• Tribes.de has a new version of TCon, a program that allows you to connect to a Tribes server via a URL.
• A new version 1.4 of the Orion Mod is out, the read me has all the skinny you need on this one.
• A few new HUDS: Crunchy's scripting site has new versions of TeamScore HUD which requires ObjectiveTrak, which was also just updated to version 2.0 beta 6, and the new version 1.4 of MissionInfo Pack. There is also a new version 2.3.2 of Objective HUD. There is a new CTF-HUD on Rayn's Scripting Archives, and while I'm at it I'll mention another good resource for TRIBES scripts and HUDS is Cowboy's Tribes Scripting.
• Planet Tribes has some screenshots up of a Star Wars mod for TRIBES in the works, and to cap this whole long post off, they also have word of a post on Planet Starsiege excerpting a recent issue of PC Gamer magazine, giving some easy TRIBES performance tweaks:

"...You will then need to browse to your tribes\config folder and create a file called autoexec.cs (if it doesn't already exist). Then open it up and enter these two lines into it:
$OpenGL::Enabled=true;
&OpenGL::OverrideLights=true;

Also, within the console.cs file, the following lines should have these values:

$pref::OpenGL::AlwaysRGBA="False";
$pref::OpenGL::NoAddFade="False";
$pref::OpenGL::NoMipmapping="False";
$pref::OpenGL::NoPAckedTextures="False";
$pref::OpenGL::NoPalettedTextures="False";
$pref::OpenGL::Use32BitTex="True"; (only works if your desktop is in 32 bit color mode)

Save the file and then start Tribes. Go to the options/display menu, and select OpenGL as your full screen renderer...

Now for the general tweaks... within your config.cs file, the following lines should be changed to read as follows:

$pref::interiorLightUpdateMS="20"; (smoothes things out...)
$pref::waitForVSync="False"; (if you have problems with flickering or atrifacts, set this to True)
$pref::TerrainVisibleDistance="10000"; (increases visual range in sniper-mode) (PSS Note: May be considered cheating)
$pref::mipcap="13"; (13 for TNT, lower for other cards - default is 9)
$pref::dynamicLightDistance="300"; (changes the length of the dynamic lighting)"
Depending on your card, your mileage may vary with these tweaks. Be sure to install the latest patch for TRIBES before making these changes."