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Pickup Rollercoaster [E5]Starscream 1103

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 Pickup Rollercoaster [E5]Starscream 1103.
Read off the filename, not decoded — Pickup_Rollercoaster_[E5]Starscream_1103.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.

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.

Pickup_Rollercoaster_[E5]Starscream_1103.rec

Verified Tribes 1 demo. The engine's own bitstream reader walked all 18,740 server packets, 64,373 recorded inputs to the stream terminator — 100% of the file decoded, no desync.
Map
Rollercoaster
Result
Terminators 5 – Predators 5 (as the server announced it)
Server
[E5] Ira's Den Server
Game version
1.8
Mods loaded
none — stock base only
Recording length
34m 22s
Datablocks pushed
396
Said during the match
1,436 lines (chat and the server’s own event feed — counted, not republished; they play back inside the recording)
Recorded by
client id 2062 (the player whose machine made this recording)
Server info
[E5] Ira's Den server
Admin: Starscream
Email: [email redacted]

Terminators 5

  • [E5*2] Jugs
  • BulleT^pRoOf
  • ChAoTiK|E
  • D$
  • Q$

Predators 7

Unassigned 9

Mission summary (the server’s own scoreboard text)

The mission ended in a tie where each team had a score of 5

Mission Information:

- Mission Name: Rollercoaster

- Time limit reached.

- Team Terminators score = 5

- Team Predators score = 5

Mission Summary:

Mission Objectives:

Your team captured the Terminators flag 5 times.

Your flag was captured 5 times.

Readme — Pickup_Rollercoaster_[E5]Starscream_1103.txt (from the archive itself)
Pickup game from 11/03/99
played on [E5] Ira's Den
Map: Rollercoaster
POV: [E5] Starscream

this demo will look better if you download and install the E5 skins. you can get them at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ellinger/tribes/ in the files section.

Tons of big names here, INSANE gameplay. this game was just as intense as any ogl match i've been in, and probably a hell of a lot more fun. i don't think i've ever seen this many DENIED near-caps in my life, let alone one game. also, i think the flags spent a grand total of about 30 seconds each on their own home platforms, and there really weren't any stalemates to speak of either. :) i won't give away the final score, but the game goes the full 25 minutes.

btw, in case you care, i'm not usually this good. my game was just "on" this particular night.
Contents — 2 files (inside the archive)