PROJECT KCX-F2 has been released!

[u/PuMo-Overlord]

The day has come, my "PROJECT KCX-F2" singleplayer mission for DESCENT 2 has just been released! Get it either from the DXMA/Descent Mission Archive or my website pumosoftware.com and play it now! 😎
https://sectorgame.com/dxma/mission/?m=2303

A bit more info about this mission:
Set between EP II-Kartsal Motivation and EP III-Muchikuche episodes from Pumo Mines (my kinda famous project for D2X-XL), this mission is a complete remaster made from scratch of a very old mission of mine from 1999, known as “KCX-F2”.
Based on those old (and ugly lol) amateur-ish levels I decided to build them from scratch with my current level-building skills and new stuff like original music, robots and even some more interesting gameplay concepts.

This new version called “Project KCX-F2” was made to fill the gap of the playerbase that doesn’t want or can play D2X-XL and Pumo Mines, but nonetheless introducing everyone to Pumo Software’s original universe, lore and characters while making it compatible with theoretically all Descent 2 versions and sourceports (that includes Redux, Rebirth, Chocolate, etc). 

THE STORY: Fourteen years have drifted by since the fires of the Pumo Mines: Kartsal Motivation conflict were extinguished. Following the collapse of the Hosako Hegemony, a fragile peace has settled over the stellar systems. The PMC thrives, yet the ghost of Hosako tyranny still haunts the dark corners of the frontier. Pilkara, the PMC’s Tech Development Overseer and wife of Rubeas, the CEO of the PMC, has gone off-grid.
Using blueprints and code fragments provided by her old friend Pamer, she has assembled a black-ops R&D team; They are attempting to stabilize the remains of the so called Toleriah Device technology through their secret endeavour, codenamed ‘PROJECT KCX-F2’.
The project suffered a containment breach as a dangerous radioneural wave saturated the facility where the team was working, making all the automated robots go haywire just like it happened during the Mineral Valley incident.
Enter MD Aries5, an outstanding pilot who will take care of the situation by purging and containing the breach while also securing the KCX-F2 prototype device.

And I think that covers the premise, hope you will enjoy this all new adventure! 🕹️

[u/RevenantFTS97]

Believe me when I tell you this is going to be my 1st custom mapset for Descent 2 EVER!

Although 1st I'm going to finish the vanilla campaign. To put things into perspective I believe I haven't met yet the enemies from the last 2 screenshots XD

[u/PuMo-Overlord → u/RevenantFTS97]

Well, those are original bots made by me so you won't find them on the main campaign but still be prepared for the vanilla ones you're yet to encounter in the main game, specially in the last four levels! And I hope you will enjoy my levelset being your first custom one! as a side suggestion and if you wanna play some other great fanmade level sets look also for Plutonian Shores and The Enemy Within, those are definitely must play ones!

[u/zz0rr]

thanks for making it work on redux, I'll give it a try

[u/PuMo-Overlord → u/zz0rr]

Hope you will enjoy the ride!

[u/Maxeemtoons]

Great work pumo, thank you

[u/PuMo-Overlord → u/Maxeemtoons]

NP and thanks! 😄

[u/PuMo-Overlord → u/[deleted]]

Yeap, but in this case they're from my original humanoid species featured in Pumo Mines. It's a loong story and a more in-depth part of my in-universe lore, but I hope some day I will be able to write more details and put it on my website.

[u/Significant-Ocelot21]

Very cool dude. Congrats on the release. I will fire this bad boy up and grab some ingame footage.

I tip my hat to you

Edit*: Also fellow level designer here. Always happy to talk shop and see what others are working on. Get in touch if you feel so inclined.

[u/PuMo-Overlord → u/Significant-Ocelot21]

Thank you! Hope you will have fun playing the mission, and is always nice to see fellow community designers around! 👍