A good friend of mine alerted me to a spiritual successor of the Tribes series. Tribes, Tribes 2, and Tribes:Vengeance were games that I’ve wasted enjoyed countless hours playing, modding, scripting, and participating in tournament games with.

The Fallen Empire: Legions open beta started just a few days ago. It’s a Torque based game developed by GarageGames and will feel instantly familiar to old school Tribes players.

The interesting part is that it all runs in a browser with the help of a Firefox plugin. An interesting distribution model, and probably a really good idea considering the success of Valve’s Steam. There are also other games on instantaction.com, which probably appeal more to casual gamers.

I’ve been digging through my archives and found the old MoopScript collection that our group used back in the day. Still trying to figure out whether client side scripting is at all possible yet. So far I’ve replaced the default flag taken/captured/returned sounds with the ones I created for Tribes 2 using Cool Edit Pro.

Flag Voice Pack

Download the ZIP file: Legions Flag Voice (36)

You’ll want to first backup your original sound files, since right now they get overwritten. (I’ll try to find out whether it’s possible to create .zip files much like the old Tribes .vl2 files.)

On XP, the files go into C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\GarageGames\IAPlayer\products\www_instantaction_com\102\install\legions\data\sound\game\CTF.

On Vista it’s something like C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\GarageGames\IAPlayer\products\www_instantaction_com\102\install\legions\data\sound\game\CTF

Rename or move the FlagCap.wav, FlagReturn.wav, and FlagTaken.wav out of the way, then extract the three wave files from the archive.