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Thanks, thought as much. Well, that's not entirely a bad thing, as it makes one use one's head.

I've already come up with a workaround ^__^

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Hey guys, I wonder if you could help me with this simple thing. Is it possible to disassociate the alignment of one texture from the alignment of the other? This would help avoid situations such as this one: http://s6.postimage.org/569n2dey9/scrn0007.jpg The texture on the left could be aligned to m...

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Yeah. Too bad that D2 just didn't feel like D1. It had its advantages in the atmosphere, but it also lacked many of D1's qualities. But for me, the things that contributed grandly to the overall D1 experience were the title screen music, briefing music and well duh, the rest of the music. also some ...

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Well, TEW of course, it's a very rewarding and complete experience in its own right. I also love how it's story-driven. Several levels are among the best designs so far, however others were unremarkable to downright ugly. Well, guess that's how things go with community projects... it's still amazing...

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I've played several if not most of the big community projects, but still I've gotta say that my favorite missions are First Strike and Vertigo.

Of the user-made ones, Vignettes rule though.

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Limefrost Spiral just slams Lou Guards down your throat. And they're not that annoying IMO. It's just their homers that you need to worry about. And Boarsheads, RUN LIKE HELL. Boarsheads are only dangerous if you have no room to dodge. Smart plasma is not nearly as hard to dodge as homers are. Kwod...

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Can't say I've noticed texture misalignments or stretched textures so much in Descent 1, but I've definitely noticed a lot more about the way cubes were used across the first two games thanks to an older discussion. Looking back, D1 in particular feels sloppier not because of texture mistakes, but ...

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I voted for Sniper NG. Vertigo overall didn't have memorable bots in my opinion, most of them were too small too. The ingenuity from Descent 1 shown with simple but beautiful bots such as Class 2 Drone was nowhere to be found. SPIKE looked awesome, but my vote went where it went mainly due to nostal...

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TheBenjaminStilton wrote:When i die on D2, it's usually on the Baloris Prime/Puuma Sphere levels. God, **** those levels.

Hmm. I would actually say that Baloris is a breather compared to Limefrost Spiral.

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Fusion is overrated :P. I think the question is how does a laser, which is a beam of light mind you, knock such heavy objects around? I guess Descent treats light as a particle rather than a wave... But light shouldn't be that massive. Well, you've got a point! Plasma, if I'm not mistaken, is super...

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Alter-Fox wrote:I think that's for Xfing to decide, being the OP.
Xfing wrote: ...DTWID...
Link?

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/5 ... -released/

There ya go

BTW we did indeed stray off the topic a bit, but that's ok, stuff like that happens in discussions as a natural course of events.

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Descent 2 overall gets tricky, annoying and hard on Ace and Insane, but there is no feeling of threat that Descent 1 invoked. There are plenty of faster, nastier and lighter-hitting robots instead of the few ones who will teach you terror with single volleys. That's why Descent 2's SP is not as impa...

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Well, Fusion is a given, it also sees a lot of use from me. As for the knockback/stun, it should also be noticed that the difficulty level one plays on makes a large impact on that. On Trainee it's possible to make a Super Hulk shift his launchers to the sides just with lvl 1 laser, while on Insane ...

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I need to play DTWIDD sometime. I've heard great things about it. And I have thought about trying my hand at singleplayer level design for a while. I can vouch for DTWID being amazing, just played it a while ago. It's literally like a second Doom. D2TWID is on its way and almost finished, after tha...

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I have noticed two primary differences between lasers and plasma. Quad lasers have the advantage of stopping most robots from firing, but they also push robots back quite a bit. Plasma, on the other hand, doesn't stop robots from attacking, but doesn't push them back either. It would seem that the k...

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The single player campaign's story is pretty cool. I can't say the same about gameplay, though. The reasons have already been covered.

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Descent was still probably able to take advantage of greater graphic technology than Doom, coming as it did two years later. In particular Descent used 3D models for enemies... and the sprites (and textures for that matter) were probably closer to the 320x200 resolution than Doom's. Descent was rel...

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Anyone realizes that in D1 the final boss sometimes fire his mega missile from his eye?!? Well yeah, it definitely looks like he does. A mis-aligned shot point or a hidden fifth cannon, who knows? That would give that son of a bich 5 cannons, whoa. But if memory serves correctly, he shouldn't actua...

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Descent simply isn't pretty when it isn't grainy. Besides, 320x240 doesn't look nearly as bad as say, vanilla DOOM does. Now that one is a pixel fiesta.

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Ummm... what could be silly? Me trying like 10 times in a row to defeat a single medium hulk in D1 on Insane. And failing. That mofuka just comes when I least expect him and blasts me to bits. Level 6.

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Daaamn, wish I could contribute. Too bad I have a bachelor paper to write -__-

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Goddamnit, what a spectacular texture set! These seem almost organic! They definitely give an altogether different feel to Descent as we know it. The geometry of the level is nothing short of sweet too.

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I believe the cut corners in the D1 levels were more a result of a tight schedule and a very small crew (I think they had something like half a dozen level designers, most of whom also had other roles in the project). Throw in the fact that they were using very crude tools (Miner) and the 320x200 r...

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Alter-Fox wrote:I mean the other stuff Valin has.
D2X-XL plays the D1 movies perfectly.

Yeah well, you know I'm not really a XL type of guy

damn, incoming innuendo storm

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I know those files. I used to think how to make them run on the PC, but unsuccessfully.

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Well yeah... On the other hand one has to notice that that stuff really is tedious and hard in some cases. Perfectionism is a well-desired trait for that kind of work. Myself, I still have a lot of texture aligning work to do on my level. And the fact that the textures in question are patterned and ...

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I'm running through Descent 1 again. Having started to design levels myself, I also started noticing things I wouldn't notice earlier, like the sloppy texture alignment in many of the early Parallax-made levels. Looks like these guys also did have to get the hang of it, it didn't come to them natura...

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http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/4U4M ... FMeYj1vcLQ

Check out these sound files. Replace your regular .s11 and .s22 files with them and launch a mission with D1 robots: PROFIT.

It's not suited for multiplayer, however.

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I recently rediscovered a demo of me taking out the level 16 boss with nothing but gauss and mercs before the cloak ran out. There's a lot of room for things to go wrong though. I believe there's a demo on youtube of a guy who managed by using Vulcan alone. Not sure about missiles, though. And Alte...

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Truth is, Spiders make the same shooting sound as PIGs do.

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I've actually written a song called Ahayweh, and it turned out pretty nice. If you're into melodic death metal, that is

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I told you before, the pulse rock cutter sound is in D2. You can listen to it in DTX2 and it sounds significantly different from the lasers -- in game, with all the distractions the difference isn't as noticable as it is on lower quality but that's hardly the developers' fault. Same goes for the Se...

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Bosses as a whole in the Descent series are damn hard. Take away your cloaks and your invuls and you get bosses that are more than your typical faire challenge. :E Well yeah, and even worse when you run outta supplies. That happened to me on level 25 of The Enemy Within, and I was helpless against ...

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:) Well, since you bumped this I would like to add some feedback per the initial post. I'm more of a D1 fan than D2, so there is a little bias. I would bring the old school Fusion back. I though it's massive kill-power was balanced by the fact it was harder to use and it's not easy to use only the ...

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The robot sound that was the best at instilling a sense of "I MUST KILL THIS THING NOW!" was the Driller in D1. I really wish they would have put the right sound in the 22KHz sound effects file for D2. It just sounds cheesy in Vertigo. I have done some sound engineering on that file and c...

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/62piaf Ok, redid the level again. What's changed: 1) Tileset is now Alien 1 2) Relocated the switch to open the grate to the circular area to a less confusing location 3) Aligned some textures 4) Removed the wall lights in the optional area to help align textures, place...

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For using alien1.pig, I wonder if you have enough textures left over that you aren't using in this mine that you could just use the custom transparent textures without the transparency -- make a custom texture for each of those door lights with the door light overlaid over the background texture --...

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Downloaded and tested. I still think the texturing could use some improvement. Are the custom textures with transparency that important? I think this level would look better with alien1.pig. Well, an artistic vision is an artistic vision :P I'll try to do what I can, maybe someone will provide me w...

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Why don't you use the Alien1 PIG instead of GroupA, for a level that's supposed to be Baloris Prime style? That would make it impossible for me to use the custom colored door lights. They're written with a white background, which is treated as transparent in all the .pigs except ice and alien 1-2. ...

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/mknqcy Thanks for the feedback, everybody. It has proven very useful and I've applied many of your suggestions. Now I'm more satisfied with the level both as a designer and as a player (though the latter would still require robot placement to ascertain, heh) So here's t...

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