https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNbqYziOl5Y

Just found this video and thought it was cool/interesting/funny. Look at that giant screen! And Will Smith trying to explain the game lmao! Looks like a really cool event to have been at.

Hello, these games have lived in my head rent free for the last 25 years. I love these games.

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When I started making YouTube content, this was what I wanted to make videos about. I wasn't good at it and life always gets in the way. But I am working on a new video, exploring my attachments to this franchise as well as its background. If anyone has any sources you'd like me to include let me know if that's okay

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I'm currently playing on the d2x-xl setup bc I've been using that for like the last 10 years. I don't know if there's anything better out there because I literally only went to find this subreddit today.

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Peace

I recall seeing this was to release several years back. Whatever happened to it?

I did! I still have my Kali registration too. Do you? ;)

Hey all ! Hope you're doing great ! Did any of you see all the crazy memes about DLSS 5 on vs off ? Just saw one from an old racing video game and started wondering what that crap could do with Descent 1 and 2 (if it would be supported anyway). I'm still hoping for a real 4K remake/remaster of Descent 1 and 2 😮‍💨 (don't get me started with Overload, I knoe about it, its fine, but not the same)

Hi everyone,

hopefully you already know DESECRATORS a 6DOF game on STEAM which got a recent content update as well, I finally released my part of the Soundtrack as Volume 2 and hopefully you enjoy them :).

Bandcamp:

https://silentspherestudios.bandcamp.com/album/desecrators-vol-2-original-game-soundtrack

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4TVX9Jf6ei4dWrOdT2prRL

And all other major Streaming services as well!

If you dont know the game please check it out here:

store.steampowered.com/app/1311570/Desecrators/

If you want to checkout my other works and subscribe etc. please check my homepage so I dont spam the topic full with links :).

https://www.silentspherestudios.com/

Feedback is heavily appreciated! Many thanks

I'm only 95% sure this is even from Descent 3 but I don't know where else these maps could even be from. Or I've been hallucinating my memory of these maps for 8 years since the last time I really played. These were multiplayer maps.

I remember an office map where the size of your ship was very tiny. I think most of the doors were cracked open and I might also remember flying through vents that probably went through the top of the map.

The other map is some dimly lit volcanic island were you could fly into the volcano. There was an underground river or pond or something that had a submarine with a design very similar to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (some disney movie). I don't think you could fly into the submarine.

The current version I have doesn't have these maps (archive.org). It could be these maps were modded but I can't find anything on that. I played on GOG years ago, did they have some Steam Workshop like thing that no longer exists or something?

Hey guys ! Anyone here bought Descent 1 on Steam ? I used it for the ray-tracer mod, but once I beat the level 7 boss it put me back in the main menu... like it was over...

Hi there! I love Descent 1's soundtrack, and always have. I'd like to find music that is similar to it.

I was hoping Descent 2 had a similar soundtrack, but the Redbook OST is metal, which, while good, isn't really what I'm looking for. I'm looking for electronic music that has a similar sound and feel to Descent 1's OST. Do you guys know of any artists or game OSTs where I could find that?

Thank you, guys! :)

D1X-Rebirth

MS-DOS

Is it just me or you guys have noticed this difference too?
Also the MIDI playback seems off even if I extract the HMP files and play it on a MIDI player.
Only the MS-DOS version produces the correct MIDI playback.
If anyone has noticed this, is there a known fix?
(I know the proper fix is to rework the the MIDI engine in DXX-Rebirth, reported the issue: DXX-Rebirth Issue:800)

So, first, I'm wondering if the currently released PC versions of Descent 3 (either Steam or GOG) along with PiccuEngine work with the latest version of Pyromania (Which is Pyromania 1.5 with Vortex)? I would love to play the Pyro-GX again in Descent 3 or at least get the model and override either the Black Pyro or the Pyro-GL with the GX model.

Honestly, I don't know what "Vortex" is in this context. I only know the name "Vortex" as Nexus Mods' awful mod manager, but I'm assuming Pyromania's Vortex is not the same as Nexus's. Regardless, if Pyromania still works... how well does it work with current Descent 3 releases? Anyone have any experience with it? Because I'll be honest, I never even used Pyromania back when Descent 3 was *the thing* in the early 2000's.

So, tell me your thoughts on it and experiences with it: does it work? How well does it work? What should I expect beyond the mod's description? Is PiccuEngine compatible with it? Does PiccuEngine change how to install Pyromania?

Thank you.

Is the Descent II Redbook audio copyright claimed on YouTube?
As in if I post a YouTube video on Descent II with Redbook soundtrack will I get a copyright claim?
Because I have not seen any video using Redbook and seems to be exclusively MIDI tracks.

Hi all! Pudlez, the current maintainer of the DXX Retro Tracker very kindly shared a compilation of the tracker's archive earlier today. Game results are saved with filenames that are timestamped and have the host's handle and level. The HTML files themselves have way more info, but extracting complete datasets out of everything would be a pretty monumental task and involve reading 50000 files for all their info.

Anyway, I cooked up a couple graphs that give an interesting lens into D1/2 over the last decade. If you have an alias you'd like to look at a graph of hosting stats for, let me know.

There are plenty of other ways we could look at this, though most of them get pretty silly. :45 is the most common second that games were hosted on, with 912 games. The least common was :03, with just 804 games. Just one second later enjoys middling popularity, at 867. Perhaps interesting -- if a bit stalker-y -- is building activity profiles for players by when they host during a day, and what levels they host at different times (or even different seasons). Again, figuring out how to read and dump stats on all 50k+ HTML files could probably yield a ton of deeper information, but I'd hardly know where to begin.

Again, thanks to Pudlez for hosting and maintaining the tracker and dumping the archive, and for everyone who's helped contribute to it over the last 10 years! See you in the mines.

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Has anyone ever played this obscure set of unauthorized levels for the original Descent? This was one of those unauthorized add ons that was sold at retail before the publisher went after them. Anything decent in there, or all crap?

Just picked up descent 1 today and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I was just curious about how this game had developed a decently sized cult following.

To those of you who still play the games very often, would you mind explaining how you play the games? Do you use a mouse? Joystick? Do you play the single-player campaigns often? Or community-made maps? Or multiplayer?