Tonight we dramatically reduced the number of threads serving the community so that we could feed the starving Auth Servers more power. That stranglehold on the Auth Servers was killing us and preventing people from joining the games. That should be MUCH better now (although you may have to try to authenticate several times still before getting in...but you *should* get in). However, this is currently at the cost of the community sections. So...because we're erring on the side of making sure people can get in and play the actual game, the News, Email, and Forums sections are going to be slower for a couple of days. (They'll still work, but they'll be as non-responsive as a busy web page would be.)

In addition, there is a new TRIBES2 patch available via the auto-updater v22017 that you'll need to get going. Go play!