yoshimitsu Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Do any of you remember playing Descent back in the 90s? It was one of my first games when I was little and has been one of my favorites ever since. There's never been anything quite like it in terms of player movement, it pioneered 6 Degrees of Freedom for gaming which allowed the player to pilot their ship in any direction (including vertically) at will. This led to a unique style of game which has been imitated but never matched, until now http://preparefordescent.com/ For the last three years a small team of dedicated fans has been working to create a spiritual successor, that aims to recapture the magic of Descent in the Unreal 3 engine. This new project, titled Sol Contingency, is about to release its initial closed Beta today, soon to be followed by an open beta and full release later this month. The current iteration is a fully functional multiplayer game that will be released for free in order to promote an upcoming Kickstarter campaign with the aim to create a larger singleplayer game and expanded multiplayer in Unreal 4. Just thought I'd share something that makes me feel as excited for gaming as I did when I was 7! Quote Windows XP home edition (Service Pack 3 plus all updates)Asrock Dual Series MotherboardOnboard Sound (ALC888 Audio Codec) Using Realtek HD Audio DriversIntel Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.13Ghz)2GB RAMATI Radeon HD 4850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbohr1more Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I guess I'll retort with, "Does anyone remember this highly acclaimed Doom 3 mod that was an attempt to recapture Descent" http://www.moddb.com/mods/into-cerberon and grumble about the fact that it died. Pretty interesting UE4 project nonetheless. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshimitsu Posted November 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I played Into Cerberon so much when they were working on it (the companion Doom 3 mod to my other favorite game series). I think I still have it installed as a matter of fact and now I want to go fire it up. Sure it changed or eliminated some of Descent's basic mechanics but it was hugely fun and so nice to look at... *sigh* SolC started out much like Into Cerberon, as a modern recreation of Descent but when Interplay hit them with a cease and desist, they reworked it and turned it into a new IP so that they could continue. It's really encouraging to see it hitting release after all the drama. 1 Quote Windows XP home edition (Service Pack 3 plus all updates)Asrock Dual Series MotherboardOnboard Sound (ALC888 Audio Codec) Using Realtek HD Audio DriversIntel Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.13Ghz)2GB RAMATI Radeon HD 4850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotha Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I sometimes still play the original. http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ Quote Clipper-The mapper's best friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshimitsu Posted November 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Me too Sotha. I've been using the graphically enhanced port, D2X-XL, for years to play the various singleplayer campaigns and I recently started using DXX-Rebirth to play online with others. I figured that with SolC on the horizon, I'd better get in some multiplayer practice. Quote Windows XP home edition (Service Pack 3 plus all updates)Asrock Dual Series MotherboardOnboard Sound (ALC888 Audio Codec) Using Realtek HD Audio DriversIntel Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.13Ghz)2GB RAMATI Radeon HD 4850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 I used to play Descent at work during the lunch hour, we'd organise a deathmatch, networks are fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bienie Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I actually never tried playing Descent in multiplayer, but I beat the single player campaign of both games multiple times. It was one of those pioneer games that made your jaw drop back in the day, and it was one of my first games as well. There was later a "spiritual successor" game on N64 called Forsaken with which I had a ton of fun with my buddies, but it wasn't quite the same magic still. Quote My Fan Missions: Series: Standalone: Chronicles of Skulduggery 0: To Catch a Thief The Night of Reluctant Benefaction Chronicles of Skulduggery 1: Pearls and Swine Langhorne Lodge Chronicles of Skulduggery 2: A Precarious Position Chronicles of Skulduggery 3: Sacricide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tels Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 In case you don't own the originals, GoG is your friend: https://www.gog.com/game/descent_1_descent_2 Quote "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) "Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paralytik Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 I remember playing this at some friend's house. I found it very confusing and disorienting and I think it gave me motion sickness. Very cool design though. Quote "My milkshake bringeth all ye gentlefolk to the yard. Verily 'tis better than thine, I would teach thee, but I must levy a fee." "When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect—designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead." https://soundcloud.com/paralytik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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