It would be big news in the gaming industry, if who ever owns the tribes IP, just decided to remake the simplistic tribes1, just as it was, but with up to-date graphics, models, textures, sounds, no new packs, or gadgets, cores, or experimental stuff mentioned in the above video, except for some handy tribes1, community made client side scripts, or recommended added features. They really should do it on T3d, as its the engine built from the older tribes engines.
All the tribes games after tribes2, used different engines, that where not mod friendly, had engine issues that kinda stopped them from making a good tribes game, time to go back to the engine that was made for tribes.
This new game here will be a nice adventure for the guys making it, hope it goes some place, nothing worse than spending so much time on making a game, mod, or map, and have on one ever download or play it much.. I spent way to much time making maps for this game, that never got played, at-least some played my
mod, so that was some satisfaction.