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Copy Protection#
One of the most widely distributed pirated copies of Tribes had the player name pre-set to DaJackal (DaJackal uploaded a copy of his install folder: the warez scene group ORiGiN/OGN released it on December 21st 1998, and DaJackal was a member of ORiGiN at that time). In a later patch (around 1.1) players bearing the name DaJackal would be automatically kicked from game servers upon trying to connect, with the following friendly message:
The FBI has been notified. You better buy a legit copy before they get to your house.
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This needs some investigation. |
Unused Voices#
Early Voices#
male1.vol and female1.vol contain unused, early renditions of voice commands, with the timestamp of 5/14/98 for the early female voices, and 5/21/98 for the early male voices. They are all 22KHz, unlike the final voices' 11KHz.
Deaths, Taunts and Grunts#
Each voice has a unused "hrrng" (wcolor3), *groan* (wdsgst5), "Yoohoo!" (taunt1), "Missed me!" (taunt2), "Dance!" (taunt3), "I've had worse" (tautn11), and "Hey!" (wwshoot1).
As the game uses a common death sound for both genders and all classes, the death sounds in certain voices are left unused. female2, female3, female4, female5 and male5 have recorded death sounds.