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Core vs IE-IR Felonius 09-08-99 OGL

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 Core vs IE-IR Felonius 09-08-99 OGL.
Read off the filename, not decoded — Core_vs_IE-IR_Felonius_09-08-99_OGL.zipWhoever recorded this named the file; the recording itself carries no date. Treat it as what a person typed, not as a fact the archive verified.

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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.

Core_vs_IE-IR_Felonius_[09-08-99]_OGL.rec

Tribes 1 demo, partially read. 22,331 server packets, 51,166 recorded inputs decoded (100.0% of the file), and the stream does not end on the engine terminator — the recording is truncated, as demos stopped mid-match usually are.
Map
Ice Ridge (IceRidge)
Results
BE 10 – DS 0; BE 0 – DS 0 (as the server announced it) — the recording spans 2 missions
Server
[IE] Imperial Elite Private
Game version
1.8
Mods loaded
none — stock base only
Recording length
27m 51s
Datablocks pushed
396
Said during the match
1,035 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by
client id 2057 (the player whose machine made this recording)
Server info
Imperial Elite Match Server
Admin: [IE] Natural or Racer-X
Email: [email redacted]

BE 10

DS 3

Unassigned 10

Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

The BE team won the mission with 10 points!

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: IceRidge

- Total match time: 18:03

- Team BE score = 10

- Team DS score = 0

Mission Summary:

Mission Objectives:

Your team captured the BE flag 0 times.

Your flag was captured 10 times.

The mission ended in a tie where each team had a score of 0

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: IceRidge

- Total match time: 0-30:0-44

- Team BE score = 0

- Team DS score = 0

Mission Objectives:

The BE's flag was captured 0 times.

The DS's flag was captured 0 times.

Readme — Core_IE_IR_readme.txt (from the archive itself)
This is an ancient match demo made a couple of months after Core formed.  Imperial Elite regularly shut out just about every team they played on the OGL Ladder.  We were no exception.  :)

In the demo, I play Light D on Iceridge with Kato, Zero, and Alloutwar.  The match takes a long time to get started due to connection issues, so just make sure you have Demohud handy.

What can I say.  We were playing against IE in its prime.  I think our Light D did fairly well early on, but eventually their constant Heavy O pressure wore us down and they started capping regularly.  Our offense wasn't really prepared to deal with not having a base, so unfortunately we didn't have a lot of flag grabs.  We did much better against them the second time we played them on Iceridge (unfortunately I didn't make a demo of that one).

Anyway, if you like old demos, you'll probably like this one.  Even though the match isn't exactly a close one, it has its moments.  :)
Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)