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Follow this guide if you want to play the game on any server (Hi-Rez, community, or private) while also being able to customize your client-side experience with TAMods, have administrative capabilities via TAMods, and play on both OOTB and GOTY-like servers.

Arch Linux

From the tamods.org documentation here, it states the following:

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TAMods is an unofficial modding framework for Tribes: Ascend which allows you to customise nearly every aspect of the game experience. You can customise your UI and the graphical look of your game, modify game hitsounds, record capping routes and view them via a UI guide or via a bot replay, and much more via built-in custom options and via Lua scripting.

TAMods does not allow any gameplay-affecting changes, so that players using TAMods have no in-game advantage over those who do not.

  1. Start by downloading the official Tribes: Ascend - Parting Gifts game client (or install Tribes: Ascend via Steam but this guide assumes non-Steam).
  2. Download the latest Tribes Launcher Sharp here (latest is v2.2.0 as of this writing): https://github.com/mcoot/TribesLauncherSharp/releases

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It isn't necessary to use Tribes Launcher Sharp, but it is recommended because it "automatically keeps TAMods up-to-date, and allows you to run Tribes with TAMods enabled."

  1. Extract the Tribes Launcher Sharp .zip file where you'd like it to live. I have it living here: /home/adman/Games/Tribes - Ascend/TribesLauncherSharp-2.2.0
  2. In my case, since I already had Tribes: Ascend added regularly to Lutris, I opened Lutris, went into the Tribes: Ascend settings, and pointed the executable to the TribesLauncherSharp.exe and kept the same Wine prefix. I also removed the -hostx entry from Lutris since the launcher will handle it now.
  3. Run the Tribes launcher via Lutris. Say yes to this popup when it happens:

Tribes Launcher popup

Hovering your mouse over the black box should cause the display to appear:

Tribes Launcher display

  1. Modify the Game Path field to point to your game client's TribesAscend.exe . For me, that here: /home/adman/Games/Tribes - Ascend/Tribes_Ascend_Parting_Gifts/Binaries/Win32/TribesAscend.exe
  2. Press the Update button in the bottom-right. After it finishes installing TAMods, it should change to Launch.
  3. Click the dropdown in the Login Server section and select from the three options of Community, Pug, and Custom (I'm not sure why official isn't also an option. Update: I see he commented out HiRez in the Launcher Sharp source code file Config.cs). For me, I selected Custom and put in my desired IP address.
  4. Click Launch to launch Tribes: Ascend.
  5. Once on the main menu, tab out and click Inject on the sharp launcher to inject TAMods into your running game client process. You should hear a blueplate sound if it's successful.

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On the Tribes Ascend Launcher Sharp, you can change the injection method from Manual to Automatic to skip the injection step. And the number slider is how many seconds it waits after you click Launch to attempt to inject the game. Otherwise, you need to do the manual method every time you start the game.

  1. Log in and play. You can test if TAMods is active by going into a game (roam map mode works too), pressing Esc to open the menu, and then pressing t to open the Tribes: Ascend console (the ~ key opens the Unreal Engine console). You should see TAMods Ascii art like this to indicate that it's enabled:

TAMods console

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Note that TAMods also changes the way your chat box (I think) looks for some reason.

  1. Assuming you enabled the Uber Menu when first launching Tribes Launcher Sharp, press F1 in-game to open the TAMods menu and configure whatever you like.

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Whenever I close the game while running it through Tribes Ascend Launcher Sharp it says the game crashed. I just ignore it.

GOTY Mode

To join GOTY servers, simply click the Switch to GOTY menu option in the game.

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You must be in the correct mode to match the game server you're trying to join. If you aren't, you will get an error message.

Removing the flag grab chat popup from TAMods

By default, TAMods pops up a chat message in the top-left of your screen any time you grab the flag. That is the stopwatch feature. You can disable that pop-up notification by pressing F1>TAMods Settings>HUD>Stopwatch>Notifications and changing that setting from Yes to No by pressing the right arrow over it to have it give you the command, then edit the command to look like this: /lua stopwatchNOtifications = false , then press Enter and then hit the Apply option at the bottom of the TAMods window.

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