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Ex Nihilo vs DBC SB Starscream 0515 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 Ex Nihilo vs DBC SB Starscream 0515 OGL.
Read off the filename, not decoded — Ex_Nihilo_vs_DBC_SB_Starscream_0515_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.

Ex_Nihilo_vs_DBC_SB_Starscream_0515_OGL.rec

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 15,814 server packets, 50,210 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.
Map
Snowblind
Result
Lost Boys 4 – Golden Girls 1 (as the server announced it)
Server
Cheater's Wayside
Game version
1.11
Mods loaded
none — stock base only
Recording length
26m 53s
Datablocks pushed
395
Said during the match
1,622 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by
client id 2064 (the player whose machine made this recording)
Server info
Welcome to Cheater's Wayside
Admin: Cheater
E-mail: [email redacted]
ICQ #[redacted]

Lost Boys 8

Golden Girls 8

Unassigned 6

Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

Your team won the mission with 4 points!

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: Snowblind

- Time limit reached.

- Team Lost Boys score = 4

- Team Golden Girls score = 1

Mission Summary:

Your flag was captured 1 times.

Your team captured the Golden Girls flag 4 times.

Readme — Ex_Nihilo_vs_DBC_SB_Starscream_0515_OGL.txt (from the archive itself)
Ex Nihilo vs Dirty Bastard Clan
OGL ladder for rank #19
May 15th, 2000

pov - Starscream =X=

This is the second map, we had just won Dangerous Crossing. Server for both maps was Cheater's. I wanna say that DBC is a GREAT sportsmanship clan, for letting us play both maps on an east coast server since the routing to their server choice was kinda messed up that night.

I do a lot of stuff very so-so, some stuff really well, and some stuff quite poorly. there are just a couple highlights worth watching for. the capper to capper midair about 3/4 of the way through the match is awesome. probably the luckiest i've ever seen, let alone actually done myself. :)

oh, btw, you'll notice my pings doing lots of fun stuff. that's what comes from shareing a single 56k modem with hellfire, not to mention a hailstorm damaged the phone lines the previous night. :)
Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)