User Guide

Note: If this is your first time playing TRIBES, it is highly recommended you start by playing the single-player
“training” missions in order to acquaint yourself with the controls and feel of the game. Once you feel
comfortable enough to jump into a multiplayer game, follow the steps below:
• Dial up your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to get connected to the Internet.
• Open TRIBES, either by double-clicking on the TRIBES icon on your desktop or by selecting
it from your START menu.
• Select the PLAY GAME button.
• Type in a name for your player and click on DONE.
• Click on the NEXT button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
• Select JOIN MULTIPLAYER. Click on NEXT when done.
• Select a server from the list that is not grayed out. The server list may take a few moments to appear.
For the best performance, choose a game that has a green or yellow circle in the Connection
Quality column. A red circle indicates that you may suffer from “lag.” (see PING and Lag on page 33)
• Click on JOIN GAME to join the server.
• Kick some butt.
• You can disconnect from the server and quit from the game at any time by pressing the Esc key and
choosing DISCONNECT.
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Newblood
by Blake Hutchins
Minax Phasma III
Month of the Burning Swan,
3940 Old Earth Reckoning
“Pay attention, new-
blood!” Minerva yells
across your comlink. Too
late, you spot the Blood
Eagle hoplites waiting on
the rise below.
Instinctively, you cut
power to your flight pack
and plummet downward.
A spinfusor disk slices
overhead in a blue-hot
whirl, instant death miss-
ing by an arm’s length.
Around you, your tribes-
mates engage the scarlet-
armored Blood Eagle
in bright candle flare
bursts of plasma and the