critical to get rid of the worst of the swapping) and finally to 512MB RAM ( the game + system uses about 350MB I estimated). It ran poorly on a GF2MX (32MB SDR), fair on a radeonVIVO (64MB DDR), good a GF2PRO (64MB), and great on anything faster. Processor speed wasn't as critical, any +800Mhz P3/Athlon seemed to work fine.
Nowadays, a sub 2GHz AMD budget box with NForce2 integrated graphics (and 1/2Gig of 333DDR) should be enough for this game. All those P4Celeron w/ GF4MX420s should love this game. Got a laptop with radeon or nvidia graphics? Try T2.
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Odd. I had an athlon-800, 256 mb of ram and a GF 2 GTS, and the game ran great with most eyecandy in 800x600 - the first day it came out, no less.
Has anyone actually gotten a CD key out of these pricks? God I hate file planet. All this downloading and they're page constantly errors (says my validated Email need validation, blah blah blah) when I try to generate one.
Pooh on you guys.
Well I agree with you that the Tribes experience is much more diverse (and sometimes tranquill) as opposed to the non-stop adrenaline of UT2k4.
But there's still something to be said for the diversity of the Game options, as well as the faster game modes which cater to younger gamers.
Different strokes to rule the world, I guess.
Flamebait though? Hardly.
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http://www.filerush.com/torrents/tribes_gsi.exe.to rrent
(Not sure exactly what the difficulty means - there doesn't seem to be any tangible difference aside from the bug with Hard. )
If you're looking for competition and don't want to be hammered with childishness while playing, check out the Blood Eagle Mini-League, a collection of teams who allow new teams in by invitation, sort of like an upper class golf club. Most of the teams are looking for new players with similar maturity.
One of the bigger leagues is Team Warfare. The TWL forums has this thread full of essential resources.
When I learned the game I found the Upset Chaps Guides to be invaluable.
Note that this release is advance hype for T3 (Tribes:Vengeance), which Sierra will not produce even a Linux server for.
But the Winblows T2 client does work fairly well with WineX. (I'm using latest WineX from CVS.)
It's not perfect. Particular maps either load and play fine, or they take so long to load that the server times out.
Also, DefenseTurret (the anti-cheat equivalent of Punkbuster) won't work under WineX. That takes you off the ladder competition servers, and many of the pubs. But there are still enough servers without DT.