Speaking of the last Tribes 2 patch... the irony of it is that along with game-crashing errors, the Framerate Hammer, and odd gameplay tweaks, it also added the capability for watching game films so everyone can get glimpses of how great the game could be (or should I say could have been?) by checking out some action from the top players and teams.

If you have Tribes 2 but maybe It's been collecting dust, it might be fun to fire it up and check out a few good game films if you like that sort of thing. You'll have to update to the latest patch, but the autoupdater should take care of that. Game film files must have the .rec extension and be placed in the GameData/base/recordings folder under your Tribes 2 folder (likely you'll need to create the recordings folder). Start up T2 and then use the start menu thingy to get the recordings dialog. Once the recording is playing, hit TAB to get into VCR mode, which displays a progress bar and lets you use numpad-plus for fast forward and numpad-minus for slowmo. I think there are some other commands as well but who needs them. :-) Oh yeah, ESC to quit watching.

So, here's some recordings (not made by me, just some good ones from the Tribalwar archive):

Some funny shocklance offense on Dessicator

Shrike D on Katabatic

Heavy O on Damnation

Light mid on Slapdash

Various O on Sanctuary

Light D on Damnation

Two good players as a tank/bomber team on a Katabatic pub

Light D on Katabatic