NOPEvsBZ Citadels Hurricane 072099 OGLleague

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 NOPEvsBZ Citadels Hurricane 072099 OGLleague.

Read off the filename, not decoded — NOPEvsBZ_Citadels_Hurricane_072099_OGLleague.zip

July 20, 1999 — when the match was played

Whoever 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.

Watch it

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.

`NOPEvs{BZ}_Citadels_Hurricane_072099_OGLleague.rec`

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 17,055 server packets, 58,582 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.

Map: Citadels
Result: Blood Eagle 438 – Diamond Sword 439 (as the server announced it)
Server: Battlezone{BZ}CombatServer
Game version: 1.5
Mods loaded: none — stock base only
Recording length: 31m 19s
Datablocks pushed: 395
Said during the match: 843 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by: client id 2060 (the player whose machine made this recording)

Server info

Battlezone {BZ} Combat Server
Admin: {BZ}/dev/frag
Email: [email redacted]

Blood Eagle 6

Diamond Sword 8

Unassigned 7

Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

Your team won the mission with 439 points!

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: Citadels

- Time limit reached.

- Team Blood Eagle score = 438

- Team Diamond Sword score = 439

Mission Summary:

Mission Objectives:

The Blood Eagle team finished the mission in control of the Northwest Citadel.

The Blood Eagle team finished the mission in control of the Central Citadel.

The Blood Eagle team finished the mission in control of the Southwest Citadel.

Readme — readme.txt (from the archive itself)

Since one of our old-school demos is up, I thought I'd
submit a couple of my personal league favorites.

NOPE vs. {BZ}, 7/20/99, OGL league, Citadels C&H
POV: Hurricane (O)

I didn't play in these matches, unfortunately, but they
were some of the best we've ever played in the league.

This is truly a great match--lots of back-and-forth
action on the center citadel, and when {BZ} takes our
near citadel there's some trouble adjusting.  However,
the result at the end is the real kicker--

439-438 NOPE.

This is the closest C&H game that we've ever had the
pleasure of participating in.  {BZ} gave us a pair of
awesome games that day.

Submitted by nope|tuxkamen

Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)

NOPEvs{BZ}_Citadels_Hurricane_072099_OGLleague.rec 5,538,172 B
readme.txt 684 B