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just started pic related, I'm on level 7. what do I think of it?

>> No.5528441

>>5528314
Indubitably, something

>> No.5528739

>>5528314
you are playing it via descent-rebirth, right anon?

if you are, configure it via xinput and play it with a 360 controller, it's fun as fuck, very satisfying to be able to control pitch, yaw, acceleration, shooting etc etc all via a controller.

>> No.5528774

>>5528739
of course I'm playing rebirth. I tried the controller and it just wasn't cutting it for me, so I'm using kb+mouse with uncapped turning.
Took me a good 30 minutes to tune the controls to something I like but good god damn this shit is fun as fuck

>> No.5528786

God damn, the first two Descent games are legendary. I remember playing the first on PC and thinking "Holy shit, the future is here"

How have they not gotten HD remakes, other than they'd be ruined by endless grey and brown and bloom and motion blur

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5528961

>>5528314
You are about to make...friends.

>> No.5529063

>>5528961
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1AxZ7HEWeri
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

followed by the crashing sound of uranium slugs against your shields

>> No.5529076

I have two additional HOG files in my D1 dir besides DESCENT.HOG - CHAOS.HOG and SATURN.HOG - are these addons?

>> No.5529138

>>5528786
Descent 1 is a masterpiece but Descent 2 is just a shitty Quake mod with an extra axis of rotation.

>> No.5529162

Kid at school had it on his iMac and said it was great. I had a boxed copy from my mom's friend/lover but never played it because it looked dated and kinda boring compared to the StarCrafts and Diablos I was playing at the time.

>> No.5529171

>>5529162
>>5529138
Every thread degrades to shitposting after 5-10 replies

>> No.5529178

Man, Descent was such a blast for seven years old me.
Unfortunately, Forsaken could not deliver the same fun despite having a much better OST.

>> No.5529179

>>5529171
The box failed to sell it to me.

>> No.5529191

I use cheap android tablet + epsxe +xbox1 pad to play descent and it is pretty satisfying experience. Passed only 3 levels so far though.

>> No.5529415

>>5529076
CHAOS.HOG contains some official multiplayer maps, it comes with Descent.

SATURN.HOG is probably the final level (15) from the Destination Saturn OEM version. It does not come with Descent, so you might have downloaded it from some level archive site. I don't know how legal it is to spread it around, but I doubt anyone at Interplay/Parallax cares. The map should appear on the new game mission selector.

>> No.5529551

>>5529063
delete this.

>> No.5529595
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5529595

>>5529415
Thanks
Are there any official/semi-official add ons for D1 and D2? What about 3rd party campaigns or map packs? Any campaigns that add new art/robots/music besides maps?

>> No.5529723

The redbook audio tracks only add to the awesome

>> No.5531290

>>5529595
AFAIK the only commercial/official add-ons for Descents are Vertigo for Descent 2 and Mercenary for Descent 3. Both come with new robots and music.

Most of the "larger" Descent 2 fanmade missions have custom robots, music and textures. It's almost a rule that you must have them, otherwise no one plays your mission :-)

Smaller (like only a level or two) missions usually use just the stock resources. Making new robots is difficult, as the tools are buggy and not exactly very user-friendly. (Though it's fair to mention that my only experience in making new robots is from the 1997-era POLYTRON editor; I don't know if there are more modern robot editors for Descents.)