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You guys are amazing!

Jan 03, 2025 Starfisher link
I first played Vendetta in 2003 when I was in college. The beta featured Red v Blue v Yellow capture the flag, lots of brutal combat and man was it fun! I was hooked for years, through launch and a while afterwards. But then life happened and I drifted away.

Today I was cleaning out a box of old computer stuff and found my manual, wall poster and still shrink wrapped Vendetta Online CD:


I immediately checked to see if this place was still up and running.. and holy god it is. To keep an indie MMO going this long is an incredible achievement. Over 20 years of development, 20 years of post-launch runtime - this encompasses my entire professional career and then some. I'm in awe of your commitment, and blown away that you're still going strong. Congratulations to the devs who made this place and kept it running. You are all amazing!

Now I'm going to download the client and see if the Valk I squirreled away in 2006 is still there :D
Jan 03, 2025 Lord~spidey link
Do you still have the original vo machinima files, if i remember right you made some of the coolest vo vids/trailers back in the day.

Think it was titled tribalwar with a heavy piano soundtrack I've been looking for it for ages!

*ha I knew it was you: https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/10139

Unfortunately all the links/torrents i've found in the last few years have been long dead/unseeded, luxen still had a copy of ghosts trailer but yours had been lost to the ages. (That and my tower got stolen in 2012 before i was smart enough to back shit up in more than one location)
Jan 03, 2025 Starfisher link
Sadly I lost everything prior to 2009 in an HD crash, well before I realized that "backing stuff up" was an intelligent policy. That trailer was pretty damn good for being 240p. I love that 122mb was overwhelming for the internet back then :D

Only way to get that back is to remake it or find a1k0n and hope he believed in backups before they were cool.
Jan 03, 2025 incarnate link
Welcome back, and thanks so much for the kind words :).

I actually used to host a1k0n's site back then, and I.. never delete anything. But I didn't find the movie files.

They might be on archive.org though?
Jan 05, 2025 Lord~spidey link
Doubt it; yoda hosted a bunch of stuff on outerlimitsgfx.com and thr wayback machine crawler only saved the .html, .css and .ttf

A half dozen vo machinima vids were hosted there but they're long gone. :/

This is all that remains: https://web.archive.org/web/20100927161940/http://outerlimitsgfx.com/video.html
Jan 05, 2025 mr_spuck link
HI!

I found some videos in my junk pile (between StarWrek and strange russian music videos..). TribalWarQT is among them.

https://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/videos/

That's pre Youtube/MP4 so they probably require VLC or something to play.

Apparently some were proclaiming the death of the game in 06 already. So yeah good jerb for keeping the game going, Inc. :P
Jan 06, 2025 Lord~spidey link
Yessss!

I haven't had my tribal war fix for years... maybe a decade+ at this rate.

Three cheers for data-hoarding!
Jan 08, 2025 Starfisher link
mr_spuck you are a god among men!!! THANK YOU

I've looked for that vid off and on for so long. Thanks for saving a bit of history :D

Now it's in my google drive forever.