HT vs NuTz - Rollercoaster - TWL 02/28/01
This demo features how Bionic killed Tribes.
My memory is probably a bit off. Plus my words don't give justice to how great this battle was.
Tribes 2 was on the verge of release.
The OGL had just been abandoned, competition was ripe on the TWL, High Tolerance had just challenged NuTz for #1.
Rumors were abound of NuTz all using cheats like no-fog, and they'd been picking maps like Cloak of Night or Obfuscation as tiebreakers in challenges.
HT had recently beaten the favorite =V=, which was stacked with former S3 members.
TsN's lines were saturated with listeners, and the channel had perhaps more users than it'd ever had. This was to be a battle of epic proportions.
The maps were Raindance, Rollercoaster, and NuTz's favorite, the one with all the fog, Obfuscation.
In what seemed like an eternity, HT managed to win Raindance by a close 6-5.
The next map was Rollercoaster - HT had to win. They were at a guaranteed disadvantage if it went to a 3rd map, NuTz' best one.
Spinfusors were primed, and the match begun.
The two teams exchanged caps for the entire 25 minutes, until the time was up, and a result that nobody expected had occurred.
It was a tie.
People were going crazy with anticipation on IRC as the match was about to go into overtime. Cheat accusations towards NuTz were starting to flood in.
Seconds ticked away, and the match began.
Like a clash of the titans, each teams offense rushed to the enemies base, eager to cap.
Within minutes, clamsoda had managed to grab via a back cap, and was flying home with a clear shot of victory in sight.
There were no chasers, no enemies waiting at his flag stand, all he had to do was touch the NuTz flag to his, and victory was guaranteed.
shok had just finished clearing for clam, and was taking off on his second run.
The two cappers passed rapidly on their way between bases. shok gleefully turned, to watch clamsoda rocket towards the HT flag stand.
Milliseconds before clamsoda was to capture, he was accidently blocked by Bionic.
clam bounced off, and was then killed by a stray mortar. NuTz managed to return the flag, and then cap to win the second map.
The battle went to the 3rd map, Obfuscation, NuTz pulled off a victory, and IRC/Tribalwar were filled with cheat accusations.
Amongst the accusations, fraggle posted a video of a mortar hitting an HT capper directly through the fog.
[MiSFiT-RG-] (or a friend, I forget) then posted NuTz's hidden advantage - the cheats that would kill Tribes. Over the next few days, irc logs of conversations of Strega trying to weasel the cheats out of HaPpY/Entr0phy had surfaced.
Teams dropped from the TWL, some retired, others moved on to Tribes 2.
Tribes was dead - all thanks to Bionic.
Around 8 months later, Tribes was "alive" again, and started its waxing and waning over the years until the present day. Over the years, Team Rabbit was released, ego's clashed, cheaters were ousted, then later reaccepted as pillars of the community. Mod players slowly started moving to base, a few other epic battles between teams like Knights of Volace, Wolfpack (originally practically a NuTz remake with i$ players), and Trademark waged countless more battles for the #1 rank. LT was released, people started playing again, then people found out about interpolation, whined a bunch on the forums about it. Andrew and a small group of people started modding Tribes, LastHope/Hudbot came out. A Throwback tournament took place, some veterans returned, other new players started to improve, the epic movie Legacy came out, more people joined/left quietly, a few others posted retirement threads, only to return 6 months later.
Many a war was fought.
This post is my way of telling just a tiny amount of the history that took place over the years in the best game ever - Starsiege: Tribes.
Someone had to write one eventually, and I was bored/also eating dinner when I clicked on the thread. My dinner is now cold.
