Tribes 2 Content Pack v1.1
This Content Pack (version 1.1) will overhaul your Tribes 2 installation with a ton of fun community content. It's intended for solo play against bots in various mods, but online patches are available as well if you wish to play multiplayer.
Some examples of what this contains:
-Mods such as Triumph, Meltdown 2, ClassicBots, War2014, RevMod 2, Shifter, etc. with their respective clients and maps
-Many maps, and even a new map pack assembled from existing maps containing 225 maps (65 bot supported).
-Very useful scripts like PilotModeIII, uberFaves, zCenteredCC, DioPackHUD, cleanDSO, rearview, uberZoom, and so on.
-All the mods are preconfigured to start in 720p with 105 FOV (120 in TP driving), increased driving sensitivity, max graphics settings, and a 63 bot count slider (in most mods).
-Dozens of .bat files to launch every mod easily, offline and online, that also clean junk files left by mods.
-Lastly, it includes a giant voice pack, optional multiplayer patches, and HD textures.
After installing, just enter any of the newly created .bat shortcuts in the game folder to play. If you wish to see the full list of content, view the READ_THIS file.
That's it. Have fun!
Notes:
- It's STRONGLY recommended to install this over a clean installation of Tribes 2!!!
- This Content Pack does not include a Tribes 2 installation, you must download it yourself.
Full list of what this contains HERE.
Setup file download, select your Tribes 2 directory and what files you want to install.
Manual installation .rar file. You have to un-rar the contents into your Tribes 2 directory yourself:
Current version is 1.1. Future versions will include more content and tweaks. Suggestions are welcome.
Comments
Version 1.1 is released and all the links have been updated.
Changelog for v1.1 (13 February 2023)
-When the 'Enable Bots' button is ticked, all the unsupported bot maps will now be completely hidden instead of visible but greyed out
-Disabled some maps from being played with bots because they did not have proper bot support
-Rearranged some maps and removed duplicates so that they don't appear multiple times in the mission list
-Added brief descriptions for some mods at the end of the 'READ_THIS' file
Roboto, I just did a Microsoft Defender scan on Windows 10. I had downloaded your Content Pack version 1.1 earlier. Defender warned me about a file. Apparently, the file is at Tribes_2_Content_Pack_v1.1_manual_install.rar->Tribes 2 Install Folder\GameData\revmod2\zzz_RevMod2_client_beta6.vl2->INSTALLATION_GUIDE.TXT. A text file, I guess. Do you know if I should be alarmed, or is it a false positive? I did an Internet search and found out that that may be a trojan.
I just uploaded both zzz_RevMod2_client_beta6.vl2 and INSTALLATION_GUIDE.TXT (from that .vl2 file) to VirusTotal, and there are 0 detections out of about 60 anti-virus scanners. Furthermore, I opened up INSTALLATION_GUIDE.TXT myself. It's just a text 2.1 kB plain text document with nothing harmful in it.
I think it's definitely a false positive, probably Microsoft Defender thinks something in the .txt file could be turned into a virus, but I personally can't see what. Here are the links to the virus total scans (you can check the hash of those two files yourself, to verify that they are indeed the same exact files):
By the way, I intend to make a 1.2 update for the Content Pack, which aims to fix some conflicting scripts in the pack that makes ClassicBots (just the Content Pack version) experience a dedicated server infinite map restart bug. Also, I want to add more maps to the mod/pack, as well as other small tweaks. I also want to add the older TribesNext patch, too, which works on Linux. But, I'm currently pretty busy and I didn't spend a lot of my free time working on this recently, so it's going to take a while.
Anyway, thank you for downloading it and for alerting me about this! I hope my post clarifies the situation. I'm 99.999% sure it's a nothing burger, anti virus scanners are known to be trigger-happy.
Just to be clear: First you uninstall any Tribes 2 game you may have; you gotta do a clean slate. Second, you download and install Tribes 2 from this site, then install the patch from this site, THEN install your content pack in all it's glory. Correct?
Does pilotmode3 script or scripts in general not work on certain servers?
EDIT: some on a tribes 2 discord said pilot mod 3 is broke, and to use pilot mod 2. I think he's right, cause I adjusted the sliders all over the place and I NEVER noticed a change. Any links? I googled Tribes 2 Pilot Mod 2 but nothing showed up.
Training missions have bugged briefing audio, the mission description, and all the voice lines during a mission (the chick guiding during mission) all play too fast and overlap each other.
You don't need to uninstall the current Tribes 2 you have. You can keep it. But yes, you do need to install this pack over a clean Tribes 2 install to ensure that there will be no script incompatibilities. So, just install Tribes 2 (again) in a different folder, and then install this mod pack onto that new install.
Also, pilotmode3 (which should work on any vanilla-ish server), last time I checked it it worked (at least the FOV part), but I cannot remember for sure when it comes to the actual sensitivity settings. I will really have to check that out before releasing the next update for this pack. And yes, just as you said, the training missions and briefing audio are also bugged. What a shame :( I did not notice that either. But thanks a lot for telling me about it, I have no idea why that happens but it needs to be sorted out.
This is why I initially thought a solid all-in-one pack is needed. Not just for the collection aspect, but to make a ton of mods and scripts as compatible with each other as possible, all ready to play. It took me a lot of time to eliminate most incompatibilities and still keep handy scripts in the pack that can work across multiple mods, but, as you can see, there are still problems to solve.
In the meantime until I start working on version 1.2, I'm gonna have to take a look at these two issues and I'll post here if I find any quick fixes for them. I would appreciate any further bug reports.
Hey guys so I followed the instructions but every time I start My game I keep getting an unhandled exception and the game crashes. Can anyone help me?
Can't speak to the specifics of anything that might be included in this pack, but if you let me know the memory address listed on your unhandled exception, I can tell you why it crashed, and if there's a quick fix.
After Installing the Content Pack on a CLEAN version of Tribes 2. How Should I be starting up my game for Online Play?
Before I installed this content pack, I had installed the base game of Tribes 2, then installed the Patch. I was able to play on the public servers. Im trying to achieve the same result but with the content pack installed. I play with a friend. I dont want to only Play single Player.
Address : 00559ce2
Is What comes up. My intent is to install these mods and the Total Warfare Mod. And host my own dedicated server for me and my friends. As well as being able to play the game readily.
559CE2 is a WinSock DNS lookup failure, typically occurring when a domain no longer exists or a record was deleted from the nameserver. This will be common with a lot of older mods simply because they attempt to connect to servers that aren't up anymore (in the case of TWM2, I believe Phantom had a stats/profile system of some sort active).
You can seek out and remove the connections in scripts (look for TCPObject/HTTPObject instances), but if you want to prevent it crashing and make sure the appropriate onDNSFailed script call is run, you can install this patch script in autoexec:
I installed the script. Nothing has changed. I still Crash with the same issue.
Is there anything in the content pack which doesnt belong anymore?
You need to install the script in
base/scripts/autoexec/and you need to be running a TribesNEXT patched install of the game. If you're getting the same crash, the patch in that script either isn't being applied, or the connection that crashes is running and completing the lookup before the patch can be applied — which should virtually never be the case under normal circumstances, outside of trying to run online mode without a network connection.I did what you said above. I also installed the Flatdash Map. I have been trying to join the Construct BC Server. I now only get the unhandled exception in that server.
When I host my server on Construction Mode I am getting some Wonkey Physics. Strange light support beam usage too.
Flatdash is serverside; it uses the Slapdash terrain, so no download is required.
There's nothing on that server that should cause an exception at all, least of all a DNS lookup error (which would have to be something running on your end, but is the single issue specifically resolved by the script above). Are you sure it wasn't an exception at some other address? It could potentially be caused by something you've installed.
Wonky/strange how? Physics issues may be because you've run the server without running a dso remover to delete .dso files under GameData/base/ which can prevent the new mod's scripts from compiling their version. By contrast, if your beams are stretching to the horizon it'll generally mean you've deleted scripts/do_not_delete/Dfunctions.cs.dso from one of the mod releases that requires it.