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Become One With The Ceiling

A Tribes 1 client demo — the server’s own packet stream as one player recorded it. The match record below was decoded out of that stream. Anything read off the filename instead is in its own box, and says so.

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Preserved by Tribes 1 JunkYard (twdemos) · listing. Also in the file catalog as Become One With The Ceiling.

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This plays the recording with the actual Tribes engine, compiled to WebAssembly — the same playDemo() path the game itself uses. The engine is about 7 MB; it then streams just the game data this recording touches from the archive, as it touches it. Every piece is cached and shared across the site, so a second demo on the same map costs almost nothing. Nothing is fetched until you press play.

Become_One_With_The_Ceiling.rec

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 6,786 server packets, 21,582 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.
Map
rollercoaster
Server
Tennessee TribesMen
Game version
1.11
Mods loaded
none — stock base only
Recording length
12m 02s
Datablocks pushed
394
Said during the match
113 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by
client id 2051 (the player whose machine made this recording)
Server info
Statistics At http://208.21.64.250
Admin: Flash
Email: [email redacted]

Blood Eagle 1

  • [CF]Sintax

Diamond Sword 1

  • Tugs Bear

Unassigned 1

  • [CF]zer0spunk
Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

The Diamond Sword team won the mission with 1 point!

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: rollercoaster

- Total match time: 16:52

- Team Blood Eagle score = 0

- Team Diamond Sword score = 1

Mission Summary:

Your flag was captured 1 times.

Your team captured the Diamond Sword flag 0 times.

Readme — Notes.txt (from the archive itself)
Ok, well...A couple things you should know.
This was found by accident. It works on 1.11, and has only been tested on what is depicted in this demo. As for strategical importance, there is none for this particular test. It's my guess that if you can clip into a thicker object, where none of your body is shown, you will not be able to take damage. this would work wonders for turtling, but once again, what's shown in this demo isn't something you would panic about. 
Feel free to test this in other places. I am not taking credit for clipping, there are other clipping issues all over the place in tribes (the raindance bug), this is just one more then can be done easily. 

In case you don't pay attention to the commentary, all you need to know is as soon as your head is clipped into the object, have your partner destroy the scout, the force will throw you in place without any damage to you. 

For those of you who think this is a waste of time, I agree, but it's quite funny to see someones feet sticking out of the wall/ceiling...have fun trying this in other maps, let me know if you can get in other places.

have fun, 
zer0spunk [CF]
[email redacted]
Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)