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Tribes 2 is a game of which you may have heard, but probably not. There are hunrdeds of thousands of accounts in the database; each corresponds to a purchase of the game. And yet, the company that made it was dismantled shortly after its release. The awesomeness known as Tribes 2 was the inspiration for every FPS made after 2001, including the Battlefield series... and yet, the Incredible Machine known as Dynamix has fallen to meet the needs of the beast known as Vivendi.

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  • Tribes 2 is a game of which you may have heard, but probably not. There are hunrdeds of thousands of accounts in the database; each corresponds to a purchase of the game. And yet, the company that made it was dismantled shortly after its release. The awesomeness known as Tribes 2 was the inspiration for every FPS made after 2001, including the Battlefield series... and yet, the Incredible Machine known as Dynamix has fallen to meet the needs of the beast known as Vivendi.
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  • Tribes 2 is a game of which you may have heard, but probably not. There are hunrdeds of thousands of accounts in the database; each corresponds to a purchase of the game. And yet, the company that made it was dismantled shortly after its release. The awesomeness known as Tribes 2 was the inspiration for every FPS made after 2001, including the Battlefield series... and yet, the Incredible Machine known as Dynamix has fallen to meet the needs of the beast known as Vivendi. Tribes 2 promised "Team Combat on an Epic Scale" and supports 60+ players in a single game. This legacy of the genre lives on... in the dreams of every child and the hearts of the wicked. Tribes 2 is freeware, technically. Before November 2008, it could only be seriously played if you had a CD-key, and there were none left. Many who had a CD-key were also unable to play; the game converted keys into personalized accounts, and many had forgotten their information. If you go searching around the in-game browser, you can find thousands upon thousands of players who had just "moved on". You could always have tried sending an e-mail over to tribes2accounts@sierra.com to get your account information reset, but don't count on it. With the shutdown of the Tribes 2 Master Server in November 2008, the powers-that-be have decided that the game is over, permanently. However, it lives on through unauthorized patches to the game executable to remove a restriction on Class B IP address usage when the game is run in LAN mode, as well as a new master server that does little more than list the bunch of games that are being played. One major side-effect of using this setup is that Tribes 2 was never designed to have any sort of validation or any IP address bans in LAN mode. Because of this, virtually anyone can join a server at any time with any name they choose, and they have free reign to just completely stop the game. There are solutions to this in the works.
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