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There's a grate in a ceiling that's flagged as requiring the yellow key. Kinda funny to shoot a random grate and hear the locked door sound with "Yellow access denied". Where exactly is it? No idea what you're talking about. I made some time for a quick fly-through on break yesterday. The...

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Is SP campaign good enough? I mean, compared to original Descent? Hope it is not MP-oriented as some other Descent projects are... One thing I don't quite like about the graphics are those firework like explosions, but that's a minor thing anyway if it plays right otherwise and has interesting and ...

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I once killed the L24 boss with smart mines, all 30 of them that the ship can carry. I dropped them all in a really tight line along a far wall while cloaked, then bated him into shooting at me while I was hiding in an alcove on the opposite wall, I used gauss to shoot the mines and when they are t...

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Ok, if you will manage L24 this way (no SL) you will be the first one who did it... As I said earlier I never killed this boss with less than 7 shakers (direct back hits), and the level has only 5 (one very well hidden) - and 3 more in SL. Oh my, you're right! I could have sworn there were loads mo...

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There's an assload of shakers in level 24 though, much many more than you absolutely require.

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LightWolf wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 6:40 pm That Enceladus?

How astute of you

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LightWolf wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 8:18 pm What do I hate?
The default level 1 track from Descent 2. The other defaults are fine. Kill that one. Please.

Yeah, that one! It's a good track, but it gets super tedious through overexposure. As do all the 4 tracks from D2, honestly.

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Ok, Enceladus is up on Dropbox, it's level 7. No hostages yet and some textures might still be missing, but overall it's pretty much done. I tried my best to make it as D1-ish as possible, all feedback is welcome

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There's nothing stopping us from doing another truly scary maze later in the mission either... :D Of course not! BTW, spurred by a sudden and powerful surge of inspiration, I've already laid out 450 cubes of the Enceladus level. Trying to make the geometry reasonably simple, but I'm really ineffici...

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Added a control panel to level 27 opposite the problematic door to unlock it. That should fix the problem. Sweet, thanks for that! I've been even less focused on this thing recently, since Overload is a thing, and it understandably eclipses some of my interest in Descent, but luckily playing throug...

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Hmmm... I never really thought much about my least favorite levels. But let's think about this a bit: D1: - Level 4: Not hard, but needlessly tedious because of the arbitrarily long distance to the energy center, lots of backtracking that doesn't add to the experience (on the contrary, actually) - L...

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I'm really amazed at pretty much everything in this game: how well it steers with the mouse, how balanced and interesting all the weapons are, the graphics, the power-ups, everything is pretty much spot on and optimal. Really smart people must have headed this project, 's what I'm feeling.

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Played through level 4 too and I gotta say this is the single most reminescent of D1 mission I've played. It just nails that campaign's feel to the slightest detail. There are all those wicked mazes that we loved to hate in D1, but I've only now realized how badly they were missing from D2. It's in ...

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Played the first two levels of this. Gotta say it's pretty amazing. Dunno, there's just something that good ol' Descent gives me that I can't find with D2, even though it's supposed to be bigger and better. Perhaps I just respond better to those older textures that feel just right. This pack is full...

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Thank goodness I already got it >_>

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So any updates there? I"m sorry, I haven't been able to design anything myself lately. Guess the well of ideas has run dry for now. Also, I think this project's scope has actually outgrown my own level building skills, so I'd rather let better people make them :P I'll definitely make some more ...

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I'll give it a shot too, because why not

It says "Cererian", and the color scheme from the screenshot looks a lot like the one I chose for my Ceres level too. Great minds think alike I guess

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Well yeah, I wouldn't mind a sequel where the source of the virus is explored and probably eradicated. That's never going to happen the way things are now. Matt and Mike are making Overload and there are conflicts regarding the IP between Interplay and Outrage. I suppose tons and tons of goodwill wo...

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All in all though, I feel that the arc of Descent is very nicely concluded with D3, with some great extra exposition in Mercenary.

Too bad the game has such an assy difficulty system, it's nigh unplayable on Hotshot, let alone the higher levels.

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Well, it was explicitly stated that the virus is "extremely advanced nanotechnology" in D3, so pitching it as an autonomous agent with no one pulling the strings, or even a lifeform, would require a serious retcon. I'd frankly be quite happy with something like an alien civilization beyond...

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I never made the fungus connection. But even if so, how does that tie to Pluto? Pluto is purple

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Level 4 raised some interesting questions, but also answered some as well. It would seem that the particular alien species we meet in that level had actually constructed Tycho Brahe in addition to the planetoid you explore in the level, but weren't the originators of the virus. They also probably in...

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Plenty of room to hide actually, as long as he doesn't teleport to the other side of the flat intersection

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Ok, so to re-rail this thread a bit (is that even a word?), I'll say that I've been playing level 20 a bit, and up to a certain point it's not extremely difficult. The hardest part, which I haven't made my way through yet, is that part with the two matcens, one of which makes BPers, and another cloa...

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A good speedrun for sure! I'd never pull it off, I like to take my time in a level

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Yeah I remember everyone's disappointment when he called an air strike on Syria. Well, except those still in denial or those doubling down

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I find it puzzling how everyone's so sure Hillary would have started a war with Russia. I mean, so what if she even said at one point that she would? She may have been lying or pandering to a certain electorate at that point. She's a politician and politicians lie all the time, they rarely make good...

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Well, it's more likely my keyboard's problem anyway. Also, it's irrelevant, since I actually play with the mouse

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Holy ★■◆● is this game good. The graphics are beautiful, the robots immediately memorable, the weapons fun... I already think it has all the hallmarks it needs to become a cult hit like Descent, and I've only played it for like half an hour. What grabbed my attention the most is how it is finally pl...

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Bought the game at last! I'm having problems with the numerical keyboard, though. Turn left and turn right tend to linger after pressing them, as if I hadn't released them. It's really weird and I have no idea what could be the cause. On their own they operate fine, but this problem appears when I u...

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Thanks for that. I always thought that once you remove a wall, both sides get removed. Kinda weird it's not the case.

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Well, we could go with cloaked walls instead, so you won't be able to shoot the reactor either :D Or just a traditional pillar. Though to be fair, having the reactor locked in until you take care of all the remaining opposition would probably make this reactor room a bit too easy. Hmmmm, what to do?...

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May I claim Remote Tracking Station before someone else does? Dunno, depends what type of level you want to make it. We've ran free rein for too much of the Vertigo section, now we kinda need to take a direction with these levels. To be truthful though, I think we're good. Naphtha will probably be ...

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EDIT: Playing a couple of the levels I missed, with an eye and an ear out for the midi music. Couple ideas (again) to throw out there for you to do, or not do, as you please with. D1 level 18 for Quaoar Alcane Mine Too obvious. Just because the level is green? In fact to me the track was so fitting...

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I never knew whether fusion actually damaged his back if shot from the front. It probably does, why else would there be a deterring mechanism?

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Really? Are you referring to shaker blasts only, or blast damage in general? Does that mean I could off a matter immune boss with a big enough supply of missiles?

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Of course I did the testing on Insane, how else?

Also, Shakers do not affect robots immune to kinetic weapons such as the baloris boss. It must be a separate flag or something.

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Well, that of course depends if you fire those shakers at the wall behind him and only have the bomblets damage him. I was thinking more about a situation where you face shaker him in the buttocks, which does require both a cloak and an invulnerability to do, well at least the latter. But we're plan...

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As I remember, CS L24 boss has 6500 HP, and one direct shaker hit takes away 1000 HP or slightly less - so it takes 7 shakers to kill, 7500 would mean 8 direct hits - quite a lot, further increasing boss HP could create smth like AF L9 monster (static Mega missile turret with 32000 HP - you need to...

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