Player tweaks so you can play how you want to play, giving you that extra edge!

Note: All changes listed here involve editing text files. This is easy stuff! Notepad is recommended. Using the Find feature ( shortcut Ctrl+F ) makes searching for settings faster.

Warning: Backup your files just in case! Its as simple as Right-Clicking the file and Copy/Paste.

Adding Screen Resolutions

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance\Program\Bin folder
  • Open the file: TribesGUIState.ini
  • One screen resolution per line in Width x Height format. Edit one with your screen resolution, you can also remove lines to have a less cluttered list:

ScreenResolutionChoices=640x480
ScreenResolutionChoices=800x600
ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x768
ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x800
ScreenResolutionChoices=1600x1200

Change Announcer Voice

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance\Program\Bin folder
  • Open the file: TV_CD_DVD.ini

[Gameplay.ConcreteSpeechManager]
AnnouncerType=Announcer3

Note: 3 = Male voice (default), 2 = Female voice, 1 = Robot voice

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance\Program\Bin folder
  • Open the file: TribesGUIState.ini
  • Change the following:

EntryMenuClass=TribesGui.TribesEntryMenu
ExitMenuClass=
– TO –EntryMenuClass=
ExitMenuClass=

Weapons

Hide Weapon in First Person View

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance/Program/Bin folder
  • Open the file: User.ini

[Gameplay.PlayerCharacterController]
bHideFirstPersonWeapon=True

  • Change True to False

Remove Sniper Scope Blur

Coming Soon

Sniper Scope Zoom Levels

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance/Program/Bin folder
  • Open the file: User.ini

[Gameplay.PlayerCharacterController]
zoomSpeed=0.750000
; How fast to zoom in
zoomLevel=2
zoomedFOVs=50.000000
zoomedFOVs=23.000000
zoomedFOVs=8.000000
; The Field of View (FOV) when zoomed
zoomedMouseScale=0.750000
zoomedMouseScale=0.400000
zoomedMouseScale=0.100000
; Mouse sensitivity (speed) when zoomed
zoomMagnificationLevels=2.000000
zoomMagnificationLevels=4.000000
zoomMagnificationLevels=10.000000
; Self explanatory

Radar

Radar Zoom Levels

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance/Program/Bin folder
  • Open the file: User.ini
  • Values are Percentage you want displayed converted to Decimal form

[Gameplay.PlayerCharacterController]
radarZoomScales=0.100000
radarZoomScales=0.350000
radarZoomScales=0.950000

Change Zoom to First Level on Zoom out

Find yourself only using x4 or x10 every once in a while? You can use this to go back to x2 zoom every time you zoom out.

  • Go to your Tribes Vengeance/Program/Bin folder
  • Open the file: User.ini

[Engine.Input]
Ctrl=Button bZoom | onRelease set PlayerCharacterController zoomLevel 0

Basically, Cntl is Zoom like usual. When Cntl is released, it sets the zoom level back to 0 (aka x2 the lowest default).


Last Updated: January 12, 2010