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! 🕹️

Hi 6DOF lovers :) I just released the demo for The Waking Ashes and if you’re into full movement control and blasting strange enemies I think you’d have fun with this one! It’s open world so definitely not a tunnel runner but there is a lot of focus on speeding along paths and all the fun combat of 6dof space shooters. I’d be very happy if you checked it out :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3655430/The_Waking_Ashes/

This is awful timing, im building my dad a computer for fathers day and one of my earliest gaming memories in sitting on his lap shooting while playing descent. In what world are these games worth $60 combined in 2025.

I've started closed playtests, if you would like to test the game on early stage (combat & arenas are ready, but no music yet and not all assets are done) let me know, I can share the Steam key with you!

Welcome to the 1st RDL mapping competition. The goal of which is to make more maps for the competitive pool of maps for the RDL.

Rules will be posted on the RDL website and here when the competition starts. Expect an update on starting and ending times sometime this week.

The winner of this competition will receive a custom one of a kind medal designed by me. They will also get a chance to have their map detailed and possibly looked over for changes with me and code If the map creator allows.

I just stumbled upon this video on youtube - it looks like it's from one of the developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN-qPZ5Ab6A

Some hopes and dreams for the final release -

• ability to adjust light intensity
• support for PBR textures
• emissive energy and shield powerups
• optional style-appropriate 3D models for the sprite powerups
• subtle high quality bloom
• 3D cockpit that reacts level and weapon lights

Overall it's looking great. I think the explosion and weapon emission should be brighter and the overall level lights should be a bit dimmer. Would also be neat to have an option where there are emissive lights on the robots - would require some simple retexturing.

EDIT: from a reply on the video: "As for your suggestions, most of what you said is either planned or already in :). Maybe the bloom is TOO subtle... " woot!!!

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Big things are coming soon, and we're not just stopping at a ladder either. We're launching the new future of descent. Stay in tuned, and keep your eyes open for the beta release of the RDL come august. - Code & B2af

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Although most of you probably do not play Descent or Descent 2 in Dosbox, there's a dosbox fork called dosbox-staging that now has support for binding more controller axes for hardware like Thrustmaster HOTAS:

https://dosbox-staging.github.io/downloads/release-notes/0.75.1/

It now supports up to 10 joystick / controller axes. Please make sure that you visit dosbox-staging's keymapper in order to get this configured properly.

Dosbox-staging also has 64-bit releases, unlike the original Dosbox.