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The
event... : TRIBES 2 Night on TSN I
had spoken you, it was normal that one is in order to be able there to say some
to you more, on what was nevertheless a historical evening, since it was about
a match TRIBES 2, between méta-testers, and a priori single... The
Evening. About thirty
minutes before the beginning of the operations, towards 2h30 of the morning in
France thus, everyone was already on-site. The public furbished its customers
IRC, and prepared its readers multimedia; Realplayer put everyone of agreement
for the Vidéo aspect and Audio (linuxiens including), while the others
agreed for the majority has to choose Winamp or Médiaplayer. Other side
of mirroir, entire staff TSN was obviously very occupied him too. Two
channels IRC were circumstances, # TSN , the channel official, moderate
from time to time because of the flood of the some 380 already connected people,
and the second, # TRIBALWAR , which permanently remained "Public",
arrived just behind with 280 people and with a peak at 419! Environment.
I never yet had taken part in
something like that, I must say it.
The guy were cordial, happys, delighted
by be there. One could have touched the general exitation and the impatience of
the finger. There was the impression to be there, all together, plain under the
same banner, waiting while shivering, the beginning of the hostilities.
The Technical Aspect. Audio: It
is true that TSN with known some technical problems, but which had for
the majority with the fact that their bandwith had never been put at so hard test.
They are accustomed to 150-200 listeners for their audios transmissions of matches,
on the channel #1 which is used the most, theoretically allowing 512 connected...
but 10 minutes before the beginning of the emission, one reached already 400,
and the buffering disturbed everyone.
They then put the channel #4 "ONLINE",
to discharge #1 a little. What worked at the beginning, but it video did not hear
it thus.
Video: TSN
TV , how much among us saw it "OFFLINE", wondering whether they
could one day be connected and attend a match to it on line?!
After some problems
of startup, more than one hundred of "privilégiés" indeed
were found connected, with 03h02 it was FULL, and less than 20 minutes later,
the majority complained about problems of refresh and framerate.
Envisaged
initially for 100 person, their server RealVideo with obviously was exceeded,
being added to the already overloaded bandwidth, the result could be only poor.
The TEAM of TSN , with very tested, including changing server of video
flow, while choosing a server Médiaplayer, which never functioned besides
(No comment!).
They
finally returned to the server Realvidéo, with the same problems.
Towards
5h, they announced that they stopped the video server, to be able to allow a more
comfortable listening (better streaming) by a the large majority of the listeners.
After what, in what relates to me, the
evening proceeded relatively without incidents, going until periods of more than
35 minutes without interruption. Guests.
All the participants, had the
joy of seeing many famous nicknames in the channel, for this surprising evening.
I give of them you some which you will not have any problem to identify: QIX
( Producteur/Directeur ) in person which remained practically two good hours with
us, exchanging some sentences with all and sundry (it however took care well not
to answer at the requests of precisions as for the final date of launch of the
product, which Pro!), and making laugh everyone by specifying that if it did not
play it is that the different ones were afraid of him, Got Milk? ( Programmer
Head ) himself and of many other members of the team of development.. Gravity
, Hoo_Man , RazorJack , Imposter , Rayn and obviously
Merlock , ^BuGs^ , Bytor , people of staff TSN Warwitch
, Pubknight and Coldshot who animated the evening, and all others
of course.
Some jokes fused on the possible port of TRIBES 2 on Gameboy
or Sega! Or on the possibility of using the "disc jump" in TRIBES
2 , others claimed even a copy of TRIBES 2 signed by the TEAM of development...!
And some infos , one also learns that the tank is a model hover and thus,
slips on water, or that the play is supported by Windows2000 of the mouth of QIX
. Cowboy that everyone know for
his scripts
, was action part, since appearing in the number of the happy méta-testers
disputing this match.
Panama Jack , therefore famous for its
scripts was there too. La
Review. Taking into account these
some vexations, during that time and even during the beginning of the match, we
were entitled to complete a review, weapons, strategies, vehicles, graphic engine
also, and I pass out tons of things. An
extract of the review (1.13 min and ~1.1 Mo) The
Match. Late, but there was ambience,
in spite of the fact that a number complained about the volume level about the
comments compared to the match that proceeded in background. One could hear a
TSN match , with the difference close which it was about a TRIBES 2 match , in
méta.
I could not tell you the scores with precision, nor the name
of all the maps, because everyone was much too occupied making its own adjustments
for as much as possible improved quality of listening, sometimes changing Software
to see the difference, or tweaking the soundcard , without speaking about people
who like me, were to try to record at the same time, and you do not imagine time
that takes, to readjust your tracks and others recorders, when one has inopportune
cuts. An
extract of the match with comments, for ambience (2.38 min and ~2.5 Mo) La
Conclusion. It is difficult to
be able to emit an appreciation on this kind of event, for the simple one but
good reason that it was single in its kind, and which I thus have nothing to compare
it, I thus will be satisfied to say to you what, personally, I felt. To
take part in the first steps, and To assist, because it is the word, with this
night, has me to transport joy, I found that fantastic, incredible, electric,
exiting. How not to be under the charm?
To thus find, therefore many, for a same cause, all political nationalities or
current abolished, not of colors, of hatred... just of the society peoples whole
who like Tribes and who don't care remainder. I
would like to thank very particularly the staff TSN , which counters winds
and tides, made the impossible one to ensure us of a service of a maximum quality.
When I say all staff, that includes all those which we do not see appearing nowhere,
but who are there behind, in background, and which is make their best to install
another emergency server or to find a means to improve the diffusion. The
future and new technologies networks will surely make this event, a completely
banal thing as of tomorrow, but guarantee that we will not forget as soon as that
TSN had the appearance of a pioneer on the matter. Thank
you for this moment for pleasure.
and please, forgive me for my poor english. Others -
The guys at TSN published the preview this evening with comments on Tribes2.
(attention for the modem users it is in MP3 and that made 42 Mo...). The
MP3 File - Panama
Jack has a good score of screenshots (23 exactly) part which proceeded this
night since it took part there as a player. The screenshots are on
its page . - On Planet
Starsiege also one took part there and well cavity, they also made screenshots
of them (those in connections with Massive the Test are in bottom of the page,
but the others are well also;o))
Review
by Century
special
correspondent of TA
for TSN event
10.03.2001
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