KBDvsUSRpovEric

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 KBDvsUSRpovEric.

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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.

`KBD vs USR-IceRidge (Eric, 9-28-1999).rec`

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 17,858 server packets, 56,270 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.

Map: Ice Ridge (IceRidge)
Result: Blood Eagle 6 – Diamond Sword 5 (as the server announced it)
Server: Temple of Haji
Game version: 1.8
Mods loaded: none — stock base only
Recording length: 30m 09s
Datablocks pushed: 396
Said during the match: 1,226 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

http://www.perplexed.com/HajiWorld
Admin: haji
Email: [email redacted]

Blood Eagle 9

Diamond Sword 9

Unassigned 3

Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

Your team won the mission with 6 points!

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: IceRidge

- Time limit reached.

- Team Blood Eagle score = 6

- Team Diamond Sword score = 5

Mission Summary:

Your flag was captured 5 times.

Your team captured the Diamond Sword flag 6 times.

Readme — readme.txt (from the archive itself)

This is a demo of Iceridge, the tie-breaking map during the USR - KBD match (9/27/1999 or so)
This is the best map I've ever been a part of. USR are awesome folx and awesome players. 
Warning: This demo consists of me spinning around a lot looking for inbounds, so if you are easily sickened, do not watch ;)

Note: Apparently, [USR]RabidLeper is now a SLPB with DSL, he wasn't at the time of this match, so anyone playing USR, you have even more to fear :)

{KBD}Eric

Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)

KBD vs USR-IceRidge (Eric, 9-28-1999).rec 5,729,045 B
readme.txt 474 B