
Many maps were designed with skiing in mind, containing large rounding hills perfect for practicing. When Tribes 2 was released, skiing had been incorporated as an actual feature in the game. Eventually, use of these methods became commonplace on Tribes servers and Skiing was born. Used with Tribes' jetpacks which allowed them to fly, players could now travel across maps faster than they could with vehicles. Meanwhile, other players had already been using the spinfusor's explosive knockback to accelerate themselves. Some players believed that including 'crouch' commands improved their speed, made them harder to hit, or just looked funny. These scripts became a necessity to download alongside the game, or code yourself. Players used the in game client side scripting language and greatly improved the efficency by automating the 'jump' command, sending it hundreds of times a second. When this technique was first used, it was widely believed that players were cheating somehow. Early on, the players learned that if you spam the jump button while on the side of a steep hill, the game's physics would propel you down the hill and allow you to fly extremely fast across the map. Many of the maps were large even compared to those in Tribes: Ascend, leading to fairly slow attacks on enemy bases. At that time, players had jetpacks to move around the map, but had to run or use a vehicle to travel long distances. Skiing dates back to the beta of the original game in the franchise Starsiege: Tribes. Used in concert with the jetpack, skiing can allow players to cross even large maps in seconds, leading to Tribes: Ascend's claim to the title "World's Fastest Shooter". It involves using the slopes on a map to quickly accelerate and move around more quickly. More configuration options are available, including automatic injection and (if and when any are available), newer 'beta' builds of TAMods.Skiing is an essential feature of the Tribes franchise that sets it apart from other games. Once the game has started, press Inject to inject TAMods.Select the Login Server you wish to connect to (either the Community login server or HiRez's).Check that your Game Path is pointing to the location of TribesAscend.exe on your PC.Hit the 'Update' button to install TAMods (if you are switching from the old launcher, this will redownload TAMods, but will attempt to preserve your configuration).The application is 600KB rather than 100MBįor most users, you will simply need to do the following:.Direct integration with the Community hosted servers.Interface is more straightforward - one window with all controls, and a YAML config file.

A number of bugs from the old launcher are not present here.With any luck this should be substantially more straightforward to use than the existing one (although it may be somewhat less pretty). This is the initial version of a totally rewritten TAMods Launcher.
